Fully-Funding Development & Operations

Running a token sale involves an incredible amount of resources, time, and energy. We were honored that these efforts resulted in the SingularityNET token sale completing in 66 seconds, raising $36 million (in ETH as of December 24, 2017).

We couldn’t have achieved this without you and our community of supporters! After a few minutes of hugs and handshakes, our team transitioned toward network development and expansion. Everything we have done since the token sale has been to serve you: the first citizens of our AI global commons.

Hiring a World-Class Team

The months following the token sale were equally intense. While we already have a core team in place, filling out our executive, outreach, and support teams remains a priority. For us, creating a culture where the community comes first is paramount.

Recently, we introduced our new Social Media Manager, Kat Von B., and we’re excited that thousands of you have said hello. With nearly a decade of experience working with major online communities — including large blockchain projects like Steemit — Kat was an ideal fit for our culture and high standards.

Kat’s Telegram handle is @blockchaingirll if you’d like to reach out.

Kat’s support is just the beginning. Later in this post we’ll outline additional roles so you can see how our team will be scaled.

Establishing Key Partnerships

Our goal over the last few months was to establish valuable partnerships across the blockchain space. These partnerships have one of two goals:

Either they provide both parties with first-mover advantages from leveraging each other’s technologies. Or they are working to solve a key technical or research problem in the near future.

So far, we’ve established ongoing partnerships with:

Based on the volume of inbound requests we’ve received, we have strong momentum…but the real work is yet to come.

Increasing Development Transparency

With our Alpha Network already live, development has been focused on increasing functionality. In recent weeks, we’ve highlighted how we’re exploring the use of OpenCog’s Atomspace Hypergraph and Aigents Social Intelligence Services, experimented with Offer Networks, and made progress on our proposed Agent reputation system.

One big thing we’re working on is consistently communicating ongoing progress to our community. We’ll cover how we’ll do that in the final section of this post.