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Emir Taner
Emir Taner

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Trust, Not Just Tech: How WaaS Helped Us Build Credibility with Users

When we launched our crypto product, users didn’t care about our stack, our architecture, or how elegant our codebase was.
They cared about one simple question:

“If I send you my money… is it coming back?” 😅

That’s when trust quietly overtook tech as the main feature.

Users Don’t See Keys. They See Risk 🧠

Internally we argued about:

  • key management
  • node setups
  • signing flows

Externally, users just saw:

  • “new project”
  • “custody of my funds”
  • “no brand history”

Our custom wallet infra looked cool on diagrams, but on the trust scale it was:
“So… you wrote your own wallet logic, and I’m the test case?”

Not ideal.

WaaS as a Credibility Layer, Not Just an API 🧩

Switching to Wallet-as-a-Service changed the conversation completely.

Instead of:

“We’ve built everything ourselves, trust us.”

We could say:

“We handle product and UX, and the wallet layer runs on battle-tested infrastructure.”

Using something like WhiteBIT WaaS gave us:

  • security practices we couldn’t afford to reinvent
  • documented processes for incidents and recovery
  • a name users had actually heard before

Suddenly, calls with partners stopped sounding like “two devs with a dream” and more like “a product built on top of serious rails”.

Trust as a Product Story 📖

The funny part?
Marketing finally got a concrete narrative:

  • your assets are held via professional custody infra
  • we don’t keep keys in some mysterious private repo
  • access is policy-based, logged, auditable

It became much easier to explain to non-technical users why our setup was safer than the usual “we rolled our own wallet, but it’s fine”.

If You Still Think WaaS Is Optional… 💸

If you’re building anything that touches user funds, WaaS isn’t just a dev shortcut - it’s a business necessity and a trust shortcut.

For anyone still doubting why Wallet-as-a-Service is so critical for business today, I’d honestly recommend reading the article.

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