Invisible Infrastructure 05 | In Conversation with OKX Web3: Three Core Advantages of Embedded Wallets
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Invisible Infrastructure 05 | In Conversation with OKX Web3: Three Core Advantages of Embedded Wallets
"Fast," "Complete," and "Deep" are the core advantages of the OKX Web3 Plugin Wallet.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights
Question: As a Web3 user, do you frequently use browser extension wallets or mobile wallets?
Increasing similarities are being observed between the internet and the crypto industry.
Much like the internet's transition from PC to mobile, since the rise of blockchain and decentralized technologies, early crypto interactions also began with browser extension wallets on PCs, gradually converging with the development of mobile wallets. In the early days of the industry, extension wallets broke down technical barriers between users and blockchain, enabling ordinary users to access blockchain applications without writing code, quickly becoming essential tools for entering the decentralized world.
An early representative was MetaMask, launched in 2016, which became the first browser extension wallet allowing direct connection to the Ethereum blockchain. Furthermore, as Web3 applications such as DeFi, NFTs, and GameFi evolved, user demands for extension wallets continued to change. By 2021,新一代Web3 wallets like the OKX Web3 extension wallet began expanding functionality beyond simple asset storage and transfers—now supporting multi-chain and cross-chain operations, DApp connectivity, NFT management, integrated DeFi services, and more—rapidly accumulating users through user-friendly experiences.
As a unified Web3 wallet across app, extension, and web platforms, this fifth episode of Invisible Infrastructure focuses on the OKX Web3 browser extension. Through an interview format, we explore the product thinking and design philosophy behind the OKX Web3 extension wallet team, aiming to help users better choose a Web3 extension wallet that suits their needs.
Key Feature Highlights
OKX Web3: Yes, the OKX Web3 extension wallet offers many practical features. Here are a few highlights:
First, Batch Toolkit
We’ve developed a comprehensive suite of batch operation tools covering the entire workflow—from account import, creation, renaming, transferring, to exporting—providing efficient and convenient account management solutions. This is especially useful for users managing large numbers of accounts and conducting cross-chain operations, helping them achieve higher efficiency in asset management and transactions.
For example, users can create up to 1,000 accounts at once with one click, and flexibly choose transfer modes such as one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many, significantly meeting the demands of large-scale account management and trading while improving operational efficiency. Currently, the batch transfer function supports multiple major public chains including EVM chains, Solana, SUI, Aptos, and TON, enabling easier transfers across multi-chain environments.
Additionally, the OKX Web3 extension wallet provides Bitcoin users with highly efficient and convenient Fractal Bitcoin inscription tools, along with Runes split-and-merge tools, enhancing the trading experience for Bitcoin-native inscription assets.
Second, Multi-chain DeFi Dashboard
The OKX Web3 extension wallet pioneers support for a multi-chain DeFi dashboard, allowing users to manage DeFi activities and assets across different blockchains within a single interface. This helps users track their portfolios in real time and manage them flexibly.
Third, Advanced User Feature: “RPC Mode”
Professional users often need custom nodes to improve network performance. The OKX Web3 extension wallet supports adding multiple RPCs on the same network, enabling intelligent node switching and load balancing. This ensures smooth operations even during network congestion or node failures, greatly increasing flexibility and allowing users to optimize speed and stability for on-chain interactions based on specific needs. This feature offers advanced customization options for professional users with high-performance requirements, delivering optimized on-chain experiences across various scenarios.
Overall, these features are designed around improving user efficiency and experience—especially for those managing assets across multiple chains. Batch operation tools drastically reduce repetitive tasks, saving time whether managing accounts or executing multi-chain transfers. The multi-chain DeFi dashboard eliminates the hassle of switching between chains, giving users a clear overview of their asset status in one unified view. The RPC mode specifically optimizes network response speeds for professional users, significantly enhancing overall experience—particularly crucial when engaging in high-frequency trading or running complex smart contracts.
Three Core Characteristics of Web3 Extension Wallets
OKX Web3: The three core characteristics of Web3 extension wallets can be summarized as “Fast,” “Complete,” and “Deep.” These elements enable the OKX Web3 extension wallet to stand out in a competitive market:
First, Fast: Our wallet rapidly integrates trending protocols thanks to an efficient review process and robust underlying technology, ensuring users get immediate access to the latest Web3 applications and hot projects. With its lightweight design, the wallet guarantees fast and smooth operations, offering a superior experience when exploring new trends.
Second, Complete: At the tool level, the OKX Web3 extension wallet delivers one-stop service by integrating various functions essential for Web3. Users can perform complex on-chain operations without relying on additional tools—from asset management to protocol interaction—fully meeting diverse needs and achieving seamless integration between extensions and Web3 functionalities.
Third, Deep: Our wallet goes beyond being just a tool—it serves as an interactive gateway into on-chain activities. For instance, it was among the first to support innovative features like Blinks, enabling users to participate more deeply and conveniently in the Web3 ecosystem, thereby enhancing user experience. This not only allows the OKX Web3 extension wallet to respond swiftly to market demands but also provides comprehensive tooling support and deeper engagement.
What Are Your Latest Updates and Developments?
OKX Web3: While continuously meeting the needs of professional users, our extension wallet is also introducing more beginner-friendly features to ensure users at all levels enjoy an improved experience.
On the professional side, we've launched the "Sidebar Mode," significantly boosting interaction speed and enriching information display for expert users. Additionally, leveraging the underlying technology of the OKX Web3 wallet, we offer DeFi users a multi-chain DeFi dashboard supporting not only EVM chains but also heterogeneous chains such as Solana, SEI, Aptos, and SUI—helping users efficiently manage their crypto assets.
At the same time, we place strong emphasis on the experience of new users. The OKX Web3 extension wallet will soon introduce a “Safe Mode,” providing whitelist-based transaction capabilities and secure DApp interaction mechanisms to prevent mistakes and private key exposure risks. We have also comprehensively optimized the onboarding process, added personalized DApp recommendations, and provided more easy-to-understand tutorials to help newcomers get started quickly and enter the Web3 world with ease.
As a Unified Three-Platform Web3 Wallet, Do You Serve Users Differently?
OKX Web3: Different types of Web3 wallets provide unique experiences tailored to user habits and needs. The extension, mobile, and web versions each have distinct focuses:
1) Extension wallets primarily serve professional users—such as DeFi farmers, airdrop hunters, and traders—enabling direct DApp interaction within browsers. They’re ideal for frequent DeFi and NFT usage, allowing node customization, multi-chain asset management, and complex cross-chain operations.
2) Mobile wallets emphasize portability, with typically friendlier interfaces suitable for beginners and users needing anytime access to their assets. Simple, flexible operations balance full functionality with security, catering well to users who value cross-device compatibility and deeper functionality.
3) Web wallets mainly function as informational dashboards, usually lacking actual asset management capabilities. Instead, they focus on monitoring and viewing on-chain data.
What Recent Web3 Wallet Innovations Are You Following?
OKX Web3: Extension wallets rely on browsers or clients (e.g., Chrome or Telegram), and this integration opens rich innovation opportunities—such as recent launches of Blink and Sidebar. These innovations enhance user interaction experiences and expand application scenarios, achieving better balance between convenience and functional extensibility.
Solana Blinks is an innovation on the Solana chain that transforms on-chain actions into shareable interactive links. These “Blinks” allow users to conduct blockchain transactions—like voting, minting, swapping, or paying—directly within social media or other websites without leaving the platform. For example, a user could embed a Blink link in a social media post; others clicking it can buy an NFT or stake tokens immediately, without redirecting to another dApp. When clicked, compatible Solana wallets automatically interpret the action, letting users approve and complete the transaction. This dramatically simplifies complex blockchain interactions, making them as easy as clicking a link. By integrating blockchain functionality into common Web2 platforms, Blinks successfully bridge Web2 and Web3, offering a much friendlier crypto transaction experience. In the future, Blinks may support cross-chain functionality, further enhancing utility.
The Sidebar feature in Web3 wallets is a UI design typically located in the sidebar of a wallet extension or app, displaying users’ on-chain assets and real-time data. In professional use cases, Sidebar provides richer visualizations and interactive options—such as showing balances, transaction history, on-chain holdings, and DeFi positions—enabling quick access to critical data and actions during DApp interactions.
For products like the OKX Web3 extension wallet, Sidebar mode boosts user productivity—especially for active DeFi farmers or professional traders. By centralizing multi-chain information and live data, users avoid constantly switching windows or interfaces, greatly streamlining complex on-chain workflows.
What Interface Improvements Have Been Made for New Users?
OKX Web3: We’ve implemented several optimizations to improve the new user experience. Two examples include:
1) Simplified User Interface: The OKX Web3 extension wallet adopts an intuitive and clean design, significantly lowering technical barriers. The layout is clear—core functions like send, receive, and view assets are immediately visible, avoiding complex technical jargon or Web3 lingo. This design helps new users understand and operate the wallet faster, reducing confusion caused by unfamiliarity with blockchain technology.
2) Smart Risk Alerts and Optimization: To protect new users' assets, we’ve introduced intelligent risk alerts. The wallet automatically detects and warns about potentially malicious contracts or high-risk operations, helping users avoid unnecessary losses. During transactions, the system automatically selects optimal gas fees, eliminating manual adjustments and making transactions faster and smoother.
In fact, these improvements not only enhance usability but also deliver a smoother experience for new users, while ensuring asset security and operational efficiency.
Key Measures to Protect User Asset Security
OKX Web3: Currently, the OKX Web3 extension wallet implements security protections in the following areas:
First, Malicious DApp Detection
Some DApps may pose phishing risks, potentially tricking users into signing malicious transactions leading to fund loss. To prevent this, the OKX Web3 extension wallet provides domain risk detection. When accessing a potentially harmful DApp, the system automatically displays a warning alerting users to the site’s risks, helping them avoid dangerous actions.
Second, Pre-signature Risk Interception
Prior to signing any transaction, the OKX Web3 wallet automatically performs pre-signature risk checks. If the transaction involves risky addresses, EthSign vulnerabilities, authorization to external accounts (EOA), or zero-cost purchases, the system will show a prominent risk alert on the signing page, notifying users of potential threats. This effectively prevents unknowing approval of high-risk transactions.
Third, Risky Authorization Alerts
If users already have potentially risky authorizations, the OKX Web3 extension wallet will prominently notify them on the home screen. Users can then visit the web interface to review and revoke these permissions, safeguarding their assets.
Fourth, Risk Filtering in Transaction History
User transaction histories may be polluted by spam airdrops or similar-address attacks, potentially misleading users into phishing transactions and causing asset loss. To address this, the OKX Web3 extension wallet tags such risky transactions and hides them by default, preventing users from being maliciously guided in the first place.
These enhancements not only improve user experience but also significantly strengthen wallet security, creating a safer environment for on-chain operations. Through multi-layered risk detection and alert systems, the OKX Web3 extension wallet effectively protects user assets.
How Is Multi-chain Support Achieved?
OKX Web3: While diverse blockchains form a vibrant ecosystem, they also bring challenges in managing cross-chain assets. The OKX Web3 wallet actively addresses these issues by thoroughly researching and rapidly integrating every new heterogeneous chain, enabling seamless multi-chain asset management. With proprietary features like “Aggregated Tokens” and “Chain Filtering,” users can easily manage assets across different chains, simplifying the complexity of multi-chain interactions.
Given interoperability challenges between chains, the OKX Web3 wallet designs clear and intuitive interfaces across various scenarios, helping users quickly distinguish and handle operations on different chains. This enhances the user experience in multi-chain management while offering greater flexibility and control.
Through these innovations, the OKX wallet has taken the first step toward **chain abstraction**, further streamlining multi-chain asset management and providing users with a more unified and efficient multi-chain solution.
How Do You Maintain Competitiveness in the Fast-Evolving Web3 Market? And What Are Future Innovation Directions?
OKX Web3: The key to staying competitive lies in deeply understanding user needs, anticipating their latent interests, and even proactively guiding them toward new possibilities before they realize their own needs. Going forward, the innovation roadmap for the OKX Web3 extension wallet includes the following directions:
First, Integrating AI for Smarter Experiences: The OKX Web3 extension wallet will deeply integrate AI technology to offer personalized recommendations. Based on user preferences, historical behavior, and market trends, it will intelligently suggest relevant projects and features, helping users discover trending areas and stay at the forefront of Web3 innovation.
Second, Breaking Browser Limitations: The OKX Web3 extension wallet won’t be confined to browser environments. In the future, it may expand into other formats, offering more diverse user experiences and interaction methods. This cross-platform expansion will allow users to easily manage and use their Web3 assets in broader contexts.
Third, Continuous User-Centric Innovation: We will continue listening to user feedback and iterating closely around real needs. Through ongoing research and community engagement, we ensure the wallet’s evolution aligns with user expectations, crafting a more personalized and user-friendly product.
The future Web3 ecosystem will become increasingly complex and diverse. The OKX Web3 extension wallet will maintain its leadership through technological innovation and user-driven strategies, continuously elevating the user experience.
Future Trends for Web3 Extension Wallets?
OKX Web3: Extension wallets are no longer just tools—they’re evolving into platforms for discovering the Web3 world. Their core goal is to integrate various channels and presentation formats to deliver precise, timely Web3 industry insights directly to OKX Web3 wallet users. In doing so, extension wallets will transcend mere asset management and become comprehensive gateways into the Web3 ecosystem, helping users effortlessly explore the latest projects and trends.
This platform transformation will eliminate the need for constant switching between platforms, greatly simplifying cross-platform complexity and enhancing overall operational fluidity and efficiency. In the future, extension wallets won’t just be tools—they’ll become intelligent, information-integrated Web3 navigation hubs, empowering users with full market awareness and reinforcing their pivotal role in the Web3 ecosystem.
Disclaimer
This content is for informational purposes only and should not be considered (i) investment advice or recommendation, (ii) an offer or solicitation to buy, sell, or hold digital assets, or (iii) financial, accounting, legal, or tax advice. We make no representations regarding the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of the information provided. Digital assets (including stablecoins and NFTs) are subject to market volatility, involve high risk, and may depreciate or become worthless. You should carefully consider whether trading or holding digital assets is suitable for you based on your financial situation and risk tolerance. Please consult your legal/tax/investment professionals for personal circumstances. Not all products are available in all regions. For details, please refer to the OKX Terms of Service and Risk Disclosure & Disclaimer. The OKX Web3 wallet and its derivative services are governed by separate terms of service. It is your responsibility to understand and comply with applicable local laws and regulations.
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