Flow

Before I ever owned a digital collectible, I was deep in the world of physical sports cards. From my home here in Toronto, my lifelong passion for basketball found an outlet in the world of collecting.

Flow has rolled out an important upgrade that significantly enhances how NFTs can move between EVM and Cadence.

Flow Community Rewards enables users to earn Boxes and Keys by engaging with apps on Flow. In the rewards store, those Boxes and Keys convert into points, which can be redeemed for rewards such as MacBooks, digital collectibles, Nike sneakers, and much more.Now, Flow Rewards is bigger, better, and more rewarding. Including new features such as Sweepstakes and Social Quests, making it even easier to stack up points and unlock prizes.

April was a strong month for the Flow ecosystem, with growth in DeFi, developer activity, and community engagement. Key highlights include a new all-time high in TVL, increased bridging volume, and the launch of Meowcoins by CryptoKitties.

Generating randomness on-chain is notoriously hard. You need a number that’s unpredictable before it’s revealed, unbiased during its generation, and verifiable afterward. To make things even more challenging, nodes of the network have to generate and agree on random numbers in a distributed and decentralized manner. With these nearly opposing constraints, traditional random functions (like Math.random()) aren’t an option.

When CJ set out to build aiSports, he didn’t just want to create another fantasy basketball app. He wanted to craft a completely new layer of gameplay - built directly on top of NBA Top Shot. Flow made that possible.