Agora Next Daily: Login Without a Wallet
A single, broad change lands embedded-wallet login for the civic tenant using Privy, letting members sign in without a self-custodial wallet while keeping the existing gasless relayer path untouched for everyone else.
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- Show: Agora Next Daily
- Published: 2026-07-07T21:00:26Z
- Audio duration: PT2M4S
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Good morning. It's July 7th, 2026, and this is Agora Next Daily.
Today's codebase activity is small in count but significant in reach: one pull request, merged, but touching a broad swath of the application.
PR 1567, from galo13eth, introduces Privy-based embedded wallet login, scoped specifically to the civic tenant. The core idea: members who don't already have a self-custodial wallet can now log in with email or social sign-in, get an embedded wallet under the hood, authenticate with sign-in-with-Ethereum, and then…
The important design choice here is the gating. This feature sits behind a per-tenant toggle called "privy login." That means civic gets the new flow, but every other tenant's wallet and sign-in behavior stays exactly as it was. The relayer path itself wasn't touched. For a change that spans environment…
Worth noting: the embedded wallet exposes itself as a wagmi connector through the Privy wagmi package, so it plugs into the existing wallet connection architecture rather than replacing it. That's a maintainability win — new login rails without a parallel wallet system to support.
The PR carried one review comment, so it went through scrutiny before merging, though the…