Today We Moved MyZubster Forward Together
Today was one of those days where separate pieces finally started to look like a real system.
I worked on the MyZubster core, while Nicola kept pushing forward his N4K48 / MyZubster MVP.
Different repositories, different layers, but the direction is increasingly the same.
What I worked on today
On the MyZubster side, I completed a major step around the internal MYZ architecture.
The main goal was simple to describe but much harder to implement correctly:
MYZ should have one canonical source of truth.
We consolidated internal MYZ movements around a canonical ledger and connected it to Marketplace and Zorgax.
That included:
buyer → seller MYZ payments in Marketplace;
authenticated MYZ balance and history;
idempotent transfers;
protection against negative balances;
self-payment protection;
MYZ receipts with transfer IDs;
Zorgax MYZ checkout architecture;
removal of automatic EUR → MYZ conversion logic;
cleanup of legacy/shadow MYZ balances.
We also improved the Marketplace itself.
Users can now:
create their own Marketplace categories;
use a newly proposed category for their own listings;
submit categories for global approval;
publish knowledge, guides, methods and know-how;
track knowledge submissions through a review workflow.
We also introduced knowledge as a first-class Marketplace category.
The work was merged through PR #1286 and deployed to production.
The new Marketplace category system and knowledge layer are now live on MyZubster.
What Nicola worked on today
At the same time, Nicola pushed his public MyZubster MVP significantly further.
His project is now moving beyond comics and basic experimentation into an evidence-first economic layer.
Today he added work around:
a persistent MYZ-style ledger inside his MVP;
revenue event APIs;
asset provenance events;
derived participant balances;
revenue breakdown by source;
MYZ balance dashboards;
My Assets views;
revenue history;
ledger history;
UTC timestamps for ledger events;
revenue simulation;
clearer documentation and interactive project links.
His MVP now connects several ideas that had previously been separate:
Observations
↓
Evidence
↓
AI / RAG
↓
Economic Provenance
↓
Ledger
↓
Derived Balance
↓
Revenue Simulation
And importantly, his automated tests are still passing on the latest commits.
Nico Comics is also becoming part of the architecture
Nicola's three comic panels are no longer just visual content.
They are becoming part of a larger experimental structure involving:
creator provenance;
digital assets;
evidence;
possible future NFT proof;
MyZubster identity;
Zorgax;
Marketplace;
economic records.
The project still keeps an evidence-first boundary.
The comics are not being presented as minted NFTs unless verifiable on-chain evidence exists.
That distinction matters.
Two different implementations, one direction
There is also an important technical distinction.
The ledger Nicola is building in his independent MVP is not yet the same canonical MYZ ledger used by the main MyZubster platform.
His current model focuses on:
revenue events
+
allocations
+
derived balances
+
source breakdown
while the MyZubster core now focuses on:
canonical debit
+
canonical credit
+
transfer_id
+
idempotency
+
internal account balances
That is not a problem.
It is actually useful.
We now have two experimental layers that can be compared and progressively aligned instead of pretending they are already the same system.
The next connection is Marketplace
The next practical step for Nicola is simple.
His work should start appearing inside the main MyZubster Marketplace.
The Marketplace can now support custom categories, so Nicola can create something such as:
Nico Comics
Digital Comics
Comics & Graphic Stories
and start connecting his actual work to the central MyZubster ecosystem.
That creates a path like:
Nicola / N4K48
↓
Nico Comics
↓
Marketplace category
↓
Knowledge / digital assets
↓
Zorgax
↓
MYZ internal economy
What matters most
Today was not about adding random features.
It was about making previously separate experiments start speaking the same language.
On one side:
MyZubster core
Marketplace
MYZ accounting
knowledge
categories
Zorgax
On the other:
Nicola / N4K48 MVP
comics
AI
evidence
provenance
ledger experiments
assets
revenue simulation
And now those two paths are getting closer.
That is the part I find most interesting.
We are not just building features.
We are gradually turning individual experiments into a shared ecosystem with clearer accounting, provenance, identity and contribution flows.
Built together, tested in public, and improved one layer at a time.
