Quorum approvals

If your business needs multiple parties to be able to approve updates to or actions taken by wallets, the most common setup is to set up a key quorum consisting of a set of multiple authorization keys or users in your authentication system.

You can define the quorum such that a certain number of members of the quorum must approve actions to wallets. This is known as the quorum’s authorization threshold. Privy’s TEE infrastructure enforces that at least that many members of the quorum must sign the request to take an action with a wallet. To allow multiple parties to unilaterally approve wallet actions, you can set this threshold to 1.

Quorum approvals allow your app to create setups where multiple parties must sign-off on actions taken by wallets, enhancing security for sensitive operations.

Key quorums can also include other key quorums as members (one level deep). This enables hierarchical approval structures. For example, a “Security Team” quorum can nest inside a broader “Org Admins” quorum. Once the nested quorum meets its own authorization threshold, it counts as one approval toward the parent quorum’s threshold.

Learn more about configuring quorum approvals below.

Key quorums

Use key quorums to configure quorum approvals on wallet actions.