Offline retail giants are starting to sell hardware wallets, and this signal is more worth pondering than the product itself.

Best Buy sells Tangem self-custody hardware wallets through bestbuy.com and over 200 stores in the United States, expanding retail coverage in the U.S. and making it easier for users to store assets outside of decentralized platforms. Tangem states that listing makes the wallets safer and more user-friendly, covering 170 countries, supporting over 16,000 tokens and more than 90 chains, with a security architecture validated on six million devices without being compromised. 88% of assets are still stored on centralized exchanges, and the expansion aims to lower the barrier to self-custody.