-Becoming a Supernode Operator: Become a Supernode operator today & gain increased credibility in the validator community & earn exclusive rewards from the foundation, such as PSL or NFT airdrops, in addition to receiving Block & Transactional Rewards. 🚨2023 Roadmap and Review of 2022🚨 Pastel released its 2023 roadmap, including a review of 2022. Pastel Network 2022 in review and roadmap for 2023 shows great progress made in the previous year and much promise for the year ahead. 🚨News and Developments🚨 -Pastel in the News 🍉Pastel Network co-founder Anthony Georgiades discusses regulation in Web3 in this Forbes article 🍧Anthony Georgiades joins the Crypto Coin Show to discuss Investing & Validating 🏆CoinStack hosts Anthony Georgiades to discuss the Pastel’s place in the web3 space 🌀Anthony Georgiades talks about how regulations will help crypto in this Cointelegraph article If you have not done so already, please take a moment to join our growing community base: 🐓 Follow Pastel on Twitter 🙉Follow Smartmint on Twitter 👾Join Pastel's Discord Server 👽Join Pastel on Reddit ✈️Join Pastel’s Telegram 🖥️Subscribe to our Youtube channel

🚨Collaborations🚨 Take a look at our latest artist spotlight! This cool piece entitled “Dog of the Sun” was minted on SmartMint by the amazing @iyimser Check out this artist spotlight! This awesome piece entitled “Last Until Dawn” was hand drawn and minted on SmartMint by @razDoesArt Check out this artist spotlight! This amazing piece entitled “Nostalgia” was minted on SmartMint by @thealvinboss We are always seeking talented artists to collaborate with, so please reach out to us on any social media platform. Let’s create something amazing together! 🚨Pastel Progress🚨 -Partnership with Astar Network: Pastel Network is excited to announce that it will be working with @AstarNetwork, a layer1 parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Learn more on Medium. -Addition of Status Page: We recently released a Status Page so you can monitor the performance of our infrastructure & services in real time. Check it out here! -Wrapped PSL:Wrapped PSL or wPSL exists to transfer tokens across platforms. wPSL is available on Uniswap. Watch our video and learn more here -Pastel Testnet Faucet Release: Our Testnet Faucet is now live. The launch of this independent network enables users to obtain LSP (Pastel Testnet Tokens) to experiment with and develop in the Pastel Testnet environment. This gives users the ability to experiment with Pastel features without having to spend valuable PSL on the mainnet. Learn more about Pastel's Testnet Faucet.

🚨Twitter Spaces and Podcasts🚨 Check out this CyptoNews podcast where Pastel Network’s co-founder discusses Web3/NFT security, decentralized storage, and struggles NFT creators face. Listen to this Twitter Space with @OfficialXYO! 🚀✨ We chatted with co-founders Markus Levin and Arie Trouw about the vital topic of data privacy, data marketplaces, and their exciting plans for the future. Pastel Network joined WOMENverse to discuss tech features that support empowering men and women in web3 in this Twitter Space. We hosted an incredible conversation about on-chain infrastructure, the current market, and more! Listen to our Twitter Space with @endaomentdotorg 🚨Final phase of Monet 1.2 Testnet Release is now live🚨 Monet 1.2 represents a critical milestone among several other planned releases for 2023. This release brings substantial enhancements to our Supernode infrastructure, major updates to Cascade (our permanent NFT data storage solution), and Sense (our duplicate detection technology). More details on the specific features of Monet 1.2 and upcoming plans for the Mainnet release available here We hosted 2 AMAs about the latest Monet 1.2 Test Net release on Reddit and Discord where we answered all your burning questions. If you have more, please reach out to us on any of our social media.

Key Updates: 🚨Monet 1.2 Odyssey Campaign🚨 In celebration of our highly anticipated Monet 1.2 Mainnet upgrade, we held a campaign called Odyssey to reward our loyal community members. It is coming to an end and we want to make sure all participants are aware of the social media aspect. Please see details in our Medium article Throughout the campaign, winners of challenges will have received a series of NFT puzzle pieces (along with wPSL). Each NFT piece is a part of an entire original digital artwork from Pastel Network’s NFT vault. 🚨Contests🚨 Quizzo Discord To continue our celebration of tech releases, we are hosting Quizzos with cash and crypto rewards. Look out for updates on our socials. Congratulations to our winners this week: @Sirbalan (37,500 PSL), @Dee_adel — (37,500 PSL) @fidara12 (10,000 PSL) SmartMint Art Contest Thank you to everyone who participated in the SmartMint Art Contest! We loved seeing everyone's unique pieces! Congratulations to the winner @AriesX