Developing firmware applications for hardware signing devices has always been constrained by the difficulties of embedded development: tiny RAM, tiny flash, vendor-specific SDKs, slow iteration cycles, and painful debugging.

Over the past year, I’ve been building Vanadium, a different approach. It isn’t production-ready yet, but it is mature enough for external developers to try. Early feedback will directly shape the roadmap.

Vanadium is a RISC-V Virtual Machine that can run in an embedded Secure Element, designed to run arbitrary applications (“V-Apps”) in a secure-enclave environment while outsourcing memory and storage to an untrusted host.

This gives developers a virtualized secure enclave with dramatically fewer constraints than physical secure elements normally impose.

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> *by salvatoshi*
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> Developing firmware applications for hardware signing devices has always been constrained by the difficulties of embedded development: tiny RAM, tiny flash, vendor-specific SDKs, slow iteration cycles, and painful debugging.
>
> Over the past year, I’ve been building Vanadium, a different approach. It isn’t production-ready yet, but it is mature enough for external developers to try. Early feedback will directly shape the roadmap.
>
> ## What is Vanadium?
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> Vanadium is a RISC-V Virtual Machine that can run in an embedded Secure Element, designed to run arbitrary applications (“V-Apps”) in a secure-enclave environment while outsourcing memory and storage to an untrusted host.
>
> This gives developers a virtualized secure enclave with dramatically fewer constraints than physical secure elements normally impose.
>
> **[...read more at delvingbitcoin.org](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/vanadium-a-virtualized-secure-enclave-for-hardware-signing-devices/2142)**

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