- Flare partners with Web3Auth to introduce simplified logins for DApps.
- The new login system creates a ‘Web 2.5 experience’ for Flare users and developers.
Flare, a layer-1 blockchain for data, announced a strategic partnership with Web3Auth, a wallet-as-a-service (WaaS) infrastructure provider, to enable simple and secure logins for Web 3 apps and services, similar to the current login models using only an email and a password. Decentralized application (DApp) developers on Flare can now build Web3Auth’s solution into their apps allowing users to log in to their wallets using their Google, Facebook, or Twitter pages.
Web3Auth leverages the simple, self-custodial two-factor authentication wallet setup for both Web 2 and Web 3 apps, providing a seamless login experience for the users. The wallet service introduces a simple login experience, labelled ‘Web 2.5 experience’, for apps and even wallets to Web 3. This aims to “onboard non-Web 3 users” who find the blockchain wallets complex to use in their current form, Flare Senior Solidity Engineer Filip Koprivec said.
“Onboarding non-Web3 users is a major hurdle for existing dApps and developers. A decentralized and secure way of combining classical social login with Web3 authentication means that new users no longer need to set up the private keys but can use the product immediately,” Koprivec added.
Creating a ‘Web 2.5 experience’ for users
By partnering with Web3Auth, DApps on Flare are now able to remove the reliance on seed phrases to access a Web 3 wallet or their assets. The partnership introduces Web 2 login systems to Web 3 apps, creating a ‘Web 2.5 experience’ for users, allowing them to log in to their Web 3 wallets using existing Google, Apple, Telegram, Discord and all OAuth-supported accounts. This removes the complexity associated with Web 3 wallets while maintaining the high security that seed phrases offer.
While using Web 3 wallets, users are provided with a 12-word or 24-word seed phrase that provides access to their wallet. However, if a user loses their seed phrase, they lose their assets with no way to recover them. These phrases are hard to remember and prone to human error, which scares away non-Web 3 users out of fear of losing their assets.
With Web3Auth, Flare users will be able to log in to their wallets using the traditional login process, which enhances the user experience and boosts the adoption of blockchain wallets. Both Web 3 and non-Web 3 users will benefit from the easy login process. Additionally, Web 3 developers can increase traffic to their DApps and streamline their onboarding process.
Seed phrases have been praised for enhancing security. To ensure, the security of the wallets is not compromised, Web3Auth allows the retention of non-custodial characteristics of a wallet management system. In other words, users maintain full control and ownership of their cryptographic wallets, reinforcing the principles of privacy and security inherent in blockchain technology.
Flare becomes the latest Web 3 platform to adopt the ‘Web 2.5 wallet login experience’ from Web3Auth, adding to over 500 Web 3 projects including Binance Extension, Metamask, Kepler, Kukai, Skyweaver, Kash, Coub, etc.