Overview

The objective of this initiative is to make it easier for FIO-enabled wallets and exchanges, to enable notifications of FIO Chain activities such as:

The initiative aims to deliver information about relevant events to the wallets or exchange, but it will ultimately be up to them to consume such information and trigger relevant notification to the user.

Currently contemplated options:

Who is the Customer?

FIO-enabled wallets and exchanges.

What problem of the customer are we trying to solve?

Hard to efficiently know what has happened on the FIO Chain, in order to trigger a notification to the end-user. Solution often requires pull infrastructure, which queries the chain (or chain history) for specific events of specific users. As a results most FIO-enabled wallets do not notify users of relevant events, e.g. new FIO Request received.

Why is it important this problem is solved?

End-user notifications are key to broader adoption of FIO Protocol and crypto in general. Every legacy financial application offers in-app, email, and other notifications and users came to expect it. Not having such notifications is often seen as significant user experience deficiency.

What KPIs will you track to determine if you are solving this problem?

Number of FIO-enabled wallets and exchanges using new infrastructure.

Committee

Pawel Mastalerz Luke Stokes Eric Butz Ed Rotthoff Adam Androulidakis Andrey Vinichenko

Initiative link

https://fioprotocol.atlassian.net/browse/WP-175

Progress

2021-10-20

Wallet and exchange questions

  1. Do you currently offer in-app notifications to your users when events occur on other blockchains, e.g. coins received to user’s address?

  2. How is your application notified of relevant events?

    1. We use custom-developed code to monitor different blockchains.

    2. We use a 3rd party notification service (if so which one)?

  3. If the Foundation developed a notification service which would let you subscribe to specific events on the FIO-chain, would that be beneficial and accelerate your development of in-app notifications for FIO Chain?