Introduction
Token management across different networks is a cumbersome process. Although many bridges have emerged to offer connectivity across networks, the manual process of bridging assets can be quite laborious. If Ethereum were to scale and to become powerful enough to have a widespread impact on humanity, interconnectivity between its decentralized scaling solutions needs to be intuitive to use.
To solve this problem, we are building Candide: an open source self-custodial wallet that enables cross-rollup transactions. Users can spend their funds seamlessly across networks. As an EOA, Candide Alpha currently achieves this by having a bridge built within the wallet. With the help of Hop Protocol, Candide can securely communicate across several networks by proposing a pre-transaction to move the assets to the destination chain. The feasibility of our proposed solution is supported by a product demo that is currently live, with ETH transfers between Arbitrum and Optimism. Allowing for interactions with any contract on any rollups is expected to ease the burden of using the multiple scaling solutions built on top of Ethereum. Building accessible wallets will standardize Ethereum’s Layer2, resulting in consistent use of the network at low fees