Overview
Umi is a cross-chain wallet and infrastructure layer coordinated on Sui. It uses the Sui stack (zkLogin + sponsored transactions) and Ika dWallets to make controlling accounts across chains feel simple, fast, and consistent for both users and DApps.
Our goal is to prove a bigger idea: Sui can be the coordinator of all chains. Not just indexing them, but routing actions, triggering signatures, and orchestrating execution across ecosystems from one place.
What Umi is
Umi has two core components:
Umi Wallet A web wallet powered by zkLogin that provisions users instantly, sponsors the setup flow, and creates an Ika dWallet for each user. Users can operate across chains from one control surface, swap cross-chain directly in-app, and handle gas automatically through intent-based routing.
Umi Containers A Sui-native container system where users deposit cross-chain assets into a stable, indexable vault. Containers unlock discovery, verification, bundling, and trading experiences for cross-chain assets on Sui without forcing users into wrapped representations.
Why Containers are the focus
Containers are the main primitive we are building around right now.
They create a predictable lifecycle for cross-chain inventory:
assets are deposited into containers so they can be indexed and verified
DApps can render and interact with that inventory in a consistent way
when users want to actively use the underlying account again, they withdraw and sign as normal
This makes cross-chain assets feel native and composable across DApps, and it unlocks powerful experiences like:
single-asset listings
multi-asset bundles
trading higher-level control (contract ownership, roles, permissions)
standardized indexing and verification for cross-chain assets on Sui
Infrastructure roadmap
Umi is being built to make using Ika on Sui feel seamless.
That includes:
onboarding flows that remove gas and setup friction
container-based inventory that is easy to index and verify
a normalized API layer that DApps can integrate with quickly
cross-chain routing primitives for swaps and gas management
Status
Umi is actively being built. The current focus is Containers, the indexing and verification pipeline around them, and the DApp experiences they unlock.
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