SWIPE Bi-Weekly Update, 27th August — 7th September

Malcolm Chang
SwipeCrypto
Published in
5 min readSep 7, 2018

Hey everyone! Thanks for sticking by us, even though we know times are difficult especially for the traders. But fret not, our development and milestones are still on track. We are excited to share with you what we have been doing for the last two weeks and are eagerly awaiting to attend Consensus Singapore! (For anyone reading, don’t worry if you can’t attend the main event, there are a host of fringe events during the week of 17th-23rd September and most of them are FREE, more info at the end of this update)

27th August: Organising the Jakarta Blockchain Meetup, hosted by Ethereum meetup Indonesia

Recently, SWIPE organised the Ethereum meetup in Indonesia and it was a huge success! Our speakers eloquently shared about their ideas and thoughts while answering very in-depth questions from the community. We are looking forward to hosting another meetup at the tail end of this month.

Ethereum Indonesia tees! Anyone wants one?

We are very grateful to the Indonesian community for coming out to show support to our event, we will be trying out best to host an event every month so stay tuned with us and for any feedback or questions, please join SWIPE’s telegram community and chat with us! For those who want to join our Ethereum Indonesia community, join here!

(P.S if you would like to get one of these tees, let us know in our telegram group about what makes the Blockchain Community different from other communities and you will earn yourself some cool stuff!)

Full article can be found here.

28th August: Partnership with Origin Protocol!

SWIPE is pleased to formally introduce our partnership with Origin Protocol, a San Francisco-based blockchain company build a protocol for the creation of a decentralized sharing economy marketplace using the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS.

Origin Protocol’s platform can be described as the ‘Wordpress’ that empowers developers and businesses to easily build and deploy decentralized marketplaces. By targeting to disrupt large corporations such as Uber, AirBnB and Craigslist that is part of the sharing economy, Origin creates and improves value for other market participants by enabling direct business, peer to peer with ease that transcends borders defined by corporations or governments.

We are really excited to be able to work with Origin Protocol, read more about our partnership in our full article here!

(from left) Sean (CSO, SWIPE) Matthew (Co-Founder Origin Protocol) Clifford (CEO, SWIPE) Andrew (FOMO Masternode CEO & Founder)

1st September: Release of SWIPE’s API (check it out at developer.swipecrypto.com)

Our API (alpha version) is live! Do have a look at it and try it out for yourself! We have prepared all the guidelines and feel free to chat us up on our telegram group for any questions.

Welcome to the SWIPE API (alpha version)! You can use our API to access SWIPE API endpoints for encryption and decryption utilities as well as data requests and re-encryption.

We have language bindings in Shell! You can view code examples in the dark area to the right, and you can switch the programming language of the examples with the tabs in the top right.

We will be using this API to give data ownership back to the users and to allow data buyers to unlock the data after their purchase. Check out our API (Alpha Version) here!

8th September(tomorrow): Attending Advancement Through Blockchain organised by Bibox and Singapore Management University

We are proud to be invited to an event organised by Bibox, a leading digital asset exchange that has gathered many great minds to one location to discuss all things related to Blockchain Technology. For those who are interested, do RSVP for the event and comedown to say hi to the SWIPE team and enjoy this wonderful event!

Can you spot our CEO, Clifford Lim?

The ultimate local’s guide to navigating through Blockchain Week Singapore from 17th to 23rd September

https://www.xsq.io/sbw2018/

If you are coming down to Singapore to attend Consensus, you are in for a treat! There will be many other side events during the whole week and the best way to keep track of the various events is by using this Google sheet found here created by Whaleblocks an ICO investment and niche marketing company. On Tuesday 18th of September, there is a record of 17 Blockchain related events happening on the same day! Do let us know in telegram if you have any question or recommendation on which event to attend!

About SWIPE

SWIPE network incentivizes users to share their data anonymously while providing data buyers with auditable data products. It enables fair and transparent data trading between users, app developers and data buyers through a decentralized data marketplace. All data transactions are strictly enforced with smart contracts. As data sources are tracked and auditable on the ledger, data buyers are no longer have to risk purchasing low-quality data products.

As part of our go-to-market strategy, SWIPE has created a Software Development Kit (SDK) containing it’s technology that can be integrated seamlessly. Swipe SDK provides a suite of marketing tools that boost app users engagement and retention. Any 3rd party app developer can install the SWIPE SDK and their users can gain access to the SWIPE network, making our solution simple to implement and scalable.

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Malcolm Chang
SwipeCrypto

Blockchain enthusiast and Marketing guy for swipecrypto.com. Open minded, enjoys reading about alternative ideas and loves history.