Aligned introduced Wallet-as-a-Service, a smart-contract wallet product built for applications that need to onboard large numbers of non-crypto-native users.1
The product uses ERC-4337 account abstraction, Google sign-in, device passkeys through WebAuthn, and a paymaster that can sponsor gas. The design goal is that users do not need to manage a seed phrase, install a browser extension, or hold a native token before interacting with an application.1
The user layer
Aligned started with ZK proof verification and has expanded into a vertically integrated Ethereum stack: proof aggregation, rollups, interoperability, and wallets. Wallet-as-a-Service is the part closest to the user.
That matters for institutional and public-sector applications. A citizen accessing a government credential, an employee using an enterprise treasury tool, or a retail customer making a first on-chain payment cannot be expected to understand private keys and gas management.
Full stack
The wallet is designed to work with Aligned’s EVM-compatible rollup offering. Aligned frames the stack as one provider for chain infrastructure, proofs, and wallets, reducing the need to stitch together multiple vendors.1
Aligned’s own framing is direct: the wallet is how the stack becomes usable by people who may never know they are using Ethereum.