A couple of months back we declared that transparency is what we’re all about. We decided to share everything about the progress we’re making at Kin in all fronts — product plans, technology, even ongoing tasks that keep us busy on a daily basis.

Not only that, but we decided we’ll be giving our community a behind the scenes look at who we are personally and where we came from.

So this post is in the same spirit, laying out what are some of the things our team is working on, our goals for 2018 and some of our considerations. Tomorrow you can expect a post showing our faces, letting you know what we’re all about but today — we focus on the community itself.

Before diving in

Our team consists of 6 community moderators, leading all interaction with our community. You mostly got to know us by reading out posts on Reddit or you may have read our comments on Telegram. However, there’s a lot more to it.

At the beginning of the new year I had to sit down and kinda break down what our goals for this community are, what we aim to achieve as a team and how it all aligns with company objectives. It’s pretty easy to talk about it now, having a clear presentation and all, but trust me when I say — it took a lot of digging in to figure out what’s right for our unique community.

Remembering that Kin is building something special. We want to make KIN the most used crypto token in the world, which will be used for value exchange, empowering individuals to take part in this evolving new economy.

But what does it mean for our community efforts?

Let’s take a step back and understand what defines the community and what they value the most. I joined the party three months ago, with no real grace — period, finding quickly that the crypto community is different than any other community I’ve worked with. Our community members are knowledgeable about crypto, they are (at times) a step or two ahead of us when it comes to market news and they will always ask and say anything that comes to mind. It takes some time to get used to the fact that responses need to be given immediately and we need to know every little bit of it. I quickly learned that the best way to go is to be completely open and upfront with what we’re doing and where we’re going. We also learned that the members themselves have an important role in dictating how Kin will be seen by others, for example, depending on the sentiment of discussions on Reddit.

Trust, Participation, Transparency

It all got us to understand that this is something we need to pay attention to and look at as our long term partners. After all, a community is a group of people working together to achieve shared values or interests. We, at Kin believe we will “win together by working together” and to do that we need to: