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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

We’ve been working hard on the deployment engineering and the associated security audits for this smart contract architecture upgrade, which held back some of the highly-anticipated integrations for CARD token. With this new upgrade, we expect those integrations to happen quickly thereafter. Stay tuned for announcements.

Cardstack is now conducting its smart contract upgrade to adopt ZeppelinOS. ALL TOKEN TRANSFERS ARE NOW PAUSED UNTIL THE UPGRADE IS COMPLETE. Thank you for your patience.

Cardstack's smart contract upgrade is now complete.

The new, official address for Cardstack Token (CARD) as of September 12, 2018 (00:00 UTC) is:

0x954b890704693af242613edEf1B603825afcD708

This address may be verified by looking up our ENS address, cardstack.eth: https://etherscan.io/address/cardstack.eth

Exchanges have been notified of our new address and will be updating their systems to reflect this soon. Direct token transfers are now reactivated.

If you have Cardstack Tokens: You do not need to do anything, except to use the new address going forward! We want to make sure you have a great user experience, so the hard part of swapping tokens and transferring balances has been completed and paid for by our team.

This major upgrade also enables us to make future upgrades without changing our contract address, to further improve the user experience.

For full details on what we improved in this upgrade, please read: https://medium.com/cardstack/cardstack-adopts-zeppelinos-to-grow-token-ecosystem-b873800193e2