Everyone here at Keep hopes your holidays were fantastic and you got the chance to unplug and relax. While wrapping up 2018, we took a moment to reflect upon and appreciate our past year’s work and achievements. Major milestones were completed and we are proud to share those with you in this blog post before we kick off the new year’s race to Mainnet.

Now, let’s have a look at the past 12 months’ summary:

Partners and Use Cases

We joined forces with connected, smart and humble people and projects in the space, who we are proud to call our advisors and partners, and we are constantly exploring new use cases and applications. Check out the summary — DApps, DAO’s, and Apartment Hunting: Everyday Blockchain Privacy Solutions. We’re actively partnering with big players in the ecosystem (Lendroid, Aragon, District0x), with more to announce!

Development

We wrote a couple of pieces giving some insight to our building approach:

Development, Fast and Slow — the adaptation of development practices to the decentralized world.

Building a Beacon: The Road to Mainnet —Keep Network stages on the way to launching on the Ethereum mainnet from prototyping, to audits, and release plans.

In structuring our first release, we’ve emphasized care over speed. In decentralized networks, bug fixes are harder to deploy, and in Keep’s case, a poorly-placed bug can lead to a significant shift in the security guarantees the network provides. Our approach to reaching mainnet is twofold: we have given ourselves the time to prototype, while parallelizing everything we can so that this extra time can be made up where possible. — Antonio Salazar Cardozo, Tech Lead at Keep Network

The Keep Random Beacon: An Early Look — the first milestone of the beacon in action — a demo video, showing our initial pieces fitting together into a working threshold relay.