24 Jan Symbol blockchain news update – 24/01/24
Good morning XYM City! For once the sun is shining in my part of the world, I’ve just had my morning coffee and I’m ready to write! As promised I am back again with another Symbol Blog update and keeping to my promise of regular posts in 2024! 😁 It seems that this week’s news is dominated by technical articles so apologies if you were looking for a light read on a Wednesday morning! 😂
Mosaic restrictions
Here’s an interesting article from Jaguar showing how you can use mosaic restrictions in Symbol. In the example given he shows how it is possible to set mosaic restrictions to lock down the transfer of mosaics between accounts so that only addresses that have been whitelisted and meet certain criteria e.g. have gone through a KYC process can interact with the token.
Multilingual SDKs
Toshi has published this article, the first of a series, about the process of creating a new Symbol Software Development Kit (SDK). He explains that the core aspect of the SDK involves serialising Symbol transactions into binary form, signing them, and then submitting them to nodes (converting the binary into a hexadecimal string for transmission) and discusses the importance of utility tools required for signing, network selection and other critical features. He uses dart as an example and shows how the Symbol SDK was developed. Apparently, there will be another three parts to the series so keep your eyes peeled! 👀
SSS and next.js
In this article, MimosaHrvsty shows us how to create and sign Symbol transactions using Next.js, the Symbol SDK and SSS Extension. This is going on my reading list as I would like to start using SSS and was a bit confused last time I tried 😅 [added to reading list].
HTMLX Symbol stats
Yet another technical article, relative to the size of our community we must have the most hobbyist developers of any blockchain! I am constantly learning! I hadn’t even heard of HTMLX but planethouki decided to experiment and attempt to display new blocks from the Symbol blockchain in real time using HTMX and WebSocket. It looks like the experiment was partially successful yet HTMX cannot currently automatically convert WebSocket messages into HTML so additional Javascript code would be needed. It’s nice to see the journey of experimentation he went on, that’s something we don’t usually see.
Transactions in Symbol and NEM using the Python SDK
I have jumped on the bandwagon too. As usual, my code is probably rough and ready but hopefully, these two articles will show you how to send a variety of transactions on Symbol and NEM using the latest Python SDK. If you spot any mistakes then let me know! 😅
Firing up the flywheel
Time flies! Tresto reminds us that Symbol is nearly three years old! Wow, looking back my life has completely changed in these 36 months – it’s scary. Anyway, I digress. He poses the question of how we can increase liquidity, gain attention and increase the number of developers and holders. We are a strange bunch, there is so much passion and interest within our relatively small community but relative to other projects we are definitely flying under the radar. Personally, I feel like the flywheel is slowly starting to spin but we need to give it a kickstart – the army is gathering 😁
XYM Comic
I’ll end on a more lighthearted post and let you know that the girls are back and an English version of XYM Comic is now available and features
@kirari_kanda and @FoodNFT_io! Maybe I need to get myself to this restaurant when I visit Tokyo next month 🤔
Thanks!
Thanks as always for reading. I hope you have time to read and digest all of the new articles above! I will be back again next week with another post!
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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