This is an update from Marek Kirejczyk, Lead Blockchain Dev at Ambrosus. It talks about the strategy on product development, new hires, activities on pilot projects and other miscellaneous development updates from Ambrosus.

Time has flown by; it is our first full month after our TGE and we’ve been keeping busy since! A lot has happened during that time and I thought I’d throw in a mini update and let you all know how it’s going. Here’s what we’ve been up to recently:

1) Devcon3: It was great to be able to join DevCon 3 and see all the progress going on in the Ethereum ecosystem. For Ambrosus, the most exciting topic was scalability, as it will be our biggest challenge to solve in the coming months. After hearing about how Casper developments are coming along, we’re optimistic this will dovetail nicely with our own internal developments. Furthermore, there are so many research projects in advanced stages now (ex: sharding, plasma, swarm, webassembly EVM, ZK-snarks, etc), it’s clear to us that Ethereum has a huge potential for building transparent supply chain solutions. I was the representative over the weekend as a lead developer of Ambrosus, and it was great to network, make connections, as well as share and hear about other projects going on there.

3) Strategy: Our team had a 2-day-long strategic meeting introducing our new blockchain developers (more on that below). It was mixture of productivity and team building, as the new developers got to better know the rest of the team and advisors. Our business focus was on our internal strategy moving forward, and development focus was further designing our core architecture as that is the next crucial step in our path.

These are the architectural layers we are working on in Q4 2017:

A: Protocol Development: At the core of our business model, building the blockchain is the backbone for our solution to supply chain tracking. We started implementing new architecture and Ambrosus HTTP node. We are planning the first release in late Q1 2018. In parallel, we are also trying different approaches to scaling data that we want to store in a distributed way.

B: Document Storage: The second most popular feature in supply chain management is the need for document storage. Examples of these include various contracts, certificates, data storage, etc. Ultimately, the goal is to create an elegant solution where when something is digitally signed, it is easy to retrieve and verify. Programming this correctly will save businesses costs on quality control, supply chain management, and remove unnecessary friction in existing solutions today. We understand the importance of working alongside other businesses to ensure we get this right. This relationship leads me to my next point:

C: Customers: Technology is not worth much without customers. Our third focus will be to implement business MVPs for our customers. Following the public exposure of Ambrosus in high quality industrial press, corporations from around the world have reached out to us to learn more about the solutions we are building and the possibility of becoming involved with pilots for their own supply chains. The pilots we are taking on now will help us shape and iterate building design choices we decide on in both ‘A’ & ‘B’ above to ensure complete integration with our future customers.

D: Markets: Our other lead Blockchain Developer, Matthew, has been spearheading our effort to build a browser for people to transact and exchange value through interoperable markets. The final version will be a simple web interface where stakeholders can access these smart markets. This development is called Crossroads Browser and Ambrosus (Amber token) is at the heart of this system. Make sure you catch up by reading about the ongoing development here: https://blog.ambrosus.com/crossroads-towards-a-universal-browser-for-deals-1905b024dee3

New Hires:

Antoni Kedracki

Antoni Kedracki (Senior Blockchain Developer) is an experienced all-around software engineer with a strong focus on blockchain and distributed storage technologies. Previously he was a Principal Software Engineer at Polidea, where he has lead development teams, and was also responsible for organizing work around Research & Development. He is one of the founders and organizers of the Mobile Warsaw meetup. He holds an MSc in Telecommunication Technology from the Warsaw University of Technology.

Ivan Rukhavets

Ivan Rukhavets (Junior Blockchain Developer) has advanced knowledge of C# and Python and has developed passion for Solidity. In the past he developed several projects, including an Android application for learning languages, GPU realisation of k-means algorithm, a WebAPI for storage of encrypted passwords and logins and a game for bots with AI. Many of his projects are open-source. He started coding at the age of 14. He is currently in the final year of studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science at Politechnika Warszawska