This is a an update exclusively and originaly posted on Telegram: https://t.me/aergoofficial/144857 on January 7 by Obaid of Blocko

Hi everyone, this is Obaid from Blocko. I work in the Blocko MENA division which is based out of Dubai where we are looking to implement Aergo across a number of government and semi-government environments. With the crypto market having been how it has been during this bearish market cycle, a select number of us from the international side of Blocko have been working relentlessly as a lean & small team in Dubai to initially build the baseline of the business out then come to agreements with select clients in the Middle East regarding the implementation of the Aergo hybrid blockchain suite. It has essentially been a 24/7 commitment for us and our CEO Phil Zamani, and I wanted to simply drop a note here to say that we have been making incredible progress. The team in Seoul have been doing great things as well, but this message will simply address what has been happening in the MENA region for Blocko.

As a short & sweet new year update: we are already swift into development of a major multi-country blockchain platform that we are building with a client here that will come to eventually greatly boost usage of our mainnet, and we are in negotiations with multiple other large clients. We were very aggressive in generating leads over the last two quarters of 2019 and made sure everyone heard our message loud and clear — that Blocko is now in the Middle East and ready to serve — naturally, we’ve recieved a lot of interest. So many clients have had a tough time implementing blockchain because they worked with inexperienced (or large traditional) vendors — so the level of adoption Aergo already has is coming across as very attractive.

There are more projects on our plate than we can handle, so the opportunities we’ve got are being weighed out based on the greater impact it will have. Phil & others from the team have done precisely this for the past twenty years with newer cutting-edge technologies. They have mastered the art of qualifying clients to make sure we select the right opportunities given that we have resource constraints as a venture-funded startup (we can’t do everything!) — and we’ve been applying the same methodologies they used in the past to our current business approach here.

We at Blocko MENA will be spending this year working hard and moving forward aggressively with our plans. If you haven’t yet done so, I highly recommend reading our latest Quarterly Project Update as it contains an extensive level of detail on our plans both in South Korea and internationally. You can find it here: https://paper.aergo.io/AERGO_QPU_Q3_2019_1.0.0.pdf

Happy new year to you all.

To be clear: A key and central focus for the Blocko MENA team is impact — not only for the client or the lives of citizens in the UAE — but our broader Aergo community as a whole. The way that the deals will be announced and positioned will bear this central focus in mind. You can be assured that we are and will be doing what we can and that we have the interests of our token holders in mind.

Also, you may have been aware of our joint Oxford Computer Science & Blocko-Aergo technology briefing session from mid Dec 2019 where dozens of CIOs/CTOs/CDOs from government & high-corporate in Dubai attended to learn more about a new technology solution potentially being built on Aergo to address multiple issues around data sovereignty/silos/security (some photos below, I’ll be posting the hi-res photos once they’re processed by our marketing team from The Private Office of Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum). We can’t talk too much about this, but I will say one thing: it is big. Hopefully we’ll be able to share more with you in due course.