Investments, CEOs and Smart Contracts…

It couldn’t have been a better start to the year at Indorse, as we have just announced another round of equity investment by our existing investor Coinsilium yesterday. You can find more information about it here — https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2018/01/09/coinsilium-ups-stake-professional-decentralized-social-network-indorse/

We are going to be testing several features on staging this week, and by the end of the next month, we will be adding several companies to the company pages product. We are currently planning on accepting IND tokens and burning them as the revenue component for the company pages.

The period leading to Christmas and the New year was a little slow with some of our senior devs on vacations and spending some quality time with their families. Nonetheless, the team pulled up together really well and managed to deliver several features on the staging and testnet. Now that everyone is back this week and the development is back at full speed, we plan to finish several more features by the time of the next Dev Update.

Jae wrote an amazing post about Airbitz integration and the problems he faced and how he solved that — https://blog.indorse.io/decentralizing-user-authentication-with-airbitz-8f456a92c79f

Done

Implementation of the Sybil attack prevention mechanism in the NodeJS layer (testing on staging)

Implementing CircleCI and build automation processes

Company Pages (first draft on staging, will start testing with actual companies next week)

Referral system Smart Contract code review

Smart Contract deployment on Kovan testnet

Addition of skills to the user profiles (on staging)

Documentation

Advisor Smart Contract design and workflow

Doing

Referral Smart Contract Truffle test suite

Referral Smart Contract manual testing on Kovan testnet

Referral Smart Contract second draft

Advisor Smart Contract first draft

Additions to the Company pages

Addition visualisation of skills

Exploring and designing the integration with uPort (we recently had a call with Paul from uPort and discussed multiple ways in which )

Scaling up Indorseans

Other important recent changes —

There was change in the management structure. David has transitioned to the position of a Director and I have stepped up as CEO. David will continue working working on a day to day basis but with a more general focus on exchange relations, product decisions, and input into marketing. Avadhoot will continue to be the CMO, while concentrating mainly on generating more interest in the community and handling the B2C side and work as the interim HR, also handling the hiring and on-boarding of new devs. Dipesh will transition to CBO (Chief Business Officer), mainly focusing on the B2B side, dealing with companies, HR and advertising revenue in the long-term.

We added a senior Front-end developer called Raju who has started working from today. Raju will help share some of the workload with Kedar who has been doing an awesome job.

We are also going to add another Senior level Developer as an Engineering Manager. We will reveal his name soon, but he has multiple years of experience and expertise in technology and Blockchain, having worked at Goldman Sachs and one of the leading Blockchain companies in Singapore.

Current positions we are looking for: UI/UX designers.

Please feel free to drop us a mail at info@indorse.io should you be interested or know of anyone who should be a good fit for us. You can join our community on Rocket Chat at https://community.indorse.io/