Centrality monthly update — August 2020
CEO Aaron McDonald shares key developments over the past month. To stay up-to-date on the progress of Centrality’s ecosystem, follow us on Twitter and our Telegram Announcements channel, plus join our community on Centrality’s Official Telegram, Instagram and Facebook.
Kia ora Centrality whanau,
It’s Maori language week in New Zealand, and I’ve just finished a workshop on identity that is working to understand how we can apply the framework of my Māori ancestors — Kāwanatanga (Honourable Governance), Rangatiratanga (Self-determination) and Ōritetanga (Equity) to the digital age. It’s great to see that values that worked a long time ago are so appropriate to work that we are doing today.
CENNZnet
We had a huge win last week with the listing on Korea exchange, Bithumb, as well as listings on MXC and ZB.com in China. We’ve been working hard to grow the community across Asia and the new exchanges are giving us great exposure.
The token swap remains the key focus for the CENNZnet team. The contract now has over 500 million tokens and the team are preparing to mint the new CENNZnet CENNZ tokens so people can receive the real CENNZ token!
Its important that you deposit your tokens into the transition contract to ensure that they will be eligible for the main net swap.
Plug
The last couple of months of 2020 will be full-on as we set up the network and release some exciting news about the roadmap and partnerships. We will also start the process of the PLUG main net token migration.
Centrapay
Coca-Cola Amatil’s technology investment platform, Amatil X, has taken a stake in Centrapay, investing in the payment platform’s seed funding round.
The investment will accelerate integration with point of sale and payment terminals, enable brands to connect more directly with their consumers and drive more innovation in payments and value exchange.
Iomob
The team won a major deal with LNER, one of the largest rail companies in the UK, and have released an app for their platform.
CoverUS
They have launched their prescription discounting app, which helps American healthcare consumers to save money directly. They now continue to build off this user base for their core health data products, which will protect user health data, and help them benefit from it financially by matching them with clinical trials. These will follow in first half 2021. They are in a Seed Raise at the moment, which has confirmed lead investors and will close before year end 2020.
Yabble
The Yabble team have closed their capital raise, with venture capital fund Hillfarrance leading the round. Already one of New Zealand’s leading research and data providers, the injection of capital will allow them to expand the business both in depth of offer and geographies.
WeAreTENZING
Last month WeAreTENZING was approached by Instagram to test and launch its new surface — Instagram Reels. A competitor to TikTok, the new platform allows users to create videos using multiple clips and adding original audio or music from a provided library. 20 of our top content creators got exclusive early access to test and produce content for the surface launch.
Sylo
After a year of hard work, Sylo is launching ‘Sylo V2’, which promises, speed, reliability and fluidity and will be a serious step forward in making decentralised tech not only useful in the real world, but a viable competitor with the services of centralised applications.
On the back of this refined and rebooted architecture, they’ll be enabling users to take control of their communications like never before, by means of Sylo Nodes, unveiling a few useful Defi elements for users of the Sylo Smart Wallet and helping to bring more major players across large-sector industries to the realm of digital assets and the wallets of their users.
Pocketful
Pocketful is now in the final stages of testing for the first release of their bill sharing product. They are on track to release the final version soon. And equally exciting, they’ve just signed a partnership deal with the Westpac/NZ Government Innovation Fund to build the new user experience with money for people in hardship.
CarbonClick
CarbonClick has been announced as a finalist in the Sustainable Business Network Awards in two categories: Tech for Good and Climate Action Innovator. We’re proud to be recognised in both categories and stand beside some amazing Kiwi businesses. We’ve also been voted into the finalists of the Westpac Business Awards “Peoples Choice” category with no marketing (or even knowledge we were listed there)!
With 10,000+ clickers of the green button, they’re definitely getting exposure now.
To stay up-to-date on the progress of Centrality’s ecosystem, follow us on Twitter and our Telegram Announcements channel, plus join our community on Centrality’s Official Telegram, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook .
