district0x Dev Update - May 29th, 2018

Development progress and product changes from district0x

In the past two weeks, the entire district0x crew has transitioned from a regular workweek apart to a week spent together in Buenos Aires for a Hackathon. Going in to ETHBuenosAires, we had a rough idea of wanting to utilize our token curated registry contracts to build something anyone could interact with, and we’re excited with what we managed to put together.

We’ll cover the few initiatives we’re working on with our regular product line, as well as a quick overview of our Hackathon project — which we call TCR Factory. More details will be shared in our event roundup.

Last but not least, the district0x team is looking to add more Clojurescript developers. We also still need auditors of all experience levels to offer eyes and hands reviewing Meme Factory’s smart contracts!

Meme Factory Updates

In Progress

In our previous update we mentioned the work proceeding on our GraphQL server for our upcoming Meme Factory district. The bulk of the functional code is completed, and we have begun implementing testing routines for each component. We are currently optimizing and finding which queries are yet to be covered by tests. This is what will make our website responsive and snappy, and allow data to be readily pulled for all users.

With the majority of the work on art assets completed, we have also begun to import these and adjust the CSS grid accordingly. This will lead directly into implementation of the winning designs from the two design categories from the Community Polls. You can submit designs to this contest or read information on our recent announcement post.

The TCR Factory

At ETHBuenosAires, the entire team convened all together for the very first time. This afforded us a unique opportunity to work and build alongside each other, to observe how we tackle problems in real time, and to discuss at length the various pieces of strategy or higher level impact decisions we can make as a group.

Leveraging the work we already executed in building the Dank Registry for Meme Factory, for the hackathon we decided to build what we dubbed TCR Factory. In essence, the TCR factory is a dApp that allows anyone to spin up and parameterize their own token curated registry (TCR) quickly, propose/challenge/vote within any individual TCR, and it also serves as an index of all TCRs within the factory.

Though we did manage to finish the dApp in time for judging, we aren’t currently hosting it anywhere. We’ll include screenshots and any information on possible future plans in our upcoming event roundup.

What’s Next?

We’re in the process of securing several teams for our Meme Factory’s smart contract audits. However, we’ll continue to search for and consider any team offering a fair price for an additional set of eyes. Please shoot us an email if interested!

In addition to the in progress initiatives mentioned above, we’re still excitedly reacting to the news of a Mainnet launch from the Aragon team for their signaling dApp. With this, the final remaining piece needed to begin the Community Polls is the staking interface that accepts DNT in return for voting/signaling power. We’ll be making a beeline towards integrating this in the coming weeks!