Please note that the views that I express below are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Kik, the Kin Foundation or any of my colleagues at Kin.

As most of you reading this already know Kik, the creator of the Kin token, recently took a strong position to fight the SEC on their claims that Kin is a security. But I’m not actually here to parrot the words of so many other journalists that have already begun to cover this story. I’m not here to talk about the legal ramifications and the stances of Kik or the SEC. I’m here to talk about what I know. I’m the Lead Developer Advocate for the Kin Ecosystem. I spend my days working with the developers that are integrating Kin into their apps and developers that have already integrated. I work with them to get their feedback and help make their experience as smooth as possible. Kin is a product focused blockchain looking to bring crypto to the masses. The Kin currency (on our new kin blockchain) was launched only a few short months ago, it’s public, liquid, and decentralized. There are currently 44 apps (with nearly 30 more on the way), and they are producing around 380,000 unique users spending Kin in their apps each month which you can view HERE. This is the metric we use to measure how well we are doing our job. We use this to measure utility and real world usage. We’re here to bring digital currency to mainstream users.

The goal of Kin is to be a global digital currency used by mainstream users of mobile applications. And we’re doing it. Kin is being used as a currency. Our team continues to work hard at improving our tools every single day. This can be verified at one of the most active Githubs in the entire cryptosphere. There are many people out there that are quick to attack the project without understanding what has actually been accomplished in the last year alone. A new blockchain, SDKs for iOS, Android and Unity and so much more. All of these shortsighted claims are untrue, of course. I work with all of the people behind the scenes, and the work never stops.

We have a vision and we get closer to realizing it with each and every day. The SEC threatens what we have worked so hard to build. And as I mentioned previously, the numbers and the utility of Kin prove that it’s being used as currency every single day. If I had to take a guess based off our current trajectory I would say we’ll easily have 1 million unique users spending Kin every single month by the end of the year. If that’s not a currency, then I’m not sure what is.

Thanks for listening to my unsolicited thoughts.

For more information on what Kin is planning do in this space you can read about it HERE.

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