DApp Review - Easily Send Crypto on Telegram and Discord via TurboWallet!
The problem with traditional cryptocurrency wallets, is that they are often a bit too complicated to use for regular people. I have personally already lost track of how many friends have asked me to explain crypto wallets to them. You have these long addresses that you need to enter correctly & then there's the issue of adding the correct amount of fees.
With TurboWallet, sending and receiving cryptocurrency is made easy. A lot of people are already using instant messaging apps, such as Discord and/or Telegram, on a daily basis. What if you could just use those messaging apps to instantly send money to your friends? Now, that would make things a whole lot easier, right? The benefit of having a cryptocurrency wallet straight into your favorite messaging app, is that you don't have to go through the trouble of installing external wallet software.
The TurboWallet DApp does just that, it enables people to send cryptocurrency to their friends, without having to bother with complicated crypto addresses. You can send one of the supported cryptocurrencies, by using your friend's username as their address.
This is what makes TurboWallet one of the top wallet DApps on the State of the DApps platform in 2019!
TurboWallet Usage Statistics
State of the DApps provides a clear, easy-to-use interface, to monitor usage statistics of any given DApp. In the wallet category, TurboWallet currently takes up the 4th spot among 93 other wallet DApps.
How To Use TurboWallet
You can use TurboWallet on Telegram and Discord, the process of sending cryptocurrency to your friends is extremely easy and straightforward. On TurboWallet's main website, you can choose to either join the TurboWallet Telegram group or their Discord channel. Once you click on either of the buttons displayed in the image below, you will get prompted to open an invite on your Telegram or Discord app.
Now you should have joined the TurboWallet group/channel on either Telegram or Discord. While you can certainly use the TurboWallet DApp in the main public chats, I would suggest to open up a private message with the TurboWallet bots. By doing this, you can keep all your transactions private.
On Telegram, you just left-click on the TurboWallet username and then click on 'send message'. You'll see TurboWallet in the main chat, so it's pretty hard to miss. Now you can PM the TurboWallet bot and execute all the commands without them being public.
On Discord, the process is similar, you just right-click on the Turbo username (Which has a Bot tag) on the right-hand side and then click 'Message'. Again, now you can PM the TurboWallet bot and execute all the commands without them being public.
Okay, now you've successfully set up TurboWallet on your preferred instant messaging application, you can start sending one of the supported forms of cryptocurrency to your Discord/Telegram contacts.
Supported Coins
- GO
- Ethereum
- Turbo
- USDC
Sending & Receiving Cryptocurrency
Before you are able to send tokens to people, you first need to deposit tokens into your TurboWallet account. When you type in the /deposit [TOKEN] command, you will receive a wallet address where you can deposit your preferred forms of cryptocurrency.
The command structure for sending cryptocurrency to your friends is really easy to understand. I recommend first typing in /help in Telegram or Discord, that will display all the available commands. As you can see on the screenshots below, sending cryptocurrency is done by typing in /send AMOUNT [TOKEN] to [@USERNAME] (OR 0xADDRESS).
The TOKEN part obviously refers to your preferred token, you can send any of the 4 supported tokens, which are mentioned above.
The @USERNAME part of the command, refers to the Discord/Telegram account name of the person you want to send cryptocurrency to. The TOKEN part obviously refers to your preferred token, you can send any of the 4 supported tokens, which are mentioned above.
You do not need to type in [ ] when you enter the commands
Your friends will receive a notification from the TurboWallet bot after they've received the transaction. In some cases, their privacy settings may interfere with receiving these messages, but rest assured, they will have received the payment. They can just start their own PM with the TurboWallet bot to have access to the funds they've received.
If you want to add TurboWallet to your own Telegram or Discord group, you can simply add @turbowalletbot as a member (on Telegram) or follow the instructions given on this page (Discord).
Support for Crypto Collectibles
TurboWallet's website mentions that it has full support for crypto collectibles, but I've had trouble with this feature. They advertise being able to buy crypto collectibles with the /buy command, but this only seems to work for ROBOT crypto collectibles.
It doesn't help that the ROBOT website seems to be down, so I have no idea what the status of that project is.
This functionality seems to be a work in progress to say the least.
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
When it comes to cryptocurrency bots for Discord, this is not exactly the best one I've come across yet. It only has limited support for different cryptocurrencies, in that regard DiscordTip is much better and more widely used.
That said, it does have some redeeming features. It's very handy that you can use the same bot on Discord and Telegram, the commands are the same on both messaging apps & it does shine with its simplicity.
Now, the fact that there is almost no documentation about their crypto collectibles feature worries me a little bit. On TurboWallet's website, they link to non-existent websites (ROBOT) & it doesn't seem possible to purchase any other crypto collectibles from within the Telegram/Discord chat.
The basic features of TurboWallet do work well, but some parts definitely need to be expanded. I'd really like to see full support for crypto collectibles, together with extensive documentation about that aspect & more cryptocurrencies need to be supported if they want to compete with DiscordTip.
One other downside is that you do not have access to your private keys, this wallet is as secure as your Discord/Telegram, so I would suggest enabling 2FA.
My final score for TurboWallet is 3 out of 5 stars, mainly for the reasons I've given above. This DApp feels just a little bit unfinished, to say the least, but it does work.
Links
TurboWallet's Main Website
TurboWallet on State of the DApps
Very interesting. I am on Discord pretty much all day, so this could be a really great tool for me. I am definitely going to have to dig into it a little more. This was an awesome review! Thanks for sharing it!
Interesting! I agree, most crypto wallets are very confusing. Maybe when I actually get enough crypto to be worth sending around, Ill try this app! Thanks!
Something that I'm not really clear about, do you have the private keys for the "wallet" address? Or is this supposed to just function as a simple petty cash sort of wallet that you top up? In that case, I think I would prefer to use other wallets!
This is definitely not meant to hold large amounts, I mean, I don't think any Discord/Telegram wallet is. You don't have access to your private keys, part of the reason why I've given it a 3 star review as well, though I should really add that to the article.
I am on discord many times a day so that’s a good handy feature and a great review
Hopefully with time they will resolve the issues you mentioned
Hi @daan, thanks for the review it is really compelling and I think the turbo wallet will strike the attention of many crypto enthusiasts. However, I have a question. Does the turbo wallet work for people in the turbo telegram group and discord channel only or can it can be applied with other channels and telegram groups like is there a way you can install it and run it on other sites outside their groups?
@daan your work is super neat.
Yes, that's possible, I've added the info on how to do that to the article. You can also find it here:
https://help.turbowallet.io/guides/admin-guides
Really interesting read. I didn't know about that dapps like these even existed. I'll check it out, considering I spend a lot of time on discord and all
The main thing with wallets in General is the diversity for me. You have to keep a wallet almost for every coin apart :) But great review , will have ea look at it !! Thanks man !!
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Actually I am just hearing about this wallet for the first time but reading the review about it, no doubt. The wallet will be great to use
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