0xPass

0xPass developed key management and authentication infrastructure for web3 applications. Its Passport Protocol is described as a programmable, MPC-based distributed key management network intended to simplify user onboarding and transaction signing. Where conventional MPC wallet services split key shares between the end user and the provider's backend, Passport distributes key shares solely among network nodes, which the company presents as enabling more flexible authentication and recovery design and removing the dependence on a user-held share for recovery. Advertised capabilities include customizable authentication and social logins, programmable transactions including scheduled and automated signing, key recovery, and programmable interoperability, with non-custodial operation maintained through MPC algorithms and secure enclaves.

The product line began with an advanced wallet adapter, launched in July 2023, aimed at helping developers build "Connect Wallet" flows that mix web2 and web3 login methods. That adapter provided prebuilt wallet and social sign-in connectors, integrations with embedded wallet and KMS providers such as Magic (with Web3Auth and AWS KMS cited as forthcoming), a unified user identity across multiple wallets and social accounts, user profile construction from verified social accounts, and connectors to smart contract wallets such as Kernel for account abstraction. The company also emphasized native support for the EIP-1271 signature-verification standard and Sign-In With Ethereum, which are needed to authenticate smart accounts under ERC-4337. Public repositories under the 0xpass GitHub organization include a programmable accounts SDK, quickstart guides, wagmi connectors, passkey and Farcaster Frames experiments, and a fork of the eth-infinitism account-abstraction contracts.

Work on 0xPass began in late 2022. By late 2024, amid a weak crypto market, the founders shifted focus and relaunched the company as Om Labs, a venture-backed startup working at the intersection of AI and infrastructure whose first products, Support3 (an automated technical-support agent for Discord, Telegram and Slack) and Jina (natural-language-driven QA test automation), target automation of repetitive engineering workflows.

Founding story

0xPass was started in late 2022 by Krish Chelikavada and Keon Woo Kim, who both studied computer science at NYU and reunited after separate careers. Chelikavada worked as a software engineer at Oracle and then in product management at Microsoft before earning a master's in management science and engineering at Stanford; Kim began his career at Uber, where he led a rebuild of the driver incentives system, contributed to open-source reinforcement learning projects, and authored books on deep learning and reinforcement learning used in Korean university courses. The company was incubated at the Stanford Blockchain Club.

Business model

0xPass sold infrastructure to application developers, who delegated user authentication, key management and transaction signing to the Passport Protocol network and its SDKs and connectors rather than building those systems in-house.

Traction

The company reported clients managing over 10 million wallet connections in its first year, and benchmarks showing sub-second response times that outperformed NEAR. Its public GitHub repositories drew modest engagement, with the programmable accounts SDK at 17 stars.

Latest developments

As of July 2025, the founding team had redirected the company to artificial intelligence under the name Om Labs, with two shipped products — Support3, an AI agent that monitors and answers technical support conversations in Discord, Telegram and Slack, and Jina, which automates QA testing from plain-language descriptions of user flows — and a stated longer-term goal of building autonomous "AI employees."