Cosmostation Mobile Wallet Update: V1.6
What’s new: themes, mnemonic management, unlimited wallets, automatic gas estimation, and multi vote.
TL;DR
There are 5 major changes included in this update:
1. Users can now switch between light & dark theme mode
2. Manage wallets by mnemonics
3. Create as many wallets as desired
4. Enjoy automatic gas amount estimation applied by the wallet
5. Cast multiple votes in a single transaction
Theme
Cosmostation wallet now supports 3 theme modes: system, light mode, dark mode. If set to ‘System’, the theme is set in accordance with a user’s device’s default setting. Selecting ‘Light Mode’ overrides the device’s default setting and shows bright colored UI. Similarly, selecting ‘Dark Mode’ does the opposite.
Wallet Management by Mnemonics
Cosmostation mobile wallet supports HD(Hierarchical Deterministic) wallets accessed by a mnemonic phrase, a more readable and easily recognizable form of a Master Seed generated by BIP-0039. A HD Wallet is a wallet that can generate virtually infinite numbers of private/public key pairs with a single Master Seed. Given that a mnemonic phrase can have many wallets, and not the other way around, Cosmostation mobile wallet is now accommodating the users with the most orderly way of managing multiple wallets with its new mnemonic phrase centered wallet management system.
Users can import, create, delete as many mnemonic phrases they want with Cosmostation mobile wallet. Cosmostation mobile wallet supports up to 10 HD paths per mnemonic phrase. Since a single HD path usually supports a single wallet per chain, a Cosmostation mobile wallet user can normally create & manage up to 10 wallets per chain tied to a single mnemonic phrase.
For more detailed explanation about Mnemonic phrase and HD wallets, please refer to this previous article.
Unlimited # of Wallets
Before the V1.6 update, Cosmostation mobile wallet had supported up to 5 wallets per chain for the sake of simplicity. However, you asked. We listened. Cosmostation mobile wallet now supports unlimited number of wallets for all the chains, giving our users more control.
Automatic Gas Amount Estimation
Cosmostation has been offering gas amount estimate feature to our users for better UX. What it does is very simple but helpful — it helps the users spend just the right amount of gas to get the transactions to go through, preventing the users from spending too much gas or facing a transaction failure due to gas shortages.
As of V1.6 update, the button is gone, and this special feature is now being applied automatically as a default, saving the users the trouble of clicking the button to apply it every time they make a transaction.
Multi Vote
As the Cosmos ecosystem grows day by day, many networks have been having several governance proposals going on at the same time. Because Cosmostation wants our users to have nothing less than the best user experience when it comes to community engagement, we are introducing ‘Multi Vote’ feature to our users.
The new UI presents the proposals sorted by the status — ones under the voting period and the rest. Using ‘Multi Vote’ feature, Cosmostation wallet users can cast votes on all the ongoing proposals in a single transaction.
*If you want to see all the ongoing proposals in the Cosmos ecosystem at a glance, mintscan is the place to go.
About Cosmostation
Cosmostation provides a purely streamlined access to the interchain through developing a suite of user-friendly applications for partner networks we help secure as an industry-leading validator node operator and investor. Our interchain products ranging from Mintscan Block Explorer, Cosmostation Mobile Wallet(iOS, Android), Cosmostation Web Wallet, Cosmostation Extension, to spacestation.zone serve as both a powerful set of tools for protocols/exchanges to onboard users and for developers/validators to efficiently navigate networks.
Links
Mintscan | Extension | Android | iOS | Web Wallet | Spacestation Bridge
