Nemanya's Builder Jurney

[Nemanya8]

Hey, I’m Nemanja Matic, an IT student from Novi Sad, Serbia. My background consists mostly from web and low-level development, with experience in technologies like Java, JavaScript, C, C#, Assembly, and Python.

This year, I was introduced to Web3 during a bootcamp in Petnica, and I’ve been obsessed with it ever since. My first project in the Web3 space was building a bridge between Ethereum and gno.land, which sparked my passion for blockchain development. More recently, I had the privilege of winning the ETHSofia hackathon, further solidifying my commitment to this field.

I’m thrilled about this research grant opportunity and can’t wait to collaborate with the community to create innovative solutions and contribute to improving gno.land.

[Nemanya8]

Over the holidays, I spent some time trying out a few different things.

I set up my home realm with some text art and payment functionality. I also started working on a package to generate text art from strings. It turned out to be more tedious than I expected, so I decided to shelve it for now and maybe come back to it later.

I did some digging into gnovm and opened a PR to add a feature for gno test. It was a bit of a mess with commits and PRs, but I learned a lot from the experience. I also looked into the tx-indexer and amino decoder. Down the line, I'd like to work on a chain visualizer like it was detailed here.

[Nemanya8]

Last week, I’ve been working on my project, Gnome Arcade. The idea is to create multiple realms that represent different games. One of the realms is a GRC20 realm (GBuck) that’s used to pay out player winnings. There’s also a GRC1155 realm where players can redeem rewards using GBuck tokens.

I think this project is a great fit for me because it gives me a chance to work with both GRC20 and GRC1155 realms, tying everything together into one system. It also lets me connect the on-chain data with an off-chain user interface hosted on Web2. For connecting the UI to the blockchain, I’ve been using the Adena Wallet SDK.

Progress has been a bit slower than I hoped. The biggest challenge so far has been working with the Adena SDK, but I’ve managed to get the wallet connection feature up and running. On the blockchain side, I’ve completed the GRC20 realm and a coin toss game. Right now, you can test these manually using gnokey, but my goal for this week is to make them playable directly through the UI.

This is a rough diagram of my idea: