Thread by @Jesta187

1/ With the WG+ groups now announced, all of our teams can now start publicly speaking more on our efforts.

I want to take a moment and start a thread for why I am excited for these efforts and shed some light on why they will bring benefit to #EOS and all of #EOSIO.

https://twitter.com/EosNFoundation/status/1461524197335838722

2/ First of all - I don't speak for the ENF. I am an advisor on the board and a project manager on this project. That's the scope.

I am incredibly passionate about bringing the #EOSIO ecosystem to a new level while making sure to pay attention to specific areas that lacked focus

3/ As the lead my goal is to ensure the various independent groups are coordinated and not focusing on overlapping topics, making connections between parties looking to collaborate, as well as ensuring ideas are relayed from group to group.

4/ I am also serving as a researcher in two of the groups, one focused on APIs and one focused on Wallets (for a lack of a better name). I have spent the last 6 years or so working specifically in this realm and have seen where most developers are going to hit brick walls.

5/ To give you a sense of the things we're researching, let's talk about API+ to start with. APIs in the crypto space are rough for most blockchains and could be improved significantly to better meet both user and application needs. This is true of EOS and EOSIO as well.

6/ Currently everyone is forced to use some pretty primitive APIs to retrieve data. It requires a lot of requests to stitch data together and manual work by the developer using it. This causes unneeded load on public resources, headaches for developers, and latency for users.

7/ Then there's history and transaction finality confirmation - both of which have requirements that are far too extreme today for most operators.

Research is going to go into all of this to ensure we determine a viable path forward to ease adoption in this space.

8/ Next is the Wallet+ group, which not only focuses in on wallets, but applications that need to integrate with them. If you've ever built an EOSIO application, you probably know how convoluted this topic is and how hard it can be to create an incredible user experience.

9/ The goal for this group isn't exclusively "wallets", but instead research on how to ease the developer pain when they need to interact with a user using a wallet. Topics include SDKs in multiple languages/frameworks, account creation, network resources, transacting, and more.

10/ If you have any sense of what it takes to build on any EOSIO chain, you probably have heard these same issues. These are the things we (these groups) are spending our time researching on behalf of the ENF. The ENF and EOS are paying for this research to be done.

11/ The resulting research will be open to all of EOSIO and the subsequent projects that spawn from it will be available to all. I would hope that other EOSIO chains help fund these resulting projects, since they'll see the benefit from those efforts and be able to use it.

12/ This is an opportunity for #EOSIO to come together and research some of the biggest problems and present solutions. As a representative of a BP on multiple of these chains, I sincerely hope we can all engage on these topics and make some significant progress.