Empowering the Future of Gaming with Seamless Crypto Integration
WalletGuise is a pure Web3 solution that eliminates the need for users to create a wallet or acquire SOL before interacting with a decentralized application (dApp). Instead, WalletGuise provides prepaid keypairs in exchange for a small proof-of-work (PoW) to prevent abuse and resource exhaustion.
How It Works
WalletGuise uses a modified ed25519 keypair generation algorithm. This custom algorithm only generates parts of the private key and introduces
a deliberate security weakness that makes the private key crackable—albeit with
significant computational effort.
The difficulty of cracking a key is tunable to ensure that sabotage attempts are
economically infeasible. The system is designed so that
honest users are more profitable
than saboteurs. These honest users contribute to the
automatic, embedded maintenance of the WalletGuise system by helping
to replenish the pool of prefunded keypairs.
Majority Attacks
Since the keypair generation process relies on a tunable security model, the system is potentially vulnerable to majority attacks. If a majority of network participants control the transaction throughput, they could exhaust the pool of available prepaid keypairs. In such scenarios, honest users may face delays in receiving prepaid transactions. Mitigating majority attacks is a high priority and will be addressed in upcoming updates to the WalletGuise protocol.
Security Improvements
One planned enhancement involves tweaking the keypair generation process to
produce keypairs with predictable signatures. Instead of
relying on partial private keys, the system will exploit these predictable
signatures directly, effectively
eliminating the need for private keys altogether.
This approach significantly reduces the risk of sabotage and allows the system to
enforce usage limits
on prepaid transactions. By leveraging predictable signatures, WalletGuise moves
closer to offering a
secure, efficient, and reliable prefunded transaction mechanism.
Our team
Just a couple of decentralised guys in a centralised world.
Rick Penabella
CEO/Co-founderFormer full-stack developer turned “vibe engineer,” (Axel wrote that) focused on the creative frontier of decentralized technology.
Axel Benjaminsson
CTO/Co-founderA C++/Rust developer and security expert, creator of the godot-solana-sdk. Experienced in embedded systems and AI.
