12 Jul Symbol blockchain news update – 12/07/22
Good afternoon from a sunny Greek Island! 😁
The little one is taking an enforced break from the swimming pool and watching some cartoons so I am breaking out the laptop and trying to catch up with what has happened over the last few days so that I can share it with you. The internet connection is terrible so this may be a harder task than I first thought 😬
TokenLive
I have seen some talk about TokenLive on Japanese Twitter but wasn’t sure what it was all about until I saw Mikun’s post on Discord, my internet is so bad that I can’t even open Discord let alone post a screenshot so apologies for that. Apparently, TokenLive is a live streaming service that uses Symbol mosaics to grant access to view content. The streamer generates their own token and then holders of the token can access their content. It looks like a mobile app is now under development and allows streaming and chat functions with donations and login via Symbol account coming very soon!
Opening Line gets Microsoft startup support
According to Radio’s tweet, Opening Line Inc have been awarded some startup funding from Microsoft to enable them to create an Azure platform for developing and running Symbol applications. Congrats to them, looking forward to seeing how this progresses!
Exchange listing
It looks like whilst I have been enjoying the sunshine (and trying to keep a two year old amused) Symbol got a new exchange listing and you can now trade XYM on ZT Exchange! OK so it’s not one of the big boys (# 245 by volume according to CoinMarketCap) but it’s always nice to see Symbol on a new exchange.
The talented toshi strikes again
Have to admit I am not really a fan of first person shooters but I will definitely playing this (badly)! Toshi is currently developing a new game that integrates Symbol. If this teaser (and his previous work with The Tower) is anything to go by then this will be huge! According to this tweet he is looking to integrate sending of XYM between players, a shop function where weapons and skins can be traded for XYM and the game will also be VR compatible!
A warm welcome to La Sirena
We have a new member of the pirate crew! La Sirena has now officially joined The Syndicate so please follow her on Twitter – @MermaidofCrypto 😊
Two worlds colliding
Well this is interesting (for me at least! 😁) my old job meets my new job! I have to be honest I have my doubts about this paper from researchers at Yale University but have only skimmed through it briefly (I’m on holiday after all). It is published in a well respected journal so it is definitely on my reading list for when I get home. Storing and controlling access to personal genomes is something that I have thought about for a while but due to the sheer size of the data (tens of gigabytes+ per genome) I really don’t feel like it plays nicely with blockchain technology. I am pretty certain using the private blockchain approach they describe and storing genomic data on chain that this could be done better using Symbol so maybe this is a future pet project. I am interested to see whether a journal would allow a pseudonymous author list so for that reason alone I think it is exploring 😁
XYM Comic
The latest edition of XYM Comic is live in both English and Japanese. In this issue we see the sisters using NFT-Drive. I think that this is also being auctioned as an on-chain NFT so go check out @xym_comic and get bidding!
NEMTUS report
It looks like there have been some changes in personnel at NEMTUS after the previous term of office ended. Great to see that mikun has joined as a director – congratulations! If you can read Japanese (or can use Google Translate) you can check out the latest NEMTUS report which includes an activity plan for 2022.
Voting has started!
The #MozaOne2 gallery is now live in the Cluster metaverse and you can vote on your favourite artwork submissions. Remember this is a fundraiser to help those affected by the war in Ukraine so make sure to give them your support!
It looks like many familiar faces have already joined the party. I will be there as soon as I get home and have a decent internet connection.
I hope that gimre doesn’t look like this IRL 😂
Thanks!
OK, I will leave it here for now. Got to get back to family duty, get the little one ready and get out to find somewhere to eat tonight. Apologies for typos – it was written in haste! 😂 Have a good week and I will be back soon with another update!
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