Highlights
- On October 28th we released basic, initial support for Solana in the application for Phantom wallet users. Users are able to send and receive Solana and SPL tokens and see these assets in their portfolio and transaction histories. Additional functionality and wallet support will be added in the coming months.
- Open source community contributor David Cumps created a PR to integrate Chainflip into the swapper. The team will be working this month to polish off a few items remaining to bring that to production. Including the ability to support BTC sends to taproot addresses. Thank you David
Lowlights
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Last Month
Last month, we made significant strides in expanding wallet and blockchain support within the app, particularly for Solana. We added Phantom wallet support for Solana, Ethereum, and Bitcoin, giving users a broader range of options for managing their assets. Initial support for Solana was also rolled out, allowing users to view their portfolio balances, transaction history, and perform send and receive transactions directly within the app for both native Solana and SPL tokens. While this functionality is currently limited to Phantom, we plan to extend it to additional wallets soon. We also integrated Solana with our fiat on-ramp providers, Banxa and Onramper, facilitating easier fiat-to-crypto conversions. Additionally we now offer EVM support for any EIP 6963 compatible wallet provider, greatly extending the potential wallets that can interact with the app with very little additional code or maintenance burden.
Enhancements to the user experience continued with improvements to the Arbitrum bridge. Users now receive clearer notifications and copy updates when a claim is ready for processing after the delay, helping to streamline the process of returning assets to the mainnet. In addition, we introduced a new promotion that allows Thor (vTHOR) holders to trade on the platform for free until the end of 2024. The Markets page saw functional upgrades as well, with new filtering and sorting options to make asset browsing more intuitive. We also exposed the “Swap Source” for LiFi quotes, providing greater transparency to users who may want to compare quotes with other providers. We also rolled out a dedicated FOX page within the app, detailing the benefits of holding FOX, staking opportunities, and recent governance activity to keep users informed and engaged. Finally, we also added support for permit2 approvals for all 0x swap trades, reducing gas costs for users and removing security concerns around lingering approvals.
Lastly, we invested heavily into two large work in progress features that should be released in November: limit orders and the long awaited ability for users to get rates without connecting a wallet. We also addressed a few various bugs in the app. We added a retry mechanism when calculating FOX discounts and better handling for rate limits from Snapshot’s API, fixed issues with removing small amounts of liquidity from Thorchain LP and reduced the applications bundle size by removing unused dependencies.
This Month
In November the team will focus on finishing the two big ticket features we have in flight with limit orders and exposing swapper rates without a wallet connected. From there we will prioritize the remaining pieces to be able to enable the Chainflip integration from a community contributor. This includes working with the DFC for an affiliate address on the Chainflip chain and adding support for sending BTC to taproot addresses.
Once these work in progress items have been delivered we want to continue going deeper into the Solana integration. This will include the integration of Jupiter into the swapper and additional wallet support (TBD: native wallet and ledger). We will also take on work to improve the UX in the swapper trade confirmation flow. The last item that we hope to also address this month is a new wallet connection UX with support for Keystores and custom derivation paths for more advanced users.