Nova Wallet 5th Proposal: Cloud backups, Push Notifications, Proxies, Deeplinks, OpenGov improvements, Network management, Reimbursement

Nova Wallet 5th Proposal:
Cloud backups, Push Notifications, Proxies, Deeplinks, OpenGov improvements, Network management, Reimbursement for delivered features

Full proposal: Nova Wallet 5th Proposal

Feature set of the proposal (see proposal):

• Cloud backups and Updated onboarding
• Push Notifications
• Proxy (Delegated to you) wallets
• OpenGov improvements
• Network management and optimization
• Deeplinks & Applinks integration
• Reimbursement for delivered features

Context of the proposal

Nova Wallet is the leading mobile app for the Polkadot ecosystem:

• 🌌 90+ Polkadot eco & EVM networks 
• 🔀 400+ Cross-chain channels
• 🥞 User-friendly multi-staking: DOT, KSM, GLMR, MOVR, PDEX, AZERO, TUR, CAPS & KMA
• 🙌 Super simple staking supporting both Nomination pools and Direct staking in 2-in-1 flow
• 🙋🏼‍♀️ OpenGov, Agile Delegations, and Governance v1 support
• 🌐 DApp browser with support for the Polkadot JS & MetaMask protocols 
• 🔗 WalletConnect v2 support
• 🖼 Access to RMRK & Statemine NFTs
• 📱 Hardware wallets support for Polkadot Vault, Parity Signer & Ledger Nano X
• 🚀 Polkadot & Kusama Crowdloans 
• 💖 Amazing & user-friendly UX/UI
• ✨ Community-focused
• ⚡️ Fast & Feature-rich
• 🦾 Secure & Open source
• 🙆 60 000+ active users on both iOS & Android
• 🎁 Funded by the Polkadot, Kusama, Moonbeam, Moonriver & KILT Treasuries, working with 130+ teams in the eco

In July 2023, our previous (4th) Treasury Proposal was approved, and on the 15th of September 2023, we have successfully delivered upon all the proposed features and more. Please refer to Nova Wallet 4th Treasury Proposal report for more details.

Our goal for Nova Wallet is to build and maintain a high-quality, open-source, community-focused, and feature-rich mobile application, which has no network biases and can function with no limitations/restrictions. Nova Wallet is the leading app in the ecosystem by the following criteria:

• Feature set & high quality (reliability, security, performance, usability)
• Total amount of active users
• Amount of Staked tokens to Nomination pools and Validators

Apart from developing the open-source Nova Wallet iOS & Android mobile applications, our team is consistently contributing to the Polkadot ecosystem by providing open-source SDKs, design assets, knowledge-sharing sessions, and infrastructure. Examples include:

• Substrate SDKs for iOS and Android development
• Nova Utils GitHub — metadata & configs for networks, crowdloans, DApps, cross-chain transfers
• SubQuery API projects developed and hosted by Nova Wallet team, including a new Governance-focused project
• Nova Assets Figma — design assets: Polkadot eco tokens, networks, DApps, etc.
• Hosted metadata portal for Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem networks — metadata portal for Parity Signer, ecosystem hardware wallet
• Polkadot in Action — series of videos & articles focused on onboarding people to help utilize the power of Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem through the Nova Wallet
• Delegate Registry — an open-source repository for Delegates to fill out their information to attract more delegations through the Agile Delegation feature
  • Other apps are using it (besides Nova Wallet): OpenGov Insights
• Designing and Developing Nova Spektr — all-in-one desktop app for Polkadot ecosystem

This proposal covers the further development of Nova Wallet as a mobile application for the Polkadot ecosystem, allowing us to expand upon the already large set of features contained within Nova Wallet by adding Cloud backups, Push-notifications, Proxy wallets, improvements to OpenGov, new Hardware Wallets, Network management, and Deeplinks & Applinks.

The intended outcomes from this proposal:

• Implementation of this proposal's feature set for the Nova Wallet iOS and Android apps (as described in the feature set of the proposal section)
• Reimbursement for delivered features
• Public demos: every 2-4 weeks (see YouTube)
• Updates to AppStore / Google Play: every 1-4 weeks
• Open-source iOS and Android mobile apps under Apache 2.0 license
• Open-source iOS and Android Substrate SDKs under Apache 2.0 license
• Updates to Nova Wallet wiki knowledge base & guides (see Wiki)

Please feel free to review full proposal: Nova Wallet 5th Proposal