📰 A civil engineering junior in college, because Bitcoin was rising, bought his first Bitcoin on Taobao in 2013. Twelve years later, he became the founder of OneKey. The turnaround sounds legendary, but Wang Yishi puts it very plainly himself: back then, it was only because it was going up that he started to seriously research it.
🔥 In this conversation, the most painful part isn’t the entrepreneurship story—it’s just how hard the hardware wallet business actually is. During the 2020 DeFi Summer, a large amount of capital flowed from exchanges onto the blockchain, and users needed safer wallets. But once hardware wallets run into supply chain issues, firmware, molds, and the like, it’s often not a single problem that follows—it’s a whole chain of problems.
In OneKey’s early days, it won users by reducing operational friction, delivering a localized experience, and being open source. Before, when connecting a hardware wallet to DeFi, people often had to switch back and forth between multiple clients, like using three remote controls to operate one TV. To be honest, even if it’s very secure, if it’s hard to use to the point that people give up, it’s also very hard to retain users.
💡 Wang Yishi also mentioned that security can’t rely only on “trusting the product.” Users also need the ability to verify whether the product is truly secure. That’s where the value of open source lies. But open source doesn’t automatically mean safety. Coldcard once had a vulnerability related to mnemonic generation that went public as existing for nearly four years—an incident that makes people rethink: the real difficulty isn’t simply putting code out there; it’s continuously fixing problems.
👀 After AI arrived, the efficiency of vulnerability discovery kept improving, and both sides of offense and defense accelerated too. What used to be measured in “two months” is now “two weeks” in the headlines. For hardware wallets, it’s not just a matter of adding a few protective tools—it means R&D, auditing, and response speed all need to keep up. The OneKey team established Anzen Lab as part of responding to this change.
🤔 What do you think hardware wallets should prioritize most: security verification, user experience, or vulnerability response speed?
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