3 Years of imToken🎂🎉🎁
We are celebrating 3 years of imToken — with you!🎉🎈
Our product called ‘imToken’ is a blockchain digital wallet designed for every-day use, designed to reduce the threshold for users to obtain digital assets, for users to not have to worry about the technology itself, and about the safety management of the account private key
~ Ben, imToken CEO, written in 2016 for the release of imToken 1.0
imToken, a brief history in 3 years crypto
We established imToken in May 2016, with our mission of bridging the gap between blockchain technology and general mass usage; building a simple-to-use yet powerful digital asset management tool, we built features around 3 objectives:
Lowering the barriers of entry to digital asset management:
- ✔️ User-controlled wallet
- ✔️ 1click backup for up to 40 wallets (Ethereum, Bitcoin, Cosmos, EOS)
- ✔️ imKey bluetooth hardware wallet
Make crypto accessible via 1-stop platform for all things crypto — issuance, management & trading:
- ✔️ Tokenlon DEX
- ✔️ dApp Browser + simplewallet QR code login
- ✔️ Token profiles
- ✔️ Staking and
- ✔️ DeFi toolbox for earning interest
Offer save & trusted crypto transactions:
- ✔️ Decentralized address book synced across your devices on IPFS
- ✔️ Fingerprint & face-id + QR code
- ✔️ Token-spam blocker
- ✔️ Scam blacklist
In the span of 3 years, imToken has expanded to millions of users from more than 200 countries, becoming the most-used Ethereum wallet. Over the last year, imToken users were responsible for over 10% of all transactions on Ethereum.
May 2016
Development Kick-Off
Nov 11, 2016
Official release of imToken 1.0 on AppStore.
Mar 01, 2017
imToken introduced off-line signature transactions, laid the foundation of secure asset management.
Apr 28, 2017
imToken joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).
Feb 14, 2018
imToken exceeded 1 million unique users.
May 31, 2018
imToken completed Series A funding round, announced IDG investment.
Jun 19, 2018
imToken officially established Singapore office as the global headquarter.
Aug 1, 2018
Releasing imToken 2.0
2019, so far 😁
Updating Tokenlon DEX with best-price and gas-free trading
Adding 50+ compatible, tested, approved DApps
Adding EOS, Cosmos, USDT support
May 2nd 2019, imToken 3rd anniversary, imToken 2.0 has been published for nearly a year, digital identity, multi-chain wallet, DApp browser, Tokenlon…
We are continuing to iterate and improve towards our goal or reducing complexity in digital assets.
The party
Of course 3 years had to be celebrated.
To do that, and to take some breath from sprinting sprints, on May 20th 2019 we took the whole team on two-days of break-out sessions. What started as a small group of 4 people, is now a 44-person team, which made our bus packed full. 🚌
At night, we sat around the campfire and told stories of the last 3 years. 🔥
With bonfire, songs and BBQ we began celebrating the third year anniversary.
The second day — finally seeing sunshine again — we had a great time doing some sports- starting with outdoor baseball. Just like in the office, almost nobody got hurt. 🙀
After lunch, groups of five people each entered the kart race track. Leaving all team spirit behind, just like a crypto trader on a bad day 😈 The owners of the race track were visibly scared about the survival of their karts. 🚘 🚗
The next team game brought the team spirit back just like in the final days of a development sprint: With 44 strings connected to a huge Chinese drum, we had to bounce a ball more than 50 times. 🙈
And that sounds (pun intended) easier than it is, believe me. 🙉
Tightening the rope to maintain balance, trying hard on for many ties, we first got 10 bounces or so. After some discussion, and under the command of Ben, we made it to 50, 78, 97 and finally 155. ✔️
After that our spirits were almost as high as if Bitcoin was back at $20.000 and we were finally able to relax a little, painting a 4m * 6m painting. 🦄
See yourself:
Thanks to the users and thanks to our partners!
The whole team is very happy and grateful for the last three years in this blockchain industry. Behind us lie three years of helping out our users at support@token.im, three years of development sprints, three years of listening to our users and continuously iterating and improving the product.
The imToken 1.0 product promotion video reads:
“This technology, whether it is called blockchain or a distributed ledger, is essentially a trust environment built on top of the Internet. It is groundbreaking, making safe and efficient transfer of value possible, while not relying on third parties. It allows for a free flow of value from peer-to-peer. We are very fascinated.”
The beginning of the imToken story stems from this “fascination”. And today, this fascination backs the growth of this team. It blends into the spirit of the imToken team.
“In the future, more and more high-quality projects will emerge, of which today is just beginning.”
Click the picture below to see the old (September 2016) video yourself 😅
We see imToken as a product that carries great enthusiasm from the team, allowing ‘blockchain to happen’ and letting value flow freely between people.
We thank you, our users and supporters, who have accompanied us along the way. Your support and understanding and even questioning are the best we can wish for.
imToken, happy third anniversary!
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