News
What’s happening?
New release update: peaq portal is out to replace peaq app as the community’s one-stop-hub for all things peaq, featuring a new Home page, an updated Bridge page, and EoT NFT and Voting section previews.
Why does it matte?
peaq portal will be one of the key tools enabling the community’s interactions with the peaq network, including managing digital assets and taking part in network governance, with the new release showcasing a preview of these features.
What does this mean for the community?
As a community-first project, peaq is all about user interaction — and peaq portal will work as the gateway into the Economy of Things on peaq, enabling some of the most important interactions with the peaq network, token and ecosystem.
“Ten… Nine… Eight…”
The synthesized voice from the loudspeakers echoes through the test hall as robotic arms put together a circular structure made up of several curved frames, all quietly humming and emitting a faint silvery light.
“Five… Four… Three…”
The humming gets louder, and the light grows brighter. If you squint hard enough, you can spot ghostly figures and shapes in it, moving in an intricate pattern that feels almost like a dance.
“...One.”
Sparks run down the gargantuan ring as the shapes on its other side gain color, volume, and physicality. These are machines, millions of robots, drones, vehicles, AI-piloted trucks, and things that have not even been named yet, all working around the clock to create value for their owners.
The portal to the Economy of Things is open.
OK, the above may have been a bit too dramatic, but that’s just how excited we are about giving the community a new and updated hub for all things peaq. Previously, you knew it simply as peaq app, which sounds pretty generic in retrospect, but now, meet peaq portal — and all the cool features deserving a cooler name for it.
Before we dive into the specific features, here’s a quick refresher on what we’re talking about here. peaq portal is the community’s one-stop-hub for all things peaq token. Here, users will be able to buy and trade $PEAQ, mint NFTs, take part in network governance, and keep their finger on the pulse of the Economy of Things via handy graphs and visualizations. Alongside peaq control, the Web3 command-and-control center for managing connected devices, peaq portal is one of the two key apps for the community to interact with the network through.
With that out of the way, let’s first dive into some quality-of-life improvements in the new release:
Wait a second, you may think, Economy of Things (EoT) NFTs — what exactly are those? Bored Robo-Apes, perhaps, or maybe, the Machine NFTs that we have been talking about? Great catch, we haven’t properly introduced them yet, so let’s dive in deeper!
First of all, don’t worry, an EoT NFT is not just a blockchain record with a link to a .jpeg file. Yes, there are pictures involved, and we promise they look cool, but let’s be real, a good NFT is first and foremost about utility. And EoT NFTs have a ton of utility to go around.
The first generation of EoT NFTs will represent a user’s position in a liquidity pool provided to the network. These NFTs will generate rewards for their holders based on the amount of underlying liquidity. The EoT NFTs page on peaq portal is where the community will be able to mint, manage, and burn their EoT NFTs on the network in just a few clicks. Burning the NFT grants you the tokens locked to originally mint it.
Besides providing liquidity, EoT NFTs will have another major function in the ecosystem: Enabling user voting. An EoT NFT holder can stake their token to get a certain number of votes based on the token’s underlying liquidity. On the Voting page, the user can then cast these votes in support of a dApp or a DePIN on peaq, or a specific machine class. Voting increases the rewards earned by the NFT and also grants more rewards from the network revenue to projects that users have supported. Ultimately, this enables users to make their voices heard and directly impact the ecosystem and its future.
In the current version of peaq portal, these two pages are for now demonstrative, only meant as a sneak peek of the capabilities coming in the future releases. As we are working on bringing peaq’s canary network krest online on Kusama, though, there’s more exciting developments around the corner, so make sure to keep an eye for updates!
