03 Aug Symbol blockchain news update – 03/08/21
Hey everyone! Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the Symbol Blog news update! It’s a short one today but hopefully you guys will start sending me some tweets to report on. It is hard to keep up with Symbol Twitter by myself! Thanks to all the XYMbassadors that are helping, it would be really great to get some contributions from the wider community though.
QUEST testing
We posted about QUEST in yesterday’s news but it seems that the community is already testing it out! Thanks @FaizulReza1 for sending in this translation of @nembear‘s tweet. Remember this is testnet only at the moment but it looks like there was a lot of boosts given for nembear’s quest!
Although at time of writing even with 100% of votes counted the funds had not been distributed. He thinks that he will probably have to wait until the voting period is over before the funds are distributed. I will see if I can keep an eye on this and let you know!
If anyone feels like testing the platform and writing it up in English (I will help!) then just let me know. I really like this idea, I think it will be a difficult one to get off the ground but it has so much potential if it can get mainstream adoption.
Symbol Tomatina
This is cool! @xembook has started a quest (on QUEST!) to develop a faucet for the tomatina festival (I still don’t know what the event will be but when I find out I will let you know). If you want some background on the previous event then we reported on this recently.
And an update – it is already 90% complete! Amazing work @xembook!
Symbol x Unity
Thanks @SamiurR76186237 for sending this translation of @toshiya_ma‘s tweet. We reported on this a couple of times already. There is a game being developed in Unity at the moment which interacts with the Symbol blockchain. It does this by writing metadata to an account to register weapons etc in game. The game then reads this metadata from the Symbol account and this will be available in game. Weapons can be transferred to other users Symbol accounts so they can be transferred between friends and potentially bought and sold. It is nice to see that it is progressing well. I really want to get my hands on this game! I really hope that someone will volunteer to translate it into English too as I am sure that there will be a lot of people like me that want to play.
School of NEM
Thanks @FaizulReza1 for sending in this @SchoolofNEM tweet. Just a reminder that with PoS+ if you are contributing to the network then you will a boost to your importance score which will allow you to harvest more blocks than you otherwise would. As SchoolofNEM points out this is not the only perk of Symbol – it is super easy for developers to get started (even someone like me can easily learn how to interact with Symbol!). I think this is a huge selling point that will really pay dividends in the near future. Mark my words – we will see an influx of new applications being built on Symbol and I think we are starting to see the beginnings of this happening already!
Thanks!
As usual, thanks for reading! If you have any news that you think that I should be reporting on then just email admin@symbolblog.com or DM @blog_symbol on Twitter!
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