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[DEPRECATED] Textile is a set of tools and infrastructure for building composable apps and services on the IPFS network
https://textile.io
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Enable multi-level hierarchical accounts #860

Closed carsonfarmer closed 4 years ago

carsonfarmer commented 5 years ago

Currently, go-textile utilizes a BIP32-based HD wallet (derived from a BIP39 menmonic). This allows us to create 'deep' nested wallet accounts as needed. However, our implementation currently only supports a single depth. While this is likely sufficient for 99% of use-cases, there are some use-cases that would benefit from deeper nesting. This ticket is a reminder to add support for deeper nesting.

For external devs: If deeper nesting is important to you, please let us know, as this is currently not a big priority for us without additional concrete use-cases.

andrewxhill commented 5 years ago

one of the concepts that came up on our team call 2-3 weeks ago was reserving the next layer for apps. so each app would be siloed by connected to the account... i think it could be worth scoping this out more. user to many accounts. an account to many apps.

carsonfarmer commented 5 years ago

Related to #862

carsonfarmer commented 5 years ago

Related to some recent discussions on Slack, plus the comment from @andrewxhill above. What about reserving a set of addresses for 'network'/'textile' functions, and then exposing the remaining 'space' to applications? The need for multi-level permissions and keys has come up several times now, so it would be useful to explore this again.

andrewxhill commented 5 years ago

are there existing wallets that do this? follow-up, can we enable support for those wallets?

carsonfarmer commented 4 years ago

Closing this in favour of "Supporting External Wallets": https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/issues/225