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Announcing Privy’s $18M Series A led by Paradigm

We've raised a Series A to grow our team and drive the development, security, and scalability of our onboarding toolkit and identity platform....

Henri Stern

Nov 21, 2023

Web3's coming of age, part 3: The carrot and the stick

When does an app become a crypto app, and how do we expand the viable product-set that can be built in crypto?...

Henri Stern

Dec 1, 2023

Bringing imagination onchain with Zora

Announcing our partnership with Zora to allow anyone to create and collect art onchain...

Max Segall

Nov 29, 2023

Principles to build by

At Privy, we think a lot about who we build for. This is after all, the single greatest determinant of our product’s shape (rather than the other way around). The following is an excerpt from our internal handbook. We’re excited to share a few principles we build by....

Henri Stern

Nov 27, 2023

Reverie: Product-building, and the future of embedded wallets

This podcast episode begins with Henri’s personal journey in Crypto, how it led him to build Privy, and how his vision for Privy has changed over time....

Henri Stern

Nov 15, 2023

The builder’s perspective on consumer crypto

Learn from the top consumer crypto founders about the biggest opportunities and challenges of developing in the space....

Max Segall and Will Collier

Nov 14, 2023

Web3's coming of age, part 2: Time to first transaction

For many apps, product value comes with the first transaction. That is when the onboarding is truly complete and a user can be deemed to have tried the app itself, by coming onchain. Accordingly, where a developer chooses to add friction truly matters....

Henri Stern

Nov 10, 2023

Wallets and architectures, part 2: Walking the decision tree

How embedded wallets work and why we chose this architecture....

Henri Stern

Nov 6, 2023

Over Abstraction: Demystifying Privy's security model

In this episode, we discuss: embedded wallets, how privy works under the hood, shamir secret sharing (and why Privy uses it), Privy security threat models, and the future of account abstraction...

Asta Li

Oct 31, 2023

Web3 Talks: Bringing web2-caliber UX to web3 products

In this episode, we dive into the early MVPs of Privy, learn how it works under the hood, how they managed to design such as smooth UX & more....

Henri Stern

Oct 27, 2023

Supporting the Base Goerli Paymaster

Support for gas sponsorship of user transactions will unlock many novel use cases in consumer crypto and we are really excited to see Base stepping up to unlock this capability for developers....

Henri Stern

Oct 27, 2023

Blocmates: Enabling the SocialFi explosion

In this podcast, we discuss our infrastructure that is enabling new SocialFi apps such as friendtech and many more crypto and web3 applications across DeFi, NFTs, Real-world assets and more....

Henri Stern

Oct 9, 2023

Wallets and architectures, part 1: Metrocards and bank vaults

This is the part 1 in a series of posts detailing how Privy’s embedded wallets work, the motivations behind their design and the threat and security models they operate under....

Henri Stern

Oct 6, 2023

A note on Privy security

Balancing security and usability for crypto users is our core mission. Since Privy launched in January we’ve been laser-focused on security, working to set strong standards and enable users to upgrade their system to match their needs....

Henri Stern

Oct 3, 2023

On the brink: Wallets for mainstream users

In this podcast, we discuss the roll of wallets in consumer crypto, Privy's security architecture, and how to manage external third party wallets in your app....

Henri Stern

Sep 21, 2023

Sweating the details, Part 3: PWAs

In this blog post, we deep dive on PWAs and why they represent a big step forward for consumer crypto....

Ankush Swarnakar

Sep 19, 2023

Courtyard.io: Reimagining real-world asset trading

Privy is proud to support Courtyard.io’s latest release, which makes it easy for anyone to mint and trade their physical collectibles as NFTs, regardless of their experience with web3. ...

Ankush Swarnakar

Aug 21, 2023

Account abstraction for Privy customers with ZeroDev

Today, we’re extremely excited to announce our partnership with ZeroDev to power better experiences using smart contract accounts (otherwise known as “account abstraction” or “AA”) and self-custodial embedded wallets....

Henri Stern

Aug 17, 2023

Friend.tech: The power of native products, built for everyone

Last week friend.tech brought tens of thousands of users onchain securely over the course of a few days by combining a delightfully engaging app with decentralized systems. The result is a unique social experience that teaches us something about where the space is going....

Max Segall

Aug 15, 2023

EthCC: Wallet UX

In this talk, we discuss the evolution of custody models and wallet UX as we move into a new era for web3....

Henri Stern

Jul 20, 2023

EthCC: User onboarding infrastructure panel

Panel on user onboarding infrastructure in Web3, hosted by Lattice Fund, with participation from Privy, Lit, Rhinestone, and Capsule....

Max Segall

Jul 18, 2023

Sweating the details, Part 2: Wallet interoperability

Multiplayer journeys make web3 products unique. By leveraging assets that can be used across apps and ecosystems, web3 powers novel experiences that can build on one another, where anyone can openly contribute to a protocol or support its assets, thereby adding to the ecosystem’s value....

Henri Stern

May 16, 2023

Sweating the details

In this post, we’ll see that there is a lot of state complexity in this domain: users can enter the connection flow from many different states, and the wallet can be disconnected or switched from outside of the app context!...

Nicholas Charriere

Apr 25, 2023

Embedded Wallets: A bird’s eye view

Our core focus is enabling developers to build meaningful end-to-end solutions from day 1. To that end, we wanted this post to share some technical details on how embedded wallets got their start....

Ben Reinhart

Mar 9, 2023

ETHDenver: Account abstraction

In this talk, we run through an overview of the core technical unlocks coming to the Ethereum ecosystem from EIP 4337 (account abstraction)...

Henri Stern

Mar 4, 2023

ETHDenver: There's no freedom without encryption

The panel will bring together builders from across privacy focused projects that are building ways for users to transact and store data privately....

Henri Stern

Mar 3, 2023

ETHDenver: If web3 is to work

During this talk, we answer the question: "What is the one thing that the crypto industry needs to get right during this down cycle?"...

Henri Stern

Mar 2, 2023

Web3 for users, not experts.

We are excited to announce the next step in our product journey: embedded wallets. Embedded wallets make it easy for developers to provision self-custodial wallets for users no matter how they log in, via email, phone or social....

Henri Stern

Feb 22, 2023

Web3’s coming of age

There is a word missing from the web3 lexicon. That word is activation. Onboarding users onto a product is not just about creating an account, it’s about getting them to use the product and see its benefits firsthand....

Henri Stern

Feb 10, 2023

Onboarding to Web3

From working with end-users directly, we’ve seen a ton of appetite among newly onboarded web3 users to better understand the power of the technology they’re using....

Max Segall

Jan 12, 2023

Announcing multi-wallet support

Most users have more than a single wallet and tying users to a single wallet limits the experiences web3 can offer. With our latest multi-wallet feature, Privy enables developers to link multiple wallets to one underlying user account....

Asta Li

Jan 10, 2023

Rehash: Privacy is a public good

This podcast dives into cryptography, decentralization, cryptocurrency, and more as Henri shares how Privy is helping onboard new users and tackling the issue of privacy....

Henri Stern

Dec 22, 2022

Announcing Privy Auth!

Privy Auth is a simple library to easily onboard all your users to web3, regardless of whether they already have a wallet, across mobile and desktop....

Henri Stern

Nov 30, 2022

How Crypto Goes Mainstream from Here

In the coming months, seeds will be planted that’ll grow into the next wave of consumer apps to shape our lives. These apps must prove to be useful and fun enough to pull both my 15-year-old cousin and my 85-year-old grandma into our market (whether they know it or not)....

Max Segall

Nov 18, 2022

EthCC: Web3 identity panel

Panel discussion and Q/A on Self-sovereign Identity, Reputation, Credentials, and Consent at BlueYard x EthCC (On|Off) Chain...

Henri Stern

Jul 21, 2022

EthCC: Data sovereignty in web3

What does the web3 stack look like moving forward? And how are developers to bridge the gap between user privacy and UX as web3 goes mainstream?...

Henri Stern

Jul 20, 2022

Cross-Chain Examination: Data sovereignty

In this podcast, host Katherine Wu chats with Privy's Henri Stern about all things privacy, what data sovereignty means and why it's important as well as the dangers of convenience when it comes to your online experience. ...

Henri Stern

Jun 29, 2022

Funding the Commons: Privacy in web3

In this talk we discuss privacy as a commons in web3. We anchor this discussion on where we are today, and and where we can go from here....

Henri Stern

Jun 25, 2022

New threads, who dis?

We’re very excited to introduce our new look. Thank you to the great team at Unfold for working with us on this redesign....

Henri Stern

Jun 22, 2022

The Privy mindmap — the path ahead

This post runs through the work ahead for Privy and how we build for a future of data ownership...

Henri Stern

May 27, 2022

Into the Bytecode: Privy

In this podcast, we discuss through a set of topics that Henri has a unique point of view on — starting with the question around the seeming trade-off between privacy/security on the one hand and UX/convenience on the other....

Henri Stern

May 24, 2022

The Privy mindmap — Privy today

This post runs through how we are thinking about tradeoffs made in building Privy and the system today...

Henri Stern

May 19, 2022

Technical decisions are moral decisions

In building Privy, we choose to throw our hat in the ring to build better data systems on the web and help empower users to reclaim ownership over their online identity (which is to say their identity in this day and age)....

Henri Stern

May 10, 2022

Announcing our $8M seed round

We’ve raised an $8M Seed round, led by Sequoia and BlueYard Capital, to help you protect user data in web3...

Henri Stern

Apr 20, 2022

A weekend in web3

This is a set of resources for folks who want to spend a day or two hacking in web3 — assuming no prior experience....

Asta Li

Apr 6, 2022

Hack Day #2 — Brave New Stack

For hack day, everyone on the Privy team takes a break from our usual work to build something in web3....

Henri Stern

Apr 5, 2022

ETHDenver: Lessons from self-driving applied to web3

In this talk, we discuss boom and bust cycles in self-driving and web3, and the lessons and takeaways from those cycles....

Asta Li

Feb 20, 2022

ETHDenver: Privacy and decentralization in web3

This talk aims to discuss the current state of affairs of the on-chain/off-chain divide, trace its likely evolution through the current slew of scaling solutions coming to market, and put forth potential heuristics developers can use when thinking about how to build a modern decentralized product....

Henri Stern

Feb 18, 2022

Introducing Privy

Privy helps you manage user data off-chain, so you can build delightful products without siloing user data or putting their privacy at risk....

Henri Stern

Feb 15, 2022