Key Management Solutions

Overview

Problem: “Expecting users to entrust their entire financial future in a “secret recovery phrase” is the Original Sin of wallets.”

Solution: A wide range of options exist today for making key management easier for users. MetaMask is behind the industry in supporting these key management solutions, but can quickly leapfrog this with Snaps. We can someday expect to see a much better onboarding flow for new users like this mockup by Alex Jupiter:

Scope: These key management solutions include

Smart contract accounts

Multi-sig accounts

Multi-party compute (MPC)

Key backup solutions (Shamir sharing, encrypted cloud backup, etc.)

Hardware wallets (USB, air-gapped, etc.)

Teams will be responsible for developing and designing the solution under the product/project management guidance of the MetaMask team.

Best Practices for Proposals

Here are some hard requirements that our team expects to see:

Must be open-source

Must undergo a security audit

Free to use (or availability of a free tier in pricing model, if relevant)

Teams should have a reasonable timeline in when they expect their project to hit the market (please include a roadmap in your proposal). We are running RFPs in one-month increments, and our grant program is operating with quarterly goals and key objectives

Please include relevant examples of previous work, and tell us about yourself/the team- we want to get to know you!