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%near-handler: claim NEAR account and gateway browser #11

Closed hanfel-dovned closed 7 months ago

hanfel-dovned commented 7 months ago

There are two main uses for the user-facing NEAR Urbit app:

  1. Claiming your .urbit NEAR account
  2. Browsing user-made gateways

To achieve this, we'll have two Gall agents: a user-facing client and a UF/NF-run relay server.

The relay server will authenticate users' Urbit IDs and facilitate the on-chain .urbit account creation, as well as act as a relay/repo/marketplace for discoverable user-submitted gateways. (This won't need a frontend, since it'll just be running automatically.)

The user-facing client app will store the .urbit account credentials and allow the user to browse installable and locally-installed gateways.

EDIT: As discussed in the edit to #12, the relay server for claiming .urbit accounts will likely not be a Gall agent. (This raises another question: should there be a centralized repo for gateways, or would it be more Urbity and decentralized to do this via %gossip and direct linking?)

This issue will be for the Urbit side of this architecture.

hanfel-dovned commented 7 months ago

Broke this out into a more specific series of issues with #17, #18, and #19. Closing this one.