Devlog #13

I finally added different currencies! Before, all prices were displayed in USD and now they can display in any of the below currencies:

• USD ($)
• EUR (€)
• GBP (£)
• JPY (¥)

Shoutout to the fantastic API I used for this! Previously, I fetched CoinGecko pricing data which came in USD but I needed to convert this data into whatever currency the user chose so I had to find an API. However, there really weren’t any good forex APIs that were free with no rate limits when I searched for one so I turned to ChatGPT to find one and find one it did. This API gives daily central bank rates and even has data going back to 1948 on 201 currencies which is more than enough for this project.

I also added the second performance improvement: caching the HTTP request client object to avoid having to recreate it on every API request.

As of rn the project roadmap for the near future is this:

• Finish perf improvements
• Add basic Ripple (XRP) transaction support
• Maybe add transparent <=> transparent pool transaction support for Zcash (ZEC)
• Release VaultForge v0.5.0