What are crypto wallets? How different are they from exchanges? What is their job to be done? where are they weak? What is the potential and future they hold
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11. ● Custodial banks
● Funds Controlled by a corporation
● Exchanges
● Your bank + crypto
● Governments entity
● “off-chain” system
● hosted
What crypto wallets are not
13. ● Speedy trading fiat-crypto on/off ramp
● high convenience and familiar
● Best fees
● Compliance stack
● (partially) Insured “vaults”
● Account reset if lost
● Hyper-profitable
● Single point of failure
● Abusive withdrawal fee schedule (up to 10x)
● Trust-based
Custodial systems are the greatest on-ramp
14. ● The raise of the web 3 economy
● Cannot connect to Dapps
● Crypto jails to funds lock-in
● Compliance, caps, censor
● Siloed identities
● Non-portable and local
● Tedious and expensive opsec
● Funds moving out of exchanges
Custodial systems are necessary
but unfit to web3
15. ● Key management and recovery controlled by users
● “on-chain” assets support (tokens, NFTs,….) and portable
● Crypto security (transaction protection, phishing)
● Transactional services (send, receive, history)
● Financial interfaces / services (buy, sell, trade, earn, stake,
cards, history, tax connectivity)
● Web 3 connectivity (dapps, defi, ENS, identity,..)
● Customer experience (support, education, ..)
● Trust-minimized and private
● Bonus: entreprise wallets vs personal wallets
What crypto wallets (should) do
17. Wallets are primary interfaces
to the native crypto economy
…where the crypto journeys
start and finish
Wallets are the new (Google/Facebook) sign-up…
20. Non-custodial Wallets have weak spots
● Intimidating: Be your own CTO
● Atomized (who wants tens of wallets?)
● On-chain means slower and more expensive
● Fees everywhere
● Fiat-crypto is sub-par compared to exchanges
● Cumbersome to use (onboarding, extensions, cables,…)
● Unclear sustainable business models (hardware, free
downloads)
26. So much can go wrong
● Prone to errors (too many wallets, seed back up errors…)
● Account take over: anyone can use your seed backup
● Malicious smart contracts
● Legit smart contracts hacks
● Abusive contract approvals
● Lost private keys
Your wallet is not your wallet
27. The future of wallets: crypto remote controls
Multisig / MPC Passwordless
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