Good day, Keepers! Here we are with more exciting news and updates for you!

Team & Community Updates

We’ve made significant development updates to the Keep Network and our data privacy protocol. Our developers have pushed forward achieving major development milestones on the random beacon, and we have had the opportunity to report some news on what we have been building and how .

The Keep team is growing, and along with our recent hires, we are proud to introduce another three developers that have joined our team — Promethea Raschke, Markus Fix and Marcin Pawlowski. The interesting thing is we have found one of them amongst our community members. It’s a similar story to our Community Manager, Jack Knutson, and how he came to Keep. Here is the moral: don’t be shy to come out into the light with your ideas! We’re a growing team and would love to work with you.

We also have fantastic news: our Slack is re-opened now, so come in for a more detailed discussion! We have also opened a Russian channel in our Slack for our Russian-speaking community!

Remote team comes to Atlanta!

As a remote-first team, it’s important for us to get together every so often to collaborate. Our team lives all over the world — Europe, the United States, and even tiny islands in the Indian and Atlantic oceans! So our time together is always special and it feels great to see each other and work together. Recently we had a fantastic onsite in Atlanta, where the team has exchanged an incredible amount of valuable ideas and strategies.

Sticky notes brainstorming session!

And we had some good fun too, of course. Here is a little hello from a part of the Keep Network team!

Playing ping pong with Aaron, Jack, Hope, Matt, Philip, Nik, Piotr, Andrew, Laura. (Laura looks happiest because she always wins)

We were fortunate to have the entire team show up and get to know each other. It was a positive experience and was very beneficial for our team spirit.

Ecosystem

As the world is headed more towards integrating blockchain technology, developers’ jobs are making this transition as seamless and comfortable as possible. We have to also take care of the interests of others involved and be constantly improving it. Keeping these things in mind, our Tech Lead Antonio Salazar Cardozo submitted an EIP for cheaper privacy on Ethereum. Have a look at his proposal here. Feedback and support much appreciated! For some context on this matter, check out “Privacy on Ethereum is too Expensive”.

A little throwback if you missed it — our Project Lead Matt Luongo participated in a panel discussion at Multicoin Summit on “The State of Dapp Development” alongside Vinny Lingham of Civic, Yaniv Tal of The Graph, and Nadav Hollander of Dharma. Check out the video if you haven’t already.

This month Keep was a Gold Sponsor of San Francisco Blockchain Week and one of our developers, Piotr Dyraga, presented there on Threshold ECDSA. Look out for upcoming content about that event!