Thank you for addressing all the questions I had in mind; other members have already raised them, and I appreciate your comprehensive responses.
I’m an enthusiastic user of the Talisman Wallet.
I’d like to contribute two additional points for consideration. As the others have mentioned, I believe that the rewards from dApp staking should be exclusively allocated towards enhancing user experience, developing new features, and drawing new users to the Astar Ecosystem.
Furthermore, we all value transparency and would appreciate regular updates on the advancements and achievements made using these funds.
nice, Talisman, already used your product, and also collaborated with Talisman (the AIWeb3 community for Chinese market now). I am so glad to see that Talisman is interested in the dApp staking, it is a great choice! I have a few questions as Astar ambassador:
I would like to know more about what kind of new dev would Talisman bring to Astar, what Talisman plans to bring to Astar eco, since this would be supported by Astar, so it would be better to share those with Astar community
Do you have a timeline for those milestones?
Do you have any plan to bring more community to Astar?
Thank you！
Yes, that is our intention that rewards from dapp staking should go towards funding Astar-related improvements to our products/services, Astar-related support for users and Astar-related maintenance for things like token balances, chain upgrades and new chains added. Beyond that (which is a tall task in itself to execute well), it should also go towards marketing that draws users into Astar-related products, services and the ecosystem.
Happy to do regular updates on advancements and achievements made using these funds, I think that is the least that we could to in order to return the support that we get from the ecosystem.
Excellent description of what you have accomplished!
On the one hand I would like to know if in addition to the goals mentioned so far, you plan to go a step further in the development:
do you plan to include the direct sale or purchase of NFT through a space in your wallet? This is something that is being implemented by other wallets in the crypto space and has been very well received by the community in general.
They have implemented the Swap function within their wallet. If not, it is time to include it in your roadmap as this item is common in current web wallets3.
I have a more direct question, how can you help Astar through the dApps Staking program.
Good to hear you’re a Talisman user. Would love to understand more about the AIWeb3 community when you get a chance.
As mentioned above, we already support the zKatana testnet. In addition, we invite Astar-related projects to appear on our dapp discovery page, by filling in the form at the bottom of the page https://app.talisman.xyz/explore.
We will also support zkEvm as it launches. I have asked the Astar people to include on the list of wallets for zkEvm, and if you could push them to do that too it would be great.
In terms of upcoming features and a roadmap, I think the timeline really depends on how fast the dapp staking for Talisman takes off so that we can understand the bandwidth that the funding can cover. But certainly two of the upcoming features that are already on the near term roadmap will be PSP34 support in the web app, which should be great for projects that involve NFTS, such as Neurolanche, as well as of course, dapp staking in the Portal.
I think it would be great if reporting were standardized across all dapp staking, so people know how projects’ funds are being used. Do you know if that is happening today? We’d love to participate in that as others are, and be held to the same high standards across the board.
As mentioned above, I think the main effect to bring traffic and eyeballs to Astar is the halo effect that results from cross-pollination on our staking page. As we have the largest nomination pool by far, users that need to manage that page will come to harvest rewards and then be introduced to the Astar portal.
Regarding NFTs in the wallet, that is something that has been discussed in the past, but as of now we consider the right place to be in the companion Portal web app, in order to keep the wallet streamlined. However, that is not set in stone, and there are a number of other wallets that do surface NFTs.
Regarding the future roadmap, I would suggest that you make your opinion known either in our discord, or in the Upvoty board (talisman.upvoty.com), which is where we can gauge demand from many different users about what they consider is important.
Regarding swaps, it’s also something that we want to have eventually in the wallet, but at the current time, it’s quite complex in the Polkadot ecosystem because there are so many fragmented pools of liquidity in different places. And coupled with swaps, there is XCM transport/teleport as well as other types of bridging. We are currently building this out in the companion Portal web app, which we consider a sister to the extension (but accessible from any wallet). The addition of the asset hub dex may change things if it draws in a lot of liquidity, but it’s still early days for that. I think when we get the UX to a manageable place in the Portal, then we will strongly consider to integrate it into the wallet directly.
Regarding Astar, I believe I have answered this a number of times already in the comments above. If you have followup questions to what has been written here, please let me know.
We don’t have specific targets because we’re just getting started with Dapp staking, and we’re focused on long term value rather than just trying to hit what could be an arbitrary metric. I’d rather tell you about our philosophy:
We believe in creating long term value for our users and helping them along their crypto journey to go from crypto newbies to the crypto power users. We see UX and product development as the tools we have at our disposal. And we provide support for any type of question that people have when trying to use blockchain, including Astar (evm/wasm/zkEvm), as well as dapps on Astar.
Like many other projects, we don’t just want to pump and dump and be a flash in the pan, but rather be aligned with users and support ourselves while doing so. While early and not totally implemented yet, our business model is aligned with users, in that we can take a convenience fee when they use our products and services. This includes things like swaps, bridging, fiat on/offramps, and staking/running validators. A notable addition here is Dapp staking, which can help support Astar activities for Talisman.
Regarding costs, I would say they are also rather typical - the team, product development/R&D, infrastructure to run our products and services (indexers, cached blockchain or IPFS data, distribution costs, NFT services and APIs), marketing, conferences and partnerships, support for users, general company operations, legal, etc.
Are you scared of a little competition?
Dapp staking is not a monopoly…
Talisman do things for astar every day behind the scenes…
Why even question this application?
