Let’s travel back to December 2017. It’s the height of the crypto craze. Kuende is beginning to undertake its transition to a blockchain-based social media platform. At this same time, one of the most groundbreaking ICOs of all time is announced by SIRIN LABS. It’s the first of its kind - a smartphone called the FINNEY with a blockchain! But that’s not all - they are saying the phone will be able to trade power with other FINNEY devices. It will have enhanced security because of its blockchain. It would have P2P networking, allowing you to travel abroad without having to worry about roaming data charges. It would have a decentralized app (DAPP) store run by the community.

Something awoke within me during that time. Needless to say, I was an early participant in the SIRIN LABS public sale. I saw this as the future, and something that would help introduce the blockchain to everyone. Up until this time, so many ICOs were being advertised to the same people that had become wealthy because of ETH and BTC. Keep in mind, we are still in December 2017 - cryptocurrency might have been on the news, but the adoption rate relative to the entire population was still low. The blockchain and crypto communities were closed off for the most part, using Discord groups and Telegram groups that would “pump and dump” tokens as they saw fit. It wasn’t a great time for the average investor, which is a shame. Crypto needs adoption to truly succeed.

FINNEY represented a future in which people would consider the FINNEY to be the phone you wanted for user experience and privacy. To me, it was likely to be the preferred choice of mobile devices for governmental agencies. Other phones were far too insecure. I believe that the amount of features on it made it ideal for travelers too, but in reality, the phone would be great for just about anyone thanks to a user-friendly experience.

I had to get the Kuende App on the FINNEY!

Flash forward to August 2018. I am in Tel Aviv, meeting with the SIRIN LABS team. I get to meet with their founder and CEO, Moshe, who is a great guy. Their whole team is so driven to make this succeed. In some sort of Holy Grail moment, I get to hold a FINNEY in my hand and play around with it. The phone is everything I dreamed of, it was almost a sort of spiritual experience getting to use what I had participated in nearly 9 months earlier.

My dream was realized during this trip, too. I brought up the introduction of a Kuende DAPP onto the FINNEY phone. The team was ecstatic - Kuende was a perfect fit as an innovative, blockchain based social media onto an equally revolutionary and blockchain based phone. As we began talking, we found that we had a lot in common regarding our goals, so I am now extremely excited (and proud) to announce that…

Kuende and SIRIN LABS are announcing a partnership to help drive mass adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrency!

How exactly will we achieve this? In three ways:

1. Kuende DAPP will come as the pre-loaded social media DAPP on all FINNEY™ device

2. Kuende and SIRIN LABS will work together to include wider communities and educate them on blockchain and cryptocurrency

3. Kuende will provide an Airdrop & an Extra Bonus for SRN Token holders

The Kuende DAPP

The FINNEY™ gives users access to a decentralized app store run by the community. Kuende is a blockchain-based social media and is designed for use on the FINNEY™. Users will be able to store Kuende Tokens (KUE) on their phone’s cold wallet, and use this KUE to create challenges on our app. It will provide a seamless transition from the DAPP to the gamified, real world experiences that Kuende is built for.

Crypto Mass Adoption

Behind the partnership is a mission to make the blockchain and cryptocurrency more easily and readily accessible to the general public. Both the Kuende DAPP and the FINNEY™ phone are designed with the user experience in mind. By providing a user-friendly way to use the blockchain, both SIRIN LABS and Kuende will be able to boost the adoption of the blockchain and cryptocurrency in the general population.

As I have mentioned so many times before, I believe that we are better together. The more services we are able to provide, the more likely people will want to join Kuende and replace their current phone with a FINNEY. It’s a win-win for everyone involved.