Hi @emersonian, to follow up on your questions: we currently don’t support generating just orchard addresses. However, if the community thinks there is a strong need for this, we can add it as part of the upcoming maintenance contract and bumped up in priority.
With regards to the first question, are you asking about something like a wallet connect integration?
Not “WalletConnect” the platform, but “Connect Wallet” the signing process.
Given a string, a web wallet should be able to sign it with the user’s private key to fulfill a lot of use cases, including allowing the user to sign into a website by using their wallet. This is a common UX across the industry. (try clicking “Connect” on ENS’ app for an example https://app.ens.domains/ )