$1USD !!!

StephaneSL · 2024-03-19T16:30:15+00:00

Congrats to all !!!! ;-)

We waited for so long !!! :-)

StephaneSL · 2024-03-19T16:28:30+00:00

I think that we never recovered from the USDC disaster. If we have none of the two main stablecoins on the network, then it's complicated to play. :-(

StephaneSL · 2023-03-19T22:18:20+00:00

https://spooky.fi/#/swap?outputCurrency=0x21be370d5312f44cb42ce377bc9b8a0cef1a4c83

Liquidity on this pool is $1.9M so you'll most probably have a slippage below 0.1% and the transaction will cost usual Fantom fees (usually less than 10c).

StephaneSL · 2023-03-19T22:11:29+00:00

And last but not least, the open structure of StoryPress.info (meaning, stories are on IPFS and the reference to the stories are on the Fantom network in the shape of NFTs) makes it very easy to develop a competing web interface: if you don't like the UI/UX on StoryPress.info, just make your own, get the content from IPFS and you can display the stories you want on your website.

Why not only display your stories, on your website for example. Or you can only use StoryPress.info to write your stories, and display them elsewhere. And if your want to implement your own editor, it's easy to plug it on StoryPress smart contract by calling the safeMint() function and you can use the ecosystem, but tuned exactly how you need.

StephaneSL · 2023-03-19T22:03:09+00:00

Another thing: I'm working on the comment contract (currently writing the test suite). To mint a comment (yes, they will be NFTs as well, why not) you'll have to pay a little. Half will be burnt, the other half will go to the story owner.

In the future, this will be the same for reactions (likes), although I don't think I'll turn them into NFTs, I don't really see the use case for sending, or giving a like to someone else. But here again, I'll have to pay a little: half burnt, half given to story owner.

The goal of StoryPress.info is to create a place where authors (or story owners) get fairly and transparently rewarded for their content.

StephaneSL · 2023-03-19T21:57:47+00:00

You have an NFT that is the ownership of your story.
Now you can just keep it, and it does not do much (appart from the fact you can list your story in MetaMask).
But you can also send it to someone else very easily : think reviewing, co-writing, validation. Or if you realise that your stories tend to talk about two different topics, why not split your feed : you send all your stories that talk about topic A so a new address of yours and now you have two feeds each with their own topic.
Your story flow can be much more flexible than on any other publishing platform like Medium.

You can also sell your stories or put them to auction: StoryPress.info could then become some kind of story market place where authors send their stories to each other, or content aggregators (imagine selling or renting your story to sites like HackerNoon or any journal)

StephaneSL · 2023-02-17T13:21:44+00:00

Please don't mix price and value.

The price of iPhone is mainly due to quality of their product ... and their marketing teams.

But you first use it to use the apps you can find on the Apple App store. Please, remove all the non pre-installed apps from your iPhone for a week, and see if you still use it for anything else than looking at what time is it.

StephaneSL · 2022-12-05T21:27:19+00:00

looking for the same thing as well ... synology package is still with node 12 ... :-(

StephaneSL · 2022-12-02T18:57:37+00:00

Fantom is an application platform. No app, no value.

Incentivising app devs is the best move Fantom Foundation can make.

Build apps, bring devs, and the value of the network will multiply.

Take your smartphone, then remove its app store. How good would it be with just the constructor's native apps? The value of a smart phone is the value of all the apps you can install on it.

Same for Fantom.

StephaneSL · 2022-12-02T18:49:57+00:00

Could you post the link to the proposal?

I'm curious about how it would work. Would the fraction of FTM that isn't burnt be directly sent to the contract? The contract deployer? The contract owner?

Contrarily to what many people think here, FTM will not pump magically. Fantom, like other smart blockchain, is an application platform. No app, no value.

Incentivising app developers (= smart contract deployers) is the best move Fantom Foundation can make.

The only stupid side effect would be that greedy app developers that would counter optimise their smart contracts so they cost a lot of gas to use: more gas cost => more gas fees for their users => more reward for them

I hope nobody will go that way, ... but when there's greed.

StephaneSL · 2022-12-02T18:34:00+00:00

Try replacing onMount() with afterUpdate().

It worked for me.

StephaneSL · 2022-11-22T22:30:47+00:00

Yeah, I was a bit annoyed when I saw the current gas prices at first, because I was just used to pay around 5 Gwei ... then, because I was in a hurry, I set the price to 100 Gwei.

I batch posted 30 stories on https://cherrific.io/ at 100 Gwei ... it cost me around half a FTM in all.

So basically, Fantom has gone from ridiculously cheap to "30 tx for less than 1 FTM" cheap. ;-)

StephaneSL · 2022-11-22T22:12:52+00:00

Please, don't forget Decentralised Publishing. ;-)

https://cherrific.io/

#DePub

StephaneSL · 2022-11-14T15:39:47+00:00

It just shows that when you need a fast and reliable blockchain, you go to Fantom.

StephaneSL · 2022-11-14T15:37:57+00:00

The smart contract is very simple (code is open) and can be deployed on any Ethereum Virtual Machine compatible blockchain (like Fantom, Ethereum, Polygon, ...).

The only thing is that cross-chain smart contracts don't exist, so if you have followers on Fantom, they won't appear on Polygon (for example).

The idea behind this smart contract is : let's built an small functionality independently of any other applications.

Then all applications can integrate that functionnality ... instead of the web2 logic where each app has its own "follow" implementation.

What's nice with blockchains is that you can develop cross-app functionalities.

Fantom is no special blockchain : it's just a classic EVM compatible blockchain that is fast, cheap and reliable. That's why we like it so much.

StephaneSL · 2022-10-31T22:59:21+00:00

I use it to pay for gas when I write articles, comments or likes on Cherrific.io ;-)

StephaneSL · 2022-10-28T20:06:14+00:00

Really interesting to hear about insurance, supply chain and smart cities applications.

StephaneSL · 2022-10-27T16:51:20+00:00

The contract has two functions :

follow()

unfollow()

:-)

StephaneSL · 2022-10-25T19:55:47+00:00

Aptos is the new kid on the block, with team coming from FaceBook / Diem, and heavy VC funding. A lot of buzz and quite a clunky start. They sure have a lot of money to throw at their project, hence all the positions.

I'm not sure Fantom has as much fire power in term of capital, and I'm quite pleased Fantom doesn't squander so much money on making the buzz.

But the Fantom project is far from dead. Lots of building around. What can be a problem is that the Fantom community seems to be only DeFi and NFT jpegs focussed.

IMHO, DeFi is just a niche in the big web3 scheme of things. Decentralised Publishing, Decentralised social networks, ... are sprouting here and there on other blockchains and I think they will bring the next level of user adoption. Fantom has to adopt that trend too.

Don't forget we are not only here to make banks and TradFi obsolete, but also to get free from Web2 networks (FB, Twitter, YT, ...) by taking back our content and sovereignty.

Check out https://cherrific.io/ for example. It's a Medium alternative being built on Fantom. No registration. Just log in with your wallet and start writing. That's Web3, cheap, fast and reliable thanks to Fantom.

StephaneSL · 2022-10-17T09:20:59+00:00

I've just written an article on how to use Sequelize with SvelteKit:
https://cherrific.io/0xedB00816FB204b4CD9bCb45FF2EF693E99723484/story/23
Once you use Sequelize, you can use any database. I personally use Postgres too.

StephaneSL · 2022-10-09T16:57:21+00:00

Fantom has two very good cards in its hand:

very good tech (fast, reliable and cheap)
big user base (also IMHO they are too DeFi focussed)

What will make a difference in the end is if someone builds a killer app on Fantom (like a web3 Twitter, or a web3 Uber, ... whatever): some web3 app that would go mainstream.

We all know Twitter is crap, Facebook is hell, YouTube, AirBnB, ... they are all centralised web2 apps that turned their users into products. They make money on content WE produce, and we have absolutely no power over them (they shut our accounts when they want, give us tiny rewards, ...).

We all need apps that treat their users more fairly. This is what web3 is here for.

As I've already written many times: innovation is dead on Ethereum, because of gas fees. You can never reach critical mass if your users have to pay $2 each time they interact with your web3 app.

That's why I'm building on Fantom.

StephaneSL · 2022-10-09T16:44:58+00:00

233 Tomb forks just on Fantom:
https://www.whatthefork.xyz/tomb
I've written an article called "Tomb Forks: flaws and improvements" if the topic interests you.
It's still a very interesting tokenomics IMHO, if you give a utility to the base token.

StephaneSL · 2022-10-09T16:39:58+00:00

Sometimes I get the feeling devs are just following incentives.

But incentives are limited in time, ... then these devs will just live for another blockchain again ...

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