Community Update #14

Dear Datawallet Community,

We’re happy to present you this week’s community update. As always we will give you a brief overview on things that have happened the past week and also an outlook to the next week. We’re happy if you connect with us in our Telegram Group and let us know your thoughts!

Datawallet GIF/Sticker Design Contest

This week we launched our first fun design contest, where we asked our community members to send in designs for Datawallet centric Stickers or GIFs. The contest is still running until May 9th, 2018 — with 27,000 DXT going to the first 3 places. Find all the information for participation here:

Read Instructions for the Datawallet GIF/Sticker Design Contest

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Datawallet at the WDAS in Singapore

The coming week, part of the team including our CEO Serafin and Director of Communications Yannick will be in Singpore to attend the inaugural World Digital Asset Summit (“WDAS”) conference. An invite only event hosted by FBG Capital that aims to “to connect the best-in-class blockchain projects, developers and investors globally” with the mission to explore “tokenomics” and its burgeoning impact on the traditional economy via in-depth discussions. Datawallet is looking forward to take part in many interesting discussions and our CEO Serafin will also hold the opening speech at the event following Vincent Zhou, founder of FBG Capital. For more information visit the website:

Visit World Digital Asset Summit Website

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Datawallet welcomes Dan Kidd as new Chief Revenue Officer

To build a world-leading Personal Data Management Platform you need a world-class team, which is why over the past few weeks we have been very focused on hiring. Today, we are proud to announce the hiring of Dan Kidd, who joins Datawallet from Research Now, the global expert in market research data, where he served as Digital Sales Director. Dan has more than 20 years of experience in digital enterprise sales with his prior roles including Senior Director for Client Relations at Symphony Advanced Media and Senior Director at comScore Marketing Solutions. Dan will lead our efforts on the enterprise side of Datawallet together with our Chief Strategy Officer Greg Ellis.

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Internationalizing the Datawallet Community

Having a diverse, engaged and international community is of the utmost importance to the Datawallet team. We have worked on setting up structures to have our content translated into more languages and creating local community channels where you can stay up to date (+discuss) on all things Datawallet. The first two countries of focus where China and South Korea and we are proud to share our new channels and press articles below:

Official Datawallet Kakaotalk (Korean): Datawallet Kakaotalk

Official Datawallet WeChat Account (China): Datawallet WeChat

Official Datawallet Weibo Account (China): Datawallet Weibo

China Media Mentions:

…and many more. If you’re interested follow our official WeChat or ask us to share more in our official Telegram Group.

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Update from the Datawallet Tech Team + new in-app data exchange

To keep you updated on our progress we started sharing details of what our development office in Berlin has been up to each week.

This week we worked out an improved methodology to pull the rest of Facebook data (Events, Likes, Pages, etc.) into your Datawallet without the now deprecated graph API and storing manually uploaded Facebook profile data locally (which marks the first self-sovereign Datawallet). Development on our User-web-app is also progressing. We finalized implementing the webhook for possible PayPal payouts and finalized opt-in browser push notifications for transaction status updates (also useful for PayPal which is very asynchronous). We have worked extensively on the User-API and have reviewed the lambda monthly payout handler to ensure full functionality/scalability. We further mapped our additional functionality for the Personal Data Management Platform (PDMP) version of the app integrating feedback from the business development team.

Next week, a new data exchange will also go live in the app that allows you to earn DXT. As we had to discontinue DX Insights at the end of March to completely revamp it — the new exchange will fill the void left by DX Insights for the time being. We are also working hard on launching the first exchange with one of our partners. More on this when we launch the data exchange next week.

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New Moderators for Datawallet’s Official Telegram Group

We have one more announcement for you: Starting at the beginning of May — we will have new 24/7 moderators helping us facilitate conversations in our official Telegram Group. We’ve had a good run with the team from AmaZix but now wanted to bring our moderators in-house so they are more closely connected to the team.

We will introduce them in the channel soon and hope this is a further step in keeping our community (you!) informed and engaged!

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This is it for today’s update! We’re happy if you let us know your thoughts and connect with the team via out official Telegram Group.

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