How It Works

To provide a detailed explanation of Layer’s technical design, wallet generation mechanism, and user interaction flow.

Zipper uses a secure, client-side keypair generation process powered by Solana’s cryptographic libraries. The application continuously generates new wallet addresses locally in the user’s browser until one matches the desired prefix or suffix entered by the user.

The system is entirely non-custodial — meaning Zipper never has access to or stores any private key material.

Detailed Process Flow:

1. The user opens the Zipper interface.

2. They enter a prefix (beginning of the wallet) or suffix (ending characters).

3. The Zipper engine begins generating Solana keypairs locally.

4. Each generated address is checked against the requested pattern.

5. Once a match is found, the wallet is displayed for the user to download securely.

6. The user can import this wallet into any Solana-compatible wallet (e.g., Phantom, Backpack, Solflare).

Technical Notes:

• Wallet generation uses the Ed25519 elliptic curve algorithm via Solana’s tweetnacl cryptography library.

• The entire process is computed locally in JavaScript; no API calls or data transmissions occur during key generation.

• Performance optimizations include parallelized generation using Web Workers for faster results.

This approach ensures that Zipper is fully decentralized, secure, and privacy-first while maintaining an intuitive user experience.