[Talisman](https://talisman.xyz) is a community-owned wallet that enables users to “traverse the Paraverse” with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that DotSama will bring this to fruition. 

For more on Talisman, please see the following talks from Polkadot Decoded 2022: Agyle’s [How Talisman is bringing multi-chain to the masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tZjVv70Jk), as well as Jonathan's [introduction to light clients in Talisman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaidhA5eL_8).

Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It’s our goal to solve that using user experience design and storytelling. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using DotSama and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.

In this proposal, we are seeking to fund development of a cross-chain transaction history service for the benefit of users, parachains and applications. We believe this will be an advancement in usability and security for end users, as they will be able to more easily understand the actions they have taken across different parachains in DotSama. Parachains and applications that have a presence across multiple parachains will also have an easier way to show users their relevant actions.

We regularly gather customer feedback as we work to uncover difficulties customers have with Talisman and within DotSama. Here are what some users have told us about the need for better cross-chain transaction visibility:

- “Sometimes I don’t even know what assets I have. I do it the hard way, I have them all listed in p.js and I have to cycle through each of the projects to check my balances. When I check on sub.id everything loads, but sometimes locked tokens are missing. So I have to switch parachains, then visit each dapp to keep track.”
- "I would like to see my transaction history all in one place. This would be a huge help for example with my tax filings. Right now it's a real hassle."
- “I want to be able to see multichain assets across multiple parachains.”

We would love to get your feedback on the proposal. Please see the [full description here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/192asiQ13s4EAfXFFDFgKm_W3cqBVPPPxB5VNAig7keE/edit?usp=sharing).



Talisman Proposal: Cross-Chain Transaction History Service

Talisman (talisman.xyz) is a community-owned wallet and web application that enables users to “traverse the Paraverse” with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that DotSama will bring this to fruition. 

For more on Talisman’s mission and approach, please see Agyle’s talk at Polkadot Decoded: [Polkadot Decoded 2022: Traverse the Paraverse: How Talisman is bringing multi-chain to the masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tZjVv70Jk)

And Jonathan’s talk about wallet UX at the Sub0 developer conference:
[Talisman: The UX Chronicles: How To Deliver A Substrate Experience To The Masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xiMaDAEiQ)

Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It’s our goal to solve that using design, storytelling, and engineering. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using DotSama and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.

This proposal is for a business-friendly multisig frontend to lower the difficulty for teams and businesses when running their financial operations on Polkadot. Teams currently face many difficulties when trying to perform these operations, risking mistakes along the way, and leading them to choose convenience over security. We will apply Talisman’s UX and design philosophy to create improvements for standard workflows for Polkadot multisig usage (based on the current multisig pallet), and eventually integrate upgrades when improvements to the multisig pallet itself are available.

We have spoken to a number of stakeholders in the ecosystem and have strong validation for our proposed solution:
- “Creating child bounties in pjs is time consuming and error prone, you have our full support” - Zoe Mechbach, VP, Phala Network
- “We will definitely use it because we need it!” - Shun P, Head of Ops and Finance, Astar
- “We would use it for sure” - Dennis & Alexandra, CTO & Marketing Director, Bitgreen
- “If there was a multisig with better UX that allowed us to craft and verify multisig transactions faster we'd use it” Bruno, Founder, RMRK
- “If you can improve the UX to make it easier for non-technical users to initiate and safely sign transactions, we will switch” - Daniel, Founder, Tapio


We would love to get your feedback on the proposal. Please see the [full description here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KohKDEYypNw_KJING2_uHXnC0LJwUxpPHMzBRfrH68M/edit?usp=sharing).



Talisman Proposal: Business-Friendly Polkadot MultiSig

Wrong category -> moved to: https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1615

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Talisman (talisman.xyz) is a community-owned wallet and web application that enables users to “traverse the Paraverse” with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that DotSama will bring this to fruition. 

For more on Talisman’s mission and approach, please see Agyle’s talk at Polkadot Decoded: [Polkadot Decoded 2022: Traverse the Paraverse: How Talisman is bringing multi-chain to the masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tZjVv70Jk)

And Jonathan’s talk about wallet UX at the Sub0 developer conference:
[Talisman: The UX Chronicles: How To Deliver A Substrate Experience To The Masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xiMaDAEiQ)

Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It’s our goal to solve that using design, storytelling, and engineering. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using DotSama and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.

After speaking with Joe Petrowski and in anticipation of the Statemint roadmap on the [Polkadot Forum](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/statemint-update-roadmap/1200), Talisman would like to propose a beautiful, intuitive and user-friendly frontend for the Statemint DEX. 

This DEX will be usable from any Polkadot ecosystem wallet supported by the open source Talisman web app, including: Polkadot.js (500,000+ users), Talisman (20,000+ users), SubWallet (20,000+ users), and Enkrypt (20,000+ users), with mobile wallet support on the roadmap. 

The Statemint DEX is a critically important addition to Polkadot to both bring liquidity into the ecosystem and to enable liquidity to flow between parachains. We will apply Talisman’s UX and design philosophy to create an easy to use experience for users to acquire, exchange and utilize their assets, hosted within Talisman’s web application at https://app.talisman.xyz.

We would love to get your feedback on the proposal. Please see the [full proposal here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KHl-eLbutUrn3t1eOekwaUmJDfJYWGq5-ykDsV28aDY/edit?usp=sharing).




Talisman Proposal: Beautiful, Intuitive and User-Friendly Statemint DEX UI

Talisman (talisman.xyz) is a community-owned wallet and web application that enables users to “traverse the Paraverse” with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that DotSama will bring this to fruition. 

For more on Talisman’s mission and approach, please see Agyle’s talk at Polkadot Decoded: [Polkadot Decoded 2022: Traverse the Paraverse: How Talisman is bringing multi-chain to the masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tZjVv70Jk)

And Jonathan’s talk about wallet UX at the Sub0 developer conference:
[Talisman: The UX Chronicles: How To Deliver A Substrate Experience To The Masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xiMaDAEiQ)

Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It’s our goal to solve that using design, storytelling, and engineering. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using DotSama and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.

In this proposal, we are seeking to fund improvements to Talisman Portal, Talisman’s “one stop shop” web application that enables users to discover and access Polkadot ecosystem activities with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. This is an open source dapp that supports multiple Polkadot Ecosystem wallets, including: Polkadot.js (500,000+ users), Talisman (20,000+ users), SubWallet (20,000+ users), and Enkrypt (20,000+ users).

The Talisman Portal is an open source dapp hosted at [https://app.talisman.xyz](https://app.talisman.xyz). It targets the Polkadot Adventurer, a crypto user who believes in the Polkadot vision and spends a large chunk of time exploring and participating in ecosystem activities, including:

- Viewing, managing and organizing multi-chain assets (tokens, NFTs) and accounts
- Generating a return on investment for their portfolio (we do not provide financial advice, but rather allow users to better understand their positions and opportunities)
- Discovering and participating new dapps and services available in the ecosystem, such as crowdloans (live) and governance (targeted for later in 2023)
- Education and learning about Polkadot, the ecosystem and dapps and services that are available

Directly enabled by the work in this proposal, includes the UX work around Talisman’s nomination pools, which has led to Talisman's nomination pool garnering the largest amount of DOT since launch (>1 million DOT). This is a testament to the simplicity of the staking experience provided by Portal, combined with our trusted brand for new and experienced users. We hope to continue to enable users to stake easily no matter how much or little DOT they have in their accounts.

More than just providing a feature set, Portal is designed with the user first, because UX and design are incredibly hard problems in a multi-chain and quickly-evolving environment. Polkadot Adventurers are committed to being in Polkadot, but they need trusted tools that simplify the experience and enable them to become evangelists that ultimately bring new users into the ecosystem.

The following feedback is from a recent user survey in Feb 2023 about Talisman Portal:

- “Being easy to use is why I recommend it to my normie frens”
- “I consider the strength to be viewing cross-chain assets all in one place”
- “Definitely better UI/UX and easier to use than Polkadot.js”
- “Awesome design and an essential tool for day to day use of Polkadot”
- “The super simple interface gives me peace of mind when dealing with my money”
- 90% consider staking easier to use than Polkadot.js or the most convenient way to stake DOT




We would love to get your feedback on the proposal. Please see the [full proposal here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OlJB4a2kcgWe-TZTC4ZR5cU9ZEIk8IoC85IJv2_2rdc/edit?usp=sharing).


Talisman Proposal: Portal Web Application supporting Nomination Pools and more - Milestone 1


# Talisman's FIrst Retroactive Funding Proposal for the Wallet

Talisman (talisman.xyz) is a multi-chain wallet and web application that enables users to “Traverse the Paraverse” with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that the Polkadot ecosystem will bring this to fruition. 

For more on Talisman’s mission and approach, please see Nipsey’s talk at Polkadot Decoded:

[Talisman: How Polkadot enables a trailblazing wallet stack | Polkadot Decoded 2023 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6M_HXsQoko)

Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It’s our goal to solve that using design, storytelling, and engineering. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using Polkadot and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.

 This proposal seeks retroactive funding for feature development, UX improvement, QA testing and Audit fixes for Talisman Wallet over fourteen weeks (Feb-May 2023). As of September 2023, Talisman achieved over 40,000 users as measured by the Chrome/Firefox app stores, and has garnered contributions of over 3 million DOT to its nomination pools.

# Make Polkadot Easy

We believe our mission in the Polkadot ecosystem is to design for the user, advocate for the user, and build for the user. This means staying on top of the complex multi-chain functionality being built in Polkadot today, but synthesizing it down to a great user experience that allows the user to understand and get their job done quickly and easily, while harnessing the full power of advanced functionality when necessary.

We believe that this user-focused approach is necessary for Polkadot to expand and flourish. Success is not only user feedback and appreciation for our ease of use, but ultimately we judge ourselves on our ability to enable liquidity to flow into Polkadot to the benefit of all in the ecosystem, and that rests on the user experience of Polkadot, across new users, advanced users, and teams.

We build in an open, community-driven way and we are committed to building for the community, including users, teams, institutions, infrastructure providers, and any other ecosystem stakeholder.

# Ecosystem Feedback

Here is some ecosystem feedback on Talisman:

“@wearetalisman wallet best UX in the game” - @admnov.eth

“I’m so happy for what @wearetalisman is doing for the @Polkadot ecosystem. 100x’ng the wallet user experience and not stopping anytime soon!” - @theflyinghutch, CMO of Zeitgeist
“@wearetalisman is not just a wallet, it’s the key to Paraverse...” @marvin_tong, Co-founder of Phala

# Talisman Wallet's 2023 Initiatives

There are a number of security or multi-chain usability improvements that Talisman has chosen to address in 2023. These problem statements reflect our approach to wallet development and our view of needs of the Polkadot ecosystem.

## Diverse Hardware Wallet Support

Hardware wallets and signers are the gold standard for security of funds, given the need to provide consumers with ways to protect private keys and seed phrases. Consumers need to be able to use a diverse set of hardware wallets with Talisman. In addition to supporting Ledger devices, Talisman has integrated Polkadot Vault (orig. Parity Signer) during these cycles.

## Account Management and Organization

Talisman users have multiple accounts with different purposes, such as personal funds, gaming wallets, multisig signers, cold storage or work accounts. An installation can become confusing when accounts of different purposes are mixed together. Talisman has added address book improvements during this period, and will add folders afterwards.

## Worldwide Usability

Generally crypto revolves around “universal conventions” such as the English language and USD-denomination of funds. However, these are adopted legacy conventions from web2 that are non-intuitive for many of Talisman’s worldwide users. We have added features such as multi-language support and multi-currency support, so that users can better understand their crypto assets and actions they take. The improvements in this area come in a later proposal.

## Transaction Comprehension

Blockchain is a machine protocol, and the native units and transactions are oriented to computer rather than human consumption and understanding. It’s the job of dapps, wallets and other blockchain front-ends to enable users to comprehend the actions they take, which is a direct requirement for operating in a secure way. Talisman has made improvements in gas management and transaction history clarity with these releases.

## Native Multi-Seed Management

Talisman originally organized around a single root account, however many users nowadays use multiple seed phrases / private keys and the restriction of a single root account became a hindrance. Over the time covered in this proposal, we have begun to update the “plumbing” to a new seed store with support for multiple seeds, each which can support multiple derived accounts.

## Open Source

As the fulfillment of a longstanding promise to be a community-driven wallet, Talisman went open source with a GPL3 license. The work during this period covers the preparation for open source.

## General UI Improvements, Bug Fixes, QA & Release Management

As always, Talisman undergoes regular improvements to general use and usability, as well as performs the following regular tasks: token balance support, documentation, QA, release management, Github repo management, dependency checks and security updates.

We would love to get your feedback on the proposal. Please see the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/129c_pUahyra5GwBj6M3Rz2-5NBHKWlA2olVLX-HjSNg/edit?usp=sharing)

Talisman Wallet - Retroactive Proposal #1

Talisman Unified Retroactive Funding Proposal #2

<h1 id="talismansunifiedretroactivefundingproposal2" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Talisman's Unified Retroactive Funding Proposal #2</h1>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Talisman (talisman.xyz) is a multi-chain wallet and web application that enables users to &ldquo;Traverse the Paraverse&rdquo; with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that the Polkadot ecosystem will bring this to fruition.</p>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">For more on Talisman&rsquo;s mission and approach, please see Nipsey&rsquo;s talk at Polkadot Decoded:</p>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6M_HXsQoko">Talisman: How Polkadot enables a trailblazing wallet stack | Polkadot Decoded 2023 - YouTube</a></p>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It&rsquo;s our goal to solve that using design, storytelling, and engineering. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using Polkadot and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.</p>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">This is Talisman Wallet&rsquo;s second Polkadot treasury proposal. This proposal seeks retroactive funding for feature development, UX improvement, and QA testing for Talisman Wallet over May to Sept 2023, and Talisman Portal from March to Sept 2023. As of Feb 2024, Talisman achieved over 80,000 users as measured by the Chrome/Firefox app stores, and has garnered contributions of over 6 million DOT to its nomination pools.</p>
<h1 id="makepolkadoteasy" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Make Polkadot Easy</h1>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">We believe our mission in the Polkadot ecosystem is to design for the user, advocate for the user, and build for the user. This means staying on top of the complex multi-chain functionality being built in Polkadot today, but synthesizing it down to a great user experience that allows the user to understand and get their job done quickly and easily, while harnessing the full power of advanced functionality when necessary.</p>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">We believe that this user-focused approach is necessary for Polkadot to expand and flourish. Success is not only user feedback and appreciation for our ease of use, but ultimately we judge ourselves on our ability to enable liquidity to flow into Polkadot to the benefit of all in the ecosystem, and that rests on the user experience of Polkadot, across new users, advanced users, and teams.</p>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">We build in an open, community-driven way and we are committed to building for the community, including users, teams, institutions, infrastructure providers, and any other ecosystem stakeholder.</p>
<h1 id="ecosystemfeedback" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Ecosystem Feedback</h1>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Here is some ecosystem feedback on Talisman:</p>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">&ldquo;@wearetalisman wallet best UX in the game&rdquo; - @admnov.eth</p>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">&ldquo;I&rsquo;m so happy for what @wearetalisman is doing for the @Polkadot ecosystem. 100x&rsquo;ng the wallet user experience and not stopping anytime soon!&rdquo; - @theflyinghutch, CMO of Zeitgeist &ldquo;@wearetalisman is not just a wallet, it&rsquo;s the key to Paraverse&hellip;&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="../user/marvin">@marvin</a>_tong, Co-founder of Phala</p>
<h1 id="talismanwallets2023initiatives" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Talisman Wallet's 2023 Initiatives</h1>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">There are a number of security or multi-chain usability improvements that Talisman has chosen to address in 2023. These problem statements reflect our approach to wallet development and our view of needs of the Polkadot ecosystem.</p>
<h2 id="diversehardwarewalletsupport" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Diverse Hardware Wallet Support</h2>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Hardware wallets and signers are the gold standard for security of funds, given the need to provide consumers with ways to protect private keys and seed phrases. Consumers need to be able to use a diverse set of hardware wallets with Talisman. In addition to supporting Ledger devices, Talisman has integrated D'Cent Wallet.</p>
<h2 id="accountmanagementandorganization" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Account Management and Organization</h2>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Talisman users have multiple accounts with different purposes, such as personal funds, gaming wallets, multisig signers, cold storage or work accounts. An installation can become confusing when accounts of different purposes are mixed together. Talisman has added address book improvements during this period, and will add folders afterwards.</p>
<h2 id="worldwideusability" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Worldwide Usability</h2>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Generally crypto revolves around &ldquo;universal conventions&rdquo; such as the English language and USD-denomination of funds. However, these are adopted legacy conventions from web2 that are non-intuitive for many of Talisman&rsquo;s worldwide users. We have added features such as multi-language support and multi-currency support, so that users can better understand their crypto assets and actions they take.</p>
<h2 id="transactioncomprehension" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Transaction Comprehension</h2>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Blockchain is a machine protocol, and the native units and transactions are oriented to computer rather than human consumption and understanding. It&rsquo;s the job of dapps, wallets and other blockchain front-ends to enable users to comprehend the actions they take, which is a direct requirement for operating in a secure way.</p>
<h2 id="nativemultiseedmanagement" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Native Multi-Seed Management</h2>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Talisman originally organized around a single root account, however many users nowadays use multiple seed phrases / private keys and the restriction of a single root account became a hindrance. We have begun to update the &ldquo;plumbing&rdquo; to a new seed store with support for multiple seeds, each which can support multiple derived accounts.</p>
<h2 id="opensource" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">Open Source</h2>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">As the fulfillment of a longstanding promise to be a community-driven wallet, Talisman went open source with a GPL3 license.</p>
<h2 id="generaluiimprovementsbugfixesqareleasemanagement" style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">General UI Improvements, Bug Fixes, QA &amp; Release Management</h2>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">As always, Talisman undergoes regular improvements to general use and usability, as well as performs the following regular tasks: token balance support, documentation, QA, release management, Github repo management, dependency checks and security updates.</p>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">This proposal requests $742,750 USD worth of DOT and covers the retroactive period of March 2023-Sept 2023, covering both Talisman Wallet and Talisman Portal.</p>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">We would love to get your feedback on the proposal. Please see the full proposal&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14bra7M-wonB2LQgw7r8Ph9sifliohQDJPaiMOix65Kw/edit?usp=sharing">here</a></p>

Talisman Unified Retroactive Proposal #2

# Talisman's First Retroactive Funding Proposal for the Wallet

Talisman (talisman.xyz) is a multi-chain wallet and web application that enables users to “Traverse the Paraverse” with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that the Polkadot ecosystem will bring this to fruition. 

For more on Talisman’s mission and approach, please see Nipsey’s talk at Polkadot Decoded:

[Talisman: How Polkadot enables a trailblazing wallet stack | Polkadot Decoded 2023 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6M_HXsQoko)

Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It’s our goal to solve that using design, storytelling, and engineering. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using Polkadot and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.

This proposal seeks retroactive funding for feature development, UX improvement, QA testing and Audit fixes for Talisman Wallet over fourteen weeks (Feb-May 2023). As of September 2023, Talisman achieved over 40,000 users as measured by the Chrome/Firefox app stores, and has garnered contributions of over 3 million DOT to its nomination pools.

# Make Polkadot Easy

We believe our mission in the Polkadot ecosystem is to design for the user, advocate for the user, and build for the user. This means staying on top of the complex multi-chain functionality being built in Polkadot today, but synthesizing it down to a great user experience that allows the user to understand and get their job done quickly and easily, while harnessing the full power of advanced functionality when necessary.

We believe that this user-focused approach is necessary for Polkadot to expand and flourish. Success is not only user feedback and appreciation for our ease of use, but ultimately we judge ourselves on our ability to enable liquidity to flow into Polkadot to the benefit of all in the ecosystem, and that rests on the user experience of Polkadot, across new users, advanced users, and teams.

We build in an open, community-driven way and we are committed to building for the community, including users, teams, institutions, infrastructure providers, and any other ecosystem stakeholder.

# Ecosystem Feedback

Here is some ecosystem feedback on Talisman:

“@wearetalisman wallet best UX in the game” - @admnov.eth

“I’m so happy for what @wearetalisman is doing for the @Polkadot ecosystem. 100x’ng the wallet user experience and not stopping anytime soon!” - @theflyinghutch, CMO of Zeitgeist
“@wearetalisman is not just a wallet, it’s the key to Paraverse...” @marvin_tong, Co-founder of Phala

# Talisman Wallet's 2023 Initiatives

There are a number of security or multi-chain usability improvements that Talisman has chosen to address in 2023. These problem statements reflect our approach to wallet development and our view of needs of the Polkadot ecosystem.

## Diverse Hardware Wallet Support

Hardware wallets and signers are the gold standard for security of funds, given the need to provide consumers with ways to protect private keys and seed phrases. Consumers need to be able to use a diverse set of hardware wallets with Talisman. In addition to supporting Ledger devices, Talisman has integrated Polkadot Vault (orig. Parity Signer) during these cycles.

## Account Management and Organization

Talisman users have multiple accounts with different purposes, such as personal funds, gaming wallets, multisig signers, cold storage or work accounts. An installation can become confusing when accounts of different purposes are mixed together. Talisman has added address book improvements during this period, and will add folders afterwards.

## Worldwide Usability

Generally crypto revolves around “universal conventions” such as the English language and USD-denomination of funds. However, these are adopted legacy conventions from web2 that are non-intuitive for many of Talisman’s worldwide users. We have added features such as multi-language support and multi-currency support, so that users can better understand their crypto assets and actions they take. The improvements in this area come in a later proposal.

## Transaction Comprehension

Blockchain is a machine protocol, and the native units and transactions are oriented to computer rather than human consumption and understanding. It’s the job of dapps, wallets and other blockchain front-ends to enable users to comprehend the actions they take, which is a direct requirement for operating in a secure way. Talisman has made improvements in gas management and transaction history clarity with these releases.

## Native Multi-Seed Management

Talisman originally organized around a single root account, however many users nowadays use multiple seed phrases / private keys and the restriction of a single root account became a hindrance. Over the time covered in this proposal, we have begun to update the “plumbing” to a new seed store with support for multiple seeds, each which can support multiple derived accounts.

## Open Source

As the fulfillment of a longstanding promise to be a community-driven wallet, Talisman went open source with a GPL3 license. The work during this period covers the preparation for open source.

## General UI Improvements, Bug Fixes, QA & Release Management

As always, Talisman undergoes regular improvements to general use and usability, as well as performs the following regular tasks: token balance support, documentation, QA, release management, Github repo management, dependency checks and security updates.

We would love to get your feedback on the proposal. Please see the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/129c_pUahyra5GwBj6M3Rz2-5NBHKWlA2olVLX-HjSNg/edit?usp=sharing)

Talisman (talisman.xyz) is a community-owned wallet and web application that enables users to “traverse the Paraverse” with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that DotSama will bring this to fruition. 

For more on Talisman’s mission and approach, please see Agyle’s talk at Polkadot Decoded: [Polkadot Decoded 2022: Traverse the Paraverse: How Talisman is bringing multi-chain to the masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tZjVv70Jk)

And Jonathan’s talk about wallet UX at the Sub0 developer conference:
[Talisman: The UX Chronicles: How To Deliver A Substrate Experience To The Masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xiMaDAEiQ)

Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It’s our goal to solve that using design, storytelling, and engineering. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using DotSama and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.

In this proposal, we are seeking to fund improvements to Talisman Portal, Talisman’s “one stop shop” web application that enables users to discover and access Polkadot ecosystem activities with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. This is an open source dapp that supports multiple Polkadot Ecosystem wallets, including: Polkadot.js (500,000+ users), Talisman (20,000+ users), SubWallet (20,000+ users), and Enkrypt (20,000+ users).

The Talisman Portal is an open source dapp hosted at [https://app.talisman.xyz](https://app.talisman.xyz). It targets the Polkadot Adventurer, a crypto user who believes in the Polkadot vision and spends a large chunk of time exploring and participating in ecosystem activities, including:

- Viewing, managing and organizing multi-chain assets (tokens, NFTs) and accounts
- Generating a return on investment for their portfolio (we do not provide financial advice, but rather allow users to better understand their positions and opportunities)
- Discovering and participating new dapps and services available in the ecosystem, such as crowdloans (live) and governance (targeted for later in 2023)
- Education and learning about Polkadot, the ecosystem and dapps and services that are available

Directly enabled by the work in this proposal, includes the UX work around Talisman’s nomination pools, which has led to Talisman's nomination pool garnering the largest amount of DOT since launch (>1 million DOT). This is a testament to the simplicity of the staking experience provided by Portal, combined with our trusted brand for new and experienced users. We hope to continue to enable users to stake easily no matter how much or little DOT they have in their accounts.

More than just providing a feature set, Portal is designed with the user first, because UX and design are incredibly hard problems in a multi-chain and quickly-evolving environment. Polkadot Adventurers are committed to being in Polkadot, but they need trusted tools that simplify the experience and enable them to become evangelists that ultimately bring new users into the ecosystem.

The following feedback is from a recent user survey in Feb 2023 about Talisman Portal:

- “Being easy to use is why I recommend it to my normie frens”
- “I consider the strength to be viewing cross-chain assets all in one place”
- “Definitely better UI/UX and easier to use than Polkadot.js”
- “Awesome design and an essential tool for day to day use of Polkadot”
- “The super simple interface gives me peace of mind when dealing with my money”
- 90% consider staking easier to use than Polkadot.js or the most convenient way to stake DOT




The full proposal is [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OlJB4a2kcgWe-TZTC4ZR5cU9ZEIk8IoC85IJv2_2rdc/edit?usp=sharing).

This submission follows from the following forum discussion: [link](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1699)


Talisman (talisman.xyz) is a community-owned wallet and web application that enables users to “traverse the Paraverse” with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that DotSama will bring this to fruition. 

For more on Talisman’s mission and approach, please see Agyle’s talk at Polkadot Decoded: [Polkadot Decoded 2022: Traverse the Paraverse: How Talisman is bringing multi-chain to the masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tZjVv70Jk)

And Jonathan’s talk about wallet UX at the Sub0 developer conference:
[Talisman: The UX Chronicles: How To Deliver A Substrate Experience To The Masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xiMaDAEiQ)

Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It’s our goal to solve that using design, storytelling, and engineering. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using DotSama and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.

This proposal is for a business-friendly multisig frontend to lower the difficulty for teams and businesses when running their financial operations on Polkadot. Teams currently face many difficulties when trying to perform these operations, risking mistakes along the way, and leading them to choose convenience over security. We will apply Talisman’s UX and design philosophy to create improvements for standard workflows for Polkadot multisig usage (based on the current multisig pallet), and eventually integrate upgrades when improvements to the multisig pallet itself are available.

We have spoken to a number of stakeholders in the ecosystem and have strong validation for our proposed solution:
- “Creating child bounties in pjs is time consuming and error prone, you have our full support” - Zoe Mechbach, VP, Phala Network
- “We will definitely use it because we need it!” - Shun P, Head of Ops and Finance, Astar
- “We would use it for sure” - Dennis & Alexandra, CTO & Marketing Director, Bitgreen
- “If there was a multisig with better UX that allowed us to craft and verify multisig transactions faster we'd use it” Bruno, Founder, RMRK
- “If you can improve the UX to make it easier for non-technical users to initiate and safely sign transactions, we will switch” - Daniel, Founder, Tapio

The full proposal is [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KohKDEYypNw_KJING2_uHXnC0LJwUxpPHMzBRfrH68M/edit?usp=sharing).

This submission follows from the following forum discussion: 
https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1569

[Talisman](https://talisman.xyz) is a community-owned wallet that enables users to “traverse the Paraverse” with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that DotSama will bring this to fruition. 

For more on Talisman, please see the following talks from Polkadot Decoded 2022: Agyle’s [How Talisman is bringing multi-chain to the masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tZjVv70Jk), as well as Jonathan's [introduction to light clients in Talisman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaidhA5eL_8).

Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It’s our goal to solve that using user experience design and storytelling. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using DotSama and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.

In this proposal, we are seeking to fund development of a cross-chain transaction history service for the benefit of users, parachains and applications. We believe this will be an advancement in usability and security for end users, as they will be able to more easily understand the actions they have taken across different parachains in DotSama. Parachains and applications that have a presence across multiple parachains will also have an easier way to show users their relevant actions.

We regularly gather customer feedback as we work to uncover difficulties customers have with Talisman and within DotSama. Here are what some users have told us about the need for better cross-chain transaction visibility:

- “Sometimes I don’t even know what assets I have. I do it the hard way, I have them all listed in p.js and I have to cycle through each of the projects to check my balances. When I check on sub.id everything loads, but sometimes locked tokens are missing. So I have to switch parachains, then visit each dapp to keep track.”
- "I would like to see my transaction history all in one place. This would be a huge help for example with my tax filings. Right now it's a real hassle."
- “I want to be able to see multichain assets across multiple parachains.”

Please see the [full description here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/192asiQ13s4EAfXFFDFgKm_W3cqBVPPPxB5VNAig7keE/edit?usp=sharing).

Thank you everyone who has commented during the [community feedback stage](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1152) of this proposal. We have corresponded with everyone that has provided comment.


<h1>Incorrect Preimage</h1>
<p>It has been brought to our attention that the incorrect preimage was used in this proposal. This is being fixed and a new referendum is being created.&nbsp;</p>
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