thirdweb acquires Web3Onboard by Blocknative
Today, we’re excited to announce thirdweb’s acquisition of Web3Onboard open-source library, a leading wallet connection solution for the EVM ecosystem.
This acquisition further advances thirdweb’s evolution toward becoming the default development platform for web3 apps and games.
Onboarding users in Web3 applications remains a challenge. Under this new direction, we will support more web3 apps and games with seamless user onboarding in 2025 and beyond.
Why Web3Onboard?
Blocknative’s Web3Onboard product has provided user onboarding experiences to industry-leading web3 applications including Safe, Curve Finance, Synthetix, and more. As an early player in the game, the innovative software provides wallet connection management services to more than one thousand web3 apps.
The thirdweb team will take ownership of the Web3Onboard repository to accelerate innovation in user experience and onboarding for applications and games. Blocknative will continue to partner with thirdweb on its Gas Platform, which includes widely deployed Gas Platform APIs and innovative new onchain Gas Network.
Sean O’Connor, Blocknative’s COO, commented,
“We are excited for thirdweb to steward Web3Onboard and its community moving forward. thirdweb has a rich history in open source Web3 infrastructure – and their team brings both new ideas and new capabilities to this proven solution. At the same time, Blocknative will be bringing our Gas Platform APIs and Gas Network onchain oracles to the thirdweb’s rapidly growing developer community.”
What does this mean for developers?
For current Web3Onboard users, everything will continue as usual: thirdweb will continue to support all users and there will be no interruptions to your service. Web3Onboard will remain operational, be actively supported, and will be enhanced over time.
“We are extremely excited to support Web3Onboard customers to drive seamless onboarding to web3 apps and games; and to partner with Blocknative on their new Gas Network.“ - Jake Loo, thirdweb CTO
In the near future, Web3Onboard will integrate directly with the thirdweb SDK to provide a seamless end-to-end experience for all developers. Please contact thirdweb Support via support@thirdweb.com or join the thirdweb discord with any questions.
thirdweb x Web3Onboard: the solution for seamless onboarding
At thirdweb, we’re optimistic about the future of onboarding in web3. Gone are the days where blockchain apps were only for crypto-natives. With thirdweb’s complete development toolkit, blockchain apps and games are accessible to everyone. As part of our mission to improve onboarding, we’re excited to invite Blocknative’s Web3Onboard to join our toolkit and pave the way for web3 adoption together — for consumer apps, onchain games, ecosystems and more.