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About thirdweb
thirdweb is a developer tooling platform for on-chain applications, supplying contract templates, front-end SDKs, account-abstraction wallets, back-end signing and payment components across more than ten chains including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon and Solana. It packages the infrastructure teams would otherwise rebuild for each deployment: developers ship tokens and custom contracts through one TypeScript interface, have gas sponsored by a relay service, delegate smart-account key management and social recovery to the wallet module, and read on-chain events through the Insight indexer.
Products split by role. Games and consumer apps mostly use embedded wallets and gasless transactions, trading apps use settlement and fiat on-ramp components, and enterprise clients can deploy privately. Compared with running nodes and an indexer in-house, the value is consolidation of deployment, keys, billing and indexing into a service charged by usage.
thirdweb is a Web3 development platform founded around 2020, offering smart contracts, wallets, APIs, and other tools to lower the barrier for blockchain application development.
Key milestones:
- In November 2025, it released version 4.0, consolidating its product line into six primitives: Tokens, Bridge, x402, AI, Wallets, and Gateway. This marked a strategic shift from a traditional contract deployment platform to infrastructure for AI agents and the internet-native economy, deprecating standalone products such as Payments and Insight.
- In February 2026, co-founder and CTO Jake Loo stepped down, stating that AI had fundamentally changed how software is built and that he was dedicating himself fully to AI. This reflected thirdweb's internal AI-first transformation.
These milestones show thirdweb evolving from a general-purpose Web3 tool platform toward AI-driven economic infrastructure.
In 2026 thirdweb shifted its product focus to the intersection of AI agents and onchain payments, offering the t0 blockchain model, an MCP server, managed wallets and HTTP-native payment endpoints so agents can read chain data, call contracts and settle across chains. Developers can plug these capabilities into LangChain, LlamaIndex and similar frameworks through a single integration.
On 26 February thirdweb co-founder and CTO Jake Loo stepped down, saying he would work full time on AI, leaving founder Furqan Rydhan in charge. The team is much smaller than in 2024 but still maintains contract, wallet and payment infrastructure for EVM chains and Solana, with customers including Safe and Coinbase Wallet.
Future strategy and roadmap: thirdweb intends to standardise agent identity, session keys and spending limits as reusable components, lower the barrier for AI applications to touch onchain funds, and ship enterprise settlement and audit tooling in the second half of 2026.
Furqan Rydhan — Co-founder & CEO; co-founder and CTO of Bebo, former CTO of AppLovin; also founded Founders, Inc.
Steven Bartlett — Co-founder; founder of Social Chain and host of The Diary of a CEO podcast.
Jake Loo — Co-founder & CTO; founding engineer at Bebo and former Twitch engineer; stepped down as CTO in early 2026.