Welcome to this week’s Online+ Bulletin, where we track new features, performance updates, and standout moments from the decentralized world of Online+, brought to you by ION’s Product Lead, Yuliia.
🌐 Descrição geral
This past week brought two tracks of work closer together: continued product refinement across Online+ and a major ecosystem milestone just ahead. With ION set to go live on BNB Smart Chain, much of the team’s effort focused on making sure the product side is ready for real-world activity — tightening how systems interact, resolving inconsistencies, and reinforcing the reliability of core features across the app.
A large portion of that effort centered on Tokenized Communities. Rather than visible feature drops, the progress came in the form of deeper integration work: ensuring tokens surface correctly in the feed, aligning moderation and notification logic, and strengthening how social interactions and token mechanics connect across Wallet, Feed, Chat, and Profiles. Alongside this, a broad set of fixes landed across the platform, improving authentication stability, media handling, messaging reliability, and profile behavior.
At the same time, preparations continued for the next app update, now live on the Play Store and under review on the App Store. The release introduces a refreshed swap history for ICE and ION and includes another round of practical improvements across authentication, the feed, and profiles — part of the ongoing work to keep the core experience stable as activity grows.
All of this comes just as the ecosystem hits an important moment. With ION going live and Tokenized Communities moving toward their final testing rounds, the focus now shifts from preparation to validation in the wild. The coming days will be about observing, refining, and making sure everything holds together as usage scales. It’ll be an exciting, milestone-packed week!
🛠️ Principais actualizações
Here’s what we’ve been working on this week to keep Online+ smooth, stable, and evolving with fresh features, optimizations, and under-the-hood improvements.
Actualizações de funcionalidades:
- Auth → Prompt users to set a new password after account recovery during the password flow.
- Auth → Cancel auto-login when user starts typing.
- Feed → Added market cap display on $CASHTAGS for TC tokens.
- Feed → Added NSFW flagging for Stories.
- Feed → Introduced Review modal.
- Profile → Added NSFW checks for profile avatars and profile edits.
- General → Implemented push notifications for Tokenized Communities.
Correcções de erros:
- Auth → Resolved issue where the system asked users to link their account twice after reinstalling the app.
- Auth → Corrected “Your profile” registration screen appearing when attempting to log in on another platform.
- Auth → Addressed error when selecting “save passkey on another device” during registration.
- Wallet → Content tokens can now be imported correctly.
- Wallet → Stabilized the “Send coins” modal height when switching arrival time options.
- Chat → Incoming ION transfers now display correctly in chat.
- Chat → Restoring chats after reinstall now works as expected.
- Chat → Resolved issue preventing new messages from appearing.
- Feed → Improved loading performance when autoplay is disabled.
- Feed → Long videos can now be uploaded on iOS.
- Feed → Stories now open from in-app notifications.
- Feed → Addressed partial loading of TC cards in the feed.
- Feed → Corrected bold and italic font formatting buttons appearing during video scrolling.
- Feed → Prevented extra images from being saved in the gallery after posting a Story.
- Profile → Fixed notification settings going back to default after app reinstall.
- Profile → Corrected token balance mismatch between profile and token page.
- Profile → Addressed flickering of images and videos in Bookmarks.
- Profile → Optimized the font size for Following and Followers on TC profiles.
A opinião de Yulia
Honestly, this week had a different energy to it. Hard to explain exactly, but it felt like things are starting to actually converge rather than just move forward in parallel.
A big chunk of our time went into Tokenized Communities, but not the flashy stuff — push notifications, moderation logic, making sure tokens show up correctly in the feed, getting the social mechanics and token mechanics to actually talk to each other properly. The kind of work where you can’t really point to a single thing and say “look what we shipped,” but without it, nothing feels right. I’ve learned to appreciate these weeks even when they’re hard to summarize.
The bigger news — ION going live on BNB Smart Chain — is genuinely exciting, and I don’t want to undersell that. But from where I sit, it mostly means one thing: the product has to be ready. When the token is live and moving and people are actually using it in the wild, there’s no “almost works.” So a lot of what we did this week was making sure authentication is solid, chat is reliable, media loads properly, profiles are consistent. Boring list, real impact.
There’s a good energy in the air right now. The ecosystem is at a genuinely exciting moment, and it’s motivating to be building right in the middle of it. Weeks like this remind me why the quieter, detail-heavy work matters — it’s what makes sure that when the big moments arrive, the product is right there with them. Feeling good about where we’re headed.
⚡ Extra, Extra — $ION Goes Live!
Tomorrow marks a big milestone for the ecosystem: ION goes live on BNB Smart Chain.
For everyone who completed the ICE → ION migration, this unlocks the next phase — trading, transfers, and bridging, with the token finally able to move across one of the most active on-chain environments.
This moment has been a long time coming: months of migration work, infrastructure changes, and patience from the community.
What makes it even more exciting is what comes right after. With the token live, we begin rolling out Tokenized Communities and PUMPit.
So while tomorrow is a milestone, it’s also a starting signal.
Let’s go. 🚀
🔮 A semana que se segue
With ION set to go live tomorrow, the immediate priority is close monitoring — watching how the ecosystem behaves as real activity picks up and making sure everything on the product side responds as expected. The first days after a launch always surface things you can’t anticipate in testing, so the team will be paying close attention.
In parallel, we’re continuing to push Tokenized Communities toward the finish line. Next up is another beta testing round with the updated smart contract — a thorough end-to-end validation under real conditions before we move forward. The mechanics are in good shape; this is about making sure they hold up when it counts.
On the release front, the latest version is already live on the Play Store and pending App Store review. The update brings a refreshed swap history for ICE and ION, plus another solid round of fixes across Authentication, Feed, and Profile.
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