ImToken's 10th anniversary announces the strategic direction for the next decade: evolving from a trusted main wallet into a personal digital hub

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Decentralized wallet imToken celebrates its 10th anniversary by announcing its strategic direction for the next decade, proposing an evolution from the "Trusted Main Wallet" to the "Personal Control Interface," helping users better manage assets, identities, permissions, and intelligent actions in an open, intelligent internet.

imToken states that over the past ten years, the core value of wallets has mainly revolved around Store, Send, and Stake: helping users securely hold digital assets, freely transfer value, and participate in open network activities such as staking, DeFi, and governance. Looking toward the next ten years, as AI intelligences gradually gain stronger autonomous capabilities, individuals in the digital world will need to manage not only assets but also identities, authorizations, permission boundaries, automated tasks, and AI agent behaviors. In response to this shift, imToken introduces its fourth core product proposition: Sign.

In imToken’s view, Sign is no longer just about "signing a transaction," but will become the fundamental interface for users to express intentions, grant permissions, set rules, delegate actions, and revoke authorizations. In the future, users may need to sign not only a blockchain transaction but also an authorization, a policy, a delegation, or a revocation. AI intelligences can assist users in proposing plans, executing tasks, and improving efficiency, but their actions should be based on clear, verifiable, limitable, and revocable user authorizations.

Ben He, Founder & CEO of imToken, said: "Over the past ten years, imToken has helped users truly own their digital assets. In the next decade, we want to help users continue to control their digital world in the age of intelligence. AI will make autonomous actions increasingly abundant, but what will be truly scarce is control. imToken is not just about adding AI features to wallets, but about thinking how, in an AI-native internet, people can still retain ultimate control."

This strategic direction continues imToken’s long-standing brand proposition. Over the past decade, imToken has centered its core product principle on "Digital Assets, Under Your Control," emphasizing user self-custody and ultimate control over digital assets. For the new decade, imToken upgrades its brand proposition to "Your Digital World, Under Your Control," expanding the scope of control from digital assets to identity, permissions, data, AI intelligences, and intelligent actions.

imToken states that it will continue to develop around three directions. First, to uphold the fundamental principle of self-custody, ensuring users retain ultimate control over assets and key powers. Second, to extend security from transactions to authorization and action security, helping users identify long-term authorizations, excessive limits, erroneous delegations, and risks of automated mis-execution. Third, to build product capabilities focused on permissions, delegations, policies, and revocations, enabling users to clearly define who can act on their behalf, what actions they can take, the limits, duration, and how to pause, revoke, and trace.

As AI, blockchain, and personal control needs intersect, imToken believes that the role of wallets is naturally extending from asset entry points to trusted control interfaces in human-machine collaboration. Future wallets should not only help users manage assets but also assist users in understanding, approving, restricting, and auditing actions performed by intelligent systems on their behalf.

Ben He said: "The essence of a wallet is not just a simple asset application but an essential infrastructure for personal control. Keys are the root of control, signatures are expressions of authorization, permissions are boundary settings, and revocations are guarantees of freedom. We will continue to move forward as builders, with less slogans and more products; less chasing hot topics and more long-term trustworthiness."

About imToken

Founded in 2016, imToken is committed to creating a secure, trustworthy, simple, and easy-to-use digital wallet supporting access and use of over 50 mainstream blockchain networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and TRON. Through deep integration with hardware wallets imKey, payment network Rivo, token exchange platform Tokenlon, and DApp browser, imToken provides reliable non-custodial wallet services to millions of users across more than 150 countries and regions worldwide.

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