The Interledger Community 🌱: LikeCoin

LikeCoin — Grant Progress Report #2

LikeCoin — Wed, 26 May 2021 10:16:52 +0000

Hi again! Happy to share with you the 2nd progress report from LikeCoin. For timely updates, we share bi-weekly progress updates on Medium. Follow us on Twitter for more real-time sharing. If you want to reach out to our team, you can also find us on Discord.

When Bitcoin and DeFi decentralize money and finance, the open-source LikeCoin blockchain decentralizes content and publishing. Read more on our recent interview with Quartz.

ISCN - The Decentralized Registry function now available with the WordPress plugin

In our first report, we have upgraded the LikeCoin WordPress plugin to enable Web Monetization. In the past three months, we spend most of our time developing ISCN, a content metadata registry and we have now added the ISCN function to the plugin in the first testing environment.

Imagine it is the ISBN for digital content. ISCN (International Standard Content Number) is a decentralized content registry. It is a comprehensive metadata framework that can facilitate content registrations, licensing, and monetization for all media types. Content creators can register their content metadata and adequately set up content attributes before distributing the content. If you are in the recent NFTs craze, you may understand ISCN as a metadata oracle to help provide content authenticity data before an NFT was mint to be sold on marketplaces. We also aim to empower journalists and media to preserve content & ensure authenticity.

Demo

ISCN Demo - on WordPress and Matters.news https://youtu.be/pxKE3CkWHb4
ISCN Badge Demo
https://youtu.be/V-oIDCK76jQ

Events

Attended MozFest 2021! Roundtable discussion on "Business models on the web is broken! Let's fix them."

It is our first MozFest experience, and it was a blast and glad to meet a lot of new faces. The event is well organized, a user-friendly platform where I got to interact with other participants easily. It was great to connect with various grantees and discuss topics that we all care about.

We were at the Grant for the Web Grantee Hangout last week! :)

What's next?

Thanks to Grant for the Web, we took ISCN from idea to finish building it. Now the basic infrastructure is set, we have a lot of following up work to do before it can serve the general public. In Q2, we will be launching the LikeCoin chain, Fotan version enabling the ISCN module and Interchain communication feature publicly for the open source community to build Dapps.

Relevant links/resources

Website: https://like.co/
Blog: https://medium.com/likecoin
Discussion: https://discord.com/invite/W4DQ6peZZZ
ISCN specification: https://github.com/likecoin/iscn-specs
WordPress specification: https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-wordpress
Try it on WordPress:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/likecoin/
Quick tutorial for content creators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrxiNAzqOPE

LikeCoin — Grant Progress Report #1

LikeCoin — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:59:55 +0000

Hi everyone, happy to share with you the LikeCoin 1st progress report. If you’d like to receive a monthly update, feel free to follow us on Medium. For any further project discussion, we are on Discord. Come chat with us! :)

1. Work completed with the WordPress plugin integration

LikeCoin WordPress plugin is now upgraded to an option to enable Web Monetization. However, we would like to get help from the community to connect with Uphold to support LIKE; it will help us further incorporate and promote the web monetization standard. We believe it is a win-win partnership, in addition, to bring LikeCoin users to the leading wallet platform.

LikeCoin is a decentralized publishing infrastructure that provides tools such as the WordPress plugin for content creators to monetize their work. We have accumulated more than 1400+ media sites using LikeCoin plugin, 93k+ registered users, and 140k+ content creators. More open data and documentation can be found here.

2. Work in progress: ISCN comes along in the next chain upgrade

The second major development is the decentralized registry - ISCN (International Standard Content Number). It will come along in the next chain upgrade with Comos Stargate Hub Upgrade. The potential upgrade timeline on testnet is March 2021.

LikeCoin chain is built on Cosmos SDK, and we have been actively following the code changes of Cosmos Hub Stargate upgrade in the past six months. Stargate is the largest Cosmos upgrade yet. It will enable higher transaction throughput, cross-chain transactions, accelerate UI development, etc. The original plan was to upgrade the LikeCoin chain with the Stargate, but Stargate was delayed to early 2021 instead of 2020 Q4.

The good news is that the official Stargate upgrade proposal is raised on 12 Jan 2021. Once the proposal is passed, the Stargate upgrade will start to proceed. Our team is currently taking a deep dive in the latest version of the code and preparing for the next LikeCoin chain, FoTan upgrade. We will first run the migration in a testnet environment before upgrading to the mainet.

LikeCoin chain, FoTan will bring the long-awaited ISCN module, allowing creators to register content metadata and publish their content on the blockchain. Fotan will also incorporate most features brought by the major upgrade of Cosmos SDK, such as efficiency gain up to 100x, much faster full node sync, and faster upgrade.

Relevant links/resources

Website: https://like.co/
Blog: https://medium.com/likecoin
Discussion: https://discord.com/invite/W4DQ6peZZZ

ISCN specification: https://github.com/likecoin/iscn-specs
WordPress specification: https://github.com/likecoin/likecoin-wordpress

Want to get started?

Quick tutorial for content creators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrxiNAzqOPE

What is LikeCoin? Decentralized Publishing Infrastructure

LikeCoin — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 03:41:29 +0000

The LikeCoin protocol and the LikeCoin blockchain node software
are looking to incorporate with the Web Monetization Standard and the Interledger Protocol. LikeCoin has been adapted to various use cases, ranging from website plugins, mobile app to media platforms.

LikeCoin gathered a strong community for content lovers and
publishers, it operated in the form of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).

Website: https://like.co/
Blog: https://medium.com/likecoin
Discussion: https://discord.com/invite/W4DQ6peZZZ

The Interledger Community 🌱: LikeCoin

LikeCoin — Grant Progress Report #2

ISCN - The Decentralized Registry function now available with the WordPress plugin

Related Readings

# Why doesn’t digital content have a registration database like ISBN?

# How ISCN rides on IPFS?

# Can IPFS — the Distributed Web fight against content censorship?

Demo

Events

What's next?

Relevant links/resources

LikeCoin — Grant Progress Report #1

Relevant links/resources

Want to get started?

What is LikeCoin? Decentralized Publishing Infrastructure