PulseChain News: All Your PLS Updates in One Place

Ever since Richard Heart announced he was forking Ethereum, hundreds of thousands of crypto users have been patiently awaiting mainnet.

And now it is finally here!

Every week, new announcements from Richard and the devs get released, increasing the excitement but adding to the technical confusion.

This running blog post by WaLLrus will translate and summarize the PulseChain news updates all in one place!

(June 1st, 2023) PulseChain Update

• Richard Heart found and disclosed a bug on PulseX

• The bug resulted in 100% of the PulseX LP fees being used in the buy and burn.

• This bug existed since PulseX was first created, throughout all the testnet versions, and somehow the bug was not found

It appears that the PulseX buy and burn gets all of the fees, leaving none for the LP. This same code has been in use for years of test nets, no one noticed, including the LPs. The fix that leaves fees for the LPs is on the right below, the current code is on the left. This has… pic.twitter.com/mYfMZRJynK

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 30, 2023

(May 29th, 2023) PulseChain News and Updates

• Two more centralized exchanges listed PLS/PLSX for easy on-ramping: Kanga Exchange and SafeTrade Exchange

• Rabby Wallet, Metamask alternative, supports PulseChain

• DeFi tracking tools such as Coinly, DexTools, DeBank, and DeFiLlama now have or are planning to list PulseChain.

(May 23rd, 2023) PulseChain News and Updates

• PLS was listed on the Centralized Exchange, OkX.

• This is very bullish for mass adoption. Although, it is important to remember that centralized exchanges are best used as on-ramping tools and not places to hold your coins and tokens.

• This is the first time a Richard Heart coin has been listed on a major exchange.

$PLS just listed on OKX. How big is OKX? https://t.co/B87o7vbBLO pic.twitter.com/GCu4uelCcT

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 23, 2023

(May 21st, 2023)

• "The Cloggening" seems to have come to an end. Deposits have started clearing much faster.

You can use https://t.co/gcSfY1ooEF now, it is 95.4% clear. Bridge stats https://t.co/ZLr6ZkmQJl andhttps://t.co/Q4nZ4FGOvL pic.twitter.com/VvUjx5yqTz

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 21, 2023

(May 20th, 2023)

• After a long and arduous Crypto Bear Market, Richard Heart posted his first new all-time high post.

I've never tweeted about New All Time Highs in #PulseChain before. pic.twitter.com/qczU5vVPKJ

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 20, 2023

• In addition, on the 20th of May, the PulseChain Bridge hit $100 million in deposits

$100M in the bridge pic.twitter.com/oH1FAclPD7

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 20, 2023

(May 15th, 2023)

• The PulseChain Bridge, PulseRamp, went live on May 15th, 2023.

• Millions of users rushed to bridge in value from Ethereum causing a massive backlog of deposits. This event coined a new term, "The Cloggening".

https://t.co/gcSfY1ooEF is live.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 16, 2023

(May 12th, 2023)

• PulseChain Mainnet went LIVE on May 12th, 2023

The https://t.co/tyQE8i8y5h main net is now live.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 13, 2023

• PulseX also went live at the same time. 

The https://t.co/vZIuPqXDpo main net is now live.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 13, 2023

• Although it went live on May 12, the snapshot date was actually on May 10.

Here is the Pulsechain Mainnet snap shot Date/Block. pic.twitter.com/OgfhiAtAHd

— WaLLrus (@WaLLrusOfficial) May 13, 2023

(May 10th, 2023)

• Richard Heart has indicated that there is not much left to be done before launching Mainnet
• He also gave his first time estimate in over a year

The https://t.co/vZIuPqXDpo and https://t.co/tyQE8i8y5h MAIN NET are estimated to launch publicly in less than 7 days.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 10, 2023

(May 4th, 2023)

• The validator withdrawals from the Shanghai Update are now showing on PulseChain Testnet v4

https://t.co/tyQE8i8y5h news. Withdrawals now show on the block explorer. https://t.co/W1MGwfrur2 pic.twitter.com/nrAnPwbWSA

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 4, 2023

(April 28th, 2023)

• Richard announced that the Shanghai Upgrade was added to PulseChain

• The Shanghai Upgrade was an Ethereum upgrade which allow Ethereum validators to remove their ETH from staking

Withdrawals have been successfully activated on PulseChain testnet v4. (Shanghai update.)

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 28, 2023

(April 19th, 2023)

• Richard Heart announced the launch of PulseChain Testnet v4
• Testnet v4 has increased rewards for PLS Validators

PulseChain Testnet v4 is up. Docs: https://t.co/wBk75pl7eP

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 20, 2023

(April 15th, 2023)

• Richard announced on Twitter that PulseChain Testnet v4 is up and running privately

• Automated Market Maker Bot not yet deployed on v4

• PulseX not yet deployed on v4

PulseChain v4 testnet is up privately and waiting for amm bot and pulsex to be run/deployed. pic.twitter.com/WP36vPjpba

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 15, 2023

(April 10th, 2023)

• PulseChain Testnet v4 update likely to launch in the next few days

• Bridge up between PulseChain Testnet v3 and Sepolia Testnet (ETH Testnet)

PulseChain V3 testnet bridge to #Ethereum Sepolia testnet is up: https://t.co/L08alvhiYp
You can get Sepolia ETH at public faucets and mint some Mocked DAI token by calling "create" method here: https://t.co/pz5Smowy8L Bridge now allows users to bridge any token back and forth.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 7, 2023

• The bridge facilitated the attachment of hypothetical dollar values to tokens such as PLS, PLSX and Hex.

https://t.co/nHbgJExIaR is now showing $ figures in mock tDAI. pic.twitter.com/Hkfr5ebVSH

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 9, 2023

• Buy and burn added to PulseX, DAO proposals and incentive token getting added soon

• Some projects won't drop on V3 at all, but will drop on v4.

• V3 will be taken offline as soon as v4 launches

(April 7th, 2023)

• PulseChain will have a Testnet V4 to allow the Fixer bot changes and Validator incentive upgrades

https://t.co/tyQE8i8y5h news: v4 inflation upgrade next week.
PulseX news: Just needs the bridge to #Ethereum test net to get a dummy stable coin bridged over to show $ values in the stats page: https://t.co/Hqo8mihcpc The transactions can be seen at bottom.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 6, 2023

• While this is technically "another testnet", it is a continuation of the development on V3. The reason for the new version is because the devs must fork to old testnet in order to make changes to the validators.

• PulseX Buy and Burn has huge price positive nature.

• Announcement of V4, which is an extension of V3 and another test net

• V3 is running as expected, with some minor issues to address

• V4 is needed to make changes to the validators, to increase their number, distribution and robustness

• Economic incentives needed to attract people to run the validators

• No change to inflation or tokenomics, but it's advantageous for validators with less issuance

• Challenge of communication: difficult to understand updates, leading to anxiety, but transparency is important

• V4 is not a big deviation or change from previous testnets, just getting updates

(April 3rd, 2023)

• Richard Heart made some changes to the lighthouse client, which is one of the clients to run validator software to keep the chain up. These changes improved peer connectivity between validators.

• PulseChain hasn't released the updated features on PulseX yet, such as limit orders, but it's likely to be coming soon.

https://t.co/tyQE8i8y5h news. Peering is looking good. PulseX has had lots of dependency updates so pretty soon other features can be rolled out. Private test devnet is testing the increased inflation.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 4, 2023

• PLSX has had the buy and burn front end added. More feature to come
• There may be changes made to validator incentives to increase the APY to incentivize more participation and to reach certain thresholds.

• Crypto Crazy (CC) released a Liquid Loans Development update as well as commentary on global macro conditions. Watch the video here!

• Crypto is hard, and there are reasons for design changes and compromises, but everything is progressing well.

• Building these projects is really important, and people will be excited to have been part of a community that built cool things.

• Click here to watch our comprehensive PulseChain News roundup on Youtube.

(March 27th, 2023)

• Client updates coming soon.

• GraphQL and block explorer are indexing and near complete

• PRC20 checker is up and great for onboarding.