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Fulgur Ventures partners with BlueWallet

7 May 2019

Fulgur Ventures

3 min read

Fulgur Ventures partnered with BlueWallet, the open-source Bitcoin and Lightning wallet for iOS, Android, and Mac focused on security, user experience, and full user control of funds.

Fulgur Ventures is proud to partner with BlueWallet, one of the most respected open-source Bitcoin wallets in the ecosystem. Founded in 2018 in Barcelona by Nuno Coelho, Igor Kosakov, and Marcos Rodriguez, BlueWallet has spent years quietly building the kind of software that hardcore Bitcoiners actually use, with first-class support for both on-chain transactions and the Lightning Network across iOS, Android, and Mac.

Where many wallet products optimize for onboarding by trimming functionality, BlueWallet has gone the other direction. Multisig vaults, watch-only wallets, hardware wallet integration, custom Electrum servers, Lightning channel management, full transaction control: these features add up to a tool that scales from first-time users to serious power users without forcing anyone to switch apps as they level up.

Self-custody is the single most important user behavior in Bitcoin, and the wallet layer is where that battle is fought every day. The Fulgur thesis backs teams that make non-custodial use of Bitcoin and Lightning measurably easier without compromising on the principles. BlueWallet's open-source codebase, multi-platform reach, and feature breadth make it a critical piece of the consumer Bitcoin stack.

The big picture matters here. As Lightning becomes the default payment rail for sats and as multisig moves into the mainstream of how users protect savings, mature wallets will be the interface through which most people experience Bitcoin. We are honored to support BlueWallet and its community as they keep raising the bar for what a sovereign Bitcoin wallet can be.