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Kadena Tech Bulletin #4

Welcome to the 4th issue of The Kadena Tech Bulletin!

Whether you’re already familiar with Kadena or just learning about it for the first time, the Kadena Tech Bulletin provides a short technical overview of how we are revolutionizing the blockchain industry one block at a time. From Pact to Chainweb to how we are refining our builder onboarding process, we’ll be providing our community of builders and developers with all the updates and tools to help grow and scale their projects in our ever-growing ecosystem.

Here’s what happened over the last month.

Chainweb 2.19.1

Chainweb 2.19.1 was released at the end of May, and features the following upgrades:

  • Disable user function return value typechecking

  • Add typechecking option to tx-sim

Please note that this version supersedes Chainweb 2.19. Be sure to update to Chainweb 2.19.1 as soon as possible if you haven’t already done so.

Official Github Link: https://github.com/kadena-io/chainweb-node/releases/tag/2.19.1

KIP-0019: Future Iteration of the Coin and Fungible Contracts

KIP-0019 proposes several modifications aimed at improving the reliability and robustness of these contracts, ensuring a more secure platform for the exchange of tokens on Kadena’s Platform.

The proposed changes of KIP-0019 include but are not limited to the following:

  • Removal of the rotate function

  • Reorganization of constants and functions

  • Introduction of modifications to the verification-related code

We value our community feedback and have established a time limit of approximately 1.5 months for the KIP process, which will conclude on July 15th Anywhere on Earth (AoE). We encourage community engagement up to this deadline to discuss the future direction of our coin and fungible contracts here.

Official Github Link: https://github.com/kadena-io/KIPs

Article: KIP-0019: Future Iteration of the Coin and Fungible Contracts

Pact 4.7.1 Update

The release of Pact 4.7.1 features:

  • new eval updates

  • formal verification fixes

… and more!

Official Github Link: https://github.com/kadena-io/pact/releases/tag/v4.7.1

Marmalade V2

Marmalade’s V2 standard has finally arrived, bringing a host of exciting updates and features to the top NFT standard in the industry. Marmalade V2 features:

  1. Offchain URI with metadata standard: allows marketplaces to fetch data

  2. N stacked policies per token + default 4 general purpose policies

  • Collection: allows collection tracking

  • Royalty: native royalty payment to creator

  • Guard: adds guards per action (mint guard)

  • Fungible Quote: allows fungible sale, bidding

  • Non-fungible-policy: Makes tokens non-fungible

  • Extra immutable/adjustable policies per purpose

  • Migration policy: token migration from v1 to v2

  • Onchain-manifest policy: allows v1 method of on-chain manifest

  • Fixed-issuance policy: fractional NFT

Article: Introducing Marmalade V2: Empowering the Future of NFTs

In the coming weeks, the Kadena team will be hosting the following :

  1. Builders Strategies Call #3 on June 22, 2023, with the Developer Experience team headed by our CXO, Randy.

  2. Kadena Academy Workshop with Davy Engone, where we will be providing tutorials on building a voting dApp with Pact and ReactJS!

We’ll be posting the sign-up links for both the strategies call and the Kadena Academy Workshop on our social channels very soon, so keep an eye out!

As Kadena continues to push the boundaries of innovation and continues to evolve, we look forward to providing builders with regular Tech Bulletins so that you can continue to develop with the latest cutting edge technology. Be sure to follow our social channels and stay tuned for more exciting news and updates from the Kadena Team!

By Kadena