Edge Wallet Development Update

Paul Puey
Edge
2 min readJan 5, 2018

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Another month, another preview beta release of Edge Wallet. We have lots of great updates in our latest release (v 0.5.1) for iOS and Android. Including support for DASH wallets.

We also put a lot of effort in improving stability and making this release far more crash resistant.

The latest release is available to all those who have been invited to download our limited release beta. If you haven’t signed up for the beta release you can still sign up for an invite here at edgesecure.co

Reminder: Please do not use your Airbitz log-in credentials for the beta release of Edge Wallet at this time.

New Features / Improvements

  • Added support for Dash wallets
  • Fix numerous crash issues
  • Add ability to spend unconfirmed funds (BTC, BCH, LTC)
  • Unconfirmed funds show in balance (BTC, BCH, LTC)
  • Edit and delete user added custom Ethereum ECR20 tokens
  • Allows users to enable and disable TouchID per account
  • Native accelerated crypto (PBKDF2 & secp256k1)
  • Improve performance for creating wallets (BTC, BCH, LTC)
  • Improve performance logging into new devices
  • Require password to change PIN or password
  • Detect errors in Shapeshift and properly show to user
  • Properly restrict Shapeshift transactions to the min/max of the currency pair

Issues

  • Unable to disable PIN login
  • Unable to enable or login to 2FA accounts
  • Unable to setup password recovery
  • Random crashes on Android while idle. Happens more easily on accounts with many wallets
  • Newly added custom tokens get disabled after logout/login
  • Occasional incorrect balance or transaction list for BTC, LTC, BCH, and DASH wallets if on slow network connection
  • Occasional hang when creating Shapeshift transaction
  • Transaction meta data, enabled tokens, and wallet state may not immediately sync between devices

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Paul Puey
Edge
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Techie, wanna be dirtbag climber, tree hugger, and annoying bitcoin guy at parties. CEO & Founder of Edge (formerly Airbitz)