What an eventful month it has been since our last update! We’ve had a marked increase in Kyber integrations and community building. New projects have engaged Kyber on all levels — from simple payment implementations to more complex native integrations. Wallets, online games, DEXs, financial applications and more have chosen to utilize the liquidity protocol for their on-chain atomic token swapping and payment needs. Some of our latest integrations are: Peepeth, ETHIS, Etheremon, Secrypto, KCash, Midas Protocol Wallet, Weswap and bZx.

We are another step closer to making any token usable anytime, anywhere!

These integrations would not have been possible without the support of our community. Many thanks to everyone for attending and contributing to recent community meetups and activities around the world.

We are happy to share some of the key developments that happened over the end of August to September.

Growing the Decentralized Ecosystem

Kyber Is Enabling Decentralized Payments

One of the driving forces behind the steady increase in integrations has been Kyber’s support for decentralized payments. This simple and accessible integration allows vendors to accept payments in supported ERC20 tokens while still receiving funds in their preferred token such as ETH or stable coins like DAI, TUSD, and DGX. Various platforms have started utilizing Kyber’s technology: Peepeth, ETHIS, and Etheremon are three that we would like to highlight.

1.Contributions to Peepeth in ERC20 Tokens

Peepeth is a blockchain-based social network built on the principles of mindful engagement, personal ownership and control. As this project is still in its early stages it is accepting contributions to its crowdfunding site. Now that Peepeth has integrated with Kyber, they can accept donations in different ERC20 tokens. Contributors do not need to purchase ETH on an exchange before sending their funds to Peepeth, because with just a few clicks they can now seamlessly donate using the ERC20 tokens in their wallet.

2. Purchasing ETHIS Tickets with ERC20 Tokens

The Ethereum Industry Summit (ETHIS) is a global conference held every year where hundreds of thought leaders, developers, and researchers come together to discuss technical developments on the Ethereum chain. This year, ETHIS in Hong Kong used Kyber’s technology on their website to allow people to buy event tickets with different ERC20 tokens. Watch how payments in ERC20 tokens are performed on ETHIS here.

3. Etheremon Integration- Buying Mons with ERC20 Tokens

Etheremon, the popular decentralized virtual monster game, has recently integrated with Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol, enabling users to pay for monsters in any supported ERC20 token, not just ETH. This has made in-game purchases simpler and more accessible. Etheremon players can now catch Mons or pay for services using popular ERC20 tokens, including Zilliqa (ZIL), Basic Attention Token (BAT) and stablecoins like MakerDAO’s (DAI) to name just a few. Watch how you can easily purchase Mons using Kyber’s integration here.

To commemorate the collaboration, Etheremon designed a beautiful monster called Kyberra. We gave away 50 Kyberras (worth 0.3 ETH each) through a Twitter Retweet campaign to thank our awesome community for supporting us.

Wallet Integrations

Shortly after our mainnet launch in the beginning of 2018, multiple well-known wallets such as imToken, Qbao, MyEtherWallet, Trust Wallet and Coinbase Wallet integrated Kyber’s liquidity protocol to provide simple in-app tokens swaps for their users. Building on the existing list, we are happy to have Secrypto, KCash and Midas Protocol Crypto Wallet as the newest additions to our wallet integrations.

Secrypto has completed their integration with the Kyber smart contract and is already tapping into Kyber’s liquidity protocol to allow users to swap tokens without leaving the wallet.

On the same note, KCash, a popular wallet in China, has integrated KyberSwap to bring seamless token swapping services to their DApp browser.

Midas Protocol Crypto Wallet also integrated with Kyber to provide native atomic token swaps without leaving the wallet. In addition to the integration, Kyber welcomed Midas Protocol as our 10th reserve on our on-chain liquidity protocol, providing liquidity for the Midas (MAS) token.

Powering DEXs

Weswap, the peer-to-peer token exchange platform, has joined Easwap and Totle in utilising Kyber’s liquidity protocol to offer decentralized atomic token swaps within their platforms. Weswap also wrote a review detailing the advantages of Kyber’s high liquidity, instant settlement, and ease of integration.

“Kyber Network represents a state-of-the-art solution thanks to its ease-of-integration, guaranteed liquidity, immediate trading/settlement as well as efficiency in terms of pricing.”

Decentralized Financial Applications

bZx, the decentralized margin trading protocol, has joined the growing group of financial DApps that have integrated with Kyber’s liquidity protocol. This integration gives bZx on-chain price feeds and allows them to instantly rebalance their crypto portfolio.

“Two of the features of Kyber we have found indispensable are their secure on-chain price feeds and on-chain liquidity. Without these two features, it would not be possible for us to securely execute margin calls.”

List of recently integrated projects:

Community Update

As we recently celebrated our token sale’s 1st year anniversary, we also released the first batch of team and advisor tokens.

The team and advisors have been working very hard the past year and the token vesting is a form of reward for their contribution thus far, in making Kyber into a widely adopted protocol used by decentralized exchanges, payment merchants, and financial applications.

That aside, September had a host of activities that provided the team with valuable opportunities to share our on-chain liquidity protocol and grow our developer community.

Singapore Blockchain Week

The Kyber Network team was involved in various activities during Singapore Blockchain Week.

Loi participated in a fireside chat at Slush Singapore with Hoe Lon, Standard Chartered Head of Macro Trading (ASEAN) and an advisor to Kyber, on how Kyber is addressing the problem of a fragmented tokenized world.

At a special Signum x Slush event, Loi was in the panel discussion with Michael Lints from Golden Gate Ventures, Li Xiao Zhou from Celer Network, and Zhuling from Aelf, discussing the real use cases of crypto exchange, options, data authentication and smart contracts.

Subsequently, Loi joined another panel at Consensus Singapore to talk about the growth of Asia’s crypto-asset market and the rise of decentralized liquidity providers.

In addition, Kyber’s Head of Business TN Lee was at Blockchain Pioneers Summit held at Chijmes, and explained how Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol is simplifying decentralized payments.

Vietnam Crypto Dialogue

The Kyber team met with representatives from Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice, Finance and the Government Bank at our Singapore office to share our views on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. This meeting was followed by Loi’s presentation at the inaugural Vietnam Crypto Dialogue in Hanoi.

The Vietnam Crypto Dialogue, which Kyber co-organized with Regulus, Midas Protocol, Tomochain, Kambria and Huobi Global, focused on decentralized technologies and potential regulation in the country. This was the first time that the Vietnamese government provided an official platform to actively engage blockchain projects in open discussion, and the event was heavily covered by local press and media.

Loi presented his views on how to create an efficient and transparent economy using the blockchain. Vitalik Buterin and other prominent ecosystem players such as Aelf, Zilliqa, Sparrow Exchange, Traceto.io, Signum Capital, Hashed and imToken, also participated in the dialogue to present their views on related topics.

Ethereum Hanoi Meetups

Kyber has already conducted a total of four Ethereum meetups in Hanoi since our last update with an average of 150 people attending each time.

In our very first meetup, developers joined us to hear Loi speak about Ethereum and decentralized technologies.

In the second meetup, Kyber co-founder Victor Tran led a presentation on Smart Contract Programming

Zilliqa, Aelf, Sparrow Exchange, Traceto.io and The Knowledge Network presented at Ethereum Hanoi meetup #3.

The 4th Ethereum meetup featured a panel discussion with Vitalik Buterin and Loi Luu.

It was heartening to see from these events that Vietnam has such a vibrant developer community, and Kyber is looking forward to seeing greater growth in the space.

ETHBerlin and imToken Meetup

Developers Desmond and Anton were at the ETHBerlin hackathon to conduct a workshop about how you can simplify decentralized payments using Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol.

While in Berlin, BD Manager Greg also spoke at an imToken meetup about simplifying decentralized payments. You can watch his presentation here (51min mark).

ETC Summit in Korea

Our developer Desmond presented at the Seoul ETC Summit together with Zhen from Akomba labs, showcasing PeaceRelay and PeaceBridge, which are cross-chain solutions that bridge $ETH and $ETC. The Peace Bridge solution was based on a Kyber proposal.

Kyber x Gnosis Dev Workshop in Korea

In addition, Desmond joined Gnosis CTO Stefan at a Kyber X Gnosis Dev Workshop in Seoul, where he presented the benefits and methods of integrating Kyber’s protocol to the Korean developer community.

Kyber Developers Meetup in Tokyo, Japan

Kyber Network organized a developers meetup in Japan at HashHub, a popular blockchain co-working space. Developers learned how to build innovative DApps that utilize our on-chain liquidity protocol. Kyber’s Japan representative Taisuke also shared details about our Developer Portal and how Kyber is working towards ‘Any Token, Anywhere’.

We are grateful to have been featured by various media recently:

Coindesk Explains How Kyber Enables Decentralized Payments

Coindesk explained in an article how Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol is enabling decentralized ERC20 token payments and why this is important for the entire ecosystem.

CNBC Video Feature

Loi and Kyber Network were featured in a CNBC video about prominent blockchain projects and cryptocurrencies, hosted by Ran Neu-Ner.

Crush Crypto Interview At Consensus Singapore

Loi shared with Crush Crypto in a video interview about where he sees Kyber Network in 5 years. Loi highlighted how the team is committed to enabling decentralized payments and being integrated with many more DApps to provide liquidity for all of them.

Unitimes Ask Me Anything (AMA) session

Unitimes, the global Fintech knowledge interaction platform based in China, hosted an AMA for Kyber on Wechat with over 600 participants. Loi explained to the Chinese community how Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol is allowing any token to be usable anywhere. Read the summary (in chinese) here.

KyberSwap Tutorial By Nuggets News Australia

Alex from Nuggets News Australia, a popular Youtube channel, created an easy video tutorial explaining how to swap tokens directly from an ethereum wallet such as MyEtherWallet or by using KyberSwap, the atomic token swap platform powered by Kyber’s protocol.

Upcoming Events

San Francisco Blockchain Week / ETHSanFrancisco

From October 5th, Kyber will be participating in San Francisco Blockchain Week, including the ETHSanFrancisco hackathon. We will have a booth there and will be organizing interesting bounties to encourage developers to use our on-chain liquidity protocol. More information coming soon. See you there!

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