We had also interviewed the Knights prior to commencement, here are some of the takeaways which should shed more insight on the backgrounds and motivations of the Aergo Knights team.

Who founded Aergo Knights and what drove you to establish this community?

The Aergo Knights emerged after our encounter in the Unofficial Aergo Traders group, the three founding members being Patrick, Amec and Bertrand. We noticed during the month of April a growing excitement about Aergo and we decided to start promoting the hybrid enterprise platform at the end of the month. It was right after the release of the article about the Aergo Knights ambassadors, the real ones!

The drive behind that idea is to be more than simple stakeholders. We’re doing it because of a sincere admiration for the impressive value proposition of Aergo (A* tech, A* team, Blocko, existing large customers and more).

We want to add value to the project, that we believe will revolutionize the technological landscape much like Linux did, as much as we can. With initiatives ranging from a simple feedback to long-term projects inside the ecosystem like dApps.

On a side note, some of our members also realized that Aergo is a perfect situation for developer entry as an early adopter, and some of us are keen on learning how to code by using their tools and SDK.

Which countries does your community represent?

The knights are distributed around the world, like bitcoin nodes. Most of our members come from Europe (including The Netherlands, Belgium and France) and Asia (Korea, Philippines, Singapore).

Despite these two dominant continents, our reach goes far beyond; for example in Nigeria and Argentina.

Of course, this is just the beginning of the journey. We will focus on making sure we fully leverage the regional networks of our members according to the strategic choices of Aergo.

How do you see Aergo impacting your local market with existing enterprise technologies?

It’s clear that most businesses can benefit from the integration of blockchain based systems; we clearly see Aergo being an attractive platform to various types of actors in many sectors.

While large companies are known for being relatively slow at adopting new technologies, they probably are the first to consider a system upgrade for financial reasons. Because Aergo is a hybrid blockchain and uses a SQL syntax for its programming, we believe it will get adopted much faster (and with ease) compared to newer implementations like Solidity for Ethereum. Aergo will impact our local markets by integrating seamlessly with existing back-end systems in the enterprise world, thus allowing a wide range of actors, large to small, to consider the upgrade to trustless decentralized technologies. For example in the financial sector, supply chain or real estate.

We also see value for governments around the world; whether it is to enforce a transparent voting process, new education systems, ID management and more. Finally, startups and small structures can obviously adopt the Aergo hybrid platform to build brand new business models. To us, entrepreneurs are the most interesting customers that could adopt Aergo because of their disruptive nature (Uber, Tesla, “your favorite app”…).

Further examples highlighted by Patrick

Insurance eg. smart contract execution on payments

Voting

ID management

- Use your own ID to login to social apps

- Being able to monetize your own personal data

- Being able to determine who sees what (e.g. insurance company)

- Use your own ID to login to social apps - Being able to monetize your own personal data - Being able to determine who sees what (e.g. insurance company) Land Registry

Supply chain

- Track goods using sensors to ensure being held in optimal conditions during transport

- Establish trusted link between manufacturer and seller of goods (re-stock of goods, etc)

- Track goods using sensors to ensure being held in optimal conditions during transport - Establish trusted link between manufacturer and seller of goods (re-stock of goods, etc) Crowdfunding

Which countries besides Korea do you see opportunity for Aergos hybrid chain?

Any country in the world honestly!

The Aergo software stack (Mainnet chain+ various components) is a new paradigm for society, it could benefit to most enterprises and organizations willing to reduce their costs, improve their IT security, and automate their operations. Based on our different locations, we differentiate two main types of markets:

“Developed” countries “Developing” countries.

The first group refers to wealthy countries or regions like the US, Europe, Korea and Japan. Generally speaking, Aergo will help large enterprises, public entities and even startups in these regions in order to reduce bureaucracy, cut costs and delays to maximize productivity. For these countries, the existing infrastructures (telecommunications, highways…) are quite good; organizations just need better tools and superior ways to do business with each other.

On the other hand, many developing countries are growing fast in Africa, Asia or elsewhere. For these countries, the opportunity of blockchain and cryptocurrencies is larger than developed countries because they have less infrastructure and less financial resources. In Africa for example, most people living in cities have smartphones but they lack access to certain vital services like healthcare, banking, education or connectivity. Just like they’re doing with clean energies, the different actors (private & public) in developing countries can build their society based on the latest technologies like Aergo to establish a future of abundance. They don’t need to repeat the mistakes made in the US or Europe the last decades, businesses and individuals in these regions can adapt faster and take technological shortcuts!

Finally, What advice do you have for the Aergo Team?

We feel like the team is extremely capable of achieving its goals, only a few details could be worked on in our opinion. Here are the domains you need to focus on in our view:

User Experience

Offer the Apple experience by making things as easy as possible to understand and work with in the ecosystem.

Interactive Community

You should give us as much opportunities available to experience the tech, dApps, and tools. Let us give feedback and participate as much as possible.

Rely on your Knights/Community members

Make sure you leverage the value of the members of your ecosystem to the full.

Don’t change!

We love Aergo as it is: a stellar project with real customers. You know what to do to get adoption, don’t listen too much to external voices and don’t watch what your competitors are doing more than needed!

From the Aergo Knights Team