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For Recipient:
There are three ways to receive GRIN by using Vite Wallet. They are respectively “use transaction file”, “use HTTP” and “use VITE address”. In these three ways only “use HTTP address” is involved in VITE gateway. And the other two methods, “use transaction file” and “use VITE address” are all based on the protocol of GRIN. When you choose to “use transaction file” to receive GRIN, the concerning reception will not be sent to VITE gateway; and the same goes to “use VITE address” where only both sender and recipient can decrypt the file which is encrypted (x25519). So in these two ways, only sender and recipient are concerned, nothing else, which are consistent with the interactive mode of using GRIN’s transaction file. Vite will not take any reception when the recipient chooses these two ways. And transaction fee will happen only once in these two ways.
When choosing to “use HTTP” in Vite wallet, people should trust VITE gateway ( you can find more trust after viewing our official website: https://vite.org). Therefore, VITE is through the below technical solutions to guarantee the recipient’s transactions traceable.
Firstly, let me introduce to you why needs VITE gateway to forward GRIN to the recipient. Because users can not make sure their wallet online all the time, but the VITE gateway is always online. And on the VITE gateway, every user will have a corresponding and independent GRIN account, which means the asset of every user is connected to that account directly. The VITE gateway starts with https and both recipient and sender can check their transaction record in the use of the same salted ID in their own wallet. When VITE gateway received a transaction, the recipient can find the transaction process in Vite Wallet (under developing). This method is for the benefits of users by making a transaction more convenient. Of cause, you can choose the other two ways as you preferred. More details: A user-friendly mobile wallet for GRIN is going to be released - Vite Wallet
In the future, Vite wallet hopes more wallets support VITE address. If both recipient and sender are using VITE protocol, they can enjoy the below benefits:
- safe, in other words, only the recipient and sender have the reception;
- receive and send GRIN even they are not online simultaneously;
- only one transaction fee happened.
For Sender:
When you send GRIN by using Vite wallet, “use HTTP” and “use transaction file” both obey GRIN principle and have nothing to do with VITE gateway.