FOAM token is now live on
@Optimism
and incentivized liquidity pools are open on
@VelodromeFi
🚨📡
Swap FOAM for low fees and vote for the pool with %APR rewards 💱🫧⛓️
The first FOAM Zone for Proof of Location is being installed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard! We will be sharing updates in an upcoming blog post with more details. ⛓🎛📻
Signaling is a novel staking mechanism using non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that intends to coordinate users in a grass roots fashion around local community building for proof of location.
#proofoflocation
Announcing FOAM on the
@optimismFND
OP Stack! 🔴⚪️
Since early summer, we’ve been quietly running our own OP Devnet, a fork of the OP Stack, and developing our Proof of Location contracts on our own Ethereum OP rollup⛓️
Announcing a preview of FOAM-IN👀
For
@EFDevcon
Map Osaka and earn rewards! 🇯🇵🗾📍
A new platform powered by
@GCPcloud
@chainlink
@blocklytics
that provides powerful off-chain insight to decentralized smart contracts and provides incentives
Learn more:
The FOAM team is excited to share that we have partnered with
@Verizon
as part of
@Newlab
's 5G Studio 📡
Read below on how 5G ultra low latency, high speeds and edge computation unlock powerful blockchain applications for FOAM! 🗺️
#ProofOfLocation
It is an exciting year ahead for FOAM. 📡
Today we are excited to share updates and developments on Proof of Location and mark a new phase of the protocol with the upcoming launch of the Trust Zone beta testing program.
Recovering an Ethereum Address from Radio Transmissions 📡⛓️📥
Technical Dive on how FOAM Radios send transmissions over the air that can be decoded and put onchain by smart contracts.
Ethereum transactions are executed over radio 🫧
The main achievement of the Spatial Index is that it allows users to interact with the blockchain and deploy smart contracts with geospatial parameters from within a web browser.
#Ethereum
#blockchain
#geospatial
#smartcontracts
FOAM Location 2020 Summer Update 🌇
Learn about the first Zone installation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Proof of Location, progress made and work done with the
@cosmos
network. 📻⛓️🗺️
The
#R3alWorld
ETH Denver
@iotex_io
event is well underway stop by!
#ProofOfLocation
Come experience the next evolution in web3 meet the FOAM team and check out hardware and demos! 🫧📡
Join us this Friday 11/8 at 12pm est for a Community Call featuring
@EidJohann
of
@chainlink
to discuss hybrid cloud/blockchain applications, our work together on the FOAM-In👀platform and what is next for main-net deployments⛓️
Streaming Here 👉
Test out the FOAM beta now on Mobile with
@CoinbaseWallet
to see how point data is stored on the
#Ethereum
#blockchain
and visualized in our Spatial Index Visualizer!
Introducing FOAM Lite a On-the-ground Ethereum transaction relay network for IoT sensors and devices.
Build your own and contribute critical infrastructure to Ethereum by leveraging powerful smart contract applications and flexible token fees. 🛠️⛓️📡
The
@foamspace
team is excited to share that we have commenced work with the
@interchain_io
on a Haskell based SDK and production level ABCI servers for
@cosmos
and
@tendermint_team
opening new language options for developers ⚛️
Read more here:
The Foamspace team is excited to announce the date and details of the FOAM Token Sale and MainNet Launch of the FOAM protocol.
#foamspace
#blockchain
#geospatial
Earlier this week we shared photos of the newest wireless mobile node for Proof of Location. 📸
We have been busy through the week checking on Zone maintenance and testing minting location proofs onchain with our
@Optimism
devnet! 🫧⛓️ 🔴
Amazing day
@NewLab
@ETHNewYork
with the first FOAM Location BFT Time Synchronization Radio Demo on Plasma and Tendermint. Formal Documentation and announcements next. Thanks to all who came + extra support from
@AFDudley0
@liamihorne
@karl_dot_tech
⛓🗽🙌
Goodbye Trust Zone Program. Hello FOAM Testnet 👋
Goals of the Program have been successfully met. Proof of Location has successfully been tested in many geographies. This post covers features tested, lessons learned and whats Onchain next! ⛓🫧📡
Evolution of the FOAM Mobile node for testing Proof of Location MVP📡
From a full sized Zone Anchor to a handheld wired node that requires a laptop 🧑💻
The 3rd current iteration is completely wireless in addition to being handheld being tested across Zones ⛓️🫧
#DePin
FOAM's new website offers a great introduction to what we are working on, an overview of our team, and it features our new video "FOAM - The Consensus-Driven Map of the World."
#blockain
#geospatial
#IoT
#Ethereum
We are very grateful for the support and patience that we have had from our amazing community leading up to our token sale. We hope you are all as excited as we are to start building the consensus driven map of the world!
#community
#foamspace
#BUIDL
Thank you to everyone who made it out to the `Physical Infrastructure on Ethereum` event hosted by
@chainlink
featuring FOAM and
@DIMO_Network
Great discussions on how smart contracts are impacting the physical world 📡🚗
#TIPIN
#DePIN
#DeWi
Registration for the FOAM Trust Zone Program is now open!
Participants in the program can build radio networks in different geographical environments and test different zone configurations to contribute to building Proof of Location 🫧
We are excited to share our bounty prizes for hackers at
@EthereumDenver
We have $15,000 worth of prizes for developers to experiment sending Ethereum transactions over radio.
#BUIDL
📡
Great Day for Localization and distributed radar! ☀️
FOAM team hard at work testing a temporary Zone Anchor addition to our Brooklyn Navy Yard Zone and Hostel web app features being released to beta participants 🫧⛓📡
#PoL
Announcing the FOAM MVP! 🫧 built on
@optimismFND
The FOAM MVP adds two critical elements to our stack for Proof of Location: onchain contracts and a UI for requesting and minting Presence Claims. Read more in the link below 📡⛓️🕹️
FOAM MVP: Mobile Presence Claim Demo🤳🫧
We are excited to share a demo of Proof of Location on mobile with the use of a miniaturized wireless user device!
Minting location proofs onchain with FOAM is now easier than ever on t he
@optimism
OP stack 📡
Learn how Proof of Location empowers users and autonomous agents to securely and privately verify their location for smart contracts:
Join the FOAM Telegram group:
#blockchain
#ethereum
#geospatial
#IoT
FOAM MVP: Presence Claim User Flow Demo 📡⛓️
Check out the user flow for the end to end Proof of Location demo minting the first Presence Claims NFTs on chain in a FOAM Zone 🎉 Running on the
@Optimism
OP Stack
FOAM MVP: Presence Claim User Flow Demo 📡⛓️
This post covers hardware, software and current the Proof of Location user-flow for checking in with the FOAM network to mint Presence Claims 🫧📍
Our team is preparing a limited number of FOAM Lite compatible radios for developers to hack on for our workshop February 16th
@EthereumDenver
. Sign up now!
#BUIDL
📡
✨Introducing Kepler✨the official Haskell language SDK for building blockchain applications backed by the Tendermint consensus engine.
@interchain_io
@cosmos
Get started developing today with the new Kepler home page
Blog:
The FOAM
@Optimism
L2 Devnet now has a Block Explorer 🔍⛓️ shoutout to
@blockscoutcom
for the great tooling!
We can now more easily view and test smart contract calls, bounties and fees as well as the mining of Presence Claims for Proof of Location 🫧📡
#DePin
FOAM MVP: You Were Detected By a Zone! 👀✅
We are very excited to share that the front end and back end work is complete for the mining of Presence Claims on our
@optimismFND
devnet!
#DePin
Read more below on this Proof of Location development 🫧
Last we checked,
@pewdiepie
wasn't a corporate sponsor of the Super Bowl
@MBStadium
.
I.e. - it looks like unmoderated Google Maps contributions have given away $millions of free advertising.
We need maps that have real incentives for accuracy!
Our Whitepaper outlines the component elements of the FOAM protocol that are designed to provide spatial protocols, standards and applications that bring
#geospatial
data to blockchains, and empower a consensus-driven
#Map
of the world.
The first batch of custom components needed to build an off the shelf Zone Anchor for Trust Zone Beta participants are shipping out today📡
Learn more on how to join testing Proof of Location in the program below 🫧⛓️
Great thread and breakdown article by
@masonnystrom
to check out on FOAM Proof of Location services, FOAM Map and the path to a world where smart contracts interact with the physical world 📡⛓️🗺️📍
1/The U.S Department of Homeland Security designates 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks – whether physical or virtual – are considered so vital to the U.S.
GPS which relies on satellites underpins 14 of these sectors.
As part of our NYC Blockchain Showcase, we're doing a special edition
@NewLab
#NFT
giveaway. Anyone can participate by adding a POI in a specific zone on the FOAM Map, whether or not you're in NY for the event.
Read more here:
The FOAM token sale is now officially over, thank you to everyone that participated!
We cannot wait for the next chapter of FOAM's story and we look forward to building the consensus driven map of the world with everyone in our wonderful community!
Exciting project from
@ETHBoston
"Decentralized Restaurant Review Threads on FOAM Map" built with
@3boxdb
by
@ianlapham
engineer
@UniswapExchange
towards new forms of curation and review services 🗺️🍔🍕💭⭐️
Check out the Video and documentation below
The FOAM team is grateful to the
@Optimism
badgeholders and proud to be recognized in RPGF3! 🔴
We are just getting started building on the OP stack and providing Proof of Location onchain and bringing
#DePin
the Superchain Exciting year ahead! Congrats all the recipients⛓️📡🫧
Announcing the First Wave of Projects from the FOAM Grants Program 🗺️
Today we are excited to announce grant recipients building their own solutions using FOAM’s open-source standards and protocols
@heyaliceapp
@blocklytics
@gatekeeper_net
Read more here
With continued testing of our MVP and minting onchain location proofs our
@optimism
devnet we wanted to highlight two Beta Zones in San Diego, CA and Llano, TX ☀️
New localizers provide multiple user options based on the reception of the Zone 📶📍📡
From Render to Reality 🫧
The custom Zone Anchor embedded system architecture, pcb board and enclosure are currently being prototyped for manufacturing. Still work to be done on the enclosure color to match the render!
#ProofOfLocation
We're holding a meetup at the Distributed Global office in NYC March 14th.
The Foamspace team will be giving a presentation on the history of time synchronization and its importance in decentralized location services.
You see: cheap hobbyist radio gateways & LoRa boards
We see: A future where anyone can offer and be paid for secure, accurate, and transparent location services, all for the cost of a fancy brunch.
Cartographers – get ready to win digital collectables 👾 in the BlockCities Scavenger Hunt 🧩📍
Last Hunt ~ Saturday, Dec 7 - Sunday, Dec 8
Starts at 2pm EST ~ 7pm GMT
🔎FOAM is delighted to support/announce the new season of BlockCities Scavenger Hunts. 📍Starting Saturday, November 23, a new challenge will be released each weekend until December 8.
6 secret buildings 🏢 3 weekend scavenger hunts 🧩
❗️If you were wondering if the problem FOAM is working on is just an enthusiast blockchain thing - go visit today.
An investigation of the location data economy is the headline article for one of the world's leading news papers.
New Post: Breaking Down Proof of Location Smart Contracts ⛓️
This post dives into Three Core Contracts of the FOAM MVP running on our
@optimismFND
devnet L2. Learn about how they work and how the FOAM token is used below 📍🫧
#DePin
FOAM MVP: Presence Claim User Flow Demo 📡⛓️
This post covers hardware, software and current the Proof of Location user-flow for checking in with the FOAM network to mint Presence Claims 🫧📍
FOAM Developer Stack Overview
At FOAM we strive to release high quality, fully general purpose
#open
-source libraries for the general
#Ethereum
community to use.
Users can ping FOAM Zone Anchor radios with their mobile node to Prove their Location onchain. Presence claims are a new cryptographic primitive that any smart contract can hook into and build on top of.
FOAM is thrilled to be a sponsor of
@EthereumDenver
and kick off an exciting year of news and announcements!
For the hackathon we will be showcasing Ethereum transactions over Radio for embedded sensors
#BUIDL
and connect Web3 to the physical world 📡
2 of 3 new plug and play Zone Anchors installed in the Original Brooklyn Zone ⛓️🫧
This expansion of the Zone with powerful hardware running on the
@Optimism
stack enhances localizations and brings us closer to launch!
#ProofOfLocation