Kin and Orbs

The other week, I talked about needing a faster, cheaper, and more robust blockchain than what is available today, and my thoughts regarding the Stellar network. Today, I want to continue that conversation and tell you about our work with Orbs, an independent next generation blockchain project that was founded by members of CoinTree.

You’ll recall that the CoinTree team worked with Kik as an advisor throughout our token distribution event. Kik continues to have a strong relationship with CoinTree and has hired four members of their team to lead our blockchain efforts in Tel Aviv. In order to accelerate learning and development, we decided to co-locate the Kin and Orbs blockchain teams in the same office space in Tel Aviv. Our Kin team members and the Orbs team members are contributing to each other’s projects and learning from one another.

While the possibility of moving from Ethereum to Stellar is exciting, Kin could also quickly hit the limits of Stellar, too. By working closely with the Orbs team the goal is to maximize the odds that Kin will have the blockchain it needs by the time it needs it, where the Orbs project could be a solution to Kin’s scalability and production needs to support mainstream digital services.