February Platform Updates
Tags: Ethereum, Platform, Social Media, Wallet, Blockchain

Welcome back, Sapiens, to another monthly update from the team. We skipped January so we could focus on a lot of long-term planning for the new year, so this post will cover items we pushed in December and January. Let’s dive in!

The Sapien Wallet & SPN token

The SPN token was delisted from KyberSwap and listed on Uniswap

We removed the KyberSwap widget from the wallet panel and directed buttons for swapping the SPN token to the token’s listing on Uniswap

Sapien Wallet owners can now export their private keys for their own personal management.

Some notes on the exporting of private keys, starting with the process. Open your wallet panel, make sure you’re using your Sapien Wallet, and click on the purple arrow to the right of your wallet address.

Then click on the ‘Export private key’ button on the right.

You’ll be issued a stern warning via a popup modal, which we’re copying here to assert the warning’s contents.

Please take this warning seriously. Anyone who has access to your private key has total access to the wallet and any funds stored in it.

Click and hold on the eye icon for a few seconds to reveal your private key. Clicking the ‘Copy’ button will copy your private key to your device’s clipboard.

Again, please be VERY CAREFUL with this information. It is risky to manage your private key individually, so please use extreme caution when storing and using it. Once you have it, you may import the wallet into hosts like Metamask using the private key.

We felt this was an important feature to add to the Sapien Wallet to ensure our members have total control over their funds at any time. As the old adage from Andreas Antonopoulos goes: “Not your keys, not your coins.”

It should also be noted that the private key is extracted from a Torus Labs-owned API and the keys are stored as a property of a class. No private keys are ever stored in or passed through a Sapien database, so no one from the Sapien or Torus teams can access your private key. This means it’s totally secure, but no one can help you with accessing your private key beyond reiterating these directions. Please do not ask the team to access your private key; it’s impossible.

Now, back to the updates:

The support center is now available at https://sapien.zendesk.com; it is no longer hosted at https://support.sapien.network

at https://sapien.zendesk.com; it is no longer hosted at https://support.sapien.network We fixed that obnoxious bug that was repeating echoed posts in your feed

We also squashed a bug that duplicated posts on Sapien member profiles

We also fixed an issue with the code for displaying the site at really high resolutions

We hammered out the Tribe selector panel so it doesn’t get stuck anymore

We also smoothed out the problems some members had with editing posts, especially if they had links in them

If you’re trying to verify your SMS for your Sapien account, you’ll be given 3 chances to attempt to send the message to your device; beyond that, you’ll be directed to contact the support team for manual verification

And a host of other fixes to the web, mobile web, and app experiences!

Thanks for checking out this month’s important update. Don’t forget that transactions are now gasless on Sapien and everyone is empowered to create a Sapien Wallet for free! Check back fo

r more updates from the team. We’re working on some top secret stuff that we’ll be revealing in the future. Stay healthy, Sapiens!