Dear Cardstack community,

For many years, Cardstack was a dream shared by a handful of people. Today, with all of your support, I’m more confident than ever that we can turn this dream — decentralization for everyone — into a reality.

I’m grateful to our team of contributors and advisors for the hard work and long hours they’ve put into this project. And I’m inspired by the tremendous passion from all of you, the Cardstack community. Every one of you that I’ve met, online or in person, around the world, gives me the energy to keep going. Every day, I feel more strongly our movement is going to make a difference.

I know not everyone was able to participate in our fundraiser. I’m 100% committed to this project being as inclusive as possible, so please stay tuned for ways to get involved. We will need you on board.

And to all the new Cardstack Token contributors, a part of our vision now belongs to you. I hope you’re excited to go on this journey with us for the long run.

Thank you once again for all of your support.
Sincerely,

Chris Tse
Founding Director

Our lead developer Ed Faulkner gives a whiteboard talk explaining the Cardstack Hub. This is our data orchestration layer — which makes it simple for web apps to talk to on- and off-chain data sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmc40SYS-uU

Hub updates, UX improvements, and more: here's what the Cardstack Team is working on! https://medium.com/cardstack/developer-update-hub-improvements-e63fdb6322c3

Last week the Cardstack team had a 2-day offsite meeting to discuss some exciting next steps, including updates to the Hub, the development of an Electron app, and Card UI improvements. More to come.

Soon, you will be able to run a copy of Cardstack, fully decentralized on your own desktop. Read about the development of our new Electron app — and more:

https://medium.com/cardstack/developer-update-cardstack-electron-app-c6710aa55171

Cardstack founding director Chris Tse quoted in Reuters Top News:

“If the crypto market were a NASCAR race - there would be a yellow caution flag waving right now. There was massive exuberance, then a massive crash, and now we’re cleaning up the debris and figuring out what’s going on."

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-crypto-currency-bitcoin/bitcoin-falls-to-four-month-low-in-persistent-bearish-trend-idUSKBN1JI2MY?

NOTE—We are currently performing the first upgrade to the Cardstack Token Smart Contract. During this time, token balances may not reflect accurately. After the upgrade is complete, you will be able to view your balance at our smart contract address: cardstack.eth.

First Smart Contract upgrade! 🎉

The Cardstack Smart Contract is unique — we built it to be upgradable from the start. Read the blog post to learn what we're improving today:

https://medium.com/cardstack/the-first-cardstack-smart-contract-upgrade-f9f07cf0955a

We just upgraded our smart contract, which means it has a new address! For security and simplicity, always use cardstack.eth to find the newest address.

Read all about the upgrade here:
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-first-cardstack-smart-contract-upgrade-f9f07cf0955a

Note to MyEtherWallet users: Currently, built-in support for CARD in MyEtherWallet is pointing to our old contract address. We are waiting for MyEtherWallet to update with our new address — thank you for your patience. You can use Etherscan in the meantime to check your balance.

More information on our smart contract upgrade!

Learn how we upgraded our token contract and ledger: https://medium.com/cardstack/the-first-cardstack-smart-contract-upgrade-f9f07cf0955a

An explainer in plain English about how our smart contract works: https://medium.com/cardstack/cardstacks-upgradable-smart-contract-explained-dbf443888cfc

Chris will be doing an AMA for Chinese speaking guest at 8-9pm China time Saturday (June 30th). Details will be shared here and in the Chinese channel before the AMA session. We look forward to answering questions and connecting with our Chinese speaking community.

Dear Cardstack community,

The CARD token will unlock at 23:00 Pacific time on July 2, 2018. For those who have not yet submitted and confirmed their token receiving address – please do so right away, so that we can send your tokens to you as soon as possible.

This milestone marks a big change for us, as the project moves from being a comparatively small community, focused on the vision of the technology, to a worldwide ecosystem in which everybody can participate. We have a lot more exciting announcements – regarding integrations and partnerships – coming your way in the next few days and weeks.

Thank you again for your support.

Kind regards,
The Cardstack Team

Hi Cardstack community, I’ve been hearing your feedback. We are committed to both the short-term and long-term success of the project, and our team is working around the clock to line up the next few key pieces of the puzzle.

As mentioned, I am in China this week — a really important market for Cardstack. I just flew in from Shenzhen and arrived at my hotel room in Beijing, and it is 4 am here. I have back-to-back meetings from 8 am in the morning to work towards the good news you are all waiting for. Your concerns are heard. I want to be able to address them in more detail in the next few days via a video AMA. Our community admins will compile questions you have posted here on Telegram and send them to me. Thank you in advance for your questions!

Please submit your questions to Chris in the @cardstack main channel using the hashtag #QforChris

Hello from China!

Yesterday, Chris participated in a panel moderated by Shenzhen TV’s Finance Channel at the Blockchain World Forum Shenzhen 2018.

Yesterday, our community member @JonnyDubowsky mentioned Cardstack on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange: https://cheddar.com/videos/bitcoin-rebounds-can-it-last