Solar Q4 Recap
We are excited to bring you a recap of advances made in the last quarter of 2022. There was a great deal of activity with new collaborations, events and AMAs.
Read on to see what progress was made!
Travala and Solar collaborate 20th Oct
You can now book hotels and flights using SXP with Travala. Head on over to Travala and check out their vast range of hotels and flights.
ChangeNOW AMA 21st Oct
Elaine Egan held her first AMA as Senior Brand Ambassador with ChangeNOW on Twitter spaces. ChangeNOW is a non-custodial trade platform that enables users to swap approximately 800 cryptocurrencies including SXP.
Read more ChangeNOW
StealthEX collaborates with Solar 28 Oct
We were pleased to announce a collaboration between Solar and StealthEX. StealthEX is a non-custodial trade platform that enables users to exchange over 670 assets quickly and easily.
Read here for more information about StealthEX
AMA RbC, Oasis Network and KCC Official 1 st Nov
RbC hosted a Twitter space for Solar, Oasis Network and KCC community. RbC office are a marketing and investment consultancy for blockchain projects. The topic of the AMA was “How do Layer 1 projects make innovation for the future?” Solar was represented by Elaine Egan, our Senior Brand Ambassador.
Read the transcript
AMA with Nayiem in Korean TG 20th Nov
Nayiem held a spur of the moment AMA with the Korean community on Telegram. The debate was lively with Nayiem answering many questions on a variety of topics.
NOWPayments AMA 18 th Nov
NOWPayments hosted a Twitter space AMA with Elaine Egan to discuss their recent collaboration. NOWPayments is a non-custodial crypto payment gateway solution. It allows businesses and charities to accept crypto payments including SXP on their websites, online stores and social media accounts.
For more information read here NOWPayments
AMA with Solar Core Lead Developer Gym 1st Dec
Elaine Egan hosted an AMA in Solar main telegram channel with Gym, the Solar Core Lead Developer. The session was very informative and I think everyone will agree that we learned a lot about Solar Core.
Read the AMA with Gym
Solar Core Security and Analysis Report 15th Dec
Solar Core Lead Developer Gym announced the release of the eagerly anticipated “Security and Analysis” report. This document is huge and is 72 pages long. The report will be broken down into smaller blog articles. Articles will be posted on Medium and announced on all Solar channels in the very near future.
You can find the full report on GitHub
AMA with StealthEx 2nd Dec
Elaine Egan hosted an AMA in Solar telegram with Maria Carola, CEO of StealthEx, which is a non custodial trade platform. StealthEX enables users to exchange over 670 assets quickly and easily. The AMA was an interesting session with a range of topics discussed including StealthEx’s various features and development.
Read the AMA
WhiteBIT close Deposits and Withdrawals 16th Dec
WhitBIT announced the closure of SXP ERC-20 token in anticipation of their swap to SXP mainnet.
KuCoin Completes the Swap to SXP Mainnet 21st Dec
KuCoin announced the successful swap to SXP Mainnet. KuCoin no longer supports the deposit of ERC20 Swipe.
Bithumb Announces Swap to Mainnet 23rd Dec
Bithumb announced the suspension of ERC-20 SXP tokens in advance of the swap to mainnet.
Community Focus
D53 Events
Find out more about District 53 here in the Telegram channel
District 53 Metaverse Kart Club 1st Oct
The first ever Kart Club took place and was a fantastic fun event. Block Producer Thamar did an excellent job as announcer. The final winners were Furkan #1 Oguzcan #2 xcrawly #3.
There were all the thrills and spills of an F1 race. We look forward to more races like this.
You can read the event blog
CTF Event 15th Oct
District 53 hosted the first ever Capture the Flag event. The event was the first of many and was very well received. The event had 500 SXP up for grabs.
Tiktok 20th Oct
Milkshake created a D53 Tiktok channel. This will be a valuable tool for sharing game footage and features.
Please follow on:
@d53metaverse
CTF Event 22nd Oct
The second Capture the Flag event. After the popularity of the first event District 53 was keen to build on its success. Players were placed into teams and they battled to protect their own flag and capture their enemies. This was an epic event.
Halloween Event 31st Oct
This event was sponsored by Block Producers mtaylan and osrn. Players had to find the poster hidden in the dungeons by buying tools and armour to assist them in the hunt. This was a truly spooktacular event with a prize pool of 1000$ of SXP.
Introducing tymt 2nd Nov
The very first blog post by tymt, the next-generation game launcher for traditional games, blockchain and Web3 games. Tymt is an initiative from the founders and developers of District 53 Metaverse. This blog post gave an in depth account of the birth and early stage development of tymt.
Tymt Second Post 21st Nov
This blog post set out to explain two new exciting features of tymt, Staking in the tymt Launcher and new wallet integrations.
Obstacle race 26th Nov
This event was the easiest event so far hosted by District 53. Players had to race through the main
map. There was a prize pool of 1000 SXP which was divided between the first 5 players across the finish line. Great fun was had by all.
AMA with Adshares 30th Nov
Nayiem and Milkshake took part in an AMA with Adshares. They talked about the development and various features of District 53. The AMA was very successful and hopefully the first of many more for District 53.
Christmas Fest Gift Box Hunt 24th Dec — 1st Jan
This was the longest event held yet! Players had to find official D53 gifts. Prizes were awarded for each official gift box found. This event was tough but Community Manager Cnghtn was on hand to provide occasional clues.
Spotlight on Block Producers
AMA with Goat 9th Dec
Elaine Egan hosted an AMA with Block Producer Goat. It was the first of hopefully many more AMAs. The topics discussed ranged from Block Producer participation, voting and more.
AMA with Fnoufnou 16th Dec
Fnoufnou was the second Solar Block Producer to sit down with Elaine Egan for an AMA in our telegram channel. A variety of topics were discussed including Solar Network and blockchain technology.
Block Producer Donations
The following Block Producers provided donations to the Solar ecosystem in Q4 which includes event prizes and tools in order to build a bigger community.
- Kimchi, Thamar, Fnoufnou, Schuan911
- Balu, Generalpuma, Acanthus, Goat
- Dev51, WeValidate, ₴Ⱡ33₱, Lunar
- Fonk, Arbaro, AxeFin, Sevi, Lucky_delegate
- Motolaji, Mltaylan, Osrn, Cold
We had an exciting end to 2022 and we are looking forward to 2023. Welook forward to Core 5.0 with its extra functionality and new terminology across the Solar ecosystem.
Great things are going to be happening so keep up with us in our social media announcement channels and blog posts. As always we will do our best to bring you updates and news as it occurs.
We would like to thank the Solar community for their support in 2022 and look forward to their continued participation throughout 2023. We are anticipating an exciting and productive new year.
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