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.

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• Assembly 2022 continues to be the biggest news in the Uqbar and Urbit universes, so get your tickets before it’s too late! Director of Outreach ~hocwyn-tipwex and Lead Developer ~hodzod-walrus will each be giving talks that you don’t want to miss. Viva Miami.

• Tune in to another classic episode of The Network Age, featuring Glorious Leader ~timluc-miptev, underappreciated content laborer ~bichul-ritsen, and Aleph DAO founder ~nilrun-mardux. This week, the boys discuss institutional toll booths, defection from traditional financial systems, Urbit as social media, and foreign man dates. Not to be missed!

• In the spirit of crypto harmony, Uqbar is migrating its blog from Medium to Mirror (which is obvious from this post!). In our first article, Why Crypto Needs Uqbar, we detail the possibilities of our seamless on- and off-chain execution environment and the power of the sleek Uqbar Virtual Machine. Make sure to collect the NFT—who knows what rewards lay in store for loyal collectors!

• This week we dropped Episode 2 of Hanging Out with Uqbar, our laugh a minute team member interview series. Grab a drink and join ~bichul-ritsen and ~hocwyn-tipwex as they chat about Urbit ID pronunciation, digital nativism, Network States, and Romanian aphorist Emil Cioran.

• Urbit has released its August Grants Program Review, which celebrates the completion of recent grant projects, including Urbit micro-blogging, a new arcade game, and Ethereum bookkeeping tools. You can also read about new bounties and exciting opportunities for hands-on developer mentorship.

• Urbitter ~tiller-tolbus writes for Chorus One an entry called Why Web3 Needs Urbit, in which he explains, of all things, why Web3 needs Urbit. The Magic Tolbus explains Urbit’s simplicity, durability, and security in language so clear that even your boomer dad will want a planet.

• Coinfund announced “Urbits and bobs”, a discussion with Josh Lehman of the Urbit Foundation on September 19th in Miami before Assembly. Josh and Coinfund will “discuss web3 leadership, the importance of community, and what reimagining the internet means for all of us.”  So Urbit is accounted for, but curiously no mention of any Bobs.

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

~hodzod-walrus:

• Finished frontend contract, with automatic contract compile-on-save, deployment to testnet, and pre-installed fungible and non fungible token templates

~hosted-fornet:

• Finalizing README in preparation for official app release.

• Updating middleware that connects Urbit applications to Uqbar chain

~fabnev-hinmur:

• Completed contract-testing interface. Now, we can write contracts in a web IDE, see a list of interfaces/data types for our contract actions and data, and then write custom tests for the contracts

~timfyn-ranpyl:

• Began intensive work on jetted data structures for Zere and Zink (the ZK versions of the Nock virtualizer Mink and Urbit runtime Vere)

• Justin Drake hops on Bankless to discuss the limits of censored cryptocurrency.

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

• You already live in the metaverse—it’s just bad. Eth and Urbit fix this.

• Basile responds to the above mentioned Justin Drake appearance on Bankless, exploring the limits of censored ETH.

• Have you heard that devs are oil? Basile returns to one of his favorite themes—the importance of developers and the forthcoming software explosion.

And, to our American friends, happy Labor Day. We hope that for you, like us, building the future of blockchain is a labor of love.

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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.

subscribe://

• Assembly 2022 continues to be the biggest news in the Uqbar and Urbit universes, so get your tickets before it’s too late! Director of Outreach ~hocwyn-tipwex and Lead Developer ~hodzod-walrus will each be giving talks that you don’t want to miss. Viva Miami.

• Tune in to another classic episode of The Network Age, featuring Glorious Leader ~timluc-miptev, underappreciated content laborer ~bichul-ritsen, and Aleph DAO founder ~nilrun-mardux. This week, the boys discuss institutional toll booths, defection from traditional financial systems, Urbit as social media, and foreign man dates. Not to be missed!

• In the spirit of crypto harmony, Uqbar is migrating its blog from Medium to Mirror (which is obvious from this post!). In our first article, Why Crypto Needs Uqbar, we detail the possibilities of our seamless on- and off-chain execution environment and the power of the sleek Uqbar Virtual Machine. Make sure to collect the NFT—who knows what rewards lay in store for loyal collectors!

• This week we dropped Episode 2 of Hanging Out with Uqbar, our laugh a minute team member interview series. Grab a drink and join ~bichul-ritsen and ~hocwyn-tipwex as they chat about Urbit ID pronunciation, digital nativism, Network States, and Romanian aphorist Emil Cioran.

• Urbit has released its August Grants Program Review, which celebrates the completion of recent grant projects, including Urbit micro-blogging, a new arcade game, and Ethereum bookkeeping tools. You can also read about new bounties and exciting opportunities for hands-on developer mentorship.

• Urbitter ~tiller-tolbus writes for Chorus One an entry called Why Web3 Needs Urbit, in which he explains, of all things, why Web3 needs Urbit. The Magic Tolbus explains Urbit’s simplicity, durability, and security in language so clear that even your boomer dad will want a planet.

• Coinfund announced “Urbits and bobs”, a discussion with Josh Lehman of the Urbit Foundation on September 19th in Miami before Assembly. Josh and Coinfund will “discuss web3 leadership, the importance of community, and what reimagining the internet means for all of us.”  So Urbit is accounted for, but curiously no mention of any Bobs.

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

~hodzod-walrus:

• Finished frontend contract, with automatic contract compile-on-save, deployment to testnet, and pre-installed fungible and non fungible token templates

~hosted-fornet:

• Finalizing README in preparation for official app release.

• Updating middleware that connects Urbit applications to Uqbar chain

~fabnev-hinmur:

• Completed contract-testing interface. Now, we can write contracts in a web IDE, see a list of interfaces/data types for our contract actions and data, and then write custom tests for the contracts

~timfyn-ranpyl:

• Began intensive work on jetted data structures for Zere and Zink (the ZK versions of the Nock virtualizer Mink and Urbit runtime Vere)

• Justin Drake hops on Bankless to discuss the limits of censored cryptocurrency.

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

• You already live in the metaverse—it’s just bad. Eth and Urbit fix this.

• Basile responds to the above mentioned Justin Drake appearance on Bankless, exploring the limits of censored ETH.

• Have you heard that devs are oil? Basile returns to one of his favorite themes—the importance of developers and the forthcoming software explosion.

And, to our American friends, happy Labor Day. We hope that for you, like us, building the future of blockchain is a labor of love.

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