HTC introduced a new blockchain smartphone – the Exodus 1s for crypto enthusiasts on a tight budget. The Exodus 1s is the successor to the company’s first generation blockchain smartphone – Exodus 1.
The Exodus 1s allows users to save tokens and cryptographic keys inside a secure enclave within the device. As like of the Exodus 1, some other features like the support for decentralized mobile applications and integration with Opera crypto browser also appeared in the Exodus 1s.
Phil Chen, chief officer, HTC said, “We are democratizing access to the technology for a free world. Full nodes are the most important ingredient in the resilience of the Bitcoin network, and we have lowered the barrier to entry for any person to run a node, which is simply a computer, mobile in our case, participating in a global Bitcoin network that propagates transactions and blocks everywhere, which is the foundation and fundamental definition of a peer-to-peer cash system.”
An Exodus 1 exclusive feature of providing full Bitcoin node capability is improved in the new model. For a device to act as a Bitcoin node, it has to keep a log of the entire blockchain history, which means the device has to store 200GB of data. HTC knows about this and employed the Exodus 1s with a method called pruning to solve this issue. Pruning reduces the size of the blockchain file by a huge margin – 200 GB to 10 GB.
HTC Exodus 1s supports HTC’s Zion wallet app to send, receive or request cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether, and Ethereum based ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens.
The company hasn’t revealed the specifications or the price tag of the Exodus 1s. Its predecessor is available at $600, and the company plans to launch Exodus 1s at almost half of that. We don’t know the exact release date of the smartphone yet, but the company has hinted release in the third quarter of 2019.
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