MoonPay announced Friday that Ledger has added hardware wallet support to the MoonPay agent, allowing human users to verify and sign transactions initiated by deployed AI agents.
The announcement comes as the cryptocurrency industry embraces artificial intelligence in the form of autonomous AI agents. Ledger integration routes agent-generated trades, swaps, and transfers through a secure signer that requires manual approval in a hardware wallet.
“The Ledger integration is just the beginning. We plan to support additional hardware wallets and look forward to working with more partners across the ecosystem,” said Ivan Soto-Wright, CEO of MoonPay. decryption. “Developers building agents that need to move value can incorporate MoonPay as a financial rail across trading, gaming, commerce, finance, and more.”
MoonPay agent supports Ledger Nano S Plus, Nano X, Nano Gen5, Stax, and Flex devices. According to MoonPay, agents can discover and interact with wallets on blockchains such as Ethereum, Solana, Optimism, Avalanche, and Base.
Automatic switching of ledger apps allows agents to move between blockchain networks, MoonPay explained. Exchange, bridge, and route all routes through the ledger signer for authorization on the device.
“A new wave of CLI and agent-centric wallets is emerging, and these too will require Ledger security as a feature,” Ian Rogers, chief experience officer at Ledger, said in a statement.
AI agents are gaining traction in cryptocurrency trading as developers like Eliza Labs, Fetch AI, and Coinbase build systems that can send, receive, and manage digital assets autonomously. MoonPay launched its agent software in February, giving AI systems access to cryptocurrency wallets and the ability to execute transactions.
However, handing cryptocurrencies to AI comes with risks, and security is an ongoing concern as agents are susceptible to cyber-attacks such as prompt injection attacks.
“Right now, most agents that have wallets just have their private keys on disk somewhere, and we’re already seeing those wallets being misused or people losing access if the agent makes a mistake,” Eric Leppel, head of engineering at Coinbase Developer Platform, previously said. Decrypt.
