We are hard at work positioning ourselves to be the best identity management platform on NEO! The Bridge team is excited for what is ahead. We hope you are, too!

New Engineer on the Team

Bridge Protocol is happy to welcome our newest member, Thomas Lobker. He joins the team as a Blockchain Engineer. Thomas is well renowned in the community as an early City of Zion member. Thomas regularly contributes to the NEO community; you may even catch him in our Discord channel.

As is tradition with new hires, we asked Thomas to tell the community a bit about himself. Thomas provided this response:

“Around the year 1990, at my parents’ home, we had an IBM computer with an Intel 8086 processor. I was only 6 years old then, but somehow playing games was of little interest. Instead, I was trying to make new games myself with Turbo Basic. Of course, this was all very basic, but being able to give instructions to the computer, building new things, was exciting and captured my attention.

For the past ten years, I’ve been working for various telecom operators. My work involved building platforms, mainly on open-source software. My drive has always been to make each platform highly efficient and redundant, while maintaining a high level of security. Linux is my trusted friend and I’m comfortable with many scripting languages, databases, Kamailio, network protocols and other various software assets that I needed over time to achieve my goals.

Naturally, the rise of Bitcoin got my attention and fortunately I was smart enough to buy some in the first couple years. Unfortunately, I was not smart enough to keep them, as I spent several Bitcoin on a very expensive pizza. I became interested in blockchain once again last year. Only this time not as an investment, but to use it for programming smart contracts and for my true passion in making things efficient and secure. NEO was and still is my platform of choice. As one of the first City of Zion members, I was also one of the winners of the NEO dApp Competition. I love blockchain, security and building beautiful platforms, so naturally Bridge Protocol is where I belong. Working together in such a great team, we can build on a amazing future together.”

It is a pleasure having Thomas on the team contributing to our solution! We look forward to the progress we can make for NEO and our unique identity management solution.

Switcheo Listing

After extensive research, we are able to conclude that listing on Switcheo will not be possible until NEP-8 standards areadopted. This issue is caused by differences of interpretation between the Switcheo smart contract and Python smart contracts. While we remain hopeful of a timely resolution, the teams priorities are on more pressing issues.

This same issue also prevents a handful of other NEO projects from being successfully listed on Switcheo. This is only an issue with tokens on a DEX (Decentralized Exchange); it does not prevent IAM from being listed on a CEX (Centralized Exchange).

We are proud to have worked with our partners at Switcheo; during their launch and after. We look forward to their continued development and success! Our engineering team will continue to develop possible solutions and assist in a full resolution where possible.

IAM on Bibox

On May 2nd, IAM was brought up for community vote on Bibox! The vote ends on May 9th with a total of two winners picked in this round. We are very happy to make the list but need your support!

Winners are picked based on the number of votes and number of voters. The competition is close, and it is critical that we get voter support until the final count is made.

Vote at: https://www.bibox.com/votelist

Ambassador Program

The Bridge team is thrilled to welcome aboard our first 10 Ambassadors! This week we will be introducing TWO of those ambassadors; Cash Yared and Steven Lubka. Below is a bit about each ambassador!

Name: Cash Yared

School: Sierra Nevada College

Area of Study: International Studies

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cash-yared-19263b141/

Name: Steven Lubka

School: New College of Florida

Area of Study: Information Systems

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-lubka-0014b0161/

Ambassadors will be available on all the social media channels to help educate the community about Bridge Protocol and the future of blockchain technology.

We are very excited to welcome these founding ambassadors to the Bridge Protocol Ambassador Team!

Please vote to get IAM listed on Bibox!

Rules: https://bibox.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003616113

Vote Here: https://www.bibox.com/votelist