Dapplets: Rethinking Dapp Architecture for better adoption and security

RE: the Dapplets Medium article Part 1.

Love the use of CRAZY.

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This is a great intro, especially the summary, it really gets it across. The one thing I feel it needs is more about implementation, e.g. what does a dapp developer need to do? What does wallet developer need to do? How do these parties come to an understanding? I suppose this is for Part 2.

Still, might be good to briefly describe the basics.


Letting my mind wander a bit, this seems like a sort of UI EVM, and really only for the exact point of decision by the user.

The relevant information needs to be presented to the user, which includes an image. The action needs to be presented, in a way which is clear to the user. Certain dialogs also need to be incorporated, to represent the changing state or implications, or reflecting the status code (pinging @expede here).

These are not currently concerns at the contract level, and implemented in a hundred different ways and often terribly by dapp devs.

A standard can be created to enable this to happen at the contract level, a data structure which guides the UI of the action and immediate steps afterwards.

Then Metamask, wallets, mobile, and so on can render the result in a standard way, using WASM even to ensure consistency. I hope I am not repeating what y’all already know LOL.

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