Federation addresses for questers

[hanseartic]

Scenario

Currently there are already a few different use-cases where a user's stellar-account is required. The most obvious ones: quests and bounties. But there is more like tip-bot, quest-monitor-bot.

So each time a quest-related service system is established there is need to map users (either discord or github) to stellar accounts. The federation-address would look like <username>*quest.stellar.org then.

It would be nice to provide questers with federation addresses for two reasons

• central place where addresses could be looked up
• foster community feeling (is this paying into this?)

Bounty idea

The goal is to create come up with a bounty that addresses the scenario described above.

For example it could be to create a service that provides login via github or discord and allows users to add their stellar account. Said service could then act as source for a federation server (e.g. stellar's reference implementation) linked in https://quest.stellar.org/.well-known/stellar.toml.

Useful links

• federation on stellar's developer docs
• lumenauts explaining federated addresses

[hanseartic]

Before going deeper into the details of a potential bounty let's maybe discuss if this scenario actually adds value to the (quest-)ecosystem.

[rahimklaber]

I think this is a good idea, Aside from making it easier for Stellar Quest to get deal with addressess, I don't see more uses for it. But maybe we can find something in the future. And even if we don't end up using it for Stellar Quest it is still a good bounty

[kalepail]

A federation server bounty would be great, let's focus on that, and then if we want to expand to using it for Stellar Quest great. Either way it's a great bounty. Maybe encourage doing it via Cloudflare Workers, their KV store and ease of setup would make building a federation server super simple.

Great bounty suggestion!

[hanseartic]

Great direction, thx. I will write sth. up.

[hanseartic]

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