On April 13, 2024, SSP Wallet v1.3.0 ships two changes that quietly reshape day-to-day use. Users can now pick the fiat currency their portfolio is denominated in, and the wallet learns to read local number and date conventions from the browser. Alongside that, SSP Identity gains a manual message-signing flow: you can sign any arbitrary message with the same multisig posture that secures your funds, and present the signature anywhere it is asked for.
TL;DR
- SSP Wallet v1.3.0 lets you choose the fiat currency used across the portfolio view.
- Amounts and dates now follow your browser's locale — separators, decimal marks, and date order all snap into the format you expect.
- SSP Identity adds manual message signing: produce a signature for any message, with the same 2-of-2 multisig discipline.
- The signature can be verified by anyone holding the corresponding SSP Identity public key.
- Package updates land alongside, keeping the wallet on a current cryptographic baseline.
Choose your fiat currency
Until v1.3.0 the portfolio view was anchored to a single reference currency, and the formatting of amounts followed a fixed convention. From this release a user can pick the fiat in which balances and totals are expressed — useful for anyone tracking holdings in a currency other than the previous default, and for users who want the wallet's headline number to match the one they reason about in real life. The selection is sticky and applies wherever a fiat-denominated figure surfaces.
Alongside the currency choice, v1.3.0 starts to defer formatting decisions to the user's locale. Thousand separators, decimal marks, currency symbol placement, and date ordering all follow the conventions the browser reports. The change is small in any one place but compounding: a portfolio that reads correctly to a German user looks just as natural to a Brazilian or Korean one, without any per-screen translation work. The underlying numbers are unchanged — only their presentation.
Manual Message Signing with SSP Identity
SSP Wallet launched in January with the 2-of-2 multisig posture as its core security claim. v1.3.0 extends that same posture to messages: SSP Identity can now sign an arbitrary string on demand and return a verifiable signature. The signing UI takes the message text, walks it through the standard SSP Wallet plus SSP Key cosignature pipeline, and emits the result in a form a counterparty can verify against the user's published SSP Identity public key. Nothing about the key material changes — the manual flow simply makes the existing identity surface usable for cases that aren't a transaction.
What this unlocks
Message signing is the building block under a long list of web flows. Sign-in-with-wallet challenges, signature-gated content, off-chain attestations, support-ticket identity confirmations, and any number of "prove this address is yours" prompts all reduce to the same primitive: present a message, receive a signature, verify it server-side. With v1.3.0 in place, SSP users can complete any of those flows without leaving the wallet they already trust to move funds. The signature carries the full 2-of-2 multisig guarantee, which is materially stronger than a single-key signature from a hot wallet.
For developers integrating SSP, the surface is also simpler than it sounds: the same SSP Identity public key that establishes who the user is on-chain doubles as the verification key for any signed message. The verification step is a standard cryptographic check, not an SSP-specific RPC call.
Where to find it
The fiat-currency picker lives in the wallet's settings area, alongside the existing display preferences. Manual message signing is accessed from the SSP Identity surface — the same place where the identity key itself is managed. Both features are available to every SSP Wallet user as soon as the extension updates to v1.3.0; there is no separate enrolment and no on-chain transaction is required to start using either of them. If you want a deeper grounding in why multisig identity matters here, the academy primer on what self-custody actually means is a good companion read.
Source: SSP Wallet v1.3.0 release notes.