LikeCoin community has been steering a steady course through choppy waters in 2022. Let’s have a brief review of what we have archived at the end of the year.
Civic Liker Web3 Launched
Civic Liker movement has enter the Web3 era on Feb 21. Users can get the membership by delegating 5,000 LikeCoin to “Civic Liker Node” and the stake-reward generated will be distributed to creators via the LikeCoin button. Liker Land has suspended credit card payment support due to regulatory risk.
Numbers Protocol x LikeCoin
Number Protocol partnered with LikeCoin to realize the decentralize publishing with authenticity on Feb 18. Users can register ISCN by Capture App directly.
LikeCoin Airdrop
During Feb 21 – Aug 22, in totally 182 days 50 million LikeCoin has been dropped to eligible addresses including Civic Likers, ATOM/OSMO holders, delegators and LP providers. Eligible users need to complete 4 missions to learn the project’s basics and to participate in governance in order to get the airdrop. We expect to promote LikeCoin to more crypto users by this campaign.
Multi-chain Wallet and Block Explorer: Cosmostation, Leap and Mintscan
Users can export seed words from Liker Land app (A custodial wallet) so to migrate to other non-custodial substitution such as Keplr, Cosmostation and Leap for transferring, delegating and voting.
Mintscan, a popular block explorer in Cosmos ecosystem, also supports LikeCoin.
LikeCoin chain upgrade
LikeCoin chain has completed two upgrades in 2022:
LaiChiKok Upgrade
May 4: LikeCoin chain upgraded to version “LaiChiKok“, which is the fifth upgrade of LikeCoin chain. It is also the first time to use Cosmovisor for automatic upgrades. LikeCoin wallet address is changed to “like1” in LaiChiKok, and Cosmos-SDK 0.44.8 and ibc-go 2.1.0 were supported.
LikeCoin address changed from “cosmos” prefix to “like” prefix with backward compatibility can speed up the integration of LikeCoin with other applications in Cosmos ecosystem such as Cosmostation, Mintscan, Keplr, etc.
StarFerry Upgrade
July 21: LikeCoin chain upgraded to version “StarFerry“, supporting NFT modules for the functions like NFT minting, blind-box and NFT marketplace chain API. This upgrade lays the necessary foundation for the Writing NFT application which to be launched later in August.
Preservation of Historical Evidence of the Russo-Ukrainian War
June 10: LikeCoin, as one of the partners of Project Starling, has established a digital evidence preservation platform to submit the first of many compilation materials to the ICC, International Criminal Court, documenting the war crimes happened at 5 schools during Russia’s invasion of Kharkov in Ukraine . This is the first time to use cryptography, decentralized storage and blockchain to protect evidence for court.
Writing NFT Launch
Writing NFT beta is Launched on Aug 1, and the following features are rolled out step-by-step in the following 4 months:
- Users who have joined the whitelist can publish Writing NFT
- WordPress plugin supports Writing NFT
- Publish any URL as an Writing NFT with the NFT Portal
- Transfer NFT
- Support paying by credit card/debit card
- Writer message and Gifting memo
- Favorite Creators and Top Fans list
- Setup Featured/Hidden NFT at My Dashboard
- Marketplace Prototype for secondary NFT market
NFT eBook Experiment
Besides Writing NFT, Liker Land also supports other NFT types such as “NFT eBook“. In October, ckxpress conducted an experiment of his new NFT eBook 《所謂「我不投資」，就是 all in 在法定貨幣》. Participants not only receive the eBook file in epub and pdf format, but also get the “NFT eBook” with author’s signature, which can be shared on Liker Land’s NFT eBookshelf for display.
ckxpress released the quantitative analysis of the above decentralized publishing experiment for future reference.
Events
We organized several author’s chatroom on LikeCoin Discord and participated in many events in 2022, some of them are listed below. For more interviews, please refer to the media reports.
- Feb 24: Impact Incubator 創匯點：【社會企業專題研討會 – 區塊鏈 x 社會影響力】區塊鏈的社會創想
- May 30:【高峰論壇系列六】「新時代的使者？區塊鏈的激進潛能」總覽：自由「三幅被」？區塊鏈與自由的實踐
- Jul 12 網絡星期二: 合作社 ＆ 去中心化自治組織 DAO — 以人為本的治理解決了哪些問題，又面臨哪些困境？
- Jul 30-31 COSCUP 2022: 讓七百萬人透過分散式自治組織（DAO）協作，可能麼？、NFT use cases on Cosmos Ecosystem
- Aug 24-28: DWeb Camp
- Aug 24: Revive Tech Asia 2022: Migrating the Creator Economy to Web3
- Aug 25: Binance Live: How Are Blockchain & NFTs Changing the Publishing Industry
- Oct 28: IPFS Camp 2022: Keynote: Decentralization and Human Rights Showcase、The Future of Decentralized Publishing – Phoebe Poon ( Video )
- 《所謂「我不投資」，就是 all in 在法定貨幣》 Decentralized Publishing experiment
- Nov 15: FAB DAO Discord
- Nov 22: 北科大區塊鏈研究社 NTUT Blockchain
- Nov 23: FABDAO@飛地nowhere
- Nov 25: 序言書室
- Nov 25: 社企民間高峰會：共益元宇宙：教育 x 藝術 x 科技
- Dec 10: GDG Cloud Hong Kong DevFest 2022：以區塊鏈實現分散式出版
LikeCoin Author’s Chatroom
- Apr 19: SCMP x LikeCoin 你問我答
- Jul 14: Watershed HK：「香港歷史與去中心出版」
- Jul 26: 初創起步 Startup Readiness Bootcamp AMA
- Jul 27: Sally Chong：莎莉斜槓人生提案
- Aug 3: 薯伯伯：把 “404” 的立場博客文章再出版成 Writing NFT
- Aug 24: 許明恩：拆掉付費牆可行嗎？為何區塊勢要從 Web2 升級到 Web3？ ft. LikeCoin
- Sep 7: Writing NFT 你問我答
- Sep 21: BlockTempo
- Sep 16: KiiTOS Galaxy：在人生的最後階段，我會以甚麼方式做記錄？
- Sep 29: 鄒頌華：城市探廢，時光定格
- Oct 19: Sally Chong：台東人的慢靈魂
- Nov 16: 大角咀社區報《角醒》：文字《角醒》，遍地開花