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Subsocial

Subsocial has launched its new explorer thanks to Statescan!

Now you can check your transaction history, view other accounts, see balances and more.

Thanks to the team at OpenSquare for developing the open-source explorer for Polkadot blockchains!

Subsocial's New Block Explorer!

April saw UX updates, new features, and more community tools released on Grill. Let’s take a look!

Login Flow & Energy Updates

Last month had two UX updates related to user accounts. First, the “Connect via Polkadot” option has been returned to the front of the login flow, making it clear and...

April 2024 In Review

If you are a creator on Grill, and want some more eyeballs, look no further than the new Show Yourself chat!

This chat is a way for less visible creators to improve their chances at getting seen and followed, which will have lasting benefits when it comes to making it high up on the Hot Posts...

Show Yourself: Display Your Best Grill Content!

Governance proposals on Polkadot can now be viewed and discussed on Grill’s OpenGov page!

Polkadot’s Open Communication Layer, built on Subsocial, has finally been completed, with the release of support for OpenGov on Grill. This comes as the final feature outlined in Polkadot Referendum #119...

Introducing OpenGov On Grill: The Final Step Of OpenComm

Creators can now create chats for their profile (main) space, allowing them to further engage with their communities!

On the mission to transform Grill into an all-in-one social and community platform, Grill’s chat functionality is being increasingly integrated into the social networking side of...

Create Your Own Creator Chat Community!

The “Connect via Polkadot” login option has been returned to the main page of the login modal, along with some changes for users choosing to login with their Polkadot wallet.

Grill uses proxy accounts to remove the constant confirmation pop-ups (which also enables logins via X and Google...

Updates To Grill's Login Flow

Last month saw the launch of Subsocial’s super-app! Launched as Grill, the existing Grill.chat and PolkaVerse apps were both combined into one, with some fiery branding. Let’s take a look at that and more in our March 2024 recap.

Apillon Integrates Grill.chat

Apillon, a Web3 development...

March 2024 In Review

While storage is cheap and Grill’s current storage requirements are not enormous, they will be at some point in the future, and the network should find a standard practice for dealing with storage fees.

What do you think would be the optimal solution?

Feedback Request For The Future Of Content Storage

We’ve been cooking up some nice updates to Grill to improve functionality, quality of life, and ease of use. Here are the most recent four:

Embeds



Grill now supports embedding links from X, YouTube, Joystream, and SoundCloud! Sharing content into Web3 has never been easier, and provides yet...

March's Grill Improvements

Because Subsocial is an open and permissionless platform, anyone is free to build applications on top of it, and applications are free to do whatever they want, such as moderate undesirable content. For example, an app focused on dogs probably would not show pictures of cats, or could at the very...

Content Quality, Monetization, & Moderation On 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

There is currently a disconnect between where a large amount of the discussion around Polkadot’s direction takes place, and where we actually decide Polkadot’s direction, as the Polkadot Forum is totally separate from both Polkassembly and Subsquare.

Additionally, both Polkassembly and Subsquare...

A Unified Forum & Governance Portal

While PolkaVerse’s Featured Posts tab is great for manually highlighting verified creators and high quality content, it is not scalable. Already we are reaching a point where there is simply too much content on Subsocial for any one person to curate, which is why the Hot Posts algorithm has been...

The New Hot Posts Tab Is Heating Things Up!

Social networks thrive on network effects, driven by users engaging with each other in the form of likes, comments, shares, group publications, and more. So far, Content Staking has caused a huge surge in activity on Subsocial, starting with an increase in posts and likes, and continuing on to...

Initiating A Flywheel Of Network Effects With Reward Splitting

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

TL;DR: Subsocial’s staking system aims to sustainably reward active users and creators for growing the network. In order to further achieve this goal, staking rewards will be increased by 50% , while the Lazy Staking system will be removed. Active Staking will be upgraded and renamed to Content...

Say Goodbye To Lazy & Active Staking, And Hello To Content Staking

Bringing a little competition to the table always makes things more fun, which is why PolkaVerse has added two leaderboards: one for Stakers, and one for Creators. The new Active Staking dashboard features a global overview, and specific sections for both Creators and Stakers (both can be found...

Active Staking Dashboard & Competitive Leaderboards On PolkaVerse

Active Staking has started off as a huge success! In less than 3 days, there have already been over 2,000 likes 💎 Poster activity is way up, so make sure to check the All Posts tab to discover and reward new authors!

First revealed in December, the Active Staking alpha is now live on Subsocial! SUB stakers can boost their staking rewards by 50–200% by liking 10+ posts per day on Subsocial, utilizing PolkaVerse or another app. Make sure to stake some SUB to join in on the action!



Active Staking rewards...

Get Rewarded For Your Network Activity With Subsocial's New Active Staking System!

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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!

Active Staking will be launching in alpha and is still under active development. Any information such as numbers or formulas contained in this article is subject to change.

TL;DR: By actively liking new content on Subsocial, stakers of SUB can increase their staking rewards by 50% or more.

The...

Boost Staking Rewards By Up To 3x In The Active Staking Alpha

Subsocial and Stellaswap, the leading DEX on Moonbeam, have just teamed up to make SUB available for EVM users (from Ethereum, Polygon, Moonbeam, etc.) wishing to join the Subsocial ecosystem! By utilizing Moonbeam’s cross-chain connections, Stellaswap is able to offer bridging services between...

Subsocial Partners With Stellaswap To Improve SUB Availability

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!

With token transfers being enabled and SUB becoming available to the public, November was perhaps the biggest month of 2023 for Subsocial! Following October which saw the release of Creator Staking, Q4 is shaping up to be a really great season.

Let’s take a quick look back at our achievements...

November 2023 In Review

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

In June, we published a roadmap update, highlighting the achievements of the prior months, and looking at our goals for the future. With the recent announcement about token transfers being enabled on November 29th, let’s take a look back at the three topics highlighted in our June update, along...

Reviewing Our Roadmap From June

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

TL;DR: SUB holders can stake their SUB towards registered creators to get more SUB, and creators (content, community, or app creators) will be rewarded depending on how many tokens are staked to them. Rewards will be the same whether you stake to Creator A or Creator B, so pick your favorite...

Subsocial Creator Staking: Curate The Network And Get Rewarded

Blockchains suffer from a common problem: account addresses are not friendly to humans.

Various projects such as the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) have been created, allowing users to map human-readable names to their crypto accounts. Paired with wallet integrations, these services allow us as...

Improving Polkadot's Identity System With Subsocial Usernames

Within the industry, there is always talk about how to onboard a billion users, and whether Web3 products actually matter to anyone outside of Web3. Who is going to use all of these apps?

When we set out to build Grill.chat, we were focused primarily on a smooth UX, without any barriers that...

Grill.chat In Web2: A Case Study On ITC.ua

September was a busy month for our team, with lots of updates to Grill.chat, a successful Polkadot treasury proposal, and lots of informative threads on X. Let’s dive in.

Grill.chat

Kicking off the month, we added a fun little side feature to Grill: AI personalities of Sigmund Freud, Satoshi...

September 2023 In Review

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...