Beta User Interface

Rocket Pool is designed to be used for everyday users wishing to stake their ether and also 3rd Party businesses who want to provide staking services for their clients without any of the hassle of setting up a staking network.

For your everyday users, we’ll be providing a sleek, minimal and easy to use interface which is currently undergoing heavy work while we reach for our next milestone, the beta release of Rocket Pool. Below is a video that shows the current UI feel and features, it’s very much a work in progress and as you’ll see from the screenshots below, some elements have already been updated from the video.

More screenshots below show some of the updated UI sections, from managing your connected Ethereum accounts to notifications of your deposit events with Rocket Pool.

Account Selection

Ethereum account selection

Rocket Pool will detect all current connected Ethereum accounts. If you’re using MetaMask or a local node such as Parity / Geth, these will be automatically detected and you can choose which one you wish to use with Rocket Pool. Future support for hardware wallets such as Ledgers is planned.

Deposits

Making a new deposit

Making deposits into Rocket Pool will be a quick and easy process for users. Simply click the deposit icon, enter the amount of ether you wish to deposit and select the staking duration you wish to use (3/6/9/12 months).

The status of your current deposits

When you deposit ether into Rocket Pool, it is placed into a Minipool, this is essentially a smart contract that contains a group of users pooling their ether together in order to meet the minimum staking amount required by Casper. These Minipools go through various stages, the progress of which can be visually tracked here. When you first deposit ether, it is placed into a Minipool that is ‘accepting deposits’. When enough ether is received to begin staking, the Minipool enters a new status of ‘countdown’. This stage is a short period where users can withdraw their deposit if they change their mind before it is locked in with Casper for the selected staking duration. All statuses and their progress can be easily viewed here and additional user options for each status are available below each one.

Current deposit / withdrawal notifications

Staking with Casper will be a process that occurs over several months at a minimum. To allow users the ability to keep track of changes to their deposits and other aspects of Rocket Pool, we will be implementing an easy to use notification system that will give quick, easy to digest notifications of recent events relating to your current account as shown above.