It’s been a tough ride for cryptocurrency retail traders around the world. 😵

After an explosive growth of the market at the end of 2017, some of your favourite projects have probably experienced rather significant losses last year, due to the bears seizing control of prices and sentiment.

Still, at the fundamental level, 2018 has proven an amazing year for builders like ourselves ! Blockchain protocols, infrastructures and development tools have steadily improved, there is no foreseeable shortage of Solidity talents looking for opportunities and increasingly more businesses have been willing to adopt blockchain-based solution to solve some of their hurdles.

3000 blockchain developers in one city for a couple days. ETHBerlin 2018

In practical terms, this means the cryptocurrency industry is now mature enough for proper engineering teams to form, solve real-life problems and get paid for it.

At Stacktical, this translated into a first batch of products and worldwide advocacy of what we stand for and are trying to achieve with our platform.

⚙️ 2018 was the year of #BUIDL

From auditing the scalability of online services…

For the past 2 years now, our Scalability Auditing technology has helped our community of service providers define more meaningful performance and reliability targets for their online services.

With the ability to instantly predict the peak concurrency, peak throughput and scalability bottlenecks of any system or network, Stacktical enabled their engineering teams to drive configuration, software and infrastructure updates with more actionable data than raw performance test results.

…to indemnifying consumers for downtimes

But at the end of the day, online services still go down.

In 2018, Stacktical has started evolving into a solution to help service providers automatically indemnify consumers when services do not work as expected.

Our private sale proceeds have enabled us to come up with a Proof of Concept: the 1st ever Downtime Insurance experience on the blockchain.