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40%
40% -- abandonment rate increase for External signers required to create accounts (2025)
Requiring external signers to create an account increases abandonment rates by up to 40%.
- Stated as an upper bound ('by as much as 40%')
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2025
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60
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20
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30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Forrester
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External signers required to create accounts: 40% abandonment rate increase. Source: Forrester (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/signer-account-abandonment-increase-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/signer-account-abandonment-increase-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>40%</strong> -- abandonment rate increase for External signers required to create accounts<br><small>Source: Forrester (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/signer-account-abandonment-increase-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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