Community Newsletter — April 2022
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6 min readApr 4, 2022
As we enter into the new month, it’s important to cherish the achievements of the last month. Though March was quite hectic for our team, it was all worth it! We achieved all that we aimed for with our launches, partnership announcements and so much more. It was truly astonishing to witness the growth of Pandora’s Ecosystem and we bet it will continue to grow with each passing day.
Moreso, our mission of bringing liquidity to Pandora’s NFT Ecosystem is swiftly gaining pace with last month’s major announcements and we firmly believe that the upcoming announcements will strengthen this pace & unlock the massive amount of utility in the Web3 ecosystem. With this, we are pushing forward to innovate and continue to build on the success of March.
🚨Major Highlights of the last month 🚨
Tech Update
- The launch of Express Protocol Website: A game-changing milestone! We launched our Express Protocol Website — a permissionless, interoperable NFT market gateway that enables everyone to create their own NFT Dapps & Marketplaces without getting intimidated by the time it takes to engineer encryption. Most importantly this game-changing milestone aims at inducing cross-marketplace liquidity in all the NFT marketplaces integrated on Express SDK. With this launch, we envisioned empowering everyone to convert their passion for NFTs into reality even with a minimum knowledge of technology and actualize any NFT project they believe in.
- Meta users: A new creative economy! : An NFT Marketplace built using the SDK for users to mint, buy, sell, lend, and borrow their own NFT. It is a sample marketplace constructed with a vision to allow users to experience how they can build their own branded NFT Marketplace with just a few lines of code and have the actual feel of what their marketplace could look like. Doesn’t this sound amazing? If yes, then access the Meta users platform right away!
- SDK Update & Audit: While sharing the protocol for the audit, SDK was updated and the bugs were fixed. Also, three unique use cases were built on top of Express Protocol SDK
Partnership Update
- Partnership with Bit Hotel: We partnered with Bit Hotel, a blockchain-based metaverse gaming platform where users can compete to earn bit hotel tokens and acquire native NFT. The partnership aims to index Bit Hotel’s Metaverse and Game-centric NFTs on a single dashboard of Pandora Express to make them more accessible and reachable to increase users’ utility and engagement.
- Partnership with WonderGame: To bring transparency to the platforms, we decided to collaborate with WonderGame_Meta new Metaverse Gam where NFT characters can own land and build their kingdom. The partnership motive is to index their unique and indivisible Metaverse NFTs on Pandora Express to support real-world utility templates for the metaverse and bring opportunities for users to take ownership of their gaming experience, increasing usability.
- Partnership with Forward Protocol: We are immensely proud that we partnered with Forward Protocol, an easy-to-use WordPress-like no-code model, to create a more reliable and secure infrastructure. By partnering with Forward Protocol, we are allowing them to integrate our Express Protocol’s SDK on their easy-to-use WordPress-like no-code platform and make it more accessible with seamless adoption of Web3 technology.
- Partnership With bitsCrunch: To uphold the integrity of Pandora, we collaborated with bitsCrunch — a Guardians of the NFT ecosystem took to create a more secure ecosystem for NFT enthusiasts. With that being a motto, we enabled bitCrunch to integrate their AI-based tool Scour into Pandora’s ecosystem and eliminate any wash trading that manipulate the volume and prices of NFT assets.
Community Engagement
- Launched Bug Bounty Program: To ensure the full credibility of the protocol. To make the development bug-free, we hosted the bug bounty program to fix the bugs and issues to create a flawless users experience. For that, we called out blockchain developers to participate in the bug bounty contest and stand a chance to win $25,000 worth of PNDR for finding any bug or issue in the protocol. We of all developers to perfect the Testnet by testing it thoroughly and reporting the vulnerabilities you face while using the Protocol. If you haven’t got a chance to participate, do so now because the program is still running.
- In-house AMA: Our first-ever twitter space! : We hosted our first-ever Twitter space — To unveil the major developments and updates of Express Protocol Testnet. A major online interactive event that featured our CEO Pushkar Vohra and CTO Ankit Raj Jha to enlighten the community about the Express Protocol project and we received an overwhelming response during the AMA. It was an exciting moment for the team to witness the appreciation of the Defi community. This AMA response has boosted our spirits to keep innovating and bringing out-of-the-box solutions for the community. Also, we can’t wait to organize another AMA session for our FAM!
- AMA with bitsCrunch: We had the pleasure to join the bitsCrunch team in an online interactive session. It was a compelling experience for the listeners to hear about the journeys of the Founders & CEOs of both platforms. It was also an opportunity to announce the strategic partnership with bitscrunch and ‘what this partnership will bring to the table’. Apart from it, the way the community responded and interacted during the AMA has truly made it a huge success.
The AMAs were indeed engaging and informative and we can’t wait to have more exciting, insightful, and engaging sessions with our community.
Upcoming Events
- Pandora Express as Unity Market is all set to bring Next-Gen NFTs. : We are all set to announce the Pandora Express as Unity Market (with logo) — Where all NFTs unite! With these changes, we are attempting to expand the horizon of our ecosystem by uniting all the NFTs and NFT Marketplaces ranging from Metaverse NFT markets to GameFi NFT markets & much more. With this, we will be introducing a new era of next-gen NFTs and provide the opportunity for Metaverse fans & users to search through all virtual marketplaces in one place and use them to drive engagement in the metaverse and in-game interactions.
- Bug Bounty Contest Winner Announcement: We will be starting the month with a bang! Yes on 8th April 2022, we will be announcing the winner of the bug bounty contest. Our Tech Team will choose the eligible candidate based on the credibility of the detected issue and decide the rewards for the following participants accordingly. So be ready to claim your token! Kindly note: The people who have followed all rules & regulations and retained the authenticity of the program will only be considered eligible candidates.
- Updated Roadmap: Soon, we will be introducing the updated Roadmap that outlines the major future developments, updates on new features, launches of new platforms, and much more. In short, the roadmap will provide an insight into what we are up to and what’s our plan of action for the upcoming months or year.
- Express Protocol Mainnet Launch: The big bang moment you all are waiting for is releasing soon! Our team is all ready to launch Express Protocol Mainnet which allows anyone to create their own NFT dApps & marketplaces without getting intimidated by the time it takes to reinvent a wheel. With Express’s SDK, build and deploy varying marketplaces from Metaverse to Phygital to GameFi NFT storefront to many more and monetize them across all the integrated marketplaces/dApps.
Isn’t it amazing that you can now explore & expand the arena of NFT markets with Express Protocol! So join us in our journey of growth and stay tuned for more information!
