Today, Breez announced Klever Wallet as their latest SDK partner, bringing 100,000 more people to Lightning payments.

Reposted from Breez's Medium.

Every boxer starts as an amateur. If they work hard and have a good coach, they’ll get a chance at a professional fight one day. And while nobody gets a shot at the title in their first pro fight, they’ll never win the championship without completing that important step either.

The Breez SDK has been hitting the gym and sparring hard, taking on first the Lightning market, then building a name in the bitcoin community. Now, with our new partner Klever Wallet in our corner, we’re ready for crypto. Following this analogy, it’s time to go pro.

With this integration, Lightning is entering a big new ecosystem, competing on an equal playing field with all the crypto contenders. And we’re positive that its advantages as a trust-minimized, peer-to-peer way to use bitcoin as a currency will win the day … and the era.

Klever couldn’t have been more clever in choosing the Breez SDK to integrate Lightning payments, and we couldn’t be prouder that they did.

Klever is already respected among the crypto pros, so figures describing Klever tend to include lots of zeroes. Klever Wallet has 100,000 monthly active users and offers users access to over 1,500 cryptocurrencies. For those prioritizing security, they offer their own hardware wallet.

Born in Brazil, the app opens the door to the crypto ecosystem for all, from newcomers to professional power users. With a mission to empower underbanked regions, Klever Wallet supports a vibrant global community and is popular in Nigeria, India, and the Philippines, as well as the United States, to name just a few of its prime markets.

Despite its size, the company still operates in perpetual “startup mode.” That means without hierarchy, without barriers, without pretension, and — in the words of CTO Bruno “Baiano” Campos — without bullshit.

Perhaps it’s because life has taught them better. CEO Dio Ianakiara grew up in a favela doing odd jobs and living hand-to-mouth until he had saved up enough for his first computer. He learned to code from Baiano, who was then teaching software engineering whenever the waves were too small to surf. The two became friends, and Dio one day invited 20 colleagues over to his apartment to talk about what they wanted to do with their lives: keep subsisting in the corporate rat race or build something from the ground up as friends? (This is very similar to how Breez happened. Same basic idea, different apartment.)

They started consulting and participating in hackathons until Baiano read a book about bitcoin and got everyone hooked. It inspired them to build their first wallet, which, as first wallets often do, crashed in the first presentation. But whether it’s surfing, coding, or founding a startup, quitting gets you nowhere. So they kept at it, gradually improving their product and expanding their offering with the goal of making self-custodial crypto so easy that Mama Campos would prefer it over her banking app.

And they’re getting close.

Download Klever Wallet here. Lightning coming soon ⚡️

The Klever team has been interested in Lightning for years but, until Breez, they hadn’t found a good way to implement it into their wallet. Like Breez, they believe only the user should control their money — and coding self-custodial Lightning from scratch and integrating it into their wallet was just too complex.

That changed when one of the Klever Wallet devs came into a meeting and told the rest of them about the Breez SDK. At first, the pitch sounded too good to be true. All the hard coding was done, so the Klever team would just have to integrate a few API calls into their wallet. The Breez SDK is self-custodial, with the mnemonic never leaving the user’s device, and any residual complexities of Lightning (for developers and users) were removed with the nodeless implementation.

Now, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But the Breez SDK is completely open source, so you can check. The Klever Wallet team did just that. And they found it was both true and as good as it sounded. Sometimes you just get lucky.

Klever Wallet users prioritize economy, so the nodeless implementation was a perfect fit. Nodeless offers their users frictionless onboarding to bitcoin payments, removing the need for channel management and setup fees by leveraging the Liquid sidechain, and it works straight out of the box. As Bruno described it, integrating the SDK felt like Brazil’s favorite sport: football (or “soccer” for our American friends), “Breez was the winger who crossed the ball into the middle for Klever to score.” Joga Bonito.

Here’s Baiano hangin’ 10. You can see that Klever has always loved liquid.

We’re always trying to minimize friction for our partners’ developers and their users, but we, like most engineers, tend to think of friction in technical terms, as a matter of how many steps or parameters need to be considered to make something work.

But Baiano gave us a great new perspective on friction. He’s said that working with the Breez team is just like working with people from inside the company because there are no barriers. Questions get quick and friendly answers. The Breez team consists of experts who, like all good experts, wear their expertise lightly. Baiano’s obligatory promo soundbyte emphasizes exactly this point: “Use it! Try it! The guys did a great job! Check for yourselves! Work with these guys because the human part is the best.”

The human part is the best. I couldn’t agree more, though it’s easy to forget. I’d like to think that none of us are here for the silicon or the copper. Bitcoin exists to give us choices and opportunities that we couldn’t access without it. Bitcoin, Breez, and Klever Wallet are all here to serve and support humans. Because the human part is the best.

We’re (humanly) excited to collaborate with Klever Wallet and bring Lightning to their community. Klever Swap is a feature that allows users to swap between 2,500+ cryptocurrency pairs, and it’s set to add Lightning by the end of 2024. As a result, it’ll reduce swap times up to 70% as well as fees for their users. Even better, Klever Wallet will fully integrate Lightning in early 2025, so everyone will be able to send and receive peer-to-peer Lightning payments in the app.

If you’re ready to add Lightning, we’d love to collaborate with you too.

Let’s bring P2P money to the world.