district0x Dev Update - April 2nd, 2019

Development progress and product changes from district0x

In the last two weeks, district0x contributors continue to focus primarily on the development, testing, and finishing of Meme Factory. In particular, we have redeployed all testnet contracts in the process of building and testing the DANK faucet. Additionally, we’ve had a quite a bit of design work done on both the District Registry and Ethlance, leaving us with more than enough to tackle in the coming weeks.

Meme Factory

The Ropsten instance of Meme Factory is at the center of all of our efforts recently. Previously, we had experienced several issues with the deployment and end-to-end testing of the DANK faucet. We’ve since been able to get the DANK faucet up and running, with the advantage of a completely clean redeployment of the entire dApp. This has also afforded us a chance to add in a couple more convenience features to the administration/fund management side of the DANK faucet.

Alongside this, there has been quite a bit of work done on the devops side of things, with work proceeding on the meta-tagging system, and the construction of our emailer for automatic notifications — an essential QOL feature for active Meme Factory users. We’ve also improved reliability with our watcher/block filter on our node, as we had left a lingering edge case where certain reboot-loops could occur.

All of these improvements are occurring in tandem with a laundry list of small changes to mobile design and animations, website copy, filters, and various other upgrades not worth mentioning in detail. As always, you can follow along directly at Meme Factory’s github if you’re curious.

District Registry

The District Registry has stayed in active development throughout the Meme Factory testing sessions. In addition to all of the work done on the Aragon integration, we’ve also styled and finalized designs on the majority of the app, with only a few after-the-fact elements being sent back to the design phase for some final touches. With the coming launch of Meme Factory, we expect to be able to divert more resources and finish the District Registry shortly thereafter.

A preview of a district’s detail page on the District Registry

Ethlance

Ethlance has been on the backburner throughout the past few weeks as we push towards the finish line with Meme Factory. However, we did have our designers pull from the homepage redesigns we’ve made previously, and start expanding upon these towards the rest of the application. Leveraging the process we developed for styling the District Registry, we’re able to much more precisely reconstruct styles in our native language based on the work provided by our designers, and will be reusing this process in the coming weeks to get Ethlance’s new paint job in place.

A sample of an Ethlance homepage splash

Yesterday marks the end of the first quarter of the year, and after some hurdles in the fourth quarter of 2018, it’s clear that we’ve made the first few months of 2019 some of the most productive in the organization’s history. What’s more, is we have a very clear path for future projects and development following what will be our biggest launch yet with Meme Factory. Expect many more updates to come.