Glossary
Privy
An embedded-wallet SDK for consumer dApps — email/social login produces a self-custodial wallet behind the scenes, with seed phrases optional or hidden.
Privy lets dApp developers offer Web2-style login (email, Google, Twitter, Discord, passkey) that produces a self-custodial wallet in the browser or mobile app. The wallet is gated by the user's auth method via threshold cryptography; the user can optionally export the underlying seed phrase to migrate elsewhere.
Privy is used by major consumer crypto apps (Friend.tech, Hyperliquid, Stripe's crypto product, Farcaster). The SDK targets the long- standing UX problem of seed-phrase onboarding for non-crypto-native users.