ChainboxEvery trader has a list of positions they never opened. Not the losing ones, those at least taught you something. The ones that never happened, because between the idea and the order there was a setup process, and the setup process won.
In onchain trading, that obstacle almost always has the same name. The wallet.
The wallet is where most traders quit
Think about what we have asked people to do for the last several years. Install a browser extension. Write down twelve words on paper and understand that if you lose them, your money is gone forever, and if someone else finds them, your money is also gone. Copy an address. Bridge funds to the right network. Approve a token. Sign a message that looks like a ransom note. Then, finally, place a trade.
Every one of those steps is a place to give up, and plenty of people do. The market moved while they were reading a seed phrase warning.
The industry's answer has been to offer a trade: you can have an easy account, or you can hold your own keys, but not both. Centralized venues took the easy side, and users handed over custody to get it. Decentralized venues took the self-custody side, and users paid for it in friction. Choosing between control of your money and being able to actually use it is a strange choice to ask anyone to make.
We did not want to make our users make it.
Chainbox partners with Privy
Chainbox now uses Privy for wallets and sign-in across the platform.
Here is what that means in practice. You sign in to Chainbox with an email address or a social account, the same way you would sign in to anything else. In the background, a self-custodial wallet is created for you. There is no extension to install, no seed phrase to transcribe, and no separate application to hold open in another tab. You are trading in the time it used to take to find the download link.
The wallet is genuinely yours. Privy generates and stores keys inside secure enclaves, and those keys are never exposed to Chainbox. We do not hold them, we cannot spend from your wallet, and we could not hand your funds to anyone else if we were asked to. Self-custody is not a marketing line here, it is the architecture.
And if you already live onchain, nothing changes for you. Connect the wallet you already use and trade with it directly. The one-click path exists for people who want it, not as a replacement for the wallet you have spent years curating.
What this means for you
Signing up takes one click. Email or social login, and you are in. The wallet is created for you and funded when you are ready.
You hold the keys. A decentralized wallet, created and secured through Privy's key management, controlled by you. Not an account balance we maintain on your behalf.
Bring your own wallet if you prefer. Existing wallets connect directly. No migration, no wrapper, no second account to reconcile.
One account reaches every market. The same sign-in carries you across Chainbox: Low Leverage and High Leverage venues, stock perps, crypto, indices and memes, your portfolio, and the feed. You are not creating a new identity for each corner of the product.
It works where you trade. The same account and the same wallet on desktop and on mobile, because the market does not care which device you happen to be holding.
Why we chose Privy
There is no shortage of teams promising smooth wallet onboarding. Most of them get smooth by quietly taking custody, which solves the user experience problem by removing the thing that made onchain trading worth doing.
Privy does not make that trade. Keys are generated in secure enclaves and stay outside the reach of the application layer, which means the convenience does not come out of the user's security budget. It supports email and social sign-in for people arriving with nothing, and it supports connecting established wallets for people arriving with everything, from the same integration.
Just as importantly, it is invisible when it should be. The best infrastructure on a trading platform is the kind you never think about, because every second a trader spends thinking about wallet plumbing is a second they are not spending on the market. Privy stays out of the way, and that is the highest compliment we can pay a dependency.
It is also why so many serious onchain teams have converged on the same choice. Wallet infrastructure is the sort of thing you want handled by people for whom it is the entire product.
Trade without limits
Chainbox exists to remove the gaps between a trader and a market: the market that is closed, the asset class that needs a different broker, the account that takes three days to open, the wallet that takes twenty minutes to understand. Stock, crypto, index and meme perps, on one professional platform, twenty four hours a day.
Wallet setup was one of the last gaps left. Now it is one sign-in.
Start trading on Chainbox, or browse the markets first and see what is live.