Sylo — 2022 Roadmap Update
Communications for the decentralised Metaverse
Compared to the pace of conventional industries, the world of next-generation tech moves at lightspeed. Web3 is now on our doorstep, and how we lay the foundations for this new world is crucial to the freedom, authenticity, expansion, privacy, and prosperity of the Metaverse.
Even one year ago, the term ‘Metaverse’ was one that few would have understood. It is a victory then and proof of just how far our industry has come, how assimilated into the mainstream world that the realms of crypto, NFTs, blockchain, VR, and the like now are, that we can have this very conversation so easily.
Those who have followed Sylo over the recent weeks and months will have noticed that a change was in the waters.
I’d like to dive in today to explain to you how Sylo fits into this new world, and to paint the picture of just what that means. We’re not morphing into something different — rather, we’re unveiling what we really are and have always been.
You see, Sylo has always been a Metaverse company…
We’ve been in the business of connecting people for nearly a decade, whether that be users, profiles, NFTs or wallet addresses. However our differentiator is both crucial and clear: Sylo communication is decentralised communication.
There is a land-grab going on for the Metaverse which you may have seen for yourself. Big companies are moving into this fertile new space where tech and ethics meet imagination, and trying to establish their outdated styles of economy and service provision as the norm, all while the Metaverse is still in its infancy.
Here at Sylo, we couldn’t sit by and simply watch this happen. We see decentralised communication being key to ensuring “our” Metaverse doesn’t go the way of Web2.0. So we’ve created relationships, built new tech, and continued our mission. You will see this in our outlook heading into 2022. Take a look at our new website to see where Sylo is heading.
Some highlights:
SYLO — COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE DECENTRALISED METAVERSE
We are working hard to provide Web3 with a decentralised way of communicating. One that lives up to the decentralised nature of assets, NFTs and the decentralised identities that roam these new digital worlds.
Communication across a decentralised network, instead of within walled gardens is the antidote to the capitalist web we have today. It offers the ability to create a Metaverse that is decentralised, independent and more private as communities choose to not funnel their interactions through centralised parties.
AN AUTONOMOUS INFRASTRUCTURE
We’re building an open and inclusive Web3 run by communities by providing an incentivised node network (the Sylo Network) where any wallet address can communicate with any other wallet address, NFT owner, or Smart Contract participant without any reliance on a centralised party.
INTEGRATING NFTS AS IDENTITY
Many Web3 users want to use their PFP NFTs as their primary identity to live, work, transact, communicate, play, and explore the Metaverse.
CONNECTING PEOPLE THROUGH DIGITAL WORLDS
We connect both digital worlds and the individuals within them. Imagine communicating from FLUF to Party Bear, or Bored Ape to Crypto Punk, right from your device…
ENABLING WEB3 WALLETS
Our next gen Sylo SDK will enable the next wave of Metaverse developers to build apps on a decentralised foundation where users can chat, call, pay, and broadcast to other NFTs and projects. Decentralised communications, events and notifications will ensure that the next generation of the Metaverse is decentralised, open and connected.
SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES
NFTs live forever — therefore only a decentralised architecture can be permanent enough to support them in perpetuity. This is the Sylo Network.
RUN BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE
The Sylo Network is enabled by users, for users, and should be governed by those who make it possible. (More on this soon….)
2022
In line with the new direction outlined above, we have reassessed our roadmap goals for 2022, as well as the way that we communicate these goals.
To better reflect the nature of our development style, from now on rather than creating a traditional calendar-roadmap, we will be releasing our top development priorities which our team are focused on delivering.
These projects may be delivered subsequently or in clusters, and are not necessarily listed in order of expected delivery.
With all this in mind, here are the projects we will be focusing on next year with the singular overarching goal of enabling communications for the Metaverse.
OUR FOCUSES FOR 2022:
DEPLOY INCENTIVISED NODE NETWORK
SYLO NETWORK MIGRATION
OPEN SOURCE SDK / SDK RELEASE
DECENTRALISED WALLET BROADCASTING FEATURE RELEASED FOR METAVERSE NFT COMMUNITIES
SYLO NFT DROP (More to be announced in the new year)
We appreciate you, our community of free thinkers, freedom fighters and those unafraid to question the status quo, as you support us in laying the foundations for a more equitable Web3.
The Metaverse can (and will!) be decentralised.
Ben Jordan
Co-Founder & Product Director
Sylo
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Thoughts to share? We’re always keen to hear from you.
