Status Keycard Now Works With Android Mobile Devices

The Status Keycard now works with Android smartphones to make mobile apps more secure. It also enables a user to both authorize the spending of crypto either online or using a point-of-sale device and, with this new functionality, it acts as a form of two-factor authentication (2FA) for logging into applications like the Status messaging app and Ethereum wallet.

“If you are a regular Status user without a Keycard, your private keys are in your mobile phone,” Guy-Louis Grau, the product manager for Keycard, told CoinDesk. Keycard pairing with an Android phoneSource: Status Payments That said, a mobile device is not essential for using Keycard.

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