Centrality Monthly Update — December 2019
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.
2019 has been a massive year for Centrality! We kicked it off by launching the Developer Portal, delivering the vision in our whitepaper and completing the Rooster spur stage of our Roadmap. We showcased how to build a DApp on CENNZnet live on stage at Japan Blockchain Conference, exhibited at Singapore Fintech Festival and got talented teams using our tools to build DApps at AngelHack hackathon and CENNZ-ed learning weekend.
Time has flown by and Christmas is already here. Our team is now UNwinding after a massive year so we can be refreshed and ready to tackle 2020.
There is one month to go in the Centrality Reward Programme and so far there are 569 Million CENNZ in the staking contract and a total of 10 Million CPAY earned during the last 60 days. Once the reward programme finishes we will have exciting news about limited edition merch that only CPAY token holders can buy via the Sylo app. We will be making the announcements about the merch in mid-January.
What lies ahead in 2020?
Next year is promising to be huge for Centrality. The biggest milestone we’ve been working towards is the main net launch and move to public staking. Our token holders will be able to stake their tokens into the network and start earning real block rewards. We will achieve the first DApp with over 1 million active users next year and launch more than 5 partnerships with Fortune 500 companies. Let the good times UNfold!
Here’s what our ecosystem have been up to this December:
Sylo
Since releasing in global app stores in September, the Sylo Smart Wallet App has already hit a significant milestone, having officially surpassed 100,000 downloads!
With users now spread across more than 40 countries around the world and growing every day, it’s a hugely exciting time for everyone at Sylo and in the wider Centrality family. You can check out the full announcement via the Twitter channel here.
The swift pace is set to continue for Sylo, with multi-language support due to arrive in the app by the end of 2019, and much-anticipated Bitcoin integration in the wallet to be released into the live production app in January (Nerds note: BTC is currently available for testing in development mode within the app if you know how to enable that!).
If you haven’t yet tried the Sylo Smart Wallet app, you can download it here. Or for those of you who already have the app, do check that you’re operating on the latest version, as the team are pumping out updated builds regularly.
What a year for the Sylo team and an even bigger year expected ahead. Keep an eye on their blog and community channels for all the specific and key updates and developments over the Christmas period and into the New Year.
CarbonClick
CarbonClick Chief Product Officer, Jan Czaplicki was awarded the 2019 global ‘Innovator of the Year’ by Michael Page. For those of us lucky enough to work alongside Jan, this comes as no surprise. His dedication to the environment and work ethic is inspirational. His innovation is transforming the way individuals can offset what they can’t reduce from their carbon footprint.
Because collaborations between changemakers will be the key to solving the climate crisis, CarbonClick have announced that their carbon offsetting system is free for charities and non-profit organisations! If you know a charity who could benefit, please pass the word on.
Finally, the team will be expanding CarbonClick solution to international markets and will launch a sales and partnerships exercise in the USA in March 2020. This will coincide with celebrating the first of their really big projects/clients going live here in New Zealand.
OnFinality
This month we gave our brand a refresh and launched our new website in English, Chinese and Japanese! You can check it out here. Through our new site, it’s easy to determine whether OnFinality is the right blockchain solution for you. We have plans to suit developers, businesses or large enterprises.
Our team have been busy improving our product and our first customer, TrackBack, have fully integrated OnFinality into their consortium chain. Read all about why TrackBack incorporated OnFinality into their solution here.
Finally, OnFinality can now run validator nodes for Kusama! This is a huge milestone for the team and enables us to scale quickly as more validator nodes are required on the platform.
PLUG
2019 was a BIG year for PLUG and it’s time to reflect on the incredible progress we’ve made!
We rebuilt PLUG from the ground up using the fast, type-safe Rust language, on top of the Substrate framework. But, not only that, we’ve added some more powerful enhancements, and are now a core contributor to Substrate.
Staying true to the PLUG vision, we built our own generic assets module, which provides the backbone of the multi-currency economy provided by PLUG. We built an attestation module, providing a simple way for identity claims and verification to be managed on-chain, and we rethought the blockchain permissions model from first principles. PLUG now provides support for world-first cryptographic proofs of delegation, Centrality’s patented technology, Doughnut. Allowing users to authorise permissions on-chain between people or apps.
Next year PLUG will go 1.0! It’s all about stability and smart contracts. We’re building out pipelines and tooling to assess network stability, ready for a stable 1.0.0 release. But that’s not all, we’ve got big things planned for 2020. We have been developing a dex exchange called CENNZX to facilitate easy exchanges on our first network, CENNZnet. When we launch, you’ll be able to pay fees in any generic asset using the exchange CENNZX, and we are in the process of architecting and patenting the Generation 4 blockchain technology.
Aider
Two of the best-known brands in the country, Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) and Vodafone New Zealand, announced Aider, along with four other innovative New Zealand technology startups, has been selected to join the prestigious Vodafone xone Partner Series accelerator. The programme will help Aider refine their offering while increasing the strength of its business partnerships.”
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.
