🔥 SORAlution v3.0 has been released for iOS! 🔥 ⚡️SORA Card & App Redesign included! ⚡️ — — — — — — ❀ CHANGELOG: ❀ 💳 Apply for SORA Card (*i.e test the process w/ "dummy" credentials) 💶 Buy native $XOR with € ✨ UI Redesign — — — — — — ❗️ Dummy Credentials for SORA Card: ❗️ Since SORAlution is the testnet version of SORA Wallet , you need to use dummy (fake) credentials while applying for SORA Card. Thus, please use the following info: • Phone Number: Any number beginning with the "+" symbol should work • OTP: 123456 • Card number: 4012 0000 0006 0085 • Card CVV: 123 • Card expiration date: Input any date • Card owner name: Input any name & surname — — — — — — Get SORAlution 👇 🍎 iOS — Apple App Store 🤖 Android — This release will be available on Google Play Store soon as well, so stay tuned! 🪙 Get testnet tokens — — — — — — ⚠️ Please keep in mind that SORAlution is a testnet app, therefore, never use real money or your real IDs for testing the KYC process! ⚠️ #𒀭

🔥 SORAlution v3.0 has been released for iOS! 🔥 ⚡️SORA Card & App Redesign included! ⚡️ — — — — — — ❀ CHANGELOG: ❀ 💳 Apply for SORA Card (*i.e test the process w/ "dummy" credentials) 💶 Buy native $XOR with € ✨ UI Redesign — — — — — — ❗️ Dummy Credentials for SORA Card: ❗️ Since SORAlution is the testnet version of SORA Wallet , you need to use dummy (fake) credentials while applying for SORA Card. Thus, please use the following info: • Phone Number: Any number beginning with the "+" symbol should work • OTP: 123456 • Card number: 4012 0000 0006 0085 • Card CVV: 123 • Card expiration date: Input any date • Card owner name: Input any name & surname — — — — — — Get SORAlution 👇 🍎 iOS — Apple App Store 🤖 Android — This release will be available on Google Play Store soon as well, so stay tuned! 🪙 Get testnet tokens — — — — — — ⚠️ Please keep in mind that SORAlution is a testnet app, therefore, never use real money or your real IDs for testing the KYC process! ⚠️ #𒀭

🚀 Join the SORA Ambassador Program and help us grow, moderate, educate, inspire and encourage the existing community, while reaching out to others. We are open to ambassadors who speak any language, but ideally, a basic level of English is required to communicate with other ambassadors (unless you bring an interpreter). If you are interested in joining, reach out to an admin, and stay tuned for more updates! 🌈 Learn more — Medium

🐈‍⬛ SORA Request for Proposal updates: 🐈‍⬛ — — — — — — — — 📝 The SORA Decentralized Development walkthrough was published on September 2nd, take a look at the new RFP system and submit your proposal in an easier and more intuitive way. Please let us know your thoughts about these improvements in the SORA network community chats on Telegram! 💬 Join the Decentralized Development channel on the SORA World Discord!

For constant updates from Ceres, subscribe to the Ceres Announcements channel on Telegram! — — — — — — — — The Demeter Farming platform is available on the SORA network for users to farm with liquidity pool LP or single-sided staking, with interesting APR*. New pools are constantly added, too. Demeter farming is directly integrated into Polkaswap, for convenience. For more information, read this Medium article on the Demeter platform. *Not financial advice, always do your own research.

🔵 Ceres Updates 🔵 🍀 The Ceres team is working hard ahead of the launch of the Hermes platform. In collaboration with the SORA blockchain team, Ceres is happy to announce the recent testnet release of SORA v1.8.0, which includes: • Integration of the long-awaited Hermes Governance Platform to the SORA network — The “Hermes-governance-platform” pallet for the Hermes DAO • A Launchpad update — the fee for a successful ILO was added • The implementation of $XSTUSD as a base asset that can be used to raise funds. 🧬 These functions are still being tested internally by the Ceres team to ensure a high-quality release. More information on the Hermes platform will be provided soon! ➕ Additionally, $TBCD has been integrated into Ceres tools, more specifically: 🤖 TBCD has been added to the @ceres_polkaswap_bot on Telegram 🛠 TBCD has also been added on tools.cerestoken.io (price, pairs, chart) 📲 And finally, TBCD has been added to the Ceres Tools App (price, pairs, chart)

👷🏽‍♀️ SORA Builders Programme News: 👷🏽‍♀️ 🟥 ADAR Updates 🟥 The ADAR Team will be sharing updates soon with the community, in the meantime, here is what they have been working on so far: • Critical bugs fixed, the final round of testing is 90% complete, which will be ready before the testnet is available • The code has been refactored several times due to SORA backend changes • Batch swap and send by asset functionality has been implemented • Batch for assets functionality is under review (one signature for everything) • The feedback form is ready • A testnet guide is under review • We expect that the Public Test period will commence as early as next week! • The ADAR development timeline is available 💭 For updates from ADAR, join their Telegram chat! 👉 Here is the proposal submitted by ADAR, for more information on the Abed Group, take a look at this deck, and to try the version available from the completion of the 1st milestone, you can visit the ADAR website.

🍎 iOS: 🍎 Getting ready for the release 3.0.0 — Wallet redesign & SORA Card! You can already try it on the test environment here! 🧲 Changelog for the release 3.0.0 comprises • Redesign of the wallet • A completely new user interface for the wallet • Worked on reducing the technical debt • Worked on improving the flexibility of the architecture • Worked on improving the user experience 💳 Integration of the 1st phase for SORA Card, directly into the wallet • Register and verify to order SORA Card • Buy XOR with euros

📱 SORA Wallet Update 📱 — — — — — — — 🤖 Android: 🤖 Getting ready for the release 3.0.0 — Wallet redesign & SORA Card! You can already try it on the test environment here! Changelog for the release 3.0.0 comprises • Redesign of the wallet • A completely new user interface for the wallet • Worked on reducing the technical debt • Worked on improving the flexibility of the architecture • Worked on improving the user experience 💳 Integration of the 1st phase for SORA Card, directly into the wallet • Register and verify to order SORA Card • Buy XOR with euros

🎾 $XST Platform Token for synthetic assets 🎾 • The team has completed the implementation of the features on SORA and are now under review • The partner team has started working on their side on the integration to testnet • Expected time until integration on testnet: 2–4 weeks 📝 Learn more about $XST — Medium

🐧 Substrate Trustless bridge: Kusama parachain 🐧 • The Substrate bridge has been deployed to a private testnet and is being tested by the team • The team has been focused on XST and TBCD tokenomics in the last few weeks 🌐 Multi-EVM Trustless bridge: Ethereum 🌐 • The team has been focused on SORA Card, not been much progress here from the last few weeks unfortunately

🪙 TBCD — We released the new $TBCD token and tokenomics on Mainnet! 🪙 Now that $TBCD is out, $XST will no longer be minted by governance 🏛 🧬 Changelog for the release 1.7.0 comprises of: — $TBCD Tokenomics — What is TBCD ? — Introducing TBCD — Initial mint of 1,688,406 TBCD to pay for outstanding network development costs corresponding to August and December 2022 (Why do we mint new tokens to expand the SORA economy?: The Case for XOR, Makoto Takemiya, 2022) — New extrinsic: vestedRewards.updateRewards to restore rewards to accounts for which they disappeared after having removed the market maker countdown — The proposal to restore the rewards is now in the SORA Governance Council’s hands — Fix for liquidityProxy.quote filterMode to work with multi Forbidding 💎 Learn more about TBCD — Medium

⚙️ SORA Blockchain Update ⚙️ 🪙 XST Tokenomics: We released the 2nd batch of XST tokenomics on the mainnet! 🧩 Changelog for the release 1.6.0 comprises of: — XST as a base asset for XSTUSD — XST buy-back and burn — Change peg from XOR to XST for synthetics — Added a new swap path (xst-xor-XSTUSD) — Set the XST floor price to 0.0001 — New extrinsic: xstPool.setSyntheticBaseAssetFloorPrice(floorPrice) to set the floor price for XST — Swap transfer batch (ADAR feature) — Removed the market maker countdown — Add technical storage to metadata — Added get_average_buy_price and get_average_sell_price functions to prevent pump-and-dump attacks — Fixing staking withdraw lock — Fixing PriceTools which didn’t use XYK market for the XOR-XSTUSD pair 🌈 Learn more — Medium

🔗 SORA Ecosystem Update #55 🔗 🌕 Business Track Progress: — Polkaswap as a Service — 25% — SORA Card — 90% — SORA IBAN — 90% SORA Card articles are being continuously released with topics covering the SORA Card introduction, SORA Card key features, a comparison between SORA Card and other crypto-powered banking services, an interview with the people behind the SORA Card tech and management. The SORA Card Phase One article was also recently released. The SORA Community recently held an AMA with Dr. Makoto Takemiya and Beno van Gansen regarding SORA Card, read all about it in this recap. 💳 Stay tuned for more articles with interesting and insightful information on this great tool for financial freedom. SORA Card | Value Freedom

You’re now up to speed with what has happened in the last weeks in the SORA Network and the current state of the SORA Integrated Plan. Please look forward to the upcoming news from the SORA team and see you next fortnight. Let’s get back to work! *This is not financial advice, always make sure to do your own research! You can find the summary of the integrated plan points in the SORA Wiki. 🌈 Learn more — Medium

The business and mobile tracks cross at the SORA wallet integration of the SORA card. As mentioned earlier, there has been a lot of time, effort and love invested into a test version of this much-awaited functionality. It is important to mention that after testing is completed, Phase one will be available, which means XOR onramps and signups to the SORA card 📝 Soon after, Phase two will be announced, which will include fiat top-up and ordering the physical SORA card. Stay tuned for these important milestones, which you can rest assured you will find in this section of the SORA ecosystem updates. 💳

Speaking of liquidity provision, crypto’s best-kept secret, the Demeter farming platform is being worked on for integration into the SORA wallet mobile app 📲 With Demeter Mobile integration you will be able to add liquidity to your favourite pools on the go, without the need for a pc! Fearlessly farm with style and freedom! 🧊

And last but not least, the SORA Typeface expansion is an interesting part of this track. According to Google Fonts, the SORA typeface has been featured in over 57,000 websites and being served by the Google Fonts API over 58.6 million times over the last week, therefore, it is only natural that work on optimising it and improving it is part of the SORA Integrated Plan 🗺 Upgrades and improvements will be duly announced so that you always have the most up-to-date version. As a little easter egg, the text available in the Google font type tester is part of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, fitting for a universal typeface ✍️

As if that was not enough, Polkaswap functionality within Fearless Wallet, although currently limited to swaps, is being worked on as we speak. The team is hard at work implementing liquidity provision, which is a much-loved function by many users.

Fearless Wallet as a Substrate-standard that even other teams have built upon, seeks to be the most convenient and user-friendly interface for users of all experience levels. In the last update, we mentioned that the ßeta release of the Fearless Wallet Browser extension is available in the Chrome web store, and we extend the ongoing invitation to try it out and give us your feedback and thoughts as work continues toward the full release.

Finally, on the mobile track, with the monumental amount of work that went into the Substrate 4 integration, SORA network assets are now available within Fearless Wallet! 🦅

🌐 Moving on to the web track, Polkaswap.io is constantly improving the amount and quality of the data available to users. As the main liquidity source of the SORA network and of the SORA economy, it is important that the flow of information to gauge the health of the network is as accurate, accessible, and stylish as possible. On the other hand, user adoption of the SORA network and also the Substrate ecosystem is a key priority. As an ecosystem, we all benefit from user adoption, and as humanity, we all benefit from decentralization and inclusion to the services that the Polkadot, Kusama, and SORA networks build 24/7/365 ⏰

Along with the work connecting the SORA network to other networks, there is also plenty of internal work going on to strengthen, upgrade, and future-proof the SORA blockchain. Work on Order book functionality being one of them. That’s right, Polkaswap will have order books added to it to allow for limit orders to be executed in combination with XYK liquidity pools 💧 The SORA economy guides the development of the network, and a key element to this is the creation of money for productive purposes. The only way that money can be productive is if it holds it’s value, or in other words, if it’s stable. This is where the SORA Synthetics platform comes in. Backed by the XST token, and ruled by XST Tokenomics, the platform will be able to produce stable assets that hold their value against many existing real-world assets, reducing the risk of volatility that cryptos are subject to due to their speculative nature. On the other hand, we also mentioned that TBCD, a new stablecoin which is now live, will be used to fund project development and the creation of goods and services in the SORA economy 🏛

Let’s move on to the backend track. The SORA Kusama parachain and subsequent SORA Polkadot parachains are a strong focus, however, there are fundamentals that need to be in place before bidding in the candlelight auction; in our case, that would be the parachain bridges that will connect these slots to the SORA mainnet ⛓ There is great progress on the Kusama parachain bridge and it is now undergoing rigorous testing by the QA team, while some devs continue to work on addressing all the issues raised, like clockwork. The trustless EVM bridge will come further along the pipeline. Focusing on each piece of crucial infrastructure at a time allows for work of better quality, which in turn is safer and more efficient 🦺

The new focus in the business track will be on Polkaswap as a Service. On a high level, this is a program to provide increased liquidity for tokens within the DOTSAMA space, including parachains. Many times tokens are only available on CEXs or from parachain lease auctions, making it difficult for users to obtain them. 🪙 The Polkaswap as a Service program seeks to help make these (and all tokens) to be available to users with the style and freedom they have become accustomed to with Polkaswap.io. More information and progress will be available soon, so watch this space! 👾

We are happy to announce that there is great progress with the SORA Card and SORA IBAN. 🔥💳 This is more complicated than the movement of a Swiss clock, so it has taken plenty of time to get each wheel moving precisely, although some wheels are more difficult to integrate than others. There may have been a few delays along the way, but there is always progress. This time is no different, and the SORA Card Phase 1 is right around the corner, with public testing of the SORA Wallet’s SORAlution test app, available today on Google Play for Android and on TestFlight for iOS! We hope you participate and help us find any issues ahead of launch. 🚀

✨ First, we will cover the business track. Ongoing activities to increase SORA network adoption and educate new users as well as crypto degens on what makes SORA special, never end and are being done continuously. Thank you to each and every community member who provides suggestions and constructive solutions to improve the educational messaging about SORA. ❤️‍🔥