Hey. We’re going to add Bitcoin to Wallet Connect.
For that, we need a RPC, and add a namespace for bitcoin here https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/namespaces#

Hey there.
I’m working on an integration and I’m looking for a JSON-RPC spec for Wallets for Bitcoin. (Similar to this one from Ethereum https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/apis/json-rpc/ ). Does it already exist?
Thank you in advance

@vv181, Maya does not use synthetics for crosschain swapping. Maya only uses native assets for swapping. When you swap BTC to ETH, you send BTC to a wallet secured by TTS. The Mayachain observes blockchains of all integrated blockchains. When a transaction is send to Maya’s BTC wallet, the chain observes it along with the op return/memo  (that contains the data on which asset to swap to, to which wallet and some more things). Once all security measures have succeeded, Maya’s ETH wallet sends the ETH to the user’s Ethereum addresd.
It only uses these Synthetics for the Savers function. It is basically single sided staking (no exposure to CACAO, the asset used for dual lp’ing).
Why is this safer? Maya deals with native assets, not wrapped assets backed by non existing coins or smart contracts.

BTC users that dual LP their native bitcoin, or put their native BTC in a Savers vault, earn BTC as yield. More lucrative than just holding BTC in your wallet.

These wallets I mentioned, that hold the BTC liquidity, are in a TSS secured by many nodes (goal is 120). A node operator always bonds more than they can get by stealing assets. Also, users can withdraw funds at any time.


About Wallet Connect, there is demand for it from wallets. We’re going to explore these possibilities. Will keep you up to date on this!

About the fees, I agree, it could increase the fees. I’m against Brc20’s and ordinals and all new things that are happening. The Bitcoin chain was only made for BTC.

However I still see the need for getting decentralised exchanges, lending protocols and more. Today, Binance announced that it will be delisting Dash, Monero, Zcash and more privacy coins in some countries in Europe. This could happen to BTC too. At that moment, Maya, and other cross chain solutions will be there to still provide trading of crypto. Wallet Connect is a huge step for Bitcoin for this.

@Yogee, Maya Protocol is a fork of THORChain. So we do swaps between native unwrapped assets. We don’t have an dApps ourselves, but front ends can choose to integrate our crosschain swaps and Savers feature.
About the fees, no, you would only pay the Bitcoin network fees. Wallet Connect does not take commissions. Maya only has slippage fees, which it pays to its Liquidity Providers, providing native and unwrapped BTC, ETH, etc. Maya and THORChain are there to replace Centralised Exchanges.
Maya Website
https://www.mayaprotocol.com/
Front ends:
https://www.eldorado.market/
https://app.thorswap.finance/swap/BTC.BTC_LTC.LTC
https://app.thorwallet.org/swap

However I’m not here to promote the project, I’m here to advocate for brining native BTC to Wallet Connect. I think with the current and future uses cases, it would be good for bitcoin to have a better availability to be able to connect with dApps. I hope that people are interested in this


@vv181 Right now the usecases are Decentralised crosschain swapping, saving (earning native yield on your BTC) and soon also lending. In order to become decentralised, also Wallets need to join this movement.
We know that there is demand from Multichain wallets, such as Trustwallet, Exodus, MathWallet and more. So that really is not the problem.

About Ren Bridge… It’s still a wrapped version of Bitcoin. Wrapping tokens is risky and not safe. A perfect example of that is RenBTC actually. It does not exist anymore.

Hey Blockman,
Maya Protocol is not associated with the Maya wallet you’re talking about

Hey all,

I’m GiMa, business developer for Maya Protocol. Maya Protocol provides swaps between native assets in a decentralised way (BTC<>ETH for example) and a Savers vault to earn yield on your single side staked native BTC.
It is in Maya’s best interest to make it easy for wallets to connect their Bitcoin wallets to dApps. Right now, there isn’t really an universal way to do so.

I think many people here are familiar with Wallet Connect. Wallet Connect allows EVM’s, Cosmos chains and more to connect with dApps. Wallet Connect is used in almost all wallets. We’re now looking to add Dash to Wallet Connect since we will be integrating Dash as a new chain very soon.
We’re talking with the Wallet Connect team about this, and I think it would be awesome to develop this at the same time for Bitcoin as well.

I was wondering wether any steps have already been taken to do this in the past, or wether people are interested in developing this.

Looking forward to your replies!

GiMa