Altia Wallet
A new kind of crypto wallet that does not force users to choose between simplicity and real ownership of their assets.
Why crypto wallets are broken
There are two kinds of crypto wallets today and both have serious problems. Custodial wallets like Binance or Bitget are easy to use, you can recover your account and there is no seed phrase to manage, but you do not actually own your crypto. The exchange does. Events like the FTX collapse showed exactly what that means in practice.
Non-custodial wallets like MetaMask or Phantom give you real ownership, but the UX is painful. Lose your seed phrase and your funds are gone, permanently. No recovery. For most people, that tradeoff is too much.
The average person wants to own their crypto without needing to understand what a private key is. That gap is what Altia is built to close.
What Altia does differently
Altia is a hybrid wallet. The experience feels like a custodial product: simple onboarding, account recovery, no seed phrase anxiety. But under the hood, the user has full and exclusive ownership of their assets.
We use iExec DataProtector to store sensitive data inside decentralised confidential computing enclaves. Only the user can access their own enclave. No third party, including us, can touch it.
On top of that, we apply MPC (Multi-Party Computation) to split the private key into multiple fragments stored across separate enclaves. If one enclave is ever compromised, the attacker gets an unusable fragment. The user is protected by design, not by trust.
What we built it with
We presented it to investors
We pitched Altia in front of international investors at a Kryptosphère event in Paris. Getting from idea to live pitch in a few months, with real people asking real questions about the technology, was one of the most valuable experiences of my studies.
Honest status
The MVP is on hold while I finish my Master's. The concept is validated, the technical architecture is defined and the pitch is done. We plan to pick it back up after graduation. It is a project I genuinely believe in and intend to see through.
Key takeaways
Presenting a technical product to non-technical investors forces you to understand it deeply enough to strip away all the jargon. That process taught me more than any documentation.
Privacy infrastructure is hard to communicate. The technology is solid but users do not care about enclaves, they care about whether their money is safe. Framing matters as much as the tech.
Building a product from idea to pitch taught me to think about user problems before solutions, a habit that carried directly into how I approach analytics work.