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WalletConnect is toxic for decentralization and we need an alternative!

WalletConnect is toxic for decentralization and we need an alternative!

https://twitter.com/bantg/status/1719336896290001285

- solidity engineer 
- decentralisation and privacy maxi
- kitesurfer

The only problem is externality pricing.

Building https://negationgame.com

i think so and also afaik developers can run their own wc service but i doubt anybody does that these days

The problem is that the frontend configures WalletConnect, so consumers can't choose which wc relay to use (the way they can with wallets, etc). WalletConnect is too tightly coupled with frontends, it's increasingly a big problem.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

WalletConnect v2.0 made it much easier to configure

Which will allow dapps and wallets to independently choose their own relays

It’s up to dapp and wallet developers to make this option available to end-users

If I'm using a dapp (as a consumer) which is configured to use a WalletConnect relay that is down (or is censoring), can I override it to use a different relay?

The SDK allows you to point to a different relay

But just like most dapps don’t allow you to pick the Blockchain RPC provider… they also don’t allow you to choose the WalletConnect Relay provider

They do if they're using the wallet's provider, right?

Maybe we need something like EIP-6963 but for injecting your own relay?

Also, curious if you've investigated using something like libp2p (with a fallback to centralized relays)?

I honestly feel it's the right thing to do to offer an alternative out of the box to users who get censored or encounter a downed relay, even if it's 2-3 seconds slower.

I don't feel it's fair to leave the responsibility to each individual dapp to Do Something.

Irresponsible to have such a core point of failure.

It takes 2-3 seconds to open the walletconnect popup half the time. 🙃

Honestly 2-3 seconds sounds fine to me.

My dapps use the wallet's provider once you're connected, fwiw.

Dapps stopped using Wallet’s blockchain provider a very long time ago

libp2p is too slow and took on average 2-3 seconds to connect your wallet

We are progressively decentralizing our network and onboarding more providers