On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the decentralized wallet imToken has announced its strategic direction for the next decade, aiming to evolve from a "trusted primary wallet" into a "personal control interface," empowering users to better manage their assets, identity, permissions, and intelligent actions within an open and intelligent internet.
imToken states that over the past decade, the core value of wallets has primarily revolved around Store, Send, and Stake: helping users securely hold digital assets, freely transfer value, and participate in open network activities such as staking, DeFi, and governance. Looking ahead to the next decade, as AI agents gain increasing autonomy, individuals in the digital world will need to manage not only assets but also identities, authorizations, permission boundaries, automated tasks, and AI agent behaviors. In response to this shift, imToken introduces a fourth core product proposition: Sign.
In imToken's view, Sign is no longer just about "signing a transaction," but will become the foundational interface for users to express intent, grant permissions, set rules, delegate actions, and revoke authorization. In the future, users may need to sign not only on-chain transactions, but also authorizations, strategies, delegations, or revocations. AI agents can help users propose solutions, execute tasks, and improve efficiency, but their actions must be based on clear, verifiable, limited, and revocable user authorization.
Ben He, Founder & CEO of imToken, said: "Over the past decade, imToken has helped users truly own their digital assets. In the next decade, we aim to help users maintain control over their digital world in the age of intelligence. AI will make autonomous action increasingly abundant, but true scarcity will lie in control. imToken is not just about adding AI features to a wallet—we are thinking about how, in an AI-native internet, people can still retain ultimate control."
This strategic direction continues imToken’s long-standing brand ethos. Over the past decade, imToken has championed the core product principle of “Digital Assets, Under Your Control,” emphasizing user self-custody and ultimate control over digital assets. Looking ahead to the next decade, imToken is elevating its brand message to “Your Digital World, Under Your Control,” expanding the scope of control beyond digital assets to include identity, permissions, data, AI agents, and intelligent actions.
imToken states that it will continue building around three key directions. First, it will uphold the foundational principle of self-custody, ensuring users maintain ultimate control over their assets and critical permissions. Second, it will expand from transaction security to authorization security and action security, helping users identify new risks such as long-term authorizations, excessive limits, incorrect delegations, and automated misexecutions. Third, it will develop product capabilities around permissions, delegations, strategies, and revocations, enabling users to clearly define who can act on their behalf, what actions they can perform, the limits involved, the duration, and how to pause, revoke, or trace these actions.
As the convergence of AI, blockchain, and the demand for personal control grows, imToken believes that the role of wallets is naturally evolving from an asset entry point into a trusted control interface for human-machine collaboration. Future wallets will not only help users manage assets but also assist them in understanding, approving, limiting, and auditing actions performed on their behalf by intelligent systems.
Ben He said: "The essence of a wallet is not merely an asset application, but a critical infrastructure for personal control. Keys are the root of control, signatures are expressions of authorization, permissions define boundaries, and revocation ensures freedom. We will continue moving forward as builders—less rhetoric, more product; less chasing trends, more long-term trustworthiness."
About imToken
Founded in 2016, imToken is dedicated to building a secure, user-friendly digital wallet that enables users to easily access and use over 50 major blockchain networks, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and TRON. Through deep integration with features such as the hardware wallet imKey, payment network Rivo, peer-to-peer exchange platform Tokenlon, and DApp browser, imToken provides trusted non-custodial wallet services to millions of users across more than 150 countries and regions.
For more information, visit the imToken official website: https://token.im
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