October was updated RoadMap month at SwissBorg. Our new and improved roadmap was published detailing where we have been and where we are headed. It has been a month full of progress at SwissBorg, starting with a great partnership with an engineering firm that added fifteen engineers to our tech team.

October also brought us two important partnerships in Asia, one with Jinse which gives us access to millions of readers in China and another, with Zilla that added SwissBorg’s CHSB token to their wallet. Our Japan team is in Shanghai as I write to help spread our name, message, and mission in that major hub and region. SwissBorg Japan held another BlockchainUnchained event, a very successful conference in Tokyo attracting more than 400 community members, crypto enthusiasts, and blockchain experts.

Our online community continues to grow on Reddit, with the launch of a competition series that motivates community members to engage in SwissBorg’s development. To help grow our community of more than 25k token holders and many more followers worldwide, we are launching CAP, our Community Ambassador’s Program that will incentivise SwissBorg community members to become leaders in their respective locations.

SwissBorg’s Legal and Governance teams have made great strides this month solidifying our position on the crypto island of Malta with four companies that have come into existence and registered under Maltese law.

As our tech team is working tirelessly to launch our show-case Investment App, our co-founders have been busy travelling, giving talks at events and Universities, forging new partnerships, and playing a significant role in the blockchain space as thought leaders, spreading the message of a new and improved way to conduct finance.

Our Updated RoadMap

Our newly updated roadmap tracks the status of our progress and the evolution of our wealth management platform, the SwissBorg Investment App (or smart wallet). With the power of Blockchain, data learning machines, our community’s swarm intelligence and our team of fintech experts & engineers, we aim to create the holistic wealth management ecosystem of the future. On the roadmap, you will learn more about the financial products and services that we are developing & when we expect to launch them. Read more here.

Tech update: Engineering Collaboration

We are pleased to announce our most significant partnership regarding our tech development to date. The very high demand for qualified engineers makes it essential for our team to attract the best possible talent by sharing a clear vision for the future of the cryptocurrency industry. After much thought and deliberation, SwissBorg team engineers and experts were able to acquire a buy-in from a tier-one engineering team, based in London, agreeing to partner-up and, ultimately, shape the new era of wealth management together. Read more here.

Partnerships in Asia

Jinse: We are officially a daily media content contributor on Jinse.com, China’s largest blockchain media with 1.7 million daily active readers, and MyToken app with 1.5 million users. What’s more, an exclusive interview with Ken Yagami and Amber Chook aired on Lianguantianxia, a major Chinese Blockchain TV. It is now available to their 1.5 million viewers. In total, our readership in Mainland China is close to 5 million. Read more here.

Zilla: Our Japan team forged another important partnership with ZILLA wallet app. Users can now officially hold CHSB token in the ZILLA wallet. It will be the second wallet to have CHSB officially and have CHSB used as a token. ZILLA is a muti-blockchain project. It can store tokens and also an app that can show blockchain projects all over the world in one app. The user can click on the projects and see the whitepaper and details of any project in the world. It is available in English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and can be used anywhere in the world. Read more here.

Legal & Governance Update

October had its share of hard work on the legal side of crypto! The Legal & Governance Teams have been working closely with SwissBorg lawyers in Malta to accelerate our progress. As the Virtual Financial Assets Act (VFA Act) is about to come into force on November 1, 2018, Jeremy Bauman, Line Elodie, and their teams, have endeavoured dedicatedly to benefit from the transitory period to be able to operate a token exchange during the next year while preparing and submitting the actual VFA license application. The deadline on October 31, 2018, to submit a Proof of Concept was tight, but things seem to be going as planned! Without this transitory period, SwissBorg would have been required to wait until the license is effective to operate the exchange.

On the Crypto Island, SwissBorg has now put in place the legal entities which will serve the various activities we want to deploy. Four companies have come into existence and duly registered under Maltese law! Each of those entities will be licensed to cover the entire SwissBorg ecosystem. We have started recruiting a Legal & Compliance Officer, as required by the laws of Malta; more experts will join the SwissBorg Legal family very soon.

Our Legal Crypto Analyst, Ardian Balaj has been analysing Malta’s new regulatory regime and is ready to fly to Malta to attend the Blockchain Summit next week. Ardian is very keen to achieve the maximum out a conference that will be very promising from the legal perspective. We will meet and recruit young lawyers with AML experience, as well as, meet and convince custodian banks posing complicated questions to those who can answer them!

On the UK side, the licensing process for an electronic money institution is on its way but does not constitute a priority for the Legal Team. The UK regulatory regime is still uncertain, and authorities have announced a position statement by the end of the year. Until then, no license is required except for trading in crypto derivatives, the Legal team will be ready for the regulation to come, but in the meantime, will focus its strength on Malta and Switzerland.

In Japan, the team is working closely with local lawyers and consultants to keep moving forward with the Virtual Currency License.

Japan Update

For the SwissBorg Japan team, October was Blockchain Unchained Tokyo event month which brought more than 400 community members and crypto enthusiasts together to listen to experts talk about the blockchain space and the promise it holds for finance. Alex Fazel SwissBorg’s Head of Communication gave a much-liked and animated talk, “Institutional Grade Technology and Mass Adoption”, about how the more blockchain technology is understood, the more potential it reveals and the easier it is to envision mass adoption. Important media outlets such as Coin telegraph, Coin Otaku, Coin post, Crypto times, ICO monthly were all present. Two new hires have been added to the team to help with the multilingual content management and operations. Our co-founder Anthony Lesoismier-Geniaux travelled to Japan to help the team with the documentation to accelerate the application for the exchange licence.

China Roadshow

Following the success of SwissBorg’s Shanghai trip in August & fruitful partnerships with MyToken and Jinse, we are thrilled to be invited to host The China Roadshow in three major blockchain cities in Mainland China: Shanghai, Beijing, & Shenzhen, with TrustVerse, HELIXOrange, BLAKFX, Wificoin, and Ginco! The Roadshow will kick off next Thursday, Oct 25 in Shanghai, followed by Beijing, ending in Shenzhen on Nov 3, with 400+ expected guests, 20+ Chinese blockchain media, and 5 incredible blockchain projects.

Crypto Unchained Podcast Series

On a weekly basis, get the lowdown from innovators and business leaders from the “off-chain” and “on-chain” world. This week:

Ken Yagami, CEO of SwissBorg Japan and Head of Asia discusses the Cryptocurrency landscape and the differences between Japanese and Chinese crypto investors. Listen here.

Community update

Weekly Reddit Competition Series

We have launched our weekly Competition Series that will be held over the next ten weeks on our Reddit page. Community members have the power to decide the winner so you’ll need to be fast and furious! Read more and join us here.

Community Ambassador’s Program Launched

To improve our connection with our vast community of SwissBorg token holders we have launched the Community Ambassador Program, which will give the opportunity to the best and most engaged and dedicated members to act as ambassadors between the SwissBorg team and the community. The primary role of the ambassadors will be to manage and develop our community in their respective cities, countries, and regions. Read more here.

London Pub MeetUp: Connecting Community Around A Pint of Guinness!

SwissBorg team and community members attended our first SwissBorg Meetup series in the busy and diverse city of London which is fast becoming a crypto hub. As we sipped on the beer of choice of English pubs, Guinness a warm feeling embraced us. It was a chance to connect, in a casual setting and discuss different blockchain topics and the current status of the crypto market. Besides enjoying ourselves and bonding, we brainstormed about future SwissBorg projects. It was especially sweet to meet, in person, with people with whom we´ve been interacting on a daily basis on Telegram and Reddit for the last nine months, but had never actually seen. Anthony Lesoismier Geniaux, SwissBorg’s, Co-Founder, Vince Howard, Head of Marketing joined Otilia Gudana, Community Manager at SwissBorg, and a few other members of the Community Committee and community members who had travelled from different British cities to London to meet us. It was especially enriching to see Neil Staunton CEO at Crypton Digital Assets and Erica Stanford, one of the few but growing number of women leaders and entrepreneurs on the blockchain who just ran a very successful ICO, Co-founder of CryptoCurrencySimplified.com