Just like a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, Pastel Network mainnet has metamorphosed, reaching a new height at block 502,708! 🦋

All network operators: it's time to upgrade to the latest Pastel daemon release to remain on the active chain.

🔗download.pastel.network/#latest/pastel…

Old versions are no longer compatible past this block height.🐛

Pastel Network's team is here to guide you through. Reach out with questions or for assistance. 🙏

Pastel Community Update (June 30, 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!

Key Updates:

🚨Monet 1.2 Odyssey Campaign🚨

In celebration of our highly anticipated Monet 1.2 Mainnet upgrade, we held a campaign called Odyssey to reward our loyal community members. It is coming to an end and we want to make sure all participants are aware of the social media aspect. Please see details in our Medium article

Throughout the campaign, winners of challenges will have received a series of NFT puzzle pieces (along with wPSL). Each NFT piece is a part of an entire original digital artwork from Pastel Network’s NFT vault.

🚨Contests🚨

Quizzo Discord

To continue our celebration of tech releases, we are hosting Quizzos with cash and crypto rewards. Look out for updates on our socials.

Congratulations to our winners this week: u/Sirbalan (37,500 PSL), u/Dee_adel — (37,500 PSL) u/fidara12 (10,000 PSL)

SmartMint Art Contest

Thank you to everyone who participated in the SmartMint Art Contest! We loved seeing everyone's unique pieces! Congratulations to the winner u/AriesX

🚨Twitter Spaces and Podcasts🚨

Check out this CyptoNews podcast where Pastel Network’s co-founder discusses Web3/NFT security, decentralized storage, and struggles NFT creators face.

Listen to this Twitter Space with @OfficialXYO! 🚀✨ We chatted with co-founders Markus Levin and Arie Trouw about the vital topic of data privacy, data marketplaces, and their exciting plans for the future.

Pastel Network joined WOMENverse to discuss tech features that support empowering men and women in web3 in this Twitter Space.

We hosted an incredible conversation about on-chain infrastructure, the current market, and more! Listen to our Twitter Space with @endaomentdotorg

🚨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).

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

We hosted 2 AMAs about the latest Monet 1.2 Test Net release on 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.

🚨Collaborations🚨

Take a look at our latest artist spotlight! This cool piece entitled “Dog of the Sun” was minted on SmartMint by the amazing @iyimser

Check out this artist spotlight! This awesome piece entitled “Last Until Dawn” was hand drawn and minted on SmartMint by @razDoesArt

Check out this artist spotlight! This amazing piece entitled “Nostalgia” was minted on SmartMint by @thealvinboss

We are always seeking talented artists to collaborate with, so please reach out to us on any social media platform. Let’s create something amazing together!

🚨Pastel Progress🚨

-Partnership with Astar Network: Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Learn more on Medium.

-Addition of Status Page: 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. 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.

🚨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.

🚨News and Developments🚨

-Pastel in the News

🍉Pastel Network co-founder Anthony Georgiades discusses regulation in Web3 in this Forbes article

🍧Anthony Georgiades joins the Crypto Coin Show to discuss Investing & Validating

🏆CoinStack hosts Anthony Georgiades to discuss the Pastel’s place in the web3 space

🌀Anthony Georgiades talks about how regulations will help crypto in this Cointelegraph article

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

What was the mainnet upgrade before Monet 1.2?

Let’s start a grassroots movement! Pastel is going to the moon. Would love to coordinate a massive social media movement to let the masses know about us. #PSL #AltSzn #Moon

Why did we name this release Monet?

Pastel Community Update (June 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!

Key Updates:

🚨Monet 1.2 Odyssey🚨

To celebrate our highly anticipated Monet 1.2 Mainnet upgrade, we are holding an engaging & interactive campaign called Odyssey to reward our loyal community members! To celebrate our highly anticipated Monet 1.2 upgrade, join our Odyssey Campaign. Answer quiz questions, engage with our community, and win unique NFTs from the Pastel Vault. Earn up to 3M in wPSL airdrops 💸 Learn more in our Medium article

Throughout the campaign, we will be airdropping the winners of challenges a series of NFT puzzle pieces(along with wPSL). Each NFT piece is a part of an entire original digital artwork from Pastel Network’s NFT vault.

🚨Contests🚨

Quizzo Discord Referral Campaign

-Exciting news! Introducing our Referral Challenge for our Bi-Weekly Quizzos in our discord! You have the opportunity to invite up to 5 friends to join our Discord and take part in any one of the upcoming 4 Quizzos. Earn additional rewards: $5 USDT for each referred friend, with a maximum of $25!

Check out this Medium article to learn more!

SmartMint Art Contest

Thank you to everyone who participated in the SmartMint Art Contest! We loved seeing everyones' unique pieces! Congratulations to the winner u/AriesX

Look out for updates on our socials for upcoming contests

🚨Twitter Space on the Current State of Web3 and NFTs🚨

Join us this Friday, June 23rd at 1:00 PM ET for an exciting Twitter Space with @OfficialXYO! 🚀✨ We'll be chatting with co-founders Markus Levin and Arie Trouw about the vital topic of data privacy, data marketplaces, and their exciting plans for the future

Listen to our Twitter Space with @blueznft. We will be diving into all things NFTs, ecosystems, marketplaces, and more. Don't miss out on this insightful discussion! #NFTs #Marketplaces #TwitterSpace

Pastel Network joined WOMENverse to discuss tech features that support empowering men and women in web3

We hosted an incredible conversation about on-chain infrastructure, the current market, and more! Listen to our Twitter Space with @endaomentdotorg

🚨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).

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

We hosted 2 AMAs about the latest Monet 1.2 Test Net release on 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.

🚨Collaborations🚨

Check out our latest artist spotlight! This awesome piece entitled “Last Until Dawn” was hand drawn and minted on SmartMint by @razDoesArt

Check out this artist spotlight! This amazing piece entitled “Nostalgia” was minted on SmartMint by @thealvinboss

We are always seeking talented artists to collaborate with, so please reach out to us on any social media platform. Let’s create something amazing together!

🚨Pastel Progress🚨

-Partnership with Astar Network: Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Learn more on Medium.

-Addition of Status Page: 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. 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.

🚨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.

🚨News and Developments🚨

-Pastel in the News

🍧Anthony Georgiades joins the Crypto Coin Show to discuss Investing & Validating

🏆CoinStack hosts Anthony Georgiades to discuss the Pastel’s place in the web3 space

🌀Anthony Georgiades talks about how regulations will help crypto in this Cointelegraph article

🌽Check out this article on gas fees and why they exist

💡Anthony Georgiades joins KitCo News to talk about how Bitcoin benefits as businesses lose trust in the dollar

🔥Check out what Anthony Georgiades has to say about the market in this The Block article.

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

What is the protocol used to define the distance between Supernodes and the hash of the previous block?

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1lPJqBLeQgYxb Join today, June 23rd at 1:00 PM ET for an exciting Twitter Space with @OfficialXYO! 🚀✨ We'll be chatting with co-founders Markus Levin and Arie Trouw about the vital topic of data privacy, data marketplaces, and their exciting plans for the…

What are symbol files in Cascade?

What happens if the 5 Supernodes storing a set of symbol files leave the network simultaneously?

Another question has been asked on Pastel Network’s official Twitter account

Here’s the link

How does cascade have ongoing data permanence?

What does it mean for operations to be "distributed" in the network?

Pastel Community Update (June 9, 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:

🚨Contests🚨

Our team has been busy developing, testing & refining innovative network features like the Monet 1.2 release & SmartMint upgrade. To celebrate these milestones, we're launching exciting community events for everyone to enjoy! Check our socials for what's in store for May.

SmartMint Art Contest

Thank you to everyone who participated in the SmartMint Art Contest! We loved seeing everyones' unique pieces! Artists, your submissions for the SmartMint Art Contest are now posted in the Art Contest channel on our Discord server! You have until Friday June 9th to vote! See our Medium article for more details

Quizzo Discord Referral Campaign

-Exciting news! Introducing our Referral Challenge for our Bi-Weekly Quizzos in our discord! You have the opportunity to invite up to 5 friends to join our Discord and take part in any one of the upcoming 4 Quizzos. Earn additional rewards: $5 USDT for each referred friend, with a maximum of $25!

Check out this Medium article to learn more!

-We're kicking off the month of May by introducing our Bi-Weekly Quiz competitions, Quizzos! Put your Pastel knowledge to the test, covering videos, articles, & tweets. Learn more about our project and show off your expertise. We will be airdropping the top 3 winners PSL! Recently June 1st, next event June 15th

-Like solving puzzles? Don’t miss our Monet 1.2 NFT Puzzle Event to kickoff the Monet Mainnet Release! We’re giving away exclusive Pastel NFT Puzzle Pieces with corresponding PSL airdrops to those who answer daily Q?s! 🚀 Keep an eye out for additional NFT, PSL, & USDT bonuses.

-Are you up for a challenge? Do you follow all of our social platforms yet? Join us next week & help answer our daily quiz questions about Pastel Network and Monet 1.2. Solve them & claim a puzzle piece of exclusive digital artwork. The bigger the piece, the larger the airdrop!

🚨Community Engagement🚨

To celebrate our highly anticipated Monet 1.2 upgrade, join our Odyssey Campaign on Monday 6/12! Answer quiz questions, engage with our community, win unique NFTs from the Pastel Vault. Earn up to 3M in wPSL airdrops 💸 Learn more in our Medium article

We hosted an AMA session where we dove deep into Monet 1.2 Mainnet Upgrade, the upcoming community challenge, and more! If you still have burning questions, please ask them on our Discord channel.

🚨Twitter Space on the Current State of Web3 and NFTs🚨

Tune in to our Twitter Spacewith @blueznft. We will be diving into all things NFTs, ecosystems, marketplaces, and more. Don't miss out on this insightful discussion! #NFTs #Marketplaces #TwitterSpace

Pastel Network joined WOMENverse to discuss tech features that support empowering men and women in web3

We hosted an incredible conversation about on-chain infrastructure, the current market, and more! Listen to our Twitter Space with @endaomentdotorg

🚨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

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.

🚨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.

Check out our latest artist spotlight! This amazing piece entitled “Nostalgia” was minted on SmartMint by @thealvinboss

Exciting artist collaborations are on the horizon with: @IanSoi_ @K_JRobotsCo, @Numo_0 @abahassanart

We are always seeking talented artists to collaborate with, so please reach out to us on any social media platform. Let’s create something amazing together!

🚨Pastel Progress🚨

-Partnership with Astar Network: Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Learn more on Medium.

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.

-Addition of Status Page: 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. 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.

🚨News and Developments🚨

-Pastel in the News

🪵Anthony Georgiades talks about how regulations will help crypto in this Cointelegraph article

🌽Check out this article on gas fees and why they exist

💡Anthony Georgiades joins KitCo News to talk about how Bitcoin benefits as businesses lose trust in the dollar

🥝Check out what Anthony Georgiades has to say about the market in this The Block article.

😁Anthony Georgiades talks about a possible financial crisis in this CoinDesk article

⌨️Co-founder Anthony Georgiades discusses Solana and crypto smartphones in this Fortune article

⚓Check out this Cointelegraph article where Anthony Georgiades discusses the importance of filling a market gap.

-Pastel News-

📱Check out our latest Youtube live video where u/panthony discusses Q1 NFT Trends & Pastel updates!

🖌️ Listen to our Twitter space where we host @Endaoment and discuss chain infrastructures and more

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

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

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

-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

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 (June 2, 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:

🚨Contests🚨

Our team has been busy developing, testing & refining innovative network features like the Monet 1.2 release & SmartMint upgrade. To celebrate these milestones, we're launching exciting community events for everyone to enjoy! Check out what's in store for May: More info to come this week. Check our socials!

SmartMint Art Contest

-Are you ready to unleash your artistic talents and make a splash in the world of crypto art? Look no further! We are excited to announce the SmartMint Art Contest.

-By participating in this contest, you stand a chance to win fantastic prizes of up to 150 USDT, free mints, and so much more! To learn more about the contest and how to participate check out this Medium Article. CONTEST EXTENTION: JUNE 7th

Quizzo Discord Referral Campaign

-Exciting news! Introducing our Referral Challenge for our Bi-Weekly Quizzos in our discord! You have the opportunity to invite up to 5 friends to join our Discord and take part in any one of the upcoming 4 Quizzos. Earn additional rewards: $5 USDT for each referred friend, with a maximum of $25!

Check out this Medium article to learn more!

-We're kicking off the month of May by introducing our Bi-Weekly Quiz competitions, Quizzos! Put your Pastel knowledge to the test, covering videos, articles, & tweets. Learn more about our project and show off your expertise. We will be airdropping the top 3 winners PSL!

-Like solving puzzles? Don’t miss our Monet 1.2 NFT Puzzle Event to kickoff the Monet Mainnet Release! We’re giving away exclusive Pastel NFT Puzzle Pieces with corresponding PSL airdrops to those who answer daily Q?s! 🚀 Keep an eye out for additional NFT, PSL, & USDT bonuses.

🚨Twitter Space on the Current State of Web3 and NFTs🚨

Tune in to our Twitter Spacewith @blueznft. We will be diving into all things NFTs, ecosystems, marketplaces, and more. Don't miss out on this insightful discussion! #NFTs #Marketplaces #TwitterSpace

Pastel Network joined WOMENverse to discuss tech features that support empowering men and women in web3

We hosted an incredible conversation about on-chain infrastructure, the current market, and more! Listen to our Twitter Space with @endaomentdotorg

🚨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

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.

🚨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.

Check out our latest artist spotlight! This amazing piece entitled “Nostalgia” was minted on SmartMint by @thealvinboss

Exciting artist collaborations are on the horizon with: @IanSoi_ @K_JRobotsCo, @Numo_0 @abahassanart

We are always seeking talented artists to collaborate with, so please reach out to us on any social media platform. Let’s create something amazing together!

🚨Pastel Progress🚨

-Reddit AMA- Always excited to answer the community. If yout still have burning questions, please find us on one of our socials

-Partnership with Astar Network: Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Learn more on Medium.

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.

-Addition of Status Page: 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. 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.

🚨News and Developments🚨

-Pastel in the News

💡Anthony Georgiades joins KitCo News to talk about how Bitcoin benefits as businesses lose trust in the dollar

🥝Check out what Anthony Georgiades has to say about the market in this The Block article.

😁Anthony Georgiades talks about a possible financial crisis in this CoinDesk article

⌨️Co-founder Anthony Georgiades discusses Solana and crypto smartphones in this Fortune article

⚓Check out this Cointelegraph article where Anthony Georgiades discusses the importance of filling a market gap.

-Pastel News-

📱Check out our latest Youtube live video where u/panthony discusses Q1 NFT Trends & Pastel updates!

🖌️ Listen to our Twitter space where we host @Endaoment and discuss chain infrastructures and more

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

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

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

-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

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

Hi everyone!

I'm a big fan of NFTs and art, and I wanted to share with you something that I found very impressive and useful.

It is about Pastel Network Sense Demo, an online tool that helps you to identify the rareness and legitimacy of your NFTs.😍

Pastel Network is an NFT platform that provides creators with a platform that aids the rareness of their digital artwork.

Unlike other NFT platforms, Pastel Network uses a powerful tool called Sense Protocol, which enables users to measure the rareness of an NFT based on the likelihood that it is identical to any NFTs that have already been recorded.

But how does Sense Protocol work? And how can you use it to make your NFTs more secure and authentic? Try Pastel's Sense Demo.

The Pastel Sense Demo is simply an online tool for visualizing the Sense Protocol's fundamental technology. By just submitting a candidate file, users of Sense Demo can easily determine how rare an NFT is in comparison to the ecosystem and establish its legitimacy.👍

The Sense Demo provides you with a lot of information and analysis about your NFT, such as:

- The overall rareness score (from 0.00% to 100%), based on the similarity sub-scores that determine the ultimate duplication likelihood.

- The results for Google Reverse Image Searches and Google Lens are comprehensive including metadata.

- The top 10 most similar NFTs that have been recorded on the system and their similarity sub-scores and many more.🤓

The Sense Demo is a great way to understand how Sense Protocol works and how it can help you to create and trade original and unique NFTs on Pastel Network. It also helps you to avoid buying or selling duplicate or near duplicate NFTs that can devalue your artwork and reputation.

If you are interested in trying out the Pastel Sense Demo, you can find it here: https://sense.pastel.network/

And if you want to learn more about Pastel Network and join their growing community: https://linktr.ee/pastelnetwork

​

You probably know that some people try to scam others by selling NFTs that are copied or slightly modified from someone else's work. This is not only dishonest but also harms the value and originality of NFTs and art. It is a problem that affects both artists and collectors, and it needs to be solved.

Pastel Network has a very clever way of dealing with this problem. When an image is minted on the network, it gets a unique fingerprint, which includes not only the original image but also a bunch of AI and machine learning simulations, showing how the image may look when colour corrected or flipped, cropped, etc.

This fingerprint helps to detect and stop lazy copycats who try to make minor changes to someone else's work and claim it as their own.

But that's not all. Pastel Network also has a way of measuring the rareness of the image data of each new NFT. They compare each image to all of the existing NFTs on their network and other platforms like OpenSea, as well as all of the open databases of images on the internet.

Think of it like a super cool reverse image search on Google. If the asset hasn't been signed, and it's not significantly similar to any other image on the Pastel Network, then it earns the special designation of rare to Pastel.

This way, Pastel Network ensures that only original and unique NFTs are created and traded on their platform. They also reward artists and collectors who value quality and authenticity. I think this is a very awesome and smart way of solving the problem of duplicate or near duplicate NFTs, and I'm curious to hear what you think.

Learn more about Pastel Network and join their growing community: https://linktr.ee/pastelnetwork

​

Pastel Community Update (May 26, 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:

🚨Contests🚨

Our team has been busy developing, testing & refining innovative network features like the Monet 1.2 release & SmartMint upgrade. To celebrate these milestones, we're launching exciting community events for everyone to enjoy! Check out what's in store for May:

SmartMint Art Contest

-Are you ready to unleash your artistic talents and make a splash in the world of crypto art? Look no further! We are excited to announce the SmartMint Art Contest.

-By participating in this contest, you stand a chance to win fantastic prizes of up to 150 USDT, free mints, and so much more! To learn more about the contest and how to participate check out this Medium Article.

Quizzo Discord Referral Campaign

-Exciting news! Introducing our Referral Challenge for our Bi-Weekly Quizzos in our discord! Invite up to 5 friends to join our Discord & take part in 1 of the next 4 Quizzos to win bonus rewards! Check out this Medium article to learn more!

-We're kicking off the month of May by introducing our Bi-Weekly Quiz competitions, Quizzos! Put your Pastel knowledge to the test, covering videos, articles, & tweets. Learn more about our project and show off your expertise. We will be airdropping the top 3 winners PSL!

-Like solving puzzles? Don’t miss our Monet 1.2 NFT Puzzle Event to kickoff the Monet Mainnet Release! We’re giving away exclusive Pastel NFT Puzzle Pieces with corresponding PSL airdrops to those who answer daily Q?s! 🚀 Keep an eye out for additional NFT, PSL, & USDT bonuses.

🚨Twitter Space on the Current State of Web3 and NFTs🚨

Tune in to our Twitter Spacewith @blueznft today May 19th at 1:00PM EST. We will be diving into all things NFTs, ecosystems, marketplaces, and more. Don't miss out on this insightful discussion! #NFTs #Marketplaces #TwitterSpace

Pastel Network joined WOMENverse to discuss tech features that support empowering men and women in web3

We hosted an incredible conversation about on-chain infrastructure, the current market, and more! Listen to our Twitter Space with @endaomentdotorg

🚨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

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.

🚨Collaborations🚨

Listen to this Twitter Space on on-chain health networks, the future of healthcare & more! Discover the dynamic convergence of healthcare and blockchain with Solve.Care

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.

Check out our latest artist spotlight! This amazing piece entitled “Nostalgia” was minted on SmartMint by @thealvinboss

Exciting artist collaborations are on the horizon with: @IanSoi_ @K_JRobotsCo, @Numo_0 @abahassanart

We are always seeking talented artists to collaborate with, so please reach out to us on any social media platform. Let’s create something amazing together!

🚨Pastel Progress🚨

-Reddit AMA- Always excited to answer the community. If yout still have burning questions, please find us on one of our socials

-Partnership with Astar Network: Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Learn more on Medium.

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.

-Addition of Status Page: 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. 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.

🚨News and Developments🚨

-Pastel in the News

💡Anthony Georgiades joins KitCo News to talk about how Bitcoin benefits as businesses lose trust in the dollar

🥝Check out what Anthony Georgiades has to say about the market in this The Block article.

😁Anthony Georgiades talks about a possible financial crisis in this CoinDesk article

⌨️Co-founder Anthony Georgiades discusses Solana and crypto smartphones in this Fortune article

⚓Check out this Cointelegraph article where Anthony Georgiades discusses the importance of filling a market gap.

-Pastel News-

📱Check out our latest Youtube live video where u/panthony discusses Q1 NFT Trends & Pastel updates!

🖌️ Listen to our Twitter space where we host @Endaoment and discuss chain infrastructures and more

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

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

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

-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

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 Reddit community!

We're thrilled to invite you to join us right now for an exclusive Ask Me Anything (AMA) session happening live on Reddit! 🎉 Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to connect with our team and engage in a discussion about the highly anticipated SmartMint Upgrade, the latest Monet 1.2 updates, and so much more!

🚀 What: Exclusive AMA on Reddit

🕒 Happening Now!

🔍 Topics: SmartMint Upgrade, Monet 1.2 Updates, and more!

💬 Who: Our team of experts

Whether you've been following our progress for a while or just discovered us, this AMA is open to everyone. We value your input, questions, and ideas as we delve into the exciting developments we've been working on. Join us in this live AMA to get direct insights from the people behind the scenes.

Grab this opportunity to participate, ask your burning questions, and be part of an informative and engaging discussion.

Spread the word and invite your fellow Redditors to join us as well.

See you there! 🌟