The Monthly Trip — June’22
June brought four new updates across Psychedelic, from Jelly’s official launch to Cover’s new UI and Plug’s upgrade.
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June has been an action-packed month with new releases across four main products. Our trip advisors and developers successfully launched Jelly V1, Plug 0.5.2, a brand new Cover UI, and enabled throughput scaling with batch transactions for CAP.
Keep reading to find out more about what we have been up to.
Jelly
We successfully rolled out the first stage of Jelly, our highly anticipated marketplace protocol. Users were finally able to buy, sell and transfer NFTs from the CAP Crowns collection that were airdropped a few months prior. Although Jelly may have started as a collection-specific marketplace, our team is already getting ready to deploy its aggregator backend for stage 2. On top of that, we announced that we have open-sourced both our frontend and backend canister repos.
In its current form, buying and selling on Jelly is non-custodial and features several fail-safes to make the transaction process as secure as possible. This means that the protocol acts as a facilitator, not an owner of the NFTs being transferred and ownership goes directly from user A → user B in a successful transaction. If the transaction fails, funds fall back to the seller’s marketplace balance which can then be withdrawn manually. Current offers are also transferred alongside NFTs, wallet-to-wallet, unless rejected by the new owner.
For a complete guide on how to use the marketplace, read our latest blog.
Plug’s New Feel
The 0.5.2 release added fresh improvements under the hood, with features like automatic contact syncing via DAB and seamless account switching across dApps taking center stage.
DAB’s on-chain private address book release allowed users to manage a list of contacts across their dApps. We applied this to Plug so that all of your wallet’s existing contacts get automatically pushed to DAB’s Address Book and are effectively synced wherever your wallet goes.
We also automated account switching for your dApps. Forget about accepting a new whitelist pop-up every time you switch your wallet account. Plug will simply check to see if you are connected to a dApp and prompt you to add whitelist permissions to the account that you are switching to (if not already connected to the dApp).
For more information about the official release, read our latest blog.
Cover’s Frontend DApp
Cover received a makeover through a new UI connecting its backend code validation services. The release allowed users to search any type of Cover data, manage their own canisters, and build submissions.
For example, users can search data such as a canister’s verified status using its canister ID, which would lead them to a public GitHub repository if the canister is verified. They can also extend the accessibility of build submissions by completing a form that generates digital signatures in order to verify that the canister’s owner is in fact the person completing the submission.
For a step-by-step guide on build submission and public key generation, read our latest blog.
Batch Transactions with CAP
CAP’s latest update brought batch transactions in the picture, which led to an increase in throughput of transactions logged via a single insertion.
Our team configured all root buckets to handle insert calls loaded with more than one transaction log, by adding a new method called ‘insert_many’ to the candid interface. Previously, CAP was structured to operate one transaction per inter-canister call which limited dApps looking to scale their usage in connection to their CAP history.
To avoid any possibility of errors generated by a larger number of transactions per inter-canister call, we also updated CAP’s SDK and added a new method called ‘insert_sync’. The update guaranteed failure-resistant insertions and ensured that transactions were inserted in the proper order, thereby maintaining the integrity of all dApps’ transaction history.
For a more in-depth overview of the CAP’s new methods and how to use them, read our latest blog.
That’s all for today! Come back in August for another Monthly Trip with the latest product roundup and ecosystem highlights.
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