State of Play Update November 29 - Dark Emblem

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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.

State of Play Update November 29

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<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Hope everyone isn&#x27;t sick of weekly updates yet! We are rolling out v2 of the testnet, we&#x27;ve announced the final $DREM rewards, and we are gearing up for mainnet.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Testnet v2</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We are rolling v2 of the Testnet.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><img alt="Another one" src="media/2021-12-05-state-of-play-update/dj-khaled-another-one.gif" style="max-height:500px;margin:auto;text-align:center"/></div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">The old contracts still exist on the blockchain, but we have deployed a new set of contracts and the <a href="https://darkemblem.com">dapp</a> now points to the new contracts. All of the old card assets that were cached have been deleted as well.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">As part of this deployment, we also fixed how the contract code was verified. You can now see the verified contract code when inspecting our contracts, NFT, and ERC20 token on Etherscan.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Early Supporter Role</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We have announced the final $DREM rewards for being an Early Supporter and Testnet user.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><img alt="Rewards" src="media/2021-12-05-state-of-play-update/rewards.png" style="max-height:500px;margin:auto;text-align:center"/></div>
<ol class="ml-4 list-decimal p-0">
<li>Early Supporters will get 10 $DREM on release</li>
<li>Testnet users will get 5 $DREM on release</li>
</ol>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Our <a href="https://www.darkemblem.com">main site</a> also has a countdown timer for the Early Supporter role. We will be closing that role at the end of the month (December 31, 2021).</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Documentation</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We rolled out additional documentation on how Pack IDs, traits, and rarities work. You can read more on our <a href="https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs">docs</a>.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Card Improvements</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Generally, this last week, the team has been focusing on card art, getting new cards implemented, and improving the way cards are generated.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">There are now improved color palettes for cards, a few more variants of our existing cards, and we&#x27;ve scaled backgrounds so rarer cards have nicer backgrounds.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Going Live</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">On top of the improvements above, we are also prepping for production. And the best way to prep is to run through different scenarios to see how we can respond.</div>
<h3 class="text-gray-50 text-xl font-bold text-gray-50">How it Works</h3>
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<li>We come up with a catastrophic scenario that can happen in production.</li>
<li>We determine what steps we need to mitigate the issue.</li>
<li>We walk through the steps on local or testnet environments.</li>
<li>We formalize these steps into what we call a &quot;Runbook&quot; – these are specific instructions that any of the devs can take in the event of a security issue, server crash, and more.</li>
<li>Finally, we determine if there was anything missing from our contracts or infrastructure that could have helped us mitigate the issue.</li>
</ol>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Some positive outcomes from these runbooks:</div>
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<li>We found some issues in the contracts that we have patched for the testnet.</li>
<li>We formalized some of the mitigation patterns as tests against the contracts.</li>
<li>We have a few more plans to help mitigate issues once the contracts are on mainnet.</li>
</ol>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Looking Forward</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We are excited for the coming months as we finalize our GEN0 artwork and start building our community in anticipation for mainnet!</div>

Hope everyone isn't sick of weekly updates yet! We are rolling out v2 of the testnet, we've announced the final $DREM rewards, and we are gearing up for mainnet.



## Testnet v2

We are rolling v2 of the Testnet.

![Another one](media/2021-12-05-state-of-play-update/dj-khaled-another-one.gif)

The old contracts still exist on the blockchain, but we have deployed a new set of contracts and the [dapp](https://darkemblem.com) now points to the new contracts. All of the old card assets that were cached have been deleted as well.

As part of this deployment, we also fixed how the contract code was verified. You can now see the verified contract code when inspecting our contracts, NFT, and ERC20 token on Etherscan.

## Early Supporter Role

We have announced the final $DREM rewards for being an Early Supporter and Testnet user.

![Rewards](media/2021-12-05-state-of-play-update/rewards.png)

1. Early Supporters will get 10 $DREM on release
2. Testnet users will get 5 $DREM on release

Our [main site](https://www.darkemblem.com) also has a countdown timer for the Early Supporter role. We will be closing that role at the end of the month (December 31, 2021).

## Documentation

We rolled out additional documentation on how Pack IDs, traits, and rarities work. You can read more on our [docs](https://blog.darkemblem.com/docs).

## Card Improvements

Generally, this last week, the team has been focusing on card art, getting new cards implemented, and improving the way cards are generated.

There are now improved color palettes for cards, a few more variants of our existing cards, and we've scaled backgrounds so rarer cards have nicer backgrounds.

## Going Live

On top of the improvements above, we are also prepping for production. And the best way to prep is to run through different scenarios to see how we can respond.

### How it Works

1. We come up with a catastrophic scenario that can happen in production.
2. We determine what steps we need to mitigate the issue.
3. We walk through the steps on local or testnet environments.
4. We formalize these steps into what we call a "Runbook" – these are specific instructions that any of the devs can take in the event of a security issue, server crash, and more.
5. Finally, we determine if there was anything missing from our contracts or infrastructure that could have helped us mitigate the issue.

Some positive outcomes from these runbooks:

1. We found some issues in the contracts that we have patched for the testnet.
2. We formalized some of the mitigation patterns as tests against the contracts.
3. We have a few more plans to help mitigate issues once the contracts are on mainnet.

## Looking Forward

We are excited for the coming months as we finalize our GEN0 artwork and start building our community in anticipation for mainnet!