Talisman Has Integrated Acala, Bringing a Better UX for Polkadot With Its User-Friendly Web3 Multi-Chain Wallet

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4 min readMar 9, 2022

We’re excited to welcome Talisman into the Acala ecosystem! Talisman brings its inventive solution in allowing Acala users to leverage their assets in novel ways with a much-improved user experience. Talisman is also preparing a wave of features to enable the next generation of Web3 users to explore new applications, track their portfolio, and take custody of their digital assets.

Talisman: Accelerating Adoption of Polkadot Through Multi-Chain Interoperability

Talisman aims to create a user-friendly Web3 wallet built to accelerate the adoption and onboarding of future blockchain users to the Polkadot ecosystem. The platform simplifies the use of Polkadot, Kusama, and Parachains to help developers leverage the potential of these services to improve the composability amongst Parachains. Talisman adds a practical UX experience, asset security, and efficient signing transactions and features a browser extension enabling an efficient Polkadot ecosystem browsing experience by:

Providing a simple way to connect to dApps
Enabling users to store and view their Polkadot and Kusama balances
Supporting the easy importation of pre-existing Polkadot and Kusama wallets
Allowing users to create and manage accounts from which they can send funds to anyone

Talisman’s launch on Acala will integrate the Talisman wallet, enabling users to interact with Acala ecosystem applications.

Talisman Wallet Leverages aUSD Minting for DeFi Functionality

The Talisman wallet is a community-owned Web3 tool unlocking a universe of applications on Polkadot and Kusama. The wallet grants users access to crypto solutions such as swapping tokens, minting, or staking coins. With the integration of Acala and aUSD minting opportunity, Talisman will promote the wider adoption and utilization of Acala’s decentralized stablecoin in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Users will enjoy minting aUSD directly from their Talisman wallets. Once a user downloads the wallet and completes the onboarding steps, they can import an existing Polkadot wallet by entering a seed phrase or importing a JSON file. Following the previous step, users can connect their Talisman wallet to Acala and create a vault. Minting of aUSD is complete when a user confirms and approves their transaction. The Talisman and Acala teams are also working on aUSD minting via the Talisman web app to increase stablecoin services.

Users can download the wallet from the extension store on Chromium browsers like Brave or Chrome and Firefox.

Talisman Web App

The Talisman web app is among the first interaction points between users and the Polkadot ecosystem. Access to the web app is free, while users can view and interact with digital assets issued across various Parachains in the Paraverse. As more blockchain solutions increasingly choose to build on Polkadot or Kusama, platforms like Talisman are preparing their users to support the growth of blockchain by encouraging contributions to Crowdloans from a single point.

Shaped by the Community

Crucial to the development of Talisman is the supportive community that played a critical role in shaping Talisman products. The Talisman community influenced the platform by using stress tests, bug reports, surveys, and conversations on Discord. Talisman also ran a sentinels program to allow community members to shape the platform while earning for their contributions. Users who would like to join the Talisman community can do so via Discord to get updates on the platform development, among other communications.

Follow the Integration

The Acala and Talisman teams will keep the community updated on the launch of Talisman by communicating the progress, updates, and roadmap of the platform.

You can follow along on the Acala or Talisman Twitter accounts, or any of the social links below.

Build on Acala

If you’re a team looking to build on Acala or looking for support from Acala Grants, please get in touch with our team to chat about how we can support you.

About Talisman

Talisman is a community-led wallet built for Polkadot, Kusama, and the Parachains. It allows users to take control of their crypto assets, leverage novel use cases, and help shape the project’s future via a unique social layer.

Founded in 2021, Talisman is backed by the best teams in the Polkadot ecosystem, including the founders of Acala, Moonbeam, HydraDX, RMRK, and more.

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About Acala

Acala is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform optimized for DeFi and scaling DApps to Polkadot. The blockchain has built-in DeFi protocols for application developers to leverage, including a decentralized stablecoin (Acala Dollar — aUSD), a trustless staking derivative (liquid DOT — LDOT), and a decentralized exchange.