December Roundup

The Keep roundup of content and happenings on our journey to bring privacy to the public Ethereum blockchain.

Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash

This December has been an enormous month for Keep Network. We’ve welcomed new members to the team (with even more to come), introduced new advisors, and will be ringing in the new year with even more announcements, guest posts, and goodness.

So in the spirit of wrapping up 2017 with a bang, please enjoy our jam packed December roundup.

News & Press

Ryan Zurrer shared his views on crypto in 2018, including how Keep fits into his thesis as a “Meta-Protocol”, a protocol that’s applicable across many chains.

Advisor Introductions & Guest Posts

James joins as an advisor with deep experience in decentralized storage and is a leading voice in the new decentralized sharing economy.

Luis joined us as an advisor and he brings with him incredible experience building blockchain companies and an interest in an encrypted data vault for Aragon.

Luis contributed a guest post about the future of decentralized ecosystems, the potential for a Dead Man’s Switch (DMS) use case, and Keep being an essential tool in the developers toolbox.

Education and Background on Keep Technology

To kick off our education series about the technology fueling the Keep project, Prashanth walks us through the history and need for Distributed Hash Tables (DHT’s) for storing and retrieving data on the blockchain.

Erin walks us through why we decided to make our site open source, why we care about sharing our process, and invites everyone to collaborate alongside us.

As we continue with our education series, our Tech Lead Antonio shares his thoughts on the underpinnings of cryptographic security, the need and use of multiple signatures, and how we will achieve privacy using threshold signatures and randomness.

And in case you missed it, here are some highlights from November: