Ever since Richard Heart announced he was forking Ethereum, hundreds of thousands of crypto users have been patiently awaiting mainnet.

And now it is finally here!

Every week, new announcements from Richard and the devs get released, increasing the excitement but adding to the technical confusion.

This running blog post by WaLLrus will translate and summarize the PulseChain news updates all in one place!

November 10th, 2023

The PulseChain Bridge has been open for nearly 6 months and over 140M USD worth of crypto assets have flown into PulseChain.

November 5th, 2023

GoPulse.com has a phenomenal PulseChain Gas Tracker on their website.

PulseChain is currently 3 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE cheaper than both Bitcoin and Ethereum

October 29th, 2023

Over 60M stablecoins (USDC, DAI, and USDT) have bridged over to PulseChain

September 23, 2023

July 17th, 2023

(July 11th, 2023) PulseChain News

The Highest of Stakes Documentary will be screening in select locations in August

? The wait is over!

Catch us screening in 25 markets nationwide this August. Ticket sales may have crashed the system – they are resetting and it should be good to go within 60 minutes ?: https://t.co/kuLIHatFCl

The official trailer for #TheHighestOfStakes is LIVE:…

— The Highest of Stakes Movie (@THoSdocumentary) July 11, 2023

(July 8th, 2023) PulseChain News

Go.Hex.com has been updated and now works for PulseChain.

Updated https://t.co/7I3Qf1ivKi works well with #PulseChain.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) July 8, 2023

(June 29th, 2023) PulseChain News

Much to the dismay of many PulseChain users, Richard Heart has decided to delay the release of Single-Sided Staking

Instead, he indicated that the Auto-Router for PulseX, Go.Hex.Com for PulseChain, and Wallet Connect are more important features at the moment.

There still is reason to believe that Single-Sided Staking is coming in the future.

(June 22nd, 2023) PulseChain News

Richard announced that 100% of the PulseChain validators are run by the public.

This is comparably more decentralized than Bitcoin whose mining equipment can only be bought by a few companies, and Ethereum which has many centralized staking pools at validators.

(June 16th, 2023) PulseChain News

Richard has indicated that the validators from the team may be going offline in the near future.

Validators are currently earning over 23% APY.

Earning 23.8% APY currently, the #PulseChain main net validators are 100% publicly operated! 133,696,748,700
(134B) PLS burnt! https://t.co/pDXWBdhmGt pic.twitter.com/f5WhwVQTls

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) June 16, 2023

(June 12th, 2023) PulseChain News

Over 100B PLS has been burned thus far, significantly reducing the supply of PLS forever

Burn baby burn. $100B burnt so far. https://t.co/pDXWBdhmGt pic.twitter.com/38O5QaGHmR

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) June 12, 2023

(June 2nd, 2023) PulseChain News

Richard released a bridge update which allows Ethereum users to buy wPLS on Ethereum and bridge it using PulseRamp to PulseChain for native PLS.

This is significant because before Ethereum users could not get enough native PLS for gas on PulseChain.

For example, they could bridge over Shiba Inu, but they did not have enough gas to convert that Shib to PLS (or do anything else on the chain.)

THE NATIVE $PLS BRIDGE IS LIVE! Bridge native PLS between PulseChain and #Ethereum! On the way back to PulseChain WPLS will automatically unwrap to native PLS. https://t.co/gcSfY1ooEF! Now anyone with access to ETH can get PLS!
Note: The OLD WPLS does not unwrap automatically.…

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) June 2, 2023

Let's Exchange has listed PulseChain

?@PulsechainCom? can be swapped on ?@letsexchange_io? for over 3,700 other cryptocurrencies without registration and limits.#LetsSwap pic.twitter.com/pph1I6Sfi7

— LetsExchange (@letsexchange_io) May 31, 2023

(June 1st, 2023) PulseChain Update

Richard Heart found and disclosed a bug on PulseX

The bug resulted in 100% of the PulseX LP fees being used in the buy and burn.

This bug existed since PulseX was first created, throughout all the testnet versions, and somehow the bug was not found

It appears that the PulseX buy and burn gets all of the fees, leaving none for the LP. This same code has been in use for years of test nets, no one noticed, including the LPs. The fix that leaves fees for the LPs is on the right below, the current code is on the left. This has… pic.twitter.com/mYfMZRJynK

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 30, 2023

(May 29th, 2023) PulseChain News and Updates

Two more centralized exchanges listed PLS/PLSX for easy on-ramping: Kanga Exchange and SafeTrade Exchange

Rabby Wallet, Metamask alternative, supports PulseChain

DeFi tracking tools such as Coinly, DexTools, DeBank, and DeFiLlama now have or are planning to list PulseChain.

(May 23rd, 2023) PulseChain News and Updates

PLS was listed on the Centralized Exchange, OkX.

This is very bullish for mass adoption. Although, it is important to remember that centralized exchanges are best used as on-ramping tools and not places to hold your coins and tokens.

This is the first time a Richard Heart coin has been listed on a major exchange.

$PLS just listed on OKX. How big is OKX? https://t.co/B87o7vbBLO pic.twitter.com/GCu4uelCcT

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 23, 2023

(May 21st, 2023)

"The Cloggening" seems to have come to an end. Deposits have started clearing much faster.

You can use https://t.co/gcSfY1ooEF now, it is 95.4% clear. Bridge stats https://t.co/ZLr6ZkmQJl andhttps://t.co/Q4nZ4FGOvL pic.twitter.com/VvUjx5yqTz

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 21, 2023

(May 20th, 2023)

After a long and arduous Crypto Bear Market, Richard Heart posted his first new all-time high post.

I've never tweeted about New All Time Highs in #PulseChain before. pic.twitter.com/qczU5vVPKJ

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 20, 2023

In addition, on the 20th of May, the PulseChain Bridge hit $100 million in deposits

$100M in the bridge pic.twitter.com/oH1FAclPD7

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 20, 2023

(May 15th, 2023)

The PulseChain Bridge, PulseRamp, went live on May 15th, 2023.

Millions of users rushed to bridge in value from Ethereum causing a massive backlog of deposits. This event coined a new term, "The Cloggening".

https://t.co/gcSfY1ooEF is live.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 16, 2023

(May 12th, 2023)

PulseChain Mainnet went LIVE on May 12th, 2023

The https://t.co/tyQE8i8y5h main net is now live.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 13, 2023

PulseX also went live at the same time.

The https://t.co/vZIuPqXDpo main net is now live.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 13, 2023

Although it went live on May 12, the snapshot date was actually on May 10.

Here is the Pulsechain Mainnet snap shot Date/Block. pic.twitter.com/OgfhiAtAHd

— WaLLrus (@WaLLrusOfficial) May 13, 2023

(May 10th, 2023)

Richard Heart has indicated that there is not much left to be done before launching Mainnet
He also gave his first time estimate in over a year

The https://t.co/vZIuPqXDpo and https://t.co/tyQE8i8y5h MAIN NET are estimated to launch publicly in less than 7 days.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 10, 2023

(May 4th, 2023)

The validator withdrawals from the Shanghai Update are now showing on PulseChain Testnet v4

https://t.co/tyQE8i8y5h news. Withdrawals now show on the block explorer. https://t.co/W1MGwfrur2 pic.twitter.com/nrAnPwbWSA

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) May 4, 2023

(April 28th, 2023)

Richard announced that the Shanghai Upgrade was added to PulseChain

The Shanghai Upgrade was an Ethereum upgrade which allow Ethereum validators to remove their ETH from staking

Withdrawals have been successfully activated on PulseChain testnet v4. (Shanghai update.)

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 28, 2023

(April 19th, 2023)

Richard Heart announced the launch of PulseChain Testnet v4

Testnet v4 has increased rewards for PLS Validators

PulseChain Testnet v4 is up. Docs: https://t.co/wBk75pl7eP

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 20, 2023

(April 15th, 2023)

Richard announced on Twitter that PulseChain Testnet v4 is up and running privately

Automated Market Maker Bot not yet deployed on v4

PulseX not yet deployed on v4

PulseChain v4 testnet is up privately and waiting for amm bot and pulsex to be run/deployed. pic.twitter.com/WP36vPjpba

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 15, 2023

(April 10th, 2023)

PulseChain Testnet v4 update likely to launch in the next few days

Bridge up between PulseChain Testnet v3 and Sepolia Testnet (ETH Testnet)

PulseChain V3 testnet bridge to #Ethereum Sepolia testnet is up: https://t.co/L08alvhiYp
You can get Sepolia ETH at public faucets and mint some Mocked DAI token by calling "create" method here: https://t.co/pz5Smowy8L Bridge now allows users to bridge any token back and forth.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 7, 2023

The bridge facilitated the attachment of hypothetical dollar values to tokens such as PLS, PLSX and Hex.

https://t.co/nHbgJExIaR is now showing $ figures in mock tDAI. pic.twitter.com/Hkfr5ebVSH

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 9, 2023

Buy and burn added to PulseX, DAO proposals and incentive token getting added soon

Some projects won't drop on V3 at all, but will drop on v4.

V3 will be taken offline as soon as v4 launches

(April 7th, 2023)

PulseChain will have a Testnet V4 to allow the Fixer bot changes and Validator incentive upgrades

https://t.co/tyQE8i8y5h news: v4 inflation upgrade next week.
PulseX news: Just needs the bridge to #Ethereum test net to get a dummy stable coin bridged over to show $ values in the stats page: https://t.co/Hqo8mihcpc The transactions can be seen at bottom.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 6, 2023

While this is technically "another testnet", it is a continuation of the development on V3. The reason for the new version is because the devs must fork to old testnet in order to make changes to the validators.

PulseX Buy and Burn has huge price positive nature.

Announcement of V4, which is an extension of V3 and another test net

V3 is running as expected, with some minor issues to address

V4 is needed to make changes to the validators, to increase their number, distribution and robustness

Economic incentives needed to attract people to run the validators

No change to inflation or tokenomics, but it's advantageous for validators with less issuance

Challenge of communication: difficult to understand updates, leading to anxiety, but transparency is important

V4 is not a big deviation or change from previous testnets, just getting updates

(April 3rd, 2023)

Richard Heart made some changes to the lighthouse client, which is one of the clients to run validator software to keep the chain up. These changes improved peer connectivity between validators.

PulseChain hasn't released the updated features on PulseX yet, such as limit orders, but it's likely to be coming soon.

https://t.co/tyQE8i8y5h news. Peering is looking good. PulseX has had lots of dependency updates so pretty soon other features can be rolled out. Private test devnet is testing the increased inflation.

— Richard Heart (@RichardHeartWin) April 4, 2023

PLSX has had the buy and burn front end added. More feature to come
There may be changes made to validator incentives to increase the APY to incentivize more participation and to reach certain thresholds.

Crypto Crazy (CC) released a Liquid Loans Development update as well as commentary on global macro conditions. Watch the video here!

Crypto is hard, and there are reasons for design changes and compromises, but everything is progressing well.

Building these projects is really important, and people will be excited to have been part of a community that built cool things.

Click here to watch our comprehensive PulseChain News roundup on Youtube.

(March 27th, 2023)

Client updates coming soon.

GraphQL and block explorer are indexing and near complete

PRC20 checker is up and great for onboarding.

PulseChain News: All Your PLS Updates in One Place