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

We've completed our work on the off-chain storage mechanism!

This mechanism allows for the configuration and theme related to a prepaid or reward card to be stored in a flexible off-chain storage protocol, while being referenced via on-chain transactions.

Learn more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1402540831689502722

We've been very busy this week! Catch up on our progress here: https://medium.com/cardstack/june-9-inside-cardstack-this-week-3aa4fde5dd5a

The DID infrastructure (Decentralized Identifier) will also be used to store off-chain assets related to utility NFTs.

Utility NFTs are functional NFTs that give the users who possess them special privileges, such as permission to access content, rights to certain discounts, or the ability to unlock early access ahead of the general public.

Learn more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1402876996745502722

How does Cardstack compare to Wordpress and plugins? Watch Chris Tse’s answer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUn2k8a8hqQ&t=655s&ab_channel=Cardstack

The smart contracts underlying two of the four components of the CARD Protocol—namely the Card Pay protocol for payment processing & exchange rates and the Card Bridge protocol for layer-1 and layer-2 integration—have reached the point of completion.

Learn more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1403236649299963906

What about fraud? Making trivial edits to someone else's work and passing it off as your own is extremely difficult in the Cardstack ecosystem, thanks to JavaScript package management.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUn2k8a8hqQ&t=1741s&ab_channel=Cardstack

In Web3, we are introducing a new type of acceptance network called Card Pay.

Watch Chris Tse talk about the dApp and the mobile app that make up Card Pay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDBF_OHSDI&t=171s

How will reward programs between merchants & customers work on Card Pay?

Chris Tse explains it here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zeGxShpQHWI&t=590s

At Cardstack, we’re working towards the vision to bring the community together and grow each part to create a cohesive experience, so that people will think of Cardstack as the experience layer of Web3.