DAAAAAAARK MODE

Youtube summaries:

English: https://youtu.be/uoliBkHVcBk

German: https://youtu.be/qMF2znhXruI

It’s been another successful two week sprint. While we’ve been developing, the platform has been running smoothly, processing almost $9 million in payments through the IOTA network. We’re seeing more spaces being created, more proposals being voted on, and more awards being issued. The Soonaverse is running like a top.

Nevertheless, we continue to improve! Here’s a breakdown of all the improvements and features that were released today:

• Dark mode
• Royalty can only be changed down
• Fixed NFT per member
• Improved bids tab on NFT page
• Dynamic sizing for NFT cards
• Add support for Arabic
• Add support for Hungarian
• Show dates on Collection
• Counter on bidding pop-up
• Fixed issue of hiding attachments on multiple upload
• Royalty space on bid screen
• Image and metadata link on tangle
• Fixed support button
• New API

While all of these deserve to be expanded on, we only have so much space in this article! Let’s take a moment and highlight a few of these enhancements:

Dark Mode

One of the most requested features by the community has been implemented! We finally have a dark mode! Your eyes are now safe again. You can click the sun icon in the bottom of your left pane and the entire application will switch over to a dark mode.

While this may seem like a simple upgrade, our development team actually needed to rewrite pretty much every template in order to make this happen. It was quite a bit of work, but completely worth it.

Platform Stabilization

We continue to focus in the background on stabilizing the application. Since the beginning of March, the Soonaverse has processed over 20,000 payments. Of those 20,000 payments, about 40 of them didn’t behave like they were supposed to. We’re happy to report that the bug causing this issue has officially been fixed.

If you’re wondering why we only have a few big things coming with this release, this is why. When it comes to the payments engine that drives the Soonaverse, we take it seriously. The development team is constantly working in the background to make sure everything is as secure and performant as possible, so extra time was spent this sprint solidifying the foundation.

NFT Collection Upgrades

Availability dates on the x page have been changed to show your local date and time instead of “Starts in 2 days”:

On top of that, before, an NFT collection creator was able to edit their royalty % at any point in time. With this new release, NFT collection creators can still edit their royalty %, but they can only edit it DOWN. This will give the community more confidence knowing that an NFT collection can never do something crazy like change the royalty % to 100% after it’s sold out.

New Bidding Visual

The first thing that happened was an issue was fixed where bids weren’t correctly uploading. After that, the Bidding table was cleaned up to be all about bids. This includes current bids, past bids, and your biddings. This will make the transparency on bids a lot more clear.

Quite a few people have asked for full transaction history for their profile. We’re happy to report that a UI tool is currently being finalized that will enable you to have a full visual. This will be a combined history of all your transactions on the Soonaverse. This new reporting feature should be very helpful for users. All their NFT activity will finally be in one place.

New API

The Soonaverse has launched an API that has allowed anybody to connect their applications to the platform and pull all kinds of data. You can find the library here: https://github.com/soonlabs/soonaverse-lib.To start, we have three separate functions:

1. Find all NFTs that an IOTA address owns. You can pass an array with up to 10 IOTA addresses.
2. Get all NFTs owned by a MetaMask address.
3. Listen to updates on a particular NFT. RXJS Observable stream is returned.

Eventually we will provide web components that can be embedded on other sites.

Looking Forward

We want to make to known that we fully understand these 2 main pain points:

1. Search functionality
2. MetaMask

For the search functionality it’s important to understand that the reason this hasn’t been fixed yet is because in order to do it, the underlying architecture needs to be changed. It’s a significant change and can’t happen quickly. We’ll get it done though! The development team needs to be certain that the new architecture will scale with the volumes we’re getting.

As for MetaMask, we’re working on a WalletConnect integration. MetaMask will still be available, but users will have an additional option to use WalletConnect instead. WalletConnect is known for being a lot more user-friendly.

Last but not least, for the thousandth time, we’d like to thank the community. They’re the ones driving these changes. The Soonaverse is constantly fixing and improving things that are brought up by its active users! If you have input, it will be heard and the future platform will be built around what you believe is most important.