We reached a huge milestone by releasing the first beta launch of the Card Pay protocol, the Cardstack dApp, and the iOS Card Wallet.

These three components of software collaborate to create a layer 2 payment processing network that is fast, easy, and affordable. This network includes the core Card Pay protocol for payment processing and the Card Bridge protocol for layer 1 and layer 2 integration.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1419928290505027584

We will be releasing additional features, especially around UI components that expose already-deployed protocol such as merchant payment and prepaid card management capabilities.

Updates to the dApp will be deployed without user intervention, and updates to the iOS will be pushed periodically to TestFlight. We will also work on fixing bug reports. Lastly, we plan to invite more testers to expand the scope of user devices and experience levels.

Read on here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1420284708361961474

Here's what the Cardstack team has been busy with recently: https://medium.com/cardstack/july-28-inside-cardstack-this-week-59e9ba8a527f

We are continuing to develop upcoming protocol features involving reward cards (Card Reward) backed by community tokens like ERC-20 CARD, and we plan to soon add merchant features that will enable the sale of products and services backed by NFT on layer 2 (Card Commerce).

Learn more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1420642379275509760

Here's what the Cardstack team has been busy with, this July: https://medium.com/cardstack/whats-new-at-cardstack-7db8c5e98bb8

How can you become a merchant, and what can you sell? https://t.co/rUhKAJXnfB

We've completed the first wave of beta user testing and obtained valuable feedback from the Early Access Program participants.

This feedback allows us to identify and prioritize bug fixes, and further develop the onboarding workflow during both the testing program and our eventual public launch.

Read on here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1422102952341229568

The current phase of the beta is focused on the workflow of token suppliers and prepaid Card issuers. While these are the most complicated workflows from a technological perspective, it is great to see many beta testers successfully navigate and complete the testing tasks.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1422467332694183937

What else can Card Pay do and how can Cardstack provide a cohesive user experience? Chris Tse explains here: https://t.co/wyeF8X695T

Catch up on Cardstack's development this week. The Card Pay Early-Access program is also still accepting participants. Find out how to participate here: https://medium.com/cardstack/august-4-inside-cardstack-this-week-dbeb48cea865

We understand that most customers wanting to buy products using our protocol such as limited edition goods (Unisocks or “Card shirts”), NFTs, and DAO memberships are not likely to bridge their own tokens.

Instead, we would like them to use Apple Pay to purchase a prepaid card directly within the Card Wallet app “without having to visit Coinbase,” scan one QR code from a merchant’s website “hosted on Card Space,” and complete the transaction using their prepaid card balance.

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1423188145328168963

What is Card Wallet, how does it work and what problems is it solving?

Chris Tse addresses this in a recent AMA with KuCoin: https://medium.com/cardstack/cardstack-ama-with-kucoin-482b12f90125#a928

Card Space uses Card Pay as the commerce engine, but provides additional Web 2.0-compatible capabilities, making these economic activities visible to the existing Web that people use every day.

Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-DheP-ExpU&t=2682s

The key to any healthy marketplace is to have plenty of buyers and sellers. In the software marketplace, customers pay developers for their apps, and service providers for hosting services and support.

Learn more here: https://medium.com/cardstack/cardstack-ama-with-kucoin-482b12f90125#673a

What is Card Advance?

Chris Tse talks about it in detail in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbhqUU-GjUM&t=480s

What is the tech used in the Card Pay network?

Chris Tse explains them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-DheP-ExpU&t=2435s&ab_channel=Cardstack

Here's some background on the Cardstack project. Cardstack is not purely a blockchain project — we combine cloud and blockchain technology.

Learn more about how we do this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd73a89K3xQ&t=687s

How will we use Card Advance to fund software in the Card Catalog? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbhqUU-GjUM&t=677s

To those new to the Cardstack project, Welcome!

Earlier this week we talked about how we combine cloud and blockchain tech.

Today, let's focus on what we're doing on the cloud side, by reusing what has been proven. Chris Tse talks about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd73a89K3xQ&t=809s

The Card Pay Early-Access Program is still open and accepting participants. If you have already registered, look out for an invite soon!

For those who still want to participate, it's not too late, fill out this form to apply: https://cardstack.typeform.com/to/Oe1xtI8z

These days, people use so many different platforms every single day. Having to access numerous applications to perform one thing makes it very difficult to get things done.

How is Cardstack solving this problem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd73a89K3xQ&t=1030s