Forbole Updates (August 2020)

Terence Lam
Forbole
Published in
3 min readAug 14, 2020

The past few months was another exciting period for Forbole. Round-0 of Desmos, Technical Advisory Board of ICF, new logo of Big Dipper, Big Dipper for Band Protocol, new Forbole’s teammates, Forbole validator on Solana… let me tell you one by one!

Desmos Round-0: Completed

Of course, one of the biggest milestones to our team is the completion of Round-0 of Desmos Network:

With this funding from supporters like you, we are able to accomplish more objectives in the next few months. While we have sufficient resources to move on, we will keep distributing future DSM through private sale and incentivized program.

Desmos fundraising and incentivized program

As stated in the Introduction, we think the setting of private sale is crucial to future decentralization of the tokens. We solve it by keeping the private sale open with a relatively mild escalation of price to strike a balance between the fairness to early supporters and the risks of premature fundraising. You can submit your indicative interest in our current round here.

We are also increasing the reward of our incentivized testnet. Even though the next phase has not been announced, I strongly recommend validtors to join our testnet and Discord to prepare for that.

Kwun joins Technical Advisory Board of ICF

We are delighted to tell you our co-founder Kwun Yeung has joined the Technical Advisory Board of Interchain Foundation:

At the time we joined the Cosmos community back in late 2017, Forbole was just founded for two months with two co-founders. We started with the plan to build a decentralized business network with Cosmos SDK. We have gradually grown to a validator. We have become more well-known with the creation of Big Dipper and being one of the award winners in Game of Stakes. Thanks for your love and support and we look forward to going on this amazing journey with all of you Cosmonauts!

Forbole keeps hiring

We keep growing our team as well. Now we are a team of 12 people. Please join me to welcome all of these new Forbole engineers!

You can find more about our current openings from below post which will be updated regularly:

New face of Big Dipper

Big Dipper is upgrading to the next level. We start with this new logo:

What can you see from the logo? Share your view in this tweet.

Furthermore, Big Dipper for Band Protocol is up! You can now connect your Ledger to Big Dipper and stake your $BAND with the validators you love!

https://band.bigdipper.live/

Stake your SOL with Forbole

Solana is growing rapidly. We are proud to be one of their genesis validators and investors. More importantly, we are one of the very few well-established Solana validators who come from Asia. Please stake your SOL with us. You can find more about our Solana validator here:

Founded in Hong Kong in 2017, Forbole [ˈfɔːbəl] is a full-stack blockchain startup in staking, technical development and UX solution. We are a well-known validator and contributor in various blockchain ecosystems. We created Big Dipper, an award-winning open-source block explorer used by people from over 140 countries. We have initiated Desmos, a blockchain to improve the well-being of users on social networks. Please follow our social media to know more about us:

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