This is what we've been working on this past week: https://medium.com/cardstack/may-26-inside-cardstack-this-week-97a638c2ddff

Work continues on the workflows that leverage the Card Pay SDK. All the logic of the smart contracts that are necessary for the creation of prepaid cards has been completed and deployed to the respective testnets.

Once the user experience for all these workflows is completed, using the workflow thread model taken from the Boxel design system, we will be able to open up testing to users in the Cardstack community.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1397797497779539969

May was all about our DeFi payment & reward system: Card Pay. This blog post catches you up on what's been going on this month: https://medium.com/cardstack/whats-new-at-cardstack-f5323ed3bcaa

We've begun end-to-end testing for the CARD Protocol on testnet. The Card Pay protocol has smart contracts deployed on both layer 1 and layer 2. https://youtu.be/3-C693T_BkU

Learn more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1397915515968839684

On the Card Pay mobile wallet front, most of the core capabilities are in place.

The team is now adding visual polish (such as sorting, conversion rate display, and decimal-point rounding enhancements) as well as improving the general reliability against the many API endpoints necessary to produce a cohesive experience.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1398157087213899777

How does Cardstack compare to the SaaS tools of the Web2 world? In this video, Chris Tse explains how all the different parts of Cardstack work together to cover countless use cases and replace the apps we use today. https://youtu.be/EbhqUU-GjUM

Happening tomorrow, June 1, Chris Tse will present at the Media & Entertainment SIG about a development tool that lets you build blockchain applications out of a library of templates. This will include a look at new code for NFTs.

Tune in at 9AM PDT / 12PM EDT / 6PM CEST / 12AM SGT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_X0WkMtkWzaVUKF-PRBNQ

Learn more about Card Pay, our DeFi payment and reward system—consisting of a Web dApp for supplying tokens & issuing prepaid cards and a mobile wallet for biometric payments. https://medium.com/cardstack/defi-payments-with-card-pay-b87d13c80ac1

SaaS companies like Stripe, Square, Shopify, Salesforce, Slack, SoFi, Snowflake etc. are the big players now – until Web3 takes over. Watch Chris Tse compare these Web2 services to Cardstack. https://youtu.be/EbhqUU-GjUM

Remember to tune in TODAY at 9AM PDT / 12PM EDT / 6PM CEST / 12AM SGT as Chris Tse is speaking at Hyperledger Media & Entertainment SIG, about the "Building Blocks for the New Creator Economy".

Catch it live here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_X0WkMtkWzaVUKF-PRBNQ

We have completed the development of an off-chain storage approach that will allow us to store additional metadata related to the Card Pay protocol, such as the design of the look and feel of a particular prepaid card or reward card.

Learn more: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1399697268228300803

Chris Tse is now speaking at the Hyperledger Media & Entertainment SIG about the "Building Blocks for the New Creator Economy" – watch the live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFUGN-wYLdg

On the mobile development front, work is continuing on the treatment of layer-2 assets. We are making sure that information we can source from public APIs (like Etherscan and Coingecko) is properly reflected in the Card Wallet, be it in numbers or charts.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1399970238465077253

Curious to know what we've been up to this week? Check it out here: https://medium.com/cardstack/june-2-inside-cardstack-this-week-2afd520caaf8

On the protocol research front, we have reached a milestone in the creation of the Tally analytic model in support of fixed-time-period staking rewards!

A staker will receive a proportion of a fixed supply of rewards, based on the number of participants entering and existing within a program of multiple fixed-time-periods, e.g. multiple weeks.

Read more: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1400321982902673412

How is Cardstack evolving tools from the Web2 world? How does it compare to other SaaS tools? Learn how the different parts of Cardstack come together as Chris Tse shares the many use cases it can cover.

https://medium.com/cardstack/cardstack-vs-saas-part-1-ff20434fec12

Is it clear what permissions you have when you buy an NFT today?

In this chapter of our "What's in your NFT?" video,
Chris Tse talks more about this concern: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M-S_5AVTnSo&t=2076s&ab_channel=Cardstack

Curious to learn more about the Cardstack Project?

Watch Chris Tse's interview with Gains Associates to understand the project better. https://youtu.be/OzVeAgVgqNo

Cardstack is working on 3 main products this year. Here's a timeline of when you can expect Card Pay, Card Space & Card Catalog: https://medium.com/cardstack/2021-card-pay-card-space-card-catalog-7ad7e9860e8

Rendering raises a question about what software is, what is the platform that is being built by the software, and if this is something you own in your NFT?

Learn more about this in this chapter of Chris Tse's NFT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-S_5AVTnSo&t=1367s

How does Cardstack compare to Instagram?
Instagram is where you grow your audience. Cardstack is where you build deeper relationships with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUn2k8a8hqQ&t=1122s&ab_channel=Cardstack