Organization Name – Here Wallet

Category – Payment

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HERE Wallet is a self-custodial NEAR Protocol wallet launched in 2022 with a total audience of 2.7 million — the largest in the Day 12 batch and one of the larger audiences in the VaaSBlock directory. The OtterSec security audit has been completed. The founding team of Volnov and Zhevlakov is the same pair behind HOT-Near, a connected project within the NEAR ecosystem, a relationship worth understanding when evaluating the full network of products these founders are developing. Gas-free swaps are a notable UX feature. Three team members are listed but have not been independently verified… beyond the founders. The VBTS of 4.32 at the 26th percentile is below median for a project with this audience scale. No MES data was available.

The affordance question for a crypto wallet is the design question with the highest stakes. Every design choice in a wallet creates assumptions about what users will and will not do. A gas-free swap feature removes a specific friction point — the need to hold native NEAR to pay transaction fees — but it also creates implicit assumptions about how users will interpret “free”: they need to understand that fees exist and are simply being covered elsewhere, or they may be surprised by costs that appear in unexpected forms. Self-custody wallets that make security too seamless can create the impression that the user’s assets are protected by the interface rather than by the user’s own key management.

The 2.7 million audience is the dominant signal of this profile. For a NEAR-native wallet to have that level of reach suggests either that HERE Wallet has genuinely served as an onboarding gateway for a large portion of the NEAR ecosystem, or that the audience count includes inactive users who engaged with HOT-Near or a connected campaign. Understanding which is the case matters for interpreting the number. The HOT-Near connection — same founders, different product — is worth investigating independently before making product integration decisions based on either platform. The NEAR ecosystem context is examined in our NEAR Protocol review. HERE Wallet is Unverified under VaaSBlock’s RMA framework. Read More