Community Update #8

Team Token Lockup, Datawallet CEO to speak at Draper University, DXT added Cobinhood, Announcements only channel & More… Datawallet Follow Mar 18, 2018 · 4 min read

Dear Datawallet Community,

this week has been great for us in terms of team spirit and development — amidst the overall cryptomarket being in uproar. We had most of our team in the Berlin office where we also recorded our video Q&A, which we will share with you shortly. We’re super happy to show you some of the faces working on bringing data ownership to the masses.

Our tech team also made great strides on the backend — you can find some more details below. We’ve also locked 90% of team tokens via a public smart contract. Take a look at the rest of this week’s community update below:

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Datawallet releases vesting contracts for team tokens

We just published the irrevocable vesting smart contract for all team tokens. The smart contract is publicly reviewable. This is just another step for the team to show the level of commitment we have to the mission and vision of Datawallet.

Read the full announcement with technical details below:

Read the announcement

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Datawallet’s DXT token will be added to Cobinhood

On March 16th 23:59 (UTC+0) ETA, Cobinhood officially integrated support for DXT (Datawallet’s Data Exchange Token) on its exchange — giving DXT token-holders and the broader public another platform for access to DXT tokens.

Read the full announcement with more details below. We’ve also heard Cobinhood is preparing some campaigns surrounding DXT — so keep an eye out for it.

Read the announcement

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Datawallet’s CEO Serafin Engel announced as one of the speakers at the Draper University Executive Blockchain Program

Our CEO will be one of the speakers at the soon to be held executive blockchain program at Draper University — coined as “a five day program for corporate executives to create a blockchain strategy to lead innovation within their industry”.

Our team is very excited about the exchange with other industry leaders, as well as executives from around the world interested in blockchain technology. Our CEO will be joined by our CTO Daniel Hawthorne and Director of Communications Yannick Socolov at Draper University. Click the below link for more information on the program:

Draper University Executive Blockchain Program

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Datawallet announcements only channel on Telegram published

As we had received requests for an announcements only channel, we opened up the channel on Telegram last Monday. We will be sharing all major news and in-depth answers from team members in this channel — please join us there:

Join Datawallet Announcements Only Telegram Channel

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Update on development

Last, but not least, we wanted to give you a brief update on what our tech team worked on the past few days. On the data engineering and sourcing front we are exploring a new way of ingesting basket data from Amazon. Our data engineers have completed the new schemas and are now working on the ETL. On the user app front, we have an iOS version waiting to push pending some legal paperwork. We have completed refactoring the user API to depend on pg (no more mongo!). We also made progress on the web-app; we completed the foundation, logic, and auth system this week. On the dx-Insights front we are at 90% on the API refactoring so that nearly all mongo dependencies are gone. More generally we are almost done unifying our services under AWS and have completed the last remaining bits of terraforming the infrastructure — VPC, subnets, API database are now “terraformified".

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P.S. Before we forgot, Tim Draper also gave Datawallet a quick shoutout (1:12) in conversation with Legacy Documentarian Sharad Kharé. Take a look at the interesting interview below:

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That’s it for this week! I hope this community update again gave you some compact information on all things Datawallet and feel free to give us suggestions in our main Telegram Group regarding this update.

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