vanzoo

Trying to turn Web3 into a better place for everyone, every day
Head of marketing at @ambire
To be cringe is to be free

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

Why do wallets need a token?

This last week Metamask teased finally releasing a token, Rabby followed ( $RABBY), Rainbow joined suggesting $RNBW, and the debate quickly emerged: why would a wallet need a token at all?

At the most basic level, a wallet token is a way to share success with the community that sustains it.
Wallets have straightforward revenue models: swap fees and convenience fees. Introduce a token, and that revenue can flow back to users through mechanisms such as buybacks, followed by redistributions or burns. The more the wallet is used, the more value accrues to its believers.

But the purpose extends beyond revenue. If Web3 is about aligning incentives and distributing power, then governance should be central. Just as $AAVE and $UNI give communities a voice in steering the two biggest protocols, wallet tokens can allow users to decide the direction of the very gateways they rely on daily.

There is also the competitive reality. In a crowded market, tokens function as onboarding tools. Incentives and airdrops can capture initial attention, and if the product delivers on UX, they convert newcomers into long-term loyalists.

Of course, launching a token is a heavy responsibility. It forces teams to manage new layers of complexity, from treasury design to regulatory navigation. Yet that very responsibility benefits end users: it provides another lens through which to evaluate a project’s maturity, transparency, and long-term commitment.

While larger wallets still hesitate, @ambire embraced the model from day one. The $WALLET token is an active governance token with roughly a hundred community voters participating in governance votes every month. It is value sharing, with 65 million $WALLET tokens (6.5% of supply) already bought back from fees and treasury. It is an acquisition engine, distributed to users through Ambire Rewards. What others only hint at, Ambire has executed in full view.

Wallet tokens, done right, are not value extraction mechanisms, but the natural evolution of Web3 wallets, aligning incentives, decentralizing control, and turning products into ecosystems.

[ambire.eth @ambire]

How I look at you when you try to sign a suspicious transaction

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

POV You stumble upon this in Backrooms

[Danny | 184.eth @184eth]

i’ve gone full @Ambire wallet.

quite a few delightful moments, including ENS names being used really well throughout. nice safety touches too.

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

@184eth @ambire Welcome fam

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

@blackstarops Lisan al-Putin?

[DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth @DeFi_Dad]

Your job the next 6 months is just survive.

Be a cockroach, and survive.

Block out all the drama and whining here on CT.

The bearish sentiment is so overblown. Ignore it.

Just survive, and while you do, look for the best products onchain, the best builders, and the best token value accrual, whatever it turns out to be in your analysis.

[Molly @bigmagicdao]

Gm.

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

@SMtrades_ Sorry to hear that. Try @ambire and stay safe 🤞https://t.co/60D5BQU77N

[Marc Zeller @Marczeller]

I'm updating the Golden trio of onchain safety:

1) Own a hardware wallet, with the new clear signing framework, screen output will go from gibberish to human-readable.

2) Import your hw into @ambire, they cooked, I migrated to it and it's now the best wallet for the EVM experience, check their simulation.

3) create a @safe, even if 1/1 at first, use tenderly simulation.

Bonus: generate a hotwallet without any funds, make it a proposer on your safe and give the private key to your agent to generate the transactions and batchs for you, no more clicking buttons, no more clunky UIs, just prompt then verify simulations at each layer and sign at the end.

Voila, this setup makes you safe, 100x your crypto UX and makes unc Kim sad.

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

@symbiosis_fi @ambire @Rabby_io List is based on ENS support ser, not overall wallet qualities.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc driving the Ferrari Luce should have been the entirety of the launch campaign. Am totally convinced now. This $640k EV is gonna sell like hot cakes.

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

One is criminally undervalued, you tell me which one

[Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri]

L’energia della presentazione dei convocati del Brasile.

Esci fuori e ti metti a correre.

Poi con tutti i loro difetti di sempre, tipo fare i fenomeni e chiamarli “I 26 del sesto titolo”.

Ma pace, senti come pompa

[donnoh.eth 💗 @donnoh_eth]

@lex_node @kassandraETH bro fuck metamask and rabby all my friends use ambire now

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

@donnoh_eth @lex_node @kassandraETH

[AJC @AvgJoesCrypto]

Generally don’t like shilling “beta” plays as it dilutes capital and attention, BUT if there’s any team that deserves the attention it’s absolutely @ambire.

The @ethereumfndn forked the Ambire wallet for Kohaku, so I’m not really sure there’s much higher praise than that.

They’ve built a kickass EVM wallet and will also be first to implement Kohaku features like @RAILGUN_Project.

Between Kohaku and their upcoming mobile wallet, they too should be getting a massive boost in distribution and users.

And the best part is Ambire has their own token, $WALLET, so anyone can get exposure to what they’re building.

At ~$8m market cap, I think it’s good beta to ethereum:0xe76c6c83af64e4c60245d8c7de953df673a7a33d, and therefore, am long.

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

ticker is $WALLET

[Ivo 7702/acc @Ivshti]

@aliomerhorzum @AvgJoesCrypto @ambire @ethereumfndn our token is directly tied to product usage - product revenue is collected in a single wallet controlled by the DAO, so
- it's direct exposure to revenue
- said revenue can be voted to be used to buyback and burn (or buyback and redistribute)

[ambire.eth @ambire]

Coming soon to Ambire: clear signing - the solution to one of the biggest sources of anxiety in web3, blind signing.

What's next? Privacy! Railgun/PrivacyPools integration through the Kohaku SDK, private data retrieval and more.

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

@RiddlerNFT You should check @ambire , we just implemented a new feature that mitigates address poisoning https://t.co/wZjczT6K32

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

Address poisoning works by scammers creating addresses that look very similar to ones you've used, then sending tiny tokens to get into your transaction history.

@ambire 's new security check compares any new address you send to with your known addresses.
If the start or end of an address closely matches a familiar one, Ambire alerts you.

This is a unique feature that we are pioneering in the fight with scammers.

Stay safe

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

@calebandbrown Address poisoning is bad, we just implemented a new feature on our wallet that detects wallet poisoning and alerts users https://t.co/wZjczT6K32

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

Address poisoning works by scammers creating addresses that look very similar to ones you've used, then sending tiny tokens to get into your transaction history.

@ambire 's new security check compares any new address you send to with your known addresses.
If the start or end of an address closely matches a familiar one, Ambire alerts you.

This is a unique feature that we are pioneering in the fight with scammers.

Stay safe

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

@galileowilson Check what we built to mitigate address poisoning for our users https://t.co/wZjczT6K32

[vanzoo @vanzooeth]

Address poisoning works by scammers creating addresses that look very similar to ones you've used, then sending tiny tokens to get into your transaction history.

@ambire 's new security check compares any new address you send to with your known addresses.
If the start or end of an address closely matches a familiar one, Ambire alerts you.

This is a unique feature that we are pioneering in the fight with scammers.

Stay safe