• Mutiny Wallet, a web-first bitcoin wallet, has raised just over $300,000 in preseed funding to develop a user-friendly and privacy-focused wallet.
• Founders of the company include Tony Giorgio, Ben Carman, and Paul Miller.
• The team behind Mutiny Wallet has already developed a proof-of-concept wallet and a first-of-its-kind Lightning node in the browser. They are also working on integrating on-chain and Lightning privacy tools.
Mutiny Wallet Raises Preseed Funding
Mutiny Wallet, a web-first bitcoin wallet, has raised just over $300,000 in preseed funding to help build a “user-friendly bitcoin wallet with exceptional privacy, scalability and accessibility”.
Founders of the Company
The founders of the company include Tony Giorgio (an engineer with substantial experience in Bitcoin and Lightning startups since 2018), Ben Carman (formerly the lead engineer at The Bitcoin Company) and Paul Miller (who previously worked on Voltage’s R&D team). All three have contributed to numerous projects in the Bitcoin and Lightning space like OpenSats, Fedimint and BDK.
Features of Mutiny Wallet
Mutiny Wallet is self-custodial and privacy focused; it is capable of running anywhere providing instant onboarding and platform censorship resistance as well as integrating on-chain and lightning privacy tools. Its goal is to make using bitcoin easy for users by utilizing best practices from within the Bitcoin industry.
Team Behind Mutiny Wallet
The team behind Mutiny Wallet has already developed a proof-of concept wallet as well as a first-of its kind Lightning node in the browser. They spent six months at Voltage building an LSP that will power Mutiny Wallet which will provide users with an innovative user experience when utilizing their services. They have also been working on Vortex CoinJoin project which was developed by Ben Carman but needs vertical integration for it to be successful.
Investors
Mutiny Wallets investors include Ten31, Brad Mills Chris Hunter American Hodl Ti Kawamoto NVK as well as Voltages incubation program allowing them to work productively towards achieving their goals for their product.