Pre-sale Sold-Out!

On the 13th of November, the HARA Token Pre-sale was sold out. We want to again thank all of our early contributors for your overwhelming support. In the next few months, we will focus on product integration with our partners before we move to the public sale stage of our Initial Token Sale The public sale will start on January 21, 2019, 9AM GMT+7 and last until January 30, 2019 9AM GMT+7. Follow us on Telegram and Twitter for the latest product and partnership news.

Now Go Build!

HARA was selected by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to star in the first episode of the new Now Go Build series, hosted by Amazon VP & CTO Werner Vogels! In the series, Vogels travels around the world to meet startup founders to hear about what challenges they face in building their business, and how AWS helps them overcome these.

Watch the full episode here:

Deployment

How HARA creates jobs for anyone with a mobile phone

This month we hit a milestone by reaching over 10.000 farmers and adding their data to the HARA Ecosystem. At HARA, we are very grateful for our dedicated field agents that have already reached out to so many smallholder farmers and helped them onboard our platform. Field Agents are our bridge to the farmers in the field, and going forward we will need a growing number of dedicated agents helping out our farming communities. Read more about how HARA will create jobs for anyone with a mobile phone here.

Partnerships

Pundi X

Pundi X has teamed up with HARA in a new partnership to promote financial inclusion and bring digital payments to an untapped market of smallholder farmers in rural Indonesia. In the partnership, HARA and Pundi X will collaborate to roll out the deployment of thousands of blockchain-based point of sales (“POS”) devices to the HARA ecosystem to facilitate data collection and financial inclusion across developing economies.

Bluzelle

Bluzelle is a decentralized, on-demand, scalable database service that leverages underused computer resources from people around the world by turning them in into storage providers for its network, for which the providers are compensated. In the partnership, HARA will help extend Bluzelle’s services of data storage to any stakeholder that requires their services to make the most out of both the companies’ ecosystems, and optimize the stakeholders’ income potential.

Haluan Rekadaya Konsultindo (HRK)

HRK is a consulting company aimed at the Small and Medium Business (SMB) and Plantation industries. HRK and HARA both aim to use technology to help the food and agriculture industry in Indonesia to reach its full potential. HRK will position itself as a Value Added Service in the HARA Ecosystem. In turn, HRK will benefit from the data that HARA makes available to complement their offerings.

Events

HARA Roadshow Part 2 — It’s Time to Digital Asset!

This month, the HARA Roadshow Part 2 — It’s Time to Digital Asset!, swung by ten different cities across Indonesia: Jakarta, Bandung, Jogjakarta, Surabaya, Semarang, Bali, Medan, Makassar, Manado, and Pontianak. The response we got from the HARA community was amazing! Over 2,000 total participants came to our events in those nine cities. Most of the attendees were looking into digital assets for the first time, and a big part of them had already made up their mind about HARA and wanted to contribute to help make our mission a success!

World Conference on Creative Economy, Bali

From 6 to 8 November, HARA took part in the first ever “World Conference on Creative Economy” (WCCE). The conference was an initiative from the Indonesian government and hosted by the Creative Economy Agency (BEKRAF), the body is responsible for the development of creative economy in Indonesia. Our booth was visited by a good number of high-profile attendees. Even Ridwan Kamil, the governor of West Java, expressed his interest in HARA after being given an explanation on how our data-exchange ecosystem is designed to benefit all stakeholders.

Disrupto, Jakarta

On 25 November, HARA CTO, Imron Zuhri joined a panel discussion at the Disrupto event. Apart From Zuhri, the panel called “Blockchain, Not Just Crypto” featured Oscar Darmawan (Indodax) and Vachara Aemavat (SIX Network), and was moderated by Kenneth Tali (Indonesia Blockchain Network)

Rethink Agri-Food Innovation, Singapore

From 27 to 29 November, the Rethink Agri-Food Innovation Week was held in Singapore, which explored the latest innovations and market opportunities in the agri-food supply chain across Southeast Asia. Imron Zuhri (HARA CTO) spoke at the event and received a lot of praise on HARA’s unique method of reaching smallholder farmers, including from industry leaders who had been following our activities for a while.

Media

HARA was featured in several articles this month. We’ve picked out two we really liked and included them below. Let us know what you think!

Four Agri-Tech Innovations in Asia Pacific that Are Changing the Game for Agriculture