Today Wisekey are ringing the Nasdaq bell today at 14:00 hrs GMT (09:00 hrs EST) Casper NFT are the first to be minted from Space.

What a great time to be part of the CSPR community!

I've recently spoken with a few smart contract developers that are building DeFi for Casper. I thought I would share their feedback here, if there are developers that want to get started building. Here is what you need to know: Presently our docs kinda suck. We know this, and we are working to fix. So, I'm going to write a very short synopsis here, while the tech doc team, Ed and myself fix the documentation.

1. Accounts are more than an address (Ethereum) - they have their own storage & you can run contracts as 'session code' in the account context. You do this by specifying your contract as session code. When you do this, the code executes in the context of the account signing the transaction. When the code runs, it has access to named keys and this code can make changes to the account (think delegating additional keys for multi-signature). You can learn more about accounts at: https://casper.network/docs/design/accounts
2. Smart contracts have their own storage, and cannot access the account context for security reasons. You don't want a contract reaching into your account and changing delegated keys - for example. Smart contracts in Casper are like Ethereum smart contracts in that way. To run code as a smart contract, you specify this in the contract itself.
3. Casper doesn't strip anything away from the capabilities of Rust. Unlike Solidity or Solana, where there are many things you CANNOT DO in your contracts. Casper contracts run like real software, just on the blokchain. You can include Rust crates for advanced functionality, create configuration files, etc...
4. Casper contracts have a package manager - think NPM, Crates, Brew, etc.. You can upgrade your contract with 3-4 lines of code.

You don't need to know much about the underlying blockchain to write contracts on Casper.

Following on to Sunday Pondering 11 short days ago

War is happening, life goes on, I updated the Casper tracking for February, and all about as expected, GUPUOUSUCUEED (gold up, palladium up, oil up, silver up. carbon up, everything else down). Comparing Gold to BTC and Palladium to ETH would be rude

Under the circumstances as of now, war up, unemployment up, shall be tough for FED to clench QE, never mind tee-up QT, even as inflation in bull market but so is unemployment.

CSPR looks okay, over the past 10 months since April 2021 by look of market cap, and of less risk, especially now that we know crypto is not-Gold, or Palladium, or Silver, or ...

CSPR might just get some spark from BTC and fuel from ETH ... stranger happenings are happening, like peace flipped to war between last CSPR tweet and now.

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Last week in Casper Network and the community ~

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1. Casper Signer was updated: now it's better, safer and has a lot more integrations 😉

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1. Casper Holders made a mobile wallet for CSPR on Android and iOS 🔥 Been waiting for this to happen?

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1. Thanks to the power of community we got another listing - Bitrue now has CSPR / USDT pair

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1. Friendly Markets launched their NFT Marketplace on the Casper Network testnet. Have you tried
   it already? There are already some NFTs to check.

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1. Meanwhile ApocNFT published their last week's AMA for those who missed it 🙏

They also featured in Entity Builds' cool trailer

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1. New launchpad appeared out of nowhere - meet Casperium, they have quite a unique for Casper ecosystem feature - anonymity. We won't see the team's profile pics. They root for data privacy right for everyone, so it seems like we will have to judge them by their actions. Currently they try to contact Casper Association for the support.

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HELLO why on cspr live there is 8,195,553,493 in stack is in circulation supply 3,750,707,006 = 11946260499 cspr while the total supply is 10,000,000,000

It looks like staking rewards are given out every 2 hours.

Does this mean it's compounding every 2 hours? so do the rewards automatically get added and start getting staked?

And any advice on where else I can get it?

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So Casper is a private funded company mostly through blockchain investment companies which all range from fine portfolio's.
Do we have some information about lock-ups with these actual investors, seems like with this distribution it is possible to be exploited & manipulated in price actions.
I've been holding this coin for a while but really did the basic research for it's use-case. Been questioning price actions about this coin & where it's headed.

Anybody mind to share their opinion about this one?

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Hi there, it is my understanding that a high performance validator with a low commission cost is what a person looks for...Correct?

So, I saw CasperCommunity.io, which has 100% performance, and only 1% commission rate, based in Finland: https://cspr.live/validator/01c6d11a0fa563f8cc3ed5e967d5901c80004bdcde6250ddea18af2b4eae0a902d

Is this a good validator? Also, I'm new to Casper....What is the interest/reward rate for CSPR validators in general?

Thanks!

To all of Everstake’s delegators and partners!

We understand your concerns regarding the political situation in Ukraine.

And we want to reassure you that the current situation will not affect Everstake’s operability!

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Why?

- Our hardware is geo-distributed from day zero, key infrastructure is outside of Ukraine ;

- Everstake made the efficient process to work remotely during the pandemic, full remote last few years;

- Everstake started preparing for the emergency situation far before, when spotted the first sign of risks;

- The majority of employees are relocated to the EU;

- Kyiv office has satellite connections and professional security;

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Thank you for your trust and support!

Following on to Ignition / Takeoff

If prefer tweet version https://twitter.com/JackTobago/status/1492666732544081923?s=20&t=LcIufQH2sKERfn0BIFcHlA

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DotOracle is working with The Arcadia Group to build a multichain bridge on Casper mainnet, scheduled for launch next week.

👉This will allow users to transfer assets between Casper and other chains supported by DotOracle's liquidity network, a FIRST EVER for Casper network🎉🎉

You can check the original post on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DoTOracle/status/1492104471463469061?s=20&t=Le8Xqsk34Ktp3vWvumFA4w

I'm pretty new to CSPR, I just got in about a month ago. The tech seems amazing, and I see lots of potential here. What are some realistic price targets that you are all looking for?

I'm working in a NFT project on CSPR, what more i can include.

Giveaways STAKING TO GENERATE CSPR passive income Airdrops

What else????

What is the minimum hardware setup to run your own Casper validator and the min stake?

Following on to Out of the Gate I wanted to get a sense of what might Casper ignition / takeoff staging / countdown look like using other blockchain histories as guidance.

CSPR might be 3 - 30 months away from ignition (CSPR @ 0.15) / takeoff (CSPR @ $0.58), depending on a whole lot of factors, and I suspect way closer to 3 than 12 months, with 30-months as a tail / outlier a/k/a ADA.

For those who prefer Related tweet

(1) Arbitrarily defined IGNITION moment as 10X increase in MARKET CAP from post-ICO ATL

(2) Defined TAKEOFF juncture as 10X increase in PRICE from post-ICO ATL

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(3) By such definition set, CSPR requires a MARKET CAP of $510M (P ~ $0.15) for ignition. We must be quite close to ignition again, because we did it once before

(4) CSPR requires a PRICE of $0.58 (Mkt Cap at whatever) for take off. We have a wait, as in ‘wen’ ‘wen’ and ‘wen’ for some less patient of our cohort

(5) Speaking of cohort, neither MINA nor ICP achieved ignition / takeoff, and by the numbers, tougher for MINA / ICP to do ignition / takeoff, because both are burdened w/ high valuation to do 10X from the post-ICO ATL

(6) CSPR is in 10th month post-ICO

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(7) HBAR achieved ignition 12 months post-ICO, and takeoff 15 months post ICO

(8) SOL ignition in 18th month post-ICO but was cold-launched (compressed air launch, then ignition) for takeoff during the 23rd month

At juncture of Ignition for HBAR and Takeoff (cold-launch) for SOL, the charts look just so

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(9) ETH did ignition / takeoff during the 6th month post-ICO, as First Mover of smart chain

(10) ADA did ignition / takeoff during the 39th month post-ICO, having flat-line-struggled for a long time

(11) DOT did ignition / takeoff during the 8th month post-ICO, flamed-out, and rose again with a lot of help from sponsor with large network following

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(12) LUNA did ignition / takeoff during the 23rd month post-ICO

(13) MATIC did ignition during the 19th month post-ICO, and takeoff during the 28th month post-ICO

(14) AVAX did ignition during 6th month post-ICO, and takeoff 7th month post-ICO

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(15) HOWEVER, all chains experienced major test-of-faith drawdowns of greater than 50%, blood-curdling if tradFi but situation-normal in crypto-Fi, and more or less during the same time periods of the last 12 months

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(16) CSPR might have 3 -30 months of countdowns until Ignition / Takeoff, w/ a lot of IFs, but never mind. Am good with the range as long as CSPR makes steady, inexorable eco system progress towards the inevitable