Dear imToken users, partners, and friends,
Ten years ago, when we started building imToken, there was no clear map of the industry. Blockchain was still in its early days, and crypto wallets had not yet become a mature product category. For most people, private keys, seed phrases, signatures, gas fees, and smart contracts were unfamiliar and difficult concepts. The world did not yet fully understand crypto assets, and few believed that individuals could truly own and control their own value.
But we made a choice that later proved to be very important: we chose to build a wallet. We believed that the internet should not only give you accounts; it should also give you assets, identity, and choice. What truly belongs to you should be in your own hands. This is where imToken began.
Over the past ten years, we have gone through bull and bear cycles, the rise of DeFi and multi-chain ecosystems, and repeated tests of trust, risk, and long-term thinking together with tens of millions of users. Many things have changed, but one belief has remained the same: imToken has always believed that what truly belongs to you should be under your control.
Digital Assets, Under Your Control.
This idea sounds simple, but it has been our most important product principle over the past decade. It is also the starting point for where we go next.
The First Decade: Store, Send, Stake
Looking back on imToken’s first ten years, the core value that wallets created for users can be summarized in three words: Store, Send, and Stake.
Store means enabling users to truly hold their own digital assets. Wallets first solved the challenge of self-custody: how to hold assets securely, how to avoid relying on centralized institutions, and how to return final control over value to individuals. Self-custody is not merely a feature; it defines where control resides. It means that assets that truly belong to you do not need to be entrusted to another centralized account.
Send means enabling value to move freely. Once users can own assets, the next step is to transfer value freely. Send is not just about making transfers. It is the ability for value to flow across an open network, allowing anyone to move what belongs to them across geographic and institutional boundaries without needing permission.
Stake means helping users move from holders to participants. As open networks evolved, wallets became more than tools for storing and transferring assets. They became gateways for users to participate in networks, earn rewards, and support ecosystem operations. From staking to DeFi, from governance to broader forms of on-chain participation, wallets helped users move from “owning assets” to “participating in networks.”
Store, Send, and Stake have formed the core product value of imToken’s first decade. Over these ten years, imToken has grown much like a tree. Our mission, vision, values, and long-term principles are the roots of this tree; our products, technology, security, user experience, and services are the branches growing upward. Only deep roots can support flourishing leaves. And the farther we go, the more clearly we understand what must never be lost.
The tenth anniversary is not an endpoint. It is a new beginning after looking back. As we stand here today and look toward the next decade, a larger shift is taking place.
The Intelligent Age: Abundant Agency, Scarce Control
AI is bringing the internet into a new era. In the future, more and more software will no longer simply wait for people to click buttons. It will understand goals, break down tasks, call tools, and act on behalf of people. We are entering the age of intelligent agents: AI agents will have increasingly powerful agency, enabling them to search, reason, trade, collaborate, pay, and execute in the digital world.
This will bring enormous productivity, but it will also create new risks. In the past, the core question of the digital world was: How can people own assets? In the future, an increasingly important question will be: When intelligent agents can act on behalf of people, how can people still remain in control?
We see three forces converging. First, AI is sweeping across the world, transforming software from “waiting for human operation” to “acting on behalf of humans.” Second, the value of blockchain is becoming visible again. Permissionlessness, censorship resistance, self-custody, verifiability, and traceability were once foundations of open finance. In an AI-native internet, they will also become important defensive infrastructure for collaboration between humans and intelligent systems. Third, control is becoming a new personal challenge. In the future, every individual will not only manage assets, identity, and data, but also their own AI agents, automated tasks, and authorization boundaries.
Agency will become increasingly abundant. What will truly be scarce is control.
This is not an abstract issue. In the future, users will need to know: Who can act on my behalf? What are they allowed to do? What is the spending limit? How long does the authorization last? Which actions require my confirmation? When something abnormal happens, how can I pause, revoke, and trace it? Without clear mechanisms of control, intelligent agents may become a new kind of black box. The more powerful they become, the easier it will be for people to lose boundaries, accountability, and final decision-making power.
So for imToken, the mission of the next decade is not to build another AI agent, nor is it simply to add AI features to a wallet. What we truly care about is this: In an AI-native internet, how can people still retain final control?
The Fourth S: Sign
If the 3S of the first decade were Store, Send, and Stake, then the fourth S for the next decade is Sign.
In the past, Sign usually meant signing a transaction. But in the age of intelligent agents, the meaning of Sign will expand. It will no longer be just a transaction approval. It will become a foundational interface through which humans express authorization, define boundaries, delegate actions, and retain control.
In the future, what you sign may not only be a transaction. It may be an intent, a permission and delegation, a policy, or a revocation.
AI agents can propose plans, execute tasks, and amplify efficiency. But their actions must be built on top of your clear, verifiable, constrained and revocable authorization.
Sign to permit intelligent actions under your control.
This is how we understand the fourth S. It is also the core product thesis for imToken’s next decade.
From a Trusted Main Wallet to a Personal Control Interface
Over the past ten years, imToken has become a trusted main wallet for many users. We treat this with deep respect. “Main wallet” is not a title we take lightly. It means users have entrusted us with long-term assets, important identities, critical transactions, and a sense of security. It also requires us to remain restrained, reliable, and long-term oriented in product, technology, security, user experience, and risk communication.
In the future, imToken will still first and foremost be a trustworthy wallet. We will not abandon the clarity of what a wallet is in order to chase concepts, nor will we push users into complex systems they cannot understand or control. But we also know that the role of the wallet is naturally expanding. In an open and intelligent internet, individuals need to manage not only assets, but also identity, permissions, data, AI agents, automated tasks, and increasingly complex digital relationships.
Therefore, imToken will gradually evolve from a trusted main wallet into a personal control interface — an interface that helps you control your assets, identity, permissions, and intelligent actions.
This is not a leap from wallet to abstract platform. It is a natural extension of the wallet’s core logic: keys are the root of control; signatures are the expression of authorization; permissions define boundaries; policies set the rules for actions; revocation protects freedom; and auditability is the foundation of accountability.
The wallet of the future will not only be an entry point for assets. It will also become a trusted control interface for collaboration between humans and intelligent systems.
The Direction of the Next Decade
Guided by this direction, imToken will continue to protect the root of self-custody. No matter how technology changes, users should not easily give away final control over their assets and critical rights.
We will also move from transaction security toward authorization security and action security. In the past, users were most concerned about private key leaks, signing the wrong transaction, or interacting with malicious contracts. In the future, users will also need to know whether they have authorized an agent to act over the long term, whether they have granted excessive limits, and whether they can pause or revoke that authorization at any time. What imToken needs to do is make these originally complex, hidden, and hard-to-understand authorization relationships clearer and more controllable.
AI can help people accomplish more. But people should always be able to understand, approve, limit, and audit those actions. We want to make intelligent actions more controllable, not make control more ambiguous.
This is a long-term direction, and it is not a question that imToken can answer alone. But it is a question we must help build toward.
Building for the Long Road Ahead
Ten years is not an endpoint. It is a clearer starting point.
We will continue moving forward as builders: fewer slogans, more products; less chasing of hype, more infrastructure; less short-term noise, more long-term trust. We will also continue to stay true to why we started, sense the direction of change, understand what is essential, endure through time, keep iterating, and move forward with conviction.
If imToken’s first decade was about helping you truly own your digital assets, then imToken’s next decade is about helping you continue to control your digital world in the intelligent age.
Your Digital World, Under Your Control.
Thank you to every user, developer, investor, partner, and team member who has experienced, believed, and built with imToken over the past ten years.
The road ahead is still long. We will continue exploring, continue building, and continue moving toward the horizon.
Ben He
Founder & CEO, imToken
June 2026