Project Name:
Dust
Contact Details:
- Charles-Édouard Mass & Valentin Cart
- hello[at]dustapp[dot]xyz + charles[at]webisoft[dot]com + vcart[at]webisoft[dot]com
Summary:
Dust is a privacy-focused payment application that feels like a sleek consumer finance app - however it is fully decentralized under the hood. Users can send and receive private payments between trusted contacts, abstracted via Train Protocol bridge contracts and Passkey account abstraction.
- No wallets, no seed phrases. Just tap, type, send.
- Train Protocol contracts handle secure, gas-efficient cross-chain settlement.
- Passkeys power passwordless account creation & auth.
- Aztec PXE provides privacy-preserving transactions under the hood.
- The UI resembles a regular app, but the rails are trustless.
TLDR - make sending $50 to a friend feel like using any other app, without compromising privacy.
Timeline:
- Start Date: Upon grant confirmation (est. July 2025)
- End Date: Mid-Late August 2025
- Testnet Deployment Target: Mid-Late August 2025
About Us:
- We’re an in-house product team at Webisoft, focused on composable, pragmatic dapps that blur the line between consumer-grade UX and decentralized infrastructure.
- Our culture is ship-fast and stack-agnostic. Dust is built to feel like a regular app.
- More info about our past work at webisoft.com
Technical Approach:
- UX-first Abstraction: No dApp jargon, no visible addresses.
- Passkey Auth: Users sign in via device-bound credentials.
- Private Transactions: All transfers are encrypted and shielded via Aztec PXE.
- Trusted Contacts: Users create and manage their contacts.
- Usernames: Users register their usernames & add supported networks for inflows.
Grant Amount:
- $5,000 USD
Budget Rationale:
| Description | Amount |
|---|---|
| Two (2) Full-Time Developers ($2,000 x 2) | $4,000 |
| QA & Testing | $500 |
| Project Management | $500 |
| TOTAL | $5,000 |
