Ledger and Kraken parent Payward let investors hold tokenized stocks offline on Ledger devices

Ledger/Ledger signers (Nano, Flex, Stax) & Ledger Wallet

Ledger and Payward, Kraken's parent, agreed that customers of Payward's xStocks tokenized-stock platform can require a Ledger signature before trades and keep the shares offline on a Ledger device. Ledger, with about 8 million customers, said it is talking to Coinbase, Binance and Robinhood about similar integrations.

• xStocks trades can require approval on a Ledger device.
• Tokenized shares stay in offline storage on the device.
• Ledger counts about 8 million retail and institutional customers.
• Talks under way with Coinbase, Binance and Robinhood.