It has been two weeks since we travelled back from Consensus after having launched our Data Marketplace and announcing our global partnerships with Nokia, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and OSIsoft.

Since then, we’ve had lots of questions about our direction, how we intend to move forward with our partnerships and much more. To aid this process, the communications team is taking part in an AMA session on Reddit on Monday 4 June at 4pm CEST, so feel free to join in and post your questions.

For those who can’t join us for the AMA, we thought we’d answer a few questions and cover some of the most discussed topics, including:

Why did we spend so much effort for Consensus and was it worth it

What’s next for the Marketplace?

What do our current partnerships really mean for Streamr?

What’s on the horizon for Streamr?

We hope this post will help answer those questions and, as always, we welcome any and all constructive feedback, from suggestions to criticism.

Was Consensus worth it?

Before signing up to Consensus we identified some goals to galvanize our actions and give us a measure on whether Consensus has been successful or not. A month before the event, we published a post where we outlined those goals:

To garner visibility and increase our project profile when we launch our Marketplace

To promote our technology (with a focus on the Marketplace) and our wider vision

To make contacts with other projects, both in and out of the crypto space, and with new potential partners

To connect with our US followers and expand the community presence in North America

So did we hit those marks? Well, here’s what we achieved:

Our pavilion was praised as the best at the event by scores of visitors and even the CoinDesk event team themselves. It was a space to discuss and understand Streamr away from the massive hustle and bustle of the hundreds of smaller booths and stands. A success like this helps you stick out at an event with more than 8000+ people. You can get a feel for what it was like in the video above.

We invited many high profile partners to join us at Consensus, which definitely raised Streamr’s profile by sending the message that we are serious and ready for business.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of people visited Streamr’s pavilion, and many were happily surprised to see real-world use cases coming from a blockchain project.

We launched our Marketplace on the Consensus main stage, which was live-streamed across the globe. Henri and our partners delivered an impressive speech and panel discussion. If you haven’t watched it, we would highly recommend that you do so here.

We also made contacts with many new potential business partners and Marketplace vendors (big and medium sized), marketing agencies and other crypto projects not just from US but also from many Asian countries.

We had over 50 press articles about our Marketplace launch and Consensus appearance including Forbes, Fortune, CoinDesk and Nasdaq:

In short, we think Consensus was wonderfully successful for us on many fronts — but we also recognise there were a number of things we could have done better.

More Use Cases!

In the last two weeks, our community has talked about us needing to have solidified more real-world use cases before stepping on to the stage. Of course, we’re still at the start of the process of fulfilling our potential, but our use case with Hewlett Packard and our test car — an Audi Q2 — demonstrated that Streamr’s technology can already be put to use. We’ll continue to develop that brilliant project with HPE, and we hope that towards the end of 2018, we’ll be better able to demonstrate that entire fleets of cars can be connected and take part in “real-time data conversations” using Streamr’s Marketplace and Network. VTT’s anti-theft sticker prototype was also impressive. And you can read more about that on their blog here.

We also have much more up our sleeve in this regard which we’ll be sharing in the coming weeks and months.