Imagine: You have 5 different brands of phones (wallets) and want to connect to 30 different system devices (DApps), but find that each interface is different — this used to be the everyday crash moment for Web3 users 😩. What WalletConnect does is like inventing a 'universal power socket', whether it's an Ethereum wallet, a Solana DApp, or a Polygon on-chain tool, just plug in and it connects steadily ⚡.
From 'everyone playing their own game' to 'holding hands and dancing' 💃
In 2018, when blockchains were still in a 'fragmented state', WalletConnect entered with the gene of open-source protocol. It acts like an invisible operator 📞, building encrypted channels between wallets and DApps: