SnapX

Silver Medalist 🥈 submission in ConsenSys' MetaMask Snap Development Hackathon conducted at InterIIT Tech Meet 11.0 | February 2023

Team:

Twitter Handles

• AaryanK666
• ankurrap
• Aadeesh38096402
• nishtha9960
• shaan_kumar26
• PartikSingh17
• PallavAg2808
• Sahil Saini

What does our snap do?

SnapX is a metamask snap powered with notifications and account recovery features using biometric authentication.

Demo

To see the working of SnapX, please click here.

Setup and Run

• Run the following commands:

yarn install
yarn start

Note: If the build takes too long, kill the process and run yarn start again.

• After this go to localhost:8000

• Now start exploring SnapX

About

SnapX mainly offers two features SnapX-Notify (Snap for getting notifications), SnapX-Recovery (Snap to recover the private key).

• SnapX-Notify

  This is a notification snap, helps user to get notifications regarding:
  • DAO Proposals
  • Balance Updates
  • NFT Offers

  Steps Involved

  • Open the Dapp.
  • Install Metamask flask and click on connect.
  • Click on SnapX notify in the sidebar.
  • Now click no get notifications.
  • Even if the dapp is closed you will get the browser notifications.
  • You can also view notifications on the dapp by clicking on the correspoding section.
  • To turn off notifications click on turn off notificaitions.

• SnapX-RecoveryKit

  This is a recovery snap which helps user to recover private key using biometric authentication:

  Steps Involved

  • Open the Dapp.
  • Install Metamask flask and click on connect.
  • Click on SnapX recovery kit in the sidebar.

    • Setup up recovery key:

      • Click on setup recovery key.
      • Follow the on-screen instructions to scan your face.
      • Set the pin.
      • Get your recovery key and copy it to some place.

    • Recover private key:

      • In order to retrieve the lost accounts switch to the respective network in which the accounts was present.
      • Click on get private key.
      • Enter the recovery key of the wallet you need to recover, which was generated using your above.
      • Follow the on screen instructions to authenticate your face.
      • Use the recovered private keys to import your accounts in the new wallet using the metamask extension.

Aims to Accomplish

Pain points users

• Users do not receive any update when a transaction is made to their wallet.
• Users don't receive any notifications about offers made on their NFT on OpenSea.
• No updates regarding proposals being launched on registered DAO to users.
• If users have lost their private key, they may struggle to recover their MetaMask account.
• Private key is very sensitive hence we need to safely store it.
• If users have forgotten their seed phrase, they may have trouble accessing their account.

Our Solution

• SnapX-Notify

  • Receive notification whenever a proposal is launched by any of the DAOs you follow.
  • Receive updates whenever someone send ether to their Metamask wallet.
  • Receive alerts when a buyer makes an offer on your published NFT on OpenSea.

• SnapX-RecoveryKit

  • In case where the users lose their private key, we provide a method to recover the wallet via recovery key.
  • Since the recoveryKey is public (since it is encrypted) we can freely store it anywhere.