Inkrypt Community Update August 2018 — Shifting Gears: Stealth to Showcase
Creating value through actual development:
The Inkrypt team has been hard at work day and night on inching towards our goal of a censorship-resistant and self-sustaining network for authentic content. Much of our development has been in stealth mode and we only recently unveiled our first product nLIGHTn at Distributed Conference in San Francisco. The rationale behind remaining mostly under the radar was to conduct market research and have a significant amount of development before we make the case for Inkrypt to the industry and the community at large.
This strategy paid off greatly as now we have completed the core functionality of our censorship-resistant publishing platform, nLIGHTn, with the alpha version coming soon. We have also made substantial headway with regards to our main protocol with the three main pillars (anonymity network, distributed storage, and incentivization overlay) progressing significantly. The anonymous communication network is up and running, the distributed storage architecture is actively being developed, and the incentivization overlay is being designed and fine-tuned according to requirements.
The anxiously anticipated Inkrypt whitepaper will be released next month with the technical paper following closely thereafter.
Shifting gears:
This stealth mission was undertaken to ensure that we can cut through the noise in today’s overly saturated distributed ledger technology market when we go public with our mission. We feel that we have accomplished enough development and validated our vision to the extent that we can now shift gears and make the industry and the community aware of our mission and our unique value proposition.
In the coming days you will see a significant increase in community engagement from our end, with regular community updates, active social media channels, and a plethora of reading resources for the Inkrypt community. We would like you to help us in this endeavor by channeling our outreach efforts through feedback and by sharing your opinions, hopes and suggestions regarding Inkrypt here or on our Facebook, Twitter, Telegram or Instagram.
The other prong of our new strategy is to engage the media industry. Although we have received significant recognition from industry giants, we are now focusing on generating awareness in the media industry globally. Our plan of action is to use our existing network at Harvard and the Boston venture community to connect to the global media industry. We will also leverage our partnership with Po.et and BTC Media to garner interest from small to medium sized media outlets.
Recent and upcoming events:
Following is a list of our recent and future engagements with the industry and the community.
- Microsoft Civic Tech Innovation Scholarship — Boston, USA
Inkrypt is honored to have been recognized by Microsoft as the recipient of Microsoft’s Civic Tech Innovation Scholarship through the MassChallenge Accelerator Program. Microsoft partnered with the MassChallenge Accelerator to identify startups with innovative solutions fostering citizen engagement and transparency between government and constituents. The Scholarship will go a long way in aiding Inkrypt’s efforts to deploy nLIGHTn with citizen journalists in some of the world’s most autocratic regions. Furthermore, it will open avenues of potential technical collaboration between the Microsoft Office suite and the Inkrypt Protocol, further helping Inkrypt to become a true plug-and-play solution for media.
2. Creative Destruction Lab — Toronto, Canada
Inkrypt was recently selected to be a part of the Creative Destruction Lab, a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies at the University of Toronto. Co-founder Farhan Javed was in Toronto for most of August to connect with academics and business experts in the Blockchain industry to refine the business model of Inkrypt and was invited to various events arounds the city to present Inkrypt to the VC community in Canada.
3. Oversees Talent and Entrepreneurship Conference (OTEC) — Beijing, China
Inkrypt was recently invited to China to pitch the value proposition of our resilient content hosting protocol to investors and technology thought leaders at OTEC, Beijing. OTEC is the biggest entrepreneurship conference in Beijing, China that provides resources, technology support and investment for startups that have the potential to scale globally.
Co-founder Arkam Javed (also the Vice-President of the Harvard Undergraduate Blockchain Group) travelled to Beijing and represented Inkrypt at the conference. During the conference he connected with the investment arm of AliBaba and various large technology investment firms in China.
4. RChain Cooperative Developer Conference 3 (RCon 3) — Berlin, Germany
As part of the Reflective Venture Partners portfolio companies Inkrypt co-founders Muhammad Ali Chaudhary, Farhan Javed and Wardah Chaudhary are invited to be part of the RCon 3 on September 5–6, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. RCon is a Blockchain developers conference that brings together network validators, dApp developers, investors, and researchers working in the DLT space to leverage the RChain platform to build the Web 3.0.
If you are in Berlin in September and are interested in learning how Inkrypt is changing the media landscape and impacting all aspects of the media valuechain, join us at RCon 3.
5. Medientage München (Media Day Munich) — Munich, Germany
Medientage is the largest media conference in Europe which attracts executives from all the large media companies in the world and is led by the Chancellor of Germany. Inkrypt is honored to have been invited to present our solution to media censorship and content authencity at the conference. Additionally, we have also been requested to serve as a panelist for the “Fake News vs. Trusted Environment” session at the conference. Co-founder Muhammad Ali Chaudhary, Farhan Javed and Wardah Chaudhary will be representing Inkrypt at this event.
If you are in Munich between October 24–26 make sure you attend this amazing conference and learn about how Inkrypt is solving two pervasive issues (censorship and fake news) in the media industry with its decentralized protocol.
6. HUBWeek — Boston, USA
Founded in December 2014 by The Boston Globe, Harvard University, MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital, HUBweek is a first-of-its-kind civic collaboration and week-long festival that brings together the most creative and inventive minds making an impact in art, science and technology. Over the years it has become the premier event where academic, entrepreneurs and innovators from across the world flock together for a city-wide festival.
This year Inkrypt was among the top startups from around the world to be selected for HUBWeek. We will be doing a live-demo of our censorship-resistant publishing dApp, nLIGHTn, at the event on October 13th, 2018. Make sure you don’t miss out on this event and an opportunity to meet the whole Inkrypt team.
Get engaged:
As always, we urge everyone to visit the venture’s website to learn more about the team and ways of getting in touch. Follow Inkrypt on Twitter to stay up to date on the latest developments and activities and subscribe to Inkrypt’s Telegram to share your thoughts and ideas with the community.
