<aside> 👋 This update explains in more details what will happen with briq alpha 1.0 and what to expect, please read carefully

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tl;dr

• We’re releasing briq alpha 1.0 soon, this update changes our entire smart contract architecture. This will solve our performance issues and allow creating NFTs with a lot more briqs in them. We will therefore be raising the claiming to 1000 briqs. If you have created an NFT before, you’ll have to migrate it (don’t worry, it’s easy).
• We plan to push this update to testnet during the week of February 7th. There will be no downtime.

briq alpha 1.0 announcement 🥳

We’re introducing a major update to the briq protocol with a total contract refactoring. This will allow the briq team to add more features in the future such as integration with NFT marketplaces, transferring briqs, combining NFTs, etc. This update also greatly optimizes our contracts which will solve the timeout problems and “error fetching briqs” issues.

This update will only be available on StarkNet testnet.

What does this change?

• briq tokens will more closely follow the ERC-1155 standard, and the briq NFTs the ERC721 standard.
• Thanks to this new architecture, loading information from StarkNet is now much faster. This will solve the timeout problems causing “error fetching briqs” and “0 balance” problems.
• Because briq tokens more closely follow the ERC-1155 standard, we can introduce different briq materials. Each briq is fungible with the other briqs of the same material, but different form a briq with a different material. For example: a gold briq is the same as another gold briq, but different from a wood briq. Not spoiling anything but it might lead to very cool integrations with “branded” briqs.
• You will now be able to claim 1,000 briq tokens to build anything you want. As usual, you can only claim once per address.
• You will be able to create much bigger constructions thanks to lower cost of construction. For example, here is an NFT with nearly 1,000 briqs in it:

What happens to my briq tokens and my NFTs?

• Your briq balance will be brought back to zero with this new update. Don’t worry, you will be able to claim 1,000 briq tokens for free to play around.
• Your NFTs will have to be migrated to the new version of briq. To do so, Go to “Manage sets” and click on the NFTs with the “Click to migrate” message. Sign the transactions and the NFTs will be migrated to the new version of the contracts. If you do not migrate your NFTs, you will not be able to transfer or disassemble them anymore.
• You can also download a local copy of your NFT and import it back on the builder. To do so, click on “Mint on-chain” on the builder while your NFT is visible, click “Next” until you see “Download local copy”. Clicking on this button will download a JSON file with a copy of your NFT. To import it back, click on “Menu”, then click on “Import”. Choose the JSON file and the set will be loaded again in the builder and you’ll be able to mint it again.
• If you have shared an NFT on Twitter through the sharing link, don’t worry: the links will continue working.