The official Algorand wallet is now open-source while its codebase has been made publicly accessible.
“We’re excited to announce that the official Algorand Wallet codebase has been open-sourced and is now publicly available. Developers can access the Algorand-Wallet repository via our main GitHub organization,” declared the team.
Algorand represents one of the first large-cap crypto projects that offered staking capabilities to holders.
But in recent times, the closed-source nature of the official wallet became a source of criticism. Since pretty much the entire industry is based on the ideas of decentralizing, community governance, and non-censorship, many saw that the Algorand wallet wasn’t aligning with these ideas.
“The goal behind Algorand Wallet is to give the Algorand community a secure, trusted, convenient, and powerful way to interact with Algorand ecosystem products and the Algorand Blockchain,” declared a developer at Algorand, Ian Cross, adding “As part of that mission, we believe that making our code open source is critical to the success of the project.”
The update received positive feedback.
Source: Cryptoslate.com