PL^G Monthly Update — May 2019
We’re reintroducing our monthly update now we have our opensource tech in market!
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With the release of our developer portal, May has been the biggest month for PL^G since our TGE in March 2018.
Read about our launch here.
For the last two years our teams have been developing the technology to support our blockchain enabled vision. Its been exciting to see PHASE ONE of the PL^G Toolkit launch to market and we are encouraging feedback from you, our community, and already seeing useful input from you on how to continuously improve our opensource platform.
We’re straight into PHASE TWO: Help initial PL^G networks build and launch. In conjunction with our release Centrality, as the first of many networks to build on PL^G, released their Developer Portal.
We are collaborating with Centrality more and more and interest in their ecosystem has been picking up on the global and local stage. Our joint CEO and Co-founder, Aaron McDonald, has recently come back from meeting stakeholders in Berlin, London, Barcelona, Dubai and South Korea promoting our shared ecosystem and tech stack.
We hosted the New Zealand Minister for Transport, Phil Twyford, at our head office in Auckland New Zealand, where we discussed the future of mobility through projects in our ecosystem like iOMOB and Sylo. The continual appetite for blockchain solutions from large enterprises, household brands and government representatives is really encouraging.
Here’s the latest on our joint ecosystem:
TechWeek
Centrality sponsored this year’s TechWeek, New Zealand’s festival of innovation. After putting on TechWeek events last year to a full house, they wanted to step up their game in fostering the industry. For this year’s festival, Centrality hosted two events at their offices and their leadership team were invited to speak at six more events, bringing their involvement to eight events in total over the course of the week.
CEO and Co-founder, Aaron McDonald, had a chance to chat with Sian Simpson on TechWeek TV on the opportunities blockchain can lend for New Zealand. Now that Centrality has released technology into the market, it was time to encourage and upskill developers to come build on their platform. With that, they hosted their first ever Developer Learning Weekend. It was a chance to give developers hands-on experience like deploying smart contracts.
Sylo
Team Sylo has had a busy month attending events and progressing with tweaks to their Beta. Recent updates to the app include an improved import wallet feature, better visibility on the status of in-app transactions and the continued development of Sylo browser version. Sylo has been well represented at home and abroad this month, with team members sharing knowledge at public events during both New York Blockchain Week and NZ Tech Week.
Iomob
Iomob is a winner in the global innovation competition Sustainable Mobility Challenge. The competition is organised by the Swedish Energy Agency, and one of several initiatives aimed at reducing carbon emissions to bring about fossil-free transport by 2045. After three months in Amsterdam, CEO Boyd Cohen presented Iomob’s vision for an Internet of Mobility at the Arcadis City of 2030 Accelerator, Powered by Techstars Demo Day. Ten global startups presented their innovative plans for the city of the future. Simone van Neevan, Head of Innovation at Vueling, introduced the presentation, announcing our upcoming pilot in partnership with Vueling Airlines.
Aider
Exciting things are happening at Aider, with it recently forming a strategic partnership with Westpac. This will see Westpac’s small-to-medium (SME) sized business customers getting support through Aider’s digital assistance tool. There is also a customer service benefit for Westpac’s 85,000 SME business customers who can use Aider’s “Contact Me” function to easily contact the right person at the bank. This was Aider’s first use case for future and there are more already in the pipeline.
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