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Today, let me introduce you to the tools we use for daily connections with dapps.
In the Web3 world, there is a classic contradiction:
But the reality is: the wallet can't connect, the chain is cut incorrectly, authorization fails, the interface is laggy... Just trying to use a DApp, the very first step of "connecting" can drive people away.
This is exactly the purpose of WalletConnect.
🔌 It is not a tool, but the underlying infrastructure of the entire Web3.
✅ Supports over 700+ wallets
✅ Compatible with 67,000+ DApps
✅ Serving over 47.5 million users worldwide
✅ Has facilitated over 300 million connections
✅ In 2023-2024, connection volume increased by 340%
Without WalletConnect, today's Web3 cannot function at all.
🚀 Why can it support the entire ecosystem? Four keywords:
1️⃣ Wide Coverage: Wallets, Chains, and DApps are fully interconnected.
Supports over 150 mainstream public chains (such as Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, etc.) and hundreds of wallets, allowing developers to integrate once and connect the entire blockchain ecosystem. Save time, effort, and costs.
The newly launched Link Mode and Smart Sessions features have even eliminated the need for "chain switching", truly making on-chain interactions as smooth as Web2.
3️⃣ Secure and Strong: Military-grade Risk Control Protection
End-to-end encryption, anti-phishing alerts, trading risk detection... Every step the user takes is silently protected by WalletConnect in the background.
Not to mention it also launched the WalletGuide tutorial system and smart contract monitoring tools, providing comprehensive protection for user assets.
4️⃣ Sustainable: Moving towards decentralization, empowering the future
WalletConnect is gradually evolving towards full decentralization through the $WCT token:
Can be used for payment of connection fees in the future.
Earnings from staking
Participate in protocol governance and proposals
Incentivize developers to improve the ecosystem
$WCT is not just an ornament, but the economic core of the entire network.
🌐 Deeper: Unified on-chain identity, breaking through data silos
The vision of WalletConnect has long been beyond just "connecting wallets".
It is quietly building a new on-chain identity layer that integrates user information scattered across different chains and DApps, allowing you to truly have unified identity, unified permissions, and unified asset management capabilities.
🧩 Challenge and Future
Of course, WalletConnect is not without its shortcomings:
Mobile connection is occasionally unstable.
The complexity of protocol integration still needs optimization.
Phishing attacks via fake pages still require continuous warning.
But with the continuous upgrades of the abstraction layer tools WalletKit, security modules, and connection protocols, it is gradually upgrading from a "connection channel" to the digital trust core of Web3.
✅ For Web3 to achieve true mass adoption, there are two prerequisites:
Assets must be secure.
Using must be simple
WalletConnect is precisely the adhesive between these two.
It is not a replacement wallet, nor a replacement for DApps, but a bridge that truly seamlessly combines the two. It is like the TCP/IP protocol of Web3 - invisible, yet omnipresent.
🚀 #WalletConnect
$WCT
WalletConnect + $WCT is redefining the way Web3 connects.
The infrastructure of the future on-chain world starts with connection.
And the connection starts from WalletConnect.