Solana Mobile spent two years building its own crypto phones. Now it is putting its software on someone else’s hardware. On Oct. 15, Solana Mobile named Ledger as its first hardware expansion
Solana Mobile spent two years building its own crypto phones. Now it is putting its software on someone else’s hardware.
On Oct. 15, Solana Mobile named Ledger as its first hardware expansion partner. Ledger is the Paris-based maker of hardware wallets, which keep the private keys to crypto holdings offline.
Solana Mobile announced the partnership live on stage today at the Ledger Op3n 2026 event. Its new device, Ledger Atom, will come with Solana Mobile’s Seeker app preinstalled. The app combines the Solana dApp Store and wallet into one place.
Solana Mobile builds smartphones for the Solana ecosystem, the blockchain network known for fast, low-cost transactions.
The company shipped its first phone, Saga, in 2023 and its second, Seeker, in 2025. It says it has sold over 200,000 devices.
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The deal builds on a step Solana Mobile took in March. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it opened the Solana Mobile Stack, the software layer behind its phones, to other Android manufacturers.
The company argues that app stores are one of the least contestable markets in the world. A few companies decide what ships and take up to a 30% cut of every transaction.
Solana Mobile says its dApp Store lets developers ship crypto features that other stores often restrict, with reviews that take days instead of weeks. A dApp, or decentralized application, is an app that runs on a blockchain.
According to the company, Seeker has handled over $13 billion in transaction volume across 154 million transactions. More than 1,500 apps are listed on the dApp Store.
“Now we’re thrilled to take the Solana Mobile ecosystem further with Ledger,” said Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs, the company that developed the Solana blockchain.
He said he was excited for Ledger Atom users to “experience the magic that Seeker users have been experiencing for over a year.”
The company says Seeker will remain fully supported. Developers who submit an app to the dApp Store will now reach users on multiple devices.
Ledger Atom runs on the Android Open Source Project, the free base version of Android. Alongside it sits a Secure Element, a tamper-resistant chip certified at the EAL6+ security level, running Ledger’s own operating system.
The device’s display and touch controls are physically isolated from Android.
According to the release, Seeker app users on Ledger Atom will be able to:
The device will also include anti-tampering features, from its packaging to methods that help detect whether the enclosure has been opened.
“Seeker made self-custody feel natural on mobile,” said Ian Rogers, Ledger’s chief human agency officer. Self-custody means holding your own crypto rather than leaving it with an exchange.
Ledger Atom will be sold only through Ledger’s official website, and reservations are open now.
Solana Mobile says every new device running its stack brings more users into the ecosystem around SKR, the native token of the Solana Mobile ecosystem. The token rewards users, developers and hardware makers who take part.
