As discussed in this previous blog post, some of the teams at Kik have transitioned to working on projects integrating Kin into Kik. I’ve been fortunate to work on one of these projects, called the IPLv2. This project will get Kik users to experiment with Kin inside of Kik.

Many of the teams at Kik are working on pre-Kin roadmaps, mostly on improving Kik Messenger and preparing it to be an appropriate launch pad for Kin. There are also teams working on projects like the Kin Rewards Engine, partner programs for developers, bots, etc. Many of these projects are…

Our vision for Kin is to create a decentralized ecosystem of digital services for daily life.

“For daily life” means that one of our greatest challenges is making blockchain technology accessible to the masses. These days…

Four weeks ago, we released the first version of Kin Rewards Engine (KRE) request for comments (RFC) document, which was the result of several months of work. We received a lot of interesting feedback, and some of the inputs we received and our thoughts…

We are very happy to publish our first open source Kin SDKs (kin-sdk-core-android and kin-sdk-core-ios).

The purpose of these projects is to significantly lower the barrier for Kin integration in mobile apps. The goal of these SDKs is for…

A lot of teams across Kik are working on IPLv2, a project that will let a group of Kik power users experiment with real Kin tokens inside of Kik. The goal of IPLv2 is to go fully on-chain with an Ethereum based solution for all transactions, where we will…