Be sure to join the discord before doing it and write a couple of messages https://zora.community/

Main activities are:

Bridge to the Zora network through the official bridge https://zora.energy/

Mint an exiting NFT, like this one

https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xd831a6952a0556019ec0ae919cc98fcec4ef714a

You can also participate in NFT drops here

Create your own NFT here

HINT #1

You can reduce the comissions on Zora buy reducing gas and gas limit to 0,005

HINT #2 You can customize page of the NFT you created earlier to have a cool look. Plus it’s a additional (quite cheap) transaction on Zora

1. Zora - not so much to do now, mostly NFT minting. However Zora just released the feature where you can create your own NFT:

https://zora.co/

2. Linea. Just launched bridge from mainnet. Waiting for more dApps to appear on this network:

https://bridge.linea.build/

3. Debank: planning to build a strong social profile, participate in pools and do posts on a regular basis

https://debank.com/

4. Philand: I really like the project, so I keep an eye on the new quests and activities:

https://quest.philand.xyz/

First of all, a few words about SUI and why I think it it definitely worth your attention:

SUI, developed by Mysten Labs, is a next-generation blockchain project that aims to tackle the challenges of scalability, security, and interoperability. SUI provides innovative solutions through its advanced technology stack, including a high-performance consensus algorithm, privacy-preserving features, and interoperability with other blockchains.

What sets SUI apart is its user-friendly interface, developer tools, and community-driven approach. SUI aims to empower developers and users with a seamless experience in building and utilizing blockchain applications. The project also emphasizes security and privacy, utilizing advanced cryptographic techniques to ensure data integrity and confidentiality.

Let’s move on to my short guide:

A) If you don’t have a SUI wallet installed, go ahead and do that:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sui-wallet/opcgpfmipidbgpenhmajoajpbobppdil/related

Now, go ahead and request test tokens in discord

If your RPC does not work, install this one

https://sui-api.rpcpool.com

B) Mint a Souffl3 NFT

https://suitestnet.souffl3.com

C) Reserve a SUI domain name to represent your web3 identity

https://suins.io

D) Test Suiswap

https://suiswap.app/app/

E) Test a newly launched DEX on Bluemove:

https://dex.bluemove.net/swap

D) Watch out for new NFT IDO launches on Bluemove

https://sui.bluemove.net/launchpad

E) Register on SUI developer forum and receive badges for your activities

https://forums.sui.io

F) Trade on Belaunch

https://dev-sui.belaunch.io/trade

E) Have fun!

We will be starting with Arbitrum network, and I assume that you have assets on Arbitrum to start with

А) Start with bridging some of the ETH to Optimism with a Layer Zero powered bridge

https://app.omnibtc.finance/s

B) Follow up by bridging some USDC from Arbitrum to Optimism via Stargate bridge

https://stargate.finance/transfer

C) Let’s use Stargate bridge once again to bridge USDC from Optimism to Polygon.

HINT: if you don’t have MATIC on Polyhon to cover fees, you can use Bungee refuel tool:

https://www.bungee.exchange/refuel

D) Now when we have MATIC and USDC on Polygon, let’s create some NFTs on Holograph

https://app.holograph.xyz/

Hit “Create collection” (I created a collection of 3 NFTs). After you deployed the collection, hit “Mint” for each NFT individually to mint them on Polygon

Select you collection, choose deploy, switch to Avalanche and deploy it there! (if you don’t have AVAX for fees, you can also use Bungee refuel).

After NFTs are minted (it can take some time) bridge your NFTs from Polygon to Avalanche here

https://app.holograph.xyz/bridge

E) Let’s use OmniBTC bridge again to send you USDC from Polygon back to Arbitrum

https://app.omnibtc.finance/

6. The last bridge we will use for this guide is ETH Goerli Bridge. Since they recently launched on Arbitrum, it is now quite cheap to buy Goerly ETH for your future testnets.

https://testnetbridge.com/

That’s it! I really tried to keep it simple and cost effective. You can do a few rounds within a few weeks to have repeated activity.

An interesting fact about Arbitrum airdrop: among all 625k addresses approved for the Airdrop, 20% of them (112k) have no transactions on ETH Mainnet :)

Web 3 is often addressed as a new era of the internet. It embraces the idea that the web is decentralized, permissionless, trustless, and incorporates native payments.

In order to understand the concept of Web3 better we should clarify the two basic concepts of Web3: blockchain and smart contracts.

Simply put, blockchain is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack, or cheat the system.

Chris Dixon from Andersen Horowitz determines blockchain as a «virtual computer that works on top of the network of physical computers».

Blockchain is not being monitored by a particular organization and hardware is being controlled by software (and not vice versa, like before)

A smart contract is a computer program that allows users to interact with the blockchain. A smart contract scales down on formality and costs associated with traditional methods.

Why is Web3 important?

There are a few things that make Web3 important for users:

• Ownership. Web3 allows direct ownership through NFTs. Let’s say you purchased an in-game asset. Previously, if your account got deleted you would lose ownership of your in-game item. In Web3 no one could take away your ownership.

• DAO. Tokens owned by you act as a shares representation of the company. Users can vote on important decisions and you will no longer depend on the organization's policy, assigned by someone else. You are the one making that decision.

• Identity. In Web2 you not only have to create an account for every single platform you use, but you also need to share private data with them. Web3 solves these problems by allowing you to control your digital identity with an Ethereum address and ENS profile. Using an Ethereum address provides a single login across platforms that is secure, censorship-resistant, and anonymous.

• Native payments. No need to rely on banks anymore, you can make a direct payment via your browser without using any third party.

However, with all the good stuff come the challenges. I am not going to discuss all of them in this article. The topic that particularly interests me is the risks and security challenges of Web3.

But before diving there, let’s do a short comparison of how the security was addressed in earlier versions of the web.

However, as good as it sounds, the Web3 era is a bit idealistic. In reality, lots of Web3 applications still rely on Web2 infrastructure.

The challenge of bridging Web2 to Web3

A lot of companies nowadays are in the process of bridging from Web2 to Web3, e.g. storing transactions on-chain, but still having business data off-chain. The challenge here is to help those companies merge blockchain data with traditional databases to make sure no valuable data is lost.

One might ask: But why do we need to «merge» with traditional databases? Why can’t we just store all data on the blockchain?

• First of all, it’s the cost of transactions. On-chain transactions imply high gas fees and sometimes slow throughput;

• Some non-transactional data might be too large to be stored on the blockchain efficiently;

• Blockchain transactions are immutable, they cannot be changed or deleted. But sometimes you need that ability for data to be changed.

• Scalability in the current blockchain ecosystem makes on-chain analytics impossible;

• Storing data on the blockchain means it’s viewable by the public. Some sensitive and private data should not be public.

Based on that, the perfect solution to store data seems to have a combination of on-chain and off-chain databases. However, communication between traditional database and blockchain is not as easy as it sounds. Let’s imagine you have to create an annual report for the organization you work for. Instead of just adding tons of tables to the report, you might naturally want to create a diagram or a pie chart. You send a query to the traditional database and use the data to create the charts you need. But how can you guarantee that data is not tampering? You cannot tell for sure if anyone has maliciously added information to that data.

So, the key issue with decentralized applications is having to work with centralized databases that have the ability to tamper with data.

What is Space and Time and how does it fulfill the promise of Web3?

Space and Time is the first world’s first hybrid database and data warehouse that connects on-chain and off-chain data while remaining fully decentralized.

With Space and Time, you can run queries against data that have been indexed from all major blockchains and data you’ve loaded from any off-chain source. The received analytic results can be connected directly to smart contracts to enable new, expanded use cases for gaming, DeFi, and enterprise-scale business processes.

Sounds fun, doesn’t it?

I highlighted the most important things you need to know about Space and Time in the table below:

Does it compare to any solutions, existing on the market already? To date, Space and Time is unique in the Web3 space. The closest match might be a combination of The Graph + Snowflake (but cryptographically guaranteed).

Read more about Space and Time:

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