Galactic Blog
We are curious people who love to build and tinker. We value accessibility and transparency and think it’s fun to share and blog what we learn along the way.
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Goodbye Galactic
Galactic has decided to shut down, expressing gratitude to its users, team, and investors while maintaining pride in their achievements.
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Skyteller.xyz shutting down
The Final Farewell: Skyteller’s Epic Journey Comes to an End
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Galactic Shuts Down Welf.xyz, Wrapped Elves Bid Farewell
Welf.xyz, home to 500 uniquely hand-drawn Wrapped Elves by Shawn Smith, is set to close by June 30, 2023. The playful on-chain, SVG holiday project was a fun experiment in wrapping and unwrapping mechanics.
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Galactic Bids Goodbye to Watcher.app, the Handy ETH Price and Gas Monitor
Galactic is shutting down Watcher.app, a menu-bar application that monitored Ethereum wallets, USD-ETH prices, and gas prices, as of June 30, 2023. The app provided users with valuable alerts on the optimal time to transact.
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Farewell to Fancy: Fancy.art Gallery and NFT Search Shutting Down
Galactic has announced the termination of its services including Fancy.art Gallery and Fancy.art NFT Search. These innovative platforms offered unique interaction with NFTs and Ethereum mainnet, demonstrating impressive capabilities in digital-to-physical merging and ultra-fast NFT searching. As we bid them goodbye, we look forward to the rise of new, potentially superior technologies.
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Goodbye DAOWow
DAOWow, a platform that surfaced DAO proposals and DAOs, sadly concludes its support as of June 30, 2023, leaving a void in the ecosystem, but with hopeful anticipation for a future revival that can surpass its previous accomplishments.
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We lost the backups, No More support for Floppydisk.xyz NFTs
Galactic’s winding down, pulling support for their rad, retro-inspired Floppydisk.xyz NFT collection; still stoked about the project and guiding fans to their behind-the-scenes posts.
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Galactic Camera, a Fun Video Stream Enhancer, to Shut Down
Galactic is discontinuing its virtual camera software, Galactic Camera, by June 30, 2023. The application provided a simple and enjoyable way for users to enhance their video streams with overlays of visuals and GIFs.
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A Fancy NFT Search Experiment
We wanted to quickly search across all the NFTs on mainnet so we made a super fast way to do it. This is what we learned along the way!
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Accessibility in web3
Read (and hear) how our recent Twitter Space highlighted something we care deeply about at Galactic: Accessibility
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A journey towards a gas efficient ERC721
How we set out to create a low gas NFT and wound up understanding open zeppelin’s design decisions.
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Why Should You Watch Ethereum Wallets?
When you transact on the Etheruem network, all of your actions are public. In this article we’ll give you an overview on how you can watch Ethereum wallet activity to learn and discover new projects.
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Looking into The Watcher
We share the technology behind our latest product, The Watcher, and teach you how to make an app available on Homebrew.
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The Watcher
The Watcher is a menu-bar based app that sends you personalized notifications when gas/ETH fall below your desired threshold and when one of the wallets you’re watching adds to their wallet.
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How to Buy Your First NFT
So you’d like to buy your first NFT but have no idea where to start? This step-by-step guide will teach you everything you need to know about how to purchase your first NFT.
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Sign-in with Ethereum: PKI Magic and Normal People
Public Key authentication is closer than ever to the mainstream. We believe it’s the best identity system in a generation and built tooling to help you use it.
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Fancy.art: Bringing NFTs to Your Living Room
We at General Galactic Corporation are excited to bring you our latest experiment: Fancy.art, a simple and easy way to display NFTs on any TV, computer, or display.
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How to Stay Safe on Crypto Discord
We collaborated with veteran community manager Steve Brown to bring you some tips to staying safe in crypto Discord.
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Floppydisk.xyz: The Drop
The inspiration, planning, and strategy behind our Floppydisk.xyz drop—and the way the drop actually went.
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The codes behind our warez
A complete technical teardown of how we made our fully on-chain floppy disk NFTs that react to the contents of your wallet.
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Galactic Camera
Galactic Camera gives anyone access to all the fun effects and visuals that our streamer and Twitch friends are used to, without the complicated setup.