Overview

Privy’s wallet system supports granular controls on who can access wallets and what actions different users can perform. To enforce these controls, Privy’s API must verify the identity of the party requesting a wallet action, ensuring that only authorized actions are executed by the system. This process is known as authentication. Privy supports authenticating both individual and organization users to provision access to wallets.

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Individual user authentication

Privy is a powerful toolkit for progressive authentication of individual end users. With fine-grained control over onboarding flows and wallet connections, you can improve conversion and craft better UX. Your app can authenticate users across web2 and web3 accounts, using either your existing authentication provider or Privy’s authentication system.

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Using Privy as your authentication provider

If your app doesn’t have an existing authentication provider, or would like a single provider for authentication and embedded wallets, you can use Privy’s authentication system, which supports both web2 and web3 accounts. Privy’s client-side SDKs offers a variety of authentication methods, including email, SMS, passkey, socials (Google, Apple, Twitter, Farcaster, etc.), any OAuth system, and Ethereum and Solana wallets.

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Using your own authentication provider

If your app already has an authentication provider, Privy integrates with your app’s existing authentication system. This includes any OIDC compliant authentication system , including OAuth 2.0, Auth0, Firebase, AWS Cognito, and more. You can integrate your existing authentication provider with Privy via the REST API or any of Privy’s client-side SDKs.

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Organization user authentication

In addition to individuals, a user in Privy may also represent an organization of individuals that share authentication and ownership over wallets. When using your own authentication provider, you can configure Privy to authenticate multiple individuals as the same organization user. This enables all of the individuals within the organization to take action from the wallet, natively integrated with your existing authentication and access control system.

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