Keeping your crypto safe should be your highest priority - irrespective of the storage types. Opting for the right wallet or storage systems allow you to strike perfect balance between functionality and security.
When planning to invest in crypto assets and store them - you need to pick what type of storage is right for you – either you need both or one of the hot wallet or cold trezor/ ledger hardware wallet.
The purpose of these hot and cold storage wallet such as ledger/ trezor hardware wallet is to sore your cryptocurrencies, especially the private keys generated by the wallet to grant owners the access to their crypto holding. These hot and cold storage wallets such as ledger/ trezor hardware wallets play a critical role in the proper functioning of the entire crypto currency space.
The software-based online wallet is known as hot wallet. Hot wallets are always connected to the internet. Hot wallets are often victim of online phishing attacks and other are vulnerable other kind of cyber risks. Unlike ledger hardware wallet, crypto funds often get stolen from hot wallet. But the hot wallet allows you to conduct prompt transactions, as well as make it easier to trades or spend crypto assets across the web3 ecosystem.
The hot wallets majorly constitute of mobile wallet, wallets provided by crypto exchanges, desktop wallets, and wallet extension. All the mentioned types of hot wallets are perfect accessing fund for trading purposes. In case the exchange or the hot wallet service provider shut downs their services then in that case the traders and users (investors) will be left with no recourse to recover their funds.
A trezor/ ledger hardware wallet is known as cold storage wallet. Cold storage wallet is not always connected directly to the internet. Cold wallets or trezor/ ledger hardware wallet are not very convenient and prompt as hot wallet but very secure when compared to software wallets.
Ledger/ trezor hardware wallet keep the private keys in an offline storage. The cold storage wallet options are relatively expensive and always require a computing device to plug and use.
The factors such as the number of coins the investor holds or planning to invest in as well as the frequency of trades performed by the owner will decide the type of wallet one should opt for – be it hot or cold storage wallet or a combination of both.
Liminal is among the leading enterprises offering institution-grade web3.0 infrastructure, such as a cold storage wallet and multi signature wallet platform designed to assist organizations with their digital asset self-custody need. Liminal's ledger/ trezor hardware wallet and multi signature wallet services are developed with simplicity in mind because we believe that managing your digital assets should not be intimidating and complex. We have built our cold storage wallet and multi signature wallet services with a security-first approach - so that you can sleep peacefully without worrying about the security of your digital assets and funds. And you also receive expert customer support from our end to resolve challenging technical complications.
