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@walletconnect/sign-client
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@walletconnect/sign-client
Sign Client for WalletConnect Protocol
Description
This library provides a Sign Client for WalletConnect v2.0 Protocol for both Dapps and Wallets. Integration will differ from the perspective of each client as the Proposer and Responder, respectively. It's compatible with NodeJS, Browser and React-Native applications (NodeJS modules required to be polyfilled for React-Native)
Documentation
Check out documentation here.
Also available quick start for Dapps and for Wallets
License
Apache 2.0
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Sign Client for WalletConnect Protocol
The npm package @walletconnect/sign-client receives a total of 916,468 weekly downloads. As such, @walletconnect/sign-client popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @walletconnect/sign-client demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 21 Dec 2023
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