Telenova: Polkadot Wallet built into Telegram Retroactive Funding for 6 months

Full proposal: Telenova #1 Retroactive Proposal

Telenova features:

• 🖥️📱 Self-custodial, cross-platform Polkadot wallet available directly on Telegram
• ☁️ Super simple user-friendly onboarding with Telegram cloud backups
• 🎁 Gifts: Send tokens directly to anyone on Telegram
• 💳 Buy/Sell DOT and KSM tokens
• 🌐 Send & Receive DOT and KSM tokens to/from any blockchain address
• 💲 View your Polkadot and Kusama balances in fiat currencies
• 💌 Balance notifications for your wallet in Telegram
• 🔐 Secured by your personal Telegram cloud with manual account backups

Context of the proposal

Telenova is a brand new self-custodial Polkadot wallet that runs directly in Telegram providing users a simple and clean user interface to manage DOT & KSM tokens.

Create a Polkadot wallet in seconds and get ready to Send tokens to anyone in Telegram, Buy/Sell DOT and KSM, get notified about balance changes, and view your total balance in multiple fiat currencies, secured by each user’s own personal Telegram cloud and manual backups.

Our goal for Telenova is to build and maintain an easy, clean, high-quality, open-source wallet for new users (nocoiners/web2) to expand the Polkadot user base and fill the gap in the ecosystem.

This proposal covers the retroactive funding for the research and development of Telenova as a cross-platform application for the Polkadot ecosystem.

The project contained a Research phase of 2 months to dive into the details of how to develop and publish a self-custodial wallet like Telenova as a TApp, as well as testing capabilities and limitations of Telegram as an application platform.

The next 4 months — Development phase — this time has been dedicated to developing, verifying, setting up CI/CD, and the release of Telenova as a product that anyone from the 800M+ monthly active Telegram users can access today.

Please feel free to review full proposal: Telenova #1 Retroactive Proposal