decentralized identity – ONTO Wallet https://onto.app/blog Your Web3 Gateway Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:03:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://onto.app/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cropped-ONTO-black-288x288px-32x32.png decentralized identity – ONTO Wallet https://onto.app/blog 32 32 ONTO x SPACE ID: A Reward for Real Cross-Chain Users https://onto.app/blog/space-id-campaign/ https://onto.app/blog/space-id-campaign/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:03:55 +0000 https://onto.app/blog/?p=335 Qualify by being who you already are. Share in 100 gift cards worth $500 in total.

Most Web3 campaigns ask you to do something new: complete a quest, mint a token, follow a list of accounts. This one is different. ONTO Wallet and SPACE ID are running a campaign that rewards what your wallet already is, not what you can be persuaded to do. Connect your wallet, authorize the eligibility check, and if your history shows the footprint of a real cross-chain user, you are in.

The campaign runs for seven days, opens Tuesday 2nd June 2026 at 08:00 UTC, and is open to every ONTO Wallet user. SPACE ID handles the reward distribution after the window closes.

Why these criteria

Two qualifiers, both measurable on-chain:

•       Wallet age over one year. You created your wallet before May 2025. You were not here for a single airdrop.

•       Assets across more than three chains. You actually use multi-chain. You hold value on more than one network and you move between them.

How to qualify

There is no quest to complete and nothing to mint. The action on your side is one step: connect your wallet on the campaign page and authorize the eligibility check.

1.     Open the campaign page inside ONTO Wallet and connect the wallet address you want checked.

2.     Authorize the eligibility check. SPACE ID reads only what is needed to confirm wallet age and chain count.

3.     That is the whole action. If your wallet was created before May 2025 and holds assets across more than three chains, you qualify.

If you meet both criteria during the window, you are in the draw for one of 100 gift cards.

The rewards

•       100 gift cards in total

•       $5 per gift card

•       $500 total value across all 100 cards 

•       Distributed by SPACE ID after the campaign closes

Gift cards are issued by SPACE ID directly. ONTO Wallet’s role is the eligibility layer.

Key details

•       Campaign window: Tuesday 2nd June 2026, 08:00 UTC to Tuesday 9th June 2026, 08:00 UTC

•       Who can participate: Any ONTO Wallet user whose wallet meets the two criteria during the window

•       What is checked: Wallet age (over 1 year) and number of chains with assets (more than 3)

•       What you do: Connect your wallet address on the campaign page and authorize the eligibility check. That is the only action.

•       Reward distribution: Handled by SPACE ID after the window closes

•       No quest, no mint, no follow-list, no claim step after eligibility.

More SPACE ID domains supported in ONTO

Alongside the campaign, ONTO Wallet has expanded its SPACE ID domain support. If you hold a SPACE ID name on one of the newly added TLDs, ONTO can now resolve and display it.

•       Already supported in ONTO: .bnb, .arb, .sol, .lens

•       Newly added with this update: .eth, .zkf, .manta, .gno, .cake, .burger, .wod, .floki

That brings ONTO’s SPACE ID domain coverage to twelve TLDs across the major chains its users move between.

Get started

If you have been using ONTO across multiple networks for a year or more, this campaign is built for you. Open the wallet, head to the campaign page, connect and authorize, and you are in the running.

Download or update ONTO: https://onto.app

Learn more about SPACE ID: https://www.space.id/

The campaign opens Tuesday 2nd June at 08:00 UTC. Be the wallet you already are.

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PALZ: Proof of Play is live https://onto.app/blog/palz-proof-of-play-is-live/ https://onto.app/blog/palz-proof-of-play-is-live/#respond Tue, 12 May 2026 09:04:10 +0000 https://onto.app/blog/?p=320 Today we open Proof of Play, the first data campaign on ONTO, run with PALZ Game. Up to 500 qualifying Steam players will share a prize pool worth $2,000. The campaign runs from today, Tuesday 12 May 2026, through to the end of Monday 18 May 2026. Verify your Steam in ONTO, meet the criteria, and you are in for a share of the bundle.

What is on offer

PALZ Game has put up a $2,000 prize pool, allocated across up to 500 qualifying players. Each qualifier receives the same bundle, valued by PALZ at $4 per player:

  • Exclusive PALZ Beta Test Access
  • 2,000 PEPZ tokens
  • A Legendary Starter Pack

The bundle is fixed. If more than 500 players qualify, the first 500 across the line get the reward; the rest do not qualify, regardless of when they joined.

How to qualify (four steps)

  1. Update ONTO Wallet to v4.10.0 from your device’s app store, or download it fresh if you do not have it yet.
  2. Open the new Profile screen and connect your Steam account.
  3. Confirm your Steam account meets both thresholds: over $5 lifetime spend on Steam, and over 10 hours total playtime on Steam.
  4. Follow @PalzGame on X.

Hit all four and you are in the Proof of Play qualifying pool, up to the first 500. Verification is automatic. There is no separate application form to fill in.

How verification works

When you connect your Steam account in ONTO, the wallet verifies your account age, hours played, and spend history, then stores those facts on your device as Verifiable Credentials following the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0 standard.

PALZ does not see your Steam login, your inventory, your friends list, or your full purchase history. They see only the three signals required to confirm eligibility: that the account exceeds $5 lifetime spend, that it exceeds 10 hours played, and that it is a real, active Steam account. The credentials stay on your device. You authorise the proof; PALZ verifies the proof; nothing in between. Hence the name: Proof of Play.

Important details

  • One Steam account per ONTO wallet. Multiple wallets verifying the same Steam account count as one entry.
  • Reward distribution begins shortly after the campaign closes on 18 May. Qualifiers will be contacted through PALZ and asked to confirm the wallet that should receive the PEPZ tokens and the Legendary Starter Pack.
  • Beta Test Access is delivered by PALZ; look for the email or X DM from the PALZ team after the campaign closes.
  • Regional eligibility follows PALZ’s terms. Check the PALZ X channel for jurisdictional restrictions before participating.
  • Proof of Play is a qualification campaign, not a giveaway. There is no draw, no random pick. If you meet the criteria inside the window, you are in.

Why this matters

Steam already knows your hours, your spend, and your account history. It has not paid you for any of it. ONTO turns that data into a Verifiable Credential you own, and PALZ pays for the privilege of seeing the verified signal, not the underlying account. The disclosure is yours to authorise. The reward is yours to keep.

Proof of Play is the first of a series. The mechanic is intentionally simple, the reward bundle is real, and the verification flow is the same one the next campaign will use. Verify once, qualify many times. Sell on your terms.

Get started

Update ONTO to v4.10.0, open Profile, connect Steam, follow @PalzGame on X. That is it.

Campaign window: Tuesday 12 May 2026, to Monday 18 May 2026.

Pinned updates and any clarifications will be posted on ONTO’s X channel and in the ONTO Telegram. Connect Steam: https://onto.app

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ONTO v4.10.0 is live: clearer Profiles, Steam verification, the first PALZ data campaign, and a $500 launch giveaway https://onto.app/blog/onto-v4-10-0-is-live-clearer-profiles-steam-verification-the-first-palz-data-campaign-and-a-500-launch-giveaway/ https://onto.app/blog/onto-v4-10-0-is-live-clearer-profiles-steam-verification-the-first-palz-data-campaign-and-a-500-launch-giveaway/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 08:05:24 +0000 https://onto.app/blog/?p=316 ONTO Steam verification is now live in ONTO Wallet v4.10.0, the most significant Profile update we have made this year. Three features land at once: your Profile is restructured for clarity and control, Steam joins the list of data sources you can verify, and the first joint data campaign with PALZ Game opens with a prize pool of more than $2,000. To celebrate, we are also running a quick $500 launch giveaway on X. All of it lands on a single principle: your data, your wallet, your terms.

A clearer Profile

The new Profile reorganises everything you have already verified, surfaces the gaps, and shows which data dimensions qualify for active campaigns. The point is simple: you should be able to see, at a glance, whether you are ready to participate the moment a campaign opens.

Verified credentials remain on your device. They follow the W3C Verifiable Credentials standard, and they leave your wallet only when you choose to authorise a third party. Selective disclosure means you can prove what is needed without giving away what is not.

New data dimensions: ONTO Steam verification arrives

Alongside the social accounts, email, and personal data we already support, v4.10.0 adds a Steam verification flow. Connecting a Steam account turns years of gaming activity into a verifiable signal: hours played, library size, spend history, account age. For game enthusiasts, that history has been sitting idle on a single platform. From today, it can travel with you, on your terms, to campaigns that pay for it.

This is the first move in a wider data verticals push. Steam goes first because the audience is engaged, the signal is rich, and the verification is clean.

The first PALZ data campaign

PALZ Game will launch the first data monetisation campaign on ONTO. Verify a small set of data dimensions, meet the campaign criteria, and you are in for a share of a prize pool of over $2,000. The eligibility is straightforward: $5+ spent on Steam, 10+ hours played, and a follow on PALZ’s X account. The ground rule on the data side is shorter still: anything you submit must be genuine, reliable, and verifiable. Verifiable Credentials are how we enforce that.

Up to 500 qualifying players will be rewarded. Full eligibility, dates, and reward mechanics will be pinned on the ONTO and PALZ X channels.

Celebrate the launch: $500 Steam giveaway on X

To mark the v4.10.0 release, we are running a quick 2 week long giveaway off the back of the launch tweet on X. The mechanic is light: retweet our launch post and comment your favourite Steam game underneath it. We will pick 100 random winners from the comments and send each one $5. Total pool: $500.

The giveaway is open from launch and the closing date is announced on the pinned post. Whether you win or not, the better outcome is connecting your Steam account in the new Profile while you are there: the moment you do, you are eligible for the PALZ campaign and the data campaigns that follow.

Get started

Update ONTO to v4.10.0 from the App Store or Google Play, open Profile, and start verifying. If ONTO is new to you, download the wallet and create yours first. Connect Steam from the new Profile screen, then check the campaigns tab to see what is open.

This release is one move in a longer arc. The platform is built so the next campaign, and the one after that, can plug in without you redoing your work. Verify once, qualify many times, sell on your terms.

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ONTO × Changelly: New Trading Campaign Is Live https://onto.app/blog/onto-x-changelly-new-trading-campaign-is-live/ https://onto.app/blog/onto-x-changelly-new-trading-campaign-is-live/#respond Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:13:51 +0000 https://onto.app/blog/?p=265 Share of a 4,000 USDT prize pool, just by trading the way you already do.

The first ONTO × Changelly trading campaign brought the energy. Now it’s back, bigger and better. From February 10 to February 20, 2026, every swap and bridge you complete through Changelly inside the ONTO App counts toward your share of a 4,000 USDT reward pool.

No forms. No claims. Just trade, rank, and earn.

How It Works

Open the ONTO App, head to Swap or Bridge, and select Changelly as your source. That’s it. Every eligible trade you make during the event period gets tracked automatically through your DID (Decentralized Identity).

The Prize Pool: 4,000 USDT

This is a straightforward trading competition. After the event ends, the top 10 DIDs by total trading volume will split the entire 4,000 USDT pool, proportionally.

The more you trade relative to the other top traders, the bigger your share.

Here’s an example:

Say the combined trading volume of the top 10 DIDs totals 1,000,000 USDT. If your DID accounts for 200,000 USDT of that total, you hold 20% of the pool. Your reward: 4,000 × 20% = 800 USDT.

Every DID in the top 10 receives their proportional cut. The full 4,000 USDT gets distributed; nothing is held back.

Key Details

Event period: 8:00 UTC, February 10 – 8:00 UTC, February 20, 2026

Who can participate: Anyone using the ONTO Multi-Chain Wallet

What counts: Swaps and bridges completed in the ONTO App with Changelly selected as the source

How volume is calculated: By DID, with all linked addresses aggregated automatically

Rewards: Delivered to Your Wallet

No manual claims. No address submissions. After the event closes, all trading data is calculated automatically. Final results will be announced within 3 business days, and rewards are distributed in USDT on BNB Chain directly to your ONTO wallet.

You trade. We handle the rest.

Rules to Keep in Mind

  • Only trades completed during the event window (Feb 10–20, 2026) are eligible
  • Only trades executed via Changelly count toward your volume
  • Fraudulent behavior, wash trading, or abnormal activity will result in disqualification
  • ONTO reserves the right of final interpretation for this campaign

Get Started

Open the ONTO App, select Changelly as your swap or bridge source, and start building your volume. The competition is live now.

Your next trade could put you in the top 10.

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The End of Single-Chain Thinking https://onto.app/blog/the-end-of-single-chain-thinking/ https://onto.app/blog/the-end-of-single-chain-thinking/#respond Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:09:27 +0000 https://onto.app/blog/?p=261 Something shifted in Web3 over the past year. The question stopped being “which chain?” and became “how many chains?”

For years, the crypto industry debated which Layer 1 would “win.” Ethereum maximalists argued with Solana believers. Bitcoin purists dismissed everything else as noise. Each ecosystem built walls, and users were expected to pick a side.

That debate is over. Not because someone won, but because the premise was wrong.

The Multi-Chain Reality

Today, the average active Web3 user holds assets across multiple chains. They have ETH on Ethereum, positions on Arbitrum, NFTs on a chain they discovered through a game, and maybe some BTC they’ve been meaning to bridge somewhere. The blockchain landscape didn’t consolidate around a winner. It fragmented into specialized ecosystems, each serving different purposes.

Ethereum became the settlement layer. Solana captured high-frequency trading and consumer apps. Layer 2s absorbed the transactions that were too expensive for mainnet. Application-specific chains emerged for gaming, DeFi, and social. And Bitcoin, after years of being “just” a store of value, is finding new utility through wrapped assets and cross-chain bridges.

This isn’t fragmentation in the negative sense. It’s specialization. And specialization, historically, is how technology matures.

The User Experience Gap

Here’s the problem: while the infrastructure became multi-chain, most tools didn’t. Users found themselves managing multiple wallets, memorizing which assets lived where, manually bridging tokens through interfaces that felt like defusing a bomb. One wrong click, one copied address from the wrong network, and funds could vanish.

The industry talked about “onboarding the next billion users” while building experiences that frustrated the existing million. Innovations like ERC-4337 account abstraction promise smarter wallets, but adoption remains uneven. The complexity wasn’t a feature, it was a barrier. And barriers don’t scale.

What users actually needed was simple: one place to see everything, one interface to manage it all, and enough information to make decisions without a computer science degree.

From Chain Loyalty to Chain Fluidity

The wallets that understand this are pulling ahead. They’re not asking users to commit to an ecosystem, they’re letting users flow between ecosystems based on what they’re trying to do. Need the cheapest transaction? Route through this chain. Want maximum security for a large transfer? Use that one. Looking to access a specific DeFi protocol? Here’s where it lives.

This is the shift from chain loyalty to chain fluidity. Users shouldn’t need to care about the underlying infrastructure any more than they care about which data center serves their streaming video. The chain becomes an implementation detail, not an identity. As decentralized identity frameworks mature, this vision becomes increasingly achievable – your identity persists across chains while your assets flow freely.

We’re approaching a point where supporting 50+ chains isn’t a boast, it’s table stakes. Where bridging BTC into other ecosystems is a basic feature, not a technical achievement. Where switching between mainnet and testnet is a toggle, not a migration.

What This Means for Web3

The multi-chain future has implications beyond convenience. When assets flow freely between ecosystems, liquidity follows. When liquidity flows, developers build where the opportunities are rather than where they’re locked in. The blockchain interoperability market is projected to reach $7.8 billion by 2033, a signal that this isn’t speculation but strategic investment.

This is how Web3 grows up. Not by picking winners, but by building bridges. Not by forcing choices, but by abstracting complexity. Not by demanding technical literacy, but by rewarding curiosity.

The single-chain era taught us what blockchains could do. The multi-chain era is teaching us what they should feel like.

The future isn’t about which chain you’re on. It’s about having the freedom to be on all of them.

Explore ONTO Wallet’s multi-chain features and see how we’re building for the connected future.

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