🟩 Blockstream Jade review: security, features and score
67/100SCORE · CTrustedHardware, keys on device
Grade C, fair
Affordable open source Bitcoin hardware, especially with Liquid.
The facts
- DEVELOPER
- Blockstream
- LAUNCHED
- 2021
- TYPE
- Hardware, Bitcoin focused
- CUSTODY MODEL
- Hardware, keys on device
- KEY MODEL
- Seed on device, with a virtual secure element and optional blind oracle PIN
- CHAINS
- Bitcoin and Liquid
- PLATFORMS
- Blockstream Green, Sparrow, Electrum, Specter
- OPEN SOURCE
- Full
- AUDITS
- Fully open source
- HARDWARE SUPPORT
- Is the hardware
- SWAP COST
- None built in.
What it can do
How the score breaks down
Each dimension is explained on the methodology page.
Where it is strong and where it is not
✓ Strengths
- Fully open source and inexpensive
- Camera for air gapped QR signing
- Works with Sparrow, Electrum and Specter
- Liquid network support
✗ Weaknesses
- Bitcoin and Liquid only
- Default PIN model contacts a Blockstream server
- Small screen
Incident history
No security breach or significant incident on record.
The default PIN protection uses a remote oracle. You can run your own if you would rather not depend on Blockstream for it.
Reputation and reviews
A reputation score out of 100, kept separate from the feature score above. It reflects what users actually report over time rather than a star rating scraped on one day.
REPUTATION
82/100
Well regarded in Bitcoin circles, inexpensive, and fully open source. The PIN model relies on a Blockstream server by default, which some users dislike and can be run independently.
Check current reviews yourself
Star ratings change constantly, so we link to the sources rather than printing a number that is out of date the day after it is written.
If something goes wrong
COMMON FIXES
Transaction stuck pendingYour transaction has sat as Pending for minutes or hours and nothing is moving.Transaction failed but the gas was still takenThe transaction reverted, you got nothing, and the fee left your wallet anyway.Token is not showing in my walletThe block explorer shows the tokens arrived, but the wallet shows nothing.I sent tokens to the wrong networkYou withdrew to your address but picked the wrong chain, and the balance is not where you expected.
RISK WARNING
Crypto assets are highly volatile and largely unregulated. You can lose everything you put in.
Nothing on this page is financial, investment or tax advice, and nothing here is a recommendation
to buy or sell any asset. Do your own research and never commit money you cannot afford to lose.