Looking back this December, we can say that Insolar has been working hard and has had a very exciting year. We have rebranded from INS Ecosystem to Insolar — Distributed Business Networks, reflecting the expanded scope which we will serve to promote business connectivity by building our own, enterprise-grade blockchain platform.

Our development team has quickly grown to become one of the largest and most impressive teams in the industry. We now count 35 developers/ engineers, including top talent in DLT, IoT, and AI. Indeed, the level of the team’s progress is formidable and Insolar has been identified as THE WORLD LEADER in development activity in 2018 by Cryptomiso — a rating which we are right to be proud of. Rest assured that we will continue at this pace next year as well. As you can see, we are already planning our first TestNet in January, and we ask you, our community, to join us in this!

Insolar’s founders have been participating in international conferences and meetups, spreading the word about Insolar’s capabilities and creating partnerships. Events included a speech by our Chief Architect Kirill Ivkushkin at the world’s largest industry conference, Blockchain Expo in San Francisco, networking with major brands at the Jeffries West Coast Consumer Conference, Peter Fedchenkov’s presentation on how to make blockchain tech mainstream for business at the World Digital Assets Summit in California, and his speech at the British Brands Group Meeting.

In terms of our technological development, Insolar has been moving fast paced, and has developed solutions for network scalability and prepared ground for the TestNet launch in January 2019.

We wish our community Happy Holidays and a great start in the New Year, and look forward to all of the exciting landmarks that are awaiting us in 2019 — our TestNets, MainNet, and much more.

1. Community

Announcements

Announcing Insolar’s Private TestNet

Insolar will launch its Private TestNet on January 22, 2019 and would like to invite you to participate.

Top Tech News

Development Update Nov 29 — Dec 6, 2018

Development Update Dec 10 — Dec 16, 2018

Top Articles

What makes Insolar different?

Insolar is blockchain 4.0, and that’s not just a buzzword.

Insolar Research formed to bridge the blockchain gap

We are putting together a group of academics from Europe and North America to advance the blockchain industry.

Insolar Domains, simply explained

Insolar is reinventing the concept of Public / Private chains and Distributed applications (Dapps).

Use Case Supply Chain: Food you can Trust

The best solution to food security is blockchain distributed ledger technology (DLT).

2. Engineering

During December, Insolar’s Core Development Team has been working on our Private TestNet in order to launch it on January 22, 2019, as well as developing other system components for later releases.

The Ledger team has developed the technical realisation of Sharding with components within Insolar’s architecture that are called “Jets”. This will allow the network scale and avoid bottlenecks.

The Smart Contracts team has been improving the logic of transferring the execution of Smart Contracts from one node to another.

The Network and App Logic teams have successfully pre-launched the experimental network with several nodes in a test environment and managed to increase its capacity.

3. Enterprise

Insolar’s Business Development team continues to explore blockchain implementation opportunities for several industries, focusing on Energy & Utilities and Logistics & Supply Chain.

We have started full-scale sales outreach in the USA and the UK, targeting Fortune 500 companies in retail, logistics, energy, manufacturing and other industries. We have started a number of preliminary dialogues and hope to be able to publicly announce some of our future customers by the end of Q1 2019.

We are excited about the 2019 pipeline and about the tremendous value our technology can generate for real-world customers.

4. Team

Alexander Alexseev, joins the Virtual Machine team as a Senior Developer

Alexander has been developing backend applications, distributed systems and database management systems for 10 years. He has participated in projects in RU-CENTER, Mail.ru Group, EXANTE, Nexters and PostgresPro. He is a contributor to PostgreSQL, Sigrok and various other open source projects.

Pavel Kirillov joins Insolar team as a Head of Innovations

Pavel has worked with Acronis & Parallels businesses for five years, during which time he drove technology and business transformation. Key projects included strengthening cooperation with leading Universities and R&D centers worldwide; R&D globalization; Refreshing IP Strategy, and patent portfolio expansion. Most recently he served as Strategy and Operations Associate under the President of Acronis. Pavel will support the Insolar team on a variety of strategic projects and business development initiatives.

Adam Yates joins Marketing team as a Content Lead

Adam is a Briton from Manchester who has been living in Russia for the last five years. During this time, he has working as a content professional in various areas, including in fintech, and has attained a Master’s degree in IT and IP law.

5. Events

Past Events

Insolar promoted wide-scale use of blockchain tech at WDAS from December 9–11 in San Francisco

Dmitry Zhulin featured as panel speaker in Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange meetup on 19th December in Moscow .

Upcoming Events

Insolar to participate in Chainers Blockchain Week

on January 23–24, 2019 in Seoul, Korea.