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![How we use OpenZeppelin](/images/blog/zeplin.jpg)
By Nick Furfaro on
Openzeppelin provides the ethereum community an excellent assortment of reusable libraries and command-line tools. Here's how we use them at Unlock.
![What I’m Excited About: Portability](/images/blog/portability/hero.jpg)
By Sascha Mombartz on
Instead of ads following us around our access should.
![Collecting Metadata for a Purchase](/images/blog/metadata-collection/Forms.jpg)
By Christopher Nascone on
Lock owners can require information from key purchasers before the transaction is initiated.
![Swap and Call](/images/blog/unlocking-smart-contracts/code.jpeg)
By Nick Mancuso on
Calling contracts without having to get a specific ERC-20 token type first.
![Drupal Plugin](/images/blog/drupal/unlock-drupal.jpg)
By Julien Genestoux on
Drupal is one of the most popular Content Management Systems. You can now add locks to a Drupal site easily!
![Emergency Upgrade](/images/blog/emergency-upgrade-1-3/code_vulnerability.jpg)
By Nick Mancuso on
Explaining what went wrong and why we released a new version so quickly after our last upgrade.
![Smart Contract Upgrade: Version 1.2](/images/blog/version-1-2/smart-contract-1-2.jpg)
By Julien Genestoux on
We wanted to start the year with a big release, so we shipped a very large upgrade (the largest since June 2018) to our smart contracts. This new version brings a ton of new features which will eventually bubble up to the Unlock user interfaces (and beyond!).
![Forbes Ad Free Experience in the News](/images/blog/forbes-in-the-news/forbes-article.jpg)
By Sascha Mombartz on
A rundown of a few memorable tweets and press coverage from our Forbes Ad Free Experience Launch
![Unlocking an ads-free Forbes](/images/blog/forbes-ads-free/forbes.png)
By Julien Genestoux on
Forbes introduced their very first membership today and it lets anyone with an ethereum wallet unlock an ads free experience
![Newsletters](/images/blog/introducing-newsletter/newsletter.jpg)
By Julien Genestoux on
Unlock lets you easily collect email addresses from members to create your own paid-for mailing list, using Ethereum and Non Fungible Tokens