Devlog #11

What a MASSIVE PR and it’s finally merged! Hooray! That was the biggest PR I’ve ever created by a big margin.

Now I can finally start work on actual features like more support for different blockchains, address types, random extra features that certain chains have… the list goes on. I already have a personal list of 25 different blockchains that I want to add support for, most of which aren’t in the project roadmap simply for the reason that it would make the file overly long and hard to read. *sigh* that will take a long time

Not to underestimate what I added with the PR, though - I didn’t spend like 15 hours and do 48 commits for nothing: inside the PR I added

• Onboarding! 🎊 Lots of (at least in the future) common settings will be selected here to set up your wallet. You can already import an existing wallet or generate a new one (both accept 12, 15, 18, 21, and 24-word recovery phrases) and set an auto-lock timeout and select networks you want or don’t want. Finally, there is also the option to select a theme if you want.
• New and more prominent splash screen when loading the application. The application itself is super fast so it takes barely any time but to make it look cooler I’ve set a minimum time to display it for to 650 ms.
• Icons throughout the application to make it look better.
• Let you copy addresses in the sidebar with one click and list all enabled addresses, not just Ethereum.
• Squashed some more small UI bugs, especially relating to scrolling in different parts of the application.
• Although slightly unrelated to the theme of the PR, MUCH better refresh logic and handling. It now respects network selection choices (like the ones you want or don’t want that you selected during onboarding) and tells you exactly which network’s RPC request encountered errors. Perhaps ironically, this was literally the reason I fixed an issue with the Solana RPC. Before this update, it never actually refreshed the balance correctly so it wasn’t working. However, after this change, I was able to identify that the issue was not on my end (yay!) but was actually PublicNode’s (the RPC I’m using for the majority of chains in this project for consistency, apart from Monad and now Solana) as I assumed it could fetch the user’s token accounts but it couldn’t so I had to switch to using the official Solana RPC which fixed the issue.

For anyone who got lost somewhere in the previous paragraph, an RPC is a service that allows you to query data about the state of the blockchain (where crypto transactions are stored) so you can use it to see how much crypto you are holding.

Token accounts are basically a weird quirk of Solana where your main account is used to hold Solana which links to associated token accounts (ATAs), which each hold one token other than Solana.

This is by far not a complete list but rather a list of the highlights of this PR; if you want to look at all the changes, please feel free to visit the page linked at the top of this devlog.

That said, after this big change, I did say last devlog that I would be getting ready to release version v0.4.0 of this application which is exactly what I will do after adding Tron token support!

Quick reminder, after v0.4.0 I am planning to add Ripple (XRP) support, preliminary (meaning like non-shielded probably) support for Zcash and revamp the settings page like I did to the onboarding in this PR.

Further out, I will probably focus some more on the in-application swaps to aggregate data from major DEXs (decentralized exchanges) to get the best rates, matching other major wallets w/ more chain support, which would make my wallet actually competitive. 🤞