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🌟 Latest News from hAppenings.community
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🌟 Latest Official News and Events from Holochain and Holo
Update: Holochain Dev Pulse 20 Dec 2024 (from LinkedIn)
An early gift! Holochain 0.4.0 has been quietly released and is now our recommended version for general use. Holochain 0.3 (currently at 0.3.6) and its infrastructure are still supported and will get maintenance updates as needed, while Holochain 0.2 and its infrastructure are now retired.
The big news is that 0.4.0 comes with less -- we've disabled unstable features by default, allowing more time for testing. This probably won't affect your app, but just in case, read the upgrade guide. There are other breaking changes you'll want to know about too!
Along with 0.4.0 you'll see a bunch of small quality-of-life improvements in the scaffolding tool. Setting up your first DNA is streamlined, you can edit your entry type's fields before committing to code (super useful feature), and the templates are simpler. Try it over the holidays!
Thank you for journeying with us in 2024. There have been a lot of changes for our organization and the Holochain project, and we deeply appreciate your support through it all. See you in 2025, where we'll keep sharing regular updates on our progress!
Announcement: Holo + Hivello Partnership Announcement
Exciting News! Together, Holo and Hivello are partnering up to pave the way for a future where DePIN protocols can run on HoloPort nodes, unlocking new forms of passive income for the wider community. Learn more about this new partnership here.
Announcement: Stabull.Finance and Holochain Partner to Decentralize FX and Commodities Trading - from The Defiant News.
Stabull Finance, a decentralized exchange (DEX) specializing in non-USD stablecoins and real-world assets on Ethereum and Polygon, is pleased to announce its partnership with Holochain. This collaboration marks a key step in Stabull’s goal of progressive decentralization as it scales within the DeFi ecosystem.
Join Holochain.org’s Developer Portal: https://developer.holochain.org/
For a complete listing of all of the Holo Ltd and Holochain Foundation events go to their ‘Upcoming Events’ page!
🌟Latest News from the Holoverse:
Update: Sensorica
Sensorica is using hREA in their work. Here’s a link to some of their amazing work:
Late evening sensor production at the Sensorica lab.
Follow link to know more about this particular open venture, dig and you'll probably be surprised...
New OASIS Website Announcement - from Max Gershfield
I'm soft launching our new website for The OASIS. www.oasisweb4.com
This stands for Open Advanced Sensory Immersion System. It's an advanced framework for quickly building dApps that scale all of web2 and web3.
Many outfits are eyeing up how to go about building a Metaverse - OASIS is built to equip teams with the ability to do just that, without needing to raise VC money just to figure out the basics.
We have put in years of work to get to this point.
Next steps will be launching the white paper and launching our token.Any feedback or questions on it, fire away! Thanks
Video: Hylo's End of Year Celebration
A heartfelt thank you for being a part of our community this year! Your presence, reflections, and shared intentions make Hylo truly special. Recently at our end-of-year celebration, we celebrated 2024’s milestones, envisioned an inspiring 2025, and strengthened the bonds that make our community thrive.
Podcast: Empowerment Tech: Unlocking Customer Data for Better Choices and Better Business from Terms of Service, host Mary Camacho
From just a payment tool to your whole wallet
Ever juggled multiple cards and documents? For example, to watch a movie you need your tickets, loyalty card, ID for age verification, and any promotional codes - all separate pieces to manage. Jamie Smith shows us how digital wallets are evolving to combine all these into a single, seamless transaction.
Did you notice when the shift from "Pay" to "Wallet" happened? Listen to the full episode.
🌟Other Related News & Events
Perspective - Clare Politano Brodeur, Director of Product at Hylo.com
My vision for the future is a world with rich, deep soil, abundant biodiversity, humans in balance with the more-than-human world, and unfettered children running wild and free through the forest. My heart swells to see so many of you working towards similar visions, out in the field and in the community, despite all odds and projections. The hands-on work is the real work -- technology is not a panacea and will not get us through the Just Transition on its own, but I do believe prosocial technology to coordinate our action is a prerequisite.
That is why in between tending children and tending land, I show up to my computer to nurture Hylo and the communities using it for transformative change. And if you too would like to participate in building a future where our children thrive, here is one thing you can do today to take action: Contribute to Hylo today (and your tax-deductible donation will be 100% matched by a generous member of our open-source community!) If you believe in the beauty of a future world that is thriving and interconnected, this is the perfect way to give energy toward that future and have it go even further.
And if you want to know more about what we're up to and be a part of it, you can join our open-source community here.
Article: X Marks the Past — Why the Digital Public Square Isn’t Working — and What We Can Do Instead by Tibet Sprague
Large, global “public square”-style social networks like X (formerly Twitter), Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky promise a wealth of information, conversation, and community. They offer unique benefits like the ability to stay on top of fast breaking news, cross-pollination of ideas, and a space to interact with all kinds of people across the globe and find those who share your interests.
Book review/Blog: “What a Bee Knows. Way more than you think” by Mike Gamble of adaptive-emergent
At adaptive-emergent, we are looking for simple behaviours in nature that add up to quite complex ones. The resulting model can be used to massively scale basic business rules into a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
However if you want to apply this by studying bees and beehives, think again. These creatures are already complex.
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