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About

Self-custody, without the bravery tax.

Most people don't want a wallet. They want private storage, a portable name, and the ability to send things to other humans. AWOL makes those the product — and lets the crypto stay invisible until someone asks for it.

Why we exist

Three things should be yours: your drive, your name, and your money. Today, all three are rented from corporations who can read them, freeze them, or delete them on a whim.

The technology to fix this has existed for years — it's just been packaged for an audience that already cared. AWOL is the same technology, repackaged for everyone else. The wallet, the storage protocol, the identity layer — they're already audited Rust. What was missing was a product surface where a normal person can use them without learning the word "blockchain."

We're a small team. Apache-2.0 and MIT licensed. No VC obligations to extract rents from our users. Revenue comes from people who want to pay — short names, large drives, in-wallet swaps — not from gating the free experience.

The thesis, in three sentences

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Storage is the wedge

Everyone already pays for cloud storage. "Private and free" is a story Signal trained the public to value.

Identity is the moat

A username you actually own — across every chain you'll ever care about — is something no platform can replicate.

Wallet is the engine

The multi-chain wallet underneath is what makes the other two possible. It stays out of the way until you need it.

What we believe

Open source by default

Every byte that touches your keys is published. If you can't read the source, you can't trust the binary.

No accounts, ever

AWOL never asks for an email or phone. Your name is your identity, your keys are your password.

Boring cryptography

Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305, BIP-39. We don't ship novel constructions; we ship what's been beaten on for a decade.

Revenue from value, not attention

Fees attach where the user is already paying for something scarce. Never on the core loop. Never ads.

Get in touch.

[email protected] for press & partnerships · [email protected] for vulnerabilities.