We’ve continued working diligently on our GAIMIN Web 3 gaming platform and cloud this month, and we’re excited to share the latest updates.
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Here are the key TL;DR highlights of this month’s updates:
- We had a cool update to the GAIMIN platform main page to add the Daily Rewards and Achievements to help people more easily claim them
- Continued paying rendering rewards as we progress on the advanced testing clients of the MVP rendering of the gaimin.cloud
- Also made the gaimin.cloud website live and further optimized and improved the backend
- Continued our work with The Harvest Game team in preparation for its launch
- Added approx 1000 more testers to our network
- Ran the initial test of the new Quiz feature which was a success
- Added a new exciting “Watch and Earn” Twitch Livestreams feature, and tested it successfully
- Added new NFT collectibles
- And much more… full details of all updates below.
Here are the more detailed updates with links to the full release notes below…
Feature Updates Application:
- Achievements updated — new “12 hours unlock” achievement added
- Technical functionality added to support “Events” feature
- Hovers added for NFT and all “big blue” buttons
- Addition of Quiz page functionality
- API endpoint added for Quiz functionality
- Update images in Streamers page
- Achievements moved to Home page
- API endpoint added for Quiz functionality
- Creation of endpoint in Streaming API to return the conversion rate and watch time
- Calculation of pending reward for use in Streaming API endpoint
NEP progress bar reinstated for 10 hours of monetization - Withdrawal verification process changed to create a new separate job which is executed every hour via a cron job
- Allow “hiding” of devices in display list
- Re-organisation of devices in display according to “hidden” status
Allocation of streaming rewards automated
Functionality Updates — Application and Cloud:
- Implementation of payment flow process to pay out to active users providing rendering services — Creation of 2 workers for payout flow
- Amendment to process to ensure client can always calculate the cost of a potential render job even if their balance is 0. However they can only “continue rendering” if they have enough money to pay for the analysis.
- Addition of functionality to return cost of analysis
- Transaction record not displayed for debit < 0.01
- getProject endpoint updated to show number of completed/total frames
In project list, Render status renamed to “New” - API endpoint updated GET client/job updated with “return completed/total frames” per job
- Updated to rename of blender file function — new name only displays after page reload
- Email sent to customer when rendering analysis has been completed.
Addition of functionality to return cost of analysis - Balance update timeout changed to reduce time to update balance after account balance is topped up.
- Resume DOTA2 NFT claims to allow new Lima Major NFTs to be collected via Achievements
- Update to “user” table to add company/community devices to provide valid user ids
- Functionality added to enable viewing of inner folders in directory
Rendered frames are updated in the “Render” result section as they become available - Email validation now available for sendgrid
- Removal of ignoreWarnings parameter from start-rendering request to continue rendering and ignore warnings
- Carousel for rendering results popup now shows the frame name and displays left and right arrows to go to previous and next frames
- Validation on length of project name added to stop error messages when large project name added
Bug Fixes and Cosmetic/UI Changes — Application and Cloud:
- Database search field corrected to enable correct verification of payment processing for render_worker
- Technical update to add achievement type into back-end
- API “total-reward” updated to add stats for ERG and ETC
- Update to name input field to comply with ActiveCampaign requirements
- Ergo mining stats added to internal reporting dashboard
- Correction to display notification for new registered user via referral link
- Correction to identification of duplicate Tweets and stopping display of duplicates
- Issue with Home page display after platform restart corrected
- Copyright year updated to 2023 in displayed areas
- “See More” button — correct behavior applied to function
- Removal of “white line” when mouse hovers over a banner
- Okta login text changes to co-ordinate text with Oka style and formats
- Fix applied to stop rendering of the same frame my multiple users
- Error with searching the project folder stopping display of blender file fixed
- Fix to balance display if client balance 0
- Fix to display of file upload line overlap when scrolling down page
- Action buttons for Rename and Remove actions in “Project” search now perform as expected
- Fix to screen jump when uploaded a new file
- Fix to file rename to remove duplicate “.blend” extension if “.blend” is already showing as the extension
- Database constraints added
- Addition of designs to support mobile solution
- Addition of correct icon to browser tab
- Update to design to show “loader” option for bottom part of “Project” page and loading of render images
- Scrolling added to “Project” and “Render” pages so header displays balance but projects are scrollable
- Pagination added to list of transactions to make them more readable/presentable
- Refactoring of error message when “Remove” option selected but file cannot be removed
- Icons for different file types now added
- Error on icon blinking corrected
- Galxe integration to support Valentine’s Day promotion
- Correction to GMRX rewards whilst watching a stream — GMRX only increases now if Stream window is in focus and not minimized.
- Correct operation of mining endpoints when rendering functionality operating
- Transaction type amended to make specific reference to rendering reward transaction
- Update to backend database to include existing NFT items’ metadata in the database.
- Refactoring of database queries to remove use of filtering — increases performance and assists testing
- Trigger for data cleanup changed — originally done after starting analysis, moved to endpoint for the update.
- Re-implement “Device” authentication scheme prefix into database
Addition of epic for unit tests - One-time claimed time-based Achievements remain showing on Profile page
- Placeholder added to Achievements page to stop “jumping” during loading of NFTs
- Incorrect Okta forms navigation corrected
- Incorrect hovering action over NFTs in Marketplace corrected
- Incorrect action for “locked” image on Referrals corrected
- USDC amounts truncated to show just 4 decimal places after decimal point
- Change purple color in SendGrid buttons
- QA environment updated to show real USDC transactions to assist in QA
- Implement changes to Venly domains for wallet access
- Migration of services to new Venly domains
- Correction of handling or Errors from Okta
- Amendment to security process for handling minimum amount withdrawals
- Fixes to resolve issues when using Firefox browser
- Change of displayed text — change “coupon” to “promocode”
- Change to display of costs to add “0” if second decimal place is “0”
- Creation of separate databases to separate prod and qa environments
- Added database index to endpoint get job/list to speed up job retrieval
- Amended functionality to allow the same file to be uploaded in a different job folder without the page reloading before uploading
- Endpoint name for coupon usage changed
- Updated hover text added for status bar
- Username made case independent
(You can find the links to the latest full release notes here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.)
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