To be honest, this wallet does give a generous and grand impression, and the coin price has indeed dropped a bit, but it seems to have stabilized for now; we can take a look at the project team.
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WalletConnect is not a wallet, it's a 'network connection'. It standardizes the session, signature, and message forwarding between wallets and dApps, evolving towards a decentralized relay network: anyone can run a Relayer, and the network routes messages based on availability and quality, gradually reducing single point dependencies. This route of 'from custodial to decentralized' has been clearly outlined by the team on the official roadmap.
Three steps to access (for product and engineering)
Step one, use Web3Modal/SDK to create standard components for 'discover wallet → establish session → sign/transaction → reconnection', while covering ecosystems like EVM and Solana, and minimize glue code.
Step two, handle multi-chain permissions according to CAIP-25: put supported chains into optionalNamespaces, listen for session events to dynamically expand permissions, and reduce connection failures caused by 'permission mismatches'.
Step three, on the Relay side, understand message distribution as a pub/sub topic routing according to specifications; if you want to self-build or select a third-party relay, first perform black-box/gray-box stress tests against the specifications.
Operation and observation (quantify the experience)
What you should really focus on is not the download count, but the four curves: ① TTFI from cold start to first signature; ② signature success rate and p95 latency; ③ session lifespan and reconnection success rate; ④ multi-chain switching failure rate. Connect these four to your monitoring dashboard and perform regression testing whenever there is an SDK upgrade or a new chain added. Industry articles and ecological statistics have proven that coverage and stability are the fundamental reasons why WalletConnect is called the 'default connection layer'.
Decentralization and compliance considerations on the network side
Gradually open the operation rights of Relayer nodes, while advancing network governance and foundation mechanisms in parallel, aiming to make 'message forwarding' a competitive market rather than a single custodial service. For you, the practical suggestion is: enable multi-relay redundancy in the production environment, continuously assess the success rate and latency of different nodes, and perform 'active probing + automatic switching' if necessary. (The official blog and specification documents provide the path and background; third-party reports are also tracking the milestones of 'independent relay launch'.)
The bottom line of privacy and security (this thing is really impressive)
The connection layer is essentially a message layer. Your application should collect necessary metrics under the premise of 'minimizing metadata', avoiding writing user identifiers into session content; Relay uses symmetric key encrypted message channels, and the engineering side still needs to regularly perform packet capture/replay and decryption drills to confirm that 'what is received is what is sent'.
Implementation checklist for different teams
Product: Make the UX for 'connection failure retry → wallet switch → reconnection' an explicit path to reduce silent failures without prompts.
Frontend: Pre-fetch the chain and method list before the Modal opens to avoid first screen waiting; session permission changes should prompt a toast.
Backend/DevOps: Multi-Relayer configuration + proactive health checks; apply rate limits and circuit breaker protections to single nodes.
Compliance: Update privacy policies and data minimization statements, and retain evidence chains for regional compliance (GDPR/CCPA).
(These can all be found in the official documentation and ecological guidelines.)
Treat WalletConnect as 'connecting infrastructure', not 'checking functionality'. First connect it with standard components, then use four curves to quantify the experience, and finally stabilize the system with multiple relays and compliance practices. By achieving these three things, your dApp will essentially have production-level connectivity with 'always connectable, cross-chain available, and retrievable in case of issues'.
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