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🌱 Dev Update: Day 94

All right! So this week’s devlog is a little late, but that’s because we packed in SO many feature roll-outs just for this week that we wanted. To drop the biggest bomb shell possible, you know? Here it is.

🔥Changelog

Email notifications for Sales & Comments 💬

New Homepage: Featured Mints and Events in the top Ribbons and Carousel

Gacha Minting

New filters: 1/1 Artworks, and Verified Artists

Explore Collections

Transaction preview when minting on-demand

Policy IDs on Artwork Pages

Optimised load times—faster, baby!

Lots of UI improvements, e.g. hiding Payout Specs from Artists without a Conservator Contract with us

🛠️ Coming Soon

Art-focused wallet explorer and gallery management

Secondary Market

💟 Community Stats

🖌️ 391 Artists 💐 1,669 Collectors 🖌️ 18,065 Artworks 🎴 13,479 Transactions 🗨️ 620 Comments 💸 175k+ ADA transaction volume

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☀️ Kickstarted Artist of the Day: Minas Kahsay

Minas Kahsay is an Ethiopian painter, designer, and illustrator hailing from the city of Addis Ababa. Self-taught as an oil painter, his most famous personal medium—paper mosaic pieces cut out from magazines—arose out of necessity, when a shortage of oil paints hit Addis Ababa in 2015. (Minas now faces the unique problem of having a shortage of magazines.) His art is heavily influenced by traditional Ethiopian art, with the geometric patterns of his motherland prominently adorning his art as much as they adorn their women’s clothing, basketry, and home decorations. Many of his mosaics also celebrate the women of his country.

Some of Minas’s most recent works are digital paintings and illustrations, depicting the 2-year long genocide and civil war in the northern semi-autonomous province of Tigray and its lasting effects. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched the war with a murderous “law-and-order” operation against the province in 2020 November, in response to what he claimed was an attack on an army compound. The death toll from the war totals as many as 378,000 dead, according to Ghent University. Minas hopes that Web3 will help his digital works gain widespread visibility outside of Ethiopia.

🖌️ Minas’s Kreate gallery can be found below. https://kreate.community/@Minas_Sanim

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Thánh Mẫu

A silk painting rendition of Vietnam’s native goddesses, the Thánh Mẫu of the Mountains, Heavens, and Waters. Depending on the local tradition, a fourth goddess is venerated, overseeing the Earth. Painted by Professor of Art, Nguyễn Lộc. You can support the Artist by purchasing the Digital Edition here.

🎴 10 Editions. 50 ADA.

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Bùi Thị Xuân Fantasy

Painting of a Vietnamese folk hero, Admiral Bùi Thị Xuân, by Phạm Quốc Hưng. She lived from 1752–1802. Her last act of battle was leading a suicide-charge—mounted on elephant.

Miraculously, she survived—so upon capture, it was decided she would be executed by elephant, in turn. She stood her ground and bellowed at the beast so fiercely that the elephant refused to trample her and simply trumpeted and ran to the side in fear. Her enemies had to burn her to death, instead.

10 Editions. 50 $ADA. 🎴 Collect on Kreate.Community.

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🌱 Dev Update: Day 84

This week, we doubled down on rolling out English Auctions, and just finished the last of our Mainnet Auction testing, including placing bids on Mobile! We’re also gearing up for the upcoming Mega Drop 2—gacha minting will go live with BOBYZ graciously volunteering to stress-test the function with their free mint.

🔥 Changelog

Headliner English Auctions! First is @Trong Le × Adania!

Link Cardano wallet to your Kreate Profile

Warning message when Artist mints a new Policy to an existing Collection

Update on-chain metadata when minting via Marketplace

Option to mint under an Imported Policy without Listing

Patched several Eternl compatibility issues

New above-the-fold Event Ribbons on Homepage

Other fixes and improvements (IPFS pinning, UI)

Following up with previously registered Mega Drop 2 participants

🛠️ Coming Soon

Gacha Mint (surprise pull a token from a Collection!)

Minting on-chain Art

HTML Art

Mint with a wallet-only Kreate Profile

Art-focused wallet explorer and gallery management

Policy ID on Artwork Pages

1/1 Artwork filter

Verified Artist filter

💟 Community Stats

🖌️ 360 Artists 💐 1244 Collectors 🖌️ 12,653 Artworks 🎴 9,819 Transactions 🗨️ 489 Comments 💸 158k ADA transaction volume