district0x Dev Update - February 20th, 2018

Development progress and product changes from district0x

Last update, we shared our excitement with the progress we made on d0xINFRA and our intention to turn the bulk of our attention towards Meme Factory. As of today, the bulk of the wireframing work has been completed and smart contract work has begun.

We’re continuing to accept applications for a Clojurescript developer. If you have experience in Clojure, Clojurescript, or Solidity and think you’d be a good fit, please shoot us an email with your work history and qualifications at talent@district0x.io. You can find a full job description here.

Name Bazaar Updates

In Progress

Our initiative to port Name Bazaar (and subsequently d0xINFRA’s) front-end to utilize CSS Grid from SemanticUI Grid has been proceeding well. Given a few more kinks being worked out, this should be finished shortly at which point it can be incorporated into d0xINFRA.

d0xINFRA Updates

In Progress

As an event based framework, using re-frame naively creates an issue for notifications slider. In short, older notifications are always placed behind newer notifications, even if the older notifications are still “active” and the newer notifications are not. We’re extending the way we handle these notifications server side in order to account for this. The end result should be the most visible notifications being the most important ones.

Meme Factory Updates

Completed

The team spent a fair portion of time this past cycle developing the wireframes for Meme Factory. By leveraging work we’ve already done on past districts, we instead could focus our time on developing a fun and intuitive layout. These wireframes have been sent to the design team to take a first pass.

In Progress

Smart contract work for Meme Factory has begun in earnest. The first contract to tackle involved the token curated registry (TCR). We’ve managed to refactor the token curated registry’s design in order to accommodate the use of MiniMe ERC20 tokens. This was a necessary outcome in order to simplify the user experience when interacting with the upcoming Dank Meme registry.

What’s Next?

The next two weeks have a relatively straightforward outlook. First, we’ll look to finish the port to CSS Grid. Second, we’ll finalize the updates to notifications handling. Finally, and most of all, the bulk of development time will be spent on designing and refining the smart contracts needed to power Meme Factory.