What’s New at Cardstack?

Tally launch, business networks & developer tutorials

Tally is now running on the Rinkeby test network. Feel free to play around with our metering & billing system for decentralized software as a service (dSaaS). You don’t have to be a developer to try it out. The only prerequisite is a MetaMask wallet, and this blog post gives you all the instructions you need. Follow this link to the Tally interface, where you can use test tokens to take the role of a customer and/or service provider — buying prepaid cards, subscribing to service providers, registering new service providers, and even billing customers.

News for Businesses

On July 30, Cardstack’s Founding Director Chris Tse gave a talk about blockchain-based data registries at the Hyperledger Member Summit 2019 in Tokyo. We have consolidated his presentation into one video, explaining how enterprises can use Cardstack technology to build their own decentralized databases and business networks.

News for Developers

Want to build on Cardstack yourself? Check out our GitHub and our early-access guides.

You can begin with our quick start to building cards; then follow our tutorial for building a movie tracking application using the Cardstack Framework. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a live application where you can add movies to track, without needing to write any additional code.

To go with this tutorial, we have created a short demo video, which shows you how to enable editing mode for your card types. This editing tool, aka the Right Edge, is a feature of the Card SDK that allows end users to edit cards from the browser/UI.

In a new episode of the Cardstack Developer Series, engineer Jen Weber demonstrates how to store card data in a local or remote Git repository, using the Card SDK’s Git plugin.

We hope you enjoy building on Cardstack!

Learn more about Cardstack

Tally (now live on Rinkeby testnet) is an important part of the CARD Protocol.

If you’re interested in learning more about the CARD Protocol itself, watch Chris Tse’s tech talk or read the lightly edited transcript thereof. It will help you understand this rather complex multi-currency payment & billing network that makes the Cardstack Ecosystem worthwhile for everyone involved.

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