Tuesday, February 7, 2023

NFT Marketplace Architecture

here is a detailed guide on NFT Marketplace Architecture:

  1. Blockchain Technology: The foundation of NFT marketplaces is a blockchain network. The most common blockchain used for NFTs is Ethereum, as it supports the creation and management of non-fungible tokens. The blockchain provides a decentralized, secure, and transparent platform for NFT transactions.
  2. Smart Contracts: NFT marketplaces use smart contracts to automate the buying and selling process. Smart contracts are self-executing contracts with the terms of the agreement between buyer and seller written directly into lines of code. This eliminates the need for intermediaries and makes transactions faster, more secure, and cost-effective.
  3. Cryptocurrency Payments: NFT marketplaces typically accept cryptocurrency payments, such as Ethereum (ETH) or Bitcoin (BTC). This makes transactions fast, secure, and eliminates the need for intermediaries.
  4. Digital Asset Management: The marketplace must have a system in place for the creation, storage, and transfer of digital assets. This system must ensure that each NFT is unique, verifiable, and tamper-proof. It should also provide a secure and easily accessible platform for users to manage their NFTs.
  5. User Interface: The user interface (UI) is the front-end of the NFT marketplace and provides a platform for users to view and purchase NFTs. The UI should be intuitive, user-friendly, and provide all necessary information about the NFTs being sold, including the creator, price, and history of the asset.
  6. Database Management: NFT marketplaces must efficiently store and manage large amounts of data, including information about the NFTs being traded, users, and transactions. A robust database management system is necessary to store and retrieve this information efficiently and securely.
  7. Security: NFT marketplaces must ensure the security of their users' personal information, digital assets, and transactions. They must implement strong security measures such as encryption, firewalls, and two-factor authentication.
  8. Scalability: As NFT marketplaces grow in popularity, they must be able to scale to meet the increasing demand. The architecture must be designed with scalability in mind to ensure that the marketplace can handle an increasing number of transactions and users without sacrificing performance or security.
  9. Community Development: NFT marketplaces must foster a thriving community of creators, collectors, and enthusiasts. This can be achieved through features such as forums, events, and other community-building initiatives.
  10. Marketing and Promotion: Finally, NFT marketplaces must have a robust marketing and promotion strategy in place to attract users and drive growth. This can include social media campaigns, influencer partnerships, and other marketing initiatives.

In conclusion, NFT marketplace architecture requires careful consideration and implementation. By using blockchain technology, smart contracts, cryptocurrency payments, digital asset management, a user-friendly UI, efficient database management, robust security measures, scalability, community development, and effective marketing, NFT marketplaces can provide a secure, efficient, and enjoyable platform for trading unique digital assets.


SPACE ID Closed $10M Strategic Round Led by Polychain Capital and dao5

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The decentralized identity market has received a boost with the successful completion of a $10 million dollar strategic funding round led by Polychain Capital and dao5, with participation from other industry leaders. SPACE ID, a team of experienced engineers and Web3 enthusiasts, aims to build a universal name service network connecting decentralized identities. The investment is a strong endorsement of their vision and execution and highlights the growing potential in the Web3 space.

SPACE ID recently launched its .bnb Domain Public Registration, attracting over 370,000 registrations and 175,000 unique domain holders in just six months. The company has secured integrations with 100 leading projects and protocols, including BSCScan and Trust Wallet, and has announced its 2.0 upgrade and merger with ARB ID.

With the support of Polychain Capital and other investors, SPACE ID will accelerate its development and expand its team, bringing its products to market faster and pushing the boundaries of the Web3 space. The company aims to facilitate the union between identity, privacy, and sovereignty in the Web3 space, enabling users to retain their personal identity while providing a human-readable address for digital networks.

“Universal naming service is a fundamental component of widespread crypto adoption, and the SPACE ID team sits at the forefront of a cutting-edge version. By facilitating the union between identity, privacy, and sovereignty within web3, SPACE ID allows users to retain their personal identity whilst providing a human-readable address to interact with digital networks. Designing domain naming services in a decentralized manner enables composable and layered interactions with various Dapps and wallets, within a chain agnostic environment, to empower identity for communities and individuals as they interact with increasingly sophisticated blockchain networks.”

— — Luke Pearson, Investor at Polychain Capital

“We’re excited to further expand our impact on the industry with this second round of funding, allowing us to accelerate our growth and bring our vision of a secure, decentralized identity to an even larger audience. It’s a testament to the progress we’ve made and the trust investors have in our team and our vision.”

— — Arton, Head of Community at SPACE ID

The decentralized web has the potential to reshape the internet as we know it, and we believe SPACE ID, with the support of leading investors like Polychain, will be at the forefront of this technological revolution. We look forward to seeing the impact SPACE ID will make on the web3 ecosystem and bringing the benefits of decentralized technology to a wider audience.

Stay tuned for more updates on SPACE ID’s progress and upcoming developments in the web3 space. The future is looking bright.

This recent investment is a testament to the progress the company has made and the trust investors have in the team and its vision. This, along with the recent integration with over 100 leading projects and protocols, has set SPACE ID on a solid path towards fulfilling its vision. The investment will enable the company to accelerate the development of its universal name service and expand its team and resources to bring its products to market more efficiently. This is expected to further drive the mass adoption of decentralized identities and the Web3 space. With the support of Polychain Capital and other investors, SPACE ID is well positioned to make a significant impact on the Web3 ecosystem and bring the benefits of decentralized technology to a wider audience.

A must read:
Joining Forces Article on the Merge: https://medium.com/@ARBID/arb-id-join...

SPACE ID Official Links
Website | https://space.id/
Twitter | https://twitter.com/SpaceIDProtocol
Medium | https://medium.com/@SpaceID
Discord | https://discord.com/invite/2qrrf79K2A

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An essay of insults.

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You are swine you vulgar little maggot. Don't you know that you are pathetic? You worthless bag of filth. As we say in California, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. A zit on the butt of society. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.
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I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. Because off your face the rabbit population actually decreased. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?
If you aren't an idiot, you made a world-class effort at simulating one.
You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.
On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh.
Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
You useless piece of shit. You absolute waste of space and air. You uneducated, ignorant, idiotic dumb swine, you’re an absolute embarrassment to humanity and all life as a whole. The magnitude of your failure just now is so indescribably massive that one hundred years into the future your name will be used as moniker of evil for heretics. Even if all of humanity put together their collective intelligence there is no conceivable way they could have thought up a way to fuck up on the unimaginable scale you just did. When Jesus died for our sins, he must not have seen the sacrilegious act we just witnessed you performing, because if he did he would have forsaken humanity long ago so that your birth may have never become reality. After you die, your skeleton will be displayed in a museum after being scientifically researched so that all future generations may learn not to generate your bone structure, because every tiny detail anyone may have in common with you degrades them to a useless piece of trash and a burden to society. No wonder your father questioned whether or not your were truly his son, for you'd have to not be a waste of carbon matter for anyone to love you like a family member. Your birth made it so that mankind is worse of in every way you can possibly imagine, and you have made it so that society can never really recover into a state of organization. Everything has forever fallen into a bewildering chaos, through which unrecognizable core, you can only find misfortune. I would say the apocalypse is upon us but this is merely the closest word humans have for the sheer scale of horror that is now reality. You have forever condemned everyone you love and know into an eternal state of suffering, worse than any human concept of hell. You are such an unholy being, that if you step within a one hundred foot radius of a holy place or a place that has ever been deemed important by anyone, your distorted sac religious soul will ruin whatever meaning it ever had beyond repair. You are an idiotic, shiteating, dumbass ape and no one has ever loved you. Rhodes Island would have been better off if you'd never joined us. You are a lying, backstabbing, cowardly useless piece of shit and I hate you with every single part of my being. Even this worlds finest writers and poets from throughout the ages could never hope to accurately describe the scale on which you just fucked up, and how incredibly idiotic you are. Anyone that believes in any religion out there should now realize that they have been wrong this entire time, for if divine beings were real, they would never have allowed a being such as you to stain the earth and this universe. In the future there will be horror stories made about you, with the scariest part of them being that the reader has to realize that such an indescribable monster actually exists, and that the horrific events from the movie have actually taken place in the same world that they live in right now. You are the absolute embodiment of everything that has ever been wrong on this earth, yet you manage to make it so that that is only a small part of the evil that is your being. Never in the history of mankind has there been anyone that could have predicted such an eldrich abomination, but here you are. It’s hard to believe that I am seeing such an incredible failure with my own eyes, but here I am, so unfortunately I cannot deny your existence. Even if I did my very best, my vocabulary is not able to describe the sheer magnitude of the idiotic mistake that is you. Even if time travel some day will be invented, there still would not be a single soul willing to go back in time to before this moment to fix history, because having to witness such incredible horrors if they failed would have to many mental and physical drawbacks that not even the bravest soul in history would be willing to risk it. I cannot imagine the pure dread your mother must have felt when she had to carry a baby for nine months and then giving birth to such a wretched monster as you. Not a single word of the incoherent, illogical rambling you may be wanting to do to defend yourself or apologize would ever be able to make up for what you just did. The countries of the world would have wanted to make laws preventing such a terrible event like this from ever happening again, but sadly this is not possible since your horrific actions just now have shattered every form of order this world once had, making concepts such as laws irrelevant. Right from the moment I first set my eyes on you I knew you were an absolute abomination of everything that is wrong with humanity. I was hoping I would have been able to prevent your evil from being released upon this world by tagging along and keeping my eye on you, but it is clear to me now that not even the greatest efforts would have been able to prevent a terrible event in this scale from occurring. You are the worst human being, or even just being in general, that I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing. Events like the infected plague apparently only happened with the goal of teaching humanity to survive such a horrible event as the one you just created, but not even mankind’s greatest trials were able to even slightly prepare anyone for the insufferable evil you have just created. If you ever had them, your children would be preemptively killed to protect this universe from the possibility of anyone in your bloodline being even half as bad as you are, except you will never be able to have children, because not a single human being will ever want to come within a hundred mile radius of you and anything you have ever touched. You are a colossal disappointment not only to your parents, but to your ancestors and entire bloodline. The disgusting mistake that you have just made is so incredibly terrible that everyone who would ever be to hear about it would spontaneously feel an indescribable mixture of immense anger, fear and anxiety that emotionally and physically they would never truly be the same ever again. The sheer scale of your mistake, if ever to be materialized, would not only surpass the size of the world, but it would reach far beyond the edges of the known, and almost certainly the unknown universe. I could sit here and write paragraphs, nay, books describing your immense failure, yet even if I were to dedicate my life to describing the reality of what has just gone down here, and I would spend every moment of it until my heart stops beating working as hard and efficiently as possible, yet there is not even a snowballs chance in hell that I would be able to come close to transcribing the absolute shitshow you have just released upon the world. You are an irresponsible, idiotic, disgusting, unloved, horrible excuse for a living being who’s soul contains less humanity than every ginger in history combined. The absolute disgust I feel when thinking about anything that has even a slight resemblance to anything that might have to do with you and your unholy actions is so incredibly great that when I am honest about it I think that even I do not posses a consciousness great enough to comprehend my own feelings about it. When people of Columbia fought to break free from Lungmen, countless soldiers fought and lost their lives in favor of a chance at a better future for their children, they did not give their lives to have you fuck the world up beyond repair to the degree that you are doing right now. Honestly, even when technology advances and studies on the subject become more and more accurate, I do not think humanity will ever truly be able to understand what your failure actually means for the universe. My hate for you and everything you stand for is so much deeper than the depths of Shambala that you could probably take the entire Lungmen population down there and back up around twenty million times before you would have sunk to the end of my hate, and honestly, I do not want to exaggerate, but I think that that insult was low balling it such a massive amount that all mountains in this world combined would not be able to stack up to this imprecise judgement in light of the fact that when being honest, my hate is almost certainly bottomless. There is no one in this world that has ever loved you, and especially after what you just did, no one will ever love you in the future either. There is no hope that your idiotic behavior and especially your crooked soul will ever change for the better, and in fact quite the opposite might be true. By making the mistake that you just did, you have shown me that you are so incredibly hopeless that you will only devolve into a more idiotic and wretched creature than you already are. The only possible way in which your future would be brighter than the black hole your existence currently is would exclusively be because there is absolutely no conceivable way that you would even be able to sink lower than the pathetic place your current failure has put you in. But than again, you are so incredibly abominable that you would probably be able to surpass the worst conceivable failure a living being could possibly make. You are so incredibly pathetic that you are honestly not worth any more of my words nor my time. Just remember that I will forever detest you for your failure and everything you stand for, and no matter what happens, I will never ever forgive you.
You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystopic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, clueless, and generally Not Good.
Shut up and go away lest you achieve the physical retribution your behaviour merits.


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Cardano Rumor Rundown February 7, 2023

Hey Everyone!

Let’s go….

Newly Covered Today:

  1. Behold the Cardano media blackout in all its glory! https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1622528162499383299
  2. At Messari you can see that our recent 24h active address count is 73k (as of Feb 6). https://messari.io/asset/cardano/metrics/all
  3. Having watched Martin throughout the '90s and Bad Boys (about a million times), it's surreal & amazing to see that the content is interesting to a guy who entertained me so much. Thank you immensely! https://twitter.com/realmartymar/status/1622710686647287808
  4. Binance.com (but not binance.us) has announced a temporary pause of US dollar & US bank transactions. https://twitter.com/binance/status/1622669988560609293
  5. Some are linking this to issues with its banking partner, Signature. https://gizmodo.com/binance-bank-transfers-crypto-ftx-1850079035
  6. Liquid has published a summary of what’s happening with LQ tokenomics and utility. https://liqwidfinance.substack.com/p/lq-tokenomics-and-utility

Previously covered, but still interesting:

  1. Here’s a brand new IOHK blog on Mithril. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2023/01/11/advancing-node-syncing-time-with-mithril/
  2. Virtua just released some updates and improvements to Cardano Island Cribs. https://twitter.com/VirtuaMetaverse/status/1613189112759992320
  3. The DOJ is going after the two brothers who allegedly faked the TVL in Solana. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/01/11/doj-said-to-probe-saber-labs-founders-over-solana-based-defi-stablecoin-projects/
  4. Even Blackrock is laying people off right now. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/black-rock-plans-to-cut-500-workers-after-last-years-market-downturn-180004390.html
  5. Goldman is axing far more. https://www.barrons.com/articles/goldman-sachs-job-cuts-layoffs-51673264101?mod=bol-social-tw
  6. While others are firing, Binance says it’s going on a hiring spree! https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/binance-plans-15-30percent-hiring-spree-in-2023-even-as-rivals-cut-jobs.html
  7. Whale is 100% correct here. Everyone is sleeping on the biggest dApp in all of crypto. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1614253315642228744
  8. Cardano Staking also is the only large DeFi dApp that could mount a robust defense against the regulatory hammer. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1614247869359480832
  9. Native assets are a huge advantage over tokens enslaved to smart contracts. https://twitter.com/StakeWithPride/status/1614505271833006081
  10. A good security reminder. Use a hardware wallet. NEVER input your seed phrase ANYWHERE! Put it on steel and lock it up. https://twitter.com/NFT_GOD/status/1614442055417077763
  11. MuesliSwap says their concentrated liquidity pools have passed their audit. Stablecoin swaps are also apparently on the way. https://twitter.com/MuesliSwapTeam/status/1612801296938967041
  12. According to a new study, 19% of US Adults say they own crypto with 4% owning Cardano. Cardano owners are the least likely to have sold in the last month. https://morningconsult.com/cryptocurrency-insights-hub/
  13. Here’s a screenshot of the crypto rankings from January 2018 for comparison to 2023. If you remove the stables and swap BNB for BCH, Cardano has defended its position perfectly for a half-decade. https://twitter.com/ApeDurden/status/1614820882962337792
  14. Looking like we’re going to be good on smart contract programming languages. https://twitter.com/k3engine/status/1614759932816916481
  15. Daedalus 5.2.0 is out and available for download! Remember, there is no “Daedalus Mobile”. That is a scam. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1615072725105516551
  16. Twenty-five pools retired in a single epoch last month. https://twitter.com/StakeWithPride/status/1615155890453368834
  17. Emurgo has published a guide to online Cardano communities. https://emurgo.io/best-cardano-communities-online/
  18. This is not a joke: The 3AC boys are trying to raise $25 million for a new exchange they want to call “GTX”. https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/01/16/disgraced-3ac-hedge-fund-bros-seek-to-raise-25m-for-new-gtx-crypto-exchange/
  19. Over 50k unique wallets now hold ADA Handles. https://twitter.com/adahandle/status/1615399826572869634
  20. The era of AI influencers is upon us. We probably already have some laying the groundwork right now in Cardano. https://twitter.com/alex_valaitis/status/1615179733645369346
  21. MinSwap now has multiple token harvest. https://twitter.com/MinswapDEX/status/1615213160297889794
  22. Wow. I missed this. COTI is launching with Minimal Djed?!? https://twitter.com/RichardMcCrackn/status/1615351297636433921
  23. Check out page 10 of the Djed whitepaper if you want to understand why the Minimal Djed launch (vs. Extended Djed) is surprising people. https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1069.pdf
  24. Ergo’s implementation of the AgeUSD protocol for their SigmaUSD stablecoin also revealed some lessons for implementations of this type of triple asset Stablecoin system. https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2021-05-13-bearwhale-saga/
  25. There is now an automotive project on Cardano. https://twitter.com/Yevhen_ADA/status/1615808805358473229
  26. The IMF thinks that global regulators “must act fast to stem risk” from crypto. https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USIMF/bulletins/3437c32
  27. Matthew Plomin brings us a great thread summarizing recent suggested crypto regulations from the Bank for International Settlement. Yep…as you would expect, they don’t love us. https://twitter.com/MatthewPlomin/status/1615810227898617856
  28. Garlinghouse is saying he’s looking for a decision in the Ripple case this year. He’s indicating the chance of settlement is a Venn diagram with no overlap. https://twitter.com/i/status/1615748401098022915
  29. Charles may be pondering an acquisition of CoinDesk from DCG. Interesting times! https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1616149970348040193
  30. Luckily for those of us who already know, the asymmetry of information regarding Cardano is still very strong. https://twitter.com/StakeWithPride/status/1612953545376161796
  31. In-game transactions are now available on CardaStation! https://twitter.com/JoyeousT/status/1616192980192493568
  32. The Web3 talk with Charles at Google is now available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPr3qHbHvmU
  33. SEC declares war on “so-called governance tokens” in press release regarding Avi Eisenberg charges. https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1616521824216702977
  34. There was a network anomaly last night that caused 50% of nodes to disconnect and restart. The network behaved as expected and impact was low…similar to delays sometimes seen at epoch boundaries. IOG is investigating. https://discord.com/channels/826816523368005654/892793958097375282
  35. Cardano is one of the top 3 most loved cryptocurrencies when counting which coins are the most loved by count of countries in which they are #1. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1617029590261858304
  36. ChatGPT just got a B or B- in a core Wharton MBA course. Imagine what it will be able to do in a few more years. https://www.ft.com/content/7229ba86-142a-49f6-9821-f55c07536b7c
  37. Apparently, ChatGPT has also passed the USMLE. https://twitter.com/noor_siddiqui_/status/1617194845810077697
  38. Charles released a video to address the network anomaly. He says it appears to have been a transient issue probably due to a collection of different factors happening simultaneously and doesn’t seem to be reproducible. The network behaved as designed and self-healed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJvy2tqkE4U
  39. Here’s some actual spying for you. This report just came in related to the unusual looking photos we examined on the channel in CRR #522. https://twitter.com/scottj44/status/1617341712724299776
  40. Big things happening in Cardano streaming media! https://twitter.com/Padierfind/status/1617620083005886464
  41. Just in case this wasn’t already clear. https://twitter.com/TheCryptoCPA/status/1617666138292490241
  42. Apparently book.io will be minting on both Cardano and Ethereum? https://twitter.com/book_io/status/1617180699970392068
  43. A16Z is (like many) pushing for regulation of the user interface instead of the protocol. They want business regulated instead of software in crypto. https://twitter.com/milesjennings/status/1617938092203311105
  44. The difference in regulation of protocols vs. dApps may end up being more practical than conceptual (protocol is already deployed and out there on-chain maybe by anon devs while somebody who can be served is currently paying to host the dApp on servers). https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1617950253201883137
  45. A very good point about closed source “dApps”. https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1618002911262560257
  46. ETH withdrawals are set up so that it would take one year for everyone to unstake? Yes…yes…sounds very pro-consumer. https://twitter.com/StakeWithPride/status/1617565965923024896
  47. ADA Handle released a post-mortem on the emergence of a double mint. This is commendable transparency. https://twitter.com/adahandle/status/1617946159980634112
  48. Paima Studios is developing a player vs. player tower defense game. https://twitter.com/PaimaStudios/status/1617961261165334531
  49. Djed launch is scheduled for next week. https://twitter.com/COTInetwork/status/1617952207357509632
  50. Liquid is launching next week! https://twitter.com/liqwidfinance/status/1618339547292782593
  51. There are reports of a hack of the Mutants NFT platform. https://twitter.com/JSHyCS/status/1618112742531174402
  52. Speculation is that the reported Mutants NFT Hack may have been due to mishandling of franken addresses. https://twitter.com/SebastienGllmt/status/1618172928906125312
  53. Seeing reports that Djed will launch with only one wallet (Nami). Is this why? https://twitter.com/Jennycitalinda/status/1618416739397832704
  54. The first Cardano 360 of 2023! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1618274840934494208
  55. The World Mobile sidechain is being built on IOGs new Sidechain Toolkit and will be Tendermint based. This is a big step forward toward the Cardano Layerverse. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1618675139239096324 https://worldmobile.io/blog/post/working-towards-an-interoperable-future
  56. Here’s a good very simple explainer article on Tendermint from Binance on Tendermint. https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/tendermint-explained
  57. Here’s an interesting back and forth thread around how big Cardano projects are addressing Oracle solutions. https://twitter.com/SCATDAO/status/1618652821343313922
  58. The Dragon wants to turn miners and validators into money services businesses and also “address a major gap with respect to unhosted digital wallet.” Thanks, SBF! I was hoping we would get back to this instead of some kind of positive comprehensive framework for crypto. https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1618676772266217472
  59. Ongoing aftermath updates in the Mutant NFTs hack. https://twitter.com/JSHyCS/status/1618373108590837760
  60. Very interesting post regarding potential World Mobile expansion. https://twitter.com/CloverNodes/status/1618709821867302912
  61. Stripe apparently just blocked NMKR’s business account. We are still so early. https://twitter.com/Padierfind/status/1618555942727208962
  62. Anticipation is building for what’s coming in Cardano this year and next. https://twitter.com/conraddit/status/1618409005621342208
  63. Charles dropped a video on the settlement layer vs. the computation layer. https://youtu.be/cvROzVEAxAM
  64. Here’s a great thread on validator recovery in Cardano (Nakamoto consensus) vs. BFT (Solana, Aptos, Cosmos). https://twitter.com/hans_the_crypto/status/1619513935656542209
  65. The value of Cardano’s true liquid staking is being massively slept on when liquidity-by-derivative staking arrangements are subject to depegging that has toppled even large crypto institutions in the past. https://twitter.com/jconorgrogan/status/1619782908826521600
  66. Coti has dropped a new article describing Shen stakepool delegation & minting/burning minimums. https://twitter.com/COTInetwork/status/1619784132447567873
  67. The Cardano Foundation has released a video on its core focus areas: 1) operational resilience, 2) education, and 3) adoption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89d8t72C4Uk
  68. Liqwid has deployed to the preview testnet. https://twitter.com/liqwidfinance/status/1620198616550998016
  69. New messaging on crypto from the Biden Administration. Apparently, deeper ties between crypto and tradfi would be a “grave mistake”. https://www.whitehouse.gov/nec/briefing-room/2023/01/27/the-administrations-roadmap-to-mitigate-cryptocurrencies-risks/
  70. This CoinDesk article from a former regulator makes the point that regulators think we already have regulatory clarity on crypto. What we really want are changes to the status quo. https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/01/27/regulatory-clarity-financial-watchdogs-could-not-be-more-clear/
  71. Coti has announced that the Djed minimums are to bootstrap liquidity at launch and may be reduced in the future. https://twitter.com/DjedStablecoin/status/1619962502418407426
  72. Djed is now live. https://twitter.com/COTInetwork/status/1620392034124328960
  73. SundaeSwap has announced their own Governance Portal. https://twitter.com/SundaeSwap/status/1620485846125412357
  74. Given the history of AgeUSD type algorithmic stablecoins, some ecosystem members are expressing heavy doubts regarding the future position of Shen holders. https://twitter.com/zygomeb/status/1620427967179681794
  75. Paima Studios has joined the Microsoft for Startups Program. https://twitter.com/PaimaStudios/status/1620335885131862017
  76. It looks like FutureFest debuted some new features in their event on Feb. 1 with Fever Dream Friends and Skull Candy. https://twitter.com/futurefestxr/status/1620902250720927744
  77. This is actually very big progress on the mainstream exposure front courtesy of Lex Fridman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZdNf_mO1o
  78. The UK Treasury has released its long awaited proposal for crypto regulation. Looks like they’re trying to be technology agnostic and focused on a principle of “same risk, same regulatory outcome”. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/future-financial-services-regulatory-regime-for-cryptoassets
  79. The Fed has hiked the federal funds rate by 0.25% bringing the target range to 4.5-4.75% This is a much smaller raise than the 0.50% in December and the four consecutive 0.75% increases just prior to that. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/01/fed-rate-decision-february-2023-quarter-point-hike.html
  80. Here’s a great thread from Sooraj of This Week in Cardano on the Cardano Settlement Layer (CSL) vs. Cardano Computation Layer (CCL) and Cardano Sidechains including the new Cardano Sidechain Toolkit from IOG. https://twitter.com/Soorajksaju2/status/1620564722515861505
  81. Here’s an interesting new Cardano statistics site. https://peerreview.money/
  82. Liqwid has launched on Mainnet (Feb 2). https://twitter.com/liqwidfinance/status/1621129278518890497
  83. Cardano is now arguably “DeFi feature complete” depending on your definition. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1621092500093145088
  84. Plus….Liqwid has dark mode on Day 1. Let darkness reign! https://twitter.com/liqwidfinance/status/1620985328118157313
  85. The World Mobile exhibit (fan built) in Carda Station looks pretty good. https://twitter.com/JoyeousT/status/1621225742435745793
  86. World Mobile says it’s going to increase its Youtube efforts. This will be good for visibility of a very large Cardano RealFi project. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1621191509218365444
  87. Paul did a great interview with DC and Florian of Liqwid today (Feb 2). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8F_f4rLipA
  88. COTI has published a Djed launch recap. https://medium.com/cotinetwork/djed-launch-recap-b5ec293e20dd
  89. Charlie Munger at 99 years old thinks we should ban Bitcoin. Also thinks the leader of the CCP is awesome. https://twitter.com/ODELL/status/1621151302838525952
  90. There is now a proposal in the Liqwid governance forum to reduce LQ token emissions. https://twitter.com/liqwidfinance/status/1621351623887917056
  91. ImperatorLang made a great thread about how to get started building on Cardano with no prior programming experience. https://twitter.com/ImperatorLang/status/1622283773759950849
  92. Shocker! VCs are not going to do what’s best for crypto communities. https://twitter.com/Dogetoshi/status/1620602151830704129
  93. Some are pointing to A16Z’s involvement in a rival bridge and calling it anti-competitive behavior. https://twitter.com/ChrisBlec/status/1622201701921964035
  94. Apparently, there is now 30 million ADA locked in the Djed contract. Not bad in the first week. https://twitter.com/DjedStablecoin/status/1622298562628407298

~Army of Spies