We're making great progress on the Card Compiler!

Read more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1529093121803419651

Wanna hear what the Cardstack team has been working on lately?

Catch up here: https://medium.com/cardstack/may-25-inside-cardstack-this-week-a666d21922bc

Tomorrow in our Web3 Watch series, Chris Tse will be speaking to KYC-Chain CEO Edmund Lowell, covering...

✅ the current state of regulations and KYC compliance in crypto
✅ KYC requirements for VASPs including DeFi

...and much more!

Tune in here: https://youtu.be/SlrYWsXxHIE

We had an insightful conversation with Etherisc on the Decentralization of Insurance last week!

Here's the transcript of our key takeaways from the FiresideChat: https://medium.com/cardstack/decentralization-of-insurance-with-etheriscs-ceo-a10ed175f2b8

Blockchain analytics can be intimidating to people outside of the Web3 space, and for good reason—it's complex stuff!

We broke it down for you in our Fireside Chat on blockchain analytics: https://youtu.be/ByP8_AF7b60

Besides podcasts, our #Web3Watch Series is also available on YouTube!

Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to be kept up-to-date on all our latest content.

Web3Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJa78YMJVe2NXFo2X4lyk0kHJMxzIwis

Get ready for next week's Web3 Watch event with Cardstack's Founding Director Chris Tse and Fluence Labs' Co-Founder Tom Trowbridge as they discuss peer-to-peer protocols.

Learn more about this episode and register here: https://events.cardstack.com/peer-to-peer-protocols-with-fluence-labs-co-founder-tom-trowbridge

One huge question still surrounds NFTs and Web3 at large—the question of regulation.

How do we fairly and justly regulate virtual assets? Do NFTs even count as tools of payment?

Find out more by watching our FiresideChat on Crypto Crime Prevention.
https://hubs.li/Q01cn5yz0

We're making great progress toward our roadmap!

Here's a Q2 update for you: https://medium.com/cardstack/cardstack-2022-roadmap-update-41efc9681446

May is coming to an end and we're busy as ever!

Catch up on our product updates, new partnerships, industry insights, and latest events here: https://medium.com/cardstack/web3-roundup-756d44eea955

How does decentralized insurance differ from traditional insurance, and how does it work? 🤔

Etherisc explains in this video.

Eager to learn more❓

Watch our full Fireside Chat on the Decentralization of Insurance: https://youtu.be/I03JbqmKL6U

Blockchain technology is changing the music industry!

How?

✅It bridges the gap between fan & artist.
✅It brings more equitable models of compensation.
✅It pushes the boundaries of music itself.

Read more:
https://medium.com/cardstack/web3-and-the-future-of-the-music-industry-6c703fda6a2e

Tomorrow's fireside chat with Fluence Labs on peer-to-peer computing will cover the

✔️ drawbacks of centralized applications
✔️ benefits of building P2P applications and protocols
✔️ challenges in building P2P applications

...and more!

Tune in here: https://youtu.be/QrYZTTypwx4

We had a great conversation with KYC-Chain about KYC & digital identity ownership last week!

These are our key takeaways from the Fireside Chat: https://medium.com/cardstack/kyc-and-digital-identity-ownership-with-kyc-chains-ceo-cdd3a016ba17

Do you enjoy writing? And you're a proud tech geek? Then we're looking for you!

Join the Cardstack team as a Technical Writer and be part of a global team, where you can work remotely.

Find out more and apply here: https://cardstack.applytojob.com/apply/COOXkhFtUr/Technical-Writer

The proof-of-work mechanism used for NFT transactions is notoriously bad for the environment 🌎😟.

To help create a greener Web3, we recently paired with students from NYU's Comp Sci graduate program to develop a carbon-neutral NFT system.

https://medium.com/cardstack/purging-nfts-carbon-credit-offsets-for-nft-markets-9197d3b7ca49

Another exciting Web3 Watch episode is coming up next week!

Chris Tse will be speaking to Hedera's CMO Christian Hasker about the decentralized Web & PoS model.

Get more info here and be sure to sign up! https://events.cardstack.com/decentralized-web-pos-model-with-hederas-cmo-christian-hasker

Dear Cardstack community,

Our team is completing a few ongoing projects to improve the security and reliability of our deployed services and applications. We are also planning for the second half of 2022 so that we can build on top of our foundation and deliver end-user facing features that leverage our protocol and deliver business values to users and customers. On the infrastructure front, we have been migrating more of our manual processes to automated scripts by way of Terraform so that the creation of new environments supporting our protocol and dApps can be more repeatable. This is a necessary investment so that we can reduce additional work and focus on supporting other blockchain nodes and networks, whether it is alternative layer 1s or a true roll-up based layer 2. This work is done in cooperation with our DevOps experts, and it allows all of our existing services to become one cohesive deployment stack.

In the area of security, our team has been working to address some improvements suggested by our auditor Trail of Bits. We are glad to announce we have submitted all the requested changes and improvements, and those improvements have been reviewed by the auditors. Trail of Bits have issued a finalized audit report for the Card Pay family of protocols. We are rolling out these changes as well as upcoming features related to our new marketplace contract in the coming weeks.

Our mobile team has also worked on improving our private key encryption and backup capabilities by requiring a user-determined pin so that all key backups are encrypted by information that only the user has—it cannot be decrypted by any third party, including the Cardstack team. This capability will still support the use of face ID, touch ID, or similar biometrics authentication, which will bypass the need for a pin code. Users are, however, encouraged to save their pin with a password manager or write it on a piece of paper in case they upgrade to a new phone and would like to migrate their local or cloud backup to the new device.

For the second half of this year, we are going to build a new SaaS feature set focused on business-to-business payments, otherwise known as invoicing between freelances and businesses. We will use the Card Pay and Card Reward protocol as the settlement and exchange rate conversion protocol. We have always planned to extend our consumer-oriented mobile-to-mobile payment experience to invoicing and billing for businesses, as the ticket amount is usually higher and the frequency is more regular. Our work will be focusing on building a web-based experience for operations, including those that work in account-payable and account-receivable roles. We will also provide a consumer quality wallet experience using Card Wallet, especially when it comes to transactional approval and signing. We will share progress on these new user-facing features as they move from the product design phase to the engineering and coding phases.

The mainstream adoption of Web3 must be led by effective, meaningful education built on the open doors of inclusivity rather than the limits of exclusivity. Watch Joel Clelland talk about Web3 education on our Fireside Chat here:

https://youtu.be/ChJF_0te6SI

Why would someone pay millions of dollars for a digital image?!

➡️ Collectibility
➡️ Hype
➡️ Community

What do you think?

Learn more about NFTs here: https://medium.com/cardstack/from-net-art-to-non-fungible-token-a-brief-history-of-the-nft-d6d029470a46#8f36

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