This is not financial advice.
During the last two weeks Enigma showed little activity in media landscape. The main keynote of Enigma’s activity was protecting privacy and people in the decentralized world. A world scale experts such as Bruce Schneier and Jameson Lopp were invited to consult what steps should be taken to protect our future before it’s too late. Also Tor Bair, Head of Growth/Marketing at Enigma MPC, gave an interview concerning smart contracts and why we need privacy more than ever in the age of surveillance as a business model. Enigma is gaining more popularity and is among the top cryptocurrencies 2019. In addition, a wide-ranging discussion took place in Telegram on the outlook of Enigma building on Polkadot. There is currently a positive dynamic in Medium and Discord followers. However, last commit on public Enigma GitHub was on the 3rd of February. Finally, Enigma’s social and business networks are to be expanded in 2019. Enigma’s team of developers continues working efficiently on about a dozen parallel work streams integrating the different components that make the Enigma protocol a reality.
Development
Latest development update, containing details on recent progress towards deploying Discovery on testnet, including an important internal release of Discovery. Enigma’s team has nearly completed end-to-end full round-trip integration tests for deploying and executing secret contracts in Enigma’s upcoming Discovery release.
Enigma’s accomplishments on January 2019:
- Implementation of gas metering in the WebAssembly Virtual Machine for secret contracts denominated in ENG tokens
- Implementation of the Ethereum bridge for secret contracts, which allows for calling arbitrary functions of regular smart contracts as part of the business logic of any secret contract.
- Defined the specifications for all messages used between the various components in the network, and implemented the communications following those specifications.
- Exhaustive suites of unit tests for every element in the network that validate that every function and component perform as designed.
- Randomization of the worker selection algorithm implemented inside an SGX enclave in a trustless environment, guaranteeing fairness and impartiality.
- Created a growing set of sample secret contracts that demonstrate the capabilities of the features packed in the Discovery release.
Social encounters
Special Episode 1 features Bruce Schneier to talk about the existential threats we’ve created by hyper-connecting our modern world and how governments and people can move to protect our future before it’s too late. Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist and writer.
Tor Bair was interviewed by Daniel Jeffries about how smart contracts become secret contracts and why we need privacy more than ever in the age of surveillance as a business model
- Posted 1 new episode on their podcast “Decentralize This!”.
The eighteenth episode features Jameson Lopp to talk about protecting privacy and people in a decentralized world. Jameson Lopp is an experienced engineer who has been working full-time in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency space since 2015, contributing to a number of different projects.
The article makes it easy for you to search through Enigma’s writing, resources, and code.
Finance
Roadmap
2019: The Year of Enigma:
Enigma’s accomplishments from 2018:
1Q: the Enigma Data Marketplace was launched.
2Q:
- the first testnet was launched;
- Multiple tutorials and walkthroughs to help developers get started with secret contracts were released;
- Protocol documentation — Enigma Docker Network — was released for the first time;
- Enigma’s team attended Consensus NYC and presented the first live look at secret contracts.
3Q:
- additional critical functionality was included to Enigma’s Discovery release;
- the Enigma Ambassadors Program was launched;
- a meetup in Berlin with Ocean Protocol and Polkadot: Enigma’s team met multiple Enigma Ambassadors in person;
- Enigma’s team traveled to the Techcrunch conference in Zug, Switzerland, where Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin presented and the Enigma’s CEO Guy Zyskind spoke on a panel about self-sovereign identity.
4Q: simulation mode for developers looking to test secret contracts was released.
What’s next?
- enable the first dApps that will serve tens of millions of users;
- work closely with Intel on SGX-based solutions;
- expanding collaboration with Intel.
Partnerships and team members
2019: The Year of Enigma:
2018:
- eight launch partners that would be building with secret contracts were announced;
- the Enigma team was expanded;
- Enigma participated in Ingenuity Partner Program;
- Enigma revealed its collaboration with Intel.
Rumors
- Several of Enigma’s partners will be developing on polkadot.
Active telegram discussion:
The link to the article you can find here.
- Enigma’s protocol is to be launched soon.
- Enigma is mentioned in the video “Q1 2019 Top Crypto Picks. Do NOT Miss These 2 Coins!! Undervalued & Underrated”
- Enigma is mentioned in the article under the headline “Reform: Blockchain in the NHS”. Dr Cosima Gretton, clinical product manager, covers blockchain and health records.
- Active Reddit discussions: Four for a dollar!
Social media metrics
There is a slight decline in Enigma community over time. The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Telegram subscribers and Twitter followers.There is a positive dynamic in Discord followers.
