AirGap adds support for BIP-85 and Tezos Sapling (Testnet only).

The latest version of AirGap (v3.7.0) brings support for BIP-85, Deterministic Entropy From BIP32 Keychains, Tezos Sapling (Edonet only), and cosmos memo addition.

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3 min readApr 27, 2021

BIP-85

BIP-85 brings solutions to the challenges of having way too many seeds/mnemonics and needing to back them all up securely. It defines a way to derive new mnemonics from a master mnemonic. The benefit of this is that you can have one master mnemonic that you back up properly, and then generate multiple new mnemonics out of it (eg. for different wallets). Without BIP85 you might end up with ten or more different mnemonics that all need backing up.

BIP-85 FUNCTIONALITY IN AIRGAP VAULT

TEZOS SAPLING

Sapling or shielded transactions was an original idea from the ZCash protocol. It has long been the gold standard for transaction protection in blockchain, whereby the confidentiality of the sums and the unlinkability of the sender and receiver are protected. This feature was recently added to the Tezos network. Normal Tezos transactions cannot be shielded, but you can now send your funds into a “pool”, where transactions are then hidden.

TEZOS SAPLING FUNCTIONALITY IN AIRGAP VAULT