Weekly Update

Pastel Community Update (January 27, 2023)

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The Pastel Team has been extremely busy with a number of major development updates, partnership rollouts, and product releases. Check back here each week for new developments

Starting NOW, you can expect to see:

⭐Weekly community snapshots shared across our various channels.

🐾Quarterly updates released via our newsletter.

☎️Bi-weekly community town halls / AMAs directly with the Pastel team. Come prepared with your questions, comments, and feedback!

🚜Monthly Twitter Spaces with u/doodlestone and u/panthony

Key Updates:

🚨2023 Roadmap and Review of 2022🚨

Pastel released its 2023 roadmap, including a review of 2022. Pastel Network 2022 in review and roadmap for 2023 shows great progress made in the previous year and much promise for the year ahead.

Past year

• Partnership with Nervos: to provide permanent storage to and protect their NFT ecosystem against NFT copymint, fraud & scams
• Launch of the SuperNode Founder Program: this program was created to reward early network users/participants for their contributions and activity in Pastel’s ecosystem as well as encourage long term decentralization.
• PSL Listed on KuCoin: KuCoin began the trading of Pastel’s native utility token, PSL, on the KuCoin Exchange and commenced a PSL Staking Program
• Cezanne Testnet Release: Cezanne brings countless improvements to both user & NFT functionality such as registration, minting, transferring, and trading.
• Collaboration with Polygon Studios: to bring Sense and Cascade to the Polygon NFT ecosystem
• Milestone Launch of SmartMint: a no-code NFT minting platform where creators can easily create, manage, and mint NFTs on their own custom smart contracts. The tool also enables creators to mint NFTs on multiple networks while leveraging Pastel’s infrastructure for near-duplicate NFT detection (Sense) and permanent NFT data storage (Cascade).
• Partnership with Ava Labs: to bring Sense and Cascade to the Avalanche NFT ecosystem
• Partnership with Parity Technologies: to bring Sense and Cascade to the Polkadot NFT ecosystem
• PSL Listed on Gate.io: PSL is now available on Gate.io for deposits and trading.
• SmartMint Banff Upgrade: refined functionality of SmartMint’s core workflows, added a number of features to enhance user experience and minting capabilities, and extended SmartMint compatibility to support minting NFTs directly on Solana.
• Cezanne Mainnet Upgrade: having been under development for over 8 months, Cezanne is Pastel’s largest release to date that brings significant enhancements to the Pastel blockchain and improved functionality.

Upcoming year

• Expedite development release cycles of Testnet and Mainnet upgrades — such as with versions Monet and Van Gogh
• Build stronger cross-chain bridges, specifically with Ethereum Polygon, and Polkadot
• Enhance SmartMint and develop new features
• Refine user and partner experience with the roll-out of new technical resources and tools
• Expanding our network of partners across more L2s, DApps, enterprise user-cases, native L1s, and beyond
• Further increase our exposure to the community of technical users, non-technical users, and creators

Upcoming Mainnet Releases

• Q1: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.2
• Q2: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.3
• Q3: Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.0
• Q4 Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.1

🚨Pastel Testnet Faucet Release🚨

The launch of this independent network enables users to obtain LSP (Pastel Testnet Tokens) to experiment with and develop in the Pastel Testnet environment. This gives users the ability to experiment with Pastel features without having to spend valuable PSL on the mainnet.

Learn more about Pastel's Testnet Faucet

🚨Gold CertiK KYC Badge🚨

We are also pleased to confirm that we have successfully passed every stage of the CertiK KYC process and were awarded the official — and highest level — Gold CertiK KYC Badge!

This Comprehensive KYC Badge brings an additional security layer to our project and proves to our community and to the world our willingness to demonstrate the highest level of transparency and trustworthiness KYC

🚨Partnership Updates🚨

Pastel Network has teamed up with Ava Labs to power the future of Web3 throughout the Avalanche ecosystem. Avalanche dApps and marketplaces will be able to natively integrate Pastel’s disruptive NFT technology including Sense and Cascade.

As always, we are constantly working hard to build new relationships and partnerships with large Web3 players encompassing layer-1 networks, layer-2 scaling solutions, and third-party dApps.

Partners will continue to collaborate with Pastel with the goal of providing Pastel's Sense and Cascade protocols to their native NFT ecosystems.

🚨News and Developments🚨

📹Check out this youtube demonstration showing what happened when we compared OpenSea’s new duplicate detection system to Sense Sense Comp Analysis

🐧Co-Founder Anthony Georgiades talks about grant programs in this Cointelegraph article

📹Check out this youtube video Intro to Sense protocol

📕 Pastel held a community wide AMA to discuss all things Cezanne Mainnet. Check out our recap here.

📹 Co-Founder u/panthony live on CNBC Crypto World discussing state of the market after FTX fallout Bitcoin briefly tops $17K, and SBF continues to speak publicly post-FTX collapse: CNBC Crypto World

🎇Co-Founder u/panthony live on Fox Business discussing digital assets and the state of the market.

🎨Co-Founder u/panthony and renowned artist Paul Gerben on the Future of NFT Podcast discussing celebrity art, NFTs, and Pastel.

👽Co-Founder u/panthony talks about his market optimism for 2023 in this Zycrypto article.

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