Centrality Monthly Update — August
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, Reddit and Facebook.
August has been another stellar month with local media and broadcasters covering us in print and radio, sharing our vision across their audiences in addition to continuous development on our network.
We featured in this months edition of the M2 Magazine, with a seven page spread on Centrality from my recent keynote at the M2 Success Summit. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 from our blog to read the full spread.
General Managers Jerome Faury and Andy Higgs appeared on the local podcast, NZ Every Day Investor, in the three part series.
Andy covered the basics of blockchain and how our #8 way of thinking and innovating is expressing itself in in the web 3.0 digital realm. You can listen to Andy’s podcast here.
In Jerome’s two part series he talks about data being the new oil, and the concerns that data is being controlled by only a handful of companies. He discusses the growing gap between the rich and poor, and how decentralisation will aid the way wealth is distributed going forward. Listen to part one of Jerome’s podcast here and part two here.
We attended the Web 3 Summit in Berlin which looked to facilitate a fully functional and user-friendly decentralised web. Developers and researchers working on lower level protocols and others interested in the latest developments in the decentralised web came together for an immersive event focusing on the Web3 technology stack, including: P2P protocols, platform neutral computation language, data distribution protocols, blockchains and so much more. It was exciting to see so much innovation happening on the other side of the world and we’ve brought several key takeouts back home to our development in NZ.
As part of Habenero phase of our roadmap we’re upgrading to substrate to 2.0 in line with PL^G. However, we’re not only upgrading our blockchain technology, but upgrading our SDKs and the existing applications within our ecosystem.
In addition to this,the core technology team are working on technical due diligence as part of a large partnership, which we will announce once finalised.
And finally Curtin University announced their cryptocurrency scholarship fund in partnership with us. This is the first of its kind and an exciting step in the adoption of blockchain and its currencies into mainstream usage. Check out the full blog article here.
Find out whats been happening with our ecosystem partners and upcoming Centrality events below:
PL^G
PL^G is upgrading to Substrate 2.0, in line with the Polkadot network. This means we’re on par with Polkadot’s technology and we can take advantage of the benefits that their ecosystem brings in. This also gives us greater exposure to their existing community.
TrackBack
We’re live! Our consortium blockchain has been set up and we are actively on boarding new members. Our first customer successfully wrote data for 35,000 products to our chain enabling them to prove the origin of their product using Centrality’s Doughnut protocol.
Sylo
Team Sylo have had their heads down working hard, as they’ve continued to push the Beta out to more users, gather feedback and integrate this feedback into the DApp.
Key DApp updates include: bug fixes and optimisations and new features such as a new contact invite flow, new wallet features and new user onboarding, PLUS a brand new, first friend for you on Sylo… Dubbed ‘Oliver’, he’ll be introduced in an upcoming release and will take you step-by-step through exactly how you can get the most out of the Sylo wallet, including shouting you some test tokens to start playing with to get familiar and comfortable!
In the meantime, if you want to learn more about what makes the Sylo wallet unique, check out this great post from the team.
The Sylo DApp is now rapidly approaching their Beta TestFlight user limits, so they’ve made the call to move off TestFlight and fully publish on the app stores in the coming weeks. Once they’ve made that transition, it will be ‘hammer down’, and time to really start pushing the benefits Sylo offers to the world at large. Keep an eye on their blog and community channels for specific updates regarding this.
Accelerator Teams
Yabble
Yabble were recently recognised at the 2019 Research Association NZ Conference, winning the David O’Neill Award for Innovation for their whitepaper: The Rise of Consumer Owned Data: Blockchain Technology — the new frontier of data trading. The conference focused on the relentlessly changing landscape of the world we work and live in.
