Platform
Account OS
In Moss, the account is not the thing you log into after the product starts. The account is the product surface.
What the OS Does
Account OS is the main workspace users enter in Moss. Its job is not only to show balances or an address. Its job is to turn the account itself into an installable, authorizable, executable surface.
Users do not start by opening one standalone app and then connecting a wallet. They enter their account space first, then invoke asset capabilities, system capabilities, and installed apps from there.
- It is the main account workspace.
- It unifies assets, identity, apps, and settings.
- It pulls permission checks and execution context into the account layer.
- It makes installed capabilities feel like account-native features instead of external sites.
Why Account-First Matters
If an account is only a login state, every app has to rebuild asset handling, permissions, authorization state, and interaction flow on its own. Moss flips that model: establish the account layer first, then let apps reuse the same account context.
That makes payments, tokens, NFTs, installation state, and automation persist inside the account instead of being fragmented across different pages and product entries.
- Asset capabilities do not need to be reimplemented by each app.
- Permissions and authorization state can persist at the account layer.
- Installed apps become part of the account surface.
- The user experiences one continuous workspace instead of disconnected sites.
Design reading
The key move is not making a wallet look more like an app. It is making the account the host layer for every capability.
What Gets Organized Inside the Account
A real Account OS has to place several kinds of capabilities inside one account surface: built-in system capabilities, installed app capabilities, the account's own asset state, and long-lived settings and security entry points.
That is why the user experience is framed as what my account can do, not which site I have jumped to.
- System capabilities: default abilities such as token and NFT management.
- Installed apps: app entry points that appear after Store installation.
- Account state: address, assets, permissions, sessions, and executable scope.
- Settings and security: network, recovery, and permission management.