diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 20769b5..b0e2880 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 * 0.1.1
 	- Create key table only if not exist
 * 0.1.0
-	- Add web3 ext middleware capturing signer requests
+	- Package wrap with setup.py
+	- Fix hex prefix bug in tx serialization
 * 0.0.1
 	- Introduce signer, transaction, keystore packages
 	- Add test for keystore and signer		
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from LICENSE
rename to LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7707859..d299d2e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,13 +16,17 @@ This package is written because at the time no good solution seemed to exist for
 
 Two scripts are currently available:
 
-### `server.py`
+### `crypto-dev-daemon.py`
 
-An Unix socket IPC server implementing the `web3.eth.personal` namespace of the web3 `json-rpc` "standard." 
+An Unix socket IPC server implementing the following web3 json-rpc methods:
+
+* web3.eth.personal.newAccount
+* web3.eth.personal.signTransaction
+* web3.eth.signTransaction
 
 ### `web3_middleware.py`
 
-Demonstrates use of the IPC server as middleware for handling calls to the `personal_*` methods.
+Demonstrates use of the IPC server as middleware for handling calls to the web3 json-rpc methods provided by the daemon.
 
 ### Classes
 
@@ -45,7 +49,9 @@ The classes and packages provided are:
 
 ## VERSION
 
-This software is 0.0.1 alpha state and very brittle.
+This software is in alpha state and very brittle.
+
+Current version is 0.1.0
 
 ## LICENSE
 
diff --git a/crypto_dev_signer/eth/web3ext/middleware.py b/crypto_dev_signer/eth/web3ext/middleware.py
index a58f3e6..aa47423 100644
--- a/crypto_dev_signer/eth/web3ext/middleware.py
+++ b/crypto_dev_signer/eth/web3ext/middleware.py
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ class PlatformMiddleware:
 
         if self.re_personal.match(method) != None:
             params = PlatformMiddleware._translate_params(suspect_params)
-            # multiple providers is broken in web3.py 5.12.0
+            # multiple providers is removed in web3.py 5.12.0
             # https://github.com/ethereum/web3.py/issues/1701
-            # hack workaround
+            # thus we need a workaround to use the same web3 instance
             s = socket.socket(family=socket.AF_UNIX, type=socket.SOCK_STREAM, proto=0)
             ipc_provider_workaround = s.connect(self.ipcaddr)
 
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ class PlatformMiddleware:
             #return str(json.dumps(jr))
             return jr
 
+        # TODO: DRY
         elif method == 'eth_signTransaction':
             params = PlatformMiddleware._translate_params(suspect_params)
             s = socket.socket(family=socket.AF_UNIX, type=socket.SOCK_STREAM, proto=0)
diff --git a/scripts/crypto-dev-daemon b/scripts/crypto-dev-daemon
index 67faff4..a8ca9fc 100755
--- a/scripts/crypto-dev-daemon
+++ b/scripts/crypto-dev-daemon
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ signer = None
 chainId = 8995
 
 
+class MissingSecretError(BaseException):
+
+    def __init__(self, message):
+        super(MissingSecretError, self).__init__(message)
+
+    pass
+
+
 def personal_new_account(p):
     password = p
     if p.__class__.__name__ != 'str':
@@ -134,7 +142,12 @@ def start_server():
 
 def init():
     global db, signer
-    secret_hex = os.environ.get('SIGNER_SECRET')
+    secret_hex = ''
+    try:
+        secret_hex = os.environ['SIGNER_SECRET']
+    except KeyError as e:
+        raise MissingSecretError('please set the SIGNER_SECRET environment variable to a valid hex value')
+
     secret = bytes.fromhex(secret_hex)
     kw = {
             'symmetric_key': secret,
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1086102..5e6ded3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,4 +17,6 @@ setup(
         scripts = [
             'scripts/crypto-dev-daemon',
             ],
+        data_files = [('', ['LICENSE.txt'])],
+        url='https://gitlab.com/nolash/crypto-dev-signer',
         )