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.

How does Card Pay connect the B2B and B2C aspects of Cardstack? https://youtube.com/watch?v=EbhqUU-GjUM&t=266s

We have been working on leveraging The Graph, which is a decentralized blockchain query service.

By making the Card Pay data model & smart-contract events available as a subgraph, we can leverage the power of GraphQL to construct a complete transaction history of a user’s wallet.

Learn more: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1405064102888628228

Catch up on our latest progress updates about the Card Pay protocol and the Card Wallet: https://medium.com/cardstack/june-16-inside-cardstack-this-week-95878a1c598d

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Card Wallet is a mobile application that provides a customized view of the unique structure of Card Pay and the actions you can take within the Card Pay ecosystem. We have now added support in the template for displaying another type of safe: A merchant account.

Learn more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1405420844772315137

Stripe is a popular developer tool that is becoming more of a merchant-facing tool, which allows you to create FinTech connections, so you can accept credit cards and transfer money to bank accounts. How is Card Pay similar to Stripe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbhqUU-GjUM&t=96s

Catch us today at 7am EDT / 1pm CEST / 7pm SGT for an AMA session with KuCoin. More details here: https://t.me/Kucoin_News/6588

We're currently preparing the design artifacts to submit Card Wallet to the Apple app store. We want to enable beta testers to download the iOS wallet to test out the dApp features, as many of the Card Pay dashboard features require proper configuration of a layer-2 wallet.

Learn more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1405774844478689280

How does Card Reward allow consumers to earn rewards?

Chris Tse talks about Card Reward in this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EbhqUU-GjUM&t=335s

A DeFi price feed is used to display users' purchasing power in Card Pay; but it is also an important aspect of the revenue pool, determining how many tokens we need to withdraw from a prepaid card to give to the merchant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDBF_OHSDI&t=440s

We have successfully pushed the first version of the Card Wallet, an iOS application, through App Store Connect and received Apple’s approval for TestFlight beta testing!

Learn more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1407228372384583690

Here's part 2 of our "Cardstack vs SaaS“ article series! Learn how the components of the Cardstack ecosystem compare to the tools from the Web2 world. https://medium.com/cardstack/cardstack-vs-saas-part-2-d8ffbf6400e2

On the protocol development front, improvements are being made to the core Card Pay protocol family. The aim is to increase the robustness and handle special error conditions that arise when wallets are too low on tokens to be able to pay for gas.

While users don't need to have a separate gas token to perform actions through the Card Pay protocol,they need to have enough value in one of their token balances, because the system will deduct the requisite tokens to substitute the gas fees that are advanced by the relayer.

Learn more here: https://twitter.com/cardstack/status/1407600998068023296