fc-updates

Introducing web wallet

- No Chrome extensions—natively integrated into the app
- 100% functionality from mobile
- New minimized wallet and mini app UX
- Dock in the sidebar while you scroll
- Especially useful for streaming or live mini apps
- Ability to 1-click lock
- Sign in securely using your mobile device for a 7-day session

This is incredible!!! Completely unique experience and very cool to see wallets integrated in a website this way.

privy

well this is awkward @henri now everyone can see my entire annual salary

Privy is hiring. We have competitive salaries and benefits :) 

Join us!

Privy is hiring. We have competitive salaries and benefits :) 

Join us!

https://www.privy.io/careers

privy equity is a crypto app layer index asset

embeddedwallets

1/ Wallets to reimagine the global payments system

We (@privy) are SO excited to be powering Lightspark’s wallet infrastructure for their Spark network.

Spark helps scale Bitcoin so users can send payments of any size worldwide, both cheaply and securely. Privy helps make this seamless for anyone.

Instant, cheap, global p2p payments is a massive market with tremendous value to users.

Proud to partner with Spark to help their developers easily spin up secure wallets!

1/ Login with WhatsApp

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world with over two billion users globally!

Phone-based OTP codes also provide some of the best onboarding UX available.

Now available to all @privy customers.

Global adoption comes through WhatsApp. 

Excited to support a new login method!!!

Data privacy on the web. Keeper of the fabric @privy.

Fmr Protocol Labs consensus work. Before that YC S14 🇫🇷🌐🍊

https://privy.io/blog/our-values

Thanks for pushing @androidsixteen.eth -- they are

Drive impact by usage.
Commit to the experiment.
Focus.
Be an owner.

"You should build this feature"
"You should make this small quality of life improvement"
"You raised a bunch of money why can't you also X"

Focus. 

Not claiming to be world-class at it. Varun is much better at focus than I am—I get distracted by shiny new things all the time. 

But ultimately you only have a fixed number of "shots on goal" before you lose momentum (and in other cases, funding). 

Have to constantly be asking yourself is this the highest priority thing we can work on? And if everything is high priority, then you're not focused.

Good clip below on what world-class looks like here (note that Jony doesn't think he is good at it).

We have 4 core values at Privy -- "Focus" is one of them, it's always the hardest to live by!

Before crypto, I had so many cool, stupid side projects that never shipped because they couldn't pay for themselves. Weekend over by the time you set up Stripe and configure all your billing alerts. Live in fear of fraud, chargebacks, and an unexpected infra bill.

After crypto, I had so many cool, stupid side projects that never shipped because they had no distribution. Write the contracts, test the contracts, build the frontend, write the tweet and pray you get 10 likes. Live in fear of a smart contract bug, die because nobody clicks through to your website or knows how to use a wallet.

But you? You can have it all.

“but jonny, installing a wallet and connecting it to an app is a non-starter for consumers!”

cope. all consumer products are pleasure-pain tradeoffs. add pleasure to offset pain

Many thoughts on the core issue here. 

But the pleasure-pain spectrum is a deep insight. Why speculation has such strong PMF.

Many thoughts on the core issue here. 

But the pleasure-pain spectrum is a deep insight. Why speculation has such strong PMF. 

https://privy.io/blog/the-carrot-and-the-stick

1/ Securing Privy wallets with transaction scanning

Privy has partnered with Blockaid to bring extra security to our embedded wallets—flagging suspicious txn before users sign.

With this, users can leverage Privy global wallets with confidence. Let’s dive in!

Spinning up a new project channel at Privy HQ means a Monday @segall ritual

Crypto: The Game

Undercover ops. Spreadsheet drama. Emoji puzzles in piss-scented alleys.

Incredible write-up from WIRED on going undercover for CTG S3 that reads like a spy thriller.

If you've ever wanted to know what it feels like to play Crypto: The Game, read this: https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-the-game-undercover/

This is so so so so so cool. 

So not Privy related at all but super proud we got to build a tiny sliver of what helped Dylan and the team focus on crafting a unique, incredible experience (Cult? Movement?) on the web. 😍😍😍

My feed:

- we have built superintelligence with access to the world’s knowledge rails. 
- can you turn all my family photos into Ghibli content?

On the whole, i feel good about humanity’s prospects today.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Who should use this feature? 

1. You have a Warpcast Wallet, but are not able to use it due to geo restriction.

2. You are a developer, and know how recovery phrases work, and want to test something in your own client. 

3. You are an advanced user, and want to import your Farcaster wallet into another app.

In all cases - if you make a mistake and store it insecurely or get tricked into inputting it into the wrong app, you will lose your account and your funds! 

We do not recommend using this feature unless you absolutely have to.

Release + user manual -- underrated major release practice.

Learning from @v !

GN! Ready to AMA -- happy to chat anything @privy, building better UX for distributed systems and lessons on crypto product building, key cryptography, or why @dwr.eth's rosé swilling memes are so distatesful for the French. AMA

OMG you're a real one... anybody that references that scene... extra h/t to you for your work with privy and for this salient argument, good sir 🫡

If you want to feel something tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ucBVz_IFGk

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Always happy except for when I have dry eyes | @maysquarepants on X |  prev. @lunchbreak

Nice, thank you, can't wait 🫡 

A follow-up only if time permits since I just noticed your X banner lol: Why is For a Few Dollars More better than The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? 

Fun fact - just found out *apparently the latter is Tarantino's all time fav

france

Still no one asks me about @dwr.eth 's numerous missteps with the French :(

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email