News from the CTSI Coin Development team on May 31, 2023
Cartesi Ecosystem Recap — May 2023
Tech and Community updates from across the Cartesi Ecosystem
Exciting changes are happening across the Cartesi ecosystem as we make major moves across all areas — and this monthly ecosystem recap is one of them! In April we gave a glimpse into the community’s march towards Mainnet as well as a peek at some of the new initiatives bubbling in the pipeline. Jumping forward to now, where are we at? Let’s take a look 👀
Tech Updates
Research & Design
Cartesi Rollups are closer than ever to being Mainnet-ready! But did you know you don’t have to wait for our monthly updates to see what’s going on? Now you can check in bi-weekly on Discord (Units-Updates) to see what’s new as well as take a look in real-time at current discussions shaping the development of Cartesi tech (R&D Discussions).
Still prefer a summary of the month’s developments? We’ve got you covered:
The new Rollups 0.9.0 release bringing all planned features for the MVP is ready! Cartesi’s contributors are now concluding the adaptation of the official examples and updating the documentation for this new release — stay tuned…
In parallel, Sunodo development is literally flying! It’s already possible to easily create a Cartesi DApp, and run it locally calling a small number of commands via its CLI tool. Not familiar with Sunodo yet? Check it out and give it a try here.
Cartesi Compute 1.3.0, Cartesi’s computational Oracle solution, is ready and its updated documentation will come together with the launch of Rollups 0.9.0.
Cartesi’s Research and Design on decentralisation is ongoing — you can follow the discussions via Discord in our dedicated channel for this important topic here.
As one of the first application specific rollup projects in the space, we’re also thrilled to see Honeypot (the first Cartesi-powered DApp to be launched on Mainnet) listed alongside upcoming L2 projects on L2Beat. Alongside generating interest amongst the Web3 developer community to help test and fortify the security of Cartesi Rollups, we’re excited for this to bring greater visibility to Cartesi Rollups tech!
Grantee Development Updates
♟️ 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.
Check out Ultrachess’ first blog post (more detailed and technical ones on the way!):
🖼️ 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 Explorer support and development.
HoneyPot landing page design completed, development in progress.
🎮 Aetheras is a blockchain company with experience in and a deep understanding of game development, with a grant to develop Texas HODL’em Poker and Dazzle (match-3 strategy game).
Texas HODL’em Poker
Updates made to the UI
Wrapping up a first playable build
Dazzle Patch Notes
PVE mode implemented
Score System
Prize pool system
Leaderboards & Ranking
Built-in wallet structure revamp for better Cartesi experience
UI/UX update & revamp
Follow them on their newly activated Twitter | Discord communities!
🧠 UXBoost is a user research-based UX team that adopts the design-thinking approach to collaborate with cross-disciplinary Cartesi contributors to ensure a better experience for the Cartesi community and ecosystem. UXBoost identifies user needs, problem areas, and develops solutions through iterative design.
Current focus is on the DevAdvocacy unit:
Studying and mapping out the present DevAdvocacy workflow to optimise the core contributor’s experience.
Designing the user research plan to conduct the user interview and learn more about the needs and pain points of Cartesi developers’ journey when learning and building on Cartesi.
Provided UX mentorship to hackathon projects to guide on how to get ready for product-user fit before moving to the next level.
Community Updates
Discord
Our Discord server is flourishing with activity! From bringing engaging R&D discussions and Layer-2 debates over to public channels, to making it even easier for you to track development within the Cartesi ecosystem, we’re excited to see the Cartesi Discord evolving into an invigorating hub for everything from community collaborations to diverse and stimulating conversations.
It’s not only our Discord server that’s becoming a hive of activity! Over on the Cartesi Governance forum, we’ve seen 7 new proposals submitted, igniting a series of active discussions from contributors within the Cartesi ecosystem (make sure to share your feedback if you haven’t already ✍️).
We also saw a unanimous vote from the community to fund a proposal to build a Solidity library that extends the expressiveness of the Cartesi voucher system! With plenty more opportunities to help shape the Cartesi ecosystem coming up, make sure you’re ready for the next vote by staking your CTSI.
Community Project Repository
Cartesi contributors came together to create an awesome portal, gathering proof of concepts, hackathon projects, and experimental DApps developed with Cartesi Rollups. Come explore the newly launched Rollup Lab website here. Take a look at new and evolving projects within the Cartesi ecosystem, even give them a try, or submit your own project to showcase to the world.
Cartesi Rollups is opening up the design space for decentralized applications and we can’t wait to see this repo grow bigger with sophistically complex and groundbreaking projects.
Cartesi on Twitter: "Welcome to Rollup Lab - a community repository of proof of concepts, hackathon projects, and experimental DApps all developed with Cartesi Rollups!Explore new and upcoming projects within the Cartesi ecosystem, give them a try, and even submit your own to share with our growing... pic.twitter.com/nd5AYeG3D7 / Twitter"
Welcome to Rollup Lab - a community repository of proof of concepts, hackathon projects, and experimental DApps all developed with Cartesi Rollups!Explore new and upcoming projects within the Cartesi ecosystem, give them a try, and even submit your own to share with our growing... pic.twitter.com/nd5AYeG3D7
Ecosystem Growth
To support the Cartesi ecosystem’s Marketing, DevRel, and Growth functions, a grant has also been issued to Serotonin, a Web3 marketing firm and product studio for transformative technologies. With a team of former executives from ConsenSys, Chainlink, and more, we’re
excited to welcome Serotonin as the newest contributor to the Cartesi ecosystem and can’t wait to work together on new strategies to boost Cartesi awareness and adoption.
Events
It’s been a jammed packed month of events, and we have to give special kudos to the contributors working hard to introduce Cartesi to new developer communities across the globe!
First up, a shout out to Lyno and Arthur in Brazil for providing support and mentorship to students of the Intelil hackathon! Dev Advocacy contributor Gabriel sat down with the GitDeun Alliance for an insightful technical AMA, organised by Korean community ambassador, Jay, before heading over to the US to join Ecosystem Growth’s Zach at the Compute Over Data Summit. Zach wrote a brilliant recap, check it out:
Zach Prater on Twitter: "The #CoDSummit this week was a blast to attend! I learned so much about the future of computation across the spectrum. Thank you @web3gb for attending with me and giving such an amazing presentation about @cartesiproject pic.twitter.com/h92YrF1CFN / Twitter"
The #CoDSummit this week was a blast to attend! I learned so much about the future of computation across the spectrum. Thank you @web3gb for attending with me and giving such an amazing presentation about @cartesiproject pic.twitter.com/h92YrF1CFN
In the run up to our 6th hackathon of the year, this time in Lisbon, we lined up a series of side events to connect with the vibrant Web3 communities surrounding ETHGlobal Lisbon’s upcoming hackathon! Make sure to check them all out in Siannie’s hackathon recap. And of course, we have to give a special shoutout to Deanna for not only building with Cartesi in Lisbon, but bringing to life a project that’s so incredible, it made ETHGlobal’s Top 10 Finalists:
In our 3rd Game Builder community call, we heard updates from Ultrachess and Dazzle, plus invited Minters’ CEO as our guest speaker. Stokarz shared his journey into on-chain gaming as well as insights into what’s on the horizon for the blockchain gaming space — catch up with the replay:
If you love what the Cartesi community is doing and want to get more involved, come join our monthly contributors call! See how you can organise a Cartesi event with your local community, or chat and gain insights into Cartesi development and the Web3 industry as a whole with core contributors and enthusiasts alike:
Cartesi is an application-specific rollup execution layer with a Linux runtime. Cartesi Rollups can be deployed as a layer 2 (on top of Ethereum), as a layer 3 (on top of Optimism, Arbitrum, zkEVM chains, etc.), or as sovereign rollups. It opens up the design space for more expressive and computationally intensive blockchain applications.
DApps are deployed on their own customizable application-specific rollup chains;
DApps don’t compete with each other in Cartesi’s ecosystem for scarce blockspace;
Cartesi provides Ethereum or L2’s with orders of magnitude more computational capacity;
Developers can code decentralized logic with their favorite libraries, compilers and other time-tested open source components;
DApps preserve the strong security guarantees and censorship resistance of the underlying blockchain;
Cartesi Rollups opens up the design space for more expressive and computationally intensive blockchain applications;
Cartesi Rollups can be deployed as a layer 2 (on top of Ethereum), as a layer 3 (on top of Optimism, Arbitrum, zkEVM chains, etc.), or as sovereign rollups;
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