Everipedia has been in the Press (for Multiple Reasons)

Everipedia’s CIO Larry Sanger was recently interviewed on Larry King Now (one of the world’s most legendary talk shows) to discuss the advantages of decentralized networks as well as the future of blockchain. He was joined by XYO co-founder Markus Levin, Nasgo’s co-founder Eric Tippetts, and Inc. columnist Tracy Hazzard.

Click here to watch the full interview.

Keynote Talk at South by Southwest

We are excited to announce Everipedia has been invited to give a keynote speech at South by Southwest, one of the largest tech conferences in the United States. Our CIO Larry Sanger will be giving a talk titled: “How and Why We Need to Decentralize Social Media,” in which he will discuss the problems with centralized platforms and how blockchain protocols can provide effective solutions that empower both individuals and communities at large.

The speech will take place on March 12 at 3:30 PM at the Austin Convention Center.

Read the abstract of the speech here, and make sure to come say hello to us if you are in Texas attending SXSW!

A New Partnership with Arweave

Earlier this week, we also announced that we partnered with Arweave, a project that enables people to permanently host your web apps and pages in an efficient and cost-effective manner. With the protocol they have built, they aim to incentivize miners to use their unused storage space to permanently host web apps and files on the blockchain.

By collaborating with them, people now have the opportunity to be rewarded for hosting Everipedia pages on the blockchain. They call it the permaweb, which is a layer built on top of the Arweave’s global permanent hard drive. (They explain it in more detail in this Medium post.)

ORE ID now available on KAKAO and LINE

Earlier this year, we made it possible for people to create and edit Everipedia pages by logging in with Facebook and Twitter; we were able to do this using the ORE ID protocol, developed together with AIKON.

We are now happy to announce we have expanded our efforts and finalized integration of KAKAO and LINE, two of the most popular social networks in Japan and South Korea. This integration means we have expanded our reach to 900 million people across Asia who are now able to login and start using Everipedia with just a few clicks.

With these two new options, we believe this will remove barriers and make it much easier for people in Asia to start creating articles on Everipedia. We will continue to explore other options, too, as we strive to encourage more users to get involved in the governance of our platform and make participation on the platform as seamless as possible.

A Quick UX Update

We have made great progress on improving the user interface. As noted in our previous update, we are adding several new features and have made changes that we believe will make the platform more intuitive to use.

On March 1, our developers officially deployed the first version of the new site, as well as the smart contracts on the Kylin testnet. They will be doing some quality assurance testing on the backend over the next month and are on schedule to relaunch the site by April.