Last week, we kicked off something new at Foundation, Prime Time Office Hours.
A six-part live series where we go deep on Passport Prime with our community. No fluff. No marketing speak. Just an hour of real talk about the hardware, security architecture, and philosophy behind what we've been building for the past three years.
Week 1 was our introduction and orientation session, hosted by our Head of Customer Experience.
Here's what we covered:
The evolution from our Founders Edition in 2020 to Passport Prime today. Four generations of hardware, each one informed by real customer feedback and a relentless focus on what self-custody should actually feel like.
Passport Prime isn't just a hardware wallet anymore. It's a personal security platform, Bitcoin wallet, FIDO security keys, 2FA authenticator, encrypted file storage, and a vault for sensitive secrets. All offline. All in one device.
The security model is built on layers of defense: fully open source hardware and software (audit it yourself on GitHub), a dedicated secure element, an isolated Bluetooth processor, anti-tamper protection, US assembly, and a published third-party audit. Our custom Bluetooth protocol, QuantumLink, even assumes the Bluetooth chip is already compromised from day one, and your keys are still safe.
The app ecosystem runs on KeyOS, our custom microkernel-based OS. It ships with five core apps, and we're building an open developer kit so anyone can build on it. Third-party integrations are already underway.
We also took live questions from the community, on everything from hardware design choices to app store architecture to feature requests that got added to the roadmap on the spot.
This is what building in public looks like.
Week 2 is tomorrow, we're going hands-on with onboarding, recovery, and Magic Backups. If you're curious about how Passport Prime works in practice, this is the one to join.
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Prime Time!
Join us for a six-part 'office-hours' live workshop series designed to help you get the most out of Passport Prime.
Before Passport Prime ships, we commissioned a full third-party security audit from Keylabs, the same team behind the well-known wallet.fail research. Their review covered every layer of Passport Prime, from hardware and firmware to system architecture to evaluate its resilience against real-world attack scenarios.
The results: no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities were found. All observations were classified as low severity, requiring physical access and advanced tools. Keylabs concluded that Prime’s architecture demonstrates “exceptional security design principles and sophisticated implementation,” and “a highly secure architecture that exceeds industry standards.”
We’ve published the full breakdown, findings, and our response here: