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airgap-it / airgap-vault

The AirGap Vault is installed on a spare smartphone that has no connection to any network, thus it is air gapped. This app handles the private key.
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[Request] More supported blockchains/tokens #80

Closed Ahmed-Ali closed 8 months ago

Ahmed-Ali commented 3 years ago

Big fan here! Thank you for all the amazing work.

As I am starting to use Airgap more and more, I find my self missing some fast growing projects. And here are the ones on top of my mind I wish to see supported:

Also seem like not all ERC20 tokens are supported; the one I am wishing for is POLY

AndreasGassmann commented 3 years ago

As for ERC20 tokens, you can actually use MyEtherWallet and connect AirGap Wallet with WalletConnect, then you can add custom ERC20 tokens to MEW and work with it from there. Not ideal, but it works for now.

Regarding other chains, the issue is as always available resources. Adding a new protocol takes a long time if done right. It involves understanding the protocol, implementing the required functionality in our library, setting up nodes and then maintaining all of this. Especially the maintenance is often underestimated, specifically for new projects that often have breaking changes. There were a few times where we had to do emergency releases for DOT/KSM because they pushed a breaking change to their nodes.

If we add a chain, it is usually with the help / funding of the chain itself. This allows us to dedicate the time and maintain it. As AirGap gets more popular, we hope that interest of those projects in an integration increases as well.

We are also playing around with the idea of "community maintained" protocols. This would allow us (or community members) to add support for new chains quickly, without requiring our "stamp of approval" or our commitment to provide support and maintenance. But at this point it's just an idea without an actual plan, we're happy for feedback.