The Blurt blockchain has seen many changes since its creation. Change is important because it allows the blockchains to adapt to current technologies and challenges, in addition to reflecting the needs of its community via a clear and transparent consensus-based system.
We have noticed that there appears to be an increasing need and requests from the Blurt ecosystem to implement a community-based platform similar to what can be seen on other platforms such as Reddit or other similar blockchains.
Thanks to Nexus, which is a consensus interpretation layer for the Blurt blockchain, that in addition to making Communities possible, is also going to offload a lot of pressure from API (rpc) nodes.
Communities ELI5'ed
To put it in layman's terms, "Communities" is a feature that will add more value to the Blurt blockchain; imagine Reddit but on a blockchain. Users will be able to create subject-specific communities, such as a community for food, fashion, travel, learning, crypto, or anything else.
Users who create a community will have far more control over it, such as the ability to police its content and control who can post in it, or not. In its broader sense, Communities also open an optimistic prospect for the future, since more features can be added to it over time. For example, a possibility for people to monetize their communities is an idea that is not too far-fetched.
What exactly will be added?
• First. Communities will be added onto the official front-end of the Blurt blockchain (deployed here), which is the UI stack that is commonly referred to as Condenser. This will be fully open source so any other frontend operators can upgrade theirs as well.
• Second. Users will be able to create communities directly from the official Blurt wallet. Why the wallet? Because creating a community requires the creation of a new account, meaning that the active key will be needed; so the best path is to keep all active related operations in the wallet for good measure.
• Third. To cope with several regulatory environments and user requests, a new feature will be added to the wallet as well that will allow users to unpublish their profile.
While the data stored in the blockchain is immutable and cannot be altered, the information, however, will not be shown on front-ends who are willing to include this feature. The changes here will be mostly done at the UI level, which will be linked in the process as soon as the backend is ready. Quite simply, users will be able to unpublish their blog account from frontends that are served by Nexus, but all data will still exist on block explorers.
Who is going to work on the project?
The @symbionts team will take the responsibility of implementing Communities, in addition to the above-mentioned changes. The @symbionts team will report progress to the Blurt Core team on Discord and onchain to the community via their Blurt blog.
A live version of the condenser and wallet will be provided for testing to the community to make sure that the changes are as expected and conform to the norms of usability and convenience. Feedback is encouraged since the goal at the end is to operate within the principles of transparency and accountability
Budget & Development Time
Development time is expected to take from 40 (forty) to 60 (sixty) days. Live version for testing included.
Milestones have been set as per the following schedule and budget.
Advance: 1500 USD in stablecoin
Milestone 1: 500K Powered up BLURT (Four week vested BLURT) once the project is live and working as intended
Final delivery: 2000 USD in stablecoin upon final handover of all deliverables.
(Note: Where "stablecoin" is specified, USDT on the Ethereum network will be paid, or other substitute stablecoin as mutually agreed at the time)
The vested BLURT will come from the @socialgraph treasury, and the stablecoin will be from its non-blurt reserves, no BLURT will be liquidated to meet this expenditure.
The @symbionts team is to reply in comment with the acceptance of the above deliverables and terms; as well as to supply their native non-custodial Ethereum EVM wallet address where they wish to be paid via private memo to the @blurtofficial account.
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We thank the @symbionts team for their willingness to support development on Blurt, in addition to the Ecosythesizer block explorer and Joinblurt onboarding tools they already supply and look forward to future fruitful collaborations.