Light Client Extension: account management

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The Vision

The Polkadot Connect (temporary name) signer extension is an account management and signing tool with an integrated light client provider through which dApp users can interact with Polkadot chains.
It is meant to offer an example of integrating a JSON-RPC spec compliant light-client provider into a hot wallet and how dApps can interact with it.

It doesn’t intend to be an onboarding tool or compete with ecosystem wallets by including features like staking or portfolio management, but should provide seamless account import / export for users of other wallets.

Apart from that, it aims to bring a better user experience for Polkadot users looking for seamless interaction with the chain by offering customizable security robustness. These users are usually developers and people holding little value in their accounts.

The Plan

Account Management

• seamless account import from existing wallets like Polkadot.js extension, Polkadot Vault, Talisman etc.
• import parent and derived accounts at once
• create an account specific to a single consensus family (no more available on all networks)
• derive accounts from existing seeds
• export accounts for backup and re-use in other wallets