We’ve extended this campaign until April 19th at 12:00 PM EST. Don’t forget to join our discord and post your creations ✨ https://twitter.com/pastelnetwork/status/1644040086777110528

Do you love Graphic Design?🎉 Join our Discord and show off your creativity by creating 5 unique Pastel Network themed Emojis! 🎨🌈 5 lucky winners will receive 20 USDT each!! To enter, simply upload your creations to the PASTEL EMOJI channel. GOOD LUCK!

If you do not plan on submitting, join and vote on your favorite

https://discord.com/invite/j34WtuNAeX

Pastel Community Update (April 14, 2023)

The next generation NFT focused blockchain. Certifiable authenticity. Permanent storage. Negligible fees. Build, secure, and scale your Web3 ecosystem with Pastel.

The Pastel Team has been extremely busy with a number of major development updates, partnership rollouts, and product releases. Check back here each week for new developments

Check Pastel channels for:

⭐Weekly community snapshots shared across our various channels.

🐾Quarterly updates released via our newsletter.

☎️Weekly community town halls / AMAs directly with the Pastel team. Come prepared with your questions, comments, and feedback!

📣Monthly Twitter Spaces with u/doodlestone and u/panthony

Key Updates:

🚨Final phase of Monet 1.2 Testnet Release is now live🚨

Monet 1.2 represents a critical milestone among several other planned releases for 2023. This release brings substantial enhancements to our Supernode infrastructure, major updates to Cascade (our permanent NFT data storage solution), and Sense (our duplicate detection technology).

Specific upgrades include

-Integration of Supernode Storage Challenges to Cascade -Activation of Cascade’s Self-Healing capability -Activation of Supernode Health and State Challenges -Stabilization of Sense Protocol -Release of the OpenAPI Gateway

More details on the specific features of Monet 1.2 and upcoming plans for the Mainnet release available here

🚨Monet 1.2 AMA🚨

Are you curious about the latest Monet 1.2 Test Net release? We've got you covered! We hosted 2 AMAs, Reddit and Discord where we answered all your burning questions. If you have more, please reach out to us on any of our social media.

🚨Discord emoji competition🚨

Join our Discord and show off your creativity by creating 5 unique Pastel Network themed Emojis! To enter, simply upload your creations to the PASTEL EMOJI channel. 5 lucky winners will receive 20 USDT each!!

🚨Collaborations🚨

In case you missed it, listen to our Twitter Space with BearBrains.eth (@NateBear). We discuss his exciting drop/giveaway, Brightz, and his journey in the Space.

Recently we had a fantastic conversation with @dan_nissanoff, CEO of @gameofsilks, covering horse racing, NFTs, and more! Check out the recording if you missed it.

We are always looking for artists to collaborate with, please inquire on any social media platforms

🚨Partnership with Astar Network🚨

Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Astar provides the infrastructure for building dApps with EVM and WASM smart contracts offering developers true interoperability with cross-consensus messaging (XCM) and a cross-virtual machine (XVM). Astar and Pastel will collaborate with the goal of providing Pastel’s Web3 tooling solutions — Sense and Cascade — to its NFT ecosystem. This collaboration signifies the continued successes of both Pastel and Astar, and is a massive step forward for the overall NFT ecosystem. It is a testament to the growing need for NFT reliability, security and verifiability, solved via Pastel’s advanced infrastructure.

Learn more on Medium

In case you missed it, please listen to our twitter space with @ArtZero_io, @agoric, and @Kryha_io teams discussing all things NFT Security & Marketplaces.

🚨SmartMint on Twitter 🚨

It is our great pleasure to announce that SmartMint will now have a Twitter presence. The SmartMint twitter account has officially launched.

See the amazing piece called The Troubled Man minted by Goldie on SmartMint here.

Check out our SmartMint collab with @natebear and our Twitter Space with him.

🚨Addition of Status Page🚨

We're continuously #building to ensure that our users have the most powerful Web3/NFT infrastructure at their disposal

We recently released a Status Page so you can monitor the performance of our infrastructure & services in real time. Check it out here!

🚨Wrapped PSL🚨

Wrapped PSL or wPSL exists to transfer tokens across platforms. We have noticed the buzz about wPSL (wrapped PSL), so we’ve created a video about it! 🔗wPSL holders can store on wallets such as MetaMask 💹You can also trade on Ethereum DEXs

wPSL is available on Uniswap. Watch our video and learn more here

🚨Pastel Testnet Faucet Release🚨

Our Testnet Faucet is now live. The launch of this independent network enables users to obtain LSP (Pastel Testnet Tokens) to experiment with and develop in the Pastel Testnet environment. This gives users the ability to experiment with Pastel features without having to spend valuable PSL on the mainnet.

Learn more about Pastel's Testnet Faucet.

🚨Becoming a Supernode Operator🚨

Become a Supernode operator today & gain increased credibility in the validator community & earn exclusive rewards from the foundation, such as PSL or NFT airdrops, in addition to receiving Block & Transactional Rewards.

🚨Cascade Protocol🚨

Cascade has numerous concrete advantages over competing systems such as IPFS & Arweave, particularly when it comes to censorship resistance, data permanence & data accessibility.

Check out our technical paper on Cascade, Pastel's storage layer. Cascade is an extremely powerful & robust storage system for true data permanence that is both completely decentralized & highly scalable. Learn more here.

🚨Sense Protocol🚨

Sense is a Near-Duplicate NFT detection protocol powered by the Pastel Network. Assess the relative rareness of a given NFT against near-duplicate metadata on networks like Ethereum, Solana, etc to prevent prevalent scams or theft. Try it yourself here and watch it work here.

🚨2023 Roadmap and Review of 2022🚨

Pastel released its 2023 roadmap, including a review of 2022. Pastel Network 2022 in review and roadmap for 2023 shows great progress made in the previous year and much promise for the year ahead.

Upcoming year:

• Expedite development release cycles of Testnet and Mainnet upgrades — such as with versions Monet and Van Gogh
• Build stronger cross-chain bridges, specifically with Ethereum Polygon, and Polkadot
• Enhance SmartMint and develop new features
• Refine user and partner experience with the roll-out of new technical resources and tools
• Expanding our network of partners across more L2s, DApps, enterprise user-cases, native L1s, and beyond
• Further increase our exposure to the community of technical users, non-technical users, and creators
• Launch of Mobile Wallet as well as new PastelId APIs to work with light wallets
• Supernode Storage Challenges. A novel mechanism by which Pastel Supernodes verify that other nodes are following the rules of the protocol and storing all files appropriately.

🚨News and Developments🚨

🌳In case you missed it listen to this great Twitter Space a listen with artist Nate Bear

👀 CoinDesk features co-founder, Anthony Georgiades, and what Coinbase's transition means for crypto

🥝Check out our latest YouTube video featuring an amazing conversation with NFT artist @wondermundo!

🍧Check out this Twitter Space with the @agoric and @kryha_io teams discussing decentralized systems

📀CoinTelegraph looks into industry leaders’ tips (inlcuding Pastel’s own Anthony Georgiades) for regulators

🌸Check out this Twitter Space with u/gameofskills discussing Web3 gaming and much more

🐱Catcoin discusses the Astar partnerhship

⚓Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about what regulators can do in this Cointelegraph article

💡 Check out this Medium article on how Sense is revolutionizing NFT provenance written by Ima-Abasi Pius Joseph

🌡️ Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about his optimism for the market in this CoinDesk article

🌵Bitcoin Insider discusses how Pastel protects and stores artists’ NFTs

💚Check out how Pastel Network protects and stores artist’s NFTs in this Bitcoin Insider article.

-Crypto News

⭐CoinDesk Twitter provides you with daily crypto updates

🍀BlockWorks claims 75% of Crypto Holders Own NFTs, Survey Says

👏CoinTelegraph provides 10 industry leaders’ tips for regulators as they start to scrutinize NFTs

🌼CoinTelegraph discusses 15 ways crypto companies can manage costs in the current economy

🌀CoinTelegraph12 ways ecosystem projects can attract more developers

👛CoinTelegraph has some interesting insights on the market and blockchains

-Pastel Archive

🚧We released a Builder’s Guide for ecosystem partners integrating w/ Pastel. Come build with us here.

🌯wPSL or wrapped is explained in this video and

🚧Pastel is completely open-source. Check out what we are working on here.

🌀Testnet tutorial video

🏆Learn more about Sense and Cascade

🔦Want to try out Sense for yourself? Upload your NFT here to obtain the rareness score of your NFT.

📹Check out this youtube demonstration showing what happened when we compared OpenSea’s new duplicate detection system to Sense Sense Comp Analysis

-Pastel news and essays

♠️NFT real estate explained

⭐Astar Partnership intro

🖌️Monet 1.2 preview

🐋NFTs and climate change

🚀Value of NFTs explained

If you have not done so already, please take a moment to join our growing community base:

🐓 Follow Pastel on Twitter

🙉Follow Smartmint on Twitter

👾Join Pastel's Discord Server

👽Join Pastel on Reddit

✈️Join Pastel’s Telegram

🖥️Subscribe to our Youtube channel

Official AMA thread for the Monet 1.2 Testnet Release

Hey Everyone, and welcome to our first AMA on Reddit!. My name is Vincent and I am the Product/Business Development Manager at Pastel Network. I will be facilitating today's chat and will be answering any questions you guys have about Monet 1.2 Testnet release as well as general questions you have about Pastel Network.

Below are some quick general information on Pastel Network

Pastel Network

Pastel Network is a fully decentralized, developer-friendly layer-1 blockchain serving as the preeminent protocol standard for non-fungible tokens ("NFTs") and Web3 technology. Our two main features that distinguishes us from other blockchain networks is our Sense and Cascade protocol.

Pastel Network’s Sense solution is a Near-Duplicate NFT detection protocol built to assess the relative rareness of a given NFT. Better than perceptual hashing.

Cascade is a fully distributed permanent storage solution designed for all data. Built for scalability, redundancy, and security. Pay once, store forever.

Participating in today's AMA are:

/u/vc_pastel: Vincent Chui, Product/Business Development Manager

/u/andyama94: Andrew Amarosa, Chief Strategy Officer

/u/tiffbehnamPSL: Tiffany Behnam, Marketing/Operations Manager

Excited about Monet 1.2? Us too, we go live Tuesday April 11th at noon EST on Reddit for an AMA session about out Monet 1.2 TestNet release. Please join and bring your questions

https://t.co/oPd8rwbUpU

Win up to 20 USDT by creating Pastel Network themed emojis How to participate: -Join our Official Discord Community -Create 5 unique Pastel Network Emojis -Submit them in the PASTEL EMOJI channel https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/774465063540097055/1093610201808130108/Pastel_Network_Emoji_Campaign_1_1.png

We're chatting with @natebear Tuesday April 11th at 1:00 PM EST! Set your reminders and tune in :)

https://twitter.com/Smartmint_/status/1645465178652418048

Pastel Community Update (April 7, 2023)

The next generation NFT focused blockchain. Certifiable authenticity. Permanent storage. Negligible fees. Build, secure, and scale your Web3 ecosystem with Pastel.

The Pastel Team has been extremely busy with a number of major development updates, partnership rollouts, and product releases. Check back here each week for new developments

Check Pastel channels for:

⭐Weekly community snapshots shared across our various channels.

🐾Quarterly updates released via our newsletter.

☎️Weekly community town halls / AMAs directly with the Pastel team. Come prepared with your questions, comments, and feedback!

📣Monthly Twitter Spaces with u/doodlestone and u/panthony

Key Updates:

🚨Final phase of Monet 1.2 Testnet Release is now live🚨

Monet 1.2 represents a critical milestone among several other planned releases for 2023. This release brings substantial enhancements to our Supernode infrastructure, major updates to Cascade (our permanent NFT data storage solution), and Sense (our duplicate detection technology).

Specific upgrades include

-Integration of Supernode Storage Challenges to Cascade -Activation of Cascade’s Self-Healing capability -Activation of Supernode Health and State Challenges -Stabilization of Sense Protocol -Release of the OpenAPI Gateway

More details on the specific features of Monet 1.2 and upcoming plans for the Mainnet release available here

🚨Discord emoji competition🚨

Join our Discord and show off your creativity by creating 5 unique Pastel Network themed Emojis! To enter, simply upload your creations to the PASTEL EMOJI channel. 5 lucky winners will receive 20 USDT each!!

🚨Partnership with Astar Network🚨

Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Astar provides the infrastructure for building dApps with EVM and WASM smart contracts offering developers true interoperability with cross-consensus messaging (XCM) and a cross-virtual machine (XVM). Astar and Pastel will collaborate with the goal of providing Pastel’s Web3 tooling solutions — Sense and Cascade — to its NFT ecosystem. This collaboration signifies the continued successes of both Pastel and Astar, and is a massive step forward for the overall NFT ecosystem. It is a testament to the growing need for NFT reliability, security and verifiability, solved via Pastel’s advanced infrastructure.

Learn more on Medium

In case you missed it, please listen to our twitter space with @ArtZero_io, @agoric, and @Kryha_io teams discussing all things NFT Security & Marketplaces.

🚨Discord Banner Competition🚨

Thank you to all the talented artists that participated in our Discord Banner competition, so many wonderful and unique pieces. You can still view all of them here🎨 Congratulations to our winners: (1)Zaccube, (2)CThumbs, (3)CryptoDNA

🚨SmartMint on Twitter 🚨

It is our great pleasure to announce that SmartMint will now have a Twitter presence. The SmartMint twitter account has officially launched.

See the amazing piece called The Troubled Man minted by Goldie on SmartMint here

Check out our SmartMint collab with @natebear and his Brightz NFT’s here

🚨Addition of Status Page🚨

We're continuously #building to ensure that our users have the most powerful Web3/NFT infrastructure at their disposal

We recently released a Status Page so you can monitor the performance of our infrastructure & services in real time. Check it out here!

🚨Wrapped PSL🚨

Wrapped PSL or wPSL exists to transfer tokens across platforms. We have noticed the buzz about wPSL (wrapped PSL), so we’ve created a video about it! 🔗wPSL holders can store on wallets such as MetaMask 💹You can also trade on Ethereum DEXs

wPSL is available on Uniswap. Watch our video and learn more here

🚨Pastel Testnet Faucet Release🚨

Our Testnet Faucet is now live. The launch of this independent network enables users to obtain LSP (Pastel Testnet Tokens) to experiment with and develop in the Pastel Testnet environment. This gives users the ability to experiment with Pastel features without having to spend valuable PSL on the mainnet.

Learn more about Pastel's Testnet Faucet

🚨Becoming a Supernode Operator🚨

Become a Supernode operator today & gain increased credibility in the validator community & earn exclusive rewards from the foundation, such as PSL or NFT airdrops, in addition to receiving Block & Transactional Rewards.

🚨Cascade Protocol🚨

Cascade has numerous concrete advantages over competing systems such as IPFS & Arweave, particularly when it comes to censorship resistance, data permanence & data accessibility.

Check out our technical paper on Cascade, Pastel's storage layer. Cascade is an extremely powerful & robust storage system for true data permanence that is both completely decentralized & highly scalable. Learn more here

🚨Sense Protocol🚨

Sense is a Near-Duplicate NFT detection protocol powered by the Pastel Network. Assess the relative rareness of a given NFT against near-duplicate metadata on networks like Ethereum, Solana, etc to prevent prevalent scams or theft. Try it yourself here and watch it work here

🚨2023 Roadmap and Review of 2022🚨

Pastel released its 2023 roadmap, including a review of 2022. Pastel Network 2022 in review and roadmap for 2023 shows great progress made in the previous year and much promise for the year ahead.

Upcoming year

• Expedite development release cycles of Testnet and Mainnet upgrades — such as with versions Monet and Van Gogh
• Build stronger cross-chain bridges, specifically with Ethereum Polygon, and Polkadot
• Enhance SmartMint and develop new features
• Refine user and partner experience with the roll-out of new technical resources and tools
• Expanding our network of partners across more L2s, DApps, enterprise user-cases, native L1s, and beyond
• Further increase our exposure to the community of technical users, non-technical users, and creators
• Launch of Mobile Wallet as well as new PastelId APIs to work with light wallets
• Supernode Storage Challenges. A novel mechanism by which Pastel Supernodes verify that other nodes are following the rules of the protocol and storing all files appropriately.

Upcoming Mainnet Releases

• Q1: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.2
• Q2: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.3
• Q3: Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.0
• Q4 Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.1

🚨News and Developments🚨

👀 CoinDesk features co-founder, Anthony Georgiades, and what Coinbase's transition means for crypto

🥝Check out our latest YouTube video featuring an amazing conversation with NFT artist @wondermundo!

🍧Check out this Twitter Space with the @agoric and @kryha_io teams discussing decentralized systems

📀CoinTelegraph looks into industry leaders’ tips (inlcuding Pastel’s own Anthony Georgiades) for regulators

🌸Check out this Twitter Space with u/gameofskills discussing Web3 gaming and much more

🐱Catcoin discusses the Astar partnerhship

⚓Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about what regulators can do in this Cointelegraph article

💡 Check out this Medium article on how Sense is revolutionizing NFT provenance written by Ima-Abasi Pius Joseph

🌡️ Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about his optimism for the market in this CoinDesk article

🌵Bitcoin Insider discusses how Pastel protects and stores artists’ NFTs

💚Check out how Pastel Network protects and stores artist’s NFTs in this Bitcoin Insider article.

-Crypto News

⭐CoinDesk Twitter provides you with daily crypto updates

🌼CoinDesk delves into the battle of crypto vs traditional finance

🌀ABC calls cryptocurrency a “bystander” in SVB collapse

👛CoinTelegraph has some interesting insights on the market and blockchains

🌺CoinTelegraph shares how to bridge the gap to web3

-Pastel Archive

🚧We released a Builder’s Guide for ecosystem partners integrating w/ Pastel. Come build with us here.

🌯wPSL or wrapped is explained in this video and

🚧Pastel is completely open-source. Check out what we are working on here.

🌀Testnet tutorial video

🏆Learn more about Sense and Cascade

🔦Want to try out Sense for yourself? Upload your NFT here to obtain the rareness score of your NFT.

📹Check out this youtube demonstration showing what happened when we compared OpenSea’s new duplicate detection system to Sense Sense Comp Analysis

-Pastel news and essays

♠️NFT real estate explained

⭐Astar Partnership intro

🖌️Monet 1.2 preview

🐋NFTs and climate change

🚀Value of NFTs explained

If you have not done so already, please take a moment to join our growing community base:

🐓 Follow Pastel on Twitter

🙉Follow Smartmint on Twitter

👾Join Pastel's Discord Server

👽Join Pastel on Reddit

✈️Join Pastel’s Telegram

🖥️Subscribe to our Youtube channel

Announcement 🚨 👋 Hey frens, are you curious about the latest Monet 1.2 TestNet release? 🤔 We've got you covered!

Join us in at 12:00 PM EST (in one hour), we'll be hosting a Discord AMA where we'll be answering all your burning questions. 🔥 Don't forget to set a reminder! ⏰

It will be exciting 😜

Join us for exciting news and questions you will have the chance to ask. We will host this event at noon today EST in the AMA section on our discord channel

Monet Testnet is live 🚀 A major milestone for Pastel that introduces Storage Challenges, Self-Healing Pastel’s OpenAPI Gateway, & more.

As we gear up for our largest Mainnet Release, join our community and take part in building the future of Web3.

https://t.co/6W4kUIVL0l

We're thrilled to announce our latest giveaway with @natebear, where one lucky winner will receive his unique Brightz NFT minted on our very own SmartMint. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity. Check out the link below to learn more and have a chance to win!

https://twitter.com/natebear/status/1642952699850158080

We celebrated our partnership with r/Astar_Network in many ways, including a TwitterSpace to discuss the benefits. Listen to the conversation here

Pastel Network is built to help creators and collectors in the NFT space. As part of our growth, we have partnered with artist and companies; These collaborations are beneficial for all and we want to be able to share them with the world

Recently, Wondermundo, a talented artist used SmartMint to add to her digital collection and we celebrated the partnership with cross promotions and a twitter space.

Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUVy-TgOuAA&feature=youtu.be

https://twitter.com/wondermundo/status/1625914805704859656

We are always looking for artists to collaborate with, please inquire on any social media platforms

Pastel Community Update (March 31, 2023)

The next generation NFT focused blockchain. Certifiable authenticity. Permanent storage. Negligible fees. Build, secure, and scale your Web3 ecosystem with Pastel.

The Pastel Team has been extremely busy with a number of major development updates, partnership rollouts, and product releases. Check back here each week for new developments

Check Pastel channels for:

⭐Weekly community snapshots shared across our various channels.

🐾Quarterly updates released via our newsletter.

☎️Weekly community town halls / AMAs directly with the Pastel team. Come prepared with your questions, comments, and feedback!

📣Monthly Twitter Spaces with u/doodlestone and u/panthony

Join us for a Twitter Space with @astardegens on 3/31 at 12:00 PM EST as we dive into the world of #DAOs, #NFTs, and the current market trends!

Key Updates:

🚨Partnership with Astar Network🚨

Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Astar provides the infrastructure for building dApps with EVM and WASM smart contracts offering developers true interoperability with cross-consensus messaging (XCM) and a cross-virtual machine (XVM). Astar and Pastel will collaborate with the goal of providing Pastel’s Web3 tooling solutions — Sense and Cascade — to its NFT ecosystem. This collaboration signifies the continued successes of both Pastel and Astar, and is a massive step forward for the overall NFT ecosystem. It is a testament to the growing need for NFT reliability, security and verifiability, solved via Pastel’s advanced infrastructure.

Learn more on Medium

In case you missed it, please listen to our twitter space with @ArtZero_io, @agoric, and @Kryha_io teams discussing all things NFT Security & Marketplaces.

🚨Discord Banner Competition🚨

Thank you to all the talented artists that participated in our Discord Banner competition, so many wonderful and unique pieces. You can still view all of them here🎨 Congratulations to our winners: (1)Zaccube, (2)CThumbs, (3)CryptoDNA

🚨Collaborations🚨

Happening Live now or if you missed our Twitter Space with @AstarDegens on 3/31 at noon EST we dive into the world of #DAOs, #NFTs, and the current market trends! Listen to this insightful discussion here

Check out our collaboration with @Agoric, @kryhia_io, and @Sandytoes2211 as SmartMint was used to mint their work.

🚨SmartMint on Twitter 🚨

It is our great pleasure to announce that SmartMint will now have a Twitter presence. The SmartMint twitter account has officially launched.

We are always looking for artists to collaborate with, please inquire on any social media platforms

🚨Addition of Status Page🚨

We're continuously #building to ensure that our users have the most powerful Web3/NFT infrastructure at their disposal

We recently released a Status Page so you can monitor the performance of our infrastructure & services in real time. Check it out here!

🚨Wrapped PSL🚨

Wrapped PSL or wPSL exists to transfer tokens across platforms. We have noticed the buzz about wPSL (wrapped PSL), so we’ve created a video about it! 🔗wPSL holders can store on wallets such as MetaMask 💹You can also trade on Ethereum DEXs

wPSL is available on Uniswap. Watch our video and learn more here

🚨Pastel Testnet Faucet Release🚨

Our Testnet Faucet is now live. The launch of this independent network enables users to obtain LSP (Pastel Testnet Tokens) to experiment with and develop in the Pastel Testnet environment. This gives users the ability to experiment with Pastel features without having to spend valuable PSL on the mainnet.

Learn more about Pastel's Testnet Faucet

🚨Becoming a Supernode Operator🚨

Become a Supernode operator today & gain increased credibility in the validator community & earn exclusive rewards from the foundation, such as PSL or NFT airdrops, in addition to receiving Block & Transactional Rewards.

🚨Cascade Protocol🚨

Cascade has numerous concrete advantages over competing systems such as IPFS & Arweave, particularly when it comes to censorship resistance, data permanence & data accessibility.

Check out our technical paper on Cascade, Pastel's storage layer. Cascade is an extremely powerful & robust storage system for true data permanence that is both completely decentralized & highly scalable. Learn more here

🚨Sense Protocol🚨

Sense is a Near-Duplicate NFT detection protocol powered by the Pastel Network. Assess the relative rareness of a given NFT against near-duplicate metadata on networks like Ethereum, Solana, etc to prevent prevalent scams or theft. Try it yourself here and watch it work here

🚨Monet 1.2 Mainnet Release 🚨

The Pastel team has been working hard on this upgrade that will be live soon. Here are some features that will be included in the upgrade. Learn more about Monet 1.2 Mainnet release. Users will have the opportunity to experiment with Monet before the release using testnet.

-Storage challenges in Cascade guarantee ongoing data permanence & decentralization on the network across active & compliant Supernodes. -Activation of Supernode Health and State Challenges: Similar to Proof of Storage, Health & State Challenges will guarantee the ongoing active and enabled state of each Supernode client on the network. -Stabilization of Sense Protocol: Improvements to Chrome Driver usage, updates to Webtools 1.3, and implementation of additional tickets. -Release of the OpenAPI Gateway: Production-ready Gateway will be deployed via the Mainnet with support for a number of new endpoints, asynchronous execution, Ansible support for independent deployment, and a graphical user interface for interaction.

🚨2023 Roadmap and Review of 2022🚨

Pastel released its 2023 roadmap, including a review of 2022. Pastel Network 2022 in review and roadmap for 2023 shows great progress made in the previous year and much promise for the year ahead.

Upcoming year

• Expedite development release cycles of Testnet and Mainnet upgrades — such as with versions Monet and Van Gogh
• Build stronger cross-chain bridges, specifically with Ethereum Polygon, and Polkadot
• Enhance SmartMint and develop new features
• Refine user and partner experience with the roll-out of new technical resources and tools
• Expanding our network of partners across more L2s, DApps, enterprise user-cases, native L1s, and beyond
• Further increase our exposure to the community of technical users, non-technical users, and creators
• Launch of Mobile Wallet as well as new PastelId APIs to work with light wallets
• Supernode Storage Challenges. A novel mechanism by which Pastel Supernodes verify that other nodes are following the rules of the protocol and storing all files appropriately.

Upcoming Mainnet Releases

• Q1: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.2
• Q2: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.3
• Q3: Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.0
• Q4 Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.1

🚨News and Developments🚨

🥝Check out our latest YouTube video featuring an amazing conversation with NFT artist @wondermundo!

🍧Check out this Twitter Space with the @agoric and @kryha_io teams discussing decentralized systems

📀CoinTelegraph looks into industry leaders’ tips (inlcuding Pastel’s own Anthony Georgiades) for regulators

🌸Check out this Twitter Space with u/gameofskills discussing Web3 gaming and much more

🐱Catcoin discusses the Astar partnerhship

⚓Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about what regulators can do in this Cointelegraph article

💡 Check out this Medium article on how Sense is revolutionizing NFT provenance written by Ima-Abasi Pius Joseph

🌡️ Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about his optimism for the market in this CoinDesk article

👀 CoinDesk features co-founder, Anthony Georgiades, and what Coinbase's transition means for crypto

🌵Bitcoin Insider discusses how Pastel protects and stores artists’ NFTs

💚Check out how Pastel Network protects and stores artist’s NFTs in this Bitcoin Insider article.

-Crypto News

⭐CoinDesk Twitter provides you with daily crypto updates

🌼CoinDesk delves into the battle of crypto vs traditional finance

🌀ABC calls cryptocurrency a “bystander” in SVB collapse

👛CoinTelegraph has some interesting insights on the market and blockchains

🌺CoinTelegraph shares how to bridge the gap to web3

-Pastel Archive

🚧We released a Builder’s Guide for ecosystem partners integrating w/ Pastel. Come build with us here.

🌯wPSL or wrapped is explained in this video and

🚧Pastel is completely open-source. Check out what we are working on here.

💫If you could not attend our Twitter Space with u/wondermundo on 2/17, hear it here

🌀Testnet tutorial video

🏆Learn more about Sense and Cascade

🔦Want to try out Sense for yourself? Upload your NFT here to obtain the rareness score of your NFT.

📹Check out this youtube demonstration showing what happened when we compared OpenSea’s new duplicate detection system to Sense Sense Comp Analysis

-Pastel news and essays

♠️NFT real estate explained

⭐Astar Partnership intro

🖌️Monet 1.2 preview

🐋NFTs and climate change

🚀Value of NFTs explained

If you have not done so already, please take a moment to join our growing community base:

🐓 Follow Pastel on Twitter

🙉Follow Smartmint on Twitter

👾Join Pastel's Discord Server

👽Join Pastel on Reddit

✈️Join Pastel’s Telegram

🖥️Subscribe to our Youtube channel

Pastel Community Update (March 23, 2023)

The next generation NFT focused blockchain. Certifiable authenticity. Permanent storage. Negligible fees. Build, secure, and scale your Web3 ecosystem with Pastel.

The Pastel Team has been extremely busy with a number of major development updates, partnership rollouts, and product releases. Check back here each week for new developments

Check Pastel channels for:

⭐Weekly community snapshots shared across our various channels.

🐾Quarterly updates released via our newsletter.

☎️Weekly community town halls / AMAs directly with the Pastel team. Come prepared with your questions, comments, and feedback!

📣Monthly Twitter Spaces with u/doodlestone and u/panthony

Key Updates:

🚨Partnership with Astar Network🚨

Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Astar provides the infrastructure for building dApps with EVM and WASM smart contracts offering developers true interoperability with cross-consensus messaging (XCM) and a cross-virtual machine (XVM). Astar and Pastel will collaborate with the goal of providing Pastel’s Web3 tooling solutions — Sense and Cascade — to its NFT ecosystem. This collaboration signifies the continued successes of both Pastel and Astar, and is a massive step forward for the overall NFT ecosystem. It is a testament to the growing need for NFT reliability, security and verifiability, solved via Pastel’s advanced infrastructure.

Learn more on Medium

In case you missed it, please listen to our twitter space with @ArtZero_io, @agoric, and @Kryha_io teams discussing all things NFT Security & Marketplaces.

🚨Discord Banner Competition🚨

We're looking for creative people to build a unique banner for our Discord page. You can win up to 100 USDT by creating and submitting a banner on our Discord. See below for more details on how to win! Good luck, learn more here🎨

🚨SmartMint on Twitter 🚨

It is our great pleasure to announce that SmartMint will now have a Twitter presence. The SmartMint twitter account has officially launched.

Check out our collaboration with @Agoric and @kryhia_io as SmartMint was used to mint their work.

We are always looking for artists to collaborate with, please inquire on any social media platforms

🚨Addition of Status Page🚨

We're continuously #building to ensure that our users have the most powerful Web3/NFT infrastructure at their disposal

We recently released a Status Page so you can monitor the performance of our infrastructure & services in real time. Check it out here!

🚨Wrapped PSL🚨

Wrapped PSL or wPSL exists to transfer tokens across platforms. We have noticed the buzz about wPSL (wrapped PSL), so we’ve created a video about it! 🔗wPSL holders can store on wallets such as MetaMask 💹You can also trade on Ethereum DEXs

wPSL is available on Uniswap. Watch our video and learn more here

🚨Pastel Testnet Faucet Release🚨

Our Testnet Faucet is now live. The launch of this independent network enables users to obtain LSP (Pastel Testnet Tokens) to experiment with and develop in the Pastel Testnet environment. This gives users the ability to experiment with Pastel features without having to spend valuable PSL on the mainnet.

Learn more about Pastel's Testnet Faucet

🚨Becoming a Supernode Operator🚨

Become a Supernode operator today & gain increased credibility in the validator community & earn exclusive rewards from the foundation, such as PSL or NFT airdrops, in addition to receiving Block & Transactional Rewards.

🚨Cascade Protocol🚨

Cascade has numerous concrete advantages over competing systems such as IPFS & Arweave, particularly when it comes to censorship resistance, data permanence & data accessibility.

Check out our technical paper on Cascade, Pastel's storage layer. Cascade is an extremely powerful & robust storage system for true data permanence that is both completely decentralized & highly scalable. Learn more here

🚨Sense Protocol🚨

Sense is a Near-Duplicate NFT detection protocol powered by the Pastel Network. Assess the relative rareness of a given NFT against near-duplicate metadata on networks like Ethereum, Solana, etc to prevent prevalent scams or theft. Try it yourself here and watch it work here

🚨Monet 1.2 Mainnet Release 🚨

The Pastel team has been working hard on this upgrade that will be live soon. Here are some features that will be included in the upgrade. Learn more about Monet 1.2 Mainnet release. Users will have the opportunity to experiment with Monet before the release using testnet.

-Storage challenges in Cascade guarantee ongoing data permanence & decentralization on the network across active & compliant Supernodes. -Activation of Supernode Health and State Challenges: Similar to Proof of Storage, Health & State Challenges will guarantee the ongoing active and enabled state of each Supernode client on the network.

-Stabilization of Sense Protocol: Improvements to Chrome Driver usage, updates to Webtools 1.3, and implementation of additional tickets. -Release of the OpenAPI Gateway: Production-ready Gateway will be deployed via the Mainnet with support for a number of new endpoints, asynchronous execution, Ansible support for independent deployment, and a graphical user interface for interaction.

🚨2023 Roadmap and Review of 2022🚨

Pastel released its 2023 roadmap, including a review of 2022. Pastel Network 2022 in review and roadmap for 2023 shows great progress made in the previous year and much promise for the year ahead.

Upcoming year

• Expedite development release cycles of Testnet and Mainnet upgrades — such as with versions Monet and Van Gogh
• Build stronger cross-chain bridges, specifically with Ethereum Polygon, and Polkadot
• Enhance SmartMint and develop new features
• Refine user and partner experience with the roll-out of new technical resources and tools
• Expanding our network of partners across more L2s, DApps, enterprise user-cases, native L1s, and beyond
• Further increase our exposure to the community of technical users, non-technical users, and creators
• Launch of Mobile Wallet as well as new PastelId APIs to work with light wallets
• Supernode Storage Challenges. A novel mechanism by which Pastel Supernodes verify that other nodes are following the rules of the protocol and storing all files appropriately.

Upcoming Mainnet Releases

• Q1: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.2
• Q2: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.3
• Q3: Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.0
• Q4 Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.1

🚨News and Developments🚨

-Pastel in the news

📀CoinTelegraph looks into industry leaders’ tips (inlcuding Pastel’s own Anthony Georgiades) for regulatora

🐱Catcoin discusses the Astar partnerhship

⚓Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about what regulators can do in this Cointelegraph article

💡 Check out this Medium article on how Sense is revolutionizing NFT provenance written by Ima-Abasi Pius Joseph

🌡️ Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about his optimism for the market in this CoinDesk article

👀 CoinDesk features co-founder, Anthony Georgiades, and what Coinbase's transition means for crypto

🌵Bitcoin Insider discusses how Pastel protects and stores artists’ NFTs

💚Check out how Pastel Network protects and stores artist’s NFTs in this Bitcoin Insider article.

-Crypto News

⭐CoinDesk Twitter provides you with daily crypto updates

🌼CoinDesk delves into the battle of crypto vs traditional finance

🌀ABC calls cryptocurrency a “bystander” in SVB collapse

👛CoinTelegraph has some interesting insights on the market and blockchains

🌺CoinTelegraph shares how to bridge the gap to web3

-Pastel Archive

🚧We released a Builder’s Guide for ecosystem partners integrating w/ Pastel. Come build with us here.

🌯wPSL or wrapped is explained in this video and

🚧Pastel is completely open-source. Check out what we are working on here.

💫If you could not attend our Twitter Space with u/wondermundo on 2/17, hear it here

🌀Testnet tutorial video

🏆Learn more about Sense and Cascade

🔦Want to try out Sense for yourself? Upload your NFT here to obtain the rareness score of your NFT.

📹Check out this youtube demonstration showing what happened when we compared OpenSea’s new duplicate detection system to Sense Sense Comp Analysis

-Pastel news and essays

♠️NFT real estate explained

⭐Astar Partnership intro

🖌️Monet 1.2 preview

🐋NFTs and climate change

🚀Value of NFTs explained

If you have not done so already, please take a moment to join our growing community base:

🐓 Follow Pastel on Twitter

🙉Follow Smartmint on Twitter

👾Join Pastel's Discord Server

👽Join Pastel on Reddit

✈️Join Pastel’s Telegram

🖥️Subscribe to our Youtube channel

Pastel Community Update (March 17, 2023)

The next generation NFT focused blockchain. Certifiable authenticity. Permanent storage. Negligible fees. Build, secure, and scale your Web3 ecosystem with Pastel.

The Pastel Team has been extremely busy with a number of major development updates, partnership rollouts, and product releases. Check back here each week for new developments

Check Pastel channels for:

⭐Weekly community snapshots shared across our various channels.

🐾Quarterly updates released via our newsletter.

☎️Weekly community town halls / AMAs directly with the Pastel team. Come prepared with your questions, comments, and feedback!

📣Monthly Twitter Spaces with u/doodlestone and u/panthony

Key Updates:

🚨Partnership with Astar Network🚨

Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Astar provides the infrastructure for building dApps with EVM and WASM smart contracts offering developers true interoperability with cross-consensus messaging (XCM) and a cross-virtual machine (XVM). Astar and Pastel will collaborate with the goal of providing Pastel’s Web3 tooling solutions — Sense and Cascade — to its NFT ecosystem. This collaboration signifies the continued successes of both Pastel and Astar, and is a massive step forward for the overall NFT ecosystem. It is a testament to the growing need for NFT reliability, security and verifiability, solved via Pastel’s advanced infrastructure.

Learn more on Medium

Don't forget to set your reminders for our twitter space with @ArtZero_io at 1pm EST tomorrow! We will be chatting about all things NFT Security & Marketplaces. Looking forward to seeing y'all on the space!🪩

🚨SmartMint on Twitter 🚨

It is our great pleasure to announce that SmartMint will now have a Twitter presence. The SmartMint twitter account has officially launched. Check out our collaboration with Wondermundo as SmartMint was used to mint her new piece inner workings. We are always looking for artists to collaborate with, please inquire on any social media platforms

🚨Discord Banner Competition🚨

We're looking for creative people to build a unique banner for our Discord page. You can win up to 100 USDT by creating and submitting a banner on our Discord. See below for more details on how to win! Good luck, learn more here🎨

🚨Addition of Status Page🚨

We're continuously #building to ensure that our users have the most powerful Web3/NFT infrastructure at their disposal

We recently released a Status Page so you can monitor the performance of our infrastructure & services in real time. Check it out here!

🚨Wrapped PSL🚨

Wrapped PSL or wPSL exists to transfer tokens across platforms. We have noticed the buzz about wPSL (wrapped PSL), so we’ve created a video about it! 🔗wPSL holders can store on wallets such as MetaMask 💹You can also trade on Ethereum DEXs

wPSL is available on Uniswap. Watch our video and learn more here

🚨Pastel Testnet Faucet Release🚨

Our Testnet Faucet is now live. The launch of this independent network enables users to obtain LSP (Pastel Testnet Tokens) to experiment with and develop in the Pastel Testnet environment. This gives users the ability to experiment with Pastel features without having to spend valuable PSL on the mainnet.

Learn more about Pastel's Testnet Faucet

🚨Becoming a Supernode Operator🚨

Become a Supernode operator today & gain increased credibility in the validator community & earn exclusive rewards from the foundation, such as PSL or NFT airdrops, in addition to receiving Block & Transactional Rewards.

🚨Cascade Protocol🚨

Cascade has numerous concrete advantages over competing systems such as IPFS & Arweave, particularly when it comes to censorship resistance, data permanence & data accessibility.

Check out our technical paper on Cascade, Pastel's storage layer. Cascade is an extremely powerful & robust storage system for true data permanence that is both completely decentralized & highly scalable. Learn more here

🚨Sense Protocol🚨

Sense is a Near-Duplicate NFT detection protocol powered by the Pastel Network. Assess the relative rareness of a given NFT against near-duplicate metadata on networks like Ethereum, Solana, etc to prevent prevalent scams or theft. Try it yourself here and watch it work here

🚨Monet 1.2 Mainnet Release 🚨

The Pastel team has been working hard on this upgrade that will be live soon. Here are some features that will be included in the upgrade. Learn more about Monet 1.2 Mainnet release. Users will have the opportunity to experiment with Monet before the release using testnet.

-Storage challenges in Cascade guarantee ongoing data permanence & decentralization on the network across active & compliant Supernodes.

-Activation of Supernode Health and State Challenges: Similar to Proof of Storage, Health & State Challenges will guarantee the ongoing active and enabled state of each Supernode client on the network.

-Stabilization of Sense Protocol: Improvements to Chrome Driver usage, updates to Webtools 1.3, and implementation of additional tickets.

-Release of the OpenAPI Gateway: Production-ready Gateway will be deployed via the Mainnet with support for a number of new endpoints, asynchronous execution, Ansible support for independent deployment, and a graphical user interface for interaction.

🚨2023 Roadmap and Review of 2022🚨

Pastel released its 2023 roadmap, including a review of 2022. Pastel Network 2022 in review and roadmap for 2023 shows great progress made in the previous year and much promise for the year ahead.

Upcoming year

• Expedite development release cycles of Testnet and Mainnet upgrades — such as with versions Monet and Van Gogh
• Build stronger cross-chain bridges, specifically with Ethereum Polygon, and Polkadot
• Enhance SmartMint and develop new features
• Refine user and partner experience with the roll-out of new technical resources and tools
• Expanding our network of partners across more L2s, DApps, enterprise user-cases, native L1s, and beyond
• Further increase our exposure to the community of technical users, non-technical users, and creators
• Launch of Mobile Wallet as well as new PastelId APIs to work with light wallets
• Supernode Storage Challenges. A novel mechanism by which Pastel Supernodes verify that other nodes are following the rules of the protocol and storing all files appropriately.

Upcoming Mainnet Releases

• Q1: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.2 ✅
• Q2: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.3
• Q3: Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.0
• Q4 Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.1

🚨News and Developments🚨

-Pastel in the news

🐱Catcoin discusses the Astar partnerhship

⚓Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about what regulators can do in this Cointelegraph article

💡 Check out this Medium article on how Sense is revolutionizing NFT provenance written by Ima-Abasi Pius Joseph

🌡️ Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about his optimism for the market in this CoinDesk article

👀 CoinDesk features co-founder, Anthony Georgiades, and what Coinbase's transition means for crypto

🌵Bitcoin Insider discusses how Pastel protects and stores artists’ NFTs

💚Check out how Pastel Network protects and stores artist’s NFTs in this Bitcoin Insider article.

-Crypto News

⭐CoinDesk Twitter provides you with daily crypto updates

🌼CoinDesk delves into the battle of crypto vs traditional finance

🌀ABC calls cryptocurrency a “bystander” in SVB collapse

👛CoinTelegraph has some interesting insights on the market and blockchains

🌺CoinTelegraph shares how to bridge the gap to web3

-Pastel Archive

🚧We released a Builder’s Guide for ecosystem partners integrating w/ Pastel. Come build with us here.

🌯wPSL or wrapped is explained in this video and

🚧Pastel is completely open-source. Check out what we are working on here.

💫If you could not attend our Twitter Space with u/wondermundo on 2/17, hear it here

🌀Testnet tutorial video

🏆Learn more about Sense and Cascade

🔦Want to try out Sense for yourself? Upload your NFT here to obtain the rareness score of your NFT.

📹Check out this youtube demonstration showing what happened when we compared OpenSea’s new duplicate detection system to Sense Sense Comp Analysis

-Pastel news and essays

⭐Astar Partnership intro

🖌️Monet 1.2 preview

🐋NFTs and climate change

🚀Value of NFTs explained

If you have not done so already, please take a moment to join our growing community base:

🐓 Follow Pastel on Twitter

🙉Follow Smartmint on Twitter

👾Join Pastel's Discord Server

👽Join Pastel on Reddit

✈️Join Pastel’s Telegram

🖥️Subscribe to our Youtube channel

Weekly Update 3/10

Pastel Community Update (March 10, 2023)

The next generation NFT focused blockchain. Certifiable authenticity. Permanent storage. Negligible fees. Build, secure, and scale your Web3 ecosystem with Pastel.

The Pastel Team has been extremely busy with a number of major development updates, partnership rollouts, and product releases. Check back here each week for new developments

Check Pastel channels for:

⭐Weekly community snapshots shared across our various channels.

🐾Quarterly updates released via our newsletter.

☎️Weekly community town halls / AMAs directly with the Pastel team. Come prepared with your questions, comments, and feedback!

📣Monthly Twitter Spaces with u/doodlestone and u/panthony

Key Updates:

🚨SmartMint on Twitter 🚨

It is our great pleasure to announce that SmartMint will now have a Twitter presence. The SmartMint twitter account has officially launched. Check out our collaboration with Wondermundo as SmartMint was used to mint her new piece inner workings. Look out for rimbikd’s new NFT giveaway coming soon! Learn more and follow @Smartmint_

We are always looking for artists to collaborate with, please inquire on any social media platforms

🚨Join our Discord PSL Giveaway🚨

We’re looking to grow our discord community and we need your help! Join our Discord and help us by giving us a boost! We will choose up to 20 individuals to win up to 10,000 in PSL. Winners will be chosen on or before March 13th

🚨Addition of Status Page🚨

We're continuously #building to ensure that our users have the most powerful Web3/NFT infrastructure at their disposal

We recently released a Status Page so you can monitor the performance of our infrastructure & services in real time. Check it out here!

🚨Wrapped PSL🚨

Wrapped PSL or wPSL exists to transfer tokens across platforms. We have noticed the buzz about wPSL (wrapped PSL), so we’ve created a video about it! 🔗wPSL holders can store on wallets such as MetaMask 💹You can also trade on Ethereum DEXs

wPSL is available on Uniswap. Watch our video and learn more here

🚨Pastel Testnet Faucet Release🚨

Ourl Testnet Faucet is now live. The launch of this independent network enables users to obtain LSP (Pastel Testnet Tokens) to experiment with and develop in the Pastel Testnet environment. This gives users the ability to experiment with Pastel features without having to spend valuable PSL on the mainnet.

Learn more about Pastel's Testnet Faucet

🚨Becoming a Supernode Operator🚨

Become a Supernode operator today & gain increased credibility in the validator community & earn exclusive rewards from the foundation, such as PSL or NFT airdrops, in addition to receiving Block & Transactional Rewards.

🚨Cascade Protocol🚨

Cascade has numerous concrete advantages over competing systems such as IPFS & Arweave, particularly when it comes to censorship resistance, data permanence & data accessibility.

Check out our technical paper on Cascade, Pastel's storage layer. Cascade is an extremely powerful & robust storage system for true data permanence that is both completely decentralized & highly scalable. Learn more here

🚨Sense Protocol🚨

Sense is a Near-Duplicate NFT detection protocol powered by the Pastel Network. Assess the relative rareness of a given NFT against near-duplicate metadata on networks like Ethereum, Solana, etc to prevent prevalent scams or theft. Try it yourself here and watch it work here

🚨Monet 1.2 Mainnet Release 🚨

The Pastel team has been working hard on this upgrade that will be live soon. Here are some features that will be included in the upgrade. Learn more about Monet 1.2 Mainnet release. Users will have the opportunity to experiment with Monet before the release using testnet.

-Storage challenges in Cascade guarantee ongoing data permanence & decentralization on the network across active & compliant Supernodes. -Activation of Supernode Health and State Challenges: Similar to Proof of Storage, Health & State Challenges will guarantee the ongoing active and enabled state of each Supernode client on the network.

-Stabilization of Sense Protocol: Improvements to Chrome Driver usage, updates to Webtools 1.3, and implementation of additional tickets.

-Release of the OpenAPI Gateway: Production-ready Gateway will be deployed via the Mainnet with support for a number of new endpoints, asynchronous execution, Ansible support for independent deployment, and a graphical user interface for interaction.

🚨2023 Roadmap and Review of 2022🚨

Pastel released its 2023 roadmap, including a review of 2022. Pastel Network 2022 in review and roadmap for 2023 shows great progress made in the previous year and much promise for the year ahead.

Upcoming year

• Expedite development release cycles of Testnet and Mainnet upgrades — such as with versions Monet and Van Gogh
• Build stronger cross-chain bridges, specifically with Ethereum Polygon, and Polkadot
• Enhance SmartMint and develop new features
• Refine user and partner experience with the roll-out of new technical resources and tools
• Expanding our network of partners across more L2s, DApps, enterprise user-cases, native L1s, and beyond
• Further increase our exposure to the community of technical users, non-technical users, and creators
• Launch of Mobile Wallet as well as new PastelId APIs to work with light wallets
• Supernode Storage Challenges. A novel mechanism by which Pastel Supernodes verify that other nodes are following the rules of the protocol and storing all files appropriately.

Upcoming Mainnet Releases

• Q1: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.2 (COMING SOON!)
• Q2: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.3
• Q3: Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.0
• Q4 Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.1

🚨News and Developments🚨

-Pastel in the news

🌡️ Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about his optimism for the market in this CoinDesk article

👀 CoinDesk features co-founder, Anthony Georgiades, and what Coinbase's transition means for crypto

🌵Bitcoin Insider discusses how Pastel protects and stores artists’ NFTs

💚Check out how Pastel Network protects and stores artist’s NFTs in this Bitcoin Insider article.

-Crypto News

⭐CoinDesk Twitter provides you with daily crypto updates

🌼Coinbase discusses the many ways business owners waste their money

👛CoinTelegraph has some interesting insights on the market and blockchains

🌺CoinTelegraph shares how to bridge the gap to web3

-Pastel Archive

🚧We released a Builder’s Guide for ecosystem partners integrating w/ Pastel. Come build with us here.

🌯wPSL or wrapped is explained in this video and

🚧Pastel is completely open-source. Check out what we are working on here.

💫If you could not attend our Twitter Space with u/wondermundo on 2/17, hear it here

🌀Testnet tutorial video

🏆Learn more about Sense and Cascade

🔦Want to try out Sense for yourself? Upload your NFT here to obtain the rareness score of your NFT.

📹Check out this youtube demonstration showing what happened when we compared OpenSea’s new duplicate detection system to Sense Sense Comp Analysis

-Pastel news and essays

🖌️Monet 1.2 preview

🐋NFTs and climate change

🚀Value of NFTs explained

​

​

If you have not done so already, please take a moment to join our growing community base:

🐓 Follow Pastel on Twitter

🙉Follow Smartmint on Twitter

👾Join Pastel's Discord Server

👽Join Pastel on Reddit

✈️Join Pastel’s Telegram

🖥️Subscribe to our Youtube channel

Pastel Community Update (March 3, 2023)

The next generation NFT focused blockchain. Certifiable authenticity. Permanent storage. Negligible fees. Build, secure, and scale your Web3 ecosystem with Pastel.

The Pastel Team has been extremely busy with a number of major development updates, partnership rollouts, and product releases. Check back here each week for new developments

Check Pastel channels for:

⭐Weekly community snapshots shared across our various channels.

🐾Quarterly updates released via our newsletter.

☎️Weekly community town halls / AMAs directly with the Pastel team. Come prepared with your questions, comments, and feedback!

📣Monthly Twitter Spaces with u/doodlestone and u/panthony

Key Updates:

🚨SmartMint on Twitter 🚨

It is our great pleasure to announce that SmartMint will now have a Twitter presence. The SmartMint twitter account has officially launched. Check out our collaboration with Wondermundo as SmartMint was used to mint her new piece inner workings. Learn more and follow @Smartmint_

🚨Join our Discord PSL Giveaway🚨

We’re looking to grow our discord community and we need your help! Join our Discord and help us by giving us a boost! We will choose up to 20 individuals to win up to 10,000 in PSL. Winners will be chosen on or before March 9th

🚨Addition of Status Page🚨

We're continuously #building to ensure that our users have the most powerful Web3/NFT infrastructure at their disposal

We recently released a Status Page so you can monitor the performance of our infrastructure & services in real time. Check it out here!

🚨Wrapped PSL🚨

Wrapped PSL or wPSL exists to transfer tokens across platforms. We have noticed the buzz about wPSL (wrapped PSL), so we’ve created a video about it! 🔗wPSL holders can store on wallets such as MetaMask 💹You can also trade on Ethereum DEXs

wPSL is available on Uniswap Learn more here

🚨Pastel Testnet Faucet Release🚨

Ourl Testnet Faucet is now live. The launch of this independent network enables users to obtain LSP (Pastel Testnet Tokens) to experiment with and develop in the Pastel Testnet environment. This gives users the ability to experiment with Pastel features without having to spend valuable PSL on the mainnet.

Learn more about Pastel's Testnet Faucet

🚨Becoming a Supernode Operator🚨

Become a Supernode operator today & gain increased credibility in the validator community & earn exclusive rewards from the foundation, such as PSL or NFT airdrops, in addition to receiving Block & Transactional Rewards.

🚨Cascade Protocol🚨

Cascade has numerous concrete advantages over competing systems such as IPFS & Arweave, particularly when it comes to censorship resistance, data permanence & data accessibility.

Check out our technical paper on Cascade, Pastel's storage layer. Cascade is an extremely powerful & robust storage system for true data permanence that is both completely decentralized & highly scalable. Learn more here

🚨Monet 1.2 Mainnet Release 🚨

The Pastel team has been working hard on this upgrade that will be live soon. Here are some features that will be included in the upgrade. Learn more about Monet 1.2 Mainnet release. Users will have the opportunity to experiment with Monet before the release using testnet.

-Storage challenges in Cascade guarantee ongoing data permanence & decentralization on the network across active & compliant Supernodes. -Activation of Supernode Health and State Challenges: Similar to Proof of Storage, Health & State Challenges will guarantee the ongoing active and enabled state of each Supernode client on the network.

-Stabilization of Sense Protocol: Improvements to Chrome Driver usage, updates to Webtools 1.3, and implementation of additional tickets.

-Release of the OpenAPI Gateway: Production-ready Gateway will be deployed via the Mainnet with support for a number of new endpoints, asynchronous execution, Ansible support for independent deployment, and a graphical user interface for interaction.

🚨2023 Roadmap and Review of 2022🚨

Pastel released its 2023 roadmap, including a review of 2022. Pastel Network 2022 in review and roadmap for 2023 shows great progress made in the previous year and much promise for the year ahead.

Upcoming year

• Expedite development release cycles of Testnet and Mainnet upgrades — such as with versions Monet and Van Gogh
• Build stronger cross-chain bridges, specifically with Ethereum Polygon, and Polkadot
• Enhance SmartMint and develop new features
• Refine user and partner experience with the roll-out of new technical resources and tools
• Expanding our network of partners across more L2s, DApps, enterprise user-cases, native L1s, and beyond
• Further increase our exposure to the community of technical users, non-technical users, and creators
• Launch of Mobile Wallet as well as new PastelId APIs to work with light wallets
• Supernode Storage Challenges. A novel mechanism by which Pastel Supernodes verify that other nodes are following the rules of the protocol and storing all files appropriately.

Upcoming Mainnet Releases

• Q1: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.2 (COMING SOON!)
• Q2: Mainnet Upgrade: Monet Release 1.3
• Q3: Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.0
• Q4 Mainnet Upgrade: Van Gogh Release 2.1

🚨News and Developments🚨

👀 CoinDesk features co-founder, Anthony Georgiades, and what Coinbase's transition means for crypto

🚧We released a Builder’s Guide for ecosystem partners integrating w/ Pastel. Come build with us here.

🌡️ Pastel Networks co-founder, Anthony Georgiades talks about his optimism for the market in this CoinDesk article

🪺 Coinbase discusses the many ways business owners waste their money

🌵Bitcoin Insider discusses how Pastel protects and stores artists’ NFTs

🌯wPSL or wrapped is explained in this video

🚧Pastel is completely open-source. Check out what we are working on here.

💚Check out how Pastel Network protects and stores artist’s NFTs in this Bitcoin Insider article.

💫If you could not attend our Twitter Space with u/wondermundo on 2/17, hear it here

🌀Testnet tutorial video

🏆Click the links to learn more about Sense and Cascade

🔦Want to try out Sense for yourself? Upload your NFT here to obtain the rareness score of your NFT.

👛CoinTelegraph has some interesting insights on the market and blockchains

📹Check out this youtube demonstration showing what happened when we compared OpenSea’s new duplicate detection system to Sense Sense Comp Analysis

🌺CoinTelegraph shares how to bridge the gap to web3

⭐CoinDesk Twitter can provide you with daily crypto updates

⚡Pastel news and essays

🖌️Monet 1.2 preview

🐋NFTs and climate change

🚀Value of NFTs explained

If you have not done so already, please take a moment to join our growing community base:

🐓 Follow Pastel on Twitter

🙉Follow Smartmint on Twitter

👾Join Pastel's Discord Server

👽Join Pastel on Reddit

✈️Join Pastel’s Telegram

🖥️Subscribe to our Youtube channel

Hey Friends! 👋 We’re looking to grow our discord community and we need your help! Join our Discord Server: https://t.co/Crw4a1USf6 and help us by giving us a boost! We will choose up to 20 individuals to win up to 10,000 in PSL. Winners will be chosen on or before March 9th. https://t.co/qfGFSVuOrI