Ledger key recovery service paused amid backlash, will open-source code

cointelegraph.com:

Hardware wallet company Ledger is postponing the launch of Ledger Recover following an intense week of criticism from the crypto community.In a May 23 Twitter Spaces joined by over 13,000 users, Ledger chairman and CEO Pascal Gauthier said it has been a “humbling experience” and a hard lesson in communication: “This experience has been very humbling.

We miscommunicated on the launch of this product; it was not our intention to take people by surprise. So because of that, we understand the community’s direction and apologize for the miscommunication.”Gauthier revealed that in response to concerns, the firm would be accelerating its plans to open-source more of its codebase.

It will start with core components of its operating system and Ledger Recover, which he stated: “won’t be released until this work is complete.”Charles Guillemet, the chief technology officer of Ledger, said that over the coming days, a white paper on the Recover Protocol would become open source along with technical blog posts to “explain the principles of Recover” and more detailed explanations of how the process works.

Guillemet noted this would also allow developers to build their own backup provider for the seed phrase shards rather than using the one offered by Ledger. “This has always been something important for Ledger, but this recent event showed how important it is for the community and this is why we decided to prioritize this open-sourcing process,” he added.Ledger’s mission is, and will always be, to provide our users with the right tools to own their digital value securely.We have decided to accelerate our open-sourcing roadmap to bring more verifiability to everything we do.A thread pic.twitter.com/Dv0jBCM4YsLedger recently told