walletbeat

L2BEAT has the notion of "stages" for rollups.

/walletbeat should have this concept too.

Some thoughts as to what "stage 1️⃣" should mean for wallets below...

Current thinking: The meaning of "stage 1️⃣" should simultaneously:
- Be a meaningful set of desirable improvements over the status quo for most wallets
- Be achievable for most mature wallets in 2025
- Remain flexible, especially in the early days of /walletbeat, likely getting tighter over time (as it has for L2BEAT)

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𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 1️⃣:
- Security audit in the last year
- Standardized key derivation
- Support some hardware wallets
- Something about account recovery
- Verify L1 (via light client or own node)
- Integrate 1 type of private token transfers
- Can be configured w/ own Ethereum node for L1
- Free and Open-Source
- Cross-chain bridging
- Some EIP-7702-enabled features (batching etc.)

Too high of a bar?
Too low of a bar?
Too vague of a bar?
Not the right direction to look for a bar in the first place?
Sound off in the GitHub issue or below.
https://github.com/walletbeat/walletbeat/issues/173

Guiding principle for definition: Stage 1️⃣ is a long-term commitment for a wallet to Ethereum principles. But it is also only a start.

This means being 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙚, respecting 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙘𝙮 and 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛-𝙨𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙩𝙮, being 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩, and implementing features critical to furthering the 𝙀𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙪𝙢 𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢'𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙖𝙡𝙨.

These are the same 5 pillars that Walletbeat rates as attribute groups. Not a coincidence!

Stage 1️⃣ therefore needs to include 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙮𝙚𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙛𝙪𝙡 features and commitments on all of these principles.