Nano Community Update — March 2021
With a healthy influx of nano community members, we thought it only right to cover some of the upcoming events and exciting community developments that have launched across the Nano ecosystem this quarter.
We’ll guide you through a plethora of updates including the recently announced Unblock2021 Hackathon, trending community articles, development progress on the new Kaiak wallet and two new plugins that make it easier to work with and accept nano.
Nano Foundation sponsors the unblock2021 Hackathon
To support and encourage the ongoing development of user-friendly Nano applications, we are excited to share with you all that the Nano Foundation are sponsors of the Unblock 2021 hackathon.
Unblock 2021 is a celebration of software development that aims to spark interest in amateur and expert developers alike. Unblock 2021 was created to make blockchain better by encouraging the development of robust, relevant applications that can bring value to people to people.
The Nano Foundation have set tracks to ensure that coding isn’t the only way to contribute to the hackathon. There are additional incentives to capture the array of skills that our non-technical members of the nano community have to offer.
We are looking out for the best article writers, content creators and community growth hackers to join the Unblock 2021 hackathon.
The hackathon will take place in three phases: know, imagine, and code.
To kick off the “know” phase, nano founder Colin LeMahieu will be delivering a webinar presentation and Q&A session on March 6th at 4.30 PM (IST)/ 11.00 AM (GMT).
Good luck to all entrants, and thank you for your incredible contributions to nano!
Community Management
We’d also like to take the opportunity to introduce our new Nano India Community Managers Akash and Anupam. Both will be assisting us during the course of the hackathon. Head over to the just-launched Nano India Telegram group to say hi.
We’re always on the lookout for fresh faces to join our growing community management teams, please send us your CV/Resume to jobs@nano.org if you feel this could be you.
Development Tutorials for new Nano developers
Developer and data visualization whizz SomeNano has created a three-part easy to follow tutorial series. Created to help developers/coders/tinkerers of all levels get started coding with nano, the detailed tutorials are a great starting point for up and coming developers entering the nano ecosystem.
SomeNano is also looking for fresh ideas for nano tutorials, send over your suggestions of the tutorial content guides you would like to see created.
The developer is also running a competition for the best data visualizer, winners to be announced March 20th 2021. Check here for more information.
Reddit series for noobs
The r/nanocurrency is bustling with over 75,000 community members. That’s almost 22,000 new subscribers since January 1st!
To help new members along, community manager JSON collated an inspirational highlight list of Reddit posts. Topics range from crypto security, innovative community projects, nano tipping and more.
Nano Chess Competition
Members of the nano community are hosting a chess tournament at 9 PM UTC on Saturday, March 13th. The game will be in Swiss Style, with 5 minutes to each side, registration fee is 0.05 NANO.
Users can register and join and connect with the Nano Team here. Donations to increase the prize draw are welcomed, nano address: nano_3e9qmat7gsautnc8c67pduyi7x98nqtcsmf581e6bitut46rnu4ad7g7bfcp.
5 Good-Reads circulating the Nano ecosystem right now.
The nano community is buzzing with informative reads across a broad range of nano topics.
- Magnus Vinther explains how nano’s outperforms other cryptocurrencies one frequently-asked-question-at-a-time.
- Nathan Chesworth, takes a look into how nano’s fundamentals have put it on track to be the most efficient solution to digital money.
- Community moderator Senatus released multiple articles that span a range of topics covering the ecological benefits of nano, a cryptocurrency free comparison, and a best practice guide on how and why you should store your nano off exchanges.
- Ecological news outlet Ecohustler has published a beginner-friendly walkthrough of the reasons why nano could be the sustainable solution to the great cryptocurrency transition.
- Dayo Ojo from Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria gives his take on nano being the future solution for Nigeria’s economic rise.
Interested in sharing some of your own thoughts, experience or nano knowledge? Submit your article to the nano publication before March 20th and be in the chance to win a nano branded ledger via the Unblock 2021 hackathon.
Community Projects
WeNano turns 1
Join the WeNano team in celebrating their achievements over the past year, as they share the key pillars that shape how nano is experienced and utilized across the world through the ground-breaking app!
WeNano have also released their first round of new features for 2021, which includes the launch of Spotmarket, a new way to earn and spend nano in your local community and an overall reduction to the minimum spot payout amount to help spread nano, just that little bit further.
Kaiak Wallet
Designed to work on KaiOS devices, the new Kaiak wallet is the first nano wallet dedicated to service emerging markets. KaiOS has the 2nd largest share in India after Android and over 100 million users.
The Nano Foundation will be financially supporting Kaiak’s bid to get listed on the KaiOS store, which is currently awaiting approval. In the meantime try the in-browser demo.
For those interested, the creators of the wallet have an active Q&A on the r/cc subreddit.
To further support and encourage the creation of nano applications that cater to the KaiOS user base, the Nano Foundation has included a development track on the Unblock 2021 hackathon.
Nano IFTTT integration
In February we saw the launch of a Nano x IFTTT API by community developer Hectorchu.
Often referenced as the “if this, then that” service, and a fan favourite with banking platforms such as Monzo, IFTTT is the go-to automation tool that helps to connect over 650 services and brands that include web apps, social media, and smart devices to run automated tasks.
For example, nano developers can now create an IFTTT applet that connects to a Telegram account and set up and automated trigger that sends you notifications when a specific nano address receives nano.
Head on over to the IFTTT website to get started using this handy new tool.
Go Nano Payments
Thanks to Nano Payments, over 3 million Woo-Commerce merchants can now accept nano in their stores. Gonano Payments is a free and easy-to-use payment processor for nano.
The plugin removes a technical barrier, allowing merchants to easily accept nano payments without needing to know the details of how nano works or removing the requirement to set up a nano node, manage wallet keys or how to use the RPCs.
The WooCommerce plugin for this payment gateway can be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory.
The Nano RPC Proxy server now supports advanced stat collection via Prometheus
If you are running this server for your project it’s gotten just that more interesting. Collecting stats via Prometheus and displaying them via Grafana is a powerful way to dive into the performance of your API.
The additional functionality allows you to break up requests per action, load over time, node performance or request rate analysis. Click here for more info.
Community Podcasts & Media
Patrick Luberous served up discussions on the Keyword crypto and scholarly podcast.
Watch the discussion between Somewhat Scholarly podcast presenter Alan Hibbard and nano community programmer Patrick Luberus, as they discuss the differences and tradeoffs between nano and Bitcoin.
Patrick also took time out to talk to The Keyword Podcast covering topics such as plausible attack vectors, adoption, potential use cases of nano, and many of the great things that have been accomplished to date.
Youtube
Many of you will be happy to hear that we will be refreshing Nano youtube playlists, to include more community content.
To help us along on that journey, please tag us in all relevant youtube tutorials, nano explainers, demonstration clips, podcasts & interviews — we want them all.
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