V1.4 Release – Keycard Integration and Notifications for Android

In version 1.4, Status introduces two highly anticipated features to make your Status experience more convenient and secure – an integration with Keycard and notifications (both features available on Android only for now). Keycard - the secure, contactless hardware wallet, is also designed and developed by The Status Network. This integration enables Keycard holders to store their private keys offline on the Keycard device, add hardware-enforced authorizations to all of their transactions, and introduce two-factor authentication to log into their Status account. To learn more about the Keycard integration - read the press release here . Version 1.4 includes one of our most-requested features - notifications. We needed a privacy-first approach to notifications so opted out of the standard Android and iOS centralized push notifications. Instead of leveraging a centralized database, when our message relayers, called mailservers, receive a message, we don’t know who it is ...