Case Studies

The future of DeFi requires seamless interactions across multiple blockchains, but building modular infrastructure that maintains both security and simplicity presents significant technical challenges. OneBalance is pioneering this future with their chain abstraction framework, demonstrating how modern wallet infrastructure can power sophisticated cross-chain applications while maintaining a simple user experience.

Blockchain enables asset ownership and new economic models in web3 games, but complex user experiences – like managing crypto wallets, gas fees, and clunky onchain transactions – can make it difficult to attract mainstream gamers, especially those who don’t have knowledge or interest in crypto.

Crypto onboarding is still broken. Despite the popularity of memecoins within the ecosystem, bringing in new users is still hampered by the massive friction of setting up a seed phrase, buying Solana, finding an exchange with the meme or token you want to buy, copying contract addresses… and of course, making your first major mistake just to get rugged.

The intersection of AI and crypto has opened up new avenues for intelligent software agents to operate within DeFi and onchain ecosystems. AI agents can leverage their ability to rapidly analyze massive data sets to spot patterns and opportunities in crypto by executing automated trading strategies, providing predictive analytics, and aiding in portfolio optimization. Furthermore, AI agents can also employ natural language technology to execute these strategies in a way that feels intuitive and seamless, without needless manual execution.

The onchain landscape today is generally disaggregated, with a multitude of protocols, forks, and applications across several (often non-interoperable) ecosystems. Finding a place to start—even for a seasoned crypto user—is difficult.

Over the past decade, private credit has emerged as an increasingly important source of financing for businesses, and is expected to reach $3.5 trillion in AUM by year-end 2028. Amidst this private credit boom, the team behind the Goldfinch protocol launched Heron Finance to provide investors easy and affordable access to private credit deals in an automated way.

New chains in crypto are easier to deploy than ever. And with the rise of chains purpose-built for verticals like gaming, NFTs, or DeFi, we are moving towards a world where every application launches its own blockchain, resulting in potentially millions of unique appchains across the crypto ecosystem.

The DeFi user experience today is less than ideal. While crypto has enabled an exciting new set of financial primitives to take hold, safety and usability are often the last thing on developers’ minds, leaving users unfamiliar with crypto feeling uncertain and wary of participating in the onchain economy.

Mural provides a user-friendly experience for businesses to leverage USDC for global payments and invoicing. Learn more about how they integrated Turnkey in this case study!

Turnkey is partnering with Alchemy to make wallets invisible! We’re excited to work with Alchemy on their latest release, Embedded Accounts. Embedded Accounts is the easiest way to onboard users to web3, with invisible authentication and transaction flows made possible by Turnkey.

Dynamic is launching mobile-first embedded wallets, powered by Turnkey. If you’re interested in exploring your own integration with Turnkey, contact us at [email protected].