Universal Page is closing

If you have LYX staked with us, or active offers on our marketplace, please read this. Your funds and assets are safe, but some of them need action from you.

• Staked LYX: we already started unstaking for you. You still have to claim it at universal.page/vault. Expect this to take up to two months because of the queue.
• Active marketplace offers: cancel them at universal.page/activity/orders. You have until August 10th while the interface still works properly.
• Drop creators: withdraw any mint funds sitting in your drop contract before August 10th.

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We started Universal Page with a lot of passion and drive: build great tools around Universal Profiles and the new NFT standards, and give creators and collectors a better home. The first line of code was written at the end of 2021, during LUKSO's first hackathon. Since then the journey has been challenging, full of obstacles and disappointments, but also excitement and a lot of learning.

After many delays, Mainnet finally launched, and we pushed our platform live in January 2024. That first month was hectic and honestly magical. Revenue came in, the community buzzed, and it felt like the patience and the late nights were about to pay off.

Momentum slipped away just as fast. The LYX price trended down, volume dried up, the community shrank, and a lot of people lost faith in the ecosystem. We kept going and kept building. Every new feature and improvement to the launchpad, the marketplace, the tools, the staking vault made us proud, and none of it moved the needle.

So we tried to expand. We bridged to Base, hoping fresh eyes would fall in love with these standards and with what we built. Nobody cared. Hundreds of hours gone.

Meanwhile the bills kept arriving. Vault fees kept shrinking because LYX kept losing value. Marketplace fees only matter with high volume and healthy prices, and we had neither. No marketing budget. LUKSO's own traction never materialised. We tried. The numbers don't lie, and they said it's time to stop.

This post was written months ago. It didn't go out then because Fabian and the LUKSO foundation stepped in and supported us. That bought Universal Page a lot of extra life, and you got to keep using what we built, far longer than our own numbers justified. They have supported us throughout this journey, and we want to thank them for everything.

Unfortunately, it has come to a point that we had to face reality and make the hard decision to shut Universal Page down. We want to do this properly. Below is exactly what happens, and what we need from you.

Your staked LYX

We have already started the unstaking process for every validator. You do not need to do this yourself.

What you do need to do, once the validators are unstaked, is claim. Go to universal.page/vault and claim your LYX with a single transaction. It will not arrive in your account automatically unless you do this. If you never claim, it never lands.

This will take a while. Because every validator is exiting at once, the queue is long. Our current estimate is up to two months before everything has finished unstaking. Nothing is wrong if your LYX isn't ready to claim yet. Check the vault page every so often, and claim as soon as there is some available. Please be patient with this.

Every token comes back. It just takes time and one transaction from you.

We are doing everything we can to keep the servers running until the last validator has exited.

The marketplace

Until August 10th, everything will still work as normal.

After that we're shutting down the marketplace indexer to cut costs. Killing some services like the indexer is what lets us keep the vault and the nodes running long enough for everyone to get their LYX out.

If you have active offers, cancel them now. Click your profile, go to My Activity, then the "Offers placed" tab: universal.page/activity/orders.

Once the indexer is off, the interface will drift out of sync with the chain. Pages may still load. What the interface shows may be outdated. Cancelling should technically still work, because the transaction goes straight to the chain, but the UI around it will likely be broken. Don't rely on what the UI shows. The chain is the truth, the interface is just a window onto it, and that window is closing soon.

If you launched a drop with our launchpad

Your Universal Profile owns the collection. Our interface disappears, your keys don't. That part is safe.

But: if there are still mint proceeds sitting in your drop contract, withdraw them now. Go to the drop editor and clear the balance out. You remain the owner of that contract forever, but our interface is the easy way to reach those funds, and it's going away. Do it while it's still one click.

If you own NFTs bought or minted through us

Nothing is at risk and nothing is needed from you. Your Universal Profile owns your assets, not us. You can keep using them through Universal Everything or any other LSP compatible interface. Remember: you own your Universal Profile and your assets, Universal Page is just the interface.

Please help us reach people

Our reach is smaller than it used to be, and some people with LYX in the vault have long stopped checking. If you know anyone who staked with us, tell them.

Thank you

Thank you to Fabian, everyone at the foundation and Universal Everything. Thanks to all the developers who worked on the tools, the LSPs, the network. Thanks to the people who contributed to the ecosystem, the network, and the community. And thank you to everyone who minted, traded, staked, or just cheered us on. Especially those of you who were there from the very beginning!

Take care. ❤️

Jake & Vlad