Good morning world! I'm back with another short update on what has been happening in the world of Symbol and NEM. I have been immersed in advent calendars over the past two weeks and I really need to keep more of an eye on Twitter!...

This article is a continuation of CHATTING WITH PEERS FOR FUN AND PROFIT. If you have not already read that article, you should read it and we’ll be waiting for you! One of the limitations of that article is that we omitted proper certificate verification using ssl.CERT_NONE. That...

Background This guide will walk through calling basic catapult client C++ functions from python using cffi. For the purposes of this example, we will be calling the following functions from VRF.h: /// Generates a verifiable random function proof from \a alpha and \a keyPair. VrfProof GenerateVrfProof(const RawBuffer& alpha, const...

This guide will walk through the changes required to fork the catapult client by using the recent 1.0.3.4 fork as an example. The specific fix in that fork will not be covered in detail as this guide is meant to be descriptive of common changes...

Good morning world! I'm back and I am playing catch-up with the news at the moment as I have been busily writing other things! Metal on Symbol I have just finished writing about Metal, hopefully, you will see the article sometime soon 😅 If you missed the...

In this article, I cover how to connect to MongoDB on a Symbol API or dual node and query the database directly. I cover how to manipulate the data using pandas and make different types of plots using matplotlib and other visualisation packages....

September 2022 saw GRAPEs launch the first blockchain business card. Built on Symbol, their platform allows users to upload their contact information and card design and create a full-on-chain multilingual NFT which can be shared with contacts digitally via a link or through a QR...

Good morning XYM City! hope that you are well! This month seems to be flying by at the moment and it's not long until that magical time of the year when we get to read some excellent posts on the NEM Advent Calendar! If you...

Sorry! I know it's been a while. I have been writing lots of other things and have neglected the news updates lately 😬 I may not be able to catch you up on everything that has been going on over the last couple of weeks...