Centrality September Update
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.
This month we launched the Centrality Bounty Programme and our community jumped at the opportunity to contribute to our network CENNZnet! This is an important step on our roadmap as we move forward to further decentralization of the network and development.
Half of the bounties have been successfully completed already! but there’s still a chance to support us with documentation. Given the appetite, we’ll be posting more bounties soon. If you have a question or an idea for the next bounty, let us know on slack. You can check out our remaining bounties here.
We traveled to Bangkok for the New Zealand ASEAN Business Alliance Conference, where GM Andy Higgs presented the future of Smart Cities. Thailand is moving quickly with blockchain technology as a number of businesses from both the public and private sector have enthusiastically embraced it.
We expect to see blockchain deployed more widely by a broader range of Thai businesses following the establishment of the Thai Blockchain Centre, and the launch of blockchain platform for traceability and logistics by TBSP, and we will continue to develop our relationships within the Thai business community. Catch up on our blog for a more in-depth review of the ASEAN Conference.
The core technology team have been working on an audit of our technology and technology strategy with a big 4 firm and its looking really promising.
Finally, we’re growing fast so we are hiring! If you’d like to join the Centrality team, all vacancies are available on our careers page.
Check out the latest from our ecosystem partners here:
PL^G Update:
The upgrade process is continuing to Substrate to 2.0. We’re now integrating the last of our modules, most notably Doughnut protocol and permissions.
We are also kicking off work to validate Doughnut protocol in conjunction with Libra’s Move contract VM.
Centrality Fintech
GECKO Governance and Centrality FinTech ventured to Luxemburg and Paris for a sales road trip with Axa IM (investment management). Above the teams are celebrating a successful meeting with the Global Head of Operations and Axa’s Innovation Leader, as part of the wider Centrality ecosystem.
Sylo
This month and ahead of schedule, the Sylo Smart Wallet exited TestFlight to be unveiled in the Apple App and Google Play stores around the world! A milestone event that the Sylo team have been working towards for almost two years, the DApp will change the way the world not only connects and communicates, but transacts.
Sylo users can connect from the safety of a wallet address, send and receive digital assets in chat, make audio and video calls, and store any ERC-20 compatible token, such as SYLOs, CENNZ or ETH in a non-custodial wallet.
The team at Sylo have been focused on making technologies like crypto simple enough for everyday use, while still providing a feature-rich experience we couldn’t be more proud to see them launch their app on the main APP stores.
Sylo is now growing quickly and we are seeing thousands of new users joining CENNZnet every week! The more people who join and use Sylo the stronger CENNZ will be so help us spread the word and invite your friends to join Sylo and use the Sylo smart wallet.
Upcoming feature additions to the Sylo Smart Wallet in Q4 2019 and beyond will include support for Bitcoin, decentralised storage, a non-fungible sticker marketplace, and the ability for users to create their own dynamic digital assets (DDA’s).
If you aren’t on Sylo yet, jump in and download it now to take your messaging and chat to the decentralised world.
IOMOB
Iomob, the urban mobility marketplace, is an exciting member of the Centrality family of companies. Centrality Project Lead for Iomob, Phil Williams, has been delivering several product strategy and business development initiatives with them.
Phil travelled to Sweden to run workshops with the Iomob team and Skanetrafiken / Innovation Skane, their Swedish customer, to further design the project which we won in May. Engagement with the mobility providers (taxis, buses, scooters and trains) is underway, and being led by the EU business team. The project will cover four cities in Sweden.
Phil spent two weeks with Iomob’s tech team at their HQ in Barcelona. This included working on our exciting Wellington MaaS (mobility as a service) project, which enables commuters to travel seamlessly with mobility providers including Green Cabs, Flamingo Scooters, Metlink buses, and even the East-West Ferry!
This closer-to-home project is strategically important for Iomob and Centrality, because it’s a fast-turnaround initiative with the backing of many key national agencies, including the full support of Wellington Council. Success with our proof-of-concept should lead to a larger integrated pilot in 2020.
Carbon Click
The 27th September marked a series of international strikes and protests to demand action to be taken to address climate change. 170,000 New Zealanders joined the strike for the climate around the country, including CarbonClick who provided protesters with a way to offset their carbon omissions via their dedicated strike page https://strike.carbon.click/
More than 40 climate strike events took place around New Zealand, as part of a global movement calling for urgent action on the climate crisis.
The core of the strike was school students, but many others joined them, with about 100 businesses including CarbonClick, Centrality and PL^G joining the marches and rallies #UNfucktheworld
