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digitaldonkey / ethereum

Drupal Ethereum module

https://www.drupal.org/project/ethereum

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The frontend challenge #25

Open digitaldonkey opened 6 years ago

digitaldonkey commented 6 years ago

In order to reach a broader audience we need a frontend solution which:

Support all major browsers on desktop and mobile
TX signer supporting major wallets / identity providers
Does not depend on a centralized service
Fallback for users who don't have a wallet (Metamask Mascara?)
Standards for interactions for users
- Learn to chose right network / unlocked account only once
Standards for Developers
- Write once implement all
- Not forced to use any particular front-end tech

Let's aggregate research on this here.

digitaldonkey commented 6 years ago

Metamask Mascara / mascara_wrapper

Currently integrated in Drupal Ethereum, but it has some issues (see [github page] (https://github.com/digitaldonkey/mascara_wrapper))
It is currently unclear if the Metamask team will continue the project

Status: Pending future updates

digitaldonkey commented 6 years ago

walletconnect

promising project more research required https://walletconnect.org/

digitaldonkey commented 6 years ago

portis.io

Video, describing the problem
Phone based solution. Most probably SAAS
https://portis.io
More research required

digitaldonkey commented 6 years ago

There is a lot of discussion around signing TX via QR code. Currently people discussing about potential standards.

parity-signer

https://github.com/paritytech/parity-signer
Up cycle old smart phones into hardware wallets

digitaldonkey commented 6 years ago

Currently working on a new Dapp lauchner for the TX signers.

digitaldonkey commented 5 years ago

Slowly getting some basics.

Creating a Web-component with a minimal load footprint, which serves as a web3 launcher.

https://github.com/digitaldonkey/web3ready

digitaldonkey commented 5 years ago

(this will also fix the security issues as it will replace the Mascara wrapper component.

proofoftom commented 5 years ago

The screenshots for web3ready look awesome! With that said, can't one connect to MetaMask via their Ledger or Trezor? Although, I guess the arguable benefit is to remove the dependency of MetaMask, I'm not sure I understand the positive gain of doing such.

digitaldonkey commented 5 years ago

@tommycox Thanks, but the design is stolen from balance manager's open source repo.

With that said, can't one connect to MetaMask via their Ledger or Trezor? Yes. I think in the meantime that is possible.

Although, I guess the arguable benefit is to remove the dependency of MetaMask, I'm not sure I understand the positive gain of doing such.

Basically Metamask has not much browser support nor does it work on mobile. Basically only chrome base browsers can use Metamask Extension. This library aims on supporting all major browsers at some point.

jeffanthony commented 1 year ago

In order to resurrect this project for Drupal 10+ I'd like to begin closing some of these issues. A handful of years have passed and the horizon is now clearer. Metamask, the brand name, doesn't matter: there are many wallets which can sign Ethereum transactions and I dare presume anyone can install and use some wallet on any device and for any browser.