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Locking Glitch
Locking Glitch

By Julien Genestoux on

Glitch is a modern web development tool which lets you build fast, full-stack web apps in your browser. Here's how to add locks to these applications!

The Access Control Primitive
The Access Control Primitive

By Julien Genestoux on

The web is an operating system. Unlock Protocol is its access control primitive

How we use OpenZeppelin
How we use OpenZeppelin

By Nick Furfaro on

Openzeppelin provides the ethereum community an excellent assortment of reusable libraries and command-line tools. Here's how we use them at Unlock.

What I’m Excited About: Portability
What I’m Excited About: Portability

By Sascha Mombartz on

Instead of ads following us around our access should.

Collecting Metadata for a Purchase
Collecting Metadata for a Purchase

By Christopher Nascone on

Lock owners can require information from key purchasers before the transaction is initiated.

Swap and Call
Swap and Call

By Nick Mancuso on

Calling contracts without having to get a specific ERC-20 token type first.

Drupal Plugin
Drupal Plugin

By Julien Genestoux on

Drupal is one of the most popular Content Management Systems. You can now add locks to a Drupal site easily!

Emergency Upgrade
Emergency Upgrade

By Nick Mancuso on

Explaining what went wrong and why we released a new version so quickly after our last upgrade.

Smart Contract Upgrade: Version 1.2
Smart Contract Upgrade: Version 1.2

By Julien Genestoux on

We wanted to start the year with a big release, so we shipped a very large upgrade (the largest since June 2018) to our smart contracts. This new version brings a ton of new features which will eventually bubble up to the Unlock user interfaces (and beyond!).

Forbes Ad Free Experience in the News
Forbes Ad Free Experience in the News

By Sascha Mombartz on

A rundown of a few memorable tweets and press coverage from our Forbes Ad Free Experience Launch