July 5th - Avail Partnerships, DevAd Podcast, Labs Week Build, Roundtable Space, and More! Things are going strong here at Cartesi and we’re excited for the future. This has been a very fruitful month on all fronts and we’ll cover it all in this recap!

But first, let’s dive into the updates from the development review call and see what Cartesi has been working on lately.

Technical Update

View the last Site Development Review to see how each department is progressing in development.

Highlights

Experimental Unit

  • Exploring Linux as a Coprocessor

  • Coprocessor = Stateless Off-Chain System

Why is this interesting?

  • Simplifying what you can do with Cartesi

  • Registers calculations done by the coprocessor

  • No 7-day waiting period

  • Lambada stack as backend

plan?

~July - Mainnet Small Bond Single Operator

Don’t forget to mark your calendar for our next monthly development review call: Monday, August 5th. Participate and connect directly with core contributors to learn about what they are building.

Ecosystem News

Cartesi announces a partnership with Avail to jointly push the boundaries of the on-chain space. This integration enables developers to leverage Cartesi’s powerful computing capabilities, Linux-based virtual machines, and versatile programming stack, combined with Avail’s powerful data availability layer. The goal is to simplify dApp development, enable faster, more efficient, and more professional execution, and access to timely and reliable data for enhanced scalability. Read the blog post to learn more about the integration.

BugBuster, the trustless bug bounty platform powered by Cartesi Rollups, is launching its testnet soon! The recently released v0.8.0 version introduced ERC-20 support, making it more attractive for white hat hackers and bounty hunters. Get ready to start bug hunting in a trustless on-chain environment!

A hot update from RIVES, an on-chain fantasy gaming machine built by Cartesi. An overview of their release is as follows:

  • Application Optimization

  • User experience improvements

  • New Documentation Login Page

  • Faster loading times

  • New Tools

  • Toy Sequencer

  • Toy Drawing Canvas


Remember Nebula Duel? An interactive zero-player game built on Cartesi? Now it’s live on Base! Check it out here and try it out.

Cartesi’s honeypot now holds over 700,000 CTSI, serving as a robust security audit of Cartesi Rollups. This honeypot tests the resilience of Cartesi Rollups — if you can crack it, we will strengthen security measures. If it remains unbroken, this proves that Cartesi Rollups are secure in terms of asset custody.


Want to learn about other projects in the Cartesi ecosystem? Visit rolluplab.io for an overview of all projects built with Cartesi.


Funding

DCA.Monster brings another update - the native yield module. This implementation uses Cartesi Rollups to provide native yields for native currencies and ERC30 tokens, effectively improving the capital efficiency and utility of all users using Cartesi application-specific Rollups. For more details on why we should be optimistic about this, please check here. Want to try DCA.Monster? You can already test the current version of DCA.Monster on Sepolia, which includes DCA functions and conditional swaps.



Meanwhile, the DevAd Seed Grants program is also making steady progress. Here is a brief overview of the program and its respective updates:

Peeps - On-chain social platform based on Cartesi

  • Completed the wallet integration for managing assets

  • Arbitrum Sepolia is now online

Prism - Turn your ideas into wearable art

  • Compile Stable Diffusion (Generative AI Model) in Cartesi Machine. Use Nonodo and Pytest for backend testing

  • Documentation coming soon

  • Integration of dApp with frontend is about to be completed

  • For a full list of updates, check out this thread.

Tikua - JavaScript framework for backend

  • JS framework (backend + frontend)

  • Convenient front-end functions

Greedy Pig - Event Betting Platform

  • Using the commit and reveal scheme

  • A handy example framework for generating random numbers using Cartesi

For an up-to-date overview of all ongoing DevAd Seed Grants projects, check out here. If you have an idea to build, check out the Cartesi Grants Program or DevAd Seed Grants and apply for funding!


Community


The second Cartesi Experimentation Week has concluded with 17 submissions, capping off a week-long online hackathon for funders and the community to explore the Cartesi stack. The event kicked off with a kickoff call from Alysia from Espresso Systems and included a talk from Ottomorac on PrivadoID (formerly Polygon ID), focusing on the challenges of decentralized identity. It was an exciting week, which you can read more about on the blog.


This week, some teams have already started releasing! Comet and OnChess are live on the Base Sepolia testnet for the Onchain Summer Hackathon. Get some Sepolia testnet tokens and start experimenting - launching comets into the onchain space.


Cartesi participated in the roundtable space with Bruno and Max discussing how to better guide developers into Web3 and how RIVES uses the Cartesi stack. Watch the replay here.

DevAd recently launched a podcast called “I Build, Therefore I Am”. In this series, João and another member of the DevAd unit will talk to builders who are using Cartesi for their projects. The podcast covers their journey into Web3, sharing insights and experiences from their work in Web3 and stories of building with Cartesi. Listen to the episode here.

Contributor Spotlight

This month’s spotlight highlights Marcus for his post during the Inteli Hackathon! Throughout the event, Marcus went above and beyond to engage with students, capture the action, and record videos with students to keep those who couldn’t be there updated on what was happening at the event.


Activity


The Inteli Hackathon has come to a successful conclusion! We had an incredible experience at the hackathon. Thank you so much to the organizers for the invitation and arrangement. It was amazing to see the students give it their all in developing dApps, using Cartesi technology. They continue to surprise us. To know the highlights and winners of the Cartesi track, be sure to check out Marcus’ post.


We are preparing for EthCC and have a busy schedule of events to attend. We will be posting EthCC related content throughout the week, so follow our active Cartesi team members on social media!


  • Bruno leads the ecosystem discussions.

  • Carsten is responsible for high-level technical content and creative emergencies.

  • Cynthia is responsible for community affairs.

  • Erick and Felipe provide thought leadership.

  • João, Gabriel and Helen are responsible for DevAd updates.

  • Siannie handles marketing and all sorts of random stuff.

  • Max is responsible for improving the team atmosphere.

We’re especially excited to announce the second season of Back to the Future, co-hosted with Espresso! Come check out our curated lineup of speakers! We’re also super excited about our inaugural Modular Safe Drinks & Debates event, which will dive into topics like fraud proofs and cross-Rollup interoperability, with speakers from L2Beat, Bankless, Celestia, OP Labs, Avail, Offchain Labs, Espresso, Scroll, and the Ethereum Foundation.


The Modular Safe Drinks & Debate event panels will be live streamed on The Defiant, set a reminder here. (https://www.youtube.com/live/TVhyiGfYgVM)


Upcoming Events


Keep an eye on us by subscribing to our live public events calendar and say hello when you get a chance. Also, don’t forget to join in on the event-related happenings on Link3, Galxe, and Zealy!


July 7 - Epic AI Developer Summit (offline)

July 8th - Meet the Cartesi team at ETHCC (offline) (https://ethcc.io/)

July 8 - Back to the Future event with Espresso Systems (offline) (https://t.co/mjYg2ZJuAI)

July 9th - Meet the Cartesi team at Epic Web3 L2 Con (offline) (https://www.epicweb3.com/l2con)

July 9-10 - Meet the Cartesi team at Ethereum United (offline) (https://t.co/SCttmf93xQ)

July 10 - L3 & ZK Night (offline) (https://t.co/PjtiUc8P4k)

July 11 - Modular safe drinks and debate (offline)

July 11-13 - Meet the Cartesi team at the Modular Summit (offline) (https://modularsummit.dev/)


To keep up with all completed Cartesi events and conferences, visit our YouTube channel! (http://youtube.com/@Cartesiproject)






About Cartesi



Cartesi is an application-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine running a Linux distribution, creating a richer and broader design space for DApp developers.


Cartesi Rollups provide a modular scaling solution that can be deployed as L2, L3, or sovereign Rollups while maintaining strong base layer security guarantees.



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