Initial Release 🎉 - Dark Emblem

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<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Get ready to participate in the Dark Emblem testnet by following these easy steps!</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Step 1: Install Anchor</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Anchor will allow you to interact with dApps - blockchain based applications.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><img alt="Anchor Splash" src="media/2022-02-15-testnet-steps/anchor-splash.png" style="max-height:500px;margin:auto;text-align:center"/></div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">You can <a href="https://greymass.com/en/anchor/">download Anchor</a> for free on their site.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Once installed, open up Anchor on your computer and set up a master password.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Never share your password to anyone, not even members of the Dark Emblem team.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Step 2: Create a Testnet Account</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We need to create an account on the WAX testnet blockchain. To do this, go to <a href="https://waxsweden.org/create-testnet-account">waxsweden</a> to create an account.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Save the credentials you are given (and remember your name!), you will need the <strong>active</strong> private key later.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Never share your private keys to anyone.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Step 3: Set up Anchor</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Go back to Anchor and go to &quot;Manage Blockchains&quot;. Add &quot;WAX Testnet&quot;.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Now click &quot;Import and Existing Account&quot;. Scroll down to &quot;Import Manually&quot;. The auto-import feature doesn&#x27;t work with the testnet.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Type the name you used to create the account, set your permission name to &quot;Active&quot;, and paste your active private key from Step 2.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Step 4: Get some testnet WAXP</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">You&#x27;ll need some actual WAXP to buy packs and $DREM on the Dark Emblem dApp.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Go back to <a href="https://waxsweden.org/create-testnet-account">waxsweden</a> and scroll down to &quot;How to get some tokens&quot;. Enter your account name from Step 2 and your account will be sent testnet WAXP.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Step 5: Log in to Dark Emblem</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Now you can go to <a href="https://darkemblem.com">Dark Emblem</a> and log in with your Anchor wallet!</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Step 6: Test out the Testnet</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Now you can use Anchor to sign transactions! This means you can go to Dark Emblem and buy packs, convert your WAX to $DREM, and ascend/transmogrify cards!</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Try it out! We are excited to hear your feedback!</div>


Get ready to participate in the Dark Emblem testnet by following these easy steps!

## Step 1: Install Anchor

Anchor will allow you to interact with dApps - blockchain based applications.

![Anchor Splash](media/2022-02-15-testnet-steps/anchor-splash.png)

You can [download Anchor](https://greymass.com/en/anchor/) for free on their site.

Once installed, open up Anchor on your computer and set up a master password.

Never share your password to anyone, not even members of the Dark Emblem team.

## Step 2: Create a Testnet Account

We need to create an account on the WAX testnet blockchain. To do this, go to [waxsweden](https://waxsweden.org/create-testnet-account) to create an account.

Save the credentials you are given (and remember your name!), you will need the **active** private key later.

Never share your private keys to anyone.

## Step 3: Set up Anchor

Go back to Anchor and go to "Manage Blockchains". Add "WAX Testnet".

Now click "Import and Existing Account". Scroll down to "Import Manually". The auto-import feature doesn't work with the testnet.

Type the name you used to create the account, set your permission name to "Active", and paste your active private key from Step 2.

## Step 4: Get some testnet WAXP

You'll need some actual WAXP to buy packs and $DREM on the Dark Emblem dApp.

Go back to [waxsweden](https://waxsweden.org/create-testnet-account) and scroll down to "How to get some tokens". Enter your account name from Step 2 and your account will be sent testnet WAXP.

## Step 5: Log in to Dark Emblem

Now you can go to [Dark Emblem](https://darkemblem.com) and log in with your Anchor wallet!

## Step 6: Test out the Testnet

Now you can use Anchor to sign transactions! This means you can go to Dark Emblem and buy packs, convert your WAX to $DREM, and ascend/transmogrify cards!

Try it out! We are excited to hear your feedback!


Testnet Details

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<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><img alt="Celebrate!" src="media/2022-03-12-initial-release/celebrate.gif" style="max-height:500px;margin:auto;text-align:center"/></div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">After months of planning, testing, pivoting, commissioning art, writing lore, and tons of other stuff behind the scenes, we are finally launching Dark Emblem NFT!</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">It started with an idea for a card game on the blockchain. With the help of @0wnMe0rDie @money_pit_rsx, the idea took form and grew in scope to include Ascending and Transmogrifying cards, along with our first Generation 0 set of cards that we would release.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">What does Generation 0 of Dark Emblem NFT offer? This first series of cards has quite a lot packing in it!</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">WAXP</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Dark Emblem NFT is build on the WAX blockchain. It joins other awesome projects like Hot Wheels NFTs, Funko POP Digital NFTs, and deadmau5 NFTs. To learn how to get started using WAX, feel free to read our <a href="/blog/why-wax">blog post</a>.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We picked WAX over ETH for a lot of different reasons, but the main selling points were proof-of-stake - which made it much more efficient to do card packs, actions with cards, and would enable us to do more on the blockchain in the future.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Packs</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">On Dark Emblem, you can buy Legendary, Rare, or Common packs for a given season. Once you have a pack, you can keep it, trade it, or open it whenever you&#x27;d like, even after the season is over.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Cards</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">When you open a pack, we will mint random cards for you (with <a href="/docs/nfts/stat-boosts">stat boosts</a> applied based on the pack type). There are Hero Cards and Equipment Cards that you can mint.</div>
<h3 class="text-gray-50 text-xl font-bold text-gray-50">Hero Cards</h3>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Our GEN0 set of cards consists of &quot;Veronica - the Shining Knight&quot;, &quot;Dahreal - the Dahi Warlock&quot;, and &quot;Neko Bella&quot;, and &quot;Slime&quot;.</div>
<h3 class="text-gray-50 text-xl font-bold text-gray-50">Equipment Cards</h3>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Equipment cards in GEN0 can apply different stat boosts to the cards they are equiped to. GEN0 has a plethora of equipment cards that you can get.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Trading/Selling/Auctions</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Dark Emblem NFT is built on <a href="https://wax.atomichub.io/">AtomicHub</a> – allowing us to build NFTs that scale. Through AtomicHub, you can explore Dark Emblem NFTs, make offers on cards, and make trades, create auctions, and more!</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">$DREM</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">In order to Ascend and Transmogrify cards, you will need our $DREM token. You can exchange WAXP for $DREM in the dApp. The exchange rate is subject to change.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Once you have $DREM, you can see your balance by visiting the DREM page or by checking your connection status at the top of the dApp.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Our Immediate Plans</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Now that we have deployed Dark Emblem to production, we have a few follow up tasks to do:</div>
<ol class="ml-4 list-decimal p-0">
<li>Ensure all the functionality works in the live environment.</li>
<li>Give Early Supporters DREM</li>
<li>Give Testnet users DREM</li>
</ol>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Plans for the Future</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">But this is just the beginning, there are many more events, updates, and games coming to the Dark Emblem NFT Universe!</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Our laundry list includes:</div>
<ul class="ml-4 list-disc p-0">
<li>Mint promotional celebration cards for all users</li>
<li>Conduct raffles for packs</li>
<li>Conduct raffles for cards</li>
<li>Play games for DREM</li>
<li>Create the Dark Emblem card game</li>
<li>Introduce card effects</li>
</ul>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We look forward to what the future of Dark Emblem holds!</div>


![Celebrate!](media/2022-03-12-initial-release/celebrate.gif)

After months of planning, testing, pivoting, commissioning art, writing lore, and tons of other stuff behind the scenes, we are finally launching Dark Emblem NFT!

It started with an idea for a card game on the blockchain. With the help of @0wnMe0rDie @money_pit_rsx, the idea took form and grew in scope to include Ascending and Transmogrifying cards, along with our first Generation 0 set of cards that we would release.

What does Generation 0 of Dark Emblem NFT offer? This first series of cards has quite a lot packing in it!

## WAXP

Dark Emblem NFT is build on the WAX blockchain. It joins other awesome projects like Hot Wheels NFTs, Funko POP Digital NFTs, and deadmau5 NFTs. To learn how to get started using WAX, feel free to read our [blog post](/blog/why-wax).

We picked WAX over ETH for a lot of different reasons, but the main selling points were proof-of-stake - which made it much more efficient to do card packs, actions with cards, and would enable us to do more on the blockchain in the future.

## Packs

On Dark Emblem, you can buy Legendary, Rare, or Common packs for a given season. Once you have a pack, you can keep it, trade it, or open it whenever you'd like, even after the season is over.

## Cards

When you open a pack, we will mint random cards for you (with [stat boosts](/docs/nfts/stat-boosts) applied based on the pack type). There are Hero Cards and Equipment Cards that you can mint.

### Hero Cards

Our GEN0 set of cards consists of "Veronica - the Shining Knight", "Dahreal - the Dahi Warlock", and "Neko Bella", and "Slime".

### Equipment Cards

Equipment cards in GEN0 can apply different stat boosts to the cards they are equiped to. GEN0 has a plethora of equipment cards that you can get.

## Trading/Selling/Auctions

Dark Emblem NFT is built on [AtomicHub](https://wax.atomichub.io/) – allowing us to build NFTs that scale. Through AtomicHub, you can explore Dark Emblem NFTs, make offers on cards, and make trades, create auctions, and more!

## $DREM

In order to Ascend and Transmogrify cards, you will need our $DREM token. You can exchange WAXP for $DREM in the dApp. The exchange rate is subject to change.

Once you have $DREM, you can see your balance by visiting the DREM page or by checking your connection status at the top of the dApp.

## Our Immediate Plans

Now that we have deployed Dark Emblem to production, we have a few follow up tasks to do:

1. Ensure all the functionality works in the live environment.
2. Give Early Supporters DREM
3. Give Testnet users DREM

## Plans for the Future

But this is just the beginning, there are many more events, updates, and games coming to the Dark Emblem NFT Universe!

Our laundry list includes:

* Mint promotional celebration cards for all users
* Conduct raffles for packs
* Conduct raffles for cards
* Play games for DREM
* Create the Dark Emblem card game
* Introduce card effects

We look forward to what the future of Dark Emblem holds!

Initial Release 🎉

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<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We did a stealth production launch this last week, with some of the members on our discord participating. I decided not to publicly announce the launch since there was still a lot of testing to do, and lo-and-behold we found quite a few issues that needed to be addressed.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><img alt="Splash" src="media/2022-03-19-state-of-play-update/splash.png" style="max-height:500px;margin:auto;text-align:center"/></div>
<h3 class="text-gray-50 text-xl font-bold text-gray-50">Working with AtomicHub</h3>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">I have been in contact with the AtomicHub team to get our NFT whitelisted on AtomicHub’s site.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">In addition, I’m working with their team to determine the best way to use their AtomicAssets API to power the Dark Emblem dApp.</div>
<h3 class="text-gray-50 text-xl font-bold text-gray-50">Stability</h3>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">When we deployed to production, we noticed a lot of stability issues in the UI and the server thanks to our community testing the dApp out. It turns out the production nodes for WAX and for AtomicAssets aren’t as nice to work with as the testnet versions. I released a new version of the app that fixes a lot of these issues.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">With the help of the WAX community, I have been looking into ways to add more resiliency to our application. I am using different WAX nodes now to keep our UI and Server in-sync with new blocks on the WAX blockchain. We were running into rate limiting issues with the official WAX API node, but have seen a huge increase in successful requests since changes nodes.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">As for the AtomicAsssets API, we are still seeing a lot of 520 responses coming from their API and I am working with them to resolve this issue. Until then, I have updated the dApp to let users retry requests that commonly fail.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">If all that wasn’t enough, I added a tool called Bugsnag to the dApp and server so that we can track any errors in the future. This will help us debug the application and take note of which WAX nodes need to be replaced in our code.</div>
<h3 class="text-gray-50 text-xl font-bold text-gray-50">Chaos Testing</h3>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">In order to better prepare the dApp for what can go wrong on production, I created a chaos module that will randomly fail requests when testing with common failures. This will force us to write a better app experience since we will commonly encounter errors on testing versions of the app, instead of just in production.</div>
<h3 class="text-gray-50 text-xl font-bold text-gray-50">New Status Page</h3>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">To help users understand what may be going wrong on the site if features aren’t working correctly, we released a new Status Page at the top of the application.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><img alt="Health" src="media/2022-03-19-state-of-play-update/health.png" style="max-height:500px;margin:auto;text-align:center"/></div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">If an endpoint appears unhealthy, we will show an alert at the top of the page. We use a combination of 3 APIs to create a rich UI: WAX, AtomicAssets, and Dark Emblem. This page will let you monitor their current status.</div>
<h3 class="text-gray-50 text-xl font-bold text-gray-50">Looking Forward</h3>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">There is still more work to do to get the UI to have a seamless experience. We will start looking at proxying requests to our server for AtomicAssets and WAX API calls that we can cache.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">More importantly though, I am confident on our fixes and I am moving forward with a full launch of Dark Emblem!</div>

We did a stealth production launch this last week, with some of the members on our discord participating. I decided not to publicly announce the launch since there was still a lot of testing to do, and lo-and-behold we found quite a few issues that needed to be addressed.

![Splash](media/2022-03-19-state-of-play-update/splash.png)



### Working with AtomicHub

I have been in contact with the AtomicHub team to get our NFT whitelisted on AtomicHub’s site.

In addition, I’m working with their team to determine the best way to use their AtomicAssets API to power the Dark Emblem dApp.

### Stability

When we deployed to production, we noticed a lot of stability issues in the UI and the server thanks to our community testing the dApp out. It turns out the production nodes for WAX and for AtomicAssets aren’t as nice to work with as the testnet versions. I released a new version of the app that fixes a lot of these issues.

With the help of the WAX community, I have been looking into ways to add more resiliency to our application. I am using different WAX nodes now to keep our UI and Server in-sync with new blocks on the WAX blockchain. We were running into rate limiting issues with the official WAX API node, but have seen a huge increase in successful requests since changes nodes.

As for the AtomicAsssets API, we are still seeing a lot of 520 responses coming from their API and I am working with them to resolve this issue. Until then, I have updated the dApp to let users retry requests that commonly fail.

If all that wasn’t enough, I added a tool called Bugsnag to the dApp and server so that we can track any errors in the future. This will help us debug the application and take note of which WAX nodes need to be replaced in our code.

### Chaos Testing

In order to better prepare the dApp for what can go wrong on production, I created a chaos module that will randomly fail requests when testing with common failures. This will force us to write a better app experience since we will commonly encounter errors on testing versions of the app, instead of just in production.

### New Status Page

To help users understand what may be going wrong on the site if features aren’t working correctly, we released a new Status Page at the top of the application.

![Health](media/2022-03-19-state-of-play-update/health.png)

If an endpoint appears unhealthy, we will show an alert at the top of the page. We use a combination of 3 APIs to create a rich UI: WAX, AtomicAssets, and Dark Emblem. This page will let you monitor their current status.

### Looking Forward

There is still more work to do to get the UI to have a seamless experience. We will start looking at proxying requests to our server for AtomicAssets and WAX API calls that we can cache.

More importantly though, I am confident on our fixes and I am moving forward with a full launch of Dark Emblem!