Aloha, welcome to Uqbar’s weekly rollup. Every Monday we’ll provide you with exciting updates on everything Uqbar: dev reports, media mentions, and general happenings around the Urbit ecosystem.

• For your listening pleasure, The Network Age podcast presents “Community, Content, and Discovery” with Finn Brown of Vienna Hypertext. The boys talk about the future of social media, AI, calm computing, digital networks, and all the incredible work coming out of @viennahypertext.

• And the Crazy Wisdom Podcast interviewed Uqbar co-founder @basileSportif in an episode entitled “What Will Urbit Look Like in 1,000 Years?” Topics include:

  • what would it take to make Uqbar an L1?

  • what is Starkware?

  • what’s the future of gaming on Urbit?

  • what are the challenges of building a ZK-rollup?

  • what’s Urbit going to look like in a thousand years!?!

  • and much more…

• The Urbit Dev Conference, called “The Volcano Summit”, now has a website and has begun accepting applications. This conference, unlike Assembly, is specifically designed for Urbit builders and investors. ~timluc-miptev and ~hodzod-walrus of Uqbar will be there to talk about Uqbar devex, and the rest of the panel are a who’s who of Urbit company leadership. The conference will be held from March 6-10th at the Santa Ana Volcano in El Salvador. Sign up now for a chance to attend!

• Holium Corp have released their Realm alpha, though at the moment it remains invite only.  Invites are slowly rolling out to those who sign up via Holium’s website.  Click here to enjoy a user video of Realm in action.

Another busy week for the Uqbar team—check out some of their accomplishments:

• ~sillus-mallus spent the week prototyping the ui for Ziggurat's new Gall REPL view.

• ~hosted-fornet and ~dachus-tiprel

  • created a poke primitive for %pyro.

  • began integration of new %pyro poke with %ziggurat.

  • added a %deploy-contract interface to %ziggurat for easy interaction with virtualship testnet.

• ~hodzod-walrus

  • played real poker for the first time on Urbit, with zigs tokens fully integrated.

  • worked on contract type upgrades / new mar-esque system.

  • fixed a bug in the token standard.

  • prepared release 0.0.9 which could go out next week.

• Alex Good explains how to do FinTwitter without getting charged by the SEC.

• Scott Alexander explains why he’s less than infinitely hostile to crypto.

A few of this week’s best threads from Uqbar founder, @basileSportif:

• Here’s one about how QE demonstrates marginal consumption will go heavily to virtual goods, and less so to physical ones.

Aloha, welcome to Uqbar’s weekly rollup. Every Monday we’ll provide you with exciting updates on everything Uqbar: dev reports, media mentions, and general happenings around the Urbit ecosystem.

• For your listening pleasure, The Network Age podcast presents “Community, Content, and Discovery” with Finn Brown of Vienna Hypertext. The boys talk about the future of social media, AI, calm computing, digital networks, and all the incredible work coming out of @viennahypertext.

• And the Crazy Wisdom Podcast interviewed Uqbar co-founder @basileSportif in an episode entitled “What Will Urbit Look Like in 1,000 Years?” Topics include:

  • what would it take to make Uqbar an L1?

  • what is Starkware?

  • what’s the future of gaming on Urbit?

  • what are the challenges of building a ZK-rollup?

  • what’s Urbit going to look like in a thousand years!?!

  • and much more…

• The Urbit Dev Conference, called “The Volcano Summit”, now has a website and has begun accepting applications. This conference, unlike Assembly, is specifically designed for Urbit builders and investors. ~timluc-miptev and ~hodzod-walrus of Uqbar will be there to talk about Uqbar devex, and the rest of the panel are a who’s who of Urbit company leadership. The conference will be held from March 6-10th at the Santa Ana Volcano in El Salvador. Sign up now for a chance to attend!

• Holium Corp have released their Realm alpha, though at the moment it remains invite only.  Invites are slowly rolling out to those who sign up via Holium’s website.  Click here to enjoy a user video of Realm in action.

Another busy week for the Uqbar team—check out some of their accomplishments:

• ~sillus-mallus spent the week prototyping the ui for Ziggurat's new Gall REPL view.

• ~hosted-fornet and ~dachus-tiprel

  • created a poke primitive for %pyro.

  • began integration of new %pyro poke with %ziggurat.

  • added a %deploy-contract interface to %ziggurat for easy interaction with virtualship testnet.

• ~hodzod-walrus

  • played real poker for the first time on Urbit, with zigs tokens fully integrated.

  • worked on contract type upgrades / new mar-esque system.

  • fixed a bug in the token standard.

  • prepared release 0.0.9 which could go out next week.

• Alex Good explains how to do FinTwitter without getting charged by the SEC.

• Scott Alexander explains why he’s less than infinitely hostile to crypto.

A few of this week’s best threads from Uqbar founder, @basileSportif:

• Here’s one about how QE demonstrates marginal consumption will go heavily to virtual goods, and less so to physical ones.