High Level

• Making Dapps work in Chrome
  • Key pair management (generic identity management)
    • Basically done already by lightwallet
    • Includes UI component
  • Ethereum Client
    Most of the problem (>=80%)
  • web3 injected from Chrome extension
    Fairly trivial
• Launch Prep

Ethereum Frontend JS Client

A light-client that doesn't need to climb the merkle tree, just trusts its provider. Maybe later on we'll move to a lite-client, but those aren't ready yet.

• Provider engine (Caching layer, mostly done)
  • Provider engine should handle forks:
    • Requires responding to fork announcements on the protocol and cleaning up the cache appropriately.
    • Will need to recognize when a block is broadcast with the same # as another block, verify authenticity (same parent).
    • Need to replace "what is the newest block" with "what is the next block after X", to avoid skipped blocks
• In theory, this could maybe be replaced by some kind of webRTC light-client.
• Add toggle between test & main blockchains.

Backend

• Need to have scalable logging solution.
  • Some recommendations: @ketux had some tips
• Fix occasional dropped connections from caching/whitelist server in front of the RPC.
  • Called eth-rpc-wrapper. Uses node/express
• Finish eth-rpc-wrapper
  • Filters out some types of requests, like sleep node, that we shouldn't allow.
• Provide methods the RPC does not provide
  • Mapping from account to transaction history
    • Provided from etherscan for the time being, but we might want to implement ourselves.
• Set HTTPS via probably LetsEncrypt for automatic SSL renewal etc.

Frontend Interface

• Allow creating new accounts
• Allow exporting accounts
• Allow importing accounts
• Allow deleting accounts
• Allow nicknaming accounts
• Integrate uPort account flavoring
• Add per-domain configuration
  • Allow selecting what accounts the current dApp can see.
• Add friendly first-time user experience flow
• Dapp store integration

Launch Preperation

• Add nice intro to main page
• Compose email to blast out to email list
• Compose reddit post
• Compose Medium post
  • Look into using Consensys's Medium account
• Compose HackerNews post
• Pretty up the home page
• Create chrome app store page
  • Screenshots
  • Description
• Create list of dApps that work with Metamask at launch
• Create simple dApp for Metamask tutorial
• Create software licenses for all components