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Web & Mobile App
Tethral
Turning a founder's ambitious smart-home vision into a reliable, repeatable ship-it machine — hardware, apps, AI agents, and checkout, delivered together.
01
The starting point
Sending money across borders is still slow, expensive, and painful. A wire that takes days and skims off fees at every step. Bitcoin's Lightning Network could fix that, making a global payment as easy as sending a text.
But there was a catch: crypto is intimidating. For a normal person, "Lightning Network" and "blockchain" are reasons not to try. Osmo's opportunity was huge, and it depended entirely on hiding all of that complexity behind something anyone could use.
The opportunity depended entirely on hiding the complexity behind something anyone could use.
02
Where the work was actually breaking down?
Traditional banking was the enemy: slow, costly, cumbersome. But Bitcoin, the alternative, came with its own wall: it's built for the technically fluent, not the everyday user. So the real challenge was translation:
Speed without the jargon
Give people the Lightning Network's speed without ever making them think about the cryptography underneath.
Low cost without the learning curve
Deliver low-fee transfers without requiring users to understand blockchain first.
Powerful, but effortless
Match the power of Bitcoin to the simplicity people already expect from messaging apps.
Trust for the first-timer
Make it usable for someone who's never touched crypto in their lives.
Powerful, but effortless for people who've never touched crypto in their lives.
03
What Singular built
We built a seamless mobile wallet that puts the Lightning Network to work behind a simple, intuitive interface: near-instant, low-fee transfers that feel as easy as messaging.
Complexity hidden, not removed — A clean, approachable front end sits on top of a robust backend handling secure, reliable transfers.
All the power, none of the intimidation — Users get the full benefit of Bitcoin without ever confronting the technical layer.
One connected system — Interface, workflow, and data built together, not three parts bolted together.
Evidence
What it produced
~10,000 active users
Real adoption from a non-technical audience.
$1.4M raised
The traction convinced investors.
100% migrated, zero downtime
A full backend migration with no service interruption and nobody left behind.
