v0.1.x-alpha

Last Updated: February 3rd, 2025

The Alpha version of Aemula is a free-to-use, limited-scale release of the platform after our migration to the Base blockchain and subsequent rebuild using our new architecture. The goal of the Alpha is to test the platform, receive live feedback, and monitor estimated platform costs while deployed to the Base Sepolia test network prior to deploying on Base Mainnet.

v0.1.7-alpha (2/1/2025)

Features

• Sharable links for each article
• After login, redirects back to the page you were originally attempting to access

Upgrades

• Reconnection functionality to persist user sessions for 7 days on browsers that purge cookies
• Significant improvements to the efficiency and security of data fetching and dynamic page rendering
• Refined previews for shared links

v0.1.6-alpha (1/24/2025)

Features

• New login and account creation flow
• New Documentation site at https://docs.aemula.com
• Including links to Terms, Privacy Policy, and Cancellation & Refund Policy from landing and login

Upgrades

• New session management logic to increase efficiency and persist user sessions for 7 days
• Refined article formatting to support block quotes

v0.1.5-alpha (1/16/2025)

Features

• Author Dashboard view

Upgrades

• Updated articleRanking weights to increases recency weighting of recommended articles based on user feedback
• Refined article formatting to support more components, including ordered/unordered lists, page dividers, and section headers

Hotfix (1/11/2025)

• Implemented graceful error handling for attempts at accessing unathorized/invalid article addresses
• Added verbose client-side error messages

Hotfix (1/9/2025)

• Resolved error in account creation as a result from high transaction volume
• Corrected error in publication timestamps
• Minor formatting and layout adjustments

v0.1.4-alpha (1/6/2025)

Features

• Implemented article recommendation and ranking algorithm
  • In the interest of transparency, these are included in our Open Source Algorithms
  • Updated landing page

Upgrades

• Refined Article Grid layout
• Streamlined account creation and user registration flow
• Upgrades to the Graph Visualizer
• Verbose popup messages for user authentication states

Bug Fixes

• Resolved error of not being able to open articles after login
• Resolved error requiring user to refresh page after creating account to access the platform
• Fixed mobile formatting of particle logo on landing page

v0.1.3-alpha (12/31/2024)

Features

• Implemented ability for users to report articles
  • Articles are now removed from circulation if report votes exceed 33% of all interactions (after passing 3 interactions)

Upgrades

• Article recommendation caching to maintain consistent recommendations each day
• Article interactions are immediately recorded to our database (in a pending state) while the onchain transaction finalizes in the background to allow the user to continue navigating without waiting for confirmation
• Created article upload system to republish content available under Creative Commons license and in the public domain

Bug Fixes

• Fixed errors with incorrect timestamps on article interactions
• Resolved minor bugs in article interaction flow

v0.1.2-alpha (12/16/2024)

Features

• Upgrade to One-Time Password (OTP) login flow via email
• Ability to set a platform-native, human-readable “alias” for your Smart Account address (update on the Account page)
• Added “Graph Visualizer” view (accessible via Account page) to show the graph of users, articles, and their interactions
  • Currently, this view is only accessible by alpha users for purposes of testing, but may be implemented in production in the future

Bug Fixes

• Minor fixes to issues with mobile formatting

Hotfix (12/10/2024)

• Resolved error in failing to authenticate users when navigating via in-app links

v0.1.1-alpha (12/2/2024)

Features

• Mobile design compatibility
• Onchain subscriptions
  • User access to Aemula is now determined by Aemula’s smart contract and onchain updates determined by Aemula’s subscription oracle

Upgrades

• Increased platform security
• Refined user authentication and page access routing
• Multiple critical bug fixes

v0.1.0-alpha (11/5/2024)

Features

• Enabled recurring subscriptions with credit card & Apple Pay
  • currently under testing in a sandbox environment
• Support for rich text formatting of article content
• Support for user-generated content tags for more diversity in article recommendations

Upgrades

• Reduced onchain transaction costs by over 90%
• Reduced AWS hosting fees by over 50%
• Reduced block ingestion time by 10x (30 seconds from 5 minutes)
  • technically capable of reducing time to 2 seconds before running into block time limits of the underlying blockchain
• Deployed to scalable infrastructure currently capable of handling thousands of concurrent users, with ability to seamlessly increase capacity

Changes

• Migration to the Base Layer-2 blockchain, the largest chain in the Optimism Superchain ecosystem with $7.7b in total value locked and >2.5m accounts
• Rebuilt using Next.js framework to handle server-side rendering to reduce initial page load times