The Skycoin marketing and event team has had a very busy last few weeks showcasing the Skycoin project to the world.

The first event was the Global Assets and Wealth Initiative and Forum .

This conference took place in Singapore on 31 August and 1 September 2018.

It is the world’s leading business group involving corporations with annual revenues exceeding USD100 million, governments and intergovernmental organisations from the six continents.

With blockchain, cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings as an area of business and investment interest, some of the world’s leaders in this space were in attendance at the GAW Forum in Singapore. They included Mr Dinis Guarda, CEO of Ztudium from the UK Mr Nick Ayton, Founder and CEO of Chainstarter Ventures UK; Mr Davy Goh, Founder and CEO of Singapore-headquartered Bcoin; Mr Anthony Alleyne, Founder and Co-CEO of Phore Blockchain in the UK and many others.

Held at the Sofitel Singapore City Centre, this closed-door meeting of the PC Community has gathered over 150 CEOs, policymakers, entrepreneurs, institutional investors, accredited investors and high net worth individuals from the US, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia. They collectively represent over 100 organisations, 20 major industries/sectors and 30 markets.

Singapore was chosen as the first GAW Forum location as it is a convenient stopover for many leaders from the Platinum Circle Community worldwide. Locations being flagged for the 2019 GAW Forum schedule include Hong Kong, London, New York and Helsinki

The GAW Initiative and Forums are not open to the public. Access is solely for the Platinum Circle Community and nominated guests.

Skycoin was represented at this conference by Drew MacGibbon, Events Lead for Skycoin in Asia.

Skycoin was a proud partner of the Global and Assets and Wealth forum and the project showcased the Skyminer and discussed with top decision makers from the platinum circle how Skywire will help reshape the existing Internet landscape.

Drew Showcased the Skyminer and explained to the very enthusiastic audience how the Skyminer hardware will help to power the new Internet.

He told the enthusiastic audience that the Skyminer was the hardware that will power the new decentralized internet, a wireless mesh network that pays you for supporting it and These servers provide the user’s access to the internet. This forms a second layer of private browsing. The service is cheaper, faster and controlled by the users on Skywire. ISPs do not have control over which content is prioritized. The Skywire network is private so IP addresses cannot be traced.

He described the ecosystem of Skycoin and how each part is interrelated.

He went on to explain that the testnet Phase of Skywire was already running with more than 8000 nodes worldwide including some in Singapore.

Once Drew finished his talks and it was time for question and answer, more than 90 per cent of the questions were directed at him about the Skycoin project especially the Skyminer.

As cliché as it may sound, the skyminer is a showstopper. “ See the Skyminer and go home “.

As usual, everyone wanted to go home with a miner and are already looking forward to the progress report of the Skycoin project in the next summit.

The Global Assets and Wealth Initiative (GAW) galvanises the Platinum Circle Community worldwide to identify and engage opportunities and challenges at international, country and organisation levels to build future economic, business and social wealth. It also invites investors, entrepreneurs, small-business owners, technologists, fund managers, regulators, policymakers, philanthropists and high net worth individuals from across industries and markets interested in doing more business, building more assets and creating more economic, business and social wealth together with Platinum Circle.

The overall reaction to the introduction of blockchain with this prestigious group was positive, with people looking forward to the development of the technology for real-world applications.

The GAW Forum will be held annually and in different locations globally.

There were a lot of takeaways from this conference

Talks are currently in place with 100 strong, development team from the Ukraine who want to partner and help with the various and diverse projects of Skycoin India’s largest carbon fibre producer, responsible for most of the F1 car bodies and airliner material is wanting to form a partnership Nasdaq listed Chinese investment firm wanting to utilize fiber for large cross-border payments. Largest online dating platform in Asia interested in expanding into other Asian markets and potentially talking about using fiber to do so A technology company that’s worked with NASA and DARPA in communications have developed a game-changing ASICS chip and are interested in exploring a partnership with skycoin A humanitarian company building 46 shopping complexes in Haiti, very interested in utilizing Skywire to help rebuild infrastructure

Further updates on these partnerships will be released when appropriate

Make sure you are part of the skyfleet team by joining the chat at the skycoin telegram channel

The was quickly followed by the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco which held between the 5th to 7th of September 2018.

TechCrunch Disrupt is the world’s leading authority in debuting revolutionary start-ups, introducing game-changing technologies and discussing what’s top of mind for the tech industry’s key innovators. Disrupt gathers the best and brightest entrepreneurs, investors, hackers, and tech fans for on-stage interviews, the Startup Battlefield competition, a 24-hour Hackathon, Start-up Alley, Hardware Alley, and After Parties.

Speakers at the conference included Fope Adelowo, Vice President, Helios Investment Partners, Jim Adler, Founding Managing Director, Toyota AI Ventures

Emeka Afigbo, Head of Platform Partnerships for the Middle East & Africa, Facebook, Tayo Oviosu of Paga payments solution, Claire Delaunay of Nvidia, Yi Wang of lingochamp, Brian Armstrong co-founder and CEO of coinbase, Patrick Ball, Director of Research, Human Rights Data Analysis Group to mention but a few.

Topics discussed ranged from AI and machine learning to the blockchain, Biotech and Health to Fintech, Gaming to justice and diversity, mobility to privacy and security and space to retail and robotics, Hardware and IOT.

Skycoin was represented by the one everybody loves Daken Freeborn and the Skyfleet team.

It was a perfect occasion to educate the audience about what the Skycoin project is all about.

Skycoin is a very ambitious cryptocurrency project that has a lot of different moving parts. Instead of a single coin, it is actually a whole ecosystem of solutions to problems that the blockchain aim to solve.

It is a complete platform that is powered by Skycoin to perform different functions and contribute to the network of interdependent systems. The foundation of the Skycoin ecosystem begins with Skywire.

Skywire presents itself as a meshnet of private services that is decentralized. Skywire clients run a Virtual Private Network (VPN) server that connects users to the Skywire network. These servers are known as Skyminer.

The Skyminer hardware is a custom VPN server that provides the infrastructure to power the Skywire network.

Tried as much as Ed did his best to “disrupt” the show, the real disruptor of the event was again the Skyminer.

It was the cynosure of all eyes as other projects at the conference made various enquiries about it and how it works.

Daken used the opportunity to let them know that the skyminer is a plug and play computer which makes money for you while you sleep.

He showed them the infographics from the August Payout of the skycoin projects to the nodes supporting the network.

The Skycoin project pays out $250,000 dollars monthly in Skycoin to supporters of the project who provides their Skyminer nodes for the testnet.

By and large, it was a very successful conference for the skycoin team and they were major takeaways

One of the sponsors of the event was so impressed with the Skycoin team that he is giving the team 2 floors in a building in San Francisco to teach blockchain and coding.

The other major achievement is still kept secret and it is related to the building the project is getting in San Francisco. The non-disclosure agreement will not allow me to release more details.

This is a short video of skycoin at the Disrupt conference in San Francisco