After logging in by email, is the wallet still really yours?
On July 29, @velvet_capital opened up Gasless transactions on the Robinhood Chain for embedded wallets using email or X login.
I believe VelvetX hasn’t taken the wallet away—it has simply moved it from the first onboarding lesson to behind the account.
In the past, for on-chain products you’d first download a wallet, back up your seed phrase, find the network, and get some gas. Before you even saw the product, half your attention had already been consumed by the tools. Now you log into your account first. Turnkey generates a non-custodial wallet in the background, and the gas in the supported scenarios is also handled by the product.
Email login is just the entry point. The assets are still executed from the user’s wallet. The team can’t directly use them. The key actions still require your authorization and signatures.
The account gets you in. The wallet ensures the assets still belong to you.
After reading this official path, the most exciting part for me is that users can finally understand what they want to do first, and then gradually understand how the wallet works. VelvetX is more like a trading room that hides complicated equipment inside the wall—clean desktop, and no control is secretly taken away.
#Gasless only applies to embedded wallets and supported scenarios. External wallets still need to supply their own gas. For product flows like recovery, changing devices, and exporting keys, there also needs to be clearer public documentation.
Before using it, I’ll only confirm whether I’m using an embedded wallet or an external one—and, when signing, exactly what I’m authorizing.