**Telenova: Polkadot Wallet built into Telegram Retroactive Funding for 6 months**

**Full proposal**: [Telenova #1 Retroactive Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Cy6qLPbekk-UkfurEVoLsRB8pgN_2gnzvyoTD9xeRA/)

**![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/A0JoXhNarXh0i8ayisQaWzSmWRpRZ4KhFwgoASk5M79ePQPR1sO7LORlGKp4HWQVR6b4kn5CdZvCUj8hpy0inVJdwByiIrdfleD0r8KXmSfNzzesp8vERSfTAY9al6g5laPU_a7y-BMPl0cDZbKV2_U)**

[**Telenova**](https://t.me/telenova_app_bot) features:

- 🖥️📱 Self-custodial, cross-platform Polkadot wallet available directly on Telegram
- ☁️ Super simple user-friendly onboarding with Telegram cloud backups
- 🎁 Gifts: Send tokens directly to anyone on Telegram
- 💳 Buy/Sell DOT and KSM tokens 
- 🌐 Send & Receive DOT and KSM tokens to/from any blockchain address 
- 💲 View your Polkadot and Kusama balances in fiat currencies
- 💌 Balance notifications for your wallet in Telegram
- 🔐 Secured by your personal Telegram cloud with manual account backups
   


**Context of the proposal**
**![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/w8POkh9_mZH9G2ffGefoNlFjOMald5sV6ONeJOJmNdiL-IwTUnhei3ya2hxJVyHu-YyY_a61CFymL0hLAG8QJGTW8NrKv8_fcDB0qn4lNpI0-3hgFSKfDjfotGpKHIKdRutxD-_GjEZKTexow6te9j8)**

**[Telenova](https://t.me/telenova_app_bot)** is a brand new **self-custodial Polkadot wallet** that **runs directly in Telegram** providing users a **simple** and **clean user interface** to manage DOT & KSM tokens. 

**Create a Polkadot wallet in seconds** and get ready to **Send tokens to anyone in Telegram**, Buy/Sell DOT and KSM, get notified about balance changes, and view your total balance in multiple fiat currencies, secured by each user’s own personal Telegram cloud and manual backups.

![image](https://i.ibb.co/WP5g9gZ/2197-Anton-Khvorov-1711377935464.png)

Our goal for **Telenova** is to build and maintain an **easy, clean, high-quality, open-source** **wallet** for **new users** (nocoiners/web2) to expand the Polkadot user base and fill the gap in the ecosystem.

This proposal covers the **retroactive funding for the research and development** of Telenova as a cross-platform application for the Polkadot ecosystem. 

The project contained a **Research phase of 2 months** to dive into the details of how to develop and publish a self-custodial wallet like Telenova as a TApp, as well as testing capabilities and limitations of Telegram as an application platform. 

**The next 4 months — Development phase** — this time has been dedicated to developing, verifying, setting up CI/CD, and the [release of Telenova](https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1771176616665756058) as a product that anyone from the 800M+ monthly active Telegram users can access today.

![image](https://i.ibb.co/xzJ4rK4/2197-Anton-Khvorov-1711377959912.png)

**Please feel free to review full proposal**: [Telenova #1 Retroactive Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Cy6qLPbekk-UkfurEVoLsRB8pgN_2gnzvyoTD9xeRA/)



The purpose of this proposal by Novasama Technologies GmbH is to request retroactive funding for the development of a self-custodial Polkadot wallet integrated into Telegram. Telenova aims to simplify the onboarding process for new and web2 users into the Polkadot ecosystem. Its features include user-friendly account creation with Telegram cloud backups, the ability to send tokens directly via Telegram usernames, and fiat currency balance displays, among others. Telenova is designed to lower the barrier to entry for the Polkadot network by leveraging Telegram's extensive user base for mass adoption, providing an accessible and secure wallet services.

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- **Problem Statement:** Retroactive funding proposal for the development of Telenova, a self-custodial Polkadot wallet integrated into Telegram, targeting new users to expand the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Significance:** Filling a gap in the Polkadot ecosystem by providing a user-friendly wallet accessible to over 800M Telegram users, aiming to increase Polkadot adoption.
- **Proposed Solution:** Develop and maintain Telenova as a cross-platform application for Polkadot, with a 2-month research phase and a 4-month development phase.
- **Expected Outcomes:** Increased Polkadot user base, improved accessibility for new users, and a high-quality, open-source wallet integrated into Telegram.

#611 Telenova: Polkadot Wallet built into Telegram. Retroactive Funding for 6 months

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