Updates

Because a video speaks a thousand pictures and a picture speaks a 1000 words. I released a video tutorial on how use your preferred web wallet and mint your Cardano tokens using the web transaction editor. As short as I wanted to keep it, it last 20min. There is a lot of value to it, and you get it for free. This application runs entirely on your browser, you don’t need even to open an account.

This is the second major update on the app, now it is possible to mint Mary Era Cardano Native Tokens. That means by directly letting your wallet construct the minting policy, you can now use the editor to mint or burn your tokens.

The UX starts to feel bloated, despite the minimalist design. There is no way around the fact that transactions on the Cardano blockchain can be feature rich. I know that general UX design principles say to use modals for specific features. However, I decided to stick with an interface, which has all inputs on the same page. It might feel bloated, it might be wrong UX, yet the nice thing about being part of the competition is that I get to propose my version of the solution and carve my place in the market.

Certainly, this project has taken way too long for delivery. I had to reconsider its design many times. It went from an ambitious self-sovereign goal of hosting all infrastructure to leveraging your current web wallet for all your interactions with the blockchain. Today with many wallet options, it seems a better choice and I can focus on my particular goal.

TL;DR: The editor is finally out, it has still many rough edges but you can try it with your favorite wallet. Find the link in this post or from the project page.

Ever wondered how to communicate directly to your Cardano node? Where you bound to the cardano-cli? Did you wrap it around your preferred language? Now I have a new way. Talk directly to the node. The node follows a network specification on how it communicates to other nodes and clients. You can implement that specification and talk directly to the node. I have done it, and documented the effort along the process.

I have been silent for a while, publishing progress reports and demos is not as fun as programming and debugging. I released the latest update of cardano.el , which now uses an SQLite database to manage state. It is a massive increase in complexity, but it enables wallet like features. It keeps track of key files, script files and manages addresses. More over it now has an optional integration to Cardano-Wallet, the backend for Daedalus.