Keep Weekly Roundup — Feb 24th, 2018

News and Updates from the Keep Team and Network

The last two weeks our development team has been hard at work and making a lot of progress on our Random Beacon/Threshold Relay. Also, you may have noticed that we have closed our Slack for new members as we add extra layers of security. We are gearing up to reopen our Slack soon. Currently we have about 7,800+ individuals waiting to get in and we are looking forward to meeting you all! For content this week, we continued our “Getting to Know the Keep Team” series with one of our newest developers Philip Schlump.

This is the second article in a series dedicated to learning about our team. I had the pleasure of meeting Philip in-person on our team trip to BPASE 18. Philip has such an amazing background and wonderful life experiences. Every time I talk to him I find out something more about his life as a sailor, programmer, entrepreneur, and an awesome dad. I hope you enjoy this interview of Philip Schlump.

Some people think that keeping secrets is an evil thing — mostly keeping secrets is just a way to prevent third parties from exploiting a situation. — Philip

Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital wrote an excellent piece on the different variations on utility tokens. The Keep Network has a few mentions and our very own Matt Luongo and advisor James Prestwich helped contribute to the article. Read how different projects are solving the problem of velocity and making sure the price of the utility token increases approximately linearly with usage of the network.

From the community

We have had some great discussions over the last couple of weeks in our Slack. Here was a recent one about staking KEEP and how it compares and is different to POS.