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.

This proposal requests $690,600 USDT on Polkadot Asset Hub and covers the retroactive period of Oct 2023 - Sep 2024, covering both Talisman Wallet and Talisman Portal.

About Talisman

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 experience that allows the user to understand and get the job done quickly and easily, while harnessing the full power of advanced functionality. Besides this, our goal is to facilitate liquidity to flow into Polkadot to the benefit of all in the ecosystem.

As of Oct 2024, Talisman has achieved the following traction:

• Around 130,000 active installs as measured by the Chrome/Firefox app stores
• 36,000+ active monthly users on Talisman Portal
• Users in 189 countries
• 8.5+ million DOT in Talisman nomination pools
• The two largest nomination pools in Polkadot DOT staking

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. For more on Talisman’s mission and approach, please see our latest talks:

Warp Lizard and Natti on Polkadot Spaces, Sep 2024: Talisman's Cross-Chain Swaps

Nipsey at Polkadot Decoded 2024: Conquering Browser Based Substrate Development With Talisman

Polkadot insider interview @ Thailand blockchain week: Unveil What Next For Talisman In 2024 w/ Jonathan Dunne

Nipsey at Sub0 Asia 2024: The Application Layer: Conquering Browser Based Substrate Development with Talisman

About this Proposal

This is Talisman Wallet’s third Polkadot treasury proposal. This proposal requests $690,600 USDT retroactive funding for feature development, UX improvement, and QA testing for Talisman Wallet and Portal over Oct 2023 - Sep 2024. We would love to get your feedback on the proposal.

Please see the full proposal here:

• 🖥️ Summary deck
• 📄 Full proposal

This proposal covers features across the following main feature areas:

👛Wallet

• In-wallet Polkadot staking
• Generic Ledger app support
• Advanced Polkadot Ledger support
• Support of chain-specific Ledger apps
• Talisman Substrate developer mode
• Signet / Polkadot Multisig account import
• Foreign assets support
• Manifest V3
• Polkadot ecosystem support
• Ongoing UX/UI and performance improvements

🌀Portal

• Native cross-chain swaps
• XCM improvements and fixes
• Polkadot ecosystem NFT improvements and fixes
• New Polkadot ecosystem staking assets

Work product

The listed features have all been released and integrated into Talisman’s GPL3 open source wallet 👛https://github.com/TalismanSociety/talisman and Portal web application 🌀https://github.com/TalismanSociety/talisman-web over the time period covered in the proposal.

Besides the Wallet and Portal, we also actively maintain Chaindata ⛓️https://github.com/TalismanSociety/chaindata, an open source repository of all Substrate and EVM chains supported by Talisman. Chaindata requires constant maintenance as new chains are supported and existing chains undergo changes 

Thanks for your interest and reading so far

We will leave the Pre-Proposal Discussion open for one week, followed by the referendum submission. We welcome and appreciate all community feedback, questions and comments, and will request to appear on AAG to discuss further.