Economic self-custody is not free and onboarding UX is not the best possible, as of today. Graduated wallets can help closing this UX gap.
Discussion
Progression:
- Mortal: custodial onboarding, no channel management. As balance grows, user is prompted to upgrade.
- God: Real LN self-custody wallet.
- Olympian: Self-sovereign node runner, managing his own channel.
Mortal level leverages Cashu, which brings good privacy but it's custodial.
Cashu was chosen specifically for its privacy properties, there is a good mint ecosystem and great functionalities.
What's next?
- New onboarding
- Mint discovery based on Nostr contacts
- Multi-mint send and Cashu LN address
- Take into account on-chain rates
- UX/UI improvements