On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the decentralized wallet imToken has released its strategic direction for the next decade, proposing to further evolve from a "trusted main wallet" to a "personal digital hub," helping users better control their assets, identity, permissions, and intelligent actions in an open and smart internet.
imToken stated that in the past decade, the core value of the wallet has mainly revolved around Store, Send, and Stake: helping users securely hold digital assets, freely transfer value, and participate in staking, DeFi, governance, and other open network activities. Looking toward the next decade, as AI entities gradually gain stronger autonomy, individuals will need to manage not just assets in the digital world but also identity, authorization, boundary permissions, automated tasks, and AI entity behavior. In light of this change, imToken has proposed a fourth core product concept: Sign.
In imToken's view, Sign is no longer just about "signing a transaction" but will become the fundamental interface for users to express intent, grant permissions, set rules, delegate actions, and revoke authorizations. In the future, what users may need to sign could include not just an on-chain transaction but also an authorization, a policy, a delegation, or a revocation. AI entities can help users propose solutions, execute tasks, and improve efficiency, but their actions should be based on user-defined, clear, verifiable, limited, and revocable authorizations.
imToken Founder & CEO Ben He stated: "In the past decade, imToken has truly helped users own their digital assets. In the next decade, we hope to help users continue to control their digital world in the smart era. AI will provide increasing autonomy, but what will truly be scarce is control. imToken aims not just to add AI features to the wallet but to consider how to ensure that people retain ultimate control in an AI-native internet."
This strategic direction continues imToken's long-standing brand proposition. Over the past decade, imToken has emphasized self-custody and ultimate control over digital assets as its core product principle with "Digital Assets, Under Your Control." Heading into the new decade, imToken will upgrade its brand proposition to "Your Digital World, Under Your Control," expanding the scope of control from digital assets to identity, permissions, data, AI entities, and intelligent actions.
imToken stated it will continue to build around three directions. First, it will uphold the fundamental principle of self-custody, allowing users to maintain ultimate control over assets and key powers. 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, erroneous delegations, and automated mis-executions. Third, it will build product capabilities focused on permissions, delegation, policies, and revocation, allowing users to define more clearly who can act on their behalf, what actions can be taken, the limits, duration, and how to pause, revoke, and trace back.
As the intersection of AI, blockchain, and personal control rights demands increases, imToken believes the role of wallets is naturally extending from an asset entry point to a trusted control interface in human-machine cooperation. Future wallets not only need to help users manage assets but also help them understand, approve, limit, and audit the actions carried out by intelligent systems on their behalf.
Ben He stated: "The essence of a wallet is not simply an asset application, but an important infrastructure for personal control rights. Keys are the roots of control, signatures are expressions of authorization, permissions set the boundaries, and revocation guarantees freedom. We will continue to move forward as builders, focusing less on slogans and more on products; less on chasing trends and more on long-term trust."
About imToken
Founded in 2016, imToken is committed to creating a secure, reliable, and user-friendly digital wallet that supports users in easily accessing and using over 50 mainstream blockchain networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and TRON. Through deep integration with hardware wallet imKey, payment network Rivo, cryptocurrency exchange platform Tokenlon, and DApp browser functionalities, imToken provides a trusted non-custodial wallet service to millions of users across more than 150 countries and regions.
For more information, please visit the official imToken website: https://token.im
Related reading: "imToken Tenth Anniversary CEO Open Letter: In the Smart Era, Continue to Safeguard Each Person’s Control Rights"
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