Thread by @avsa

This is a bitter post to announce, but we are discontinuing Mist. You can read the full post here but for your convenience I will try to summarize in a few tweets: medium.com/@avsa/sunsetti…

There are mainly two reasons a good and a bad one: ecosystem and security

Security is the bad one: there's no way around electron security, it was never meant to run arbitrary code. Brave has long moved past it, we tried alternatives but they were all underwhelming. We feel we can't recommend anyone running a crypto browser on electrum at this moment.

Ecosystem is the good one: with aforementioned Brave, Opera etc, we feel browser vendors are now very close to having full web3 support than we were of building a secure browser framework. We didn't want to do redundant work.

In a sense, this feels like a victory: Mist was the app that launched the ERC20 standard and set many others (checksum, blockies, ens). We feel that our work was influential in showing other apps a way forward and the integrated ethereum vision for a better web.

Our team will remain working at the foundation. We took everything that was good about Mist and are repackaging in many apps, including a few things we can't see anywhere like Grid, an app to help users manage and download nodes. We hope to help other EF teams in design and UX.

Thanks @feindura, @evertonfraga, @omgwtfmarc, @ryanghods, @philipplgh, @MaiaVictors for your contributions!