Digital money like physical cash
One chip to replace
an entire network
Moves funds from chip to chip directly.
No validators, no middlemen, no fees. Just you and your peer.
Not just a wallet, a whole payment protocol in your hands.
Ledgerless money
A silicon that unlocks a new form of money
Shift is a small piece of silicon that lets two people settle a payment directly between themselves, in the time it takes a signal to travel from one device to the other. Online or offline.
No intermediary, no waiting, no system standing between you and the person you are paying. It is, as best we can describe it, what cash might have been if it had been invented today.
Here is the whitepaper, if you like to dig deeper.
01Contact pads
02Substrate
03Silicon die
04Bond layer
05Package
Hold & move assets across chips
Secure. Instant.
Private. Feeless. Offline.
EAL 6+ Security
Tamper-resistant secure element. Advance protection against both invasive and non-invasive attacks.
Physically Unclonable
Each chip has a unique “digital fingerprint” of random physical variations created during manufacturing.
Hardware Key TRNG
Keys are randomly generated & stored in a secure keystore. It will take more than the life of the universe to unlock.
Key Encumberance
Once used, the Key is permanently burnt by the hardware itself. Ensuring that it can never be used again.
Remote Attestation
Pairing requires a Factory-provisioned attestation keypair card-issued by shift. Makes sure your firmware is not bugged.
Unportable Keys
Keys never leave the chip and cannot be ported via seed phrase to any other chip unlike existing hardware wallets.