Cardstack Updates

I recommend you to check out this blog post with the full details: https://medium.com/cardstack/cardstack-adopts-zeppelinos-to-grow-token-ecosystem-b873800193e2

Our token's Ethereum address will also change once the upgrade is complete. You'll be able to find the updated address at our ENS address cardstack.eth on Etherscan, and we'll announce it here on Telegram as well.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: Transactions will be disabled while we perform the upgrade. It's planned to begin Tuesday, Sep. 11, at 9:00 AM EST (15:00 CEST) and will last an estimated 8-12 hours.

To achieve this, we're bringing our smart contract up to the latest industry standards. That's why we're performing our 2nd major smart contract upgrade, which adopts ZeppelinOS, among other improvements

Hey Cardstack community, got some news! We're preparing for a lot of exciting integrations soon — think decentralized exchanges, stablecoins, oracles, and more

On his recent trip to Beijing, Chris was interviewed on a livestream with 49,000 watchers. Learn why Cardstack has an advantage over other blockchain ecosystem projects: https://medium.com/cardstack/cardstacks-advantage-a-conversation-with-chris-tse-and-token-club-55917495a555

Lead Developer Ed Faulkner's blog post about healthy software ecosystems is hot on Reddit today: https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/9cu25c/like_plants_in_a_natural_environment_software/

So we've now gathered the best of our material and put it on cardstack.com so that you can share it with your friends and family who want to know what Cardstack is about, and where we're headed next

Cardstack has done a lot of work since the project began in 2014. Now you can follow every part of our journey on cardstack.com

Chris' latest blog post is currently the top story on Reddit's r/cryptocurrency. Join the discussion: https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/9b73ad/when_a_new_user_wants_to_start_using_a_dapp_he/

New technical blog by our Senior Blockchain Developer Hassan Abdel-Rahman explaining how to wrap an Ethereum smart contract in a RESTful API. Check it out: https://medium.com/cardstack/running-an-ethereum-cardstack-hub-application-961a4b2933ac

Must read! Chris gave a killer talk at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto answering crypto's life-or-death question: what happens after the speculation has subsided and we want real utility? https://medium.com/cardstack/from-speculation-to-utility-ad3e17399d78

For his latest blog, senior blockchain developer Hassan Abdel-Rahman wrote about how he built an Ethereum plugin that can ingest content from smart contracts (including Oracles) running on Ethereum. Check it out: https://medium.com/cardstack/exposing-your-smart-contract-as-a-restful-service-67e83fed11a9

"We believe that if we use this open source model, we can build something in a decentralized way that is just as user friendly (if not more user friendly) than what has existed before." Watch Chris' talk from last month's Blockchain World Forum: https://youtu.be/g5C65ffDctg

The Cardstack MVP was our “minimum verifiable proof” that our stack and architecture works. Read more about it in our latest blog: https://medium.com/cardstack/how-the-cardstack-framework-powers-decentralized-applications-b2c92f348779

Chris had a great conversation with major Chinese tech publication Huoxing Caijing about how Cardstack is perfectly positioned to become the on-ramp to the future decentralized Internet. Check it out here: https://medium.com/cardstack/the-future-of-cardstack-a-conversation-with-chris-tse-and-huoxing-caijing-e929c8b6bba7

NEW: A very insightful post from our lead developer, Ed Faulkner, on how Cardstack plans to grow a healthy software ecosystem to gain mass adoption. https://medium.com/cardstack/growing-a-healthy-software-ecosystem-746c3f7eefb1

Just in! A smart review of Cardstack by AMB Crypto. “A platform like Cardstack not only make dapps interoperable, it also gives users the ability to continuously improve through open source development.” Don’t miss it: https://ambcrypto.com/how-blockchain-can-benefit-from-a-customizable-experience-layer/

Cardstack is featured on International Business Times today: “Their platform allows users to combine different apps and dApps, blending their favorite features from each one and getting the best of all possible worlds.” Read it! http://www.ibtimes.com.au/decentralized-software-future-internet-1571104

Chris' Nasdaq article about progressive decentralization is trending on r/Cryptocurrency: https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/94z5n4/progressive_decentralization_means_let_go_of_the/