Spent the weekend exploring designs for showing stable assets like USD, EUR on Cashu. A challenging edge case: when users have different assets within a mint, and also spread across different mints. Cross-mint interoperability for stable assets makes my mind melt.
Discussion
Stable?
Stable in fiat means a stable rate of devaluation, not stable valuation.
Yeah, I'm sure if you just say explain that to millions of Argentinians Tether will stop dominating their market tomorrow.
Fair enough. But words are important. Presenting something as stable may be accurate if the use case is short term holding but less so if held longer. That said, most people are unfamiliar with the term 'fiat' so that may just cause confusion.
Maybe time for mint stablecoin basket? Like a USD/EUR/GBP/YEN etc 'mint unit' as a stablecoin standard for easy tx.
(on the other hand, inteoduces other risks)
interoperability mint and LN is biggest challenge
Awesome bro! Thank you for your contributions! Here's mine: https://m.primal.net/HsMt.mp4
I love the graphic at 1:38 showing how users interact with the mint! Thanks for putting this together!
Bullish
Showing balances across multiple mints, each potentially having multiple assets does sound challenging. Maybe you could allow toggling between one view that is ordered by mint and then by asset within the mint, and a second view that is just an aggregated total across all mints for each asset?
In the second view when the user taps on a line showing the multi-mint total for a particular asset, an accordion could expand underneath showing the per-mint totals for that asset.