Highlights
YokaiSwap’s official launch;
YokaiSwap x SafePal co-host a 10 million YOK airdrop;
Mercury is working on improving its stability and is expected to be officially released in December;
DAS adds support for Polygon chain;
MEXC now supports the Nervos’ sUDT standard.
1. Infrastructure
1.1 Mercury
Mercury team has been working on stabilizing the Mercury beta version deployed in early November, and, in the last 20 days, they have also been focusing on optimizing the system’s interface.
At present, Mercury is stable, and the final version is expected to be released in early December. In the meantime, the team is also contacting relevant people in the community to invite them to become core nodes, indexer nodes, and Mercury nodes.
We invite all developers to review the documentation and run a trial of Mercury!
Mercury’s documentation: https://github.com/nervosnetwork/mercury,
RPC document: https://github.com/nervosnetwork/mercury/blob/main/core/rpc/README.md
About Mercury
The bottom layer of CKB is very flexible and allows any contract to do “lock.” With this in mind, another question is brought to Dapp developers: How should the Dapp adapt to these different locks? For each dapp, the dev has to consider whether they should adjust to single signatures, Portal Wallet, UniPass, etc. For the identity service providers, such as a wallet, devs must also consider whether they need to adapt to Mibao, the Nervos DAO, and eventually more dapps. The million dollars question is actually: How to match the dapp and identities? Mercury aims to solve this problem.
How does Mercury work?
The essence of Mercury is to abstract the differences between the different locks implicit in the address. It provides the abstraction after the lock differences are stripped, and each identity service provider provides a standard interface for them to develop based on it. It mainly provides some convenient interfaces for developers, including functions such as querying CKB/UDT balance, initiating CKB/UDT transfer, querying transaction history, and so on.
Mercury will first support all locks made by CKB core and some locks from the community (such as the pw-lock). If other teams have designed their own locks, they are also welcome to add them to Mercury. Mercury’s mission is that all wallets, exchanges, mining pools, and Dapps in the ecosystem interact with Mercury instead of dealing directly with CKB directly and raw.
1.2 Layer 2
As of the time of writing, more than 20 projects have applied to join Godwoken's whitelist; at the same time, a small part of the team is currently focusing on securing the seamless integration of the projects from the whitelist. With this being said, right now, it is the best moment for developers to join the CKB ecosystem: there is almost no competition, and thus the Nervos team is available to provide hands-on support.
When the right time comes, the projects mentioned above from the Godwoken whitelist plan will be disclosed and deployed on the CKB mainnet.
About Godwoken
Godwoken is a Layer2 solution that includes Polyjuice's EVM compatibility layer + Roll-up expansion. The team announced on November 4 the official launch of the beta version on the Nervos CKB mainnet and the whitelist for developers to join the beta.
Godwoken Layer 2 ensures high throughput and security. Combined with its Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) support, it enables developers to employ Ethereum contracts while keeping transactions scalable, fast, and low-cost.
For more information about the capabilities of Godwoken, please visit https://www.nervos.org/blog/nervos-launches-godwoken-mainnet-beta.
2. Ecosystem
2.1 NFT
2.1.1 Mibao
Mibao is co-hosting a series of live events for the "First Metaverse Concept Art Competition" focusing on "Detailed Explanation of the Metaverse Concept Art" In the upcoming live broadcast on 02 December 2021, Cipher - Nervina Labs and Mibao co-founder will join as guests.
Last week, Mibao and the imTokenFans community jointly organized an AMA. The product manager of Mibao joined as a guest at the Discord imToken community and explained the Metaverse Infrastructure of Mibao.
In addition, the Mibao team has been secretly developing a framework that is extremely friendly to developers. Recently, the first beta version has been deployed to Mibao's official website, and you can find it on the "Developer Portal"
More detailed developer documentation and API key will be released in about a month. By then, developers will have an even lower threshold to access NFT, which means Mibao is developing towards the infrastructure layer of the metaverse.
As of November 29, 2021, the data on the Mibao platform shows:
To cast an NFT (Free): v.mibao.net
Experience Mibao at mibao.net
2.1.2 Kollect.me
Kollect has been working on improving the user experience. Compared with the Alpha version from last month, there has been a qualitative leap as more professional digital art production teams joined the platform, increasing the quality of the artworks.
In addition, kollect.me is recruiting community managers. To know more: https://careers.kollect.me/community-manager-nft-marketplace-56405/
About Kollect.me
Kollect.me is the first NFT trading platform that supports the issuance of NFTs on Nervos Layer 1. It is similar to OpenSea, and you can log in with a registered account via UniPass and obtain your CKB address, then mint an NFT.
Transaction fees on kollect.me are almost inexistent. It uses the technical capabilities provided by UniPass to allow Internet users to enter the blockchain world with almost no barriers.
🔗Official links:
Official website: https://kollect.me/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/Qgkwh3kzfQ
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KollectNFT
2.2 UniPass
UniPass’ public beta went live last week and reached the maximum number of beta testers within 20 hours after the launch.
As of the time of writing, more than 600 users are registered in the public beta, and more than 400 participants have bonded their Discord accounts with UniPass. Part of the testers expressed the operation of recovering their email accounts is near to magical. At the same time, the desktop version of UniPass also allows users to enjoy the silky-smooth experience of having crypto accounts available everywhere.
About UniPass
Unipass is a MetaMask-like key manager on CKB, and what makes Unipass adorable is it does so with an internet-level user experience (no need to install new software or to create mnemonics) while the account is permission-less, secure and the assets are fully owned by the user.
UniPass features:
No password, truly passwordless;
No private key, truly keyless;
No Keystore, truly non-custodial;
Support crypto key (no mailbox) registration;
Permanently fixed addresses;
Other changes and upgrades.
Join UniPass now! linktr.ee/unipass
2.3 DAS
DAS has never stopped since its inception! In the last Weekly Paper, we had just announced DAS added support for the BSC chain, and only one week after, DAS is announcing support for the Polygon chain! With this addition, DAS now supports four blockchains: Polygon, Ethereum, BSC, and TRON and is the only cross-chain DID that supports so many chains.
DAS also conducted a series of AMA sessions last week, including multiple channels such as TP Wallet, HyperPay, and Bihu. At the same time, a series of airdrops were also held on Twitter.
According to data from das.la, the current number of registered accounts is close to 43,000, and the number of independent Owners surpassed 14,000
About DAS
DAS is a decentralized account system on Nervos launched on July 22, 2021. DAS currently has 35% of 5-9 characters accounts open, and all accounts with 10 or more digits.We recommend registering through das.la, a tool developed by the DAS community.
Register a DAS account now at https://das.la/
Buy and sell DAS at https://bestdas.com
Official website: https://da.systems/
Medium: https://dasystems.medium.com/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/WVunwT2hju
Telegram: https://t.me/DASystemsNews
Twitter: https://twitter.com/realDASystems
2.4 YokaiSwap
Yokaiswap’s public beta was launched in early September, more than two months ago. With the official launch of Godwoken, Yokai is now ready for everything.
This week’s schedule for Yokai:
On November 30, 2021, the YOK presale took place;
After the presale, the Yokai team will officially launch Yokaiswap on December 3, 2021.
During YOK’s IDO, too many transactions coming in crashed the Godwoken RPC servers due to the overload of commit requests. However, the team quickly fixed this issue, and the IDO was completed successfully with 1 billion CKB committed.
In addition, Yokai co-hosted the Wallet Holder Offering with the help of SafePal. There was a reward pool of 10,000,000 YOK for the first 20,000 whitelisted addresses, which means around 500 YOK on average for each address.
Due to overwhelming inquiries, Safepal created a dedicated Discord channel for users experiencing issues, concerns, and questions related to Yokaiswap and Nervos CKB, and all the questions about YOK WHO will be promptly replied via discord.
About Yokaiswap
Yokaiswap is the first Nervos based DEX built on Godwoken, a high-performance permissionless framework for Layer 2 Rollup. Yokai's smart contracts use Solidity, the same language as Ethereum Dapps and provide a fully compatible contract through Polyjoice, one of the core components of Nervos Interoperability 2.0. This means all Ethereum-based Dapps can connect to Nervos at almost zero cost.
Yokai is one of the first projects funded by InNervation, an ecological fund jointly created by CMB International and Nervos. Currently, Yokai’s code is completely open-source.
Official website: https://yokaiswap.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/eaCEvRQeAx
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yokaiswap
Github: https://github.com/YokaiSwap
2.5 Games
2.5.1 Celebrity Smack Down (CSD)
Last week, CSD opened the 2nd NFT packs presale’s whitelist, which finally took place on November 30 2021.
Also, this week, CSD held an AMA with the Spanish-speaking community. ¡Hola amigos! ¿Qué tal?
About Celebrity Smack Down
Celebrity Smack Down is the first NFT card game built on top of the Nervos blockchain. CSD also serves as a research project to further community knowledge of NFTs on the Nervos blockchain ( known as mNFTs) and serves as a trailblazer for NFT games on the Nervos blockchain.
The CSD’s NFT cards are linked to the Twitter account of each celebrity. These NFTs change their ability levels and other characteristics based on the number of fans that the particular celebrities have, thereby affecting their utility in the game. This is a special and unique feature of Nervos’ NFT. We think this is the first step of NFT 2.0, allowing NFT to link external data and change its attributes based on it. The mNFT protocol is also under continuous development.
Join CSD at:
Official website: https://celebritysmackdown.gg/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/5VEe4T52hC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSDGame
Telegram: https://t.me/CSDofficialchannel
2.5.2 Hunting NFT
HuntingNFT is a play-to-earn project initiated by the Nervos community. This week, HuntingNFT has continued its closed development and is currently preparing for the second round of internal testing. With the current progress, we expect to see the launch of the second phase of HuntingNFT in early December, so stay tuned.
2.6 NexisDAO
NexisDAO's primary focus has been on fixing the issues found by the community and the development of the NexisDAO v2.0.
Last week, NexisDAO tweeted this mysterious post:
In the previous rounds of testing of NexisDAO, the team sent some special NFTs to contributors who provided suggestions and feedback. What special uses will these NFTs have in the future?
About NexisDAO
NexisDAO is the equivalent of the "Maker DAO'' on the Nervos ecosystem. Users can mint TAI - a USD pegged stablecoin, by overcollateralizing crypto assets and exchanging TAI for safe-haven assets or stake it to gain liquidity for increased returns. TAI can also be transferred freely or traded, used as a means of payment for goods and services, or as a store of value as any other stablecoin.
NexisDAO has no thresholds and is fully decentralized. At the moment, it only supports CKB as a collateral asset. However, DAO members will be able to add other assets too, if consensus is reached.
2.7 New partnerships & integrations
2.7.1 MEXC Global Integrates Nervos Token Standard to Streamline Project Listings
Last week, Nervos announced that MEXC Global integrated the native token standard of Nervos, the Simple User-Defined Token (sUDT) standard, to streamline token listings for projects that build on the network. From now, MEXC Global will be able to easily list tokens issued on Nervos, opening up access to the millions of crypto enthusiasts and traders who use the platform.
In addition to integrating the SUDT standard, MEXC Global will provide technical support and listing and marketing resources to projects launching tokens on Nervos. The exchange will also invest funds in promising teams, giving MEXC Global and its users access to Nervos’ projects and new markets around the world.
2.7.2 New Integration: Safepal Wallet
SafePal will:
Integrate our token standard sUDT and dapps in the ecosystem
Support a fiat-$CKB gateway through
Support $SFP & $CKB swaps via SafePal bridge
Spread awareness of Nervos’ dapps
Throughout the integration process, the Nervos team will provide technical support as the projects work together to bring more awareness to tokens & dapps and increase the TVL within the Nervos ecosystem.
2.7.3 Nervos expands into Esports with Gambit Sponsorship
This week, Nervos announced a new partnership with Gambit Esports, one of the leading esports clubs in the global professional area. As a sponsor of the club, Nervos is expanding its global footprint into esports, one of the fastest-growing sectors today.
Now, with the widespread popularity of NFTs and increasing interest in metaverse-focused platforms like The Sandbox, the worlds of blockchain and esports are more connected than ever.
The above is all the content of this issue of CKB Weekly Paper. See you next time!
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