SubWallet Now Supports Karura, Bringing aUSD Minting, NFT Features, and User-Friendly Experience

Sal Miah
Karura
Published in
4 min readApr 26, 2022

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We’re excited to welcome SubWallet into the Karura ecosystem! SubWallet pioneers a user-friendly wallet designed for the Polkadot and Kusama (Dotsama) ecosystems, attracting crypto users to the Dotsama ecosystem and exploring the Web3 universe. Karura’s SubWallet integration facilitates aUSD minting and increased NFT functionality.

SubWallet’s aUSD integration increases liquidity and user convenience in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. Through SubWallet, users will enjoy easy aUSD functionality at the heart of a simple, user-friendly UI.

SubWallet Adding Wallet Efficiency in Dotsama

The Polkadot and Karura ecosystems, despite their flagship status, have often lacked native wallets with sufficient quality to facilitate a positive user experience. While managing the community interested in Dotsama and Web3, the SubWallet team constantly received complaints about approaching the ecosystem from members leading to SubWallet’s creation.

Dotsama’s inefficient wallet system was a product of the following drawbacks:

  • Cumbersome infrastructure
  • Complicated user interface discouraging inexperienced users
  • High latency

SubWallet implemented the following missing features as a solution to the issues above:

  • Show and manage multi-chain asset balance
  • Send & receive multi-chain assets
  • Manage crowdloan portfolio
  • Manage staking portfolio
  • Track transaction history

SubWallet overcame these challenges and provide tailored features for Dotsama users. The results? A blockchain system built on top of Polkadot.js focusing on improving user experience — SubWallet strives for easier accessibility and interaction with Web3 applications that run on Polkadot’s Substrate Framework.

The SubWallet team added unique features unavailable in any wallet extension in the ecosystem, including NFT support for popular platforms such as RMRK, Acala, Moonbeam, Astar, Unique, Bit.Country and others, as well as management support of EVM assets and being MetaMask compatible.

Watch the video below to learn more about SubWallet:

What SubWallet’s Karura Launch Means for aUSD

SubWallet supports assets on Karura and is the first extension wallet in the Dotsama ecosystem to support Karura’s NFTs. SubWallet’s backing provides a seamless user experience and enhances the usability of Karura ecosystem assets anytime and anywhere. Users are incentivized to trade their Karura assets on Dotsama, increasing aUSD issuance.

SubWallet also allows users to manage their crowdloan contributions.

aUSD is integrated into the extension wallet for users to use SubWallet and connect with Karura to mint aUSD easily. SubWallet aims to support users who deposit their aUSD to Dotsama applications once XCM is live. XCM is Polkadot’s cross-consensus messaging format that allows parachains to send messages, not only on Polkadot but to Kusama parachains as well. SubWallet will utilize XCM’s messaging capabilities to maximize aUSD issuance and facilitate user activities on the Polkadot and Kusama networks.

Karura will continue synergizing with SubWallet to integrate new features, including aUSD staking, farming, and additional yield-bearing use cases.

$250M aUSD Ecosystem Fund

If you are a developer interested in building a project that drives yield or utility of the aUSD stablecoin on Acala or any other parachain, apply for funding from the $250 aUSD Ecosystem Fund. The aUSD Ecosystem Fund is part of the broader Acala Ecosystem Program, offering liquidity for new projects, Acala Foundation Grants, engineering support, and other support to ensure the success of the aUSD ecosystem.

Build on Acala

If you’re a team looking to build on Acala, integrate the aUSD stablecoin, get funding from the $250 million aUSD Ecosystem Fund, or receive support from Acala Grants, please get in touch with our team to chat about how we can support you.

About SubWallet

SubWallet is a pioneering user-friendly Web3 Multiverse Gateway for the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. With the mission of bringing crypto users closer to the Dotsama ecosystem and opening the Web3 universe, we focus on building a product that provides the simplest and most secure way to connect to blockchain-based applications like Dotsama ecosystem DeFi, GameFi and SocialFi.

Website | Twitter | Discord | Telegram | Youtube | Linkedin | Github

About Karura & Acala

Acala is a decentralized finance network powering the aUSD ecosystem. The core product, Acala USD, is a decentralized, multi-collateral, crypto-backed stablecoin serving as the native stablecoin of the Polkadot ecosystem. Acala’s Ethereum-compatible blockchain has built-in DeFi protocols for application developers to leverage, including a trustless staking derivative (liquid DOT — LDOT), a decentralized exchange, and the EVM+, a hybrid EVM offering fully Ethereum-compatible development environment plus full compatibility with Substrate. Karura is Acala’s sister parachain to serve the Kusama ecosystem and shares the same codebase as Acala.

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