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Ledger Wallet™ and Coinbase Wallet, now the Base App, are both self-custody wallets. That means you hold the ownership and control over your own private keys with either one. The difference lies in two primary aspects: where your keys live, and how you check what you are approving when you act onchain.

A recently highlighted vulnerability in Ledger’s Ethereum application for its hardware wallets has drawn attention in the cryptocurrency community. The issue involved a race condition in certain clear-signing processes. In these flows, users review human-readable transaction details on the device screen before approving them.

XRP Ledger activity fell to 25,350 active addresses, its second-lowest day of 2026, with new wallet creation dropping to its lowest level since November 2024.