The Mission, Mainnet & More

Po.et is building the decentralized protocol suite for ownership,

discovery and monetization of content. The verifiable web. We often

talk about the philosophies of what this means in terms of the future

of the web and how we’re building bridges not moats to get everyone to

the other side. As I mentioned last week, the web is currently built

on the pillars of recency and relevancy. These pillars are strained

and need a core foundational element to drive their value in the next

phase of the web. That foundation is reputation. The interoperability

of the three “Rs,” not just in the sense of discovery but in

development as well, is critical to building a better web. But enough

with the philosophy, where are we technically?

Our VP of engineering, Eric Elliott, published the monthly Po.et

engineering update last week as we document our road to mainnet and

other critical releases. You can (and should!) read it in its entirely

here.

For those who are short on time, I summarized key talking points and

development milestones/futures below:

1) Everything on the web is centered around content. If content is

king, Po.et is the kingdom and it exists to support and sustain the

people living and working in it. If we succeed, the Po.et protocols

will impact nearly every company in the world, just like the web

protocols did.

2) Po.et is tearing down the walls. The walled gardens are

transforming into open marketplaces. All of this is possible because

some powerful innovations are converging: Blockchain technology,

cryptocurrencies, decentralized computing…

3) Why the Bitcoin blockchain? The Bitcoin blockchain gives us the

consensus we need to make verifiable claims about content rights,

trustworthiness, reputation and quality, and those needs are

resonating with the industry leaders who we are talking to.

4) What can I get started with today? The Po.et testnet, attribution,

an API (Frost), integrations, developer libraries, a mobile app.

5) When Mainnet? In June, we were tracking fewer than 100 total to-do

items for mainnet. In July, we’re tracking 174. We’re making healthy

progress toward a mainnet beta launch in the coming months. Months.

6) What have we been working on? Claim batching to ramp up our scaling

capabilities, fixing bugs, conducting security reviews, achieving

automation of essential workflows, finalizing protocol details for

Bitcoin mainnet, improving documentation of everything and making

token utility advancements.

So, as you can see, we’re close. By continuing to build and strengthen

the protocol, the features on top of it and our market presence, we’re

looking to close 2018 with a serious bang. The efforts from our

engineering team are being complimented by our community development

efforts as well as business development and marketing efforts. We’re

finalizing our first partner batch to start experimenting on the

protocol and building reputation around their works. This, on top of

our community efforts, will start to really push innovation on the

protocol as we run toward mainnet.

What else is happening? This week, we’re on stage at Distributed 2018.

You can find more details here, https://2018.distributed.com/. Po.et

is onstage with our friends Civil and Axios as well as moderating the

session around TCRs. It will be a fun time with the best and brightest

in the blockchain world figuring out how, together, we can build a

better entry path into our new world.

A lot more to come. Very soon.

Go Po.et