Meet Reown: the onchain UX platform
Reown (previously WalletConnect Inc.) gives builders the tools to create user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure.
When WalletConnect began back in 2018 as a simple QR code, later expanding to offering its first ever toolkits in 2022, few could have predicted its evolution into a thriving network and product suite that had the capacity to serve 40K+ app projects, 600+ wallets and 23+ million users, creating immeasurable impact on the growth of the web3 industry and facilitating over 150 million connections to date.
As a major next step along our mission to unlock better onchain UX, we are thrilled to announce that WalletConnect Inc. has officially rebranded to Reown!
After six years of innovation and growth, we’re excited to share this milestone, along with a brand new identity and some exciting updates for our products – AppKit and WalletKit – and growing community.
Reown brings forward a new era for our team and ecosystem to accelerate the mission towards a better digital landscape – one designed for ownership. This change represents the challenge we’ve set ourselves to enable both organizations and individuals to redesign, recreate, rebuild, and reown the internet, for good.
Jess Houlgrave, CEO of reown says “Web3 is yet to achieve the lofty goals spoken about by many. The average person will have heard of Bitcoin or NFTs but will likely struggle to set up a wallet or mint and send an NFT. Reown is focused on changing this and making the onchain landscape usable and accessible. Reown will work with partners across all chains and ecosystems to help make using the decentralized internet as intuitive as possible”.
What is Reown?
Reown is a UX-focused company that provides toolkits – AppKit and WalletKit – for anyone building onchain to leverage and unlock better UX. At its core, it focuses on merging innovation with reliability and ease of use to enable all builders to provide web3-native features within their products and bring vast opportunities and a better future.
Reown is designed to be the onchain UX platform for a world of users, with our suite of toolkits giving app and wallet builders seamless, secure, and world-class opportunities to create unparalleled web3 UX.
Reown’s AppKit empowers your web3 app with seamless onchain app-to-wallet interactions, all packed into one powerful stack. Free to use and integratable in just 20 lines of code, it enables wallet login, social and email login, and embedded wallet features, allowing app users to connect, sign messages, and interact with smart contracts. AppKit also offers transactional add-ons like Swaps and On-ramp for a smoother user experience.
WalletKit enhances security and ease of use for wallet users connecting to apps. It provides features like Web3 Notifications, App Verification, and One-Click Authentication, and lets wallets integrate directly with over 6,000+ apps. Supporting multiple blockchains, WalletKit makes cross-chain integration effortless.
For end users, this powerful combination of toolkits means an optimized user experience from start-to-finish when exploring web3 with the wallet of your choice. It means accessing the best standards while seamlessly onboarding, topping up, swapping, and engaging with any app, drastically improving the UX of web3 for users and improving the utility of products for builders at the same time.
Reown empowers apps and wallets to bring better UX to millions of users every day. Our commitment to product development and growth is at the core of what we do, and the rebranding will only strengthen our momentum. Stay tuned for exciting updates coming later this week.
What about the WalletConnect Network?
The WalletConnect Network continues along its decentralization roadmap, and we’re thrilled to continue contributing towards it as a partner of the network.
You can find more information about the WalletConnect Network, its roadmap, its native token and more at walletconnect.network, or subscribe to the Foundation’s mailing list.
What’s next?
TLDR: Lots. Keep your eyes peeled this week for some major news…
Finally, we extend our thanks to all the builders, partners, and supporters who have supported and contributed toward our journey so far.
As we look ahead, Reown will continue to deliver cutting-edge solutions and remain the go-to UX platform for everyone.
