March has been an exciting month for the iExec team, who have participated in multiple events in anticipation of the upcoming release of V2, iExec’s full Market Network.

Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC), Paris

iExec recently participated at EthCC (Ethereum Community Conference), alongside other major players in the blockchain industry in one of the biggest events in Europe of its kind. François Branciard carried out a live coding session, demonstrating how developers can already deploy applications on the iExec network. New documentation has also been released, more on it in our latest Dev Letter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI4xS8brSF4

Wassim Bendella and Julien Béranger’s keynote at EthCC presented the current status of iExec and outlined the progress towards iExec V2, the full marketplace and decentralized cloud platform scheduled for release at the end of May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7JfOLsXPs

IBM Think, Las Vegas: Presenting a Secure Solution to the Decentralized Execution of Applications

iExec is proud to announce new research developments which will protect blockchain-based decentralized projects that run on untrusted nodes. This solution involves providing a hardware enclave to run applications in an inaccessible part of the CPU. In this case, even the owner of the CPU who is executing computation is not able to access the data processed inside of this enclave, which can be described as an inaccessible “bubble”.

‘Data Guard’ on IBM Cloud uses Intel® SGX technology, allowing for applications to be run in a decentralized fashion without worrying about untrusted nodes as the application will still remain under the control of the initial user.

iExec was invited by IBM to present this solution at this year’s IBM Think in Las Vegas, taking place from 19th to 22nd March. iExec will also show how the platform allows participants to contribute and monetize their own computing resources, and how Data Guard can be integrated to secure this decentralized peer to peer computation.

iExec’s participation at IBM Think will be broadcasted live, and can be followed on: https://www.ibm.com/events/think/watch/

Title: Customer Panel: Cloud is an Opportunity to Do Security Right

Time: Thursday, 10:30 AM — 11:10 AM Session ID: 8927A

Location: Mandalay Bay South, Level 2 Lagoon H

The 20+ Partnerships of iExec

iExec has already signed partnerships deals with a variety of organisations including public research institutions, cloud mining providers, and of course a range of decentralized apps with high computational demands. iExec has also partnered with media outlets for promotion and PR.

This article by our Korean CM, Kang Jae Seo, summarizes some of iExec’s partnerships to date and outlines what is possible to reach with these collaborations. Have a look at the article to get an idea of some interesting use cases for the iExec network (English/Korean dual translation version).

We are hoping to continue to announce new partnerships as we begin to form our fully working decentralized cloud network and marketplace.

iExec Technical Report, by Ironwood Research Group

A technical report on the iExec project has been released by the global research firm ‘Ironwood Research Group’ who specializes in emerging technologies such as blockchain and utility tokens and carrying out analysis of innovative projects within the crypto space.

Complete with references to external articles, the report provides a solid overview of the iExec team, platform and token. It outlines its place within the industry as well as its business plan and roadmap progress.

A New Addition to the Team: Zied Guesmi

We are pleased to have a new intern joining us, Zied Guesmi, who is working with iExec in Lyon as part of his final project at the Faculté des Sciences de Tunis in Tunisia where he has specialized in Computer Science engineering.

Zied is working on creating an ‘Energy Positive Miner’ (EPM) that works by transforming solar energy collected by panels into electrical energy to power autonomous mining machines.

Zied’s work is in line with iExec’s ‘green’ vision, as we work towards more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly decentralized computing solutions. This work will be carried out under the supervision of our Lead Java Developer, Ugo Plouviez.

That’s it for this week’s Project Update, see you soon!

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