Pedro Gomes, Founder of WalletConnect

My guest today is Pedro Gomes, better known as @pedrouid on twitter. Pedro is the founder of WalletConnect, the most important software for connecting wallets to dapps. On this episode, Pedro joins the show to discuss WalletConnect's origins and the architectural changes introduced in WalletConnect v2. We also go in-depth on the recently finalized EIP-6963: Multi Injected Provider Discovery, which brings together the most popular browser wallets to solve the instability caused when more than one wallet provider is injected into the same browser session. Finally, we touch on how WalletConnect will intersect with embedded wallets and smart accounts. It was a pleasure getting to know Pedro and WalletConnect better in this conversation. I hope you enjoy the show. As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions. If you enjoy Web3 Galaxy Brain and would like to support the show, please send me a tweet or DM saying why you listen and what makes Web3 Galaxy Brain special for you. I'll post the best testimonies to the show's website. Thank you! Links https://docs.walletconnect.com/advanced/migration-from-v1.x/what-changed-from-v1.0 https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6963 https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4337

Chapters

(00:00:00) Intro (00:01:19) Interview starts (00:01:48) EIP-7212 (00:02:20) Early dapp history (00:06:20) EIP-1193 (00:08:40) Web3Modal and wallet connect SDKs (00:14:05) WalletConnect v1 (00:18:00) WalletConnect v2 (00:20:15) Signaling servers (00:26:10) Relayer incentives (00:27:15) Why do I need a projectId to use WalletConnect v2? (00:30:25) How many wallets are active? (00:31:40) Using Safe with WalletConnect (00:33:20) Wallet Terminology (00:34:00) Smart Accounts (00:36:00) The remote connection protocol is only 20% of what WalletConnect does (00:38:40) Coming soon: Cross-dapp single signer embedded in Web3Modal (00:42:20) Safe Core vs 4337 (00:43:00) Why doesn’t WalletConnect work over VPN sometimes? (00:43:50) Are discrete software wallets going away? (00:45:40) How does WalletConnect work? (00:47:40) WalletConnect notifications (00:49:05) EIP-6963 and the window.ethereum problem it solves (00:54:15) The window.ethereum wars (00:55:00) Mobile & browser wallets (00:58:00) Wallet standards EIP-1328, 1193, and 6963 (00:59:42) How EIP-6963 works (01:01:20) Fingerprinting protection (01:03:10) EIP process tips (01:04:50) Outro and links