Hi everyone! Over the past 2 months, the Kyber team has been busy sharing about our on-chain liquidity protocol in hackathons and events across the world, including in the USA, Czech Republic, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. These were excellent opportunities to meet our community members in person and get connected with more projects in the space.

Here is a list of key events and initiatives that happened in October and November

SF Blockchain Week and ETHSanFrancisco #DeFi Summit Devcon4 Tokyo Blockchain Meetups Singapore and Malaysia Ethereum Meetups Press Day in Korea KNC Campaign in China KyberSwap on Twitter Upbit listing Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Initiative

1. SF Blockchain Week and ETHSanFrancisco Hackathon

Over 1000 hackers at ETHSF!

From October 5th — 12th, Kyber participated in the San Francisco Blockchain Week, including the ETHSanFrancisco hackathon. We held a booth and organized a bounty-led competition to encourage developers to use our on-chain liquidity protocol.

Of the 121 teams present at the hackathon, 9 teams worked with Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol. We would like to congratulate the two winning projects, Splitter Converter and CryptoPay, who successfully used Kyber’s liquidity protocol for their DApps. Beyond the projects that worked with Kyber, many other teams expressed interest in integrating with our protocol after the hackathon. For more information, read our recap of the event here.

2. #DeFi Summit 2018

Desmond presenting on liquidity challenges facing DApps

Kyber has joined #DeFi, a community for decentralized finance platforms, together with other notable projects including 0x, 8x Protocol, Dharma, Coinbase Wallet, Set Protocol and MakerDAO. #DeFi was created as a shared community for projects developing open source financial primitives.

Kyber participated in the recent #DeFi Summit in Prague, to give a presentation about liquidity challenges facing DApps.

3. Devcon4 in Prague

Devcon is a major Ethereum conference organized by the Ethereum Foundation to educate and empower the ecosystem to build decentralized applications, and to bring Ethereum protocols, tools, and culture to the world.

The conference brought together the world’s top developers, designers and artists for a time of learning and sharing. As a ‘Metropolis’ sponsor at Devcon4 in Prague, Kyber had a booth, taking the opportunity to share more about our liquidity protocol and to meet other projects in the space. Our developer Anton was also interviewed by ETHNews during the event.

4. Tokyo Blockchain Meetups

From Oct 23rd — 31st, Kyber took part in 5 blockchain meetups in Tokyo, Japan. They were in collaboration with Blockchain EXE, ProSEED and Miss Bitcoin Mai, DMM.com, LayerX and Etheremon Japan, and together helped to educate more than 100 developers about Kyber’s liquidity protocol. Loi, TN, Simon and Desmond were there to personally answer questions from the community.

BlockchainEXE helped Kyber host the first meetup for 25 developers, teaching them the basics of the computer language Solidity, and how build sample applications with the support of Kyber’s developer tools.

PROSeed and well-known crypto influencer Miss Bitcoin Mai then hosted a community meetup for Kyber, comprising both developer and mainstream audiences.

Kyber held a technical workshop at DMM.com, one of the largest internet companies in Japan. Desmond and Simon led the workshop, which focused on Kyber’s architecture and design and was accompanied by 3 hours of hands-on tutorial.

Kyber also joined LayerX at their 13th monthly meetup, held at Mercari’s Office and attended by developers from different backgrounds. Alongside Kyber, Mercari’s staff, Ontology, and some freelance consultants were also speakers at the session. Loi presented on the topic of scalability and shared more details on the scaling solution Gormos.

Lastly, Taisuke, our Japan country representative, was at the Etheremon Japan meetup, presenting on how Kyber’s protocol enables decentralized token swaps and payments.

Apart from the meetups, the team had the opportunity to explore new partnerships, and Loi also participated in various media interviews including those with NewEconomy, CoinChoice and CryptoTimes. Overall, it was really heartening to see the strong interest in blockchain and Kyber Network among the Japanese developer community, and we believe it will continue to grow. Join our Japan Telegram Chat!

Group photo with Miss Bitcoin Mai

5. Singapore and Malaysia Ethereum Meetups

‘Simplifying Decentralized Payments’ Presentation and SMU Blockchain Night

Kyber had three recent meetups in Singapore. The first was at the PayPal Innovation Lab, where Desmond and Anton presented about ‘Simplifying Decentralized Payments’ using Kyber’s protocol. The team also attended Singapore Management University (SMU)’s Blockchain Night and presented on how our protocol powers decentralized token swaps, ERC20 token payments and other financial applications.

Ethereum Singapore Meetup with OmiseGo, MakerDAO and DigixGlobal

Together with OmiseGo, MakerDAO and DigixGlobal, Kyber was at an Ethereum Singapore meetup — “Decentralise the Future: Real World Use Cases”, to discuss about the compelling real world use cases for blockchain technology. Anton presented on Kyber’s liquidity protocol and how it can enable real world decentralized payments and finance. You can watch his full presentation here.

Ethereum KL Meetup

Kyber participated in an Ethereum meetup in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, together with CoinGecko, Etherscan and Coinhako. The topic was on cryptocurrency exchanges.

It was great to meet our supporters in person and we hope to hold more meetups in future, as education is definitely a key driving force towards the wider adoption of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.

6. Press Day in Korea

Along with 15 other projects, Kyber participated in ‘Press Day’, a media event on Nov 6th dedicated to the topics of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, and organized by Startup Alliance, with the support from #Hashed. Kyber presented about various use cases powered by our liquidity protocol.

7. KNC Campaign In China

Kyber conducted a community engagement campaign in China — people could use anything to form the letters “KNC”, provide a creative caption, and share a photo of it with us. The 20 most creative submissions received a Kyber T-shirt as a reward. Below are some of the creative submissions:

8. KyberSwap Now On Twitter

KyberSwap is Kyber’s in-house token swap platform, powered by our on-chain liquidity protocol. It is a fast, simple and secure way to exchange one ERC20 token to another. We have recently launched our dedicated KyberSwap Twitter account to update users on any new token listing and other interesting developments. Follow us!

9. Upbit listing

Kyber Network Crystal (KNC) has been listed on Upbit , a Korean exchange launched by Kakao, the biggest messaging app developer in Korea. The listing gives users greater accessibility to the KNC token, which is an integral part of Kyber and necessary for the operation of our liquidity protocol.

10. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Initiative

Together with BitGo, Republic Protocol and other partners, Kyber is excited to bring Bitcoin to Ethereum through the creation of Wrapped Bitcoin Tokens (WBTC), the first ERC20 token backed 1:1 with Bitcoin. The WBTC project is a transparent, 100% verifiable, open and community-led initiative. It is open for participation, and is targeted to go live around January 2019. Many applications on Ethereum, including decentralized exchanges, lending platforms and index funds will soon benefit from having access to Bitcoin liquidity.

For more information about the project see the project whitepaper on the WBTC website. You can direct specific questions to our Kyber developer Telegram. The initiative was covered by various media, including Coindesk and ETHNews.

Upcoming Events

The Future of Blockchain

Kyber will be a partner project in The Future of Blockchain, a 3-month competition hosted at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, LSE, UCL and KCL.

Student developers and entrepreneurs will be challenged to build a product or application involving blockchain between December 2018 and March 2019. Kyber will share about our liquidity protocol with some of the brightest minds in the UK and will reward participants who build using our protocol. Read more about this competition here: https://medium.com/future-of-blockchain/announcing-the-fob-challenges-7c40caafb49b

ETHSingapore

Kyber will be a sponsor at ETHSingapore, the next leg for the global hackathon. Similar to ETHSanFrancisco, Kyber will be preparing bounties for developers that build using our liquidity protocol. Stay tuned for more information! For questions, please contact Shane on telegram.

Thank you, our community, for supporting Kyber Network as we work towards making any token usable anywhere.

Build with Kyber

Kyber is excited to see how our protocol can be used in different contexts, as well as in conjunction with other protocols. We welcome developers to build with Kyber using the convenient tools from our Developer Portal.

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