Release 1.1.0-beta

What's changed

With the open beta of version 1.1.0 of Envoy, we’re greatly expanding what Envoy is capable of, making it a feature-rich Bitcoin hot wallet in addition to its existing role as a watch-only wallet and management app for Passport. Hot wallet support in Envoy opens up financial sovereignty through our tools to many more users and lays the groundwork for other privacy and security features we’re building behind the scenes.

For more details on each of the changes, keep reading below!

New Features

• Introduced complete hot wallet functionality to Envoy
  • Now you can enjoy Envoy not just as a companion app for Passport, but also as a fully-featured standalone Bitcoin wallet on the go
• Introduced a novel new feature to protect your sats we're calling "Envoy Auto-backup"
  • If you opt-in to Envoy Auto-backup, we'll ensure your wallet, settings, and application data are securely backed up using end-to-end encryption
    • Note: Foundation never gets access to your funds or ever receives your seed phrase or private keys
  • As this is a complex feature with a unique security model, you can read more about it in our blog post for the open beta
• Added biometric/PIN auth for Envoy
  • Now you can protect your hot wallet or Passport balance from prying eyes
• Added the ability to swipe on accounts to hide balances while you're on the go

Improvements

• Implemented screenshot protection to prevent screenshots of sensitive screens in Envoy
• Bumped the integrated Tor version to 0.4.7.10
• Bumped Flutter SDK version to 3.7.7

Bug Fixes

• Improved firmware update flow for Android to better account for slow file transfers
  • Some users experienced issues writing the firmware to microSD in the time we set for Envoy, so we've better handled those edge cases in this release

Verifying Envoy on Android

If you'd like to take the optional additional step of verifying Envoy binaries on Android, follow our guide: Verifying Envoy on Android