If someone were to rebuild Metamask today, what would it look like?

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here’s one project that has done exactly that over the last year: https://github.com/tallycash

i think there are many others

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I think there's an opportunity to make a desktop-class wallet UX that is 10x better than this

Accounts.

Grouping accounts into categories (ie. trading, socials). Giving them labels in one click.

You should be able to export the list of your accounts as a .csv. No more manual tracking. Easy.

Accounts could be stored in system Keychain. No more screwing around with private key management. TouchID to unlock.

Multi-chain/rollup is the future, it should be seamless.

- Connects with every EVM chain from the start, no configuration required.
- Interact with multiple chains concurrently without switching.
- Built-in bridging between any chain.

For developers, I think we should have:

- Built-in test accounts for Hardhat, Foundry.
- Built-in “fill me up” faucet access for any testnet.

Last one - native support for Gnosis DAO's. I want notifications when there's a vote, a one-click action to approve/inspect.

A couple other design challenges that we should solve:

How to make sure my wallets don’t get blown away? Where is the data stored / backed up to?
- Accounts are stored in macOS Keychain, which is in iCloud.

How do I make sure when I am sending someone USD, it is to the right address?
    - Native integration with exchanges - Binance, Coinbase, etc.?

Like here are the things I think are important: