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* add help on account app * add help on addresses app * add help on transfer app * typos * add help for voting app * add help slidein for accounts * correction session needs to be ed25519 * add transfer and address book * add democracy and fix typo * Update packages/app-democracy/src/md/basic.md Co-Authored-By: Tbaut <33178835+Tbaut@users.noreply.github.com> * Apply suggestions from code review Co-Authored-By: Tbaut <33178835+Tbaut@users.noreply.github.com> * Update packages/app-transfer/src/md/basic.md * use both DOTs and Units, move crypto to help, fix typo
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Account
An account is identified by its public address on the network. The network will not know about the name you give to this account in this app. It is totally fine to give away this address, this is also the only information needed to receive funds.
Security
The public address is generated from a private key, itself generated from a seed or a mnemonic phrase. The seed or the mnemonic phrase should never be shared with anybody as they give access to your funds. It must be stored securely.
The password needed to create an account is used to encrypt your private key. You must choose a strong and unique password.
This password is also used to encrypt the private key in the backup file downloaded upon account creation. Thanks to this file together with your account password, you can recover your account.
Account recovery
You can recover an account from its:
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seed or mnemonic:
From the "Create account" tab, type your seed or mnemonic in the associated field. -
backup file (also called JSON keystore file) and the account's password: From the "Restore account" tab. Upload your backup file and type in the password associated.
Minimum allowed balance
Accounts with a balance lower than the minimal amount, 100 milliUnits (miliDOTs for Polkadot) as of writing are considered as nonexistent for the network. If an account's balance ever drops below this amount, it is removed from the network. In this application, it will still be visible, but with a balance of 0.
For a fund transfer to a new account (read an account with a balance of 0), if the amount transferred is less than the minimum allowed balance, then the transfer will "succeed" but the destination account will not be created (read its balance will remain 0); this essentially burns the transfer balance from the sender, because the receiver's balance never exceed the minimum allowed balance.
If the receiver already exists (read it has a balance greater than 0), it is perfectly possible to transfer very low amounts.
Cryptography
Substrate and Polkadot use Schnorrkel/Ristretto x25519 ("sr25519") as its key derivation and signing algorithm.
Sr25519 is based on the same underlying Curve25519 as its EdDSA counterpart, Ed25519. However, it uses Schnorr signatures instead of the EdDSA scheme. Schnorr signatures bring some noticeable benefits over the ECDSA/EdDSA schemes. For one, it is more efficient and still retains the same feature set and security assumptions. Additionally, it allows for native multisignature through signature aggregation.
If you wish to validate, the session account needs to use "ed25519" cryptography.