23 Jun Symbol blockchain news update – 23/06/22
Good afternoon Symbolers! I’m back with a short post today, news is still very slow at the moment hence the long gap! I have a few stories to cover but if you know of anything that I should be reporting on then please let me know! I’d really appreciate some help, I am a huge ball of stress at the moment trying to tie up loose ends at work so that doesn’t help 😁
Buy your XYM comics
I didn’t know this but you can buy copies of the XYM comic series! Episodes 1 to 4 are available for 200 XYM each. You can also buy 10 episodes for the bargain price of 1,900 XYM. I really like these comics so I should probably contribute to show my support! This is going on my to-do list 😊
Good Karma
The first public release of the KarmaPoint app is now available!
You can sign up here and test it out. I have to admit that I haven’t done this yet as I was initially put off by the amount of personal information that it asked for. Looking at Discord I see that I was not the only one thinking this!
But apparently, things like passport number etc should not be mandatory so give it a go and see what you think. If you want to learn more about the project then check out their web page – the English version is here.
Send NFTs in Twitter
I reported on NFT-Drive EX and how it can be used to send tips in XYM on Twitter in a previous post. Now it seems that it can be used to send NFTs via Twitter chat. Not sure how this works at this point in time but hopefully there will be a demo coming soon. We really should translate NFT-Drive EX to English as well, I’d really like to give this a go!
Peace – a virtual gallery
I am sure that you will know about this already (as I have written about it several times!) but there is a fundraising effort being run by the Japanese community that aims to raise money through XYM donations to support those affected by the war in Ukraine. The money is being raised through art and they are accepting submissions which will be displayed in a virtual gallery on Cluster.
The link to the event is now live but at the time of writing it looks like the artworks submitted are not yet available for viewing. This might just be temporary (or more likely me doing something dumb) so go check it out for yourself 😊
Discord treasury tracker
I don’t think that this is live on the XYM City Discord yet but it looks like Klim, Angel and Quasarblue have created a Discord bot to track transactions from the Symbol treasury (NEM treasury to be added soon). Keep an eye out as I am sure that Hatchet will be adding this to the server soon 😊
A big scoop
I don’t often receive (non-spammy) comments on my blog posts but this got me thinking. I really should write something about the history of NEM and Symbol and dig out some skeletons from the closets of the previous management. Just need to get my hands on some inside stories and financials. This is on my radar so hopefully I can do some research later in the year and write it up for the blog.
And finally…
This brought a smile to my very stressed face when I saw it so I thought I would share. Good work @Mii__HappY! 😊
Thanks!
Thanks for reading and for putting up with my poor attempt at a post today 😁 Hopefully there will be a deluge of news soon and I can go back to more regular posts. Until then, have fun and I will be back at some point soon with another Symbol Blog update!
Also a huge thanks to those of you who donated last week for the blog’s first anniversary. I need to think about what I will do with all of the blog funds. I feel like I should put them to good use supporting community efforts. If you have any good ideas then please let me know.
I’m a Symbol and NEM enthusiast and run this blog to try to grow awareness of the platform in the English-speaking world. If you have any Symbol news you would like me to report on or you have an article that you would like to publish then please let me know!
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