If you missed the Cardstack AMA with Chris Tse, you can watch it here:
https://youtu.be/RUn2k8a8hqQ

(We've updated the video link, so please follow the new URL if you would like to watch the AMA.)

We recently announced the first of our technology integration partnerships—between Cardstack and xDAI!

Cardstack has been building on the xDAI chain since last year. We are extremely impressed by their technology documentation and growing adoption through many protocols in the Ethereum space.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1381892868952915969

Creators should be able to monetize their own creations, without centralized platforms as intermediaries that hijack the creators' economic rewards.

Learn more in this chapter of the Card Space video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSl6nzC4JjM&t=209s

One creative work can be minted under various NFT platforms. So, the same creative content can be two different NFTs, on two different minting platforms. This creates an uncertain value due to the duplicate token.

How can we solve this issue?

Learn more in this chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-S_5AVTnSo&t=598s

Here's a quick recap of what's been going on at Cardstack this past week: https://medium.com/cardstack/april-14-inside-cardstack-this-week-2bdf72532442

At Cardstack, work is proceeding rapidly on the Card Pay Web application, to complete a very sophisticated layer-1 / layer-2 bridging workflow.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1382589539558977537

With Card Space, all kinds of cards (deals, commercial terms, media cards, etc.) can be embedded in a layout that is essentially a website.

Learn more about creating your own space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSl6nzC4JjM&t=323s $CARD

What are custodial wallets and why is reliance on a custodial wallet a problem?

Watch this part of the video about NFTs, where Chris Tse breaks it down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-S_5AVTnSo&t=709s

We're grateful to our community members for making our first-ever AMA session a success! A lot of great questions were asked and addressed. For those who missed this session, we've compiled the questions in a two-part blog series. Here's Part 1: https://medium.com/cardstack/ask-me-anything-part-1-39cf50e296eb

The inspiration for Card Space comes from the reality that creators are faced with today, dominated by big names like Google or Amazon—centralized apps sitting between the world’s creative output & the world’s audiences.

Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSl6nzC4JjM&t=77s

Another problem with NFTs: The metadata records of media files can be altered or deleted—either intentionally or because of lack of interest in the network. Watch this video on NFTs to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-S_5AVTnSo&t=838s

We anticipate that Card Pay will be used for online, crypto, physical, as well as ephemeral goods and services. The easiest place to start is simple NFTs, which represent digital objects. The completion of this ERC-721 aspect is now part of our work on the CARD Protocol. The aim is to bridge ERC-721 tokens between layer-1 and layer-2.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1384427964675158016

Many applications that have the ability to render NFTs are currently not open-sourced. So, you may not be able to interact with an NFT if the company that created the app is no longer around.

Learn about a potential solution here: https://medium.com/cardstack/whats-in-your-nfts-e4e45ebc51da

Card Space gives people the ability to express their creativity, as they are laying out content and tools within their own unique space.

Watch this video to learn more about what you can expect from Card Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSl6nzC4JjM

Catch up on our latest progress regarding Card Pay, Card Compiler, and the Web UI: https://medium.com/cardstack/april-21-inside-cardstack-this-week-2db10d57b50c

We're currently working through the edge cases for the Web UI, to ensure our thread-based workflow model can support the process of bridging tokens and setting up smart-contract wallet / multisig accounts, which lead to the issuance of prepaid cards to customer wallets.

Learn more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1385133778079674368

Here is Part 2 of our blog series about the AMA session Chris Tse hosted last week. While Part 1 addressed the product- and marketing-related questions, Part 2 focuses on the crypto and technological aspects of the Cardstack Project.

Thank you once again to all community members who submitted questions for this AMA.
https://medium.com/cardstack/ask-me-anything-part-2-fd7571a1364c

On the Card compiler front, we continue to port the capability of nested cards—which is very important for the synthesis of data about assets—into the new (V3) version of the Cardstack Hub.

This work is done in the main monorepo, on an iterative basis—so we can strive to reduce the number of code lines that are necessary to express all the compositional concepts needed to support our upcoming products, including Card Space, Card Catalog, & Card Membership.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1385496164670214144

Current NFT platforms do not have a way to support more complex mixed-media expressions—or ways to download a source file to be able to make any changes or edits.

What's the solution then?

Watch this chapter of What's in Your NFTs? : https://youtube.com/watch?v=M-S_5AVTnSo&t=923s

If you missed any of our announcements in the past few weeks, here's a recap of what's been going on this month: https://medium.com/cardstack/whats-new-at-cardstack-47002b93c33a

We have integrated exchange rate oracles into Card Pay! Customers and merchants will be able to settle payment transactions at an agreed-upon exchange rate, based on the stablecoin-to-USD price at the moment of the transaction.

Learn more: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1387013764428439559