Best Hardware Wallet Under $100 for Crypto Gaming

For most crypto gamers with under $100 to spend, the pick is the Trezor Safe 3. Trezor's own coin pages list it for both Ronin (RON) and Immutable (IMX), and published prices put it between $59 and $99. For a Solana player, the SafePal S1 at $49.99 is the pick. If you want NFTs managed inside the vendor's own app, get the Ledger Nano S Plus. If $55 is the most you will spend, the Tangem Wallet is the cheapest option here, and it has no screen.

Three things were weighed:

• Chain support, as the makers publish it.
• Prices, as named reviewers published them.
• Security sub-scores, from Blocklr's weighted method.

This blog tested none of these devices. No maker-store price was captured for this piece, so every price below names who published it. The spread between those prices matters, and the sections below show how wide it gets.

Trezor's Ronin coin page lists the Safe 7, Safe 5 and Safe 3 as supporting RON. Trezor's Immutable page lists the same three devices for IMX, on both Ethereum and Immutable zkEVM. No other device under $100 in this research has a maker page confirming both of the gaming chains this blog covers most.

The support works differently on each chain:

• Immutable (IMX) can be managed in Trezor Suite, or through MetaMask or Rabby.
• Ronin (RON) cannot be managed in Suite. You manage it through MetaMask or Rabby, or through Ronin Wallet itself.

Trezor publishes a five-step guide for pairing Ronin Wallet:

1. Install the Ronin Wallet extension.
2. Import a wallet using the hardware wallet option.
3. Pair the Trezor through the browser.
4. Choose a Standard or Passphrase wallet and select an address.
5. Set a passcode that auto-locks after 15 minutes.

Trezor states that "your private keys stay safely on your Trezor device" and are never stored in the browser. One caveat: the guide's screenshots show a Safe 5, not a Safe 3. The case for the cheaper device rests on the Ronin page listing it, not on a walkthrough that shows it.

Price. Published prices disagree:

• Blocklr: $59.
• Coin Bureau's Trezor vs Ledger comparison: $59 to $79.
• Coin Bureau's main guide: €79 to $99.

Check Trezor's own store before you assume the low figure.

Scores. Blocklr scores the Safe 3 at 3.8 out of 5 overall, the highest of the budget devices it ranked. Its security sub-score is 2.9 out of 5. Both Coin Bureau and Crypto Briefing point to the fully open-source firmware.

The drawback. Coin Bureau notes that Trezor Suite has no built-in NFT manager and no swap aggregator. Your Axie or Immutable NFTs live in Ronin Wallet or MetaMask, not in the Trezor app.

Skip it if you want one vendor app that shows tokens and NFTs together.

Blocklr lists the SafePal S1 at $49.99, the lowest price in its whole comparison, and says it supports Bitcoin, EVM chains and Solana. Its scores:

• 3.6 out of 5 overall.
• 3.1 out of 5 for security. That is the best security sub-score among the three budget devices Blocklr ranked, ahead of both the Trezor Safe 3 and the Ledger Nano S Plus.

Why Solana players need on-device confirmation more than most. Solana is where drainers are most aggressive:

• Malwarebytes documented a fake GTA 6 "leaked copy" site that priced the bait at $50 or 1 SOL. It ran a separate inline script just for Solana wallets, which tried to move nearly the whole balance rather than the advertised price.
• The CLINKSINK kit impersonates Phantom, DappRadar and BONK. CleanSky puts its take at $900,000.

On a chain this fast, a device that makes you approve each transaction before it is signed is the last checkpoint you get.

The step up: SafePal S1 Pro. HardwareWallets.net lists it at $89.99 in a guide updated September 24, 2026. It claims:

• 30,000+ assets across 200+ blockchains.
• NFT support on Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, BNB Chain and Tron.
• QR-code connectivity.

Crypto Briefing lists the S1 Pro at $89 with an EAL6+ chip and rates it 7.5 out of 10. The asset counts come from a reviewer repeating the maker's figures, not from an independent audit.

The drawbacks.

• Blocklr describes SafePal's code as only partly open-source.
• Nothing in this research confirms SafePal support for Ronin or Immutable.

Skip it if your games run on either of those chains.

Coin Bureau's Trezor vs Ledger piece prices the Nano S Plus at about $79, with 5,500+ coins supported. Blocklr lists it at $59. Coin Bureau picks it over the Safe 3 for gaming because Ledger Live, the companion app, has built-in NFT management and staking. You get them without wiring up a third-party wallet.

For Immutable, Ledger's IMX page says the token is supported across the Nano range, and that you can buy, hold and swap it in the Ledger app.

The drawbacks.

• Security score. Blocklr gives the Nano S Plus a security sub-score of 2.1 out of 5, the lowest of the three budget devices it scored.
• Code. Blocklr describes the code as partly open-source.
• Ronin. This research has no Ledger page for Ronin. Unlike Trezor, Ledger's support for Axie players is not confirmed here. How the two brands handle Ronin Wallet and Immutable Passport is a separate comparison.

The Nano X. Crypto Briefing lists it at $99, while Coin Bureau puts it at $99 to $149. Whether it fits under $100 depends on the day you buy.

Skip the Nano S Plus if security score is your first filter, or if you play on Ronin.

Published prices:

• Coin Bureau's 2026 guide: $69.90 for the three-card set. Coin Bureau calls Tangem the "strongest all-rounder for most users."
• Cold Crypto Wallets: $55.

How it works. Tangem is an NFC card with an EAL6+ certified chip. You tap it against your phone to sign. There is no recovery phrase: the extra cards are the backup.

The published asset counts disagree. Coin Bureau says 8,000+. Cold Crypto Wallets says 16,000+ across 85+ blockchains. When two reviewers are that far apart on the same card, treat both numbers as marketing until a supported-chain list from the maker settles it. Cold Crypto Wallets lists Ethereum, Polygon and Solana NFTs. Nothing in this research confirms Ronin or Immutable support.

The drawback. Tangem has no onboard screen. Whatever you are approving is shown on your phone, which is the same device the phishing page is talking to. Cold Crypto Wallets' own line is that "screen size is your first line of defense," and Tangem has none.

Who should buy it. A Telegram tap-to-earn player holding small amounts, for whom $55 is the whole hardware budget.

Skip it if you hold anything you would mind losing to a single bad approval.

• Trezor Safe 3: Ronin and Immutable players. The only budget device here with maker pages for both.
• SafePal S1: Solana players. It is also the cheapest of the devices in this list where Blocklr confirms Solana support.
• Ledger Nano S Plus: Immutable players who want NFTs and staking inside the vendor's app.
• Tangem Wallet: the smallest bankrolls, if you accept signing without a screen.

If none of these fits, the realistic case is a Ronin player who wants tokens and NFTs in one vendor app. Nothing under $100 in this research does that. Crypto Briefing's top overall pick, the Trezor Safe 5, was listed at $129. Once your budget can stretch, the full comparison of devices for NFT games covers it.

Left out: the Trezor Model One. The research has nothing current on it, so it is not ranked here.

Whichever device you choose, the order of setup matters more than the brand. Bridge and fund the wallet before you claim a single reward, and keep it from getting drained by doing it in that order.