Wallets

Tessel

A self-custody wallet that uses passkeys instead of seed phrases.


Since
2023
Team
9 people, Berlin
Reach
140,000 wallets
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The story

Why Tessel exists

Tessel started as a weekend fix for one founder's parents, who kept losing their seed phrases. Two years later it is the wallet most new Oriel users open first.

The round 3 grant paid for passkey sign-in and a recovery flow that works with two trusted contacts instead of twelve words. Both shipped on time, and both are now open source for other wallets to reuse.

Grant milestones

What the round 3 grant paid for

MilestoneStatusPaid
Passkey sign-inShipped March 2024$60,000
Social recoveryShipped July 2024$70,000
Open-source recovery libraryShipped October 2024$50,000

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