Wallet And Digital Asset Development — hobby stack.
For each requirement below, pick the option that fits your build — recommended first, then free and cheaper alternatives — or skip what your project doesn't need. Tap the info icon next to any requirement to see why it matters.
Wallet SDK / Embedded Wallet
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsPrivy Free: 1000 MAU included, $0.10/MAU over; $400/mo Growth 5k MAU. Dynamic Free 1000 MAU $0.10/MAU over $350/mo. Web3Auth Free 1000 MAU $0.05/MAU over $249/mo Scale. Thirdweb Connect Free 1000 MAU, Pro $99/mo 10k MAU $0.10/MAU over
Key Management / HSM
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsAWS KMS: $1/key/mo, $0.03/10k requests, free tier 20k req/mo. CloudHSM: $1.88/hr ~$1,373/mo per cluster + $0.10/hr backup. GCP KMS: $1/key/mo $0.03/10k ops. Vault OSS free self-hosted, HCP Vault $0.03/hr $219/cluster/mo
Account Abstraction - Bundler Infrastructure
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsPimlico Free 100k UserOps/mo, Pro $99/mo 1M ops, $0.10/1k ops over $0.50/1k sponsorships. Stackup Free 100k ops $99/mo Pro 1M. Biconomy Free 100k tx $99/mo Pro 1M tx $0.20/1k over. Alchemy AA Free 300M CU $49/mo Growth 1B CU $199/mo Scale
RPC Infrastructure for Wallets
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsAlchemy Free 300M CU/mo, Growth $49/mo 1B CU $0.15/1M CU over. Infura Free 100k req/day, $50/mo 1.5M/day + $0.10/10k over. QuickNode Free 10M credits, Growth $49/mo 50M $0.15/1M over. DRPC Free 5M req $20/mo 40M
Secrets Management for Wallet Keys
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsVault OSS free self-hosted. HCP Vault $0.03/hr ~$21/mo + $219/cluster. AWS Secrets Manager $0.40/secret/mo $0.05/10k API calls. Doppler Free 5 users Startup $12/user/mo $0.10/1k secret reads over
Audit Logs WORM for Wallet Transactions
Controls who can do what inside your admin tooling. Limits blast radius if an account is compromised.Pricing & free-tier limitsS3 Object Lock free feature, S3 Standard $0.023/GB-mo first 50TB $0.0004/1k PUT $0.01/10k GET. CloudTrail Free 1 trail, $2.5/100k events over. Backblaze B2 $0.006/GB-mo. MinIO OSS free
Monitoring & Error Tracking for Wallets
Tells you when things break and why. You cannot fix what you cannot see — this is how you keep downtime short.Pricing & free-tier limitsSentry Free 5k errors/mo 1 project, Team $26/mo 50k errors $0.00029/error over. Datadog APM $31/host/mo $15/host infra $5/million logs $0.10/1000 spans over. Grafana OSS free
Social Login / Auth Provider for Wallets
How users sign up, log in, and are authorized. Getting roles and access control right early prevents painful rewrites.Pricing & free-tier limitsClerk Free 10k MAU $25/mo Pro 10k $0.02/MAU over. Auth0 Free 25k MAU $35/mo Essentials 500 MAU. Web3Auth Free 1000 MAU $0.05/MAU over. Privy included in Wallet SDK above
Paymaster / Gas Sponsorship Service
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsPimlico Paymaster free with bundler 100k sponsorships, $99/mo Pro 1M sponsor $0.05/tx sponsorship over + gas costs. Biconomy Free 100k tx $99/mo 1M $0.15/1k over. Alchemy Gas Manager Free 300M CU $49/mo $0.10/1k SponsoredOps over. Gas itself billed at cost+5%
Token Balance & Transaction History Indexer
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsMoralis Free 40k CU/day $49/mo Pro 1M CU $0.10/1k over. Alchemy Token API Free 300M CU Growth $49/mo. GoldRush Free 100k credits $200/mo Growth 5M $0.40/1M credits over. QuickNode Included 10M credits
WalletConnect Relay Infrastructure
A piece of your stack you may or may not need, depending on scope. Pick the option that fits — or skip it if your project doesn’t require this capability yet.Pricing & free-tier limitsWalletConnect Cloud Free 5k MAU 100k relay req/mo, Growth $99/mo 25k MAU 2M relay $0.10/1k relay over. Self-hosted relay OSS free but ~$50/mo infra costs. Notify API Free 5k + $0.01/1000 over
How this hobby wallet and digital asset development checklist works.
Each requirement below is something a hobby wallet and digital asset development build typically needs. Pick one of the four researched options — recommended, free, cheaper or paid — add your own with "Other", or skip the requirement if your project doesn't need it. Nothing is mandatory; the plan on the right tracks what you've decided so nothing gets forgotten.
Your picks are saved in this browser automatically, so you can come back anytime. Options are researched per build level and refreshed as vendors change their plans — always verify details on the provider's page before committing.