Highlights for July: Unification launches BABEL interface; Development starts on CAPSULE; Conference roadshow begins; Meetings with select investors across Asia

July 2018 was a busy month for the team at Unification Foundation.

In addition to making significant headway on the product front, team members also attended a wide range of conferences and meetings, which allowed us to gather rich feedback about the evolution of Unification’s product.

Product Lead Maziar Sadri presenting BABEL, Unification’s user interface & dashboard at Beyond Blocks Summit in Seoul, South Korea, July 2018

Debut of BABEL Interface

One of the month’s most exciting developments was the first-ever public demo of BABEL, Unification’s user interface. BABEL acts as a unilateral dashboard of data generation activities, as well as an access point for a standardized data marketplace and a wallet for UND tokens.

Unification’s Product Lead Maziar Sadri, formerly of Yahoo!, presented BABEL to a crowd of interested investors and cryptocurrency enthusiasts in the dedicated demo room at Beyond Blocks Summit in Seoul, South Korea.

Architecture Lead Shawn McLean, formerly of Zynga, was also on hand to assist conference goers with technical questions about the development and use of BABEL, as well as other components of Unification’s project.

Development Begins on CAPSULE

This month, Unification’s development team turned their attention to CAPSULE, the proprietary SDK that is used to onboard enterprise clients onto Unification’s platform.

CAPSULE is a key component of Unification’s launch strategy, in that it makes it possible to realize Unification’s goal of bringing existing user bases onto blockchain technology en masse.

Through integrating CAPSULE on both the client side and the server side, enterprises can seamlessly utilize all of Unification’s products, allowing their data sets to be accessed, bought, and sold cross-chain and cross-industry. These include decentralized, verifiable-credential, single-sign-on, blockchain-agnostic crypto payment gateways, generalized state channels for consumers and partners, and HAIKU’s machine learning process of data standardization.

Early trials of CAPSULE will be offered during the coming months. To apply to be considered for one of our beta spots, please fill out the application form here.

Conference Roadshow Launches

The Unification team at Beyond Block Summit in Seoul, South Korea, July 2018. (R-L) Architecture Lead Shawn McLean, Outreach Lead Will Mekemson, Product Lead Maziar Sadri, Research Lead John Justus, Founder Neyma Jahan, Operations Lead Meera Blair, and Creative Lead Ryan Getz

Seoul, South Korea

Coming off of a US tour in June, Unification founder Neyma Jahan joined other members of the team in Seoul to officially launch Unification’s conference roadshow during Korea Blockchain Week.

Neyma was featured as a keynote speaker at Global Blockchain Foundation’s Korea Blockchain Summit. His presentation on the future of immutable blockchains elicited a warm reception from the crowd, and incited a thought-provoking conversation about how blockchain technology can be used to forward the aims of both business and society at the same time.

Later in the week, the Unification team gathered to exhibit at Beyond Blocks Summit in Seoul. Unification partnered with Beyond Blocks to bring the most in-depth ever public showing of Unification’s core product, with a large part of technical team on hand to answer questions from investors and blockchain enthusiasts.

Unification team members meet with blockchain investors and enthusiasts at Beyond Blocks Summit in Seoul, South Korea, July 2018.

Bangkok, Thailand

The team wrapped up the month at Hybrid Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, where Unification publicized the project, as well as hosted an exclusive invite-only after-conference dinner for selected speakers and investors.

The Unification supporters who gathered were treated to a snapshot of the most exciting upcoming developments with the Unification project, as well as hands-on time with company leaders.

Team Meets with Chinese Investors

Unification founder Neyma Jahan and select team members also completed a whirlwind tour of China, where they met with strategic investors to discuss the possibility of collaboration.

The Unification leadership had a fruitful session with friends at Bitmain, who treated the Unification team to a traditional Chinese dinner at a teahouse in order to discover potential areas of overlap.

Neyma met with both Node and Block VC to discuss the future of state channel protocols, and how Unification can best meet the needs of an ever-shifting protocol landscape.

The trip wrapped up with a productive meeting with the heads of Neoglobal Capital, with whom the Unification leadership team discussed potential fit for strategic investment.