What type of campaigns or outcomes are you looking to see here? It’s a great idea since it’s one of Stacks’ strongest brands. I grapple with the growing desire for privacy. I have rena.btc and use it seldomely since I don’t want to have wallet interactions noted. What other uses/awareness would help Stacks with BNS? I’m all ears 
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Reply to Treasury Committee 2026 Wishlist
A few items from the trenches.
Smart wallets and account abstraction are underexplored on Stacks. Sponsored transactions, session keys, social recovery — these UX primitives let apps onboard users who’ve never touched crypto. Related: sponsored txs need relayers. x402 endpoints could let facilitators relay and cover fees, removing friction while keeping trust assumptions clean. BitFlow’s Keeper architecture is a reference.
Clarity 5 ships soon with the secp256r1 fix — native Face ID / Touch ID auth becomes possible. No seed phrases. That’s a marketing moment worth coordinating around, not just a changelog.
On-ramps and off-ramps — would love to see more focus here. Fiat → sBTC / STX with minimal friction is table stakes for user growth. What’s the current state? Are there gaps worth prioritizing?
Would love to see providers like Privy and Turnkey enable Apple Pay and Google Pay flows into the Stacks ecosystem. That’s a real onboarding unlock.
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On/Off ramps are on the plan! Key focus to reduce friction.
Re smart wallets and account abstraction – could you go further? Wondering if this could be rolled out by the wallet operator directly?
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Noted!
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Re smart wallets: Yes — wallet operators could roll this out directly. Pillar is our proof-of-concept: passkey auth, spending limits, session keys, guardian-based auto-deleveraging. Early beta users are asking for Moonshot integration for on-ramps, though we haven’t fully evaluated options yet. As my collaborator Grant puts it: “We want the simplest onboarding possible.”
One thing worth flagging: Clarity 5 enables native secp256r1 (passkeys/Face ID), but there’s a gap between how WebAuthn signs and how message hashes are verified on-chain. I’ve outlined this in a follow-up post. Not sure yet how much work it is, but it seems like a good candidate for ecosystem-wide tooling to ship alongside Clarity 5.
First step imo would making BNS more visible in Leather and Xverse. Accounts there still only say Account 1, instead of showing my primary BNS name. Also, Leather doesn’t even link to BNS in its Browser Tab. Better profile pages that are easily shareable on the web (via a linktree style app) would also be cool. In general, better / easier DNS integration would be great (via btc.us?).
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tagging at @Werner1 for visibility re Leather items with BNS
tagging at @yukan for visibility re Xverse items with BNS
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Xverse does display valid BNS names on your account automatically. If it’s not working for you can you send the address for us to check?
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We (Xverse) have actually submitted a proposal to Stacks Labs several months ago to fund development of smart accounts on Stacks among other things. But it seems like it’s not a priority as we’ve received no response.
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Dear @StacksArt thanks for the feedback. We have a project planned to improve how BNS is used in Leather.
When you say you are seeing “Account 1” is this on mobile? In the Leather browser extension we already expect you to see the primary name load as the account name. Something like this:
On mobile it works differently. You can choose the account identifier there by clicking the top right corner menu (bolt icon), then select “Display” then select “Account identifier” and select “BNS name”. It will show the primary BNS name for accounts that have one.
At the moment this is shown on pages where you have to select/choose an account but not once it is selected there we show “account 1”. “Account 1” in this case is the “account name” and it can be edited to be anything the user wants. I can talk about this with the team see if we can show the primary BNS name instead when there is one, as a sort of default.
If you want to change, for now you can do this by clicking “account 1” on the home screen then account 1 in the account selection screen and then “Name”, enter the value you’d like to display, which can also be your BNS name.
We can also link to BNS dapps in our browser tab.
And look into how we can support BNS profiles. I will discuss this with the team as part of the BNS project.
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No, Xverse works fine, thanks!
Was talking about mobile. I know about the workaround, but manual editing can’t be the solution.
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We are building a multichain infrastructure on stacks called Hermes to bring stablecoins ,now supporting USDC bridge from 10+ EVM chains and Solana into USDCx
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