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Company Overview

公司简介

Company Name: Foundation Devices

公司名称： 基础设备

Founders: Ken Carpenter, Jacob Johnston and Zach Herbert

创始人：肯·卡彭特、雅各布·约翰斯顿和扎克·赫伯特

Date Founded: March 2020

成立日期：2020年3月

Location of Headquarters: Boston, MA and remote (worldwide)

总部地点：马萨诸塞州波士顿及偏远地区（全球）

Amount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: Foundation holds bitcoin but the amount is undisclosed

财政部持有的比特币数量：基金会持有比特币，但数量未公开

Number of Employees: 24 full-time employees

员工人数： 24 名全职员工

Website: https://foundation.xyz/

网站：https://foundation.xyz/

Public or Private? Private

公立还是私立？私人的

Products

产品

Foundation is best known for its hardware wallet, the Passport. The device looks like an upscale version of a feature phone, but with a higher-resolution screen. One of the Passport’s selling points is that it’s airgapped, which means it never has to be plugged into an internet-connected device, providing extra protection for the user’s private keys.

Foundation 因其硬件钱包 Passport 而闻名。该设备看起来像功能手机的高档版本，但具有更高分辨率的屏幕。 Passport 的卖点之一是它是气隙的，这意味着它永远不需要插入到互联网连接的设备中，从而为用户的私钥提供额外的保护。

Regarding the private keys, Foundation has created a simplified way to back them up compared to the traditional method of writing them down. With the Passport, users can save their seed phrase to the industrial grade microSD card that comes with the device.

关于私钥，与传统的记录方法相比，基金会创建了一种简化的备份方法。借助 Passport，用户可以将助记词保存到设备随附的工业级 microSD 卡中。

“We think that not having to go write down those 12 or 24 words helps you get onboarded faster,” said Herbert.

“我们认为，不必写下这 12 或 24 个单词可以帮助您更快上手，”Herbert 说。

Signing transactions with the Passport is also notably less complicated than it is with most competitor devices. You can do so by simply scanning a QR code, using your Passport and mobile phone.

使用 Passport 签署交易也明显比大多数竞争对手设备简单。您只需使用护照和手机扫描二维码即可。

The Passport works most conveniently when used in conjunction with Foundation’s Envoy mobile app, which also serves as a stand-alone hot wallet. Again, to make it easier to onboard users, Herbert and the Foundation team created a system that lets users securely start using the app almost instantaneously.

Passport 与 Foundation 的 Envoy 移动应用程序结合使用时最为方便，该应用程序也可用作独立的热钱包。同样，为了让用户更容易上手，Herbert 和基金会团队创建了一个系统，让用户几乎可以立即安全地开始使用该应用程序。

“We created something we call Magic Backups where we actually store the seed to your iCloud keychain or Android equivalent, which is only for the hot wallet on your phone,” explained Herbert.

“我们创建了一个名为 Magic Backups 的东西，我们实际上将种子存储到您的 iCloud 钥匙串或 Android 等效项中，这仅适用于您手机上的热钱包，”Herbert 解释道。

“What's amazing about Magic Backups is that you're onboarded within 60 seconds of downloading the app for the first time, and so you can always go and import your own seed if you want to, or create and save your own seed instead,” he added.

“Magic Backups 的神奇之处在于，您在首次下载该应用程序后 60 秒内即可登录，因此您可以随时导入您自己的种子，或者创建并保存您自己的种子，”他加了。

“We try to obfuscate things that might be complicated, but we do things based on the industry standards.”

“我们试图混淆可能很复杂的事情，但我们是根据行业标准做事的。”

He acknowledged that this surely isn’t as secure as recording your seed phrase to a microSD card or writing it down because saving your seed phrase offline is safer than storing it online, and he shared that the hot wallet is only for minimal amounts of funds — the same dollar amounts you’d hold in your physical wallet in cash.

他承认，这肯定不如将助记词记录到 microSD 卡或写下来那么安全，因为离线保存助记词比在线存储更安全，他还表示热钱包仅适用于极少量的资金— 与您在实体钱包中持有的现金金额相同。

Another feature of Envoy is that you can purchase bitcoin via KYC-free P2P marketplaces like Hodl Hodl and Bisq within the app and then send those purchases directly to hot or cold storage.

Envoy 的另一个功能是，您可以通过应用程序内的 Hodl Hodl 和 Bisq 等无需 KYC 的 P2P 市场购买比特币，然后将这些购买直接发送到热存储或冷存储。

Part of Foundation’s intention in building the Passport and Envoy the way it did was to keep all levels of bitcoin holders satisfied.

基金会以这种方式构建 Passport 和 Envoy 的部分目的是让各级比特币持有者满意。

“We're trying to make the products that the hardcore user will use and love but then will also feel comfortable recommending to their friends and family,” explained Herbert.

“我们正在努力打造铁杆用户会使用和喜爱的产品，同时也会放心地推荐给他们的朋友和家人，”赫伯特解释道。