I noticed many WebThree apps have shifted back to login only via Email/Google/Apple/Twitter, and then auto-generate a new embedded/smart wallet for me.

Wait, wait, wasn’t WebThree supposed to be about logging into any app with just a wallet address, with identity and data fully controlled by the user? 🤨

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It should at least allow me to log in with my own wallet, while still being able to auto-generate a new embedded/smart wallet for me.

I fought for This already with some new Web 3 founders in 22, and see it again in 25 ..

> sure, offer easy signup
> pls don’t kill Adoption from Heavy crypto users (& big benefit of taking your assets/wallets with you)

Ps: back then I got the answer that the signup converts now much better and that they have to talk to their dev agency to implement such hard things - at that point I knew what a big mistake I made with my invest because even I (not super techy) could implement it within Hours 🙃

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Yeah, it feels like we’re going backwards. I remember four years ago, most apps used wallet-based login.

But as they started trying to build "consumer crypto", they started going back to traditional login methods…