Wallet
Software or a device that stores the private keys controlling your on-chain assets and signs transactions, such as MetaMask or a hardware wallet.
- glossary
A wallet in the crypto context is a digital tool that stores private keys and allows users to manage their blockchain-based assets. Unlike traditional wallets that hold physical currency, crypto wallets hold the cryptographic security keys that prove ownership of digital assets like cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
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Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.