Hello to the Enigma community!

Our team is excited to introduce a new process for collaboratively researching and writing content for the Enigma blog. We’re always searching for more ways for our community to participate more directly in our project as we work towards the Genesis Game and our mainnet launch. This new initiative will give members of our community and ecosystem the opportunity to share interesting research, perspectives, and experiences on Enigma’s blog, as well as through our other official channels.

This won’t be the first time that we’ve featured community-led content. We previously organized a community writing contest, which resulted in some amazing submissions. Check out the winning essay below!

We’ve also featured research and writing by members of the Enigma Collective in our Solutions Series, including this contribution on Dark DAOs and Secret Voting from Leor Fishman.

Today, we’re announcing how you can become a member of the Collective and publish your own research and writing on the Enigma Collective Blog! Read on to see some potential topics and how you can get involved.

You can follow all of our community writing on the Enigma Collective Blog!

First Topic: Selling Your Own Data

The Collective Blog will feature writing related to privacy technologies, various use cases for Enigma and other decentralized tech, Web 3.0, privacy as a human right, and many other relevant topics. We want to feature submissions from researchers, businesspeople, government employees, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors — anyone who has a perspective on how these types of next-generation technologies can help us build a better future.

Our first discussion of the Collective Blog resulted in a list of awesome ideas we could feature initially. The Collective organized a group call to narrow it down topic. Following that conversation, we decided to focus on issues related to selling personal data. In preparation for the next Collective call, tentatively scheduled for February 3, we are gathering relevant links and questions here. Check it out!

(Note that Collective calls are separate from our regular Open Community Calls—they happen more frequently, discuss ongoing projects to support the protocol, and are open to Collective members and the Enigma core team.)

Refining Our Process

We have also defined some goals for the Collective Blog. Our aim is to publish at least one Collective blog post every month or so, and we’ll be using our experience composing and publishing the initial post to further develop the process for drafting and reviewing content. Every 2–3 weeks, there will be a Collective group call to make further progress. Ideally, there will be many different topics researched and questions answered!

If you have an idea for a future Collective Blog post — something you’d like to see researched, or that you’d like to research yourself — please don’t hesitate to share with our community on Discord or on the Enigma Developers Forum. Of course, everyone in the community is more than welcome to create a new topic on the forum for discussion. But if you become a member of the Enigma Collective, you’ll have the opportunity to have your work published and promoted through the Enigma blog and official channels.

We’d love to collaborate with you and recognize your work. So please apply!

Join the Enigma Collective

Discover how being part of the Enigma Collective may benefit you! Members can gain support and resources for their individual project(s) and research, connect with like-minded privacy and blockchain experts around the world, and learn from each other by participating in various Working Groups. The Collective Blog is just one way we want to highlight the awesome people at the heart of Enigma’s community.

Want to learn more? Here’s a good place to start.

Ready to apply for membership? Use this link.

http://bit.ly/enigmacollective

We are excited to see this new initiative launch, and we can’t wait to share even more opportunities for our community to get directly involved with Enigma. As we approach the launch of our first mainnet in 2020, we will be dedicated more resources than ever towards our community. This is just one small part of a very exciting beginning. Thank you for your support!

Onwards and upwards,

The Enigma team and Collective