Zap Protocol Beta 2.1 Development Update

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4 min readSep 13, 2021

Zap Protocol Beta 2.1 Development Update

Oracle Network

Price Feeds — This week we have made some UI changes. Rank category was removed from each individual cryptocurrency price feed card. Forex prices are now sorted by GDP rank of the country the currency is native to in ascending order. Stay tuned for updates on additional price feeds added to our price feed page. Several changes to mining dispute category were made. A new custom Zap loading animation was added. https://app.zap.org/alldisputes

Pythia –This week the development team worked on adding a new feature to the Pythia CLI. Users can now check the amount of staked Zap and the amount of mining rewards they have earned straight from the command line! The team also worked on fixing bugs in the Pythia miner. A mining stress test was conducted where miners were run for approximately 72 hours under various network and hardware conditions. No major errors were found allowing for miners to continuously run without interruption. We will continue to monitor miner uptime. All miner contracts have been submitted for formal audit.

NFT Marketplace

The new UI/UX team, which recently joined the Zap protocol team, has already had a significant influence on the Marketplace’s aesthetics and overall structure. Features such as search filters have been added to the main page of the marketplace. NFT cards are also undergoing redesign, team is finalizing specifications. Public testnet is anticipated to release this upcoming week with existing designed components.

Marketplace explorer on internal testnet*

NFT collection creator on internal testnet

Our team has focused on refining and testing the NFT auction contracts. Auction feature will allow any user to be able put their NFTs up for either a time or continuous auction feature. ZapMedia contracts had some bug fixes, contracts have continued to undergo rigorous testing to ensure proper NFT functionality. ZapMedia is now using the latest OpenZeppelin upgradeable contracts which gets rid of the constructors in ZapMedia and its contract dependencies in favor of initializers. ZapMarket contracts also underwent testing to ensure the contracts are passing. A few additional bugs were discovered that were interfering with the users’ ability to interact with profiles; these have now been resolved. Some inconsistencies have also been found in dark theme and other web style issues have been resolved. All contracts have been submitted for formal audit.

Zap Labs

We are currently looking to acquire new researchers this fall to join our Zap Labs team. Please contact daniel@zap.org with your resume for inquiries about cryptoeconomic research internship opportunities.

Bug Fixes

We appreciate everyone who has submitted bug reports. If you find a bug that we haven’t fixed yet, you can submit a bug report here.

*Artwork displayed above was used for mockup display purposes only and does not reflect artist/artwork association with Zap NFT Marketplace, nor serves as advertisement or endorsement. Designs are subject to change.

About Zap Protocol

Zap Protocol provides critical infrastructure built to power the next wave of decentralized applications. Be ready to swap tokens, earn rewards by validating oracle data-feeds, mint NFTs, and raise funds with custom bonding curves. Zap Protocol is blockchain-agnostic and currently live on Ethereum Mainnet, Binance Smart Chain Testnet, and many more to come.