Roadmap: Cardano Deposit Wallet

This roadmap describes potential directions for the Cardano Deposit Wallet.

Minimium Viable Product

Production readiness:

• Separate executable: cardano-deposit-wallet.
• Persistence: The wallet state is stored on disk and does not have to be resynchronized every time that the deposit wallet process is started.
• REST API: For interacting with the wallet.

Future work, potential

• Formal methods

  • Prove the implementation correct with respect to the specification.

• Refunds

  • Create transaction that refunds any UTxO from a customer — but which the wallet does not accept (e.g. because they contain NFTs). The user has to pay the transaction fee.

• Staking?

  • Delegate wallet funds to a stake pool.

  • A transaction output can belong to the wallet but may have a delegation part that points to a stake pool.

    • Users can stake with the funds as long as possible?

    • Should we make a transaction that moves those funds to a different delegation address?