Flow Blockchain Launches Test Environment For Smart Contracts
- Flow Playground is a web-based, interactive testnet that enables developers to write and run smart contracts on Flow.
- The company also introduced a new programming language called Cadence set to make app development simpler.
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According to an announcement published on 15 April, the company has launched a suite of new products and features that aim to further attract developers to the Flow ecosystem. The company has launched Flow Playground, an interactive web interface that enables developers to write and run smart contracts and transactions in a test environment. Developers will be able to write smart contracts using Resources, the blockchain’s proprietary service that enables programmatic modeling of valuable asset ownership.
Alongside the Flow Playground, Dapper Labs also introduced a new resource-oriented programming language called Cadence. The language utilizes features from Swift and Rust, offers a strong static type system, and provides developers with resource types that redefine programmatic ownership of valuable assets.
To fuel participation in the newly launched Flow ecosystems, the company also launched Flow Alpha, a partner program for projects building on Flow.
“Together with our community, Flow can power an open and trustworthy internet for billions of consumers. We’re looking for creators, companies, and ambassadors to bring this new digital world to life,” the company said in the announcement.
Flow Alpha will offer users access to co-marketing and business development opportunities with its partners, which include the UFC and Warner Music. It will also introduce projects to investors and provide top projects with access to an accelerator led by Dapper Labs and Flow teams.
- The Solana network experienced a noticeable slowdown in block production after its most recent 1.14 network upgrade was implemented last week.
- In order to avoid similar issues in the future, one-third of Solana’s core engineers will now be focused on stability and adversarial testing.
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- Once fully launched, the new sidechain will allow developers to write apps using Solidity, and enable XRP Ledge users to interact with Ethereum smart contracts and dapps.
- The EVM-compatible sidechain is currently in its first testing phase, but its official launch is expected to happen sometime in the second quarter of 2023.
- Ticketmaster has partnered with Dapper Labs, enabling its event organizers to mint NFT tickets on the Flow blockchain before, during, and after live events.
- The tickets company had quietly rolled out a pilot NFT test program over the past six months, and has already minted over 5 million NFTs on Flow.