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How does the self-custody part work if all the crypto stuff is abstracted away as much as possible? Will people realize that if they mess something up you won’t be able to help them? What’s the chance of messing it up?

Kudos for getting this out, serves a real need for a huge amount of people.



Thank you, we hope it does help a lot of people.

We use privy, one of the best-in-class wallet providers that basically creates a self-custody wallet, but uses email/phone/social auth (and encrypts/shards the actual keys). So you wouldn't be at risk of losing them like you would with a vanilla wallet (you can of course export the keys if you're more crypto-savvy)

We're doing a pretty slow and steady rollout to catch where users are running into issues, but it's a pretty controlled environment re: messing up. You could accidentally send money to the wrong address if you wanted to transfer to another wallet, but that's not a core functionality (located on a side page) and certainly not one that the average person is using. Outside of that, there isn't really anything else you could severely mess up.




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