Hello Stackers,
Excited to share my submission for the Alby + Blockstream Liquid Wallet bounty: Anser. It's a user-friendly, open-source, non-custodial web wallet and library designed for managing your Liquid assets right from your browser.
Anser is fully non-custodial and does not sign transactions on its own; instead, it leverages Alby's liquid integration for this purpose. Once signed and finalized, the transaction gets broadcasted to a liquid node and relayed to the network.
With this process your private key remains safe within your Alby extension, never exposed to the web.
In addition to the graphical app, Anser is also released as a JavaScript library that can be integrated anywhere, for example Liquid zaps can be built on top of this library or it can be used as a starting point to implement a different web wallet or web service leveraging liquid transactions.
I tried my best to thoughtfully comment on every important part of the code, making it easy to understand and audit. Additionally, I've released everything under the very permissive BSD 3-Clause license to ensure no barriers for future developments.
I hope you guys like it.
Very cool,
It'll be interesting to see if people actually start using liquid to reduce on chain fee's.
Liquid zaps are wild
Would be nice if the wallet also allowed for conversion between on chain lightning and liquid.
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liquid lightning! SCALE! Does that give us another 100 Million people onboard? Actually 10x that because block times on liquid are 1 minute? ... would be cool to see other side chains have the success of liquid, maybe 'ICE' with slower block times, then interoperability between all of them Arc and some other stuff... Seems like we might actually make it to 8 billion people.
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I was using liquid in the meantime until someone told me that blockstream had backdoor access that no other federatiin member has.
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266 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 2 Jan
The code is open-source so how that would work?
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So I suspect that the verbage has to do specifically with the oracle server and how they hold part of your keys but not the entirenthing. However, this note points to the liquid white paper and a few key areas.
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And you verified that?
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I did a control find on the white paper based on the few key phrases pinpointed in the note yes, but im honestly not sophisticated enough to understand what a backdoor would look like in code if it were right in front of me
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @jeffg 3 Jan
Amazing, I love to see the experimentation and alternatives showing up. 👏
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nice! liquid looks like it is getting some action, bitcoin pegged in already hit ATH, so someone is using it, will be helpful if P2P trading apps add it and then wallets like these can easily get some funds
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