Some of you saw Piggy last time and roasted us for being custodial. Fair. You were right.
We rebuilt the whole thing from scratch. Here’s what changed:
Self-custody via passkey. No seed phrase UI, no custodian, no KYC. Keys derived on device, backed up through your passkey provider. We never touch your sats.
Built on Spark (Lightning). Receive sats instantly through your own Lightning address (handle@pig.gy).
One Piggy. One life. The only way to withdraw is to kill it - name burned, skin burned, address retired forever. Nobody gets it back.
Every Piggy is unique (160+ traits), has an AI personality, a public profile page, and responds to messages from strangers. The $9.99 upgrade is a consumable - kill your Piggy and you buy again.
We took the feedback seriously. No more custodial. No more 15 features nobody asked for. Just a piggy bank that holds your keys, talks back, and dies if you break it.
Roast away. We can take it now.
You are aware that there are other OSes than just apple, right? :-)
The passkey-derived key approach is the right UX instinct. Seed phrases are the number one reason normal people don't self-custody. Nobody who isn't already a bitcoiner will write down 12 words and store them in a fireproof safe. That's not a user flow, it's a lifestyle change.
The tradeoff worth naming: passkey backup lives in your Apple/Google cloud. So you've moved the trust assumption from "Piggy holds your keys" to "Apple/Google backs up your passkeys." That's a genuine improvement in sovereignty but it's not the same thing as writing down a seed phrase in a notebook. If Apple locks your iCloud account, your piggy is gone. Worth being explicit about that in the docs.
Building on Spark is an interesting choice. Curious why Spark over something like Breez SDK or LDK. The Lightning wallet space has a lot of infrastructure options right now and each one comes with different tradeoffs on channel management, LSP dependency, and liquidity.
iiiinteresting. What's your business plan? How are you going to make money on this? I don't have an apple device so I can't try it.
Hey @ZezzebbulTheMysterious @m0wer @Scoresby @south_korea_ln @DarthCoin - you guys lit us up last time and we deserved it. just wanted to make sure you see this one. self-custody now. no more trust me bro. would love your honest take again.