💡 Integration and support of DRep handles within DRep Directory

[Ryun1]

Area

Delegation Pillar

Is there new design needed?

Yes

What?

What are handles?

• handles are a widely used Cardano address resolution service

• Handles work by minting a handle NFT and storing this at a payment address

  • the handle holder can then tell people his handle i.e $ryun1
  • tooling such as block explorers and wallets allow users to search addresses by a handle, and then show the user the address where that handle is, so for $ryun1 it is addr1q86dnpkv
  • this is nice, as to send me ada, you don't need to remember my address, you can just remember my handle.
  • tools and wallets can resolve a handle to an address via the handle api

GovTool integration

• Handles are in the late stages of adding support for DRep ID resolution, and have reached out to see if GovTool could integrate handle support
• We should be able to resolve handles to DRep IDs using the handle API
• We should be able to resolve DRep IDs to handles using the handle API

Links

Please, see below the information to resolve DRep Handles:

https://public.koralabs.io/documentation/DRepResolution.pdf

As mentioned on the doc above, you can also use our API to resolve DRep Handles:

Mainnet: https://api.handle.me/swagger/

Preview: https://preview.api.handle.me/swagger/

Preprod: https://preprod.api.handle.me/swagger/

This is an API call for the NFT SubHandle $goose@drep on Mainnet:
https://api.handle.me/handles/goose@drep

Why?

• Handles are widely used in the ecosystem
• Simple integration using handle's api, is not a big technical lift for GovTool
• Should deliver value to users

How?

Suggested Integration

(@m-i-k-e to review)

1. Searching for DRep in directory via handle

• add logic to the DRep directory search, so when a user searches an ada handle GovTool uses the handle API to resolve this to the DRep ID and then uses the DRep ID on the normal search logic
• this should be a simple addition; if search term starts with $ index handle API of DRep ID

2. Resolve payment addresses provided via DRep metadata

• when registering as a DRep, users could provide a ada handle, GovTool could resolve this to a payment address

3. Showing associated handles on DRep details page

• It might be nice to show if the DRep has a handle associated with their DRep ID
• we can move this to a second issue, once 1. and 2. is achieved

(Optional) User Story with acceptance criteria

No response

[MSzalowski]

Also, we should support ADA handles as payment addresses in DRep registration and edit form.

End in Treasury Withdrawal governance action

[Ryun1]

Also, we should support ADA handles as payment addresses in DRep registration and edit form.

good idea, ill edit the issue, to include this