Dev update for the week of April 19th

News and updates on core team and community development from the past week. As always, if we’ve missed something important, let us know!

Important Updates

The April dev call is now available, right on Skynet!

Skynet Dev Spotlight — Marissa of Zenbase

We connected with Marissa, the creator behind Zenbase, a storage adapter for GunDB (a decentralized database). Find the interview here.

Marissa’s Zenbase walkthrough covers writing elegant, efficient code (it’s just 55 lines!), and technology integrations using Skynet as decentralized storage.

Skynet Dev Spotlight — redsolver of SkyFeed

Today’s Skynet Dev Spotlight features redsolver, the creator behind SkyFeed, a decentralized social network. Check the interview here.

Redsolver’s walkthrough covers the following topics via building a decentralized micro blog: Data Access Controllers (DACs) for decentralized social media, blogging, audio, video platforms, and interoperability between Skynet apps.

Other updates

We held a number of talks over the week, including :

Decentralized social media panel discussion with Bluesky (twitter’s project), Activity Pub (Mastodon), Aether, Distributed Press, Planetary.social — held on April 20th on #TwitterSpaces, hosted by Manasi.

Talk by Nadir Dabit (ex-AWS, now The Graph) on the power of client-side architectures and his move into Web3 from Web2 — watch here.

Design workshop by Eddie Wang (ex-Nebulous, now Sia Foundation) — UI/UX considerations for decentralized applications — watch here.

Seed Funding and what it takes to raise your first $100k with Bessemer Ventures, A Capital, Blockchain Capital — held on April 27th, hosted by Manasi.

From the community

nobullshitnft.com

It’s time to bring NFTs to Skynet! As a platform, https://nobullshitnft.com/ allows anyone to create an NFT collection (an ERC721 contract), and upload tokens to that collection. The platform’s operational for the Ethereum mainnet (plus Ropsten testnet) and Matic (plus the Mumbai testnet). So, all of the above can be accomplished in just a few bucks (or cents). The media content of the NFTs is stored using Skynet. Here’s an example of the token metadata with a sia:

The tool keeps track of your NFT collections created using nobullshitnft.com with SkyDB. An integration with the new Skynet tools being introduced with the hackathon is on the way! The project’s still very much in development. I’d really appreciate if you try the webapp out. If you hit problems while using it, you can contact me at (at)MonkeyMeaning on twitter or at krishang(at)nftlabs.co

Announcing some brand new Rift features! Rift is a skapp that allows anyone to conveniently interact with and manage their Skynet data and MySky file system. MySky — Users can now log in to Rift with the all-new MySky identity system! This will allow you to save all your Rift metadata to MySky. Rift still works without logging in as well, but certain features such as MySky data domains will not be available.

Data Explorer — Rift now has a Data explorer dev tool that allows anyone to browse and edit their MySky Discoverable file system as well as other key pair data with a nice JSON editor. Users can add any skapp or DAC data domain to the explorer, and the wizard will also conveniently offer to add any known standard data paths. The tool allows the user to open or edit any existing file, conveniently add new files, and more!

Other – Users can now export all their Rift metadata in the Settings page. – Users can lookup Skylink information and access other convenient options in the Searchbar.

SkyGamesSDK

SkyGameSDK will allow game developers to develop games on Skynet. It currently allows for turn-based networking Unity WebGL <> browser communication. And there are plans to support screenshot uploading, realtime networking, friendlists/lobbies, extrapolation, leaderboards, achievements, and more.

There are plans to build chess ontop of this, just in time for the explore stage, and more written on the GitHub.

SkyTransfer

Hello everybody, after SkyBrain I am pleased to share with you a new app: http://skytransfer.hns.siasky.net/

SkyTransfer is an open source decentralized file sharing platform. Do you have difficulty sharing files with others or between different devices? Are you writing an email and you need to attach files? Are you struggling with a ton of pictures to share? Try doing it using SkyTransfer. Use the minimal but powerful uploader (file picker or drag&drop) for uploading and sharing one or multiple files with a single link or QR code. Uploaded files are encrypted using the AES algorithm: no one can access them without your permission. Only by sharing the link, other people can download and decrypt the content you uploaded. In addition, by sharing a draft, people can continue uploading more data into the same SkyTransfer directory. Be careful when you share a draft! SkyTransfer supports uploading entire directories.

Github

Skynet Labs

skynet-webportal
#685 Karol update the link to our careers page. Find the new careers page here
#683 Karol updated the caddy configuration for the portals
#650 Matt added a README to the webportal scripts package

Additionally much work has been going into the leaderboard for the Explore phase of the ongoing Build-Explore-Dream Hackathon as well as continued updates to MySky.

Gitlab

Skynet Labs

skyd
#101 Matt added the ability to run tests locally in a docker container to mimic the online CI.
#94 Chris fixed a critical in the registry.
#62 Matt added unpin support for skyfiles.

Links

Discord, Reddit, Twitter, Skynet website

Until next week.

Dev update for the week of April 19th was originally published in Sia and Skynet Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.