Self Custody
Only you have the keys to your Juniper wallet.
Juniper runs on the Ethereum blockchain, so you can verify your assets in your custody, in our app, or on the blockchain — any time, anywhere.
Our Vision
Dealing with money in TradFi is too much work for too little reward. It's not your imagination; the system monetizes adding friction in moving our own money.
Juniper replaces your entire financial stack with an automated smart wallet and connected services. We build tools that let you automate your financial life, always 100% in your custody and control, faster, cheaper, and better than TradFi ever could.
TradFi's take rates are our opportunity, together.
Q4 2023
• Launched the smart wallet on Optimism's L2
• Stake ETH with Lido
• Get USDC at Aave
• Spend money on the Coinbase card
Q1 2024
• Spend on US bank & debit cards
• Send funds to any OP ETH address
• Deposit WBTC, OP, LINK, Aave, and others
• Seamless handling of stablecoins (USDC e/n, DAI, etc.)
Q2 2024
• Stablecoin savings
• Automated investment rebalancing
• Automated debt rebalancing
Q3 2024
• Support for EU cards & accounts
• Launch on other chains
Q4 2024
• Liquid Restaking Tokens
• Real World Assets
• AI-driven protocol selection & financial planning
About Us
5x startup founder/exec (exits to Google & Coinbase), in crypto since 2017. Passionate about equal financial access for all.
Serial start-up founder, Y Combinator alum, lover of code. Passionate about building secure, production-grade decentralized applications
Paid performance marketeer, specializing in PPC and organic growth. Crypto enthusiast since 2016, passionate about DeFI and financial solutions.
Founding developer of Blocktrain and Pentabug. Specialize in crafting seamless and secure interfaces, driven by a deep passion for transforming ideas into reality through code.
FAQs
No, your assets remain in a wallet that only you control.
Juniper runs entirely on-chain in full transparency.
Juniper allows you to spend up to 70-80% of the value of your crypto.
For example, if you stake 10 ETH, you can get up to 7 ETH's worth of spending money. Note that the closer you get to the maximum usage, the more likely it is that a fluctuation in the price of your deposited assets could cause your collateral to be sold.
See "What happens if the value of my asset declines?" for more details.
Juniper's rates are low because your crypto secures the money you spend.
For ETH-like assets (ETH, wstETH, rETH), the Juniper wallet uses the yield generated by staking ETH to offset the cost of spending USDC.
If you deposit WBTC, OP, AAVE, etc. or other non-yield bearing tokens, you can't offset the rate with staking yield, but you can still use these assets to increase your spending power.
As a DeFI smart wallet on an Ethereum L2, using Juniper carries some risks common to all crypto products, and others unique to Juniper itself. Please see this helpdesk article for a deeper walkthrough of the risks associated with using Juniper.
No, all you need is ETH, WBTC, OP, LINK, or AAVE.
Reach out to us at [email protected] if you have other cryptocurrency or digital assets that you'd like to use.
Absolutely, it's your money!
For non-crypto, regular US bank cards (coming soon), you will need to personally verify your identity in order to receive money.
Yes, Juniper works for everyone in the world, except in the countries listed below under "Is there anywhere I can't use Juniper".
Make payments on your own schedule.
Instead of setting fixed payment dates, Juniper focuses on maintaining a balance between your spending and the value of your staked assets. See "How much can I spend" for more details.
Unlike selling crypto to fund your debit card, a Juniper wallet spends stablecoins that are worth $1 when converted to fiat — which isn't a taxable event.
If you repay using USDC or fiat, that's not taxable.
If you repay using crypto, it's sold for USDC, and that is considered taxable.
Consult your tax advisor for further guidance.
A simple way to consider the ratio between spending and assets is that if you spend 20% of the value of your assets, you can withstand an 80% decline in the value of your assets before you should repay or add additional collateral.
Juniper will stop refilling your card if and when your money spent approaches 70% of the value of your crypto. This is to avoid having your crypto sold to cover the money you've already received.
Should the value of your assets decline further, your collateral will be sold, and your money spent will reset to zero until you deposit more assets.
Yes, your assets are in a self custodial wallet for which you have the keys - not us.
You'll need to repay any money you've spent before you can withdraw the crypto that secures it.
Juniper does not provide service to Cuba, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Crimea, and certain disputed territories within Ukraine. Consult your exchange debit card provider for further restrictions and details.
Juniper is neither a bank nor a financial institution.
Juniper is a self custodial wallet on Ethereum. Tungsten Financial, Inc. is a software company that develops a self-custodial smart wallet, using which a user can perform actions using their wallet on the blockchain on their own behalf.
Juniper does not provide credit to consumers.