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Ledger launches Agent Stack to keep AI agents away from crypto keys

Ledger just shipped Agent Stack—AI agents that can draft crypto transactions but can't move a dime without hardware wallet approval.

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Why it matters

As AI agents gain autonomy in financial workflows, hardware-enforced signing becomes a critical control layer. Ledger's toolkit addresses the intersection of agent capability and crypto custody security—a gap that will matter as agents handle more transaction logic.

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5 to know
  1. Ledger launches Agent Stack—open-source toolkit for building AI agents

  2. Agents can read balances and draft crypto transactions

  3. Agents cannot move funds without human hardware wallet sign-off

  4. Paris-based hardware wallet maker positioning as answer to AI agent security risks

  5. Released as open-source toolkit for developers

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Publisher excerpt: Ledger SAS today launched Ledger Agent Stack, an open-source toolkit that lets developers build artificial intelligence agents that can read balances and draft crypto transactions but cannot move funds without a human signing off on hardware. The Paris-based company, maker of the widely used Ledger…
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