HTC, the smartphone manufacturer, has announced plans for a blockchain-enabled handset called ‘Exodus’.
The Android handset will contain a cryptocurrency wallet and each device is intended to act as a node for a native blockchain network.
The Exodus will support Bitcoin, Ethereum, Lightning Network and Dfinity at launch, but HTC says that support for other partnerships will follow.
The phone will also offer support for DApps – the ‘decentralised applications’ that can run on blockchain networks.
This move will definitely trigger a lot of Android & crypto fanatics to check out this new smartphone. I bet Samsung and Apple are cooking up something, too.
Nevertheless, the Exodus provide evidence that computer hardware will move as people’s needs move. If blockchain continues to grow, both in its range of uses and in the number of people using it, then it makes sense that the technology will begin to be ‘baked-in’ to the hardware. And, since the smartphone is the main computing device for a growing number of people, that means more manufacturers will offer blockchain smartphones to meet that demand.