Two releases, one day apart. On 2025-07-28, v1.23.0 shipped a full interactive tutorial system — the first time SSP has a guided, in-product walkthrough that takes a new user from "I just installed this" to "I have a working 2-of-2 multisig wallet I understand." The next day, on 2025-07-29, v1.24.0 layered a floating help component on top, plus a password strength meter and a visible version indicator. SSP's onboarding got rebuilt over a 48-hour stretch.
Multisig has a learning curve — two devices, two approvals, a recovery flow that protects you from yourself. That curve is the adoption barrier, and waving it away with "just try it" has never been honest. v1.23.0 and v1.24.0 are SSP's answer: stop pretending the curve isn't there, and walk every new user up it on purpose.
Onboarding gets a guided tutorial
The headline feature of v1.23.0 is the interactive tutorial — an overlay system that sits on top of the real UI and walks a brand-new user through the three things that have always mattered most: creating a wallet, backing up the seed, and finding the core features once the wallet exists.
It is not a video, not a popup, not a static checklist. It is the actual SSP UI with one piece highlighted at a time and one sentence of explanation beside it. The user clicks "next," does the real action — really generates the seed, confirms the words, sees the wallet open — and the tutorial moves on. By the end of the overlay, the wallet is not a demo. It is the user's wallet, with a real seed phrase they actually wrote down.
The state behind that flow is persistent. If the user closes the extension halfway through, the next launch resumes where they left off rather than restarting. The single biggest reason new users drop a multisig wallet is a flow that punishes interruption. SSP no longer does.
Returning users aren't forgotten
A "new user tutorial" that only fired on a fresh install would have missed half the audience. v1.23.0 includes a post-restore tutorial too: when a returning user restores an existing SSP wallet on a new device, they get a contextual walkthrough — where their accounts are, how to re-pair with SSP Key, where the features they remember now live. Different content from the new-user tutorial, because the situation is different.
For power users who have done this twelve times, there is a prominent skip option that bypasses the entire overlay. Skip is not buried in settings; it sits on the first screen. The lesson there is honest about the audience: SSP has both first-time users and people who know exactly what they are doing, and the tutorial respects both.
Help, everywhere
v1.24.0, one day later, added a floating help component that lives in the UI from then on, not just during onboarding. From any screen, the help menu surfaces direct links to the documentation, the support channels, and the legal pages — terms, privacy, the things every user occasionally has to dig for and never wants to. The floating help also exposes the running version of the extension, which sounds trivial until you have to file a bug report and cannot find the version anywhere.
Together with the tutorial, the help component closes a loop. The tutorial covers "what does SSP do?" once, at the start. The help menu covers "where do I find X?" every time after.
Stronger passwords by default
The other quiet improvement in v1.24.0 is a password strength meter, shown in real time during both wallet creation and wallet restoration. As the user types, the meter updates — it does not gate weak passwords with a blunt "rejected," but it does make weak ones visibly weak before the user commits. For a wallet whose local encryption depends on that password's quality, a meter is the right design: it educates without dictating.
Why this matters for multisig
The hardest part of recommending a multisig wallet to someone who has never used one isn't the multisig. It is everything around it. Two devices, two approvals, a paired phone, a seed phrase to write down, a recovery flow that has to be understood before it is needed. Compared to "install extension, paste seed, done," that is a different game.
The tutorial and help component don't reduce the safety surface — every approval still happens twice, on two devices, keys never leaving either. They reduce the bewilderment surface. New users no longer have to assemble the mental model from blog posts and Discord screenshots before they understand what the wallet is doing.
SSP's first onboarding flow, shipped with v1.0.0 in early 2024, did the job. v1.23.0 and v1.24.0 do it without the friend you're onboarding having to call you.