One-Command Deployment: Self-Host Your AI Wallet with GHCR
One-Command Deployment: Self-Host Your AI Wallet with Docker and GHCR Would you trust a third party with your AI agent's private keys? If that question makes you uncomfortable, you're already thinking about self-hosting your wallet infrastructure — and WAIaaS makes it genuinely practical with a single Docker command. This post walks through how to get a fully self-hosted Wallet-as-a-Service running on your own server, with your own keys, under your own rules. Why Self-Hosting Your AI Wallet Actually Matters The rise of autonomous AI agents changes the stakes around custody. When a human manages a wallet, they can pause, verify, and think before signing. An AI agent operates continuously, potentially making hundreds of transactions — so the infrastructure holding those keys becomes critically important. Hosted wallet services make a trade-off: you get convenience in exchange for trusting someone else's server, someone else's rate limits, and someone else's uptime SLA. For many teams building experimental agents, that's fine. But for anyone running production workloads, handling real funds, or operating in environments with strict data residency requirements, the calculus shifts. Self-hosting gives you: Full key custody — private keys never leave your infrastructure No rate limits imposed by a third party — your server, your throughput Auditability — WAIaaS is open-source, so you can read every line of code handling your keys Network control — bind to localhost, put it behind a VPN, restrict egress however you want WAIaaS is built specifically for this use case: a self-hosted, open-source Wallet-as-a-Service designed for AI agents, deployable in one command. The One-Command Start The Docker image is published to GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) at ghcr.io/minhoyoo-iotrust/waiaas:latest . The fastest path to a running instance is: git clone https://github.com/minhoyoo-iotrust/WAIaaS.git cd WAIaaS docker compose up -d That's it. The daemon starts on port 3100 , bound to