Raven Protocol in Mozilla’s Fix-The-Internet Incubator
Dear Raven Protocol Community,
We’ve been silently building away in Mozilla’s Fix-The-Internet Incubator since July. Through their Open Lab, we had the opportunity to explore together The Raven Distribution Framework and its potential to be a critical player in the Decentralized AI/ML industry.
It was a pleasure to collaborate with so many of the executives over at the Mozilla team, mentors with several exits, and other strong decentralized projects fixing the internet. This culminated in the #MozillaBuilders Open Lab Ship Day where everyone got to show off their products to the world.
Why Mozilla?
One key reason we decided to engage with Mozilla is their history with developing open source software. The Mozilla project was created in 1998 with the release of the Netscape browser source code. It was intended to harness the creative powers of thousands of developers. Within the first year, community members from around the world flocked in droves to drive unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market. They wrote completely new features, enhanced the product, improved the user experience, and even became engaged in the management and planning of the project itself.
At Raven, our Distribution Framework is open-sourced on GitHub. We want to make sure the power of AI/ML is in the hands of the community and not trapped inside large corporations who can afford endless compute resources.
The more AI/ML developers there are enhancing the framework, building AI/ML algorithms on top of the framework itself, and bridging existing workflows to work with our tooling, the more innovation there will in the entire AI/ML industry. We can’t even begin to fathom the amount of value this will unlock as the community has never even had access to this before.
What we accomplished with Mozilla
Open Source only works when there’s high intrinsic motivation for the contributing engineers .
— Mark Mayo (Helped improve Firefox as SVP of Mozilla. Helped make node.js and containers as CTO of Joyent. )
That quote from Mark Mayo perfectly sums up the rapid iterations while we worked in the Mozilla Open Lab. We had a North Star. Whenever we had a hypothesis on how to make forward progress toward it, we quickly tested it to see whether that was true or false.
Logistic Regression, Linear Regression, and Web Demo
We released an update to the RavOp framework which allows us to build algorithms on top of the framework at a faster pace.
Logistic Regression and Linear Regression were implemented on top of the framework and serves as a blueprint for new contributing developers.
The Web Demo also ties everything together to give engineers a sense of how the training simply just works.
The #DeAI (Decentralized AI) Community
As we are working on such a hard research problem, we thought it would be wonderful to connect with the wider Decentralized Artificial Intelligence community.
Please join if you are working on or interested in #DeAI
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/WF47ckd
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeAIcommunity
#DeAI really became a thing with community members exploring in depth how the entire ecosystem can be pieced together. Some true leaders are already starting to emerge in this movement. Follow some threads!
$1.5M in RAVEN burned
The Raven Protocol community is a unique and special bunch. They banded together to create the Raven Knights (a community led group of Raven Protocol believers who share work far and wide). One thing led to another and the knights connected with a project called Spartan Protocol.
The beauty of decentralization is that these two groups collaborated independently of Raven Protocol to give the best possible liquidity opportunities to the Raven community.
Holders of our utility token took one of 3 decisions:
- Burn RAVEN for Sparta
- Sell RAVEN to excited community members who wanted to utilize the token for the Sparta
- HODL RAVEN if they didn’t want to give up one single precious token
$1.5M in RAVEN burnt means the circulating supply is significantly reduced. It was half the market cap at time of snapshot. Check the burn address below!
The Raven Protocol community and the Spartan community showed great dedication to the long term belief of The Raven Distribution Framework by making this collaboration a success. Raven can really FLY HIGH now with the $1.5M pressure burned into thin air. Our company/team/ecosystem tokens are still locked and unmoved in the original wallets. The burn was done 100% by the community. Thank you!
Raven Protocol: Q2 2019 Tech and Community Update:
https://medium.com/ravenprotocol/q2-2019-tech-and-community-update-4f836a9a1e97
Raven Protocol: Q3 2019 Tech project development Update:
https://medium.com/ravenprotocol/tldr-raven-stayed-heads-down-building-in-q3-2019-ae5f242dc15d
Raven Protocol: Q4 2019 Tech project development Update:
https://medium.com/ravenprotocol/happy-2020-an-important-update-from-the-raven-team-67b5e88e1b1d
Raven Protocol: Q1 2020 Tech project development Update:
https://medium.com/ravenprotocol/q1-2020-success-during-hard-times-3dcdbb0faba8
Raven Protocol: Q2 2020 Development and Community Update:
https://medium.com/ravenprotocol/q2-2020-the-raven-distribution-framework-solves-the-deep-learning-problem-that-mit-researchers-bc506816ab67
Raven Protocol Project Review:
https://cryptocalibur.com/portfolio-item/raven-protocol-review
Raven Protocol White Paper:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FAaVKkg_CjxMj-n1yHZc6ufcVDtOU1Ct/view?usp=sharing
OFFICIAL CHANNELS:
Official Email Address: founders@ravenprotocol.com
Official Website Link: http://www.RavenProtocol.com
Official Announcement Channel: https://t.me/raven_announcements
Official Telegram Group: https://t.me/ravenprotocol
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/raven_protocol
Official Medium: https://medium.com/ravenprotocol
Official LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/ravenprotocol
Official Github: https://www.github.com/ravenprotocol
Official #DeAI Discord: https://discord.gg/WF47ckd
