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Subsocial

The Grilling experience continues to improve with the release of push notifications, unread message badges, and custom nicknames!

Aiming to re-engage users more effectively, web push notifications on Grill.chat will give you a giant alert when someone replies to your messages, so you don’t miss...

Push Notifications, Unread Messages, & Nicknames

As part of our ongoing UX research, we have replaced PolkaVerse’s comment section with a Grill.chat window on the right-hand side on desktop, or with a pop-up Grill “comments” section, on mobile.



This approach offers numerous advantages, such as allowing users to comment without connecting a...

PolkaVerse Integrates Grill.chat!

August was an exciting month, as a Polkadot treasury proposal was launched to fund a project using Subsocial, and we provided some more insight on when token transfers will be enabled! Let’s dive in.

OpenComm

The month started with DappForce posting an OpenComm proposal for discussion on...

August 2023 In Review

Web3 as we know it is built on communities, where users network, laugh, and share alpha.

With the upcoming release of Creator Staking, you can now create your own communities on Grill.chat! Read on to learn how you can benefit from creating new Web3 communities.



Creating your very own...

Create & Manage Your Communities On Grill.Chat!

July was a very quiet month at Subsocial, as we were heads down and building after the excitement of June. Let’s quickly run through last month’s highlights:

The Spacers NFT Mint



The Spacers NFTs were officially minted on the Moonriver network! Everyone that bought a Spacer Pod last year now...

July 2023 In Review

June was a very busy month over at Subsocial, with mountains of Grill.chat updates, and some fun times at Polkadot Decoded! We’re trying to keep this post short, so let’s dive in.

SocialFi Twitter Space

On June 1st we held a Twitter space with the team from Crust Network to discuss SocialFi...

June 2023 In Review

After the approval of RMRK’s EIPs (allowing the RMRK standard to exist on EVM chains like Moonbeam) and the launch of the EVM version of Singular, The Spacer Fleet has finally arrived!

All Spacer Pods have been opened, and the 10,000 Spacers are now available to view on the Moonbeam network...

The Subsocial Spacers Have Been Minted!

After creating a Grill.chat hub for Polkadot Decoded last week, we are gearing up for a short and sweet incentive campaign!

Here’s the prize pot:

1000 USDT on Moonbeam

30 Spacer Marine NFTs

100 .polka Subsocial Usernames

How will the campaign work?

It’s simple, just ask good questions to...

Grill Decoded, Get Rewarded

TL;DR: Token transfers are probably coming soon, along with Spacers and creator staking.

Every month we publish a monthly review post on our blog, but those are always focused on the past. Today, we want to give an update on some of our recent developments, and inform you on where Subsocial is...

The Subsocial Roadmap: Achievements of Today, Goals for Tomorrow

While you may not realize it, there is a glaring problem with the current state of Web3 and its communities. Almost all of Web3’s communication happens on closed Web2 platforms owned by traditional companies, whose best interests are usually not aligned with the goals of the Web3 movement. At...

Bringing A Web2 Social Experience To Web3

The month of May marked a huge milestone for Subsocial, as we finalized our User Experience solutions, allowing applications built on Subsocial to offer their users a UX similar to what we know from Web2. Along with this were updates to Grill.chat, the launch of FrenTube, and some marketing and...

May 2023 In Review

Grill.chat has received lots of attention since its launch on April 5th. By allowing users to anonymously chat on-chain without wallets or tokens, Grill has shown what is possible with Subsocial’s innovative user experience (UX) solutions. In this article, we will look at how message contents are...

Making Use Of Crust's W3Buckets In Grill.chat

TL;DR: Users of Subsocial apps can now delegate the signing and payment of their transactions to Subsocial’s signer service, allowing them to use Subsocial for free, without any confirmation pop-ups. This does introduce some centralization risk, but users are not required to use the Signer proxy,...

Leveraging Polkadot's Unique Capabilities To Enable Web2 UX With Subsocial's New Off-Chain Signer

April was an extremely large month for the Subsocial ecosystem, as we rolled out our most critically acclaimed app yet, Grill.chat, which showcases our innovative UX solutions made possible by our Energy and (upcoming) Off-Chain Signer solutions.

As the first use case of our new Open...

April 2023 In Review

Hello again Spacers! We know it has been quiet the last few months, and we appreciate your patience and understanding.

While most of the preparations for the Spacers mint are complete, the main delay at the moment is due to the RMRK team’s EIPs not yet being approved. However, they expect them...

Prepare For Launch: An Update On The Spacers NFT Mint

Last month saw some exciting developments in the Subsocial ecosystem, as well as the migration from Kusama to Polkadot! Let’s dive in and take a closer look at what happened in the world of Subsocial during March.

Stake Your ZTG On Sub.ID



The month started off with Sub.ID receiving increased...

March 2023 In Review

We are thrilled to announce the successful migration of Subsocial, the decentralized social layer of the internet, from the Kusama relay chain to the Polkadot relay chain. This milestone marks the beginning of a new era in the development and expansion of the Subsocial ecosystem.

The Subsocial...

A New Era Begins: Subsocial Completes Migration from Kusama to Polkadot

Subsocial’s landing page, subsocial.network, has received a makeover.

In order to align with our focus on Subsocial’s developer community, we have redesigned the website to effectively target our developer audience and help them start building in the Subsocial ecosystem.



It is now easier than...

A Developer Focused Subsocial.Network Renovation

Since announcing our sponsorship of various challenges in the Polkadot Europe Hackathon, we have had a number of teams working on cool applications using Subsocial’s tech stack! Let’s dive in to see how the 5,100 USDT prize pool will be distributed.

For the bounty to build a social reputation...

Announcing The Winners Of Subsocial's Polkadot Europe Hackathon Bounties

Continuing the theme of 2023 being a big year for Subsocial, February saw some huge news for our ecosystem! Let’s take a quick look at February’s news, such as a partnership with Polkassembly, a new dapp built on Subsocial, and more.

Polkassembly Partners With Subsocial

Polkassembly, one of the...

February 2023 In Review

At the end of September of 2022, the Kusama treasury funded Batch 1 of our proposal for the continued development of Sub.ID. As of February 2023, this batch has been completed, with all of the promised features live on Sub.ID.

Batch 1 added the ability to easily claim crowdloan rewards and...

Sub.ID Treasury Proposal Summary: Batch 1

Do you ever worry about your tweets being censored or removed from Twitter? With the launch of Post4ever, losing tweets is now a thing of the past!

Post4ever allows you to easily copy tweets and upload them to Subsocial, immortalizing them on our blockchain. Users can easily protect their...

Save Your Tweets With Post4ever

Holders of DOT and KSM tokens can how stake them via Sub.ID!

As part of Batch 1 of our Kusama treasury proposal for continued development of Sub.ID, we have added support for validator staking on the Polkadot and Kusama relay chains. This allows token holders to bond their DOT or KSM in order to...

DOT & KSM Staking On Sub.ID

In order to further the vision of true decentralization, Polkassembly, the premier governance platform for the Polkadot ecosystem, is integrating with Subsocial!

With this move, discussions on Polkassembly will live on Subsocial, making them permanent and censorship resistant. To quote Jas from...

Polkassembly Integrates With Subsocial

2023 is off to a tremendous start, with the Subsocial team winning a parachain slot on Polkadot, sponsoring the Polkadot Europe Hackathon, and adding cross-chain transfer functionality to Sub.ID. Let’s take a closer look in this monthly recap.

2022 In Review

We started the year off by recapping...

January 2023 In Review

Are you a web developer interested in building Web3? The Polkadot Europe Hackathon launches in two days, on January 25th, and Subsocial is sponsoring four challenges! Aspiring developers can team up to tackle these challenges and win prizes.

Tushar from our development team will also be hosting...

Polkadot European Hackathon Participation

On January 15th at 11:37PM, the Subsocial team secured a spot on Polkadot by winning auction #37 with a self-funded bid of 15,000 DOT.

Functioning as the only live social networking protocol in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem, Subsocial solves the problems of Web2 social networks (such as...

Subsocial Is Moving To Polkadot!

2022 was a big year for Subsocial. We onboarded as a Kusama parachain, grew our developer ecosystem, and released innovative blockchain features. Our major achievements and milestones are listed below, starting with the most exciting points.

Subsocial’s Parachain

Kicking off 2022, the Subsocial...

Subsocial's 2022 In Review

We hope everyone had a great holiday season, and here’s to a happy new year!

Our last monthly review for 2022 will be pretty short, as not many notable things happened following a big November. A full 2022 In Review article will be published shortly highlighting all of our major milestones and...

December 2022 In Review

As part of our funded treasury proposal, the Sub.ID team has added the ability to claim vested crowdloan rewards and created a staking dashboard for Bifrost, Moonriver, and Moonbeam, allowing you to stake their native tokens (BNC, MOVR, and GLMR).

Many crowdloans feature a vesting schedule for...

Claiming & Staking On Sub.ID

November saw some important updates and changes to Subsocial, and the growth of the ecosystem. Our web app was rebranded and improved, the Spacers NFT collection officially launched, and another third party project integrated with Subsocial.

Onboarding Flow



On November 1st, we released a...

November 2022 In Review

The Polkadot Arena team has launched another dapp built on Subsocial!

Primarily serving the Italian community, the Polkadot Arena blog pulls content straight from Subsocial, using the Subsquid indexer for Subsocial. While most of the content is in Italian, there is English content as well, and...

Polkadot Arena Integrates With Subsocial!

Our web app has been rebranded to PolkaVerse! Previously, it was named Subsocial, the same as the Subsocial blockchain, and this led to a lot of confusion and misunderstanding. To remedy that, we have renamed it to PolkaVerse, the number one place to discuss all things Polkadot related.

To date,...

Announcing PolkaVerse!

Yamne

Polkadot Arena

L’Energy System di Subsocial è finalmente arrivato! In questo articolo spiegheremo cos'è energy, come funziona, perché è stato creato questo sistema e come gli utenti possono ottenerne. Entriamo nel vivo!

Energy è un elemento on-chain che consente agli utenti di eseguire in modo efficiente delle...

L’Energy System

The Spacers NFT collection represents freedom of speech, thought, and information, the very things that have been endangered by Web2 social networks. Subsocial aims to fix that, and the Spacers are here to help.

To date, there has never before been a social network intertwined with an NFT...

The Spacers Vision

October saw a heavy focus on developers and the Spacers NFT collection. We announced our participation in two hackathons, and released our developer playground. The Spacers developments began with the release of the launch trailer, then the formal full announcement and release of the Spacers...

October 2022 In Review

With the launch of the Spacers Pod sale, we are here today to highlight one of the Spacers’ cool features.

Spacer Squads are a concept that allows us to add some fun game elements to the Spacers NFT collection, create excellent opportunities to partner with other projects and their communities...

Introducing Spacer Squads

Our web app for using Subsocial now has an onboarding feature to streamline the new user experience.



New users will be greeted with a multi-step process that will suggest relevant Spaces to follow, give them a short tour of the website, and get them ready to post.



The onboarding process can...

New Web App Onboarding Flow

Menna

L'ultima bull run ha aumentato il numero di applicazioni nel settore delle criptovalute, innescando diversi trend di mercato.

La Defi è, probabilmente, l'applicazione ad aver attratto il maggior numero di utenti per il Web3, ma è sufficiente per raggiungere quella adozione di massa a cui il...

SoFi, un futuro trend per il settore Crypto

INCOMING TRANSMISSION : “Admiral, we are two weeks out from Terra. The slingshot around Ares saved us three and a half weeks of flight time. The fleet remains on autopilot, and any Spacers not required for fleet operations are still in their pods for final maintenance. I have no estimate on how...

The Spacer Fleet Arrives Soon!

Our developer experience team has just released our developer Playground!

In addition to our developer documentation, the Playground makes it very simple to experiment with the Subsocial API. You can easily see how to retrieve data from the blockchain, and write to it. This will improve the ease...

Developer Playground

September was fairly quiet in terms of technical developments. After releasing the energy system in late August, the Subsocial developer team spent September working on our staking system, which is still in development.

Let’s take a look at our important announcements from September.

Subsocial...

September 2022 In Review

Thanks to our friends at Subsquid building us a new custom blockchain indexer, we have been able to add notifications back to our web app!

As a much needed feature for any social network, we’re very excited to have notifications again. Now, you will be able to see every interaction with your...

Notifications Are Back!

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Despite having various pieces of news throughout August, the month brings to mind what we consider to be the motto for Web3: “Nothing, and then all at once.” The important developments of August all took place right at the end of the month, but we’re going to...

August 2022 In Review

Subsocial’s energy system is finally here! In this post we’re going to cover what energy is, how it works, why the system was created, and how users can get energy. Let’s dive in!

Energy is an on-chain balance that allows users to efficiently perform actions on the Subsocial network. However...

The Energy System

Tomorrow, August 31st, at 10AM UTC, Subsocial’s web app will undergo maintenance as we transition from our solochain to our parachain. During this time, the app will be in read-only mode, and users will not be able to interact with it.

This maintenance is necessary for us to migrate user data...

Subsocial Web App Maintenance

The Subsocial team has secured six more lease slots on Kusama for the Subsocial parachain, extending the lease by 36 weeks!

Unlike other projects that bid for overlapping lease periods and had to move their chain to a different slot, Subsocial’s lease was extended from the end of its previous...

Parachain Slot Renewal

TL;DR: We have improved the simplicity and performance of our parachain and ecosystem, and are preparing to update our web app to reflect these changes, as well as adding a new feature.



Recently, we’ve been talking about (and working on) migrating pallets and data from our solochain to our...

Pallet Migration Update

Every month we publish a review of developments from the previous month, but after getting a lot of questions at the Polkadot Decoded conference, we decided it would be good to give the community a big update on where we are right now, where we are going, cool ideas for improvements to our user...

The State Of Subsocial: Where Are We Going?

The State Of Subsocial: Where Are We?

June saw some big accomplishments for the Subsocial team. Here we are going to review topics such as Sub.ID improvements, a project integration, participating in the Polkadot North America Hackathon and Polkadot Decoded. Let’s dive in.

Web App Improvements

At the beginning of June, we released...

June 2022 In Review

Have you ever wanted to know what important ecosystem members are doing with their crypto? You can now learn about their current holdings and transaction data to benefit from the useful context of on-chain analytics.



Sub.ID has been live for 10 months now, and most people use it just to look...

Interesting Accounts

Subsocial is happy to announce that we are participating in the Polkadot North America Hackathon as a partner sponsor.

We are inviting all hackers to grab a cup of coffee and build on Subsocial! Use your creativity to solve the challenges, and we will take care of the rewards.

It’s time to...

Polkadot Hackathon: North America

May was a quiet month, with lots of work going on behind the scenes. Some of that has been announced today, and more will follow.

Teasing Creator Staking

On May 2nd, we put out a short demo showing how creator staking might work. This feature would reward content creators via inflation, and let...

May 2022 In Review

Over the past few weeks, we have been working on totally revamping the Subsocial website. By doing this, we had 4 main objectives:

Appear more professional

Provide increased clarity that Subsocial is a platform for building dapps

Attract and educate developers looking to build dapps on...

Complete Website Overhaul

We have just released an update to our text editor, with a much better user experience. Now, you can insert links like in most text editors, without using markdown. Text will appear as it will when it is posted. It should be much more familiar to most of you, so try it out!



Also, you can now...

Improved Text Editor & Faster Posting

The world is moving fast from Web 2.0 to Web3, from the attention economy, to the ownership economy. Here creators regain the power to control their works, and fans can express their passion in novel ways never before seen.

26 years have passed since Bill Gates coined the phrase “Content is...

Donations On Subsocial

Since securing our parachain slot and onboarding at the beginning of the year, progress has felt a little slow. But April brought a lot of big things, checking off more boxes on our roadmap. We are making progress!

Here is our usual monthly review, in semi-chronological order.

Subsocial...

April 2022 In Review

TL;DR:

All balances on the solochain were transferred to the parachain

Transferred balances are fully unlocked, without any vesting

The balances of solochain accounts were then set to 20 SUB so users can continue posting until our free transaction system is released

Subsocial's solochain was...

All Tokens Have Been Transferred To The Parachain

In the next week or two, the supply of SUB tokens will be increased from 100,000,000 (100M) to 1,000,000,000 (1B). All token holders will see their balance increase 10x. Tokenomics and the token distribution allocations will remain unchanged.

Important Points:

The current supply of SUB is 100...

The Redenomination Of SUB

Today, Sub.ID gets a facelift. The team has added a sidebar, and a Russian translation!



Originally this was not needed, but over the last 8 months we have added more features, like the NFT section, and the crowdloan sections have kept growing. Due to this, the home page became quite long, and...

Sub.ID's Sidebar & Translation

March felt like a monumental month for us, and it feels like a big shift happened. The market started to go up again, and we have refocused our priorities on what really matters. Here's what we did last month:

Sub.ID

March saw some big improvements to Sub.ID. First and foremost, the ability to...

March 2022 In Review

Sub.ID has been improved with some long awaited features! Just earlier today the team pushed an update bringing a multi-account view to Subsocial, as well as better NFT support.

The multi-account view can be accessed by clicking on your profile in the top right corner to open up the drop-down...

Multi-Accounts & NFT Details - Sub.ID v0.2.8

TL;DR: The roadmap on our website has been updated. Before we enable token transfers, we are going to ship a few more things, such as free transactions and universal usernames.



Hey everyone, this will be a big post. We know we've been kind of quiet the last 2–3 months, and we want to give...

A Community Update

We launched our parachain on Kusama at the beginning of January, and distributed crowdloan rewards last month. We are operating with a 2 chain model: a more performant solochain and a more secure parachain. All tokens and financial stuff will happen on the parachain, including locking up tokens...

Why Subsocial Is The Best

The beginning of February was quiet, but we ended up making a lot of noise this month. Here's a brief recap, in no particular order.

Crowdloan NFTs

We had a number of NFT artists partner with us to support our crowdloan, by offering some NFTs to be distributed to crowdloan contributors. This...

February 2022 In Review

TL;DR: Link your email to your eligible Substrate account here to participate in our community sale, or wait to participate in the public sale. The sales will be held on March 2nd and 3rd at 2PM UTC via Tokensoft. Tokens will be sold at $2.5 per SUB, with individual allocations capped at $5000...

Start The SubVerse

We thought January felt kind of quiet, but on review, it was just like any other month. Lots of work has been going on under the hood in preparation for our full launch, which will be here soon.

Subsocial's User Base Has Grown

We had a few more notable projects join Subsocial last month...

January 2022 In Review

Subsocial and anything built on it is censorship resistant, but there are still multiple avenues for moderation, which we are about to explore. Because lots of people feel very strongly about Trump, in many different ways, we will use his tweets as an example, because they makes a good one...

Censorship Vs. Moderation: How Does Subsocial Handle These?

December was a huge month for Subsocial as we secured a parachain slot! Let's dive right in!

They Say "No Cap" But There Was, In Fact, A Cap

Subsocial became the 4th project to hit the cap on their crowdloan, and the first project to set a cap with a high meme value: 100,420.69 KSM. Because the...

December 2021 In Review

On December 4th, Subsocial won Kusama auction #16 with a bid of 100,420.6061 KSM. Up to 16,500,000 SUB will be distributed over the lease period (with 20% unlocked from the start) to our awesome community members for supporting Subsocial's crowdloan. We want to thank all of you, as well as our...

The Parachain Life

Our model of a solochain and a parachain is brand new, and likely to cause some confusion, so we are here to clarify what exactly is happening, and why we chose this route.

In essence, we had three options:

Have the parachain be fully functional

Develop off-chain posting for the parachain...

Some Clarification On A Dual-Chain Subsocial

We have just distributed SubBanner NFTs to everyone who contributed to our first crowdloan!

Contributors to our first crowdloan, which did not win, will receive a banner of one design, with the color scheme depending on their contribution amount.

Contributors to our second crowdloan, which won...

Merry Christmas!

It is with a heavy heart that we announce that The Spacers Program will be ending after this season, on Monday, December 27th, at 12:00 AM UTC. With the impending launch, we think  it is time to let the birds fly on their own. The two main goals of The Spacers Program, building our community and...

The Fleet Is Heading Out

This is the third part of a series of articles interviewing our advisors. These esteemed individuals have helped the Subsocial team in a massive way, and we would like to give them some exposure as well as showcase who they are, and why they have chosen to advise us.

Today we are hearing from...

Subsocial Advisors: Samuel Häfner

Dotsama Token Claim: Round 4

At the beginning of November, we finished up The Dotsama Token Claim with our final round. In total, across all four rounds, we gave away 1,000,000 SUB - 1% of the entire supply - to 10,000 accounts. Our primary goal with the token claim was to increase our token...

November 2021 In Review

This is the second in a series of articles interviewing our advisors. These esteemed individuals have helped the Subsocial team in a massive way, and we would like to give them some exposure as well as showcase who they are, and why they have chosen to advise us.

Today we are hearing from the...

Subsocial Advisors: JAM

Happy Monday, Substranauts! Today we are announcing that we have created a space dedicated to AMAs for project teams and notable members of the Dotsama community.

Our first AMA will be with the legendary Bill Laboon, creator of Bill's Polkadot Digest. A dedicated post for this has already been...

Dotsama AMAs On Subsocial

This is the first in a series of articles interviewing our advisors. These esteemed individuals have helped the Subsocial team in a massive way, and we would like to give them some exposure as well as showcase who they are, and why they have chosen to advise us.

Today we are hearing from Edward...

Subsocial Advisors: Edward Thomson

TL;DR:
The Subsocial crowdloan is live, contribute here.

Wen Crowdloan?

After a long wait, it is finally here - with a twist.

Instead of converting the current betanet to a parachain mainnet, we are going to continue it as a standalone chain, while also launching another chain as a parachain...

Subsocial’s Crowdloan Is Live!

We are extremely excited to finally announce our crowdloan details!

TL;DR:

|  |  |
|--|--|
| Crowdloan Cap | 100,000 KSM |
| Total Token Supply | 100,000,000 SUB |
| Crowdloan Reward Allocation | 16,500,000 SUB (16.5%) |
| Base Rewards | 15,000,000 SUB (15%) |
| Maximum Referral Rewards | 1,500...

Subsocial's Crowdloan Is Coming!

We are very excited to be opening our crowdloan and bidding for a parachain slot. However, due to technical reasons involved with this, when we launch our crowdloan we will be switching the Subsocial blockchain to read-only mode - no more transactions will be accepted until the mainnet launches...

Subsocial Network Migration

If we envision the future of Web3, we can see Polkadot and Kusama at the center, as the hubs of the wheels. We see a blossoming ecosystem, and like every ecosystem, Dotsama needs a variety of ingredients to achieve its full potential, and flourish. Subsocial is one of those ingredients.

As...

Why Is Subsocial Bidding For A Parachain Slot?

Lots of exciting things are on the horizon (as you may have heard), but let's take a look back at October and see what we have been up to.

Sub.ID

Quite a few improvements were made to Sub.ID in October. First, we added a few tokens from Statemine, such as $RMRK and $CHAOS, as well as adding...

October 2021 In Review

This round will be the last chance for you to claim some SUB tokens in the Dotsama Token Claim!

Round 3 went very smoothly, and was the fastest round yet - it only lasted 5 minutes and 30 seconds. Again, please do not constantly refresh the token claim webpage.

Eligibility remains the same as...

Dotsama Token Claim: Round 4

We have gotten a lot of feedback expressing confusion about how Subsocial is laid out. Coming from Web2 sites, everyone is used to having a profile, but the concept of Spaces can result in confusion. What is the difference between a Space and a profile?

Well, it doesn't really matter anymore, as...

Say Hello To Profile Spaces

Sub.ID has had some features quit working quite a few times since we launched it. The trouble is, it usually breaks because of something we have no control over it. 

Yesterday, Polkadot and Kusama were not showing up on Sub.ID. Parity has been doing some work and inadvertently caused a problem...

Sub.ID: Welcome To Decentralization

With Sub.ID's newest release, we have added 2 more features: links to each account's Subscan and Statescan pages, and information about locked balances for each chain.

Subscan and Statescan

Subscan is a block explorer that supports a large amount of Substrate chains. Each row in the Balances...

Sub.ID v0.2.4

Wen round 2?

Wen token claim?

Soon.

Round 2 will kick off at 5AM UTC+0 this Thursday, October the 7th! Another 250,000 tokens will be added to the claim pool - enough for 2,500 addresses to claim. Rounds 3 and 4 will be announced at a later date.

If you have any questions, please check out...

Round 2 Is Coming Soon!

Happy Saturday, everyone! Once again, Sub.ID's feature set has been expanded!

We have added support for Statemine tokens, and asked the community what tokens they wanted to be added. Obviously, we added $RMRK, but we also added $CHAOS, $CHRWNA, and $BAILEGO. As usual, your balance and the token...

More Features for Sub.ID!

We're still here, chugging along, looking at that mainnet launch down the road. You may have heard us mention it a time or two - it may be sooner than you think.

Anyways, here's what we were up to last month.

Reworking The Spacers Program

Two weeks ago we released our overhaul of our...

September 2021 In Review

You've waited, and it's finally here!

We want to reward early adopters of the ecosystem, and help with a fair distribution of our token, while at the same time requiring active participation. As such, this is not an airdrop, but rather a token claim. We have taken two snapshots of every wallet...

The Dotsama Token Claim Has Arrived

Yesterday, at block 5,831,636, our team upgraded Subsocial's blockchain to the latest version of Substrate. This brings us the latest improvement released by Parity, and one step closer to launching our mainnet!

The update event can be seen here.

Subsocial Has Upgraded to Substrate v3

First, a big thank you to all of you for being patient with us while we reworked The Spacers Program, and thank you to everyone that showed up to the first Space Fleet call in our Discord server today.

If you did attend the call, this will largely be review. If you missed it or couldn't attend...

The Spacers Program Has Been Overhauled!

The rocket ship never stops!

The great folks over at Parity just accepted our request to include a link to Sub.ID on the accounts page in Polkadot.js, next to the links for Subscan, Polkastats, etc.



You can now easily pull up the Sub.ID page for any of your accounts straight from the wallet.
...

Polkadot.js Integrates Sub.ID!

Hello once again, everyone. Today we have an exciting opportunity for all of the visual artists out there. We have yet another update in the works for Sub.ID: We will be adding a slot for a rectangular banner at the top of all profiles!

However, these won't be any old banners, they will only be...

Calling All Visual Artists!

As some of you may know, we have been grinding away behind the scenes, totally reworking The Spacers Program. Today, we are finally ready to let you all know about it.

The purpose of this rework was to give us the most awesome ambassador program possible. As much as we love the other projects in...

Announcing The Subsocial Spacers Program 2.0

Sub.ID continues to expand! This week, Vlad S. has added some more functionality to Sub.ID, which now shows your Kusama crowdloan participation information, as well as all of your Unique and RMRK NFTs.

Crowdloans



Kusama crowdloan information will show up below your regular balance information...

Sub.ID Now Displays Crowdloan Participation and NFTs

Yet another busy month here at Subsocial! We have been hard at work over here, and lots of exciting stuff has happened.

Team Growth

Our team has grown quite a bit this month! We have grown from a team of four to a team of seven. Joining us we have Zachary a.k.a. Yung Beef, working on marketing...