Back in May, we launched Po.et Development Labs as a way to support projects that believe in Po.et’s vision and expand the number of ways to engage with content on the Po.et Network. Inkrypt, the first project to be welcomed into Development Labs, is building a distributed media-hosting platform focused on providing journalism around the world with censorship resistance. Inkrypt seeks to create a comprehensive media ecosystem for Web 3.0 by becoming a one-stop shop for content aggregation and distribution and by partnering with synergistic protocols like Po.et for service integrations such as cryptographic content attribution and licensing.

Inkrypt’s mission is to not only eliminate the single-to-few points of failure in media hosting and devolve the deep concentrations of network power that currently acquiesce to or are subverted by malicious actors who seek to manipulate the flow of information, but also to create a journalist-led governance model to monitor content in an ethical fashion.

Inkrypt co-founders take the stage at Distributed 2018 in San Francisco on July 19, 2018 to unveil nLIGHTn

As part of its greater effort to empower publishers and make journalism truly free, Inkrypt is launching its very first product offering, nLightn, which is a decentralized application for journalistic publishing that combines a peer-to-peer, encrypted storage protocol with an anonymity overlay that ensures comprehensive front- to back-end censorship resistance. The Harvard-based team conducted the very first live demo of the DApp on July 19, 2018, at the Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco.

In the coming weeks, the Inkrypt team will deploy nLightn with freelance and citizen journalists in censorship-prone geographies, such as Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey.

We’re thrilled to have Inkrypt as part of the Po.et family and hope that you’ll keep an eye on them as they work to usher in a new era of freelance and citizen journalism that will not only inform and empower citizens of censorship-prone geographies, but also facilitate the production of valuable content for global consumption.