Wallet Auth: Gate Any API on What a Wallet Holds
Every authentication system in production today proves who you are. OAuth proves you logged in with Google. API keys prove you registered. JWTs prove a server issued you a session. Wallet Auth prov...

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Every authentication system in production today proves who you are. OAuth proves you logged in with Google. API keys prove you registered. JWTs prove a server issued you a session. Wallet Auth proves what you own. That is a different primitive — and it points to something bigger: blockchain state converted into standard internet credentials, consumable by any system that understands a JWT. Wallet Auth does not prove control of a wallet. It proves that a wallet meets specific on-chain conditions. What Wallet Auth is Wallet Auth by InsumerAPI is a new category of API access control where access decisions are based on wallet state: what a wallet holds, what it has staked, what credentials it carries. Not identity. Not login sessions. On-chain facts. The output is a standard ES256 JWT bearer token. The input is a blockchain verification across any of 32 supported chains. Between those two points, InsumerAPI reads the chain, evaluates the conditions you specify, and signs a JWT containing t