Lisk Hub 0.4.0 — Tutorial, Second Passphrase Registration and more
We are excited to announce release of Lisk Hub 0.4.0. This is another regular bi-weekly update with improvements to our web and desktop app. The main new features are:
-Onboarding process with a tutorial
-Second passphrase registration
-Launch protocol in the desktop version
Onboarding process
Lisk Hub is now one of many applications that have a visual way of introducing all the UI elements to new users. The tutorial is launched automatically after you log into an account for the first time in Lisk Hub. You’re taken through all the menu items and account information. Some users prefer to be introduced to applications this way, while others like to click their own way through the app, therefore you have the option to skip the tutorial. We strongly believe that even if you choose to skip the tutorial, the UI should be intuitive and user-friendly.
Second passphrase registration
You can now register a second passphrase to your Lisk ID in Lisk Hub. Second passphrase is a 12-word mnemonic, similar to the first passphrase, and can be registered as an additional layer of authentication to your Lisk ID. If registered, it will be required to confirm any outgoing transaction.
The feature in Lisk Hub is accessed from the gray carousel under “More” in the main menu. The registration is a multi-step process similar to creating a new account. The second passphrase is transaction stored on the blockchain, so there has to be a fee for it to prevent any malicious parties from bloating the blockchain. Currently the fee is 5 LSK, which is a lot given the current price of LSK. The fees will be adjusted in a future release of Lisk Core.
Launch protocol in the desktop version
Lisk launch protocol was first introduced in Lisk Nano 1.2.0 and is a scheme of links that allows you to easily access various sections within the application. There are already many community tools that use the launch protocol for the most useful use cases, pre-filling votes and sending transactions.
The launch protocol for voting is a big improvement of the user experience. Without it, you have to look up each delegate name if you want to share a list of delegates for voting. With the protocol, there is a link that allows you to seamlessly share lists of delegates for voting using the link lisk://main/voting/vote. The link accepts two optional parameters: votes and unvotes, each with a list of comma-separated delegate names, e.g. lisk://main/voting/vote?votes=genesis_14,genesis_24,genesis_55&unvotes=genesis_29
When transferring LSK tokens, you can create a link with two optional parameters:
-The receiver’s address (e.g. 537318935439898807L)
-The amount of LSK you want transferred (e.g. 100 LSK)
-The link will end up looking like this: lisk://main/transactions/send?recipient=537318935439898807L&amount=100.
If you have installed Lisk Hub 0.4.0, the link opens and pre-fills the send dialog with the values.
Other smaller tweaks
The first of the smaller tweaks comes handy if you manage multiple accounts. You can now copy the address from any of them in the account switcher without the need to switch to that account.
We have also made some tweaks to the account lock timeout in the upper right corner. The wording “Address timeout 09:52” was confusing to some users, thereforewe changed it to “ID lock in 09:52”, which better describes the fact that when the timeout runs out, the ID is locked and the passphrase will be required to perform any further transactions.
In addition, we added an option to reset the timeout back to ten minutes once the time left is below five minutes. This option is useful if you need more time to perform a transaction.
You can access the web version of the Lisk Hub at https://lisk.io/hub/. For downloading the desktop app and keeping an eye on the development of Lisk Hub in real time, please follow Lisk Hub on GitHub.
About the Author:
Vít Stanislav is a frontend developer for Lisk at Lightcurve and the project lead of Lisk Hub. Previously, he was developing web-based tools for Red Hat. He has plenty of additional frontend experience from developing online learning systems as a member of Adaptive Learning research group at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He is committed to making Lisk the blockchain technology with the best user experience.
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