FILSWAN BIWEEKLY UPDATES | Nov 9

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Posted on 2022-11-11

Key Takeaways

FilSwan Founder Charles Cao Attended the Panel Discussion of Fil+ at the Fil-Lisbon Conference

From October 24th to November 4th, Filecoin held a series of conferences and activities such as Lab Week 2022, Fil-Lisbon, IPFS Camp, Lotus, Data Onboarding & Friends Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. Charles Cao, FilSwan Founder, participated in the panel discussion of Fil+ at the Fil-Lisbon Conference.

During the panel discussion, Charles reviewed FilSwan’s efforts in the second half of 2022, including the deployment of Multichain.storage on the Polygon mainnet, and the integration with Chainlink Price Feeds. In addition, FilSwan also hosted the Fil-Toronto Summit and the DATA DAO Hackathon, updated and iterated our products, including Swan Client, Swan Provider and Swan Platform, which has been attracting more users and storage providers.

Charles emphasized the key role of DataCap in Filecoin’s real data storage and reviewed the achievements FilSwan has made to promote real data storage during the two Fil+ notary terms, including providing real data storage services and dataset services for scientific research institutes, and beyond. FilSwan will continue to work on promoting the development of applications and tools for storing real data in various scenarios, said Charles.

Three FilSwan Products were Selected into the FILECOIN DATA ONBOARDING Recommended List

Recently, Filecoin Data Onboarding, the official storage platform website of Filecoin, released a recommended list of storage tools. FilSwan’s three major tools, Multichain.storage, FilSwan Client Portal (Swan Client) and FS3, were officially selected, becoming one of the projects with the most selected products.

The selection of FilSwan’s three major products further proves FilSwan’s contribution and efforts in the field of distributed storage. The tools FilSwan provides reduce the difficulty data storage difficulty and provide the public with more simple and easy-to-use distributed storage services.

Technical Progress

Swan Client v2.0.0 was Released!

FilSwan has recently updated the Swan Client to v2.0.0 according to the community feedback and our planning. We have add some useful features in the new version.

New Features

Task: auto-bid task for all clients (filswan/go-swan-client#170)
RPC: use the rpc command to query chain info from the Pocket RPClist service, ./swan-client rpc or ./swan-client rpc-api (filswan/go-swan-client#173)
RPC: deploy a free blockchain RPC service, ./swan-client daemon, more chain rpc-api documents have been listed here(filswan/go-swan-client#174)
CMD: UX improvements for all users, try ./swan-client -h (filswan/go-swan-client#170)
Document: completed command document has been created (filswan/go-swan-client#175)

Besides, we have fixed some bugs and made improvements. Click here for more detailed information of Swan Client v2.0.0.

NFT ERC-1155 is now Live on Multichain.storage!

ERC-1155 is a new NFT token contract with obvious advantages in GameFi, Metaverse and more scenarios compared with ERC-721. It has been gradually adopted by more users. FilSwan, also adopted the contract on Multichain.storage web client and now supports Multichain.storage users to mint ERC-1155 NFTs.

The Multichain.storage ERC-1155 NFT minting requires no additional operations. The newly minted ERC-1155 NFTs could be found in the “SWAN NFT”collection, and the previously minted are still palced in the “MCS NFT V2”ccollection. Users can trade both of the NFTs at any time.

FilSwan Multichain.storage Updated JS

At present, there are mainly two SDKs in Multichain.storage, js-mcs-sdk and python-mcs-sdk. FilSwan has recently updated both to js-mcs-sdk v2.5.2 and python-mcs-sdk v0.1.3.

Here are the great new features:

Added authentication features for user 2-step verification
Support the generation of ERC-1155 NFT
Adoption of Chainlink price feed to get the precise exchange rate (USDC-FIL)
UI optimization for a smoother experience
Statistics update for increased transparency

Some Functions and Services Upgraded and Maintained

To provide better a user experiencce, FilSwan upgraded key codes for the ecosystem products on October 27th and 29th.

During the maintenance, some services and functions were temporarily unavailable. FilSwan has made advance notice of this maintenance on Twitter and other channels. The maintainance details are as follows:

On October 27, there was a 9-hour downtime maintenance of Multichain.storage, FilSwan Launch Console, FS3, Swan Client, and Swan Provider. And on October 30th, an 8-hour maintainance of Multichain.storage was also completed.