On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, decentralized wallet imToken announced its strategic direction for the next decade, proposing to further evolve from a "Trusted Main Wallet" into a "Personal Digital Hub" (personal control interface). This aims to help users better control their assets, identity, permissions, and intelligent actions in an open and intelligent internet.
imToken stated 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 activities of open networks such as Staking, DeFi, and governance. Looking ahead to the next decade, as AI agents gradually gain stronger autonomous action capabilities, what individuals need to manage in the digital world is no longer just assets, but also identity, authorization, permission boundaries, automated tasks, and AI agent behaviors. Centered around this shift, imToken proposes a fourth core product proposition: Sign.
In imToken's view, Sign will no longer be 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 might not just be an on-chain transaction, but possibly an authorization, a policy, a delegation, or a revocation. AI agents can help users propose solutions, execute tasks, and improve efficiency, but their actions should be based on clear, verifiable, limitable, and revocable user authorizations.
imToken Founder & CEO Ben He said: "Over the past ten years, imToken has helped users truly own their digital assets. In the next decade, we hope to help users continue to control their own digital world in the age of intelligence. AI will make autonomous action capabilities increasingly abundant, but what will truly be scarce is control. imToken is not just about adding AI features to a wallet, but about considering how, in an AI-native internet, people can still retain ultimate control."
This strategic direction continues imToken's longstanding brand proposition. Over the past decade, imToken has adhered to "Digital Assets, Under Your Control" as its core product principle, emphasizing users' self-custody and ultimate control over digital assets. For the new decade, imToken is upgrading its brand proposition to "Your Digital World, Under Your Control," extending the scope of control from digital assets further to identity, permissions, data, AI agents, and intelligent actions.
imToken stated that it will continue to build around three directions in the future. First, persist in upholding the underlying principle of self-custody, allowing users to retain ultimate control over assets and critical powers. Second, 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, build product capabilities for permissions, delegation, policies, and revocation, enabling users to more clearly define who can act on their behalf, what they can do, what the limits are, how long it lasts, and how to suspend, revoke, and trace actions.
As AI, blockchain, and needs related to personal control converge, imToken believes that the role of wallets is naturally extending from an asset gateway to a trusted control interface in human-machine collaboration. The wallet of the future must not only help users manage assets but also help users understand, approve, limit, and audit actions executed by intelligent systems on their behalf.
Ben He said: "The essence of a wallet is not a simple asset application, but important infrastructure for personal control. Private keys are the root of control, signatures are the expression of authorization, permissions define boundaries, and revocation ensures freedom. We will continue to move forward as builders, with fewer slogans and more products; less chasing trends and more long-term trustworthiness."
About imToken
Founded in 2016, imToken is committed to creating a secure, reliable, and simple-to-use digital wallet that supports easy access and use of 50+ mainstream blockchain networks such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron. Through deep integration with hardware wallet imKey, payment network Rivo, token exchange platform Tokenlon, and DApp browser features, imToken provides trusted non-custodial wallet services to tens of millions of users across over 150 countries and regions worldwide.
For more information, please visit the imToken official website: https://token.im
Related reading: "imToken 10th Anniversary CEO Open Letter: Continuing to Safeguard Everyone's Control in the Age of Intelligence"
