$FLOW

Here's a monthly summary of the latest developments and updates from dApps on Flow

As Flow continues to grow and gains new capabilities, it’s critical for the wallets in our ecosystem to leverage those developments to differentiate themselves and provide additional support for their users.

Developers are frequently forced to make a difficult choice between building systems for mainstream adoption with app custody or to build for systems that optimize for openness and permissionless self-custodial wallets.

We’re excited to announce a monthly series of contests where developers can learn blockchain engineering through the intuitive Cadence smart contract language, while winning exciting prizes. This Flow sponsored initiative is hosted by Emerald City.

The Flow Foundation continues to deliver on its $3 million commitment to hackathons in 2023, empowering ambitious developers to push the boundaries of Web3 on Flow

The latest release of the SDK also sees the inclusion of one of the most popular target platforms for Unity games – iOS.

The Flow blockchain is decentralized, meaning control and decision-making authority is distributed across the network and not held by one central entity.

In this post, I will walk you through how I implemented the BoredApeYachtClub NFT smart contract in Cadence,

Improving resilience and performance for all non-consensus nodes

Web3 developers will have an entire month to demonstrate industry-advancing on-chain logic and claim $500,000 in prizes

The Network Overview dashboard is a powerful tool that provides transparency and real-time insights into the health of the Flow Network.

The Flow Incubation Program pilot will kick off with 10 teams who will work to complete key milestones over a several-month stretch.

Flow is more committed than ever to bringing 1+ billion active users into Web3 – and 2023 is already shaping up to be its best year yet.

Animoca Brands and Flow are hosting a week-long event called "Animoca Brands on Flow Week" from April 11 to April 18.

Breaking Down Q1 2023 Sales Metrics for Flow NFTs

We have a lot of work to do to bring web3 to the masses. One of the barriers to broader adoption is usability

User custody is considered the default and best option by the Web3 community.

High-friction user experiences (UX) are common in Web3 today, and they’re a major turn-off for mainstream consumers thinking about making the transition from Web2

This article will cover different tools and technologies you can use to help build on Flow blockchain. As the article focuses on tools, we assume you already have a basic understanding of Cadence. If not, you are welcome to take a tutorial on Cadence https://developers.flow.com/cadence/tutorial/01-first-steps

The top digital fashion projects on Flow Blockchain

Projects building on Flow have raised over $4 billion. Here's our deep dive into Flow Projects who have raised the most.

It’s now easier than ever to build Web3-native games with fungible tokens, Flow-based digital collectibles, and other on-chain elements within Unity games.

Hybrid Custody could have a phenomenal impact in bringing mainstream users to Web3. It excited our team as much as using Uniswap and NBA Top Shot for the first time.

Comparing the cost to mint 1 BILLION NFTs on each blockchain

As a developer, you can add products and services that allow greater personalisation around the attractions that are bringing users here; for example, Genies offers an SDK to build accessories for their avatars.

Real ownership is a promise that individuals can access the things they value anytime, anywhere, through a broad range of service providers.

We have partnered with Flow to organize the first Flow Hackathon of 2023, a global competition for developers to supercharge the Web3 experiences they build for their communities.

Web3 applications unlock tremendous value across our global community, creating new and exciting experiences that provide people with unprecedented opportunities

Quickly get up to speed with the Flow Blockchain ecosystem in 2023

Cadence introduces a different way to approach smart contract development which may feel unfamiliar to Solidity developers. Here's Flow's guide.

A guide on how to buy Flow (FLOW) Tokens

We interviewed Flow founders and CEOs and this is why they built on Flow Blockchain compared to other blockchains

low is an open, decentralized platform that provides the speed, scalability, sustainability, and safety needed to take blockchain technology mainstream.

Comparing Polygon vs. Flow in 2022

Protocol working group responsibility is dedicated to the security, scalability, progressive decentralization, and maintenance of the different subsystems of the protocol.

For Flow to continue toward progressive decentralization, it will require not only the distributed infrastructure ...

Recap of Flow's first-ever Town Hall with a 2022 Recap and What's to Come in 2023

Summary of Flow's first-ever Town Hall written by Bz (founder of Basic Beasts Flow projects)

The Flow Developer Grants program supports the ecosystem of developers building the future of the decentralized web on the Flow blockchain.

Here's Flow's official announcement of their open beta launch of the Flow community Archive Node

In light of these developments, we want to ensure our community can feel confident in Flow, as well as our industry’s future. Flow was built differently from the start, with a focus on providing real, long-term value that goes beyond hype cycles.

The Flow Ambassador program has officially launched, a new program meant to recognize, support and empower the most passionate community members who want to help Flow grow.

The term fungible token is made up of two key words: “fungible” which means that an item is mutually interchangeable and is able to be replaced by any identical item and “token”, which is a tradable asset.

It’s officially International NFT Day, the first-of-many annual celebrations focused on the NFT communities, developers, creators, builders and collectors that make up the tapestry of Web3

Building with a Proof-of-Stake protocol has enabled Flow to avoid the computational cost of legacy Proof-of-Work mechanisms.

This September 20 marks the five-year anniversary of Dapper Labs CTO Dete Shirley publishing ERC-721, which would go on to become the NFT standard.

Today, we are announcing one big step in that direction: anyone can now run a Flow node. We are excited to introduce a new permissionless node type called an Observer node: an unstaked node that runs on consumer grade hardware, and provides a locally accessible, continuously updated, verified copy of the block data.

One of the best ways to see what’s happening with upcoming Sporks are the Flow Docs page

Today marks a major milestone for Flow. Smart contract deployment on mainnet is now permissionless, which means anyone can deploy a contract to mainnet, without review.

$FLOW tokenomics were discussed during the last Flow office hours. Here is a summary of the discussion.

Deloitte Canada's objective and comprehensive energy consumption review for Flow in 2021

Flow’s on track to bring blockchain technology to billions and put a blockchain wallet into everyone’s pocket. Read the full report here.