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I've entered the wonderful world of Tezos from an EVM based background, with some familiarity with Web3/EthersJS. I'm currently trying to understand how dApps communicate with wallets. From my understanding, TZIP-10 is the proposal which sets the standards for how dApps can communicate to Wallets. I understand that Beacon is the implementation of this standard, but I have some confusion between a few repositories and would really appreciate if anyone could help clarify my understanding.

I'm trying to understand what the difference between @taquito/beacon and @airgap/beacon-sdk is: What roles do they play? Is the Beacon-SDK developed by AirGap required to use a wallet? What is the equivalent of a provider injection on Tezos?

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Taquito is a library for building dApps and wallets from ECAD. Beacon is a library to communicate from a dApp to a wallet from AirGap

If you look at the source code for @taquito/beacon-wallet here: https://github.com/ecadlabs/taquito/blob/master/packages/taquito-beacon-wallet/src/taquito-beacon-wallet.ts you will see that it imports the airgap SDK

@Taquito/Beacon is simply a wrapper around airgap beacon to allow taquito users to easily add it to their dApps / wallets

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  • Thanks! That was super helpful, is AirGap Beacon the only library that supports being able to communicate from dApp to Wallets or are there also alternative solutions?
    – Hevar
    Dec 7, 2022 at 14:57
  • @HevarAbrihem Beacon is the only one in production. Possible there will be others in the future. Currently everything in Tezos uses Beacon
    – Simon McLoughlin ♦
    Dec 7, 2022 at 15:28
  • Gotcha, so I'd have to re-build Beacon from the ground up essentially if I want to connect a custom wallet / customise the modal
    – Hevar
    Dec 7, 2022 at 16:17
  • @Hevar no not at all. The modal has a predefined list of known wallets to choose from (that you could be added too once the wallet is available), the other option opens a QR code that any other wallet can use to connect to the dApp. Thats how wallets test while in development
    – Simon McLoughlin ♦
    Dec 7, 2022 at 16:55
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To your question in the comment, I think it will be (probably soon) possible to use Walletconnect v2 via Taquito for communication. See the following github links in Taquito and Beacon:

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  • Hey David, I've heard that there are a few people working on this, I'm wondering if anyone has tried to build a simple wallet connector that has a customisable modal, or if is there is any library to start building a simple Beacon-like implementation for wallets.
    – Hevar
    Dec 7, 2022 at 16:18

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