Description
An open source mobile wallet with account abstraction (ERC4337) that you can customize for your community.
Why yet another wallet?
Existing wallets are either for tech savvy people (e.g. metamask), or traders (people who already have money to invest).
As a web3 project or DAO, what you want is an easy way for your community to receive and transfer your tokens without any technical or financial distraction.
Some web3 communities end up developing their own wallet but it feels like a waste of time and energy. It feels like back in the days where everyone was redeveloping a blog engine before Wordpress came along.
That’s why the Citizen Wallet aims to be the Wordpress of Community Currencies. An open source stack that you can easily customize for the needs of your community.
Current use cases
🍻 DAO.brussels has been running monthly events (Crypto Wednesday). You can use the Citizen Wallet to buy the local EURb coin and pay at the Crypto Bar.
🍞Breadchain is using the Citizen Wallet to make it easy for anyone to receive and send $BREAD tokens.
🔅Regens Unite is using the Citizen Wallet to let people buy food and drink tickets at their event. They will also introduce a timebank with the Regen Hour Token.
💸 Oak.community is developing their own local crypto currency. They've been using so far the Rainbow wallet. Great wallet for people in crypto, not so great for citizens who just want to receive and spend the token of the Oakland community.
❤️🔥 SFLuv.org is experimenting with their own stable coin pegged to USDC using the Citizen Wallet. They are also working on integrating it with the PoS of local shops.
🏙️ Wolugo is an initiative of a commune of Brussels to reward positive civic actions with a new local currency redeemable at the local swimming pool and other places.
Status
We have a web and native iOS (App Store Link) and Android (Google Play Store Link) versions using ERC4337 with a paymaster so that you can sponsor gas fees for your users. This solves the biggest UX issue when you onboard new users: you send them some of your tokens and they can't do anything with them since they don’t have any native tokens to pay for gas.
We also have the ability to share a token via a QR code or link (a voucher) that automatically generates a new web wallet ready to receive or send tokens without gas fees.
We are working on plugins:
Stripe integration to enable people to purchase your community currency with Apple Pay / Google Pay / credit card.
Marketplace to share offers and requests in the community.
Faucet to make it easy to distribute your community token
Live view to monitor all transactions in your community (see https://live.citizenwallet.xyz)
We are also working on enabling any community to run their own Community Server to index their token, send push notifications and act as a bundler for ERC4337 with their own Account Factory. That way they can be fully autonomous.
Our goal is to make it easy for any community to manage their currency (minting, burning, recovering accounts, etc.) via a dedicated admin interface.
Demo
https://twitter.com/citizenwallet/status/1755686501826855241
Deck
https://deck.citizenwallet.xyz
Why should you support this?
This is a missing piece of infrastructure to enable DAOs to onboard non crypto people to their community. It’s also urgent to enable communities on the ground to issue their own local currency and develop their own resilience to face the metacrisis.
Like Wordpress, this has to be a public good. An open source project funded by the community for the community.
By supporting this project, we can make sure that the last mile to enable citizens to join web3 won't be in the hands of a small number of investors.
Join us
We organise a weekly community call on our discord (every Wednesday 5pm CET): https://discord.citizenwallet.xyz (meeting notes: https://citizenwallet.xyz/communitycall)
Current contributors:
- Kevin: native mobile app developer, tech enthusiast, solution architect, founder of IT consulting company techi.be
- Jonas: Product manager at BeImpact
- Xavier: dad, software engineer, entrepreneur (Storify, Open Collective), Regens Unite DAO, DAO.brussels, All for Climate DAO
- Leen: mom, facilitator, community builder (All for Climate DAO and Regens Unite DAO).
- Guil: Regens Unite DAO, creative director at General Magic, previously at The DAOist, Chinwags.xyz
Other contributors include:
Chuck, PJ, PGO, Billy, Scott.