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Bits and dollars – Announcing Privy’s latest round of funding, led by Ribbit Capital.

We are proud to announce a new milestone: Privy’s latest round of funding led by Ribbit Capital...

Henri Stern

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Mar 19, 2025

Announcement
Product

Our values

Our four values drive how we work at Privy....

Henri Stern

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Apr 7, 2025

Product
Engineering

Transaction scanning for added wallet security

Now available in Privy Global Wallets, powered by Blockaid—helping users stay safe before they sign....

Madeleine Charity & May

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Apr 1, 2025

Case study

From Terminal to Timeline: BankrBot and the Rise of Agentic Wallets

Welcome to the BankrBot era—where the future of finance is social, and wallets are invisible....

May

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Mar 27, 2025

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Engineering

Defense in depth: transaction policies

Introducing our policy engine, to define rules that dictate which transactions can be approved or blocked by our server wallets....

Colfax Selby

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Mar 14, 2025

Product
Market

Getting smart on stables: What’s in your wallet (stack)?

Today, we break down the stablecoin infra stack to orient builders looking to leverage these rails to integrate tokenized assets into their products....

Henri Stern

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Mar 5, 2025

Market
Engineering

On hindsight and risk assessment

Lessons learned with a bit of hindsight following last week's ByBit incident....

Andrew MacPherson

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Feb 27, 2025

Case study
Market

Onchain social experiences for everyone with Farcaster

We are thrilled to support the Farcaster team with their Warpcast embedded wallet launch, a massive milestone on their journey bringing novel experiences to the social layer of the internet. ...

Max Segall

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Feb 21, 2025

Market
Product

Getting smart on stables: stablecoins 101

Stablecoins are digital assets that are designed to maintain a stable value, like the US dollar....

Max Segall

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Feb 11, 2025

Market

Cutting through the noise: the resurgence of SocialFi

This cycle of SocialFi isn’t just about speculation—it’s about building products that people actually want to use. From seamless social trading to gamified experiences and decentralized creator economies, these platforms and apps are starting to prioritize engagement, entertainment, and long-term sustainability over fleeting hype. ...

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Jan 30, 2025

Product
Case study

Powering Abstract’s Global Wallet

At Privy, we help developers unlock the benefits of crypto rails - like interoperability - for every user. Simply put, interoperability lets actions and assets built in one product to carry over to another: it lets developers build on one another’s work easily and without permission. Today’s Abstract mainnet launch is one of the best demonstrations of this in action....

Jainil Sutaria & Madeleine Charity

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Jan 27, 2025

Case study
Market

The Future of Global P2P Payments: Stablecoins and URL Links

BeerMe sets out to be the digital wallet of the future, where money (and tokens of all kinds) can flow as freely as text messages. True P2P payments aren’t just about paying friends in your own country; they’re about paying anyone, anywhere, with no extra coordination or infrastructure needed....

Gray Newfield

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Jan 21, 2025

Market
Product

Cutting through the noise: making sense of onchain AI

In an LLM-powered world, crypto infrastructure offers several unique benefits: programmable payment rails enable richer agent interactions, data verifiability ensures creators can prove authorship over their content, and global accessibility allows agents to transact with systems worldwide with near-instant settlement. Since our market’s collective “a ha” moment last October, when Truth Terminal proved how impactful empowering an AI agent with spending value could be, things have gotten more exciting by the day....

Max Segall

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Jan 15, 2025

Market
Engineering

Allowing zero leading coefficients in our open-source SSS library

We're making an update to our open-source Shamir Secret Sharing (SSS) library to align the implementation for wider open-source community usage....

Andrew MacPherson

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Jan 10, 2025

Market
Product

How money moves onchain

Blockchains can enable seamless business to business and peer to peer transactions, but these transactions are supported by a complex technical stack....

Madeleine Charity

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Jan 7, 2025

Announcement
Product

Introducing server wallets

Today, Privy is opening up the low-level cryptosystem that enables all Privy embedded wallets giving developers access to bare metal APIs to provision and manage cross-chain wallets for any use case....

Henri Stern

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Dec 17, 2024

Market
Product

EIP7702: what it is, why it matters, and how Privy helps you upgrade!

In this post, we’ll dive into how EIP7702 works, why it matters, and the ways Privy can help you leverage it to build better products. ...

Ankush Swarnakar

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Dec 11, 2024

Market
Product

How blockchains simplify transactions

In this post, we will explore at a high-level how blockchains simplify financial infrastructure. To understand where exactly the cost savings come from, we will examine the steps to execute a point of sale transaction with and without blockchains....

Madeleine Charity

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Dec 4, 2024

Product
Announcement

Powering ecosystem identities

Today, we are excited to introduce ecosystem SDKs, enabling developers to ship unified identity systems. This means any app or chain can package their own smart wallet to be integrated by anyone else with just a couple lines of code....

Henri Stern

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Nov 21, 2024

Product
Announcement

Introducing Delegated Actions

Delegated actions let users give an app the ability to perform specific onchain actions on their behalf, even when they are not around...

Henri Stern

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Nov 5, 2024

Announcement

New look, same Privy

Sharing a evolved brand that reflects our core purpose: crafting secure, flexible libraries to let developers build products their users deserve....

Jackie Randell

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Oct 1, 2024

Engineering
Product

How we allow you to access your embedded wallet everywhere

A behind the scenes look at how our cross-app wallet connector works under the hood...

Madeleine Charity

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Sep 5, 2024

Product
Announcement

Accessing your embedded wallet everywhere

With this release, you can easily integrate a Privy-powered cross-app wallet into your existing Rainbowkit code or wagmi-based connector library with just a few lines of code....

Andrew Hollenbach

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Sep 4, 2024

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Engineering
Product

Sharing the secret: a peek under the hood of Privy’s Shamir Secret Sharing library

A deep dive on the cryptography that powers Privy's embedded wallets...

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Aug 7, 2024

Product
Market

Announcing Privy for Solana

Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Privy embedded wallets for Solana! ...

Henri Stern

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Jul 24, 2024

Announcement

Deepening our partnership with Coinbase

Announcing a strategic investment from Coinbase Ventures....

Henri Stern

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Jul 16, 2024

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Announcement
Product

Cross-app wallets are live

Cross-app wallets will enable teams to bring one of crypto's most powerful features—interoperability—to mainstream audiences....

Henri Stern

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Jun 26, 2024

Case study
Market

Onboarding new Farcaster users via Supercast

A deep dive on Supercast’s new account creation flow...

Max Segall

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Jun 13, 2024

Product
Market

On the importance of self-custody

Discussing the technical and UX implications of building a self-custodial system...

Henri Stern

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May 13, 2024

Market
Product

Building Telegram apps with Privy

What are Telegram Mini Apps (TMAs) and how can they help you supercharge your consumer app?...

Max Segall

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May 9, 2024

Product
Announcement

Managing your online identities

As we make progress toward the launch of global wallets, we’re excited to share a bit more about user-facing side of global wallets: user controls....

Henri Stern

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May 6, 2024

Product
Engineering

Launching cloud-based wallet recovery

Making it easier for users to manage key recovery with cloud-based recovery....

Henri Stern

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May 1, 2024

Case study
Market

Lessons watching Hyperliquid grow TVL by 15x in 4 months

What we've learned from Hyperliquid's 15x TVL growth over the last four months....

Max Segall

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Apr 16, 2024

Case study
Market

Bringing Teamwork, Strategy, and Sabotage Onchain

Celebrating one of the most exciting onchain consumer apps, Crytpo: The Game....

Max Segall

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Mar 19, 2024

Market
Product

Making sense of the new crypto stack

At Privy, we strive to help developers find the simplest path to unique product experiences for their users. This starts by making sense of the stack....

Ankush, Henri, and Max

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Mar 14, 2024

Announcement
Market

Celebrating EIP-4844 by sponsoring user gas!

We're funding up to $50,000 in sponsored gas to celebrate EIP-4844...

Henri Stern

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Mar 13, 2024

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Announcement
Product

Privy is now available for everyone!

Today, after 15 months, over 2.5 million users onboarded, 902 SDK releases and 5 infrastructure and cryptographic audits, Privy is now available for everyone...

Henri Stern

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Feb 22, 2024

Product
Market

🎶 Purple Frame, Purple Frame 🎶

Exploring new composability primitives and interaction modes with Farcaster and Privy...

Ankush Swarnakar

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Feb 2, 2024

Announcement
Product

Setting a secure foundation: a primer

Our secure app setup guide details our list of recommendations to keep your app and your users’ assets as secure as possible...

Asta Li

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Jan 29, 2024

Talks
Product

Base layer: Building delightful products in web3

Asta Li, co-founder at Privy, joins Base Layer for a fantastic talk about the movement happening in digital assets, focused on building delightful consumer-centric products....

Asta Li

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Jan 12, 2024

Case study
Market

Digital ownership for everyone with OpenSea

Announcing our partnership with OpenSea to unlock a new wave of crypto adoption...

Max Segall

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Jan 9, 2024

Product
Engineering

Wallets and architectures, part 3: Threat models

Our work at Privy is to simplify this threat modeling so developers can easily build the right, secure experience for their users, and users can easily upgrade their accounts to fit their needs as they evolve through their product journey...

Asta Li

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Jan 4, 2024

Announcement
Product

Our work on global embedded wallets

Today, we are excited to talk about our work on global embedded wallets. This means enabling users to easily access embedded wallets across the apps they use. ...

Henri Stern

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Dec 19, 2023

Product
Market

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

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Dec 4, 2023

Zora
Case study
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Bringing imagination onchain with Zora

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

Max Segall

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Nov 29, 2023

Announcement
Product

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

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Nov 27, 2023

Announcement
Market

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

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Nov 21, 2023

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Product

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

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Nov 15, 2023

Market
Case study

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

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Nov 14, 2023

Friction
Announcement
Market

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

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Nov 10, 2023

Wallets
Product
Announcement

Wallets and architectures, part 2: Walking the decision tree

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

Henri Stern

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Nov 6, 2023

Announcement
Talks

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

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Oct 31, 2023

Talks
Announcement

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

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Oct 27, 2023

Product
Engineering

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

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Oct 27, 2023

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Talks

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

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Oct 9, 2023

Market
Announcement

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

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Oct 6, 2023

Shield
Announcement
Product

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

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Oct 3, 2023

Talks
Announcement

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

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Sep 21, 2023

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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

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Sep 19, 2023

Case study
Market

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

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Aug 21, 2023

Announcement
Product

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

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Aug 17, 2023

Market
Case study

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

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Aug 15, 2023

Market
Talks

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

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Jul 20, 2023

Market
Talks

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

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Jul 18, 2023

Product
Market

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

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May 16, 2023

Engineering

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

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Apr 25, 2023

Engineering
Product

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

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Mar 9, 2023

Talks
Market

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

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Mar 4, 2023

Talks
Market

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

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Mar 3, 2023

Talks
Market

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

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Mar 2, 2023

Product
Announcement

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

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Feb 22, 2023

Product
Market

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

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Feb 10, 2023

Market

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

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Jan 12, 2023

Engineering
Product

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

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Jan 10, 2023

Talks
Announcement

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

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Dec 22, 2022

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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

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Nov 30, 2022

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Market

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

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Nov 18, 2022

Talks
Market

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

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Jul 21, 2022

Announcement
Talks

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

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Jul 20, 2022

Talks
Announcement

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

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Jun 29, 2022

Talks
Market

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

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Jun 25, 2022

Announcement

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

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Jun 22, 2022

Announcement
Market

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

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May 27, 2022

Talks
Announcement

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

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May 24, 2022

Announcement
Market

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

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May 19, 2022

Announcement

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

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May 10, 2022

Announcement

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

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Apr 20, 2022

Market
Engineering

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

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Apr 6, 2022

Engineering
Announcement

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

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Apr 5, 2022

Talks
Market

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

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Feb 20, 2022

Talks
Market

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

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Feb 18, 2022

Announcement

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

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Feb 15, 2022

Talks
Market

EthCC: 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

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Jul 22, 2021

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