Vanity Address Generator

Detailed Plan

Ideas

For example, your vanity address could end with your name.
For a service provider, why not use a vanity address ending with letters 'thanks'?
Surprise your (girl)friend with a hardware wallet, having the first address end with her/his name!

So many possibilities!

Proof of concept

The following address has a sexy end:
addr1v88l2wgr2nqk97lx6hu92ns94ep855afsvgms7427f9ykcq8ysexy
This address ends with specific 5 letters 'adaly':
addr1q8eh88wvphv06p65qd4q5947ysayppkwfjuhfasg6qewmw8fm975v2vlf2fznsg7rkaz32urld92vq4pn9p8ydhadxlqvadaly

How does it work?

Adaly vanity address generator can be run in an offline air-gapped machine. You will get a Ledger passphrase as a result. Passphrase is used with Ledger Nano X or Ledger Nano S to open the wallet with the desired fancy address.

Wallet support

Yoroi, Adalite and Adaly wallets support the Ledger hardware wallets.

Funding

Funding will be used to pay for the development of the vanity generator and writing the how-to manual.

Budget

$9,939 Development of the vanity generator
$2,000 Writing of how-to manual

Restrictions

"I do not own a Ledger hardware wallet!"
Consider getting one! Meanwhile, you can access your vanity address at Adaly Wallet by using your 24-word seed phrase. However, we do not recommend it, as it is an unsafe practice to share your seed phrase. Once you have entered your seed phrase into the computer, it is forever unsafe! Adaly Wallet has a security advisory for logins with seed phrase.
"Can I have the address with my name?"
Most of us can. Some can't. Is your name short enough? Does it have letter 'b', 'i', 'o' in it?
Cardano addresses are encoded with Bech32, therefor do not have all the letters available (for example, it is missing letters 'b', 'i' and 'o'). Some of these letters can be substituted with similar looking numbers (e.g. zero).
"I don't know how to run the generator!"
We will write a step-by-step manual guiding you through the process safely.

Definition of Success

Product is shared with the public before 3/6/12 months.

Final product

If successful, the vanity generator will be shared December 15th 2021 through a GitHub and posted on the 'Adaly Wallet' Twitter account.

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