apps
Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains. (by polkadot-js)
tools
Various cli tools for Polkadot and Substrate chains, including basic node monitoring, making API queries via a cli app and other command-line tools (by polkadot-js)
| apps | tools | |
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| 29 | 2 | |
| 1,782 | 278 | |
| 0.7% | 0.7% | |
| 9.9 | 9.1 | |
| 4 days ago | 18 days ago | |
| TypeScript | TypeScript | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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Posts with mentions or reviews of apps.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.
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Newbie here looking for help on staking in ledger - DOT Stuck bonded?
Side note: It does take time for everything to the validators on Polkadot-JS App to load, but I've never seen an issue on the repo about them _never_ loading.
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sign a message with a ledger?
I provided a workaround to migrate a Ledger account to Polkdakot-JS extension and sign from there: 6 days ago - https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/5014
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Transaction has a bad signature
I think it has to do with the wrong network you chose, check this GitHub repo from polkadot https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/4487
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How to pay transaction fees using the sufficient asset created by using pallet_assets?
Polkadot-JS UI doesn't support the functionality to pay with a sufficient asset yet. When using Polkadot-JS UI, transaction fee needs to be paid in DOT.
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Ledger issue. homa:mint 1010: Invalid Transaction: Transaction has a bad signature.
Other people have already encountered this issue on Kusama network, you can see discussions here: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/4487
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accounts keep disappearing
Please add the information to the bug report I've already posted as an issue to the Polkadot-JS Apps repo here: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/8465
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Polkadot Digest 22 June 2022
If you are attempting to verify the SHA512 hash of the Electron version of Polkadot-JS, note that the package manager base64-encodes the hash. See this issue for how to convert: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/4713
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polkadot.js 1010 bad sig error on MOVR
Even though Polkadot-JS App will show an Ethereum-style address, I don't know if it can actually interact with the Moonriver/Moonbeam networks - I'm seeing a few open PRs/issues which make me think it does not work (e.g. https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/pull/5216)
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Polkadot Digest 22 Apr 2022
There is a proposal to port the Substrate tip bot to the Polkadot-JS repository, as well, allowing users to be tipped for PRs and other contributions to the Polkadot-JS codebase. https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/7339
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How to get off of the Polkadot.js extension
Maybe you can find a solution here: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/3681
tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-12.
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Polkadot Digest 5 June 2023
Did you know that you can access the power of the Polkadot-JS API via the command line? https://github.com/polkadot-js/tools/tree/master/packages/api-cli
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Staked Kusama lost? How to restore?
If it still doesn't work, you can use this tool to interact with the chain to transfer your balances out of the accounts.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing apps and tools you can also consider the following projects:
extension - Taho, the community owned and operated Web3 wallet.
api - Promise and RxJS APIs around Polkadot and Substrate based chains via RPC calls. It is dynamically generated based on what the Substrate runtime provides in terms of metadata.
extension - Simple browser extension for managing Polkadot and Substrate network accounts in a browser. Allows the signing of extrinsics using these accounts. Also provides a simple interface for compliant extensions for dapps.
hoogii-wallet - Hoogii is a crypto wallet extension for Chia Network
substrate-ledger-ed25519 - Extract Substrate and Polkadot compatible ed25519 keys from Ledger mnemonic phrases