Technical Update: Second Fortnight of July

Reef’s Technical Update is a bi-weekly newsletter aiming to break down and represent the technical changes, integrations, and news from the whole ecosystem in a language that all community members can understand.
Spotlight
- Reef hosted its first hands-on workshop where attendees learned to Deploy their ERC-20 token on the Reef Chain. This was the first one in a series of workshops that Reef will be hosting to help people BUIDL on Reef.
- Reef welcomed Chitransh Gupta as the newest member of Developer Relations who will be working on ensuring a fantastic Developer experience on Reef Chain.
Ecosystem & Partners
- Reef’s very own Derek Silva talked about Reef Chain on the DApp Radar Podcast hosted by Ben Gothard.
- Reef’s Head of Growth, Cassie Doubleday talked about the Reef Card launch and the future plans in a Twitter Spaces hosted by the Baanx group.
- Reef successfully completes Q2. Check out the blog here to see the notable milestones.
- The next country to reap the benefits of the Reef Card is Germany.
- Reef had an AMA with Binance where our CEO & Founder, Denko Mancheski deep dived into explaining some crucial developments happening in Reef Ecosystem.
- Reef team members attended the Blockchain Economy conference in Istanbul and met with the BRN metaverse team.
- Reef is hosting a Twitter Spaces in collaboration with Mapleblock to talk about the Reef Ecosystem & more.
Tools
- Reef-Chain
Much-awaited v9 has been released to the Testnet.
- Mobile App
A basic MVP for iOS and Android is ready. The Beta version should be released. soon.
- UI-Kit
The Reef UI Kit for easy and consistent development of dApp on Reef has been released.
- Reef-Explorer
The indexer has been upgraded and adapted to v9 to support higher bps indexing.
- Reef-Card-Manager-App
The app has been released to manage the Reef Credit Card.
- Reef-App
The design of ReefSwap pools trading platform is being implemented.