CEO Aaron McDonald shares key developments over the past month. To stay up-to-date on the progress of Centrality’s ecosystem, follow us on Twitter and our Telegram Announcements channel, plus join our community on Centrality’s Official Telegram, Instagram, Reddit and Facebook.

What a year it’s been! We kicked off 2018 with our token sale and between now and then we celebrated our 2nd birthday, presented a demo of our ecosystem at Japan Blockchain Conference and Singapore Fintech Festival, had teams attend AWS re:Invent and Apple WWDC and hosted meetups in Auckland, Osaka, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

This year it’s been all about building the tech and we’ve seen tremendous progress across the ecosystem. A big thank you to our community for your support this year — we’re really excited to bring products to market in the coming year and become even closer to building a decentralised economy.

Sylo

On the product front, the team have made big strides this month, putting the finishing touches on group calling which will be merged very soon. There’s been significant progress on made on the mobile platform. Soon, developers will be able to pick up an SDK and build their own decentralised applications, without having to worry about communications, storage, or token exchange features.

Overall, it’s been an incredible year for the Sylo team. The team has doubled in size and they moved to new office premises, officiated multiple strategic collaborations and partnerships, attended and presented at multiple tech conferences around the world, released their DApp in Alpha, and are well on track for their next major product release in Q1 of 2019. It’s safe to say they are very much looking forward to a busy start in the new year! You can find all the latest on Sylo here.

SingleSource

2018 has been an amazing year for SingleSource, with December seeing the culmination of their vision with the launch of Digital ID NZ and the confirmation of the R&D grant from Callaghan Innovation.

SingleSource joined the Centrality ecosystem as a startup in January but have come a long way since. Last month the team of 17 moved into its own office space and they’re now supporting a new batch of incubated decentralised projects in integrating the MySingleSource digital identity SDK as a core functionality of their dApps.

Causality

December has been another huge month for Causality with the Beta launch of their crypto social sentiment alert product. The product allows users to receive sentiment alerts on the coins that they follow. It leverages Causality’s advanced analytics platform and machine learning models to monitor social media sentiment in real time and notify users of any change in market sentiment. The use of sentiment analysis to monitor financial markets is something that professional investors and institutes have been doing for years. Causality’s crypto sentiment alert service puts these advanced techniques, previously only available to Wall Street, into the hands of the individual investor which is very exciting.

Causality has also been working hard on its enterprise blockchain analytics API which allows developers and analysts to interact with data from different blockchains in powerful new ways. The first clients already onboarded we are looking forward to the public release.

Centrality Accelerator

Teams participating in Centrality Accelerator programme powered by Lightning Lab are speeding towards the halfway mark. The startups are starting to complete market validation and move towards developing their business model. A key focus for the teams will be around creating disruptive models that deliver true asset-sharing. In the new year the cohort will tackle revenue modelling, financial forecasting and crafting go-to-market strategies for global launch. Demo Day will held on February 27 at GridAKL. There are only 200 tickets available — to register interest leave your details here.

ARDA Run

Things are rapidly gaining momentum at Performance Lab. A new marketing team has come onboard, kicked off the branding and UI process and started to build an engaged community around the app. Keen to get the ARDA app in users’ hands as early as possible, the beta version is actively being tested by 20 users. Their feedback has helped inform ongoing product development.

Next up is development of the premium version of the app, ready for a New Zealand soft launch early 2019. The purpose of this soft launch is to gather as much feedback as we can from a small user-base, before the main launch in North America mid next year.

We’re excited about all the projects that have been in the making throughout 2018. There are plenty of milestones to look forward to in the coming year — stay tuned!