Automatic token convert / Background transactions
Cess
This feature can be very helpful to users where one can opt in to automatically convert to usd iou or any other token.
Example scenario where you have already 100 xrp in your account. But you have a friend that has an agreement with you to pay you in xrp at a later time but not using xumm. You are sleeping and you could set any incoming or in excess to your 100 xrp that numbers of xrp to be received will be automatically converted to usd iou at market price without your intervention, to avoid the volatility overtime. Or make the automatic convert time bounded, say you choose to make the automatic convert turned ON only for 4 hours or you can choose the time.
As an example above, it could be other tokens. When using this feature, trustline should be set first to convert to the token of your choice.
Wietse Wind
To have the XRP Ledger execute a transaction for your account, a transaction has to be signed with your secret. As Xumm is non custodial, only you (on your phone, in encrypted state) are able to sign transactions.
As Xumm does not keep your secret in decrypted state (in memory) (that would be super insecure) it's impossible for Xumm or the platform behind Xumm to generate a signature for a transaction passively exchanging funds.
This would either require a smart contract (Hook) on your account (but Hooks aren't there yet) or custody (which we aren't going to do).
So for now the only two options are:
- Do this yourself, at your convenience (so not automatic)
- Wait for Hooks
Cess
Wietse Wind: Thanks... Hope to see the hooks go live on the mainnet. Once that is live, i am excited to see this in xumm in the future.
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CrushedDreams
I Agree