Account UX

[lrettig]

NEAR protocol has two nice features baked into accounts that I think we should consider:

• "Link Drop" - the ability to send coins or tokens to someone who doesn't even have an account yet
• OAUTH emulation - the ability to authorize apps (i.e., dapps) to use parts of an account on an ongoing basis, without needing additional signing

@YaronWittenstein I think it would be a good idea to understand how this was done to make sure we're not making decisions now that would make adding things like this more difficult down the road. Happy to help look into it.

[avive]

@lrettig - please send some links so we can look deeper.

[lrettig]

@avive okay - will take a closer look this week!

[avive]

Reminder - please send some info on these features so we can have a look and consider. btw - we do have a nice daily spending limit feature in smart wallet. I think that OAUTH only make sense when you have dapps on the platform so I'm not sure it is relevant for 0.3.5 where there's only our smart wallet contract. Link drop feature may be interesting depending on the use cases - we need to understand this better.

[lrettig]

NEAR calls this "account keys." Lots more info here: https://docs.near.org/docs/concepts/account#access-keys. This is exactly the sort of thing that might be impossible to add later if we don't consider the design now.

[avive]

@lrettig - didn't you move this to smip or pm repo?

[lrettig]

This isn't a separate research task yet. It's sort of encapsulated by account abstraction. I think we can close this in favor of that, bearing in mind these use cases.