Coin Integration: Solana (SOL)

[belg1o]

Coin Integration Request: Solana

Description

Solana a rising blockchain in the L1 space has been around for more than 3 years, nearing the 4th year. It has survived a full cycle of interest, and is gaining market traction again. I'd like BitBox to consider adding support for this token as we see more daily active addresses active on the network.

Coin Information

• Coin Name: Solana
• Ticker Symbol: SOL
• GitHub Repository (if available): https://github.com/solana-labs

Additional Information

Sustained active network over the last two year period.

Supporting Documentation

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[benma]

Hi

We are currently not planning on adding support for SOL - we don't see consistent and large demand for it at the moment. If we notice increased demand for a particular coin we will consider adding it.

[belg1o]

Hi

We are currently not planning on adding support for SOL - we don't see consistent and large demand for it at the moment. If we notice increased demand for a particular coin we will consider adding it.

BitBox is a pretty niche wallet; up until recently it was impossible to use in DeFi, it is only thanks to Rabby we are seeing traction there. Taking that leads to the following:

It's unlikely vocality will increase until more DeFi users come in, people are more likely to purchase hardware wallets that already support these ecosystems. The reason other hardware wallet providers [incl. niche ones such as GridPlus] support these is because there is clearly demand for them.

Will leave it up to you when to implement it, but its hard to measure demand for an item when your userbase is already a small cohort within another cohort.

[twin-wolf]

Add me to the list of people that would really like to see SOL added to Bitbox02. I am bringing over 8 people, each with an old Ledger and all have SOL in their accounts. The only downside I have seen so far to Bitbox02 is the lack of SOL support. SOL is #5 by market cap, beating out LINK and Litecoin.

I hope you will reconsider and add SOL. I understand the demands and additional resources to support more coins but certainly this one is both long term and worthy of support by a company like Bitbox02.

[Yzord]

Hi

We are currently not planning on adding support for SOL - we don't see consistent and large demand for it at the moment. If we notice increased demand for a particular coin we will consider adding it.

You should not even consider to add support for what coin. You try to be open, but as a dev you are already blocking certain coins. SOL is the number 5 coin and there should not even be a debate to add it or not. The way you look at certain things is one which decides me not to buy this wallet. It's not about demand or consistency, it is about the trust you want to spread as a team behind this wallet. And the forced view on certain aspects gives me a red flag.

[LevSky22]

+1 for support