🗃️Connect

Connecting wallets and picket wallet objects

Connect Method

Picket client SDKs contain a convenience method for connecting to wallets

Ethereum

// default is the Ethereum mainnet
picket.connect();
// you can also pass the "ethereum" explicitly
// picket.connect({ chain: "ethereum" });

Solana

picket.connect() triggers a wallet connection request which involves a pop up and/or redirect that will ask users to connect to any supported wallet of a picket supported blockchain.

It also triggers a picket compatible signature request for you that leverages a secure picket generated nonce.

Once the user connects their wallet and signs the message, you will receive a response with a Picket wallet object that contains the walletAddress, signature and provider which can be used for future on-chain operations with your web3 library of choice.

When to Use

picket.login() handles calling the picket.connect() function for you. So, if you're using picket.login() you don't need to manually call picket.connect() However, if you want to have access to a wallet for future on chain operations then the picket.connect() method is an easy and convenient way to accomplish that. You can use it alongside picket.login() like so:

import Picket from "@picketapi/picket-js"
const picket = new Picket('YOUR_PUBLISHABLE_KEY_HERE')

const { walletAddress, signature, provider } = await picket.connect()
const { accessToken } = await picket.login({ walletAddress, signature })

By using the connect() method here, you not only authenticate the wallet, you can also now use provider for future on chain interactions. For example, in order to get the wallet balance of the connected wallet you can do the following using the ethers.js library.

import { ethers } from "ethers";

const wallet = new ethers.providers.Web3Provider(provider);
const signer = wallet.getSigner();
await signer.getBalance()

Anatomy of a Connect Response

{
    address: "0x...abc",
    signature: "0xSignature",
    provider: {providerObject},
    // only returned when signing a SIWE-formatted message
    context: {
        domain: "example.com",
        uri: "https://example.com/login",
        chainID: 137,
        issuedAt: "2022-06-10T12:14:28Z"
    },
}

Property	Description
address	The connected walletAddress
signature	A valid picket signature signed by the wallet
provider	A ethers.js and web3.js compatible wallet provider object that can be used to facilitate on-chain operations via these open source libraries.
context	The signing context for SIWE messages. This is needed to allow the server to verify the message signature.

Supported Wallets

EVM-Compatible Chains

While you can pass in a walletAddress and signature signed by any wallet. Currently picket.connect() makes over 100 wallets available to users via the convenient ready-built Picket connect UI. These include:

• Metamask (And any browser injected wallet)

• Wallet Connect Compatible Wallets (Rainbow, Trust, Gnosis Multisig, Crypto.com, etc.)

• Coinbase Wallet

If there is a wallet, or wallet standard you would like supported let us know: [email protected].

You can also build your own UI to let users select a wallet to connect to and/or use an open source 3rd party UI for this like Web3Modal. You can then follow the manual signing auth flow in order to use picket to verify ownership of the wallet and enable token gating.

Solana

On Solana, picket.connect() currently supports the Phantom Wallet and Solflare Wallet.

If there is a Solana wallet, or wallet standard you would like supported let us know: [email protected].