Hey Wallet sunsets its products, impacting Solana users

Hey Wallet, the Solana-based social wallet that let people send crypto through their X handles and tip creators on Discord, announced it’s shutting down. The service posted the news on its official X account, directing users to back up their wallets at heywallet.com before the lights go off for good. No specific shutdown date was given. No reason was offered either, just a thank-you to the community and a polite but urgent reminder to export private keys and move assets elsewhere. What Hey Wallet actually did Hey Wallet launched in 2021, born out of a Solana hackathon with a straightforward premise: connect web2 social networks with blockchain functionality. In practice, that meant users could send SOL to someone’s X handle instead of copying and pasting a 44-character wallet address. They could tip content creators on Discord, swap tokens through Telegram, and mint NFTs, all from within the social platforms they were already using. A pattern forming in wallet closures Hey Wallet isn’t closing in isolation. It joins a growing list of wallet services that have shut down this year, including HaHa Wallet and Magic Eden’s ME Wallet. What affected users should do now The immediate conce...