**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/)



- **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.

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