Wallet Retention
The percentage of wallet addresses that return to interact with a protocol again after an initial on-chain action, used as a rough analogue to user retention in Web3.
How Wallet Retention works in practice
Wallet retention is a useful but imperfect Web3 retention metric because wallet addresses are not the same as human users. Even so, repeated on-chain participation from the same wallets can show whether a protocol is building habit or only attracting one-off speculation. It is most meaningful when paired with the specific action being repeated, such as staking, swapping, or governance participation. Growth that cannot retain wallets after the first action is usually expensive and fragile.
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Let's talk →This term sits in the Crypto & Fintech category, which means it is most useful when evaluating on-chain activation, token behavior, protocol growth, and community participation. The goal is not to memorize the label. The goal is to know when it should change a decision, a page, a campaign, or a measurement setup.
Related terms
The percentage of visitors who successfully connect a wallet after landing on a dApp or Web3 page. It is a key activation metric because no on-chain action can happen until wallet connection is completed.
The first meaningful blockchain action a user completes, such as a swap, stake, deposit, or mint, after connecting a wallet or entering a protocol funnel.
A crypto exchange that facilitates peer-to-peer trading directly between users' wallets through smart contracts, without a central intermediary holding funds. Leading DEXs include Uniswap, Curve, and dYdX. Marketing a DEX requires reaching crypto-native audiences through community channels and tracking performance via on-chain analytics rather than traditional web pixels.
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