Why Silk is Different?

Onboarding vs. Security and Decentralization

A number of projects have taken impressive strides toward better wallet UX without browser extensions or app downloads. However, there are concerning security and decentralization issues in the current state of onboarding. These issues have prevented projects serious about decentralization and privacy from onboarding.

Silk is a new category of wallet. With easy onboarding and without needing a download, it has the UI of a web account or WaaS. Yet it does not make the security, recovery, and centralization sacrifices inherent in the current tooling.

Easy Developer Experience

Silk is free / permissionless with a web3-native business model rather than SaaS fees. This makes Silk simpler for developers to integrate in a few lines of code (see Quickstart) without onboarding to a billing and dashboard system.