Cartesi Ecosystem Recap #10
Dive into Tech and Community updates from across the Cartesi Ecosystem!
Written By Siannie Quartero
Weāre opening the doors to a new era with a rejuvenation of the Cartesi branding. Together with Web3 Marketing agency Noir, we unveiled it all in a community call in July and were over the moon at seeing over 350 Cartesians come to celebrate the new branding with us!
As youāve seen, Cartesi has been evolving in many ways, and thereās been a growing consensus across contributors, builders and community members for a new brand identity that better represents the current vision and values of the Cartesi ecosystem.
This refreshed identity embodies openness, decentralisation and experimentation, nurturing developers keen to explore the world of Web3. The new concept repositions Cartesi as a fresh space for limitless exploration, with the imagery built along themes we explored with Noir in the strategy process - the idea of exploring and building in a new frontier. The updated bright, bold brand colour unifies the brand alongside the vibrant illustration style.
Cartesi is opening up opportunities at the limits of Web3, allowing novel, emerging technologies to flourish and impossible ideas to be brought to life. With this rebrand, weāre looking forward to attracting meaningful contributions from current and new developers, especially given the new wave of interest surrounding app-specific rollups!
Enjoying the increased frequency of core-units-updates over on Discord? Or finding it a bit hard to keep track? šµāš«If youāre in the latter camp, donāt worry! Core contributor Claudio Silva has put together this handy summary of development highlights from July - check it out:
The Cartesi Machine, which is the heart of Cartesi Rollups and Cartesi Compute products, had the following updates:
The Cartesi Rollups V1.0 Beta development stage is finished, and the internal test stage has started!
Cartesi Compute also had significant progress:
Got questions? Ask your questions to core developers and researchers directly on Discord!
āļø Ultrachess
Ultrachess is a fully on-chain chess application developed with Cartesi Rollups, allowing users to put real value on the line and play chess with more than just their Elo at stake.
šØ Productive
Productive is a Software Development house specialising in web & mobile development projects, with a grant to provide design, development, update, and maintenance for Cartesi ecosystem websites.
Cartesi.io Website Development
Cartesi Documentation Site Rebranding
Governance Site Rebranding
š® Aetheras
Aetheras is a blockchain company with experience in and a deep understanding of game development, with a grant to develop Texas HODLāem Poker and Dazzle (match-3 strategy game).
Texas HODLāem Poker
P.S. Hereās a preview of the Poker design wireframes:
Dazzle
Follow weekly Dazzle updates on their Twitter or join their Discord community!
š§ UXBoost
UXBoost is working on comprehensive user research and service flow study for Cartesi's hacker/developerās experience, including awareness, learning about Cartesi tech, hacking experience and grant applications. UXBoost aims to gain insights, identify improvement areas and devise strategies to enhance the overall user experience.
Experience Research
Service Design - backstage analysis & management
The final unlock of the CTSI foundation reserve was on July 23rd, 2023!
But that doesnāt mean the end of transparency reports! Theyāre getting a revamp - expect new, adapted reports aligned with Cartesiās blossoming decentralized ecosystem. Read the latest report:
https://cartesi.io/blog/ctsi-foundation-reserve-transparency-report-july-2023/
Congratulations to Cartenix for successfully passing the community vote on Snapshot with 100% consensus to fund! š„Why is this important? By putting NIX inside a Cartesi Machine, you can generate a verifiable, deterministic, and reproducible binary and hash. Having these verifiable records live immutably on-chain provides a much higher level of security and trustlessness. Core contributor Max wrote a great explainer. Check it out:
Got an idea for what to build using Cartesi tech? Why wait? Check the guidelines on writing your proposal and submit!
Not a developer? Sharing your feedback, whether thatās in the Governance forum or by voting on Snapshot, is where the magic of a thriving Cartesi ecosystem comes together, so donāt be afraid to jump in and take part! If you want to shape the Cartesi ecosystem by voting, make sure youāre ready by staking your CTSI before the next vote opens.
Development updates from projects funded through the Community Grants Program:
š¢ Drand for Cartesi
Random numbers play a vital role in numerous applications and DApps, especially games. Think about how to pick a number from 1-10 in a trustless way š¤ā¦ well, with great difficulty!
This proposal is a component of a larger set of tools for generating random numbers on Cartesiās convenience layer, which in turn can help increase Cartesiās adoption and community growth.
Monorepo https://github.com/Calindra/cartesi-drand/
š« Complex Vouchers
A Solidity library that extends the expressiveness of the Cartesi voucher system. Providing this level of flexibility opens up the possibility of expanding the behaviour of vouchers to support more complex interactions by targeting smart contracts that extend their functionalities. Learn more about the need for complex vouchers here in the original RFP!
Developments:
š¼ļø Decentralized Painting Canvas
A playground DApp to showcase the value proposition of Cartesi Rollups as an execution layer.
The goal of the Decentralized Painting Canvas is to demonstrate the ability to have a decentralised use of open software components / libraries like Fabric.js. All states of the collective canvas will be submitted to the blockchain. In addition, the back-end application will generate snapshot images (PNG/JPG) of each state of the collective drawing (everyoneās contributions) and save them as NFTs.
Developments:
A proof of concept for a smart water management system using IoT devices and blockchain technology. Note: this project was funded via the now deprecated CGP Rapid Grants path. For funding requests which fall outside of the CGP, you can apply here.
Completed the software for Stakeholder AggregatorThis implements an MQTT data handling system that saves received data into chunks. It connects to an MQTT broker, processes incoming messages, and uploads the data to IPFS. The IPFS Content Identifiers (CIDs) are then stored on an Ethereum smart contract.
Brazil-based core contributors showed up in full force for a Web3 meet-up with Codigo Brazuca in Rio de Janeiro! On the other side of the world, contributors Cynthia and Daniel teamed up with W3B Lab Madrid & Barcelona, hosting a meet-up to connect with the Spanish community, not to mention attending ETHBarcelona itself, hacking and providing mentorship to builders!
For the monthly Game Builder Community Call over on the Cartesi Discord, we were joined by David Amor, Playmint CEO! Max probed his thoughts on Web3 gaming, building on-chain games and opened the floor to your questions. Catch the replay:
Then we were off to Paris! Bruno hit up the Modular Summit before meeting up with other Cartesi Contributors for ETHCC, wrapping up his key takeaways in a bite-sized thread - check it out! A special shoutout also to Mathias, a core member of the Kryptosphere community, who played a significant role in organising two events leading up to ETH Paris! Huge kudos for his commitment and full ownership of the initiative - super excited to keep collaborating together to reach different universities in France.
For a full recap of all the activities around ETHCC and ETHGlobal Paris, check out core contributor Siannieās handy recap here!
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Dive into Tech and Community updates from across the Cartesi Ecosystem!
Written By Siannie Quartero
Dive into Tech and Community updates from across the Cartesi Ecosystem!
Written By Siannie Quartero
Dive into Tech and Community updates from across the Cartesi Ecosystem!
Written By Siannie Quartero
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