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बटुआ (Batua) 🇮🇳

बटुआ (pronounced 'batua') is a concept for cryptocurrency in India. It consists of a simple end-user wallet with a decentralised non-custodial stablecoin pegged to Indian Rupee.

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Problem Statement

😀 What is Batua...?Batua (बटुआ) is an end-to-end "concept" for cryptocurrency in India. 🇮🇳The word Batua is the phonetic spelling of the word for "wallet" in the Hindi language. 👛Users of Batua transact entirely in Rupaysa, a decentralised non-custodial stablecoin pegged to the Indian Rupee. ⛓️The project's key objective was to clearly demonstrate what is technically possible today, combining...well-understood crypto primitives 📜,an emerging Layer 2 solution 📈,some bespoke development 🔢....to make a robust and usable wallet, ready for adoption. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦The solution comprises:a decentrally-governed and non-custodial mechanism for a stablecoin, pegged to the Indian Rupee, based on MakerDAO SCD, using a Chainlink Oracle populated from CryptoCompare. ⚖️a minimalist web-wallet user-interface for sending and receiving Rupaysa, using Biconomy's gasless meta-transactions to pay fees on Matic L2, for a simplified user experience. 😺The result is a concept to help introduce users to crypto, for making everyday payments in India. 📅🧐 Why Batua...?India is an incredibly diverse country... but it is united in its use of the Indian Rupee. 🇮🇳Digital payments for everyday spending are already common, where users scan QR codes with their smartphones, and pay using real money. 🤳With a population of 1.3bn, and ~700m smartphones, it may be reasonable to expect Batua to find product-market fit in India. 🥳

Solution

Specific DeliverablesUX Research & UI DesignUser Persona DefinitionLanguage and Localisation ResearchInformation Architecture and branded UI DesignsStablecoin ArchitectureMakerCOW... a clone of MakerDAO SCD, deployed on Goerli (Layer 1)Chainlink Oracle presenting onchain ETH/INR price feed from CryptoCompareCOW tokens as MKR-like governance tokensDockerised scripted deployment of end-to-end stackGasless Payment SystemMatic Layer 2 for retrieving account balanceBiconomy meta-transaction relayer for gasless transferWeb Wallet AppMinimalist React web app at https://batua.bohendo.comBasic onboarding flow, minimalist UI and low-friction UXAlpha "investor" app at https://batua.bohendo.com/investDetails of the Chainlink-powered oracle to set the peg price:Contract on Goerli: 0x07612C2dD1310dF712b61F510C08CA8c3fe2E883An example update on Goerli, fulfilled by a new chainlink node at https://link.bohendo.com, is available for review at this transaction hash: 0xdd131b71359407634eba6c8d6a62635ecf699669a71e6b2bf2fffac5d59e0c74All work shared at github.com/batuaWallet.

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ETHOnline

2024

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