Introducing Para for Ecosystems ✴️
Building an ecosystem means making strategic bets: starting from zero, supporting early teams, and helping projects find product-market fit on your chain. Beyond that, ecosystems often take on broader responsibilities like chain abstraction, UX optimizations, and onboarding. Creating a unified, ecosystem-level product is a big undertaking—every piece of infra needs to work across a complex set of use cases.
Today, we're excited to announce: Para for Ecosystems. Para for Ecosystems is a product designed to help make it easier for ecosystems to unify their user base with a single secure identity that works across every application.
Para Ecosystem Wallets help teams reduce fragmentation by creating an ecosystem-level secure, portable identity that users can carry from one app to another. This experience lowers friction during wallet onboarding and keeps users engaged and retained across the ecosystem.
With this product, your ecosystem gets:
- Universal wallets by default enabling faster app activation and reduced user drop-off
- Versatile SDKs powered by industry-leading MPC, compatible with frameworks like wagmi, Solana web3js, and more
- A powerful and growth-optimized Developer Portal, with ecosystem-level analytics and team tools so you can track usage and manage integrations across apps with ease
Let’s dig in!
Universal Wallets
While a unified identity improves the user experience for end users, it also simplifies retention for developers building new apps.
This enables applications that integrate to directly tap into a network of users from day one, without starting from scratch. Cross-app interoperability is default and built with robust permissioning to protect users against malicious apps: once a user connects their wallet in one app, they’re automatically recognized across the ecosystem without requiring additional opt-ins or configurations.
Vana leveraged Para for Ecosystems in their ecosystem wallet and empowered over 5 million+ people to regain control of their data. Over 77,000+ users use their wallets cross-app within the Vana ecosystem, bringing their identity, credentials, activity, and reputation with them.
Just as Vana’s ecosystem wallet users are able to move fluidly between apps with one wallet, ENS applies the same principle to identity. Leveraging Para, ENS users can sign up for a username without a wallet and use their identity across the ENS ecosystem. They can register names, manage identity, and participate in DAO governance, all without ever repeating onboarding flows to use their username across apps.
Your Ecosystem Control Panel
Teams using Para for Ecosystems gain access to ecosystem-level analytics making it easy to understand usage patterns in your ecosystem wallet and demonstrate traction to future partners, integrations, or platforms via the Developer Portal. The Portal allows you to assign roles across teams, automate API key generation, and oversee the integration of projects into an ecosystem.
An Opinionated Default, without the Downsides
Para gives ecosystems the tools they need to thrive with robust, non-custodial identity and wallet infrastructure for any app integration. Built with decentralization and censorship resistance by default, Para for Ecosystems puts control in the hands of builders. With advanced MPC security and customizable transaction permissions, teams can fine-tune ecosystem wallet access and define the right security and controls for their users – without any compromises.
Simplifying Developer Adoption with Modular SDKs
A thriving web3 ecosystem relies heavily on how easily developers can build and scale applications. Para for Ecosystems allows apps to integrate seamlessly with widely used frameworks like wagmi and Solana's web3js, offering developers modular building blocks to quickly set up or extend their apps. The SDK is designed to be flexible enough to integrate into existing setups, making it easy for teams to adopt Para without reworking their entire UX stack.
For example, teams already using account abstraction can cleanly slot in Para, allowing them to retain full control over user experience while benefiting from a team’s ecosystem wallet. Ecosystem teams can fully customize the user experience through whitelabeling and flexible configuration options, allowing them to own and brand onboarding flows to match their product and identity.
Top Ecosystems Choose Para
We’ve been lucky to work with incredible teams that have already adopted Para for Ecosystems.
“ENS chose Para because it is a universal wallet…For the first time ever, you can now claim an ENS name without having to have a wallet downloaded ahead of time. For the rest of whatever you try and do in Web3, whether it’s DeFi or buying an NFT, you’ll be forever able to sign in with that name." – James Beck, Head of Growth @ ENS Labs
"Para's interoperability is key for DataDAOs on Vana. All the interoperability benefits of web3 with none of the UX friction" – Anna Kazlauskas, Creator @ Vana
"While embedded wallets unlocked a "web2" experience, they hindered the growth of what makes web3 magical: interoperability. Para marries them both - a seamless web2 experience, while still being able to bring your onchain identity from one place to another. Camp couldn't be more excited to work together with Para to bring true ownership back into fold, without sacrificing user experience." – Drew Rasansky, Head of Consumer Ecosystem @ Camp
If you're building an ecosystem and want to make onboarding and growth feel effortless – for both users and developers – we'd love to chat. Reach out to the team or explore the docs to get started ✴️