Hello Dev.to Community !
It's almost a month as I have started writing articles on Dev.to. Candidly speaking it's a mesmerising, how much fun and knowledge can writing and reading articles bring to ones life. And I want to express my gratefulness to all of my readers until now.
⚠️ WARNING: Next couple of paragraphs will not be related to coding and my week effort's specifically. If you want the gritty details, scroll down to Introduction section.
Ofc there is a jeopardy that I might be feeding a infinitely hungry dragon called "AI" with the data about my efforts and daily workflow and I might be targeted by the ads.
However...... SCREW THAT, coz as I mentioned in my post about AI (Although there were mentioned more topics from AI 🦾 to React and homo-sapiens species root of behaviour 🦍).
Humanity seems already to be at the verge of its existence, given the blazingly fast changes in the world, all of unsettling occurances, that it's tough to catch up with.
Tech CEOs (for me those are dumb assholes, not from the intellectual side, rather what they say publicly and how they influent others) and media spreading fear and uncertainty, willing you only to watch another clickbait video under label of "geopolitics", "development" across all of the people,only to get money for ads, simultaneously killing ambitions and eagerness to grow.
And in the end you've got linkedin posters (which are managed likely by an agent, given the quality of those posts) and triggering me to puke with rainbow on them all.
So, imo it's high-key better to have an attitude as though world would end up tomorrow, than caring about when will the next bomb blow in Iran and what causes will it bring to all of us at all.
Answering however finally why SCREW THAT, and isn't it self-hypocrisy, as I used to define myself as privacy first ? Well not really, I genuinely like the way it's been described in Cypherpunk Manifesto by Eric Hughes
Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
And thus I do not expose it to the entire world per se, coz my post will likely have less than 25 views and 2 likes from people I met on dev.to, 5 likes from me and that's it.
Introduction
Ok, enough of general prattling and I hope you didn't leave me at this time (Thank you :D) and perhaps I managed to bring you laugh. Let's go into nitty-gritty details.
What have I been doing actually ?
As you might know I'm still working on my web3 pokemon-themed protocol or should I call it ecosystem, because it already has a mechanism for random card drawing ability 1 per day for each user, staking protocol for the cards, marketplace and yet in-build but there will be a pokemon battle mode, based on socket.io.
All of the sudden, getting rid of the most mundane part of coding for me throughout those years, which was designing and frontend UI-building, allowed my brain to fall back onto an idea to implement ZKP (Zero-Knowledge Proofs) to this project for Pokemon Trades, like e.g. users want to swap Pokemon with each other and there could be a proof that a user has the pokemon without a need to reveal it to the actual 3rd party.
Here you have links to particular parts of my project:
Smart-Contracts
LuftieTheAnonymous
/
PokeStake_Protocol
A Staking protocol with usage of Chainlink VRF for drawing a random pokemon Card
🔥 PokeStake Protocol
A decentralized Pokémon card collection protocol built on EVM chains. Users can claim a randomly generated NFT daily, with full control to stake for rewards or trade on the marketplace for ETH or SNORLIE tokens.
🎯 Overview
This protocol combines on-chain randomization, ERC721 NFT mechanics, and a dual-token economy to create an engaging play-to-earn experience. Every 24 hours (86400 blocks), each user gets a chance to mint a unique Pokémon card powered by Chainlink VRF for true randomness.
Key Features
- Daily NFT Generation: Random Pokémon card minting per user (24h cooldown)
- Dual Currency System: Earn & trade using ETH or SNORLIE tokens
- Staking Rewards: Lock your cards to earn passive income
- Decentralized Marketplace: List, buy, sell with transparent pricing
- VRF-Powered Randomization: Chainlink VRF ensures provably fair card generation
📦 Smart Contracts
| Contract | Purpose | Type |
|---|---|---|
| PokeCardCollection | ERC721 collection with custom minting logic & |
Web-app
LuftieTheAnonymous
/
PokeStake-Dapp
A Pokemon themed staking protocol with usage of Chainlink VRF
PokeStake 🎴⛓️
A decentralized staking protocol where you can lock Pokemon cards and draw random rewards daily. Built on-chain with verifiable randomness and IPFS storage.
Overview
PokeStake is a Web3 staking protocol that lets users stake Pokemon cards and participate in daily random draws. Each day, stakers can claim a random card from the pool—powered by Chainlink VRF for cryptographically secure randomness and Pinata for decentralized card metadata storage.
Tech Stack
| Technology | Purpose | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Next.js | Frontend framework & API routes | Latest |
| TypeScript | Type-safe development | Latest |
| Solidity | Smart contract logic | ^0.8.0 |
| Foundry | Smart contract development & testing | Latest |
| RainbowKit | Wallet connection & UI | Latest |
| Wagmi | Ethereum hooks & contract interaction | Latest |
| TanStack Query | Server state management | Latest |
| Chainlink VRF | Verifiable randomness | v2 |
| Pinata SDK | IPFS pinning & card metadata | Latest |
Features
- 🎴 Stake Pokemon Cards - Lock your cards into the protocol
- 🎰 Daily Random Draws - Once per day, draw…
Backend
This week I focused on handling the UI display of the onchain data to the user, with error and loading states, improving the smart-contract tests and implementing the marketplace. The tests had to be conducted from scratch because there's been some issues with the initial code split I approached to build.
I also finally grasped how socket.io works, I had huge issue with understanding it and was having mind-fuck after mind-fuck, whenever I approached to learn it. But I guess many factors have impacted the fact I was not able to learn it, nevermind.
I visited this week also the university, that I'm likely to be a student of, here a link to the post with my impressions and a bit of linux-propaganda :D
I will not lie, that I would really like to integrate ZK into this project, however I also know that 17th of April is incoming with giant steps and I have to be ready to select a project I want to build and no theme has been announced yet. Thus I decided to build the project as long as the theme is not announced.
Current focus
Pokestake PVP mode implementation with socket.io with ability to win some SNORLIEs (in-app token)
Keeping an eye on the theme announcement for the ETHSilesia Hackathon and drafting a plan on what to build as a project on the hackathon.
Honestly I also have to say, that this project is by far the most engaging and perhaps not the most complex in terms of logic, but in case of tools you though. And it's weird that all of that happens, all of those experiences are emerging while I decided to leave web-dev and smart-contracts to delve into cryptography and so will it be.
How about your week ?
Feel free to share how has your week been going and share it in the comments ?
Cheerio, your Luftie !
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