Week 15 at Loyal

The extension is in the Chrome Web Store.

Rodion, founder3 min readApr 7, 2026

The extension is in the Chrome Web Store. Kamino APY is days away from mainnet. We hardened the wallet security, hashed Telegram usernames, and judged a community dog competition live on stream. Big week.

The Extension Is in the Chrome Web Store

It is live but the public announcement will go live next week because want to change a couple of things before.

What you are getting: a full wallet in a Chrome side panel. Shielded assets, private transactions, send to Telegram, connect to any Solana dApp. Everything the mini app does, the extension does.

This week Vlad rewrote how authentication works. The PIN is gone because it could be vulnarable in some cases. It is now a proper password. If you already set a PIN, there is a graceful migration — enter your old PIN once, set a new password, done.

The dock animates based on what is happening in the wallet. Conditional actions show up depending on what you are looking at — shielded assets give you unshield and send, unshielded assets give you shield, swap, and send. And the big one: when you approve a transaction, the extension decrypts and displays every instruction. You are not blindly signing anymore. You see exactly what is happening, and if you want, you can inspect the raw data.

We connected to Jupiter on stream. You can swap tokens through any Solana dApp using Loyal as your wallet adapter. It works like Phantom or Backpack, except your transactions can be private and your wallet has an AI agent behind it.

APY on Shielded Assets Goes to Mainnet

We are finishing integration with Kamino. Mainnet should be live within the next few days.

We made a deliberate call here: USDC only at launch. We looked at the data across Kamino and other protocols — the overwhelming majority of shielded deposits are USDC anyway. Adding SOL and USDT yield will come, but we are not going to complicate the UX for edge cases on day one. When it ships, it will be available on desktop, extension, and the mini app.

Privacy and yield. No reason you should have to pick one.

Hashing Telegram Usernames

Small but meaningful update. Before this week, when you sent to a Telegram handle, the username was stored in a way that was not directly traceable to your funds — but it was still stored in plaintext. Now we hash the username as well. Additional private redundancy.

This one came from the community. Someone suggested it, we agreed it made sense, and we shipped it. That is how it should work.

Privacy Narrative Alliance

People in our group chat kept asking what our community partnerships actually mean. Fair question.

The idea is simple: privacy is a narrative in crypto, and narratives move faster when multiple projects push them together. We partnered with Ghostware and others to cross-market, share audiences, and co-author content around the privacy use case on Solana and globally. Same values, shared reach. Shoutout to Rodion for running this.

The Dog Competition

We ran a community competition for custom Smart Account dog designs and judged them live on stream. Some of the cools designs were a shark-dog hybrid that transformed the standard head shape into a fin. A Chinese Communist Party dog that earned a “plus 20 credit score” from Chris. An Abraham Lincoln dog. A Loyal Barack Obama.

The winner was Abraham Lincoln. A hundred dollars, sent through our private transactions. The recipient claims it through the mini app wallet.

We might turn these into regular weekly competitions starting on Mondays.