Method · sheet 02 of 04 · 3 min read
How we check wallets
Last revised
A wallet page is only as good as its sources. This is how ours are built.
Sources
- Specifications come from the manufacturer: product pages, technical documentation, support articles and the official shop. Where the maker does not publish a value, the cell says so instead of filling it from a reseller or a forum.
- Prices are taken from the manufacturer's own shop on the date shown, in the currency the shop displayed. Prices change often; treat them as a snapshot.
- Security history comes from the manufacturer's own disclosures and from published research, with dates. We describe what happened and what was fixed, without adjectives.
Every value is dated
Each specification carries the date we last opened its source. When a source changes, the value, the date and the changelog change together.
What the dataset holds today
These figures are counted from the dataset every time the site is built.
- Devices
- 54
- 47 in production, 3 discontinued, 1 announced, 3 status unclear
- Datasheets
- 26
- Devices with a full page: drawing, specifications, security history and sources
- Makers
- 18
- Brands with at least one device in the table
- Sources cited
- 190
- Unique pages: 135 for specifications, 29 for prices, 37 for security events, 43 for device notes (a page can serve more than one)
- Values recorded
- 64%
- 555 of 864 cells (price and 15 specification fields for each device); the rest are marked not verified
- Security events
- 41
- Distinct dated events; 92 records across 27 devices, since brand-level events are listed on each model
- Newest check
- Oldest check
How complete the data is
Not every maker publishes every value. For each field, this is the number of devices with a value we could source; every other cell is marked as not verified rather than filled in.
| Field | All 54 devices | 26 datasheets |
|---|---|---|
| Connectivity | 50 of 54 | 26 all |
| Secure element | 45 of 54 | 25 of 26 |
| Coins supported | 43 of 54 | 23 of 26 |
| Display | 43 of 54 | 26 all |
| Price at maker | 43 of 54 | 23 of 26 |
| Companion app | 41 of 54 | 26 all |
| Battery | 40 of 54 | 25 of 26 |
| Backup format | 39 of 54 | 26 all |
| Size and weight | 37 of 54 | 21 of 26 |
| Passphrase | 36 of 54 | 24 of 26 |
| Open-source firmware | 31 of 54 | 24 of 26 |
| Released | 26 of 54 | 22 of 26 |
| Multisig | 25 of 54 | 21 of 26 |
| Made by (country) | 24 of 54 | 17 of 26 |
| Bitcoin-only edition | 22 of 54 | 13 of 26 |
| Shamir / SLIP-39 backup | 10 of 54 | 9 of 26 |
Where the sources come from
The web domains cited most often, counted across specifications, prices, security events and device notes. A value counts once per domain it cites; "pages" is the number of distinct pages on that domain.
| Domain | Values citing it | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| trezor.io | 91 | 25 |
| shop.ledger.com | 50 | 9 |
| secuxtech.com | 47 | 6 |
| ledger.com | 44 | 11 |
| onekey.so | 42 | 8 |
| safepal.com | 38 | 8 |
| coldcard.com | 33 | 9 |
| tangem.com | 33 | 14 |
| store.dcentwallet.com | 30 | 3 |
| ellipal.com | 26 | 4 |
| bitbox.swiss | 24 | 3 |
| store.blockstream.com | 24 | 4 |
40 more domains, cited by 223 values. 52 domains in all.
Documentation-led, and labelled as such
Unless a page says it was written from hands-on use, it is a documentation-led review: a careful reading of what the maker and independent researchers publish. That is useful for comparing features. It cannot tell you how a device feels in the hand, and we do not pretend it can.
How comparisons work
Comparison pages are generated from the same records as the wallet pages, then annotated in plain language. If two devices differ on a specification, the difference is highlighted; if a value is unknown for either device, it is shown as unknown, never as a difference.
Tools we use
Research is assisted by AI tools that collect sources and quotes, and page text is drafted with AI assistance from those sourced records. Every value that reaches a page has a source link you can open and check, and every page goes through a separate fact-check pass against those sources before it is published.
- Devices
- 54
- Datasheets
- 26
- Comparisons
- 8
- Guides
- 7
- Sources cited
- 190
- Security events
- 92
- Values recorded
- 512 of 810
- Not verified
- 298
- Data last checked