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Subsocial

Incremental releases have been steadily moving us towards the full release of Subsocial’s super-app, which will combine all of Subsocial’s functionality into one seamless user experience. Today marks the next step of the Subsocial ecosystem, with the initial launch of GrillApp (previously...

Fireworks and Fun: GrillApp.net Launches, Upgrading Content Staking & PolkaVerse's UX!

Last month was a busy one for PolkaVerse, Subsocial’s #1 application, as it got lots of upgrades focused on improving network activity and the creator experience.

Content Staking

As Subsocial continues to evolve, the previous Creator and Lazy Staking systems were replaced by Content Staking. To...

February 2024 In Review

In terms of activity, January has been Subsocial’s biggest month ever! With the release of Active Staking, network activity took off like a rocket, as users scrambled to start monetizing their content. Let’s dive in!

Active Staking

Following the release of Lazy Staking at the end of October...

January 2024 In Review

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Subsocial’s development progress is still moving steadily along, but with the conclusion of 2023, we are now outlining new goals for the future, specifically the first half of 2024. Following the release of Creator Staking and token transfers, the focus is on growing Subsocial’s social graph...

New Horizons: Subsocial's H1 2024 Roadmap

With a few years of development history under our belt, 2023 has been Subsocial’s most important year so far. Never peaking, always moving upward and onward — that is one of Subsocial’s philosophies.

Let’s take a retrospective look back at the year’s achievements, feature releases, and notable...

The End Of The Beginning: 2023 In Review

The Creator Staking system has gotten off to a great start! Since the launch on October 26th, over 57,000,000 SUB has been staked across 13 creators! Creator Staking allows SUB holders to stake towards creators of content and applications to help curate the network, while creators receive SUB...

Easily Support The Most Deserving Creators With Instant Stake Transfers!

Moonbeam, one of the top destinations for EVM-based apps on Polkadot, has integrated with Subsocial!

Utilizing Polkadot’s XCM technology, the two chains opened an HRMP channel which was just activated, allowing information and tokens to be transferred between the two networks! Now, SUB will be...

Moonbeam Integrates With Subsocial, Expanding The Reach Of SUB!

Following the successful release of Subsocial’s Creator Staking system, SUB tokens are now transferable. Get ready for SUB to be unleashed into the broader Web3 ecosystem!

Just this past week, we finalized an HRMP channel with HydraDX, and are happy to share that the channel is now fully...

SUB Tokens Are Now Transferable, And Available On HydraDX!

Participants of Subsocial’s public sale event from last year have recently been granted a 3x bonus as a thank you for their support! For every token a user bought, they have now received an additional three tokens.

These extra tokens are subject to a three month vesting period, beginning in 10...

3x Bonus For 2022 Public Sale Participants

TL;DR: SUB tokens will become transferable at 1PM UTC on Wednesday, November 29th. Tokens will be able to be transferred between Subsocial and HydraDX onSub.ID or via Hydra’s cross-chain page.

A HRMP channel between Subsocial and HydraDX has been successfully opened, allowing tokens to be...

HydraDX Opens An HRMP Channel With Subsocial, SUB Transfers In 2 Weeks!

October was a huge month for Subsocial, with the awesome launch of Creator Staking!

Rather than the usual chronological order, let’s take a look at October’s biggest announcements first.

Creator Staking Beta

Released towards the end of the month, we’ve already seen 20 million SUB staked...

October 2023 In Review

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

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

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

Following closely on the heels of the Grill.chat release, Sub.ID will become the second decentralized application to incorporate Subsocial’s Open Communication technology!



OpenComm functions as the communication layer of Polkadot, allowing for the free flow of information in an open...

Sub.ID Integrates Subsocial's OpenComm Tech To Provide An In-App Chat

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

Holders of Zeitgeist’s ZTG token can now stake to Zeitgeist collators using Sub.ID’s user friendly interface.

In our mission to support Sub.ID as the go-to portfolio management tool in the ecosystem, we are progressively adding staking support for more and more parachains throughout the...

Stake ZTG On Sub.ID!

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

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

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

Following the recent release of XCM v3, Sub.ID has added support for cross-chain transfers!

Previously, Sub.ID supported same-chain transfers for a few assets. With this release, the list of supported assets has been expanded, and many cross-chain options have been added as well.



To perform...

Cross-Chain Transfers On Sub.ID

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

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

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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

The last few weeks have seen an increase in our marketing activities while the developers keep working behind the scenes. We’re going to continue ramping up on the marketing side of things, but we also have cool technical developments on the way. In the meantime, let’s take a look at what...

July 2022 In Review

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

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

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

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

Now you can share your Dotsama account addresses via QR code on http://Sub.ID

Notice the QR code icons on the right side of every account you see on SubID.

Try this URL on desktop: it will open QR modal:
https://sub.id/#/?qr

Share Polkadot and Kusama account addresses via QR code on Sub.ID

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

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

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!

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

Following closely on the heels of the [Grill.chat](http://Grill.chat) release, [Sub.ID](http://Sub.ID) will become the second decentralized application to incorporate Subsocial’s Open Communication technology!

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*Rt9bBf4WLYi88jYEZRr_sA.png)

OpenComm functions as the communication layer of Polkadot, allowing for the free flow of information in an open, transparent manner. The tech stack incorporates our UX developments, allowing users to sign in instantly, without making an account, and communicate on-chain without needing tokens or a wallet. The best part? It’s mobile friendly!

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/0*6jyHhmmDRotVAW0M.png)

On the technical side, OpenComm utilizes our pallets and [JS SDK](https://js-sdk-api.subsocial.network/), to handle the communication, Subsocial’s [GraphQL API](https://squid.subsquid.io/subsocial/graphql) from [Subsquid](https://www.subsquid.io/) for connecting applications, and [Crust](https://www.crust.network/)’s IPFS service for storing messages.

Pretty soon, users will be able to log in to OpenComm-powered chats with their existing wallets, unlocking the potential for a myriad of use cases, such as NFT-gated chats, verified on-chain roles, reputation, and more. We also plan to develop powerful moderation tools, allowing applications to customize their OpenComm interfaces.

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*4M3cX5EMNRoXG2_ZtXU_DA.png)

In order to accomplish this integration, we built an iframe (inline frame) that allowed us to easily integrate an OpenComm powered chat into [Sub.ID](http://Sub.ID) in an hour! This also means that any other dapp can easily add a decentralized chat box. In the future, we plan to create React and web components to allow quick and easy integration into applications, but with full customizability.

We have quite a few other projects waiting to integrate our iframe chat, and we want to deliver the best possible product to them and their users, so let us know if you have any ideas on how we can improve it!