Taken from the Polkadot Cloud Thread by S.Tabrizi.
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If we (as users) could have a place (on DESKTOP) where all the features are available for usage of the DOT token in a super simple, 1 click easy way - this could solve an immense amount of fragmentation issues.
Stake
Vote
Swap
Hold (Wallet)
Lend / Borrow (direct off hydration)
Bridge
Data (Analytics)
Block Explorer
All things that many of our internal wallet teams (including JS) have available - as one coherent unit, could really help the user experience for things like - Assethub & USDT or airdrops from chains that are difficult to claim.
Single-click staking or SwipeGov - amazing features.
Metamask & EVM support for tokens outside of Polkadot.
Bridging - easy to use and secured by Polkadot - how wonderful.
Debit Card with Nova Signup
Rewards with Polkadot App Download
***A one stop shop could really make the user feel like they are using Polkadot and many of the features, from one place, instead of having to figure out where else to go to use them.
Ontop of this - we could add all the amazing documentation, the wiki, tutorials, news updates, governance updates, Live Chat for Help (??)
Developer Portal for builders / Appchain creation with Tanssi
(Could even get creative with this and have a native non-opengov individual based funding system to promote / present / claim the work for posted app ideas like on buildondot.com)
Anything to decrease the user dropoff would be welcome.
Adding to this thought - I believe there is a way to cross Native Polkadot features and Cloud (rollups) services, which inherently increases the usage of DOT as DOT (through *the portal) would be the first point of contact - by offering some of the very great features available from other chains.
For example:
Direct Liquid Staking of Bifrost VDOT or Stella stDOT
Offering Polimec Funding Rounds direct from the Hub
Marketplace listings from Kodadot or Mythical
Marketplace with Region X & Lastic (Crazy!!!)
Social Profiles with MeWe
Multisig with Multix
Game Portal with Ajuna & Mythical
MemePad Portal
RWA Investments with Centrifuge
AI Chatbots with Origin Trail
Essentially, however we can start consolidating the Polkadot end user features into one place, the better - this would make the Polkadot user experience very competitive with other chains.
Finally, the informative nature of having a live news feed, dedicated & informative pages for projects on Polkadot Cloud will help create interest between different projects built on the network - further solidifying the interest of the user to build, explore and be part of this growing community (might even be a organic sales pitch for building on Cloud itself, too)
Once projects start seeing this collaborative, unified portal into the world of Polkadot - I believe it will all start to ‘make sense’ - and we would see a rush of new activity from users, developers, speculators and all else coming to our world.
Cheers.
Juba
Final Note: As time is of the essence - even a basic window like the metamask portfolio page would make sense to start, with the rest of features added on the go - maybe even OpenSource?
There is a reason why Metamask and CEX’s have users - not only are they necessary to hold / trade tokens with -
They are very, veryeasy to use.
Metamask Portfolio for reference:
Personal Fav - Binance Square Section