[ANN] LAMDEN 2.0 - Codename ARKO - Launch 30th JAN 💥 - Smart Contracts / dApps

[crosschainer]

One more day till Migration!

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FYI, the Lamden Arko upgrade went live yesterday:

https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-arko-is-now-live-3d92fa863fdb

[crosschainer]

Im doing a Gleam Giveaway for everyone that wants to get into TAU!
https://gleam.io/oZ0YZ/taurus-tau-giveaway

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Weekly update https://medium.com/lamden/lamden-weekly-digest-feb-10-677a59fbc4d0

• LamdenLink is now on Arko! Swap from Lamden to BSC and back with ease. The team is planning to add additional community tokens ($BLBR, $TRT, $YETI) to the bridge in the coming weeks.
• We have a lot more to look forward to over the coming days, weeks and months. More community nodes will be onboarded to the network. PixelWhale will be transitioned to Arko. The $MARMITE team is diligently working on their rebrand to YETI. The Rocketswap team is reviving Nebula (more on that below). SPANGE is creating a new rock, paper, scissors dapp. The OnlyLuck developer is building a first-of-its-kind metaverse NFT art gallery. …and no doubt more surprises on the way!
• The Taurus NFT marketplace is now integrated with an AI image generator, placing yet another powerful creative tool in everyone's hands. Simply type your idea into the prompt, wait a moment while the image generates, and then with a few more clicks you've minted a new NFT! Kudos to the Taurus developer crosschainer who has done a fantastic job showcasing the Lamden ideals for making blockchain easy and approachable to all. Don't miss out on a chance to win $300 in prizes to celebrate the Arko upgrade!
• Pixel artist 'thatguy' continues to thrill us with his PixelWhale animations and has begun releasing a series of mesmerizing new YouTube Shorts videos. Definitely worth checking out!
• The Rocketswap team has divulged additional intriguing details about the revival of Nebula. The project will be renamed Portal and coincide with a token swap from $NEB to $XPTL (swap window starts today and ends March 10) - more details to be shared very shortly. There will be an additional airdrop of $XPTL for $RSWP holders. Portal vaults are scheduled to be available in Q2 of this year.
• Trading Strategy wrote an article highlighting the current state of Python in blockchain. Lamden was featured as a core blockchain and node software.
• Aspiring Lamden developers should check out this tutorial for how to build a dapp. The step-by-step guide will help familiarize yourself with Lamden and prepare you for releasing your first dapp!
• The Lamden Vault wallet turns one year old! Happy birthday pal! It's been a joy to use over the past year and we're excited to see it continually evolve and improve into the future.

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Weekly update: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-feb-17-83e3a4e17242

• A new Lamden Vault wallet update will be rolling out to allow signing of “account challenges”. This is an anticipated update for dapp developers which will enable dapps to send a new event to the Vault that utilizes the user’s private key to sign a challenge. The dapp can then validate the signature to authenticate the user and enable specific dapp functions (as an example, unlock content on a webpage for only specific users).
• Lamden team is currently focused on streamlining the process so Arko nodes seamlessly and decentrally upgrade. Progress updates will continue to be shared as the network prepares to onboard community nodes.
• The new Rocketswap Leaderboard is offering up to $150 in rewards for traders. Compete with other traders to get to the top of the leaderboard and receive a larger portion of the token rewards.
• The contract for the new YETI token is currently in the testing phase and nearing completion. Depending on the progress of testing, the $MARMITE team is still aiming for the rebrand from $MARMITE to $YETI in late February or early March.
• Community developer crosschainer is in early stages of developing a dapp in a box tool. The idea is to offer templates that anyone can use to deploy a new dApp with just a few clicks (with the option to customize in more detail if desired). It’s still in early stages and has been made open source for other developers to contribute to. As a reminder, developers can write and re-use contracts directly within the Lamden Vault wallet via the Smart Contracts tab!
• A new LUSD LP -> TAU farm will be available on the Rocketswap DEX starting Feb 26.
• The Lamden Bot continues to evolve in new and exciting ways. The Telegram Lamden Bot is now integrated with the Taurus NFT marketplace to enable $TRT holders to generate AI images using the “/ai_image” prompt before typing descriptive text.
• Apps are what define a platform. It’s why Lamden has a developer-centric, developer-first mantra. The goal has always been to empower developers with easy-to-use tools (ex. Python) so they can seamlessly deliver amazing dApps and experiences. Check out this handy collection of resources for new and established developers!

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Weekly update: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-feb-24-5062b905b054

• The Lamden team is excited to begin a new AMA series that will be included in the Weekly Digest. The Medium/Reddit format (compared to Telegram) should help with discussing nuanced topics and make it easier to reference historical Q&As. The goal is to bring more transparency and ensure the topics important to the community are being discussed. Please don’t hesitate to message the community manager with any burning questions you have each week (deadline is each Wednesday to give us time to answer)! This week’s AMA is included in a new section below — it’s a meaty one!
• The new Rocketswap Leaderboard wrapped up its first round of rewards ($150 in total) for traders! Prizes for XPTL, TRT, and RSWP have been distributed — congrats to the winners! Compete with other traders to get to the top of the leaderboard and receive a larger portion of the token rewards — trading is now open for RTAU and XPTL.
• The Taurus NFT marketplace is planning a full redesign of the website. We can’t wait to see the result. Also, a reminder to not miss out on a chance to win $300 in prizes to celebrate the Arko upgrade — only one week left!
• Congrats to the Spange team (q t and Bruno) on the launch of their dapp, “Rock, Paper, Scissors”. Players can use the $SPANGE “spare change” token to compete against the computer in a tense game of rock, paper, scissors.
• The latest YouTube short video from Lamden Girl reminds users to switch their Lamden Vault wallet over to the new Arko network. Thanks for the important reminder!

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Weekly update: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-mar-3-2500c782c169

• The Taurus NFT marketplace has been receiving a ton of updates over the past few weeks. In addition to its complete redesign and the brand new NFT Drop feature (which enables creators to offer their NFTs for minting at a fixed price), the landing page has been updated, the overall website has been optimized for speed, users can browse without connecting their wallet, and more!
• TAUHQ has added the “rock, paper, scissors” dapp Spange to the list of available dapps and LamdenGirl has created a YouTube Short showing us how to play.
• LamdenGirl’s YouTube Short reminds us the LUSD LP -> TAU farm is now available on the Rocketswap DEX.
• Trading competition for RTAU and XPTL is ongoing through March 10. Check out the current Leaderboard results on Rocketswap to see if you’re in the lead.
• The Portal team has been making solid progress and completed the first version of the new vault smart contracts. Contract developer endogen estimates the first vault contracts are around 98% complete and after finalizing will begin creating APIs for the integration into the Portal website.

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Weekly Digest: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-mar-10-350f0afa237d

• The Arko network is experiencing some intermittent issues as we roll out our community nodes. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to have them resolved shortly.
• The Taurus NFT marketplace has a number of enhancements in the works including community auctions, ability to create multiple market listings for the same NFT, an overhaul to the royalties system, and more.
• Another plug for the LUSD LP -> TAU farm available on Rocketswap — earn TAU by providing LUSD LP. In the spirit of working together, the team is also seeking creative ideas from the community to incentivize additional liquidity.
• The $MARMITE/YETI team shared a quick audio update briefing the status of their new smart contracts; the team is wrapping up testing and plans to announce the release date within the next few days.
• A reminder the Nebula to Portal (optional) swap is closing this Sunday. The Portal team is in the process of resurrecting the idea of ‘staking vaults’ started by the Nebula project.
• Congrats to the winners of the recent Rocketswap Leaderboards trading competition for $RTAU and $XPTL!
• There’s a lot of activity across Lamden. A quick recap: the DAO is close to release, LamdenLink will have additional tokens added (TRT, BLBR, YETI), Rocketswap has a fully revamped website in the works, Taurus is one of the most fully-featured NFT marketplaces available on any blockchain, Marmite team is undergoing a full rebrand to Yeti with cool new community features, OnlyLuck is creating a metaverse NFT art gallery (plus an open source Unity Lamden plugin that will allow other developers to interface with the Lamden Vault wallet via JavaScript), Bruno is working on a new action game, Portal team is making great progress on their new contracts/website, TraderRob is working on some YouTube videos to bring more visibility to different dapps, and more!

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Weekly Digest: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-mar-17-3edb82873721

• The $MARMITE / YETI team held an AMA to discuss a variety of topics including the functions of the new YETI token (9% tax — allocated to 6% for rewards, 2% for LP, and 1% for rain — rewards will be in TAU initially but goal is to transition to WETH once liquidity is restored), an increase of the supply (plan is to increase supply by 10 billion to be used for liquidity pools), preview of the new website (yeti-token.com coming soon), a status on the bridge (hoping to be added to LamdenLink but will explore all other options if needed), date of release (March 22, 8pm GMT), and more.
• The Taurus NFT marketplace is working with artist ‘thatguy’ on a new NFT collection themed after the site’s bull logo. The collection will contain 625 unique NFTs, each with distinct and rare traits. NFT owners will be able to participate in the new Taurus DAO.
• The Nebula (NEB) to Portal (XPTL) optional swap has now concluded. A total of 24,373,725 XPTL tokens were minted via the swap. The new website will be moving from the Rocketswap domain to https://prtl.finance . More info about the vaults and other details can be found via the team’s latest status update.
• The Portal team is planning to create a widget that any project can add to their website to show users that a token / LP lock exists and its duration. This is important information for any project token holder to be aware of since it ensures liquidity will be available for buying or selling and/or that the team’s token allocation won’t be sold. The Portal team plans to lock XPTL LP once the new locking contract has been completed.
• The Rocketswap team has distributed rewards to the winners of the XPTL and RTAU trading Leaderboards. Congrats to the winners! Check out the latest competition for XPTL and RTAU!

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Weekly Digest: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-mar-24-57caf768a905

• The new $YETI token is now available. The $MARMITE -> $YETI swap is also open. The new contract is “con_yeti”. Congrats to the $YETI team and community for completing the next stage of the project. Here’s a guideif you’d like to perform the swap right away. Otherwise, the team will be releasing an easy swap tool with the upcoming launch of the $YETI website — more details to be shared soon.
• Reminder to withdraw any $TAU you currently hold on the Txbit exchange by April 28.
• A new XPTL LP -> XPTL farm will open on Rocketswap on April 3.
• The Taurus NFT marketplace has enabled “trait” filters in preparation for the upcoming release of its Taurus Bulls Collection.
• Happy birthday, Rocketswap! Celebrating two years. If you haven’t yet, join in on the latest Leaderboard competition for XPTL and RTAU.

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Weekly Digest: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-mar-31-a657fed398ab

• The $YETI team has released a new website so users can quickly and easily swap their $MARMITE tokens for $YETI. The team is planning to distribute the first rewards to members on April 2 at 8pm GMT (to allow time for swapping); rewards will continue to be distributed once every 24 hours to members that hold 50 million+ $YETI tokens. In addition, 1% of the tax from buys/sells will be used to regularly rain/snow within the $YETI Telegram chat.
• $YETI is now a verified token on the Rocketswap exchange.
• crosschainer, developer of the Taurus NFT marketplace, is also working on a new PvP role-playing game where you fight monsters and other players to collect equipable and sellable loot (NFTs). A short video demonstration shows how players can equip an LNS NFT to assign as their character’s name.
• The latest Rocketswap Leaderboard competition has wrapped up. Stay tuned for winner distributions and the next competition!

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Weekly Digest: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-apr-7-1efe1fdfafb5

• We’re very happy to report the Lamden team has implemented a fix for the bug that was preventing governance motions from passing. This fix should also add overall stability to the network. A few remaining tasks will be tackled next as we prepare to add community nodes. Good progress is being made and we’ll continue to keep the community informed. Note that the LamdenLink bridge will be in maintenance mode until April 17.
• The Taurus NFT marketplace has made impressive progress on their new NFT role-playing game, now called “The Lamden Realm”. We couldn’t be more excited! A host of new features and gameplay were demo’d this week, including the ability to teleport between maps, a new leveling system for your character, and the ability to craft weapons.
• The Rocketswap farms for RSWP LP -> RSWP and RSWP -> RSWP have been extended through the end of April. The Rocketswap team is close to finishing work on the Rocketswap DAO and hope to share more details soon.

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Weekly Digest: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-apr-14-737bddba2f1c

• The Lamden Realm role-playing game is continually receiving new features and updates — too many to list! A speed run video from community member ‘Art D’ does an excellent job to highlight some of the features including item crafting, the intense gameplay, and how to interact with the Taurus NFT marketplace. Come join the fun!
• The new $YETI reward system has been running smoothly, with nearly a dozen distributions to holders since launch. Rewards are distributed automatically every 24 hours to accounts that hold 50 million or more $YETI tokens (the rewards are funded via a tax on buys/sells and so will only be distributed if the pot reaches a threshold to cover transaction fees). The team is currently working on the relaunch of their website.
• The XPTL LP -> XPTL farm on Rocketswap is now open. The farm contains ~ 8 million XPTL that will be distributed between now and October 4, 2023. Emissions will double every couple of weeks up to a maximum emission rate of ~1200/hr. The emissions will stabilize for a number of weeks before declining in the same manner and stabilizing again at a lower rate. This cycle will repeat throughout the life of the farm. The Portal team plans to share the full schedule of the emission rates with the community so participants can plan.

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Weekly Digest: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-may-5-64862e446df1

The team has been heads down building. There’s been a ton of progress and so let’s take a moment to share the recent work.

• Implemented a scalable, file-based block storage solution that can deterministically pull next and previous blocks from the filesystem without relying on directory listings. This is crucial for scaling the number of blocks.
• Developed a scalable block alias (hash) and transaction storage that operates similarly but is simpler since it does not require next or previous functionality in its structures.
• Created a migration script and process to transition from the old storage to the new hierarchical storage structure. The node will attempt to migrate the old structure to the new one upon startup if the old structure is detected.
• Enhanced block height tracking on the current state. The node now accurately saves the block height for each state change, preventing state overwrites if a previous block with the same state key is processed. This new functionality is called “safe_set.”
• Simplified catchup process. The new catchup starts at the highest block and processes blocks in reverse order. With the new “safe_set” functionality, this allows nodes to obtain a more recent current state faster, enabling them to participate in consensus more quickly.
• Made the genesis block a requirement for new nodes and discontinued its provision by other nodes. Due to its large size, the block is no longer sent across the network. Added a block downloader to the Lamden node package repository for new nodes to use before joining.
• Streamlined the joining and starting processes. Both are essentially the same routine, with joining having one extra step before starting. Both processes now attempt catchup.
• Introduced a new “new block” gossip network for nodes to detect synchronization discrepancies. This adds some extra overhead to the networking layer but is necessary to keep nodes in sync. The system is basic and could be expanded in the future.
• Added missing block processing. If a node is found to be missing a block, the node owner can notify the node to fetch the block from other nodes and process it. During this process, the node will repair its hashes to re-synchronize with the network. The new gossip layer should reduce the need for this functionality, but it will be relied upon initially to re-synchronize mainnet.
• Improved the upgrade process via smart contract governance, which previously caused numerous issues. The new stability brought by the upgrades has significantly enhanced the process.

What’s next? Here’s what the team has on their plate:

• Address the issue of nodes getting stuck in an infinite loop if they don’t receive enough results from the network for consensus. This problem caused much of the early downtime. Although a bug fix improved node result consistency, the potential for nodes getting stuck still exists and could pose a problem. Implementing an escape hatch during the process to discard the consensus attempt might resolve this issue.
• Test upgrading mainnet from Lamden v2.0.15 to Lamden v2.0.21. Ideally, the upgrade should be direct, with all migrations happening automatically. This process should leave mainnet migrated and updated. To ensure a smooth transition, recover all mainnet data to local instances and run the upgrade multiple times.
• After updating mainnet, utilize the new missing blocks process to re-synchronize the network. Test this process locally before going live to ensure its efficacy.

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Weekly Digest: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-may-12-d4adb4a24c65

Testnet is on the latest version of the Arko node software - plan is to upgrade Mainnet to this newest version next week so we encourage our community devs to test and share feedback over the coming days.

[PAMPT]

Thought lamden cap was like $0.1 million not 100. Who said it has a cap of 100 million? Looking at ur t-shirt, the country u live in has the GDP of under $100 million and u must be the commissary tray washer or a dishwasher in a slum district where they do not have mcdonalds. Pepe which is fun art token, has the cap of close to 100 million and free transactions. Some people have run out of proper judgement and consideration, I see.

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Weekly Digest: https://blog.lamden.io/lamden-weekly-digest-may-19-44a237cb6fc0

• We’ve onboarded our first community member node (Venu R). If you’d like to join us in securing the Lamden network, participating in governance, and earning rewards, please join us on Telegram.
• We’re very happy to report the Lamden Vault wallet has been updated to use the new Manifest V3 standard and so will continue to be compatible and available in the Chrome store!

[CoiNGhosT89]

Great, we can see what new features this update brings, especially with the new node architecture, let's see what new possibilities the simplicity to deploy smart contracts will bring