I'm not currently solving it that way but my next side project definitely is going to try out metamask as the mean of authenticating the user.
A friend of mine showed me some "dapps"(decentralized apps) that he uses (uniswap.io, axieinfinity.com and some other i forgot). They all used metamask as the "login platform". The point is that you have your key in this metamask plugin that is stored in your browser and you can sign things. That means you get a challenge from the server and metamask then asks you if you want to sign that challenge.
The hole onboarding experience was super easy and you theoretically could use that to pay for some premium features of a service.
I thought that is really cool because you don't need to enter email, username, password and whatnot. You just click authorize and you're in.
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I'm not currently solving it that way but my next side project definitely is going to try out metamask as the mean of authenticating the user.
A friend of mine showed me some "dapps"(decentralized apps) that he uses (uniswap.io, axieinfinity.com and some other i forgot). They all used metamask as the "login platform". The point is that you have your key in this metamask plugin that is stored in your browser and you can sign things. That means you get a challenge from the server and metamask then asks you if you want to sign that challenge. The hole onboarding experience was super easy and you theoretically could use that to pay for some premium features of a service.
I thought that is really cool because you don't need to enter email, username, password and whatnot. You just click authorize and you're in.
It works if your app is only used by crypto crowd.. I'd never use it though, I don't want to have to have metamask installed in my browser.