Subsocial

Subsocial has launched its new explorer thanks to Statescan! Now you can check your transaction history, view other accounts, see balances and more.

April saw UX updates, new features, and more community tools released on Grill. Let’s take a look! Login Flow & Energy Updates Last month had two UX

If you are a creator on Grill, and want some more eyeballs, look no further than the new Show Yourself chat! This chat is a way for less visible crea

Governance proposals on Polkadot can now be viewed and discussed on Grill’s OpenGov page! Polkadot’s Open Communication Layer, built on Subsocial, ha

Creators can now create chats for their profile (main) space, allowing them to further engage with their communities! On the mission to transform Gri

The “Connect via Polkadot” login option has been returned to the main page of the login modal, along with some changes for users choosing to login wit

Last month saw the launch of Subsocial’s super-app! Launched as Grill, the existing Grill.chat and PolkaVerse apps were both combined into one, with s

While storage is cheap and Grill’s current storage requirements are not enormous, they will be at some point in the future, and the network should fin

We’ve been cooking up some nice updates to Grill to improve functionality, quality of life, and ease of use. Here are the most recent four: Embeds

Because Subsocial is an open and permissionless platform, anyone is free to build applications on top of it, and applications are free to do whatever

Incremental releases have been steadily moving us towards the full release of Subsocial’s super-app, which will combine all of Subsocial’s functionali

Last month was a busy one for PolkaVerse, Subsocial’s #1 application, as it got lots of upgrades focused on improving network activity and the creator

There is currently a disconnect between where a large amount of the discussion around Polkadot’s direction takes place, and where we actually decide P

While PolkaVerse’s Featured Posts tab is great for manually highlighting verified creators and high quality content, it is not scalable. Already we ar

Social networks thrive on network effects, driven by users engaging with each other in the form of likes, comments, shares, group publications, and mo

In terms of activity, January has been Subsocial’s biggest month ever! With the release of Active Staking, network activity took off like a rocket, as

TL;DR: Subsocial’s staking system aims to sustainably reward active users and creators for growing the network. In order to further achieve this goal,

Bringing a little competition to the table always makes things more fun, which is why PolkaVerse has added two leaderboards: one for Stakers, and one

Active Staking has started off as a huge success! In less than 3 days, there have already been over 2,000 likes 💎 Poster activity is way up, so make

First revealed in December, the Active Staking alpha is now live on Subsocial! SUB stakers can boost their staking rewards by 50–200% by liking 10+ po

Subsocial’s development progress is still moving steadily along, but with the conclusion of 2023, we are now outlining new goals for the future, speci

With a few years of development history under our belt, 2023 has been Subsocial’s most important year so far. Never peaking, always moving upward and

The Creator Staking system has gotten off to a great start! Since the launch on October 26th, over 57,000,000 SUB has been staked across 13 creators!

Active Staking will be launching in alpha and is still under active development. Any information such as numbers or formulas contained in this article

Subsocial and Stellaswap, the leading DEX on Moonbeam, have just teamed up to make SUB available for EVM users (from Ethereum, Polygon, Moonbeam, etc.

Moonbeam, one of the top destinations for EVM-based apps on Polkadot, has integrated with Subsocial! Utilizing Polkadot’s XCM technology, the two cha

With token transfers being enabled and SUB becoming available to the public, November was perhaps the biggest month of 2023 for Subsocial! Following O

Following the successful release of Subsocial’s Creator Staking system, SUB tokens are now transferable. Get ready for SUB to be unleashed into the br

Participants of Subsocial’s public sale event from last year have recently been granted a 3x bonus as a thank you for their support! For every token a

In June, we published a roadmap update, highlighting the achievements of the prior months, and looking at our goals for the future. With the recent an

TL;DR: SUB tokens will become transferable at 1PM UTC on Wednesday, November 29th. Tokens will be able to be transferred between Subsocial and HydraDX

October was a huge month for Subsocial, with the awesome launch of Creator Staking! Rather than the usual chronological order, let’s take a look at O

TL;DR: SUB holders can stake their SUB towards registered creators to get more SUB, and creators (content, community, or app creators) will be rewarde

Blockchains suffer from a common problem: account addresses are not friendly to humans. Various projects such as the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) have

Within the industry, there is always talk about how to onboard a billion users, and whether Web3 products actually matter to anyone outside of Web3. W

September was a busy month for our team, with lots of updates to Grill.chat, a successful Polkadot treasury proposal, and lots of informative threads

The Grilling experience continues to improve with the release of push notifications, unread message badges, and custom nicknames! Aiming to re-engage

As part of our ongoing UX research, we have replaced PolkaVerse’s comment section with a Grill.chat window on the right-hand side on desktop, or with

August was an exciting month, as a Polkadot treasury proposal was launched to fund a project using Subsocial, and we provided some more insight on whe

Web3 as we know it is built on communities, where users network, laugh, and share alpha. With the upcoming release of Creator Staking, you can now cr

July was a very quiet month at Subsocial, as we were heads down and building after the excitement of June. Let’s quickly run through last month’s high

June was a very busy month over at Subsocial, with mountains of Grill.chat updates, and some fun times at Polkadot Decoded! We’re trying to keep this

After the approval of RMRK’s EIPs (allowing the RMRK standard to exist on EVM chains like Moonbeam) and the launch of the EVM version of Singular, The

After creating a Grill.chat hub for Polkadot Decoded last week, we are gearing up for a short and sweet incentive campaign! Here’s the prize pot: 10

TL;DR: Token transfers are probably coming soon, along with Spacers and creator staking. Every month we publish a monthly review post on our blog, bu

While you may not realize it, there is a glaring problem with the current state of Web3 and its communities. Almost all of Web3’s communication happen

The month of May marked a huge milestone for Subsocial, as we finalized our User Experience solutions, allowing applications built on Subsocial to off

Grill.chat has received lots of attention since its launch on April 5th. By allowing users to anonymously chat on-chain without wallets or tokens, Gri

TL;DR: Users of Subsocial apps can now delegate the signing and payment of their transactions to Subsocial’s signer service, allowing them to use Subs

April was an extremely large month for the Subsocial ecosystem, as we rolled out our most critically acclaimed app yet, Grill.chat, which showcases ou

Hello again Spacers! We know it has been quiet the last few months, and we appreciate your patience and understanding. While most of the preparations

Last month saw some exciting developments in the Subsocial ecosystem, as well as the migration from Kusama to Polkadot! Let’s dive in and take a close

We are thrilled to announce the successful migration of Subsocial, the decentralized social layer of the internet, from the Kusama relay chain to the

Subsocial’s landing page, subsocial.network, has received a makeover. In order to align with our focus on Subsocial’s developer community, we have re

Since announcing our sponsorship of various challenges in the Polkadot Europe Hackathon, we have had a number of teams working on cool applications us

Continuing the theme of 2023 being a big year for Subsocial, February saw some huge news for our ecosystem! Let’s take a quick look at February’s news

At the end of September of 2022, the Kusama treasury funded Batch 1 of our proposal for the continued development of Sub.ID. As of February 2023, this

Do you ever worry about your tweets being censored or removed from Twitter? With the launch of Post4ever, losing tweets is now a thing of the past! P

Holders of DOT and KSM tokens can how stake them via Sub.ID! As part of Batch 1 of our Kusama treasury proposal for continued development of Sub.ID,

In order to further the vision of true decentralization, Polkassembly, the premier governance platform for the Polkadot ecosystem, is integrating with

2023 is off to a tremendous start, with the Subsocial team winning a parachain slot on Polkadot, sponsoring the Polkadot Europe Hackathon, and adding

Are you a web developer interested in building Web3? The Polkadot Europe Hackathon launches in two days, on January 25th, and Subsocial is sponsoring

On January 15th at 11:37PM, the Subsocial team secured a spot on Polkadot by winning auction #37 with a self-funded bid of 15,000 DOT. Functioning as

2022 was a big year for Subsocial. We onboarded as a Kusama parachain, grew our developer ecosystem, and released innovative blockchain features. Our

We hope everyone had a great holiday season, and here’s to a happy new year! Our last monthly review for 2022 will be pretty short, as not many notab

As part of our funded treasury proposal, the Sub.ID team has added the ability to claim vested crowdloan rewards and created a staking dashboard for B

November saw some important updates and changes to Subsocial, and the growth of the ecosystem. Our web app was rebranded and improved, the Spacers NFT

The Polkadot Arena team has launched another dapp built on Subsocial! Primarily serving the Italian community, the Polkadot Arena blog pulls content

Our web app has been rebranded to PolkaVerse! Previously, it was named Subsocial, the same as the Subsocial blockchain, and this led to a lot of confu

L’Energy System di Subsocial è finalmente arrivato! In questo articolo spiegheremo cos'è energy, come funziona, perché è stato creato questo sistema e

The Spacers NFT collection represents freedom of speech, thought, and information, the very things that have been endangered by Web2 social networks.

October saw a heavy focus on developers and the Spacers NFT collection. We announced our participation in two hackathons, and released our developer p

With the launch of the Spacers Pod sale, we are here today to highlight one of the Spacers’ cool features. Spacer Squads are a concept that allows us

Our web app for using Subsocial now has an onboarding feature to streamline the new user experience. New users will be greeted with a multi-step pr

INCOMING TRANSMISSION : “Admiral, we are two weeks out from Terra. The slingshot around Ares saved us three and a half weeks of flight time. The fleet

Our developer experience team has just released our developer Playground! In addition to our developer documentation, the Playground makes it very si

September was fairly quiet in terms of technical developments. After releasing the energy system in late August, the Subsocial developer team spent Se

Thanks to our friends at Subsquid building us a new custom blockchain indexer, we have been able to add notifications back to our web app! As a much

Cover image generated by Midjourney Despite having various pieces of news throughout August, the month brings to mind what we consider to be the mott

Subsocial’s energy system is finally here! In this post we’re going to cover what energy is, how it works, why the system was created, and how users c

Tomorrow, August 31st, at 10AM UTC, Subsocial’s web app will undergo maintenance as we transition from our solochain to our parachain. During this tim

The Subsocial team has secured six more lease slots on Kusama for the Subsocial parachain, extending the lease by 36 weeks! Unlike other projects tha

TL;DR: We have improved the simplicity and performance of our parachain and ecosystem, and are preparing to update our web app to reflect these change

Every month we publish a review of developments from the previous month, but after getting a lot of questions at the Polkadot Decoded conference, we d

Every month we publish a review of developments from the previous month, but after getting a lot of questions at the Polkadot Decoded conference, we d

June saw some big accomplishments for the Subsocial team. Here we are going to review topics such as Sub.ID improvements, a project integration, parti

Have you ever wanted to know what important ecosystem members are doing with their crypto? You can now learn about their current holdings and transact

Subsocial is happy to announce that we are participating in the Polkadot North America Hackathon as a partner sponsor. We are inviting all hackers to

May was a quiet month, with lots of work going on behind the scenes. Some of that has been announced today, and more will follow. Teasing Creator Sta

Over the past few weeks, we have been working on totally revamping the Subsocial website. By doing this, we had 4 main objectives: Appear more profes

We have just released an update to our text editor, with a much better user experience. Now, you can insert links like in most text editors, without u

The world is moving fast from Web 2.0 to Web3, from the attention economy, to the ownership economy. Here creators regain the power to control their w

Since securing our parachain slot and onboarding at the beginning of the year, progress has felt a little slow. But April brought a lot of big things,

TL;DR: All balances on the solochain were transferred to the parachain Transferred balances are fully unlocked, without any vesting The balances of

In the next week or two, the supply of SUB tokens will be increased from 100,000,000 (100M) to 1,000,000,000 (1B). All token holders will see their ba

Today, Sub.ID gets a facelift. The team has added a sidebar, and a Russian translation! Originally this was not needed, but over the last 8 months

March felt like a monumental month for us, and it feels like a big shift happened. The market started to go up again, and we have refocused our priori

Sub.ID has been improved with some long awaited features! Just earlier today the team pushed an update bringing a multi-account view to Subsocial, as

TL;DR: The roadmap on our website has been updated. Before we enable token transfers, we are going to ship a few more things, such as free transaction

We launched our parachain on Kusama at the beginning of January, and distributed crowdloan rewards last month. We are operating with a 2 chain model:

The beginning of February was quiet, but we ended up making a lot of noise this month. Here's a brief recap, in no particular order. Crowdloan NFTs

TL;DR: Link your email to your eligible Substrate account here to participate in our community sale, or wait to participate in the public sale. The sa

We thought January felt kind of quiet, but on review, it was just like any other month. Lots of work has been going on under the hood in preparation f

Subsocial and anything built on it is censorship resistant, but there are still multiple avenues for moderation, which we are about to explore. Becaus

December was a huge month for Subsocial as we secured a parachain slot! Let's dive right in! They Say "No Cap" But There Was, In Fact, A Cap Subsoci

On December 4th, Subsocial won Kusama auction #16 with a bid of 100,420.6061 KSM. Up to 16,500,000 SUB will be distributed over the lease period (with

Our model of a solochain and a parachain is brand new, and likely to cause some confusion, so we are here to clarify what exactly is happening, and wh

We have just distributed SubBanner NFTs to everyone who contributed to our first crowdloan! Contributors to our first crowdloan, which did not win, w

It is with a heavy heart that we announce that The Spacers Program will be ending after this season, on Monday, December 27th, at 12:00 AM UTC. With t

This is the third part of a series of articles interviewing our advisors. These esteemed individuals have helped the Subsocial team in a massive way,

Dotsama Token Claim: Round 4 At the beginning of November, we finished up The Dotsama Token Claim with our final round. In total, across all four rou

This is the second in a series of articles interviewing our advisors. These esteemed individuals have helped the Subsocial team in a massive way, and

Happy Monday, Substranauts! Today we are announcing that we have created a space dedicated to AMAs for project teams and notable members of the Dotsam

This is the first in a series of articles interviewing our advisors. These esteemed individuals have helped the Subsocial team in a massive way, and w

TL;DR: The Subsocial crowdloan is live, contribute here. Wen Crowdloan? After a long wait, it is finally here - with a twist. Instead of converting

We are extremely excited to finally announce our crowdloan details! TL;DR: | | | |--|--| | Crowdloan Cap | 100,000 KSM | | Total Token Supply | 10

We are very excited to be opening our crowdloan and bidding for a parachain slot. However, due to technical reasons involved with this, when we launch

If we envision the future of Web3, we can see Polkadot and Kusama at the center, as the hubs of the wheels. We see a blossoming ecosystem, and like ev

Lots of exciting things are on the horizon (as you may have heard), but let's take a look back at October and see what we have been up to. Sub.ID Qu

This round will be the last chance for you to claim some SUB tokens in the Dotsama Token Claim! Round 3 went very smoothly, and was the fastest round

We have gotten a lot of feedback expressing confusion about how Subsocial is laid out. Coming from Web2 sites, everyone is used to having a profile, b

Sub.ID has had some features quit working quite a few times since we launched it. The trouble is, it usually breaks because of something we have no co

With Sub.ID's newest release, we have added 2 more features: links to each account's Subscan and Statescan pages, and information about locked balance

Wen round 2? Wen token claim? Soon. Round 2 will kick off at 5AM UTC+0 this Thursday, October the 7th! Another 250,000 tokens will be added to the

Happy Saturday, everyone! Once again, Sub.ID's feature set has been expanded! We have added support for Statemine tokens, and asked the community wha

We're still here, chugging along, looking at that mainnet launch down the road. You may have heard us mention it a time or two - it may be sooner than

You've waited, and it's finally here! We want to reward early adopters of the ecosystem, and help with a fair distribution of our token, while at the

Yesterday, at block 5,831,636, our team upgraded Subsocial's blockchain to the latest version of Substrate. This brings us the latest improvement rele

First, a big thank you to all of you for being patient with us while we reworked The Spacers Program, and thank you to everyone that showed up to the

The rocket ship never stops! The great folks over at Parity just accepted our request to include a link to Sub.ID on the accounts page in Polkadot.js

Hello once again, everyone. Today we have an exciting opportunity for all of the visual artists out there. We have yet another update in the works for

As some of you may know, we have been grinding away behind the scenes, totally reworking The Spacers Program. Today, we are finally ready to let you a

Sub.ID continues to expand! This week, Vlad S. has added some more functionality to Sub.ID, which now shows your Kusama crowdloan participation inform

Yet another busy month here at Subsocial! We have been hard at work over here, and lots of exciting stuff has happened. Team Growth Our team has gro

Exciting news everyone! Our fantastic development team has been hard at work increasing the scope and utility of SubID. You may have noticed that on

Hello again, Subbers! We want more people to know about this project, and we want to give the community more information about the features that Subs