[2512 Grant 1] RootStock Global Wallet by Blockscout

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GrantProposal: RootStock Global Wallet by Blockscout

  • Project stage: Beta
  • Sector Infrastructure and Tooling
  • Target audience: All Rootstock chain users
  • Grant Request: $24,000
  • Timeline: 2 months development, 6 month subsidy

1. Description

Core problem being solved

Blockchain onboarding is still a challenge for new users. In particular, the onchain wallet experience is disjointed and confusing, and ecosystem traction is hard to maintain when wallet creation and usage is difficult. A global wallet provides intuitive onboarding (social login, onramp options), and a consistent, smooth experience across the chain.

Solution overview

This initiative introduces a global wallet that works across Rootstock dapps, enables seamless onboarding for new users, and improves the overall usability of the chain without disrupting current developer or user workflows.

Unique value proposition

  • Wallet access directly from the explorer gives users easy access to onboarding and instant dapp interactivity
  • Developers can access and integrate the SDK into their applications.
  • Gas sponsorship allows for 0 fee transactions

Timeline

The wallet and associated contracts will leverage existing, proven solutions to expedite the production timeline (Standalone wallet available Jan 1). Ongoing expenses will be covered for a period of 6 months.

2. Team Overview

Relevant experience and expertise

The Blockscout team has years of experience working on the infrastructure and protocol level. We have supported the Rootstock explorer since 2023 and prior to that worked with the team on an early ecosystem wallet called Nifty Wallet.

Previous blockchain/web3 projects

Blockscout is the team behind the Rootstock Blockscout block explorer: https://rootstock.blockscout.com/ as well as creators of the first stablechain (xDai) and first cross-chain bridge.

Founder

Igor Barinov

Igor Barinov is an award-winning blockchain expert known for pioneering developments in interoperability, proof of stake consensus mechanisms, federated blockchains, and tooling for EVM. Igor is currently the Privacy Coordinator for the Ethereum Foundation

Key team members and roles

3. Team Traction & Metrics

Below are general Blockscout Metrics for the Rootstock instance.
Anticipated metrics for the global wallet are based on current usage and detailed in the performance targets section at the end of this proposal.

Blockscout Growth trajectory

Blockscout has seen a 16% increase in 2025 for page views on the explorer

Key achievements to date

  • 99%+ uptime
  • Supported sustained traffic and traffic spikes
  • Key optimization updates and features for the explorer
  • Dapp marketplace added, providing dapp discovery and interactivity

4. Mission & Vision

Why This Matters for the Rootstock Ecosystem

A global ecosystem wallet delivers four major benefits:

1) Stronger onboarding
New users can onboard instantly through email, social login, passkeys, or classic wallets. This removes the friction of setting up an external wallet before interacting with the Rootstock Ecosystem.

2) Seamless experience across the ecosystem
Once logged in, users keep the same embedded smart wallet across all participating applications, improving retention and promoting more activity. Furthermore, users are able to use features such as wallet connect to connect to applications that do not have the embedded wallet.

3) Better developer environment
Developers can integrate the ecosystem wallet SDK instead of building onboarding flows themselves. This shortens time to build and gives a consistent UX across the chain.

4) Onramping
The onboarding process to access the Rootstock chain makes it very difficult for new users. The global ecosystem wallet will alow for new users to acquire rBTC and be able to directly interact with the Rootstock ecosystem projects.

These improvements align directly with the Rootstock Collective DAO goals of ecosystem expansion, dapp growth, and user-friendly infrastructure.

5. Core features and functionality

The project enables a Rootstock global wallet inside Blockscout and prepares the infrastructure for a broader ecosystem rollout. The solution leverages several established providers for the following items.

  • Authentication and embedded wallets (Dynamic)
  • Account Abstraction (AA) and gas sponsorship (Gelato or Zerodev)

Together, these create a unified ecosystem wallet that can be used natively inside Rootstock’s Blockscout explorer and any Rootstock dapp that wishes to integrate the wallet SDK. The wallet creation, features and provider costs are covered by the grant for a period of 6 months. At the end of the 6 month period we will provide analytics and support options for consideration (the wallet requires an ongoing subscription fee for active usage).

6. Key Deliverables

  1. Global Wallet SDK (White-Labeled for Rootstock)
    A Rootstock branded Typescript SDK published for easy dapp adoption and available in the NPM registry.

  2. Wallet Login Inside Blockscout
    Users can log in via the new global wallet option directly on the explorer.

  3. Account Abstraction Support
    Global wallets with the ability to:

    • sponsor gas
    • provide smooth transaction UX
    • integrate with dapps using a single unified account

  4. Dedicated Wallet Management Page
    A simple standalone page where users can:

    • view their standalone wallet
    • Connect multiple wallets to check balances
    • manage balances
    • receive and send tokens
    • Swap tokens
    • access the same wallet used across Rootstock dapps

  5. Updated User Flows in Explorer
    Cleaner UX around wallet login, account display, interactions on verified contract pages, and support for showing .rns names directly in the interface.

7. Basic implementation overview

Implement SDK for the Rootstock global wallet

  • Prepare, develop and deploy the whitelabeled SDK
  • Customize SDK based on Rootstock guidelines
  • Deploy SDK on the NPM registry

Paymaster contracts

  • Deploy existing contracts
  • Generate and configure API key for the wallet
  • Test setup
  • Fund paymaster for 6 months of gas sponsorship

Blockscout integration

  • Support Blockscout account creation based on the global wallet
  • Change user flow to align with Blockscout account creation via the UI

The wallet will be integrated as a standalone product as well as integrated into the explorer for seamless interaction with ecosystem Dapps.

Security considerations

We are leveraging an existing, trusted solution allowing us to inherit their security guarantees: https://www.dynamic.xyz/security

Technical architecture

Blockscout UI <> backend integration diagram
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8. Grant Request

Total amount requested: $24,000
Amounts per milestone in desired coin/token: USDRIF, rBTC

Milestone Item Cost Delivery Date
1 Delivery of white-labelled SDK and standalone wallet 10K USDRIF 1 Jan 2026
2 Full wallet-explorer integration with wallet login inside Blockscout 8K USDRIF 1 March 2026
3 6 month run complete (from functional start of 1 Jan), will provide analytics and other data to determine program success and next steps for project continuation. Includes gas sponsorship for transactions from 1 Jan - 1 July. 6K USDRIF 1 July 2026
Total 24K USDRIF

9. Project Roadmap

The milestone table above corresponds with our deliverables. Here we break down the milestone items based on deliverables

Milestone Item Deliverables Delivery Date
1 Delivery of white-labelled SDK, standalone wallet, paymaster/bundler contracts. Available wallet page Active Account Abstraction support with paymaster funded Global Wallet SDK (White-Labeled for Rootstock & available for developers in the npm registry) 1 Jan 2026
2 Full wallet-explorer integration - wallet login inside Blockscout Backend integration for wallet-based Blockscout accounts Explorer integration for Rootstock explorer 1 March 2026
3 6 month run complete (from functional start of 1 Jan), will provide analytics and other data to determine program success and next steps for project continuation. Includes gas sponsorship for transactions from 1 January - 1 July. Wallet usage analytics Proposal for continued collaboration and monetization exploration 1 July 2026

10. Performance Targets

  1. User acquisition: Increase the average number of daily active accounts by 25%. Last year average was 336/day - we will target a 420 average for the final month of the 6 month initiative.

  2. Active address usage: Our goal is to capture ~10% of the average active address monthly usage by the end of the 6 month project.

  3. DApp support: Support the most used dapps on the Rootstock ecosystem explorer page (Rootstock dapps - Explore top dapps | Blockscout). We will ensure global wallet support for the top 15 dapps and track overall dapp usage with a target of increasing usage by more than 15%.

11. Conclusion

Blockscout requests the Rootstock Collective DAO to fund a six month Wallet-as-a-Service pilot for a total amount of 24,000 USDRIF enabling:

  1. A fully branded Rootstock smart wallet
  2. Account abstraction support
  3. Wallet login inside the Rootstock Blockscout explorer
  4. A global wallet experience accessible across all Rootstock dapps
  5. Better onboarding and improved ecosystem-wide usability

This initiative positions Rootstock for long-term ecosystem growth, modernizes user experience, and provides shared infrastructure that every dapp can adopt.

12. Social & Community

13. Media & Resources

Demo prototype video

Standalone wallet screenshot

Stand alone wallet screenshot
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Technical documentation (issues in progress)

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The global wallet seems indeed very well polished, and I can see how social/e-mail logins can remove barriers and friction for broad adoption.

That said, personally I prefer to use battle-tested (metamask, phantom, etc) external wallets as much as possible, and avoid web wallets, or e-mail logins at all costs.

I’m under the impression this would only be used by more casual or web3-beginner users, less concerned with security and attack vectors.

I don’t question Blockscout’s delivery capacity at all, I just think it might be a niche application, and I’m not very confident on the payback of $24k + ongoing maintenance after 6 months, for fostering adoption and new users onboarding.

It might be nice to have some statistics of usage of web wallers and social/e-mail logins from other ecosystems, since these have been around for some years, in case someone has this info available.
Also, gas sponsoring is strong on ecosystems like Sui, it’d be nice if anyone has metrics on cost/benefits of this.

I’ll look for information on these and put up a study, and will share here in case I manage to gather good info.

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Hi @ChronoTrigger thanks for your thoughtful comments! We’ve done some preliminary research on this topic and can share general adoption trends and assumptions related to Wallet as a Service (WaaS) that we found.

Keep in mind that Stripe just acquired Privy, an application that is very similar to our wallet offering (which uses Dynamic under the hood). This is proof positive that these types of solutions are in-demand and major players are working to gain exclusivity and traction in the WaaS market.

Current WaaS market

Overall metrics

The WaaS market is propelled by several key factors: The rise of DeFi, the increasing need for secure and user-friendly digital asset management solutions, and the growing demand for seamless integration of digital assets into existing systems.

Market Value (based on data, data):

  • 2024: ~$6-8 billion USD
  • 2025: ~$8-10 billion USD

Compound Annual Growth Rate (based on data):

~23.7% (2024–2033), reaching ~$68B by 2033

Data-based asssumptions

Using the data above, we can make some general assumptions:

  • The total crypto wallet market is roughly USD 10-USD 15 billion in 2024 depending on the definition.
  • Growth CAGRs are in the ~24-30% range.

If WaaS is ~5-15% of that ( a conserative estimate based on wallet demand for services / infrastructure):

  • 2024 WaaS market size is USD 0.5-2 billion.
  • Assuming a similar growth trajectory, this could expand to USD 5-15+ billion for WaaS in 5-6 years.

Total Wallets via WaaS:

  • 100M+ cumulative wallets created by mid-2025
  • 50–100% YoY increase across providers

These trends are happening across chains, so there is obviously a lot of variability depending on the ecosystem. However, having this infrastructure will give Rootstock the ability to attract different kinds of use cases and new users who are looking for a frictionless onboarding process. It also helps lay the groundwork for further institutional adoption.

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Thanks for the thoughtful proposal, @AndrewG and the Blockscout team, who has been supporting the Rootstock ecosystem and the main explorer. Your track record and ability to provide a high-quality application are unquestionable and we appreciate your interest in this opportunity.

However, we believe providing a global wallet rather than battle-tested extension/mobile based wallets isn’t a well-demanded feature and the projected performance target isn’t attractive enough to grant $24,000. In addition, the most important KPI from the ecosystem perspective is the DApp support and supporting the top 15 dapps should be a part of the final milestone to unlock a portion of the grant.

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Overall, this is a solid proposal with a clear implementation plan, a strong team, and a well-explained product. The demo video help a lot in understanding the user flows, and Blockscout’s experience operating core infrastructure on Rootstock is a clear strength.

Building on some of the points already raised in the thread, the main open questions for me are less about execution and more about impact and validation. In particular, how demand for a global/embedded wallet will be assessed beyond onboarding-friendly use cases, how success will be measured during the 6-month pilot, and how closely outcomes are tied to concrete dapp integrations rather than high-level adoption targets.

I’ve reflected these points in my review. Happy to revisit or update it as more concrete data or details are shared.

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This proposal can addresses one of the biggest challenges in Web3: user onboarding, especially for non technical users or those transitioning from Web2.

DAO can also leverage Blockscout’s existing expertise and infrastructure, without the need to build new systems.

But I’m not fully convinced that WaaS aligns with Rootstock’s current user base, they are builders, power users, DeFi users, and those who are already familiar with self custody and security practices.

So this could introduce friction or concerns around privacy being managed by a third party.

Any security or privacy incidents would also reflect directly on the DAO and the Rootstock brand.

Regarding KPIs, DAU and active addresses alone don’t fully capture the success of the application.
More concrete metrics would be helpful, such as the number of dApps actively integrating the wallet, or user retention rates after 30/60 days?

Finally, it would be useful to better understand the post 6 months strategy: under what conditions should DAO continue funding this initiative, and when should it consider stopping?

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Thanks guys for the responses so far! It makes sense that we need to provide additional info around potential impact, look at more tangible KPIs for adoption, and outline the costs once the 6-month pilot is complete.

  • Impact: We’ve looked into several other ecosystems who’ve adopted a global wallet with positive results. Sei, Aptos and Immutable have all experienced strong growth following the addition of a global wallet. Details are available here: Notion

  • Dapp adoption as a KPI: We will provide an easy-to-use SDK, instructions, guidance, outreach and promotion to dapps throughout the ecosystem. That said, ultimately it will be up to them to integrate. We will provide the resources and opportunity to help with any technical issues and provide outreach/marketing through our channels. We are hoping this easy path, along with gas sponsorship, will convince many dapps to use the wallet. We can’t guarantee that all top dapps will integrate, but importantly they will have the option to do so if they’d like.

  • Post-Pilot: Following the 6-month pilot we will have a lot of information on adoption, usage, potential improvements, and other stats to inform the best decision moving forward.

    • We are targeting gas sponsorship of ~$1500 per month based on current Rootstock usage. This cost would then be shifted to the DAO following the 6-month testing phase assuming the DAO wanted to continue sponsoring transactions.
    • In addition, there is Dynamic’s ongoing subscription fee for the wallet based on MAU. We anticipate this cost will be ~$1750 per month and covers functionality as well as security/privacy etc for the wallet integration.
    • We believe that a 6-month trial is a perfect way to test the popularity of this integration and see if it is useful and needed for the ecosystem. If so, ongoing costs would be approximately $3250 per month.

  • New user acquisition: We believe this is an important metric and one that the wallet can support (targeting a 25% increase in average daily active accounts). It is possible that the WaaS will not appeal as much to current power user base. However, we want to expand the current user base and onboard a new generation of users to Rootstock. These may be individuals who own Bitcoin and want to enter the DeFi realm but have felt intimidated by unintuitive onboarding, folks from traditional finance, and other people who need a slightly lower barrier to entry.

Finally, we’d like you to imagine you’re a brand new blockchain user visiting Rootstock and try the demo standalone app yourself! Compare it to the regular onboarding experience and see how it feels.

Demo link: https://waas-rootstock.vercel.app/

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We agree with the concern raised by @ChronoTrigger regarding social/email logins. While this approach may lower friction for new users, it also introduces privacy considerations by potentially linking identities to onchain activity. For a Bitcoin-native ecosystem like Rootstock, this can become a privacy honeypot and represents a trade-off that should be carefully considered.

As @Ignas also pointed out, much of Rootstock’s current user base consists of builders and DeFi-native users who are already comfortable with external, self-custodial wallets. For this cohort, the global wallet appears better suited as an onboarding tool for Web2 users or those new to Web3, rather than as a primary wallet solution for the ecosystem’s existing core users.

For clarification, is the global wallet explicitly intended to function as a temporary onboarding wallet, or as a long-term wallet that users are expected to retain as they become more advanced?

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Thanks @AndrewG for providing your perspectives on questions from the delegates.

Checking the details summarized in the Notion page (thanks for organizing the data and explanations in it), we doubt that the mere adoption of global wallets “caused” the user growth; for Sei case, it can be understood that it happened thanks to the Xiaomi integration, rather than just its introduction.

This is very much understandable from your perspective, but we still believe this is a critical part of this proposal to make a meaningful impact to the Rootstock ecosystem with a sizable grant. How about structuring your milestone to integrate the global wallet SDK into one or a few of the ecosystem partner apps, rather than the current milestone 2 (the wallet-explorer integration)?

We are surely unclear about how many users will utilize the global wallet and use the integration but how you would convince the DAO that the ongoing costs will be justified with the growth and impact it makes?

Would you be able to break down the cost if possible?

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Hi all, thanks for the questions and concerns. We are open to being flexible as needed to help get a global wallet integrated for Rootstock.

For this cohort, the global wallet appears better suited as an onboarding tool for Web2 users or those new to Web3, rather than as a primary wallet solution for the ecosystem’s existing core users.

For clarification, is the global wallet explicitly intended to function as a temporary onboarding wallet, or as a long-term wallet that users are expected to retain as they become more advanced?

Hi @Curia yes this is designed as a complement to other more advanced wallets in the ecosystem, providing an onboarding opportunity for newer users. The idea is to broaden the Rootstock audience and bring in new users from Web2 and/or other Web 3 ecosystems (Base for example) where UX is more friendly to new users.

The global wallet is designed for either use case (temporary or permanent). Users can move to something more advanced once they have their bearings, or stay with the global wallet if they feel comfortable with the experience and potential tradeoffs - assuming the DAO wants to continue supporting the wallet. If not, instructions would be provided on how to switch to a different wallet.

We want to provide choices for users, right now there is a lack of easy onboarding into the ecosystem, and we think the wallet can help bring in a new group of users (namely tradfi users) to the chain.

Thanks @Tane for your questions and comments.

for Sei case, it can be understood that it happened thanks to the Xiaomi integration, rather than just its introduction.

It’s a good point and shows correlation rather than causation. However, having the wallet infrastructure in place provides another tool for users, which can have an impact on retention - helping users onboard and stick with the ecosystem due to the ease and convenience.

How about structuring your milestone to integrate the global wallet SDK into one or a few of the ecosystem partner apps, rather than the current milestone 2 (the wallet-explorer integration)?

This is definitely something we’d be willing to explore, especially if the community can identify and introduce us to a good candidate that would like to participate. We’d be happy to provide any assistance needed to implement the SDK and market the integration.

how you would convince the DAO that the ongoing costs will be justified with the growth and impact it makes?

I think it will be fairly straightforward to look at usage trends/adoption to determine if there is a future in supporting the wallet and/or gas sponsorship. Maybe there is a target number that the DAO would like to see, and we can try to make the KPIs more tangible?

We’ll do our own marketing, but marketing from the Rootstock side will also go a long way towards reaching targets. We will also aim to collect feedback from users to see what their experience is and what they like/don’t like about the wallet to get the user’s perspective on whether it is a get a worthwhile addition before the DAO makes a decision to further support it.

Milestone 1 info

Regarding milestone 1, we’ve spread the milestones out so we have some runway at the beginning to help defray costs for the underlying wallet infra (paid up front). 80%+ of the total grant ask goes to these direct infra costs. Less than 20% (4.5K) covers our developer costs to research, setup and integrate the wallet/contracts associated with AA/gas sponsorship, create docs and implementation guides, assist with integration, conduct marketing and user questionnaires etc.

  • 10,500 - Dynamic 6 month pricing
  • 9,000 - AA/gas sponsorship pricing
  • 4,500 - Developer/integration cost
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Thanks for your thoughtful answers, @AndrewG.

You can easily identify what protocols are being used via DefiLlama or equivalents. Ask the Rootstock team for initial contacts and hear interests from those teams. Without signals from potential partners, developing the SDK wouldn’t lead to actual use of it, thus the grant will be wasted.

It’s a great point. As a DAO, we should have a target acquisition/retention ROI for this kind of initiative.

Understandable from your perspective, but we believe it’s reasonable to grant what actual deliverables are worth against each milestone’s ask.

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Hey @AndrewG,

While I do appreciate the utility for beginner users to not have to deal with the need for native token balance for gas fees, I think gas sponsoring offers very little benefit other than that.

What do you think of using cheaper alternatives, like account abstraction for allowing users to pay transaction fees directly with other tokens, or auto swap a tiny portion of the transacted token (~$1) to RBTC when needed?

With this approach we could eliminate the need for dedicated gas sponsoring. In some places you mentioned a monthly $1.5k budget to gas sponsoring (thus up to $9k per 6 months), in other places you mentioned $1k/month. In any way this would also remove a financial uncertainty for which you have to risk manage, potentially allowing you to optimize your project financials.

I’ve seen this type of solution elegantly implemented, with proper communication, by including proper information in the transaction summary if any token is being used to pay for gas fees, or swapped to RBTC.

$9k would account for almost 40% of the requested grand, potentially reducing it from $24k down to $15k, a substantially more streamlined approach.

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Hi @Tane & @ChronoTrigger

Appreciate the suggestions! We will regroup as a team next week to weigh some of these options and come back with a modified approach. Overall I agree it makes sense to gauge external protocol interest and reassess gas sponsorship (while still implementing AA) to encourage usage and help bring down the overall grant ask.

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Appreciate the back-and-forth here, and we want to explicitly echo points raised by @ChronoTrigger and @curia around cost discipline and understanding scope of work here. The question of whether this wallet is meant to be a lightweight onboarding tool versus a long-term primary wallet is central, because it materially changes how we should evaluate success and ongoing spend.

Additionally, concerns raised by @404Gov and others around KPIs, DAU alone feels insufficient here. If the goal is ecosystem growth, it would be helpful to anchor success to metrics like retained users, dApp integrations actually live in production, and cost per retained user — not just wallet installs or subsidized transactions. Tying these metrics to explicit stop/continue thresholds would directly address the concern that this becomes an open-ended subscription rather than a bounded pilot.

Finally we emphasize exploring alternatives to dedicated gas sponsorship. If mechanisms like fee-payment in ERC20 or auto-swap to RBTC can meaningfully reduce subsidy overhead, that should be evaluated head-to-head and reflected in the budget assumptions.

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I respectfully disagree. Given how high gas costs are on Rootstock, sponsoring gas fees seems like a big benefit to users. That said, it would be more sustainable if Blockscout also helped cover these fees, rather than placing the full burden on the DAO.

In general, this proposal would be stronger if we came to a cost-sharing agreement. As an established company, that feels like a reasonable ask from Blockscout. Moreover, a global Rootstock wallet would help Blockscout drive user acquisition and growth, making cost-sharing both fair and mutually beneficial.

Thanks @AndrewG for bringing this proposal forward.

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Modified Proposal Scope

Hi guys, we appreciate your thoughtful feedback and have taken it into account with our modified milestones and scope. Here are our primary updates:

  • Reduce DAO cost: We agree to subsidize an additional 4K in cost sharing on our side, providing comped business and software development time along with a portion of gas sponsorship to help get this approved (reducing the overall ask by > 15%).
  • Include On/Off ramp: One of the biggest pain points in onboarding to the Rootstock ecosystem is the lack of a dependable onramp. We will incorporate a 3rd party on/off ramp into the wallet itself to improve utility.
  • Keep gas sponsorship: We believe this is a primary driver for usage, both for our primary target users - which is new users onboarding to Rootstock - as well as current users and projects who may need some motivation or incentive to try the wallet. We will reassess gas sponsorship midway through the engagement.
  • Updated milestones: We’ve updated milestones to better reflect the work completed, and included a milestone to specifically measure gas sponsorship midway. If usage is not supported we can eliminate and further reduce costs.
  • Dapp integration and user retention KPIs: We will focus efforts on project/dapp adoption of our SDK with additional outreach to increase overall usage. We will measure user retention over time and include a cost/user metric.

To reiterate, the wallet’s primary purpose is to bring new users to Rootstock. This means specifically new blockchain users, who don’t yet have crypto, and who use email for all sorts of login purposes. The most obvious group of new users here are people who want to hold Bitcoin but don’t know how to get themselves onchain. This wallet will help them do just that. Once they are onchain they can easily acquire RBTC and start using the Rootstock ecosystem.

In this sense, we see this wallet as both an easy onboarding tool and a long-term wallet for users. These 2 are not exclusive, as new users can onboard seamlessly with an email and start using the chain immediately (no need for seed phrase, token etc). They can then transition to longer term use. If the wallet works as it should, with little friction and an intuitive UI, there is no reason to switch for the average user (power users concerned with security etc may choose to switch once they are comfortable in the ecosystem).

Updated Grant Request, Milestones and Performance Targets

Grant Request

Total amount requested: $20,000
Amounts per milestone in desired coin/token: USDRIF, rBTC

Milestone Item Cost Delivery Date
1 Delivery of white-label SDK and standalone wallet $4,750 USDRIF

Dev costs: 3K

Month 1 wallet integration cost: $1,750		 20 Jan 2026
2 3 months gas sponsorship

Dapp integration KPIs

Full wallet-explorer integration - wallet login inside Blockscout		 $8,000 USDRIF

Gas sponsorship (3 months): $4,500

Wallet integration (2 months): $3,500

Dev costs: 0 (subsidized by Blockscout)

BD costs: 0 (subsidized by Blockscout)		 20 May 2026
3 6 month run complete (from functional start of 20 Jan), will provide analytics and other data to determine program success and next steps for project continuation. Includes gas sponsorship for transactions from 20 May - 20 July. Total $7,750 USDRIF ($5,250 with no gas sponsorship)

Wallet integration costs: $5,250

Gas sponsorship 3 months (assuming continuance - 2.5K subsidized by Blockscout): $2,000

Reporting & Analytics: 0 (subsidized by Blockscout)		 20 July 2026
Total 20K USDRIF

Updated Performance Targets

  • User acquisition: Increase the average number of active accounts by 25% (last year was 336 - we will target a 420 average for the final month of the 6 month initiative).

  • Active address usage: Capture ~10% of the average active address monthly usage by the end of the 6 month project.

  • Dapp support: Support the most used dapps on the Rootstock ecosystem explorer page (Rootstock dapps - Explore top dapps | Blockscout). We will ensure global wallet support for the top 15 dapps and track overall dapp usage with a target of increasing usage by more than 15%.

  • Dapp adoption: Reach out to Rootstock ecosystem dapps to provide instructions, guidance, and benefits of wallet onboarding.

  • User retention: Monitor usage throughout the 6-month project and provide metrics on return usage and average actions on a mo-to-mo basis. Provide overall cost analysis per user at the end of the 6-month engagement.

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Thanks @AndrewG for the updated proposal. Appreciated your patient and diligent effort to accommodate the community’s feedback and make the proposal better for the Rootstock ecosystem.

We believe the general direction of the change is great and are leaning toward supporting the proposal. We have a couple of questions/feedback as below:

As this feature is aiming to target a new segment of users, we think it’s better to set an absolute number rather than a relative number. Let’s say, 100 new users through this integration. For the Active address usage, how about using some retention number, X% of users who are onboarded through this integration retain after X months?

Seeing the list of dapps there, we think it’s better to target a few Rootstock native dapps that you can see on DefiLlama, so that the global Rootstock wallet integration is more relevant.

Regarding the gas sponsorship allocation, if it’s under-utilized, will it be subject to be returned?

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Thanks @AndrewG. You mention that you will sponsor a portion of gas fees — is that a portion of the $4,500 that you have listed in Milestone 2? If so, do you need to change that number to reflect the percentage that you will sponsor?

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  • Yes, we will target 100+ new daily users average by the end of the 6 months. DAU is lower over the past month on Rootstock, averaging 256 users .

    Active accounts (Blockscout chart) (1)
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  • In the last month of the engagement (June 20 - July 20) we will target 356 DAU. We are confident we can onboard many more than 100 new users, the trick will be to maintain them active in the ecosystem (ie retention). The wallet UI is one part of this, other parts include marketing (we’ll do some, will also look for assistance from Rootstock), overall dapp availability and ecosystem dapp utility/interest for new users.

  • Regarding retention, we will monitor usage in the wallet including logins and other actions. It is hard to find good data on the crypto industry in general and web3 wallets specifically. According to this article most apps and software have a 6-20% eight-week retention depending on their industry. In this article, the retention rate for Binance Web3 wallet is 13% after just 7 days, while Uniswap wallet (specific, targeted use case) is 30%. We believe we can achieve a 10-15% retention rate for new users over the course of 2 months with this wallet integration.

Makes sense, will target those Dapps on Defilama. Hopefully some that haven’t yet been added to Blockscout will also onboard to the marketplace during this effort.

Yes, any amount that is not used for gas costs can be returned at the end of the engagement, or credited towards future sponsorship if desired. We will monitor and report on usage so the DAO can decide what to do if any funds are remaining.

No, it is a portion of milestone 3 where Blockscout will subsidize 2.5K of the anticipated 4.5K in sponsored transaction costs. If it is decided that gas sponsorship is not wanted at the end of M2, then the total ask for M3 will only be $5250 to cover wallet costs.

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