RISE Wallet: Global markets, one click away
DeFi gives users the ability to cut out the middleman, take custody of their assets, earn yield, and permissionlessly swap 24/7, among many other options. But for new users, wallet UX is still a massive barrier.
Users often need to install an extension, write down a 12-word seed phrase, buy a gas token they don’t understand, and sign a series of confusing pop-ups. Instead of moving onchain, they give up. We didn’t lose them because DeFi is bad. We lost them at onboarding.
Most of today’s wallets were built for early crypto power users, not for the next billion people. They still assume seed phrases, browser extensions, manual gas management, and heavyweight bridging flows. Even with newer AA and embedded wallets like Privy and others, these solutions often live at the app level: every app rolling its own wallet, its own sponsorship rules, its own onboarding funnel. It’s better, but still fragmented and vendor-owned.
RISE Wallet takes a different path. It’s a chain-native wallet layer for the entire RISE ecosystem – a shared, trustless wallet experience that feels like Web2, backed by audited smart accounts from Porto and wired into RISE’s ultra-fast EVM.
The result: you can use any app on RISE with no seed phrases, no extensions, and no gas friction, and builders get all of that out of the box.
The Problem - Wallet UX Is Still Stuck in 2017
From a user’s perspective, onchain still feels like a pain. You’re asked to manage private keys, install unfamiliar software, constantly approve signatures, and guess how much gas you need just to complete a simple action. If you want to change chains, you’re thrown into another mini-game: send funds, wait, pick a bridge, confirm again, wait again.
From a builder’s perspective, it’s just as painful. You watch your acquisition funnel bleed out at “connect wallet.” You burn cycles wiring gas sponsorship and onramps yourself or negotiating with wallet vendors. Non-crypto native users don’t understand gas or bridging, but you’re forced to expose that complexity anyway because the chain infrastructure typically stops at the RPC.
The core issue is simple wallet UX has not kept up with what modern apps need. And as long as high friction remains for new onchain users, the next billion users will stay on centralized platforms.
EIP-7702 Giving EOAs Superpowers
In 2025, Ethereum shipped EIP-7702. In normal language, it lets a regular wallet address temporarily behave like a smart account for a transaction, then snap back to a normal EOA.
That one change gives wallets superpowers. You can batch actions, apply custom permissions, and sponsor gas, all while users keep the same familiar address. Combined with ERC-4337 account abstraction, you can finally design the wallet experience around users, not public key - private key encryption.
The RISE Wallet, One Wallet, All of RISE
The RISE Wallet is deliberately simple
Users can interact with any app on RISE with no seed phrases, no extensions, and no gas.Builders can access this by default, from a chain-level wallet layer.
Instead of every app reinventing its own wallet and sponsorship logic, RISE offers a single global wallet experience that spans the entire ecosystem. Users can sign in with passkeys, or injected wallets & not have to manage seed phrases. They see one address they can use everywhere. They can seamlessly move from app to app without reconfiguring anything or worrying about gas.
Under the hood, it’s still full self-custody and fully trustless – but the surface feels like a modern internet product.
Web2-Like UX, Trustless Under the Hood
A trader using RISE today might start the day at their desk trading perps on RISEx. They log into the RISE Wallet with a passkey, not a seed phrase. They set a session so their trading app can place and cancel orders without prompting them for every micro-action.
Later that afternoon, they’re in a taxi and markets move fast. On most chains, they’d need to hope their extension is installed on mobile, that their seed phrase is imported correctly, and that they still have gas on that device. On RISE, they open their phone, authenticate with their thumbprint via the same passkey, and close the position in a few taps. The wallet is shared across devices thanks to passkeys and biometrics, but the keys remain under their control. No custodian, no new setup, no “I’ll fix this when I get back to my laptop.”
That’s the kind of moment where UX is either invisible and magical – or breaks completely. RISE Wallet is designed so those moments just work.
Gasless by Default
Gas is one of the most reliable ways to lose a new user. Every “you need ETH to do this” prompt is another drop-off event. Even embedded wallet vendors have written about how much conversion improves when you sponsor gas – but most apps still have to wire that logic themselves.
RISE Wallet treats gas sponsorship as a default for real users. Verified users receive a daily tx budget where tx’s are sponsored for any app on RISE. Flagship apps and all RISEx activity are automatically sponsored by default. Builders don’t need to negotiate individual deals or build custom relayers; they simply integrate the SDK and users get gasless UX from day one.
The RISE relayer enforces the rules in the background. It checks user tiers and budgets, enforces whitelisted calls and contracts, tracks spend over time, and triggers circuit breakers if something looks wrong. Crucially, it never touches user keys. All signatures are produced by end-user or session keys based on the Porto account model. From the user’s perspective, they just open an app, take an action, and it succeeds. There’s no separate “now go get gas” step.
Onboarding compresses into two simple steps: bridge into RISE, then use the app. No more “figure out gas first”. No more “come back later when you’ve topped up.”
Global Deposit, Chain Abstraction That Feels Natural
Bridging is another place where we routinely lose both retail users and serious traders. The mental model is unnatural, funds appear on one chain, then you push them through a specialized interface to a different one, hoping you’ve picked the right router and contract.
With 7702 we can simplify things down to something people already understand, one address. Users receive a single global address. They can send funds from other supported EVM chains directly to that address. Behind the scenes, the RISE Wallet and its supporting contracts can handle the rest to simplify the cross chain UX.
There’s no need to learn what a bridge is or to remember which app handles which route. Builders can simply say: “Send assets to this address and start using our app on RISE.” And mean it.
That’s chain abstraction expressed in human terms.
Built on Porto, Supercharged by RISE
RISE Wallet stands on two pillars.
The first is Porto (built by Ithaca/Tempo) audited smart account stack with support for passkeys, WebAuthn, session keys, and robust recovery. It brings account abstraction to normal users in a disciplined, secure way utilising EIP-7702.
The second is RISE itself, an ultra-fast, EVM-compatible chain designed for programmable markets. RISE rebuilt the execution pipeline for continuous, parallelized processing and wired in custom RPC extensions to enable real-time trading and low-latency apps. RISEx, the flagship integrated perps DEX, runs on top of this, pairing CEX-like performance with onchain transparency.
The Wallet is the UX layer that connects these two pillars. Porto gives accounts superpowers. RISE gives them a high-performance environment. The stack turns that into a single, coherent experience for users and builders.
For Users, Builders, and the RISE Ecosystem
For users the effect is simple, onchain stops feeling like a puzzle. You can sign in with a passkey, not a seed phrase. You don’t think about gas. You move between apps the way you move between sites and services on the regular internet. Markets on RISEx, games, DeFi protocols, and social apps all respond instantly.
For builders, the wallet ceases to be a tax. You no longer lose most of your users before they ever touch your actual product. You don’t need to assemble your own stack of wallets, embedded providers, gas abstractions, and bridges. You integrate the RISE Wallet SDK and inherit a chain-wide onboarding experience tuned for growth.
For the RISE ecosystem, our wallet helps bridge the gap between high-performance infrastructure and real-world adoption. The EVM layer provides the speed. Programmable markets like RISEx provide liquidity and composability. The Wallet provides a way for normal people to actually use all of it without friction.
Wallet UX has always been one of the biggest bottlenecks in crypto. Removing that bottleneck doesn’t just make existing apps nicer to use; it makes entirely new categories possible – CLOB exchanges with CEX-like latency but fully onchain, mobile-first trading that feels native, onchain games that never ask you to “approve” in the middle of a fight, social and financial apps that feel like Web2 but settle on a transparent, programmable ledger.
That’s the world the RISE Wallet is designed for: global markets, one click away.