Frequency Access Developer Documentation and Tools

Sign In With Access (SIWA) provides documentation and tools to integrate with Frequency Access, an easy to use custodial social wallet for users on Frequency.

JavaScript Quick Start

Overview

There are a few main steps to authentication using Frequency Access.

1. Your application sends the user the Frequency Access Authentication URL
2. Frequency Access verifies the user, and the user signs the requested payload(s)
3. Frequency Access sends the signed user payloads back to your application
4. If needed, your application sends the signed payloads to Frequency
5. Your application logs in the user, and the user's session begins

Actors

• Your Application: Any website, mobile application, etc. for which your user needs authentication
• Frequency Access: Verifies the user and provides the user with access to the entire Frequency Ecosystem
• Frequency Blockchain: Manages user delegations and additional social operations

User Delegations and Credentials

Frequency Access allows you to request that a user give you various delegations such as private graph changes, and credentials such as verified email.

• See a full list of Available Credentials
• See a full list of Available Delegations

Staging & Production

Frequency Access has two deployments available: Staging-Testnet and Production-Mainnet.

Production-Mainnet

URL: www.frequencyaccess.com

• Uses Frequency Mainnet
• Supports both SMS and Email verification
• Bot protection via hCaptcha
• Authorization Timeout: 30 seconds

Staging-Testnet

URL: testnet.frequencyaccess.com

• Uses Frequency Testnet on Paseo
• Supports ONLY Email and will not send SMS verification codes
• No uptime guarantees
• Limited bot protection
• May rate limit usage
• Authorization Timeout: 30 seconds

Prerequisites

• Have registered your application as a Provider on Frequency
• Have access to a Frequency RPC Node

Terms

• Frequency Provider: The identity of the application registered on Frequency
• Staging-Testnet: The staging environment
• Production-Mainnet: The production environment
• MSA: The Frequency blockchain account for a user
• Sr25519: Schnorr signatures using ed25519 over ECDSA
• Delegation: The user permission for an application to act on their behalf
• Credential: Verified data about the user provided with permission of the user