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🔥 What we’re excited for in 2023
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Or, at least influence it.
That’s why in the first Flowverse newsletter of 2023, we are going over what we’re excited to see built on Flow in the new year.
1. Dapper's new self-custody wallet
Dapper Self Custody is a non-custodial mobile wallet in BETA.
The demo during Flow’s first town hall was hype, and we are amped to see how this develops in 2023.
We are also looking forward to seeing smoother non-custodial transitions for mainstream users i.e. Custodial wallet (i.e. in-built into application, Dapper, Blocto) -> export NFT -> Non-custodial (Dapper Self Custody, Lilico, NuFi, Flipper)
2. Flow continues to progressively decentralize, whilst enabling mobile accessibility
Flow will continue to progressively decentralise.
In early 2023, there is scheduled to be permissionless access nodes with verification, collection and consensus nodes coming later on.
There is also an increased focus on mobile accessibility.
Mobile accounts for around 60% of web traffic worldwide. Yet most web3 and NFT applications are optimised specifically for desktop.
We’re optimistic Flow can start to change this in 2023 with the ultimate goal of bringing Web3 to every pocket.
3. Exciting partnerships with major brands and IPs across sports, media and gaming
NBA, NFL, UFC, La Liga, Olympics, Bundesliga, Ticketmaster, International Cricket Council, Warner Music, Mattel, Hot Wheels, Dr Seuss, Billboard, Instagram.
What do these have in common?
They’re all building on Flow.
Flow business development is outstanding.
In 2023, we’re excited to see even more sports brands launch on Flow (Flow has far and away become the sports blockchain).
We’re also excited to see if more major brand IPs across media and gaming launch on Flow.
4. Continued development of core primitives and fungible token liquidity for the community
Ethereum mainnet launched in 2015. Flow in 2020.
Flow’s a new blockchain.
As such, there are so many core primitives that still need to be built.
Just look at some of the most used applications on Ethereum to get a hint for what these could be.
Looking at fungible token liquidity, strides were made in 2022 with the launch of DeFi applications like Increment Finance. However, fungible token liquidity outside of the main tokens, Flow and stablecoins, could be higher.
This is something we’d like to see in 2023.
5. Simple and fun gaming experiences developed on Flow
In 2022, one of the biggest breakouts on Flow was Joyride Games.
Their two mobile games, Trickshot Blitz and Solitaire Blitz had, by far, the most transacting users on Flow. So many so, they were even in DappRadar’s top 5 blockchain games.
The secret sauce to both hits seems to be taking an already well-known gaming experience and adding player-to-player token mechanics.
Going forward this year, we believe that a single, simple, fun gaming application could significantly increase the number of daily active users on Flow overnight.
We want to see the equivalent of Wordle but on Flow (with NFTs) in 2023!
💡 Flow Blockchain News
Flow Apprentice Ambassador, Amethyst, published a handy thread on free resources for learning dApp development on Flow
The Fabricant generated over $26.3k for creators
NBL Chainz (Australia’s top basketball league) revealed a sneak peek of their upcoming digital collectibles
Over 15,000 people claimed Flowverse’s Christmas FLOAT NFT! That’s 6.5x the amount of total transacting FLOAT users in November of 2022
Flovatar airdropped everyone who held both a Flowverse Mystery Pass/Socks and Flovatar a special Flowverse Mystery Pass Flobit and Socks background
NBA Top Shot is giving away 23 packs from Top Shot's Run It Back 2005-06 Drop
Increment Finance TVL hit an ATH of over $4m
Cheeze is taking a snapshot of their Genesis Camera holders in Jan for their $LENZ fungible token
🎨 Creating an NFT on Flow
Crypto bear markets are for building 🏗
So if you’re a creator or artist in the Flow ecosystem, why not set a New Year’s resolution to create your first NFT on Flow?
You can create them real fast and for free using the 5 tools below.
Make sure to reply to this email with a link to your NFT, and we may feature the best ones on our socials 👀
FLOAT enables you to create proof of attendance NFTs for the events you host (i.e. give out NFTs to AMA attendees, podcast attendees, IRL events). But they can be used for anything really including as a reward for people doing something like completing a survey.
These NFTs can also be sold directly from the FLOAT platform and then traded on general Flow NFT marketplaces like .find and Matrix Market
Touchstone this platform offers more advanced functionality, including the ability to create and deploy your own NFT collections (with their own smart contracts) on Flow.
You can also craft your own primary sales page and sell your NFTs using any Flow-based token
Matrix Market is a general Flow NFT marketplace. It allows you to create both collections and individual NFTs on their platform
MintMe enables you to create, mint, and share NFTs with your community
Everbloom is a mobile-first platform that allows you to upload photos and videos and turn them into digital collectibles that you can share or sell directly
📊 Flow Blockchain Data of the Week
Flow has undergone some key protocol performance enhancements, improved on network resiliency and has had less network downtime in the last 12 months.
Let’s dive into the numbers.
Flow network Transactions Per Second (TPS) throughput increased by 10x from 50 TPS to 500 TPS along with a large number of optimizations in: Cadence, Flow Virtual Machine and State Trie
In April 2022, the Flow team rolled out fully concurrent vote processing to consensus nodes, resulting in an increase of block rate and time to finality by 60%, which made the network a lot more responsive
There has also been faster and fewer sporks in 2022, whilst improving network availability and strengthening resilience to heavy load spikes and unfavourable operating conditions
99.71% network availability in 2022
5 total sporks in 2022 (-6 YoY)
1.5+ hours downtime per spork in 2022 (-2.5 YoY)
2 additional node types were introduced: permissionless observer nodes and archival nodes to improve data availability
⚡ Upcoming Flow NFT drops
🏈 Mike Vick Collection (SportsIcon, Jan 5)
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