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MPC & Embedded Wallets

MPC & Embedded Wallets evaluated across whether your wallets survive the vendor's exit, cryptographic audits and SOC 2 posture, published pricing you can act on, and how key-share custody is disclosed.

Ranked here: MPC and embedded wallets with no seed phrase, compared on what happens if the vendor goes, audit and SOC 2 posture, published pricing and disclosure of who holds the key shares. Not ranked here: multisig wallets, wallet brands acquired and switched off, and embedded wallets whose vendor is ranked under Institutional Custody, Relayers or Account Abstraction Infra.

#1 of 7published ranking
Dfns
81ChainChoice Score
Why it leads
Dfns scores higher than everything else in this ranking on its exit survivability mpc.
Show the arithmetic
Best in this ranking on exit survivability mpc (9/10; next 8/10)
Cost
$800 your cost/yr · Transactions per year: 1k
Reviewed Next review by Published Methodology v2026.11.1
How this page is reviewed

Reviewed means every product ranked on this page was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.

Accountable for this review: Mathias Siemonsmeier, Founder.

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No provider can pay for a position in this table. The code that computes this order cannot read which links carry a referral code, and every build proves it. Every score below rebuilds from the published criteria.Ranking v2026.11.1 · 4 criteria · 7 products · same inputs, same order

How we review · 7 ranked of 14 assessed · 4 criteria · 0 sponsor weight

How we review
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14assessed
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Recommendation first, comparison only if needed.
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Personal comparison

What MPC & embedded wallets cost you

Your inputs update the cost column. The independent ranking stays fixed.

The cheapest published tier that covers your usage. List price before any discount; add-ons priced separately are excluded.

RankProviderBest fitScoreYour cost
1
DfnsInstitutional MPC; you can run your own...Top ranked
Vendor-Exit Survivability — 9/10Trade-off: Priced and shaped for institutions, not consumer apps: the entry tier caps at 10 wall...
81score
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Dfns · dfns.co. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

2
PortalEmbedded MPC SDK, four shares, eject()...
Key-Share Custody Disclosure — 9/10Trade-off: The eject warning deserves to be read as written rather than as reassurance: Portal s...
76score
your cost/yr
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Portal · portalhq.io. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

3
PrivyStripe-owned embedded wallets; Shamir s...
Cryptographic Audit & SOC 2 Posture — 8/10Trade-off: Acquired by Stripe, announced 11 June 2025, terms undisclosed; Privy said it 'will co...
75score
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Privy · privy.io. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

4
TurnkeyTEE enclaves rather than MPC; per-signa...
Cryptographic Audit & SOC 2 Posture — 8/10Trade-off: It is in this comparison because buyers evaluate it against MPC vendors, but it is ar...
74score
your cost/yr
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Turnkey · turnkey.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

5
ZengoConsumer MPC wallet; escrow trustee rel...
Vendor-Exit Survivability — 8/10Trade-off: Read the escrow mechanism's own fine print before treating it as insurance: 'naturall...
71score
your cost/yr
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Zengo · zengo.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

6
Web3Auth (now MetaMask Embedded Wallets)Now MetaMask Embedded Wallets; threshol...
Published Pricing Actionability — 7/10Trade-off: Brand is being actively retired. Web3Auth was acquired by Consensys on 2 June 2025 (T...
65score
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Web3Auth (now MetaMask Embedded Wallets) · metamask.io. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.

Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure

Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.

1 more assessed and ranked below — none of them hidden for commercial reasons.
Ranking blindCommercial terms excludedDated primary sources

Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 40/25/20/15, which set goal alignment — 30 of the 86 points. The rest: regional access 20 (constant here), evidence depth 18 (constant here), ease of use 10 (constant here), institutional trust 8 (constant here). Profile match is shown in breakdowns but carries no weight.

How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
  • Custody failure: whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.
    Scored by Key-Share Custody Disclosure · 15% (Dfns 9/10, Portal 9/10, Privy 6/10)
  • Exit failure: you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.
    Scored by Vendor-Exit Survivability · 40% (Dfns 9/10, Portal 7/10, Privy 7/10)
  • Key failure: your own keys are made, shown or recovered unsafely.
    Scored by Cryptographic Audit & SOC 2 Posture · 25% (Dfns 8/10, Portal 7/10, Privy 8/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Published Pricing Actionability (20%).
Audit
Infrastructure
Methodology
2026.11.1
published 10 November 2026
Providers tracked
860+
across 121 categories
Last verified
22 October 2026
newest dated pricing or sentiment read
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Decision guide

What matters most before choosing in this category

Weighted on vendor-exit survivability (40), cryptographic audit & SOC 2 posture (25), published pricing actionability (20), and key-share custody disclosure (15). The heaviest is vendor-exit survivability: If the vendor is acquired, pivots, or dies, can key material still be reassembled into a usable wallet — and does that path require the vendor's servers, its app, or its permission?

If this company shut down next quarter, could you still open your wallet?
Do you need an exportable key, or is vendor-managed recovery acceptable to you?
Do you need broad multichain support or one ecosystem-first MPC wallet?
Strong starting point

The #1 overall and the scoring weights

DfnsData checked Oct 2026
Institutional MPC; you can run your own signer nodes

Institutional MPC; you can run your own signer nodes. Strongest on vendor-exit survivability (9/10): Dfns documents a Layer 4 disaster-recovery path in which each signer writes its share, encrypted with the customer's own key, to a bucket the customer owns, so keys can be rebuilt even if Dfns is unavailable. It needs a dedicated MPC cluster and is set up with Dfns support. Weakest on published pricing actionability (7/10): Dfns publishes flat annual plans: Starter $800, Basic $8,000 and Pro $35,000 a year, with wallet and signature allowances. Extra wallets are 'priced on a volume basis' with no rate, higher signature volumes need a conversation, and Enterprise is custom. Published price: Dfns pricing page (dfns.co/pricing, fetched 22 October 2026): Starter "$800" "per year" ("$200" "per quarter"): "1 user", "10 wallets", "1 blockchain", 100 signatures per month.

Best forVendor-Exit Survivability — 9/10
Main tradeoffPriced and shaped for institutions, not consumer apps: the entry tier caps at 10 wallets and 100 signatures per month, and the $8,000/year Basic tier allows only 1,000 signatures per month — a consumer app would blow through that in a day. The self-hosted signer model that earns its exit score also transfers real operational burden: you are now running threshold-signing nodes.
Verify before signupDfns pricing page (dfns.co/pricing, fetched 22 October 2026): Starter "$800" "per year" ("$200" "per quarter"): "1 user", "10 wallets", "1 blockchain", 100 signatures per month. Basic "$8,000" per year ("$2,000" per quarter): "3 users", "10,000 wallets", "3 blockchains". Pro "$35,000" per year ("$8,750" per quarter): "5 users", "50,000 wallets (+ pay as you go)", "10 blockchains", "Hybrid deployments". Enterprise "Custom": "10 users", "100,000 wallets (+ pay as you go)", "All blockchains", "On-prem deployments". Signature allowances: "100/mo on Starter, 1,000/mo on Basic, 10,000/mo on Pro and 100,000/mo on Enterprise", with "Higher volumes are available. Reach out to discuss your needs." "No AUM fees. No transaction fees." Additional wallets on Pro and Enterprise "are priced on a volume basis" with no published rate. No monthly price is published; the contract term is "Yearly". Free trial: "A 30-day, self-service trial with full access to our sandbox on testnets: all APIs and SDKs, 10 wallets, 1 user, and 100 signatures per month."
Weighted criteria
Vendor-Exit Survivability40%
Cryptographic Audit & SOC 2 Posture25%
Published Pricing Actionability20%
Key-Share Custody Disclosure15%
Methodology

How this category is reviewed

Reviewed on vendor-exit survivability, cryptographic audit & SOC 2 posture, published pricing actionability, and key-share custody disclosure.

The order on this page is the published ranking for this category. Every criterion, weight and source behind it is on the methodology page.
Frequently asked

Questions people ask before choosing MPC wallets

What is the safest type of crypto MPC wallet?
The wrong question for this category. MPC removes the single seed phrase and replaces it with key shares split between parties, so safety turns on what happens to those shares rather than on hardware versus software. Ask instead: if the vendor disappeared tomorrow, can you reconstruct your keys without them, and is that path documented and tested? Are the cryptography audits published against the deployed version? Where are the shares actually held, and who else holds one? A beautifully engineered scheme whose vendor controls a share and publishes no exit path is a worse answer than a plainer one that survives its own supplier.
Do beginners need an MPC wallet before buying crypto?
Rarely, and that is not a criticism. MPC wallets solve a problem beginners usually do not have yet: removing the single point of failure a seed phrase represents, typically for a team, a business treasury, or someone whose holdings have grown past what one phrase should guard. A beginner buying their first crypto is better served by an exchange or a straightforward self-custody wallet, then moving to MPC when losing one device or one person should not lose the funds.
What actually happens if the provider disappears?
That depends entirely on the escape route the provider documented in advance, which is why it carries 40% of the weight. Four of the seven candidates researched are no longer what they were, through acquisition or shutdown. What is scored is an exportable key, a self-recovery path, or third-party escrow with a named trustee — not the vendor's confidence that it will still be here.
Reviewed22 October 2026Method4 criteriaCategorympc_wallets
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