State of Play November 19th Update - Dark Emblem

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<div class="text-base text-gray-50">It&#x27;s finally here! It&#x27;s testnet time! 🚀🚀🚀</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><strong>FINAL ART STILL PENDING</strong></div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><img alt="giphy.webp" src="media/2021-11-19-testnet/giphy.webp" style="max-height:500px;margin:auto;text-align:center"/></div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">How To Participate</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">The full instructions are here: <a href="https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs/testnet/participating">https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs/testnet/participating</a>.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">TL;DR: Get MetaMask, create a Ropsten wallet, go to https://darkemblem.com.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Testing</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Feel free to buy packs, ascend, transmogrify, create auctions, bid on auctions, collect $DREM, share cards and addresses, and view card stats.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">If you want some rETH and $DREM to test with, please post your Ropsten address in the testnet channel.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Feedback</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">There&#x27;s still a lot of work do, and a lot of art to finalize. Feel free to provide feedback in the testnet channel. If you find a bug, let us know!</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Rewards</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">All testnet participants will receive 10 $DREM (redeemable for 10 packs) when the contracts are deployed to mainnet. You&#x27;ll also get a fun Testnet role on our Discord.</div>

It's finally here! It's testnet time! 🚀🚀🚀



**FINAL ART STILL PENDING**

![giphy.webp](media/2021-11-19-testnet/giphy.webp)

## How To Participate

The full instructions are here: [https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs/testnet/participating](https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs/testnet/participating).

TL;DR: Get MetaMask, create a Ropsten wallet, go to https://darkemblem.com.

## Testing

Feel free to buy packs, ascend, transmogrify, create auctions, bid on auctions, collect $DREM, share cards and addresses, and view card stats.

If you want some rETH and $DREM to test with, please post your Ropsten address in the testnet channel.

## Feedback

There's still a lot of work do, and a lot of art to finalize. Feel free to provide feedback in the testnet channel. If you find a bug, let us know!

## Rewards

All testnet participants will receive 10 $DREM (redeemable for 10 packs) when the contracts are deployed to mainnet. You'll also get a fun Testnet role on our Discord.

Testnet Release

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<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Another week, another set of updates! Our docs are updated, we&#x27;ve implemented tons of UI updates, and we&#x27;ve opened up the Auction house!</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">📓 Docs</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Our doc site has been updated with tons of new information to help onboard people onto the testnet. We also documented more about $DREM, confirmed vs unconfirmed transactions, and auctions.</div>
<ul class="ml-4 list-disc p-0">
<li><a href="https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs/testnet/participating">Testnet docs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs/drem/drem">$DREM</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs/nfts/sharing">Sharing</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">UI Updates</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We&#x27;ve added documentation links throughout the app to provide you with additional information about buying packs, collecting $DREM, and participating in auctions. We&#x27;d love feedback on this to see how we can make Dark Emblem easier to understand – there are a ton of features built into our contracts!</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Auctions</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We&#x27;ve deployed the core of the UI for Auctions to our testnet set up. You can now create an auction, view current auctions, bid on auctions and cancel auctions.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">All Auctions on the Dark Emblem Dapp are Clock auctions, you can read more on our docs.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">$DREM Updates</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We added a $DREM collection preview to the app. This will show you an estimate of how much $DREM you will collect when you collect $DREM for the season. The contract code for that has not been deployed to the testnet yet.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Contract Updates</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We&#x27;ve made a bunch of minor updates to the contract that don&#x27;t affect the core functionality. We are saving all the minor contract updates for a single deployment after the initial testnet trial.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Updates include improved gas, plans for IPFS, and cheaper costs to deploy.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Security and Stability</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Security around Smart Contracts is important and we take it very seriously. Almost every State of Play update has some reference to security, and that&#x27;s because every week we check to make sure we are following best practices, our code is tested, and we are not using any vulnerable packages.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Stability is also important. Our current system generates card art after the card has been minted. We know how important it is to see the cards you just paid money for, so we are working to make sure our servers are stable, and if something does go wrong, we have remediations already in place.</div>

Another week, another set of updates! Our docs are updated, we've implemented tons of UI updates, and we've opened up the Auction house!



## 📓 Docs

Our doc site has been updated with tons of new information to help onboard people onto the testnet. We also documented more about $DREM, confirmed vs unconfirmed transactions, and auctions.

- [Testnet docs](https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs/testnet/participating)
- [$DREM](https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs/drem/drem)
- [Sharing](https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs/nfts/sharing)

## UI Updates

We've added documentation links throughout the app to provide you with additional information about buying packs, collecting $DREM, and participating in auctions. We'd love feedback on this to see how we can make Dark Emblem easier to understand – there are a ton of features built into our contracts!

## Auctions

We've deployed the core of the UI for Auctions to our testnet set up. You can now create an auction, view current auctions, bid on auctions and cancel auctions.

All Auctions on the Dark Emblem Dapp are Clock auctions, you can read more on our docs.

## $DREM Updates

We added a $DREM collection preview to the app. This will show you an estimate of how much $DREM you will collect when you collect $DREM for the season. The contract code for that has not been deployed to the testnet yet.

## Contract Updates

We've made a bunch of minor updates to the contract that don't affect the core functionality. We are saving all the minor contract updates for a single deployment after the initial testnet trial.

Updates include improved gas, plans for IPFS, and cheaper costs to deploy.

## Security and Stability

Security around Smart Contracts is important and we take it very seriously. Almost every State of Play update has some reference to security, and that's because every week we check to make sure we are following best practices, our code is tested, and we are not using any vulnerable packages.

Stability is also important. Our current system generates card art after the card has been minted. We know how important it is to see the cards you just paid money for, so we are working to make sure our servers are stable, and if something does go wrong, we have remediations already in place.

State of Play November 19th Update

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<div class="text-base text-gray-50">TL;DR: We released our testnet, found bugs, and made a lot of improvements.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">UI Improvements</h2>
<ul class="ml-4 list-disc p-0">
<li>You can now view who owns a card by clicking the owner&#x27;s address</li>
<li>Unconfirmed card images will no longer be cached. Your unconfirmed card image and traits can change once the block is actually confirmed. When this happened, the UI would show a stale image, but with updated traits. Thanks to our testnet participants for finding this bug!</li>
<li>We made the entire UI better for mobile browsers and smaller screens.</li>
<li>You can now redeem more than 1 DREM at a time in order to unlock stat boosts. This was always part of the contract, but we didn&#x27;t have time to add it to the UI.</li>
<li>Added a few animations to make the UI feel less like a boring enterprise app. Some page transitions were added.</li>
<li>We also added shine and sparkle effects to rarer cards.</li>
<li>New notifications were added to let you know when auction creation, cancelling, and bidding transactions are complete.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Contract Changes</h2>
<ul class="ml-4 list-disc p-0">
<li>We added a max DREM claim to the contract. This value will start at 10 DREM a season.</li>
<li>We re-wrote the contracts from stratch to better organize the code, and to address a bunch of minor issues that the Slither security scanner found.</li>
<li>Verified our contracts meet ERC20 and ERC721 specs.</li>
<li>We fixed auctions. Cancelling an auction would sometimes cause the auction house to throw errors. Thanks to our testnet participants for finding this bug!</li>
<li>We&#x27;ve added nicer errors to some of the functionality in the contract. When a transaction fails, you can view the transaction in etherscan to get more information about the error. We will be working on adding more UI guards for common
mistakes later.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Rolling Out These Changes</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We will be re-deploying our contracts to the testnet. Any cards you have minted will still be on the testnet blockchain, but they won&#x27;t show up in the UI after we deploy and re-route the UI to use the new contract addresses.</div>

TL;DR: We released our testnet, found bugs, and made a lot of improvements.



## UI Improvements

* You can now view who owns a card by clicking the owner's address
* Unconfirmed card images will no longer be cached. Your unconfirmed card image and traits can change once the block is actually confirmed. When this happened, the UI would show a stale image, but with updated traits. Thanks to our testnet participants for finding this bug!
* We made the entire UI better for mobile browsers and smaller screens.
* You can now redeem more than 1 DREM at a time in order to unlock stat boosts. This was always part of the contract, but we didn't have time to add it to the UI.
* Added a few animations to make the UI feel less like a boring enterprise app. Some page transitions were added.
* We also added shine and sparkle effects to rarer cards.
* New notifications were added to let you know when auction creation, cancelling, and bidding transactions are complete.

## Contract Changes

* We added a max DREM claim to the contract. This value will start at 10 DREM a season.
* We re-wrote the contracts from stratch to better organize the code, and to address a bunch of minor issues that the Slither security scanner found.
* Verified our contracts meet ERC20 and ERC721 specs.
* We fixed auctions. Cancelling an auction would sometimes cause the auction house to throw errors. Thanks to our testnet participants for finding this bug!
* We've added nicer errors to some of the functionality in the contract. When a transaction fails, you can view the transaction in etherscan to get more information about the error. We will be working on adding more UI guards for common
mistakes later.

## Rolling Out These Changes

We will be re-deploying our contracts to the testnet. Any cards you have minted will still be on the testnet blockchain, but they won't show up in the UI after we deploy and re-route the UI to use the new contract addresses.