A big shipping week — self-sponsor gas, Echo emojis and stickers, animated WebM stickers, a lighter-blur design refresh, and a long list of fixes. Here’s what changed.

New Features

  • Self-sponsor gas toggle — choose to cover your own gas when you want full control
  • Echo emojis & stickers added to the expanded keyboard for posts and comments
  • Animated WebM stickers now supported in the social feed and keyboard
  • Red dot indicator for pending notifications
  • New emojis added across the app

Design & UI

  • Refreshed featured cards
  • Refreshed leaderboard card
  • Updated trade pill on the coin page
  • Updated balance display on the Markets tab
  • Updated chain (Solana), verified/unverified, and Echo Explains modals to match the new lighter-blur design system (matching the deposit modal)
  • Updated culture font — now uses italic Instrument Serif on welcome and splash screens
  • Updated pending banner font size
  • Added balance update animations on the Markets tab
  • Smoother post-loading transitions — animations ease in instead of popping after blank space

Improvements

  • Sticker keyboard loads faster
  • Pinned posts can now be collapsed by tapping the pin on the feed
  • Notification profile pics are now tappable — coin images route to the coin page, user images route to the trader page
  • Faster posting — reduced delay after submitting a status or comment
  • Total gains % is now hooked up; All-Time % hidden on portfolio
  • Comma formatting added to prices in swap notifications and price alerts
  • Reaction notifications now show the reactor’s pfp
  • Sticker analytics — added data events to stickers from the keyboard
  • Search performance — routed bottom-nav search dismiss through handleSearchBackPress (flushes debounce, clears queries) on Discover + Dashboard
  • Search overlay suppresses heavy list/filter work while focused
  • Discover tab — reduced image prefetch memory pressure
  • Comments empty state — added skeleton loading instead of flashing “no comments” before the check completes

Bug Fixes

  • Emojis in comments were sitting slightly low — fixed alignment
  • Emojis in statuses & comments were rendering too high and too small — corrected sizing and position
  • Long status/comment text — second line no longer goes missing
  • Six-emoji overflow — when all 6 reaction emojis are set, the comment button now wraps to the next line on medium devices instead of breaking the UI
  • Comments input — fixed incorrect emoji rendering and the large space appearing to the right of the input text
  • Reply error message no longer appears to the right of the input text
  • Reply / status post button — fixed bug requiring 2 clicks to submit
  • Double-tap on feed item no longer opens the reply view twice
  • Feed animations — fixed animations stopping when new updates came in
  • Feed animations — fixed all main-feed animations freezing after closing the comment view via back button (swipe-to-close was unaffected)
  • Optimistic feed posts — first replay of an animated sticker no longer flashes
  • Notifications from other accounts showing up after switching logins — fixed via frontend caching update
  • Notifications — resolved issue where notifications from a previous account appeared after signing into a new one
  • MCap on holdings list — fixed cases where “NA” was showing
  • Suggest list — fixed missing image and price box on some entries