Abrams: Bridge considered wallet-as-a-service before rejecting it as a competitive tar pit
Zach Abrams · Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy) · Nov 4, 2025 · at 3:10
Bridge co-founder Zach Abrams explains to Privy co-founder Henri Stern why Bridge evaluated and passed on building wallet-as-a-service infrastructure.
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“One of our first ideas was to build wallets as a service, and which was obviously your business. At the time, I don't think that You, maybe you existed, but at least it wasn't, you weren't on our radar at all. And I remember looking at the space and being like, no, that's a tar pit. There's nothing for us to build there. It's so deeply competitive. And then we quickly moved on and went our way to stablecoin.”
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