TREE NEWS update: OneKey founder Yishi said the company developed and funded “Yishi Jianbao,” a website that verifies hardware wallets by analyzing photos of a device’s mainboard. Users dismantle the device and upload a photo, which is resized to 2048 pixels with GPS metadata stripped, then analyzed by Claude’s vision model for chip model, matching with the device model and anomalies such as extra chips, modules, antennas or jumper wires. Rules are identical for Ledger, OneKey and Trezor, with results labeled “not worrying” or “very worrying.”
OneKey Launches Hardware Wallet Mainboard Photo Check Site
The interesting part is not the tool but the standard: a founder-funded, model-agnostic check that treats Ledger and Trezor by the same rules as OneKey removes the usual vendor-says-its-fine problem in hardware wallet assurance. It shifts verification from supply-chain claims to post-purchase, user-performed inspection, which is a meaningful change for anyone buying devices through resellers. Whether photo-based vision checks become a durable norm, and how the worrying/not-worrying labels are contested by the vendors named, is the open question.
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