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All Things CKB! $CKB Community news and updates!
Recorded: May 19, 2025 Duration: 1:04:00Space Recording
Short Summary
The latest updates from the CKB community highlight significant project launches, including the Nervous Foundation's European conference and the introduction of the Quantum Purse wallet. Additionally, initiatives like the CKB Bounty Board and the Spark program are set to empower community members, while the Nerve Ape artifacts are poised to revolutionize the collectible space with innovative features.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, hello, good afternoon, can you hear me?
Hi Hanson, how are you?
I can hear you.
Okay, great, thank you. Thank you. Hey guys, I'm just going to give it another couple of minutes for people to find their
way in and we'll get started shortly. Thank you. All right, I think we'll get started and hopefully as we continue people will join in.
It's been a while, this is the all things CKB monthly update spaces.
Just a quick sound check. Can you guys hear me?
Yeah, I can hear you. Yeah.
Cool. All right. So this is our regular community spaces that combines all of the latest news from the global CKB community
and the various teams that participate. Our aim is to share with you our enthusiasm for CKB
to keep you up to date with the latest updates and to give the community a chance to participate
in the discussion. We'll try to keep this for about an hour and hopefully we'll fit everything in in that time.
Before we start just be sure to follow our community accounts on X and Telegram.
We are Nervous Nation. There's also other important accounts you can follow such as Running CKB,
such as Running CKB, Nervos, CKB Etherfund, and also be sure to follow all of the speakers up with us today.
Some ground rules before we start then. So we are enthusiasts and not experts.
Well, some of us are not experts. For technical questions, you can ask on Discord or Telegram.
If you have any support related queries, problems with your wallet and whatnot, that again is best handled on Telegram and Discord.
Be wary of scammers, sending you DMs. Don't share any personal information or seed phrases and anything like that.
information or seed phrases and anything like that.
With that out of the way, let's introduce our panel today.
So to introduce myself first, I'm Leon from Nervous Nation and also the newly formed Nervous
Community Catalyst, which I'll be explaining shortly.
We have Matt with us today from the Nervous Foundation and also running the running CKB account.
We have Hanson from CKB DevRel and also to give us some EcoFund updates hopefully.
And also, as always, James from NervApe.
So welcome, guys.
We'll start with Matt first. So Matt, what's been going on uh lately with the foundation
do you have any news or anything uh in particular going on to mention yeah i can share a few things
um so we're um we're getting started on planning a european conference in um it'll take place in
october uh so I would say everyone,
you know, stay tuned for that. I know there's been kind of feedback that people want to see
get togethers outside of Asia. We also have some planning going on for CKCON, which will take
place in Thailand again in November. From the foundation side, we've grant funded a developer
to build a post quantumquantum wallet.
It's called Quantum Purse.
The developer is T.
I'm sure a number of people in the community have seen it.
Yeah, it's a really cool wallet.
Utilizes the post-quantum cryptography and cryptographic flexibility of CKB.
And yeah, it runs completely in browsers.
There's no RPC dependencies, things like that.
Also the Polycrypt team has been working
on implementing virtual channels,
which is kind of like their payment channel solution
that uses smart contracts.
And they've started the initial stages of integration
between CKB and Ethereum swaps inside of those channels.
So I would say, you know, stay tuned toward the later part of the year.
We could see some new interoperability kind of things going on.
And we started this new Twitter account called Common Knowledge of Blockchains.
And the goal is to reach a much broader audience with the
information i think there's we've definitely written a lot but it's it's really intended for
the i guess a very specific audience that we want to notice ckb and to understand the the value of
ckb but as we kind of find more more traction that audience, we're going to need broader visibility as well.
So the intention with this account is to reach a broader audience and to answer basic questions of like, why would my transactions fail on Solana?
Or like, why are there so many Ethereum L2s?
Things like that.
We've been writing about RISC-V recently, which we can probably get into more in another conversational thread.
I'll be speaking at Bitmain's WDMS in Vegas next week.
It's a side event to the Bitcoin conference.
And yeah, there's also been the community fund DAO V2 that's been put out for a request for comment from Jordan's end.
And yeah, I think from the foundation side, that's about it.
Cool. Thanks for that, Matt.
That's a lot of updates and a lot of things going on there.
I just wanted to come back to what you mentioned about Polycrypt. So for people who might not be aware,
maybe at a really high level,
could you explain what the advantage,
like you mentioned, the potential for swaps
between Ethereum and CKB,
and now people might be familiar
that we have something called ForceBridge,
which is kind of this cross-chain bridge.
Now is this channel swaps, this virtual channels that you mentioned, is that kind of more advanced functionality?
Is it better functionality? Is it kind of more secure or faster?
What's the advantages here?
Yeah, definitely a better security model.
So the security model will be like,
say like Lightning,
where it's like you lock your assets
in a channel with someone else's assets
and then you can kind of go back and forth
and update the balance of each person's assets.
And yeah, if ever anything
goes wrong, you have the kind of the security of the chain to fall back on. Whereas say
with with fourth bridge, you know, unfortunately, it's just a multi-sig bridge. So there is the
capability for, you know, some some coalition of people out there to, you know, to have
poor security practice, something like that. Fortunately,
we haven't had any problems like this. But yeah, it's always a threat in the multi-sig kind of
situation. Yeah, but the Polycrypt channels, it's, if people understand Lightning, I think that
that helps of kind of understanding what's going on inside of Lightning. And then this is a solution
that's kind of native to smart contracts,
whereas Litecoin has been built kind of native to Bitcoin, which is much more limited.
The Polycrypt team has built support for nine different chains in their solution. So,
Ethereum is really just kind of like the first step. They've also got an, the Polycrypt team
has an integration with Stellar as well.
So I'm trying to get that rolling
because I know Stellar is a big chain
in terms of stable coins
and they've got a lot of traction.
So you can think of it as like,
if we get this integration rolling
and things are working,
then it could roll out across more chains as well.
Yeah, that sounds awesome, actually.
And it's nice to have a team as experienced as Polycrypt
who are kind of responsible for all of that.
So it means that it's their field and if they've got connections
and channels with other chains as well,
then that really does open up a lot of opportunities, as you mentioned.
So that's really cool. That's really exciting. I wanted to touch on the
other thing that you mentioned as well, which was the Quantum Purse by Tee, because this
is... I really like this because it's a really good demonstration of a lot of the things
that we've been talking about over the years with the things that CKB can do
that really no other chain at the moment
is kind of capable of.
And so like, is there any like ETA at the moment
for when that might come to like mainnet, for example?
Cause I know it's on testnet at the moment,
but we're all kind of eagerly waiting
for it to come to mainnet as well.
Yeah, I would say i mean i i'm not basing this on anything really but maybe two to three months
um there's a couple dependencies i mean one is is t kind of feeling confident in the readiness
of the wallet which to date i haven't really heard any anything in terms of like their you know major
work being needed i think it's just a
a matter of kind of like stepping back from the development process and kind of you know having a hard look at it and feeling confident um before you know putting it out to a lot of people i know
there's a lot of people testing it out and i haven't heard any about any problems yet um there's
also the dependency on the the lock script that's being used, being deployed to mainnet.
So that's from CryptApe's side.
They also seem kind of ready to go.
Yeah, I think it's just a matter at this point of T kind of feeling confident that the wallet's ready for prime time.
And then just kind of like coordinating among these different parties to ensure that, you know, when we take this step forward as an ecosystem, like it is a major moment.
Like you said, it does showcase a lot of these things that are possible on CKB that aren't possible anywhere else. as the different organizations within the development side
and the community, everyone's just kind of ready
to really put this in front of people
and make the case for why CKB is something special.
Cool, yeah, I completely agree with all of that.
And like you were mentioning,
a lot of it is down to um that flexibility and in
particular um you know ckbvm and risk 5 which kind of um elegantly hopefully helps me to segue into
one more thing i wanted to mention which um is kind of um over the last couple of weeks there's
been a lot more focus on risk 5 in particular And I know it's kind of like a huge discussion in and of itself.
But like if briefly, like what's the like, why has it now become such a prominent thing, especially like in the Ethereum community?
It seems like a lot of people now are kind of looking into RISC-V, whereas previously it was kind of dismissed.
So is there any context to that, Matt?
Yeah.
So we had Vitalik's post about a month ago where he proposed this evolution of Ethereum's virtual machine.
And he called out CKB specifically in that post.
And yeah, there's a number of justifications for it. It all revolves around
Ethereum's plan to ZK prove everything. And, you know, we've seen within the Ethereum community,
there's a number of RISC-V based L2s now. And, you know, when I went back and kind of traced
things, there were some communications that were, you know, people proposing this, but, you but you know when metallic proposes something that there's a strength of that argument there
that um yeah it really cut through all the noise and um yeah we're seeing other other projects
talk about it as well but um yeah the i think the most important thing that he got across is that
across is that CKBVM allows for, say, cryptography to be added to the chain. And it does this,
it works in a very efficient manner. The idea is proving, ZK proving RISC-V could be much more
efficient than proving the EVM. And it's work that's kind of already happening with these Ethereum L2s where they're proving RISC-V. And so we have the common knowledge of blockchain's account that I talked about.
And I think there's 12 or 13 threads now about RISC-V and this idea that Vitalik has.
So, yeah, I suggest anyone who feels this is kind of a mystical thing to take a look and understand.
feels this is kind of you know mystical thing to to take a look and understand um the the analogy
that we used in there is that risk five is like this uh dictionary for how a computer works like
software has to tell hardware what to do and risk five is kind of like the words that can be used
to express what what needs to happen and uh risk fiveC-V is something like English.
It's well understood.
There's something like 20 billion RISC-V cores running in the world.
And from a software side, it's very well supported.
And I think with CKB, we talked about the quantum lock.
That's an implementation that was done by someone,
a very proficient cryptographer. And the know the evm is something more like uh like cling on the star trek language or maybe some obscure ancient language it's not very well understood and supported um so uh yeah
that this uh we'll we'll see what happens in the Ethereum community. That having the ZK component does change things a bit for them,
but it definitely gives us a huge opportunity
to kind of champion the merits of RISC-V,
which, yeah, we can talk at length about.
Yeah, thanks, Matt.
It is one of those things where, once again, we've kind again, it's been shown that CKB really did think ahead.
And I think sometimes when you are in this type of industry, it's very, very easy to go with whatever the herd mentality is or whatever the kind of, you know, group thinking is at the time.
But for innovators, there's always the opportunity to kind of target a different niche or to look at existing problems in a different way.
And what that allows sometimes is for you to be at the cutting edge, for you to be at the forefront of innovation. If your first principles are really embracing flexibility
and that kind of thing,
then you get these moments like Vitalik suddenly saying,
oh, look at CKB, they're kind of on the right track
when it comes to that.
So hopefully that kind of brings more attention
and more opportunities for people
to learn more than anything about our experience with RISC-V and what CKB is able to offer
as a result. So again, yeah, thanks, Matt. I really appreciate your input and I'm looking
forward to these meetups as well towards the end of the year. So it should be good.
Awesome. Yeah, we have flexibility of narrative, it seems like,
which is, I think, kind of an unprojected consequence
of the technical flexibility.
Yeah, exactly.
The trouble sometimes with projects in this industry is that because it's such a rapidly evolving environment, you're easily obsoleted within six months or even a year. that fast. And so if you have the capacity to adapt to new threats and new innovations,
then really that puts you miles ahead. And that means you can play a longer game. You don't have
to kind of throw all of your eggs in one basket and hope, you know, that you kind of reach the
pinnacle, if that makes sense, within like six months or a year, you've got you've got time to build this momentum, you know, build up to a real critical mass.
And it really helps with with community. You know, it's something that's kind of more community focused, trying to build more of a movement rather than just like, you know, almost like a Web3 business, if that makes sense. And vying for the same pool of people, you can kind of expand your reach in other ways.
So once again, Matt, thanks for your input.
Speaking of community, that allows me to move into the next topic reasonably well,
which is the launch of the Nervous Community Catalyst.
So the Nervous Community Catalyst is something that I am launching, which I'm part of,
and really the idea behind this is it's a new entity aimed at empowering CKB supporters and enthusiasts to really take an important role in the growth of our community and ecosystem.
Now it's possible, or it will be possible soon, for the community and people who follow CKB, who love CKB, who kind of are obsessed with it like some of us are to kind of put that into into practice and to be rewarded for your time. Sometimes I think
one of the one of the major issues preventing people from participating more is that people have lives, people have obligations, they have to, you know, work, they have to do other things as well. And so this is about creating incentives so that people who have skills that benefit the community can actually contribute those skills and be rewarded for it.
This is particularly important because in crypto and Web3, you want to call it Web3, or just this kind of blockchain environment, community is one of the most important things.
I know people say liquidity is important, and it is, and other things are important.
But community is one of those things that you cannot astroturf.
You can't kind of just create out of nothing.
It needs people. Blockchains need people. Everything that the network relies on needs people.
And so that if we have people at the very heart of what we do, then we're well set moving forward.
The foundation, for example, is only a temporary entity, if that makes sense.
It's not designed to last forever. It's kind of designed, I see the focus of it moving forward to
kind of help to give the community the tools that it needs to take that next step forward and to
drive a new chapter for the CKB ecosystem and community.
And that relies on people like you who are listening
to participate as well.
So briefly, I'll go through the main initiatives
that Nervous Community Capitalist will be focusing on.
And the main one is aptly called Community Keeps Building, which is about funding, giving support to creators, innovators in the community,
even builders who have skills that they can contribute, whether it's content creation,
content creation, whether it's making use of your social media reach, for example,
whether it's potentially opening a new chapter of CKB in a region, for example. CKB is a global
community, so we have community members in Europe, in the States, in the the far east and in places in between as well and so uh
um this is designed to support people wherever they are and so the idea behind community
building is to give um to give structured pathways for people to um create content for example or to
build up a portfolio of evidence or a track record on which basis
they can then ask for more funding from the community fundal.
Even the tracks that they're on, they will be having micro grants to kind of support
their work.
If you're a content creator, you like making YouTube videos, for example, you can get funded for that on a relatively small basis but
if you've got a track record then you can more predictably go to the
community DAO and ask for a larger grant based on the work that you've done
and the DAO is probably more likely to support that work because they can see
what you've already done. So there's this idea of like a progress pathway
inspiring community members really to start small and as they start to grow their audience and start
to grow their skills then they can benefit more and be of benefit to the community
more as well. Just quickly there's a few other things that the Novus Community
Catholic is involved in. The second thing is CKB Off-Chain, which is designed to start
bringing meetups on a smaller scale back to the CKB community. It's important that we
kind of meet people not just online, but also offline as as well I think it helps to create much
more community spirit and community links as well and it's another way to
help to grow the community and also this idea of being around we can be present
at more conferences more events and fly the flag for CKB as well. So that would be good.
The last thing is CK boost, which is the third one.
And that is more towards almost micro rewards
just for really small actions.
You can earn rewards almost like quest platforms
where you do certain things and you can earn points by earning points.
You can climb on a leaderboard and then the top performers on the leaderboard will get a reward of some sort.
And that's still in the design process.
So the ETA really is that we're focusing on the community building.
So the ETA really is that we're focusing on the community keeps building.
And in fact, today I can announce that we have, that I have released the CKB Bounty Board,
which is part of that first initiative, whereby anyone in the community, if you have,
if you have some time to create something or write something or even create a meme or some type of graphic, for example, you can do that on the CKB bounty board.
So the website for that is ckbrewards.org.
You can go to that and there's various bounties live already and you can complete those bounties and receive CKB for them
and some bounties are one time only so that might be like infographics or content or various types
of content, written content for example. Other types are things that will roll on on a weekly
basis for example making memes. We have a pretty interesting meme culture in the CKB community.
So this is something that if you like making memes,
then by all means go ahead and it will be the community
on a weekly basis that can pick the dankest
or the edgiest or the funniest memes and then whoever wins that then can
be rewarded for it so it's just a it's a fun way of encouraging people to participate more in the
community and also to be productive if you don't prefer not to make memes and you want to do
more sort of serious content than you can. And importantly, it relies on the community coming up with feedback, suggestions. If you
have like a bounty or you think or you can see something that the community could really do with,
then feel free to suggest it, but I can put it up on the board. In time, these things will become
under the control of the community, we hand it over to
the community so that we have people or leaders in the community who can kind of themselves run
the bounty board and approve bounties, disperse funds and whatnot. So exciting, exciting stuff
and as the weeks go by I'll hopefully have more to share with you but that is pretty much it from my end
for now. So I've done enough talking, let's talk to Hansen from CKB DevRel and I think
giving the ecofund updates today. How are you? Thank you so much pretty good so yeah the microphone is kind of doing the same
thing but not nothing but similar things as the catalyst the first thing I would like to mention
is the spot program the spot program is like also like a mini grant and developers can apply for SPAR program
and get some money and get some help if they want to move their application to the community
fund. community fund down. So SPA program is kind of mini-grant and help developers to build
their projects and to let their projects know by the community. So kind of we're also encouraging
developers to show what they are doing. So the next thing is kind of similar, we are also doing some offline meetups in China.
So we will host a meetup May 24th in Shenzhen.
And the topic will be like exploring the possibility of combining hardware and software on CKB.
So the meetup is in the ROC Web 5 series.
So if anyone interested in this, you can just join our Discord server,
the Nervous Network Discord server, and we are in the ROCREV5 channel.
Okay, next, let's move into the CKB Del Rio progress.
We're still focusing on the developer experience, so mainly based on the CCC.
Recently, we do something like the molecule passing and the RGB++ SDK resectoring, kind of like that.
And we are also trying to make SDK for fiber.
So they are all pending.
So if you are interested and kind of you want to preview it, want to test it, you can visit the CCC GitHub repo and you can find them in the pull request. And next is that we are also improving the security by CCC.
So recently we merged the CKB transition message all into CCC.
That's kind of security updates to the CKB network.
I want to talk about the details here, so if you are
interested, you can also visit GitHub. Next thing we are planning is, we are trying to
explore the possibility of X protocol, which is used by the Blue Sky. So we believe that the
architecture of X protocol is similar to what we are trying to do in the Web5.
So AdProtocol is kind of our dream Web5, Web2 realized.
So we have a routine trying to merge the AdProtocol into the CCC playground
to allow developers to share their code and maybe chat with others,
leave some comments on something to encourage developers to share their masterpieces.
It don't have to be large project or application or something, maybe just some code snippet and they can share it to help the artists.
The next thing we're trying to do is for the CKBD apps. So we want applications or projects from small developers can be known by community. So recently we're trying to do some project
by community.
So recently we are trying to do some project exhibition
features into the CKBDF.
So if you are new developers and you join the CKB community,
you can apply for the CKBDF.
And we will have some kind of exhibition
like the new app, new projects, and we'll show projects from these developers
on the homepage.
Now we're trying to, how should I say, make new members of our community, known by others.
And the last thing I would like to mention is that we are planning to do some online
developer events.
This is like kind of flex capturing race.
So we want the developers to join the race, besides like maintenance development or something.
If developers join the Black Capturing Race,
they will solve some puzzle and they can get some reward from us, maybe some NFT,
maybe some tokens, or maybe some CKB for them to develop a future application.
This kind of race is focusing on connecting developers in the community. They are not like everybody is doing
different things. They can communicate with each other during the events or during the race.
Yes, I think that's all from my side from the CKB Equal Fund and CKB They're Real. If any one of you
are interested in what we are doing, you can always contact us on the Discord server, the NoSnare Law.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Hanson. That was a very comprehensive series of updates.
It sounds like there's a lot of interesting things going on. As you mentioned, this Spark program,
which is a really cool grant initiative for developers
who want to create like a proof of concept or something
and they can get rewarded through that program as well,
which is great, I think.
And like you said, it kind of, it's another way to help developers
then go towards asking for a grant at the Community Fund DAO. So I really like that.
Did you have any information? I know DevRel and the CKB team, the core team is working hard towards the hard fork.
Is there a date set for that, for the Meepo hard fork?
We will have a T hour a few days later, like 23rd.
So if anyone is interested in the hard
hard fork meeple information, you can just listen to our
T.R. We have both Chinese and English subtitles. It's July
first. We will talk with the Korean engineers about the
hard fork.
Sorry, I feel like I interrupted there. But the hard fork. Sorry, I feel like I interrupted there,
but the hard fork date is July 1st.
Okay, cool.
Okay. Sorry, Hanson, you go ahead.
I think Matt just said the date for the hard fork
is July the 1st.
So that is not far away.
But yes thank you once again for the DevRel update. For anyone who likes to follow the
more technical side you should follow the CKB DevRel X page. They're always posting
regular updates on what's going on.
If you're particularly technically minded, you can always follow on the GitHub as well.
But once again, thank you, Hansen, for that information.
And I look forward to hearing more about this offline meetup as well in China
and this online developer event that you mentioned as well, the flag capturing race.
So once again, thank you. And then finally, moving on to NerveApe. So James, how's it going?
And what can you tell us about NerveApe and what's been going on?
Hi, good morning morning everyone. So can
you hear me okay? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, great. Okay, good morning or good evening, wherever
you are. This is NerveApe James from NerveApe. Yeah, thanks for having me and it's great
to be back on this All Things CKB community talk. It's been a minute so I do always appreciate
these chats to reconnect with the community. So the big thing that the team has been working
on is Nerve Ape Artifacts. This is our fidgetal line of collectibles and toys. So we've been posting some pictures on our Twitter or on our X.
And so we have like a mini, like kind of small Nervape thing.
Like, so a lot of these were presented back at CKCon last November.
And then those were like prototypes.
And now we've been in talks with like some factories and trying to finalize the design, the design team.
Echo have been all working really hard to kind of finalize the names, the packaging, the look and the colors.
A lot of details are going into the creating the toys and the collectibles.
A lot of details are going into the creating the toys and the collectibles.
It's like a whole other whole new set of skills and learning curve that the team has had to face.
And right now we've settled on three sizes.
So you have like a mini size, which is like kind of like a keychain size Nerve figure.
That one does not have a nfc chip
uh then there is going to be a regular size kind of like the nerve ape original the uh so there's
the nerve ape original which is a kind of like a hand-sized nerve ape figure that will have a
nfc chip in it and those will be handmade by our team they They have mainly Bradley, our 3D designer
and those will be a limited series
and if you scan the NFC chip
that's embedded inside the Narabek original,
it will connect to a online digital experience.
There'll be more details about that
but what I can say for now
is that there'll be kind of like a response system
with an AI, kind of like an AI agent that I've been working with Code, our CTO, on doing some, you know, I guess, pump engineering about like how this agent will respond. have that you can pre-order on our shop.nervape.com is the Color Vibe series. And that'll be for the
original size, which is the hand size, and also for the Nerve Ape 3X size, which is like the much
larger one. And those you, we had some pictures of from CKCon. Those are like the kind of a bigger,
you could put them on the stand kind of Nervape figure.
Now there's also gonna be a Nervape
that's gonna be the same size as the Nervape original.
So it's gonna be a hand-sized Nervape.
And those will be just a figure without an NFC chip.
And those could be just for any fun toy collectors
that just wanna take a look at it.
And those will be produced by a factory that we're in talks with,
and those could be purchased.
You can buy a lot more of those,
whereas the NerveVape original will be a limited series.
And I mentioned just now the NerveVape 3X, which is the large size,
and those could be purchased at, those will have a longer product line,
be more of those manufactured.
So yeah, just to refresh,
there's gonna be like a mini NerveApe figure,
a regular size NerveApe figure.
And there's gonna be the, within that regular size,
there's the original, which is a limited series.
And then there's gonna be another series,
the name to be determined,
but that Nerve Ape will not have an MC chip in.
And then there's gonna be the Nerve Ape 3X,
which would be the large Nerve Ape figure,
which will also have an MC chip.
And the current series that we're gonna have coming out
is the Color Vibe series, which are seven colors.
So you can pick a N a nerve rape of your favorite color
so yeah just a lot of a lot of work going into that uh i've been also writing a lot of content
i'll be doing a lot of content writing to make sure that the nerve artifacts will be you know
will have a great like uh digital experience when you scan an f chip. And also with the marketing side, we'll be posting a
lot more about these figures and kind of like the feel and look. I've been working really closely
with the team to make sure that we have like kind of like a new kind of branding. And also I've been
working closely with the design team to build on the branding and also on the look of these figures
and also kind of the direction of
Nerve Ape moving forward as we move into this physical, digital, collectible space. Yeah.
So now more in the Web3 space, Code and the dev team have been working on a new Nerve Ape gear
slash gear forge update. So for those who are new, so Nerve Ape gear slash gear forge update.
So for those who are new,
so NerveApe gears are the accessories
that you can wear on your NerveApe digital object.
And gear forge is where you can transform
a NerveApe gear item into another,
you can forge them into another rare gear item.
And now for this update, we're going to have a kind of swap feature.
The details are yet to be released.
Code and the team are working on a small light paper that will be released soon
that will introduce everyone to this kind of new update to the Gear Forge slash Nervit gear.
Later, I believe, was it the 23rd?
Yeah, so this month, May 23rd to May 25th, our collaborator, RBY Wood Design,
they'll be having an event at the Outdoor Innovation Design Exhibition at the West Bun Dome in Shanghai.
So they will be also showing some of our... we also have a Nervit figure at their booth,
and they'll be also presenting some of our Nervit figures. We'll also have a representative from our
team there as well. So if you're in Shanghai, adding the 23rd to the 25th,
please check that out.
I'll be posting some posts about that soon on our X.
Upcoming offline events,
we have two pop-ups for the second half of the year
that we have planned.
One's in Xi'an in China,
and then one is in Taipei, Taiwan.
So we'll have more details about that.
But those are two pop-ups that we have confirmed.
For those who don't know, we had a really successful pop-up store opening during the CKCON conference last year in November in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
And we had such a great experience that we're planning to expand that to Xi'an and Taipei
this year.
So please take a look out for that.
And I just want to end with, we have a Nerve Ape community
team that we're trying to build.
And I'm also excited to hear also from DevRel and from Hanson
and Neon also about the community outreach
that you're all doing and that as well. We're also
looking to build our community team for people who want to contribute to the Nervape fam, to the
Nervape community. So if you do have any, you know, content creating talents like photos or video
making, or if you're interested, if you're a developer that has a great idea that you want
to brainstorm with the team, or if you're a toy collector that, you know, you might have some
connections or know some people who are interested in toys. Yeah, we want to hear from you. The only
requirement that we have for you to be on the team is that you're a NerveApe holder. So if you
want to contribute to the NerveApe community, please join our Discord.
There's a link in our X bio.
So that's x.com forward slash NerveApes. And then just look to our bio for the Discord link.
And then I have some posts about the NerveApe community team.
There's a Google form that you can fill out.
And we're really excited to help build this team and also see who's interested in helping shape
the future of NerveAve.
So that's really like tying into our co-creation ethos
that we are really passionate about co-creating
with our community.
So that's it for me and thanks again for having me.
Thanks, James.
I wanted to come back to some of those things, but just because we're getting slightly towards the end of the so if you do want to say anything or ask one of our panellists a question,
then by all means, you can request to speak and then I'll get you up on here.
But in the meantime, that's a lot of information there, James.
And I really like this kind of physical, digital thing,
I really like this kind of physical digital thing,
phigital that you mentioned,
which I think, like, what's the aim with it generally?
Because, like, for example, I've seen,
I've been following, like, collectibles and NFTs
and dobs and that kind of stuff for a while.
And some brands and products do um go
definitely go more towards the the actual uh physical side with um with like collectibles
and like plush toys and those types of things for example like a common one that people most people
not most people but a lot of people know about like i think like pudgy penguins or something like that and you can like you can get one and then like it can like you said um this
idea of it kind of connects to something on the blockchain and maybe it gives you um like an nft
for example or gives you some type of access to something um is that i is the aim to kind of go
more uh commercial with it um or is it kind of just like a limited edition to kind of go more commercial with it?
Or is it kind of just like a limited edition,
exploring kind of what's possible
in terms of the possibilities generally?
So what's your thoughts on that?
Yeah, thank you.
Great question.
Yeah, I mean, definitely we've looked at Pudgy Penguins.
Zuki also has some digital model as well. There's also artifact.
So yeah, for us, what we're doing is we have a, there's going to be a digital object that's linked to the physical one.
So that authenticates you as the first original owner. And you can put that in your wallet.
It's like, hey, I was the first owner of this, you know, this physical Nervape.
The way Echo has described it to our team is like, it's kind of like a library card of,
like, it's like a card that shows that, hey, this is, you are the owner,
you were the first owner of this NerveApe artifact and has also the model information.
And also each of our artifacts has a DNA or like a unique line of code that's associated to the physical figure.
And there's also a digital experience that I mentioned, which will be like AI
powered. And each color, we have seven colors in our Nerve Ape Color Vibe series,
it has a different personality. So what's really cool is that each nerve ape in a certain color will respond differently.
And also, since it's AI-powered, each response will be slightly different than even within the same color series.
If they're all the calm blue color or all the fortune gold color, they will still respond slightly differently.
So it's pretty cool.
As far as like the future outlook of like how we're going to expand it.
So we're going to do a first run of a few.
I believe right now the number we have a few, a couple hundred or so lined up.
And if, you know, based on the success of it,
we're looking to maybe expand and if you know based on the success of it we're looking to maybe expand and you know
you know talk with the factory to expand the release of the figures as far as the nerve
rape original since those are those are handmade by brad we don't want to like work in you know
to like to like overtiredness um we those will be a limited run. But as far as the other ones, based on the success of those,
there's always a possibility that we
can expand the production of those to make it a longer run.
We'll see.
To be honest, this is a new frontier for us.
And we're learning as we go.
And we will iterate as we go and we will, you know, iterate as we move forward and, you know,
see what the response is to us releasing to this kind of collect physical
collectibles world. And then from there, we'll, you know,
try it, you try out with the few hundred that we have,
that we're going to manufacture and see how those sell. And then, Hey, we're like, there's a big response.
People are really digging the kind of like the vibe,
the vibe of our figures. And then we can,
we can always look to expand that, but that's where we're at for now.
So beginning stages and hopefully, you know, if it goes well,
the hope is that we'll come out with another line next year, you know?
So we have the color vibe series this year as a series.
But you could, because the figures, so the figure sizes are set for now.
But then we could, within like those figures, we can have a whole new different series.
So there's the Color Vibe series.
There's also like a Thai special series that we showed at the CKCon at our pop-up store last year where it was like a
mix of different swirling colors. So there's a lot of, you know, different color schemes and
designs that we can have within the sizes that are going to be produced. So if it goes well this
year, maybe we'll have another, instead of Color Vibe series, it could be something something
series next year so uh
based on the success let's hopefully we can expand and build more and and do more series in the future
okay cool and uh just to clarify the website to buy those is uh shop is it shop.nervick.com
Is it shop.nerveape.com?
Right, yeah.
So shop.nerveape.com.
So for that one, right now, you can pre-order the NerveApe 3X,
which is kind of like the bigger model.
I want to say it's like – what is it?
Right now I'm looking at it right now.
It's the size of my hand to pass my wrist.
Anyways, it's pretty bigger of like my hand to like my past my wrist anyways it's it's pretty
bigger it's a bigger guy and uh we'll be updating the site uh in the near future to include the
other sizes that i mentioned uh but yeah shop.nervate.com awesome uh thanks james for that
like um like you know we've been we've following Nervate for a long time and I'm always impressed with like,
uh, how much you guys are persevering and, uh,
just creating new things and trying new things and, uh,
you know, innovating your,
your product line and your offerings and looking at new ways of like integrating
the physical with the digital. So it's sometimes like for NFT, like I say NFT, but you know,
I mean, like for the kind of collectible market, it's sometimes a very, very difficult environment
because it's very dependent on like what the overall
market is doing. But those projects that succeed are really those ones which are able to persevere
and, you know, show different facets of themselves and continue to create, continue to innovate,
different facets of themselves and continue to create, continue to innovate, continue to build their brand.
And that brand building is really what I can see that's going on with NerveApe.
And that is something that I'm really excited about, really positive about.
And I know that definitely I'll be looking at the shop to see if I can pre-order something.
looking at the the shop to see if i can pre-order something but uh it just takes um it just takes
a small spark for a few people to kind of get behind something and then it can then it can
take off but uh nerve ape already has like a rapidly increasing following i remember from
from thailand it was uh it was really really good the pop-up shop and so i'm looking forward to
good the pop-up shop and so i'm looking forward to seeing that again like in other places so uh
um yeah kudos to you guys and uh keep it up because it's um it's a fantastic project and uh
uh really proud to to kind of be following it yeah thank you so much if i share a few things that
uh didn't didn't get Yeah, go for it.
Okay, so first, Fiber,
I know there's probably a lot of questions lingering
out there about the status of Fiber.
So the contracts were deployed on Mainnet,
I believe in February or March.
There's been a good amount of work ongoing
with the Fiber node because it is kind of a separate network
compared to CKB.
And that node is also under audit right now.
Yes, I don't quite have projections there in terms of network development.
I know that JoyID has been working on integration.
That's on Testnet now.
I know they're working through some issues.
If you're interested in trying it out, yeah, get in contact with the Joy ID team
on whatever socials you were using
to test out the Lightning integration.
Yeah, I'm sure they'll be happy to extend the invite.
Also, Nostra wallet was posted to talk by Retrick.
So similar to that Post Quantum wallet,
it runs completely in browser and it'll
allow Nostra users to send CKB-based assets to each other. And yeah, Hanson mentioned the focus
from the CKB EcoFund side on the social media protocol that underlies Blue Sky. And yeah, in speaking with Jen from Crypt Apes,
and they're thinking a lot about this too.
I think it's kind of been an extension of the Web5 idea
of basically how do we make things that are interesting
for regular people to use that kind of move beyond
the speculative kind of use cases.
And yes, integrating decentralized social media protocols
has been kind of the next step.
And we saw that with Noster and now with this blue sky protocol
called AT protocol.
Yeah, so really excited to see people build actual things.
see people build actual things.
Yeah, I'm a big fan, actually, of Nostra
and those types of more open, collaborative,
decentralized types of social media building blocks.
And the nice thing about Nostra and Blue Sky
is that you can build on top of them in that way.
So I did see that post by uh rhetoric and
that's really really cool and i'm excited to see like because blue sky i think has
a bit more traction than nostril but i like both and so like uh if we um if we're able to see more
more stuff coming along those lines uh that'd be really cool so uh i'm excited to see more stuff coming along those lines,
that'd be really cool.
So I'm excited to see what happens in the future.
We're almost done, but I just wanted to finish.
Did you have anything else you wanted to add, James,
or were you pretty much done?
Oh, yeah, I was done.
Thank you so much again.
And yeah, one thing about the Nerve Ape artifacts
is like with the kind of like the blank look
of like the Nerve Ape,
you know, we're always also looking for collaborators.
So if anyone, you know, has a connection
with like certain designers or collaborators
or interested in toys and
collectibles, please hit us up. And I think with the design of Nerve Ape, it's super cool that you could probably like, you know, have different cool designs on top of the Nerve Ape figure,
because it's like a blank figure, similar to like, you know, Bear Briggs, right? It's kind of like a
blank canvas. So if anyone, or you know, if anyone knows of any designers, artists that want to collaborate with Nervé, please hit us up.
And thanks again for this opportunity.
Thanks again, James. We're pretty much on time now to finish.
It's pretty much at the hour. I wanted to thank again everyone who joined us listening and speaking. So thank you to Matt for a lot of updates there.
Thanks to Hanson again for all of the DevRel
and CKB EcoFund updates.
Thanks to you, James, as well,
for all of the NervApe-related updates.
And stay tuned.
If you are interested in following us,
you can come on to our socials,
as I mentioned, Nevis Nation, Telegram channel,
where there's daily discussion.
There's also Discord channels.
We have a Novos talk forum.
So that's talk.novos.org.
If you want to know what type of applications there are on CKB,
you can go to ckbdaps.org for a full list of projects.
Check out ckbrewards.org for any bounties or any small tasks
that you might want to complete for CKB.
And we'll stay in touch and keep up to date with us
and we'll meet up again
in about a month's time.
Thanks again.
Thanks, Neil.
Thanks for hosting.
Thank you so much.
