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Design/finalize custom asset API #111

Closed danfinlay closed 2 years ago

danfinlay commented 5 years ago

The current plugin beta has a custom asset management api, which allows plugins to list their assets in the main token list.

I say asset instead of tokens, because these don't need to be tokens, they can be anything a plugin chooses to render. So far we've seen a few of these built!:

Layer 2 assets
Other blockchain tokens
Collectibles
Incoming messages
Subscriptions
Allowances

The current implementation allows just a few things to be provided here:

an asset "symbol" (short description)
an asset icon
a longer name
a numeric value/quantity
a link to visit on click. Clicking may result in showing a custom view in-page: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-snaps-beta/issues/103

There are also some security critical features of these.

It should be easy to distinguish the (plugin?) source of a given asset (label the provenance).

rekmarks commented 2 years ago

Complex feature that will be tracked elsewhere.