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Tessel
A self-custody wallet that uses passkeys instead of seed phrases.
Since
2023
Team
9 people, Berlin
Reach
140,000 wallets
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The story
Why Tessel exists
Tessel started as a weekend fix for one founder’s parents, who kept losing their seed phrases. Two years later it is the wallet most new Oriel users open first.
The round 3 grant paid for passkey sign-in and a recovery flow that works with two trusted contacts instead of twelve words. Both shipped on time, and both are now open source for other wallets to reuse.
Grant milestones
What the round 3 grant paid for
Passkey sign-in
Shipped March 2024
Social recovery
Shipped July 2024
Open-source recovery library
Shipped October 2024
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