EMERGENCY BROADCAST — Ghosts of the Past
🚨⚠️ THIS AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST BY THE GUARDIANS OF THE PARAVERSE 🪬
A DANGEROUS ENTITY KNOWN AS LUPIN HAS GAINED ACCESS TO THE MOONBEAM NETWORK VIA THE NOMAD BRIDGE
LUPIN IS A LIQUIDITY VAMPIRE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ARMY OF GHOSTS THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! IF YOU SEE HIM, DO NOT ENGAGE
SHORTLY AFTER HIS ARRIVAL THE NOMAD BRIDGE WAS REPORTED TO BE IN CRITICAL CONDITION, LUPIN AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE NOW TRAPPED IN THE PARAVERSE AND WITH NO WAY TO RETURN HOME ARE WREAKING HAVOC ON THE NETWORK
LUPIN IS KNOWN TO INJECT CORRUPT JAVASCRIPT INTO THE WEB PAGES, CAUSING DAPPS TO BE SLOW AND INCONVENIENT, TURNING THE USER-EXPERIENCE TO ASH
WE ARE CALLING UPON ALL CITIZENS OF THE PARAVERSE TO ENLIST AS A SENTINEL AND HELP US FIGHT BACK THE FOREIGN THREAT
TO GET STARTED YOU MUST:
- Download Talisman at www.talisman.xyz
- Import your Metamask and Polkadot.js seed phrases into Talisman to help us exorcise the ghosts of the past
- Visit ghosts.talisman.xyz to mint an exclusive open-edition NFT illustrated by Matias Basla starting 5am UTC Wednesday the 4th of Jan
Ghosts of the Past
The general consensus among long-time web3 users is that they’re fed up with Metamask. Its slowness, subpar user experience, and various other issues have left them feeling frustrated, even though they’re used to it and trust that it’s secure and reliable. This widespread dissatisfaction, coupled with Metamask’s huge profits in 2021, has created a tailwind for anybody building browser wallet alternatives for EVM, and has led to numerous Metamask clones and killers being funded including Tally, Rabby, and Frame. Even Talisman has benefited from the increased interest in wallets.
While there’s certainly plenty of room for innovation in EVM software wallets, particularly regarding advanced account models made possible by smart contracts and multi-party computation, I feel that user experience improvements in this realm are reaching diminishing returns. The key reason for this is that any company attempting to revamp the wallet model for a well-established smart contract ecosystem will face the challenge of backward compatibility, and cannot really rebuild from the ground up as we may think.
Here’s a simple example: A wallet company is trying to build successful software product business. They pragmatically seek to acquire users and revenue, in doing this they support the existing install-base of users and architecture for dapps. While the dapp and wallet ecosystem is permissionless and thus has the potential to innovate endlessly, it falls prey to Moloch (the god of human coordination failure) and our collective inability to coordinate around new design patterns, combined with our desire to acquire Metamask users and liquidity, leads the ecosystem toward ossification. Each new wallet and dapp supports the status quo, our social conventions and design patterns, and they grow further ingrained.
This raises the question: where does real reform come from, especially when ecosystem-wide consensus is required to upgrade the outdated social conventions established by our web3 ancestors? A lack of good answers to this question in the EVM ecosystem is one reason why we’ve focused on Substrate, Polkadot and The Paraverse. It is too soon to tell, but the upgradability of Polkadot via runtime upgrades may play an imperative role in avoiding ossification, the likes of which has already begun on EVM chains.
Talisman ain’t afraid of no ghosts
We’re building Talisman from the ground up to be a multi-chain wallet that will address the UX obstacles presented by sharded blockchain ecosystems like Polkadot, Cosmos, and now Ethereum and its various Layer 2 solutions. Although it’s still early days, Polkadot and the Paraverse are lightyears ahead of competitors with respect to tackling the issues presented by this kind of architecture. In fact, one unexpected side-effect of Talisman being multi-chain first is that it’s a better everyday EVM wallet than Metamask imho, especially if you’re a multi-chain user!
Here are a 3 reasons you should switch from Metamask to Talisman as your daily use software wallet:
1 — Talisman has all the must-haves for EVM that you’ll find in Metamask
- We support all your favourite EVM chains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, Gnosis Chain, Moonbeam, Astar, etc
- Easily create new accounts, send and receive assets, import new ERC-20 tokens
- We decode ERC-20, ERC-721 and other transaction types so you don’t have to trust! Easily verify transactions to protect yourself from scams and exploits with Talisman
- Our Ledger support for the Ethereum and Polkadot ecosystems is best-in-class
2— Auto Network Switching
Rather than having to manually change the network settings Talisman automatically selects the right network based on the dapp your using. If you’re someone who always has multiple dapps open across browser tabs this is a serious time saver.
3 — Advanced Portfolio Management
When you’re using multiple accounts across multiple chains keeping track of your tokens can be a huge pain in the ass. Talisman takes the pain out of multi-chain portfolio management with an entirely new user experience.
You can view your portfolio by account, including seeing all accounts at once. You can also see a breakdown of a single asset by networks and accounts.
4 — Talisman is built in collaboration with the community
We work with our community to shape our products. This includes consulting with the community on new features, prioritisation based on community sentiment and feedback, user-testing with our power-users and more…
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