Add derivation path standards

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Add derivation path standards

laboon opened this issue 7 months ago · comments

Bill Laboon commented 7 months ago

This information belongs on the https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-account-advanced#derivation-paths page

You can get the text from Gav's Hackmd here: https://hackmd.io/@polkadot/rJ5nxXAHn

Polkadot Forum · Answer 1 · Wed Dec 06 2023 23:33:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This issue has been mentioned on Polkadot Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-standards-proposal-psp-to-define-hierarchical-deterministic-hd-key-derivation-paths/2941/6

Filippo · Answer 2 · Tue Dec 12 2023 23:16:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Isn't this just how Polkadot Vault handles Derivation? I would not add a section "standard derivation", but rather add a section about how vault/signer handles derivation. Would this be ok?

Josep M Sobrepere · Answer 3 · Wed Dec 13 2023 04:01:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Isn't this just how Polkadot Vault handles Derivation? I would not add a section "standard derivation", but rather add a section about how vault/signer handles derivation. Would this be ok?

I think that it's actually how subkey and "polkadot-js apps" handle derivation. It's possible that Vault handles it the same way, but I'm not certain.

As someone who has been trying to learn about these things, I couldn't agree more with @laboon: this information definitely belongs into that section 💯

EDIT

The document starts with the following sentence:

All paths as per subkey standard.

🙂