What is the Citizen Wallet?

An open source mobile wallet with account abstraction (ERC4337) that you can customize for your community.

Why yet another wallet?

Existing wallets are either for tech savvy people (e.g. metamask), or traders (people who already have money to invest).

But as a web3 project or DAO, what you want is an easy way for your community to receive and transfer your tokens (ERC20, ERC721, ...) without any technical or financial distraction.

Some web3 communities end up developing their own wallet but it feels like a waste of time and energy. It feels like back in the days where everyone was redeveloping a blog engine before Wordpress came along.

That’s why the Citizen Wallet aims to be the Wordpress of Community Tokens (aka Community Currencies). An open source stack that you can easily customize for the needs of your community.

The best interface is no interface

That’s why the Citizen Wallet lets you send tokens to any NFC tag (including any “touchless” bank card!). We have also developed a POS where people can use their NFC tag to pay 🤯 👉 See demo

Current use cases

The Regen Village used it to enable all attendees to collect POAPs and receive $RegenBXL tokens for doing regenerative actions. Attendees could then redeem them for swags (mugs, tshirts, ...) or ice cream.

👉 https://x.com/regensunite/status/1813920871091999144

CELO used it to make attendees contribute to receive swags at their CELO Gather conference in Berlin 👉 https://docs.citizenwallet.xyz/events/2024/celo-gather

🍻 DAO.brussels has been running monthly events (Crypto Wednesday). They created their own local stable coin: EURb. They use it to buy beers at the Crypto Bar.

👉 https://x.com/citizenwallet/status/1786444231013187705

Brussels Pay: A local payment network for the Region of Brussels where payment transaction fees and treasury yield are used to build a participatory budget for the local community.

👉Presentation at the Stable Summit in July 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zggxJYO8TOM

Status

• We have a web and native iOS and Android version on the App Store and Google Play Store.

• We have created a simplified version of ERC4337 that can be used with your own bundler at the level of your community (without the need for privileged access to a validator).

• We have a video walkthrough on our youtube channel to set up your own community server and get started with the Citizen Wallet: https://www.youtube.com/@citizenwallet

• We are using that technology stack to generate crypto wallets from NFC tags (see https://nfcwallet.xyz).

• We created a live dashboard for communities to show their expenses (via open collective) and their income (using their community currency) but also Giveth:

Here for the Commons Hub Brussels:

👉 https://x.com/citizenwallet/status/1813306732137050290

And here for the Regen Village: 👉 https://x.com/regensunite/status/1811380668519096789

Why should you support this?

This is a missing piece of infrastructure to enable DAOs to onboard non crypto people to their community. At every event, we onboard hundreds of people to web3. They get to experience receiving and spending tokens.

Like Wordpress, this has to be a public good. An open source project funded by the community for the community.

By supporting this project, we can make sure that the last mile to enable citizens to join web3 won't be in the hands of a small number of investors.

Who is behind it?

Regen frens from All for Climate DAO, Regens Unite DAO and DAO.brussels that have been onboarding hundreds of people to the world of web3 and DAOs and experienced the pain first hand.

Current core contributors:

• Xavier: dad, software engineer, entrepreneur (Storify, Open Collective), Regens Unite DAO, DAO.brussels, All for Climate DAO
• Kevin: native mobile app developer, tech enthusiast, solution architect, founder of IT consulting company techi.be
• Jonas: Freelance product manager | alternative currency enthusiast
• Guil: Regens Unite DAO, creative director at General Magic, previously at The DAOist, Chinwags.xyz
• Leen: mom, facilitator, community builder (All for Climate DAO and Regens Unite DAO).

Other contributors include Chuck, Scott and Will.