All updates here are taken directly from the official Unibright telegram. The Unibright CTO Stefan Schmidt usually posts an update on a Monday, unless there is a specific reason to hold off (For example, National Holiday or personal Vacation). The Updates are intended to keep the community updated with the weekly goings on. Any major announcements, such as partnerships, clients or development milestones, are posted on the official medium blog post.

30th of December 2019 - 2019 Summary and 2020 Outlook

https://t.me/unibright_io/153660

Hi Community!

We are currently preparing the summary blog and token locks for 2019. We will release the summary blog with all details and the outlook for 2020 tomorrow, Dec 31, 2 pm CET.

Updated 31st of December - Blogpost

Dear Community,

please find the blog post about our 2019 recap and 2020 outlook here:

https://medium.com/unibrightio/unibrights-2019-recap-and-2020-outlook-75a8956cef41

We were working hard to be able to show you our new verticals before the year ends. All these verticals will bring additional usage to UBT, and we are happy that we reached our token lock goals for 2019 as well.

2020 will be a very interesting year for Blockchain in general, for those (like Unibright) helping the technology to mature and get adopted by enterprises specifically - the launch of our new website in a few days will sharpen our perception in that matter as well.

Have a great start into the new year!

Best wishes from the whole Unibright team!

23rd of December 2019 - Christmas (Year end updates next week!)

Stefan Schmidt, Unibright CTO

https://t.me/unibright_io/153364

Dear community,

as announced last week, this week will be about Christmas, taking a rest, and meeting our families. Please expect our 2019 recap and 2020 outlook (including great news about token locks) next week.

We wish you all a merry christmas!

Best wishes from the complete Unibright team!

Marten Jung, Unibright CEO

https://t.me/unibright_io/153399

Dear All,

I want to take the opportunity to thank you all for your engagement within in this group and in general. I strongly feel that we have an outstanding community and an outstanding team – I am very positive that we will achieve more great things around Unibright (and blockchain adoption in general) together in 2020.

I wish you all and your loved ones a merry Christmas! Take care!

As Stefan already said: please expect our 2019 recap and 2020 next week.

Best wishes from the complete Unibright team as well!

Best,

Marten

16th of December 2019 - German bank, STO platform, Tracing lead, EEA and many other meetings

https://t.me/unibright_io/152860

Hi Community,

this week is the last "full" working week here in Germany, but for us it is packed with meetings (German bank, STO platform, Tracing lead, EEA and many others).

We are still working full speed, and although of course we are taking some days off on Christmas, we will also present our 2019 summary until the end of the year - as promised.

Have a great week,

Stefan

9th of December 2019 - Partnership, Additional token utility, Website updates

https://t.me/unibright_io/151379

Dear Community,

our news about our 360° security token platform have been very well received. This week there will be more meetings and development in this direction! We also are finalizing a nice partnership to be officially presented later this week.

On top, we have great news about our token use: Our consulting services bundled in unibright.solutions can now be paid in UBT as well! 1 UBT is valued 0,14 USD for these services until further notice.*

We are currently fixing the last details about the wording to be put on our websites. We are also currently working on restructuring our web appearance to better show our offerings towards tokenization services - stay tuned! 💪

Have a great week,

Stefan

*Confirmation from Ruud Huismann that tokens received by Unibright as payment for consultancy packages will NOT be sold back on the market. They will be kept by the team.

https://t.me/unibright_io/151440

The question was raised:”Will the tokens used for packages fall under the category “not return to the market,” or will Unibright sell the tokens on the market somewhere in the foreseeable future?”

Answer: No, Unibright does NOT move those tokens back to the market for selling in the foreseeable future.”

2nd of December 2019 - Tokenization and Unibright

https://t.me/unibright_io/150841

Dear Community,

This week will be packed with many meetings and further development of various topics within our "Tokenization" cases.

In 2019, we touched so many different aspects of tokenization, had workshops with real estate owners interested in the field from USA to Germany, met with regulators, asset managers, STO platform providers, financial institutions and many more.

We summed up our activities on a high level in a blog post, which you can read here: https://medium.com/unibrightio/unibright-and-tokenization-a8562f7ac83e

We see this blog post as a starting point to describe and explain the different fields of tokenization we are active in. All these fields need integration (not only technical, but also on market level) and that's why it makes so much sense for an integrator like Unibright to tackle these fields and to enable professional players to enter the ecosystem.

There is a lot of work to do, we will keep pushing things together with potential clients, partners and regulators and will provide more detailed blog posts on all single aspects of tokenization.

Thanks for being here - have a great week!

Stefan

25th of November 2019 - Custodian Services, STO Platforms, Cross-Chain and Decentralised Oracles

https://t.me/unibright_io/150592

Good morning Community.



Besides filing in our 4 proposals for the ministry backed support program until Friday, we have several follow up meetings around our tokenization cases this week (custodian services, STO platforms)

On development side we are mainly working on cross-chain and integration matters, also including decentralized oracles.



Read our blog post about orchestration of templates (also introducing milestone payments and votings) here: https://medium.com/unibrightio/template-orchestration-with-unibright-8e6d2bf05d69





Have a great week!

18th of November 2019 - Four proposals for the German Ministry Research Program

https://t.me/unibright_io/150021

Hi,



This week we continue working on our extended drafts for the (German) ministry backed research programs, a lot of work on presenting sources and scientific background. We hand in 4 proposals, 12 pages each, deadline end of next week. You get the picture, now back to work 😉



Have a great week

11th of November 2019 - Updated Template Documentation, German Ministry Research Program, The Hague University

https://t.me/unibright_io/149834

Good morning.

Click Here to Watch



This week we will work on some "easy-to-read" documentation on how to orchestrate our different templates into more complex workflows.

Also we entered the 2nd round of a German ministry backed research program where we prepare extended research drafts for different blockchain related topics to be reviewed in the beginning of 2020.

Have a great week.

Ruud Huismann - The Hague University Update

Our Unibright Project Group at The Hague University is now in the final stages of the project. Just finished with the group at The Hague University. Their assignment was to make an assessment of different companies that could benefit from blockchain technology. Then they would pitch blockchain technology to them, and how that specific company could benefit from it. So I informed them of our tokenization case and how it can be used for the tokenization of real estate. So that was an area that they did a deep dive into.

4th of November 2019 - Clients, Ethereum Mainnet Initiative, Decentralized Oracles

https://t.me/unibright_io/149538

Dear Community,



Besides our ongoing work, this week we will follow some leads and contacts of last week, two potential clients (Medical field and tracing), the Ethereum Mainnet Initiative and some tests on integrating Decentralized oracles into the Unibright Framework.

Have a great week!

28th of October 2019 - Partnership Preparations and Client Meetings

https://t.me/unibright_io/148902

Hi Community,



This week we work on some partnerships established over the last months. We are preparing official partnership announcements as well as meeting potential future clients together with these partners.

We also expect some regulatory feedback this or next week on our tokenization cases and are finishing some infastructural work on our website hosting (that's why some of you were facing some connection problems on saturday and sunday).

Have a great week!

21st of October 2019 - Ethereum Enterprise Alliance (EEA) Mainnet Initiative

https://t.me/unibright_io/148617

Hello!

This week we prepare our possible contribution to the eea mainnet initiative. Unibright could be a key provider for specifications in b2b enterprise blockchain integration and off-chain code integration.

Check this out:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-enterprise-ethereum-alliance-launches-the-eea-mainnet-initiative

14th of October 2019 - Software Development and Roadmap Goals

https://t.me/unibright_io/148412



Dear Community,



Besides following our business development streams (mainly for tokenization), we will also target some infrastructural work this week, rebasing some of our development repositories, and fully automating our building, testing and deployment pipelines.

Sometimes, software development means to do something you have already done before again, to clean up, to document and to automate 😉

Personally, I like this work, because I see some code on my monitor which happens not so often since I became the CTO of Unibright (compared to my "former" life, where my main work was software architecture and development).

Question from Timo: Can the goals be achieved by the end of the year? The roadmap goals.🙂

That's what we are working for!

December latest we will summarize where we stand regarding our 2019 goals and will also add details to the future roadmap. That's work in progress 😉

Have a great week.

Stefan

8th of October 2019 - Tokenization, Development, Research

https://t.me/unibright_io/148215

Dear Community,



this week in short bullet points:

- Tokenization: Meetings with German Bank aiming to tokenize parts of their real estate portfolio

- Development: Working on a voting template and combining it with the multi party approval template

- Research: Finalizing applications on two German research programs, together with 2 different universities

Have a great week!

30th of September 2019 - University Lectures, Masters and PhD Theses, Research Support Programs.

https://t.me/unibright_io/147886

Dear Community,

This week, we will wrap up some of the research related work, we have been doing so far. In the last 9 months, we established great contacts to universities, research facilities, and enterprise innovation departments. We gave lectures, audited master and PhD theses and prepared our participation in research support programs to be launched in 2020. We are we working on a blog post providing some more details here.

Please note that we keep our wallet solution online for another 2 weeks. There have been some days of downtime due to an Amazon AWS update, so we decided to give Unibright token sale participants some more time to move their tokens to their private ledgers.

Have a great week!

Stefan

23rd of September 2019 - Regulators, Asset Managers, Real Estate Owners and German Universities

https://t.me/unibright_io/147652

Dear Community



This week we will e-meet contacts from all over the world (Germany, USA, Israel) working in different fields that are relevant for our tokenization cases (regulators, asset managers and real estate owners).

Moreover we are establishing contacts to startup programs around german universities who need blockchain implementation.

Have a great week!

25th of September 2019 - Question from the Community

There are a number of blockchain sceptics who claim that the scope of usecases for blockchain is (very) limited. In many cases centralized databases are the better option for enterprises than dlt due to much lower costs, much higher throughput and other factors. With this in mind, does Unibright expect enough (near) future demand for it’s blockchain based business integration solutions as additive technology to justify it’s continuation of offering these solutions?

I understand that recently Unibright got involved in the business of tokenization. Is this, because there is (too) little demand for the other blockchain based integration solutions that Unibright offers or is it a nice addition to Unibright’s portfolio of blockchain based solutions that are already in (high) demand?

Stefan Schmidt (Unibright CTO)

https://t.me/unibright_io/147717

Hi,

a mixture of all these points is "true". So great question! Thanks!

In fact, this is exactly what we have been telling from the very beginning: A new technology needs adoption, usecases, integration. Nothing will happen over night.

Still, the potential of blockchain is way more than just being a decentralized Database. A database can not perform contract base code, that various parties can rely on, for example.

Our tokenization cases are not just a nice addition to Unibright. They hold many integration cases (to asset managers, to financial ERP systems, to regulators) and a lot of code (exchange contracts, tokenization contracts, KYC and AML solutions), so tokenization will be one of the first fields where blockchain shows his advantages.

Our Framework is prepared to cover all these cases.

Asking us about future demand of blockchain in general is a little bit of crystal ball, but if we were not convinced, we would not be working on it every day by developing, educating and showcasing.

Best,

Stefan

Marten Jung (Unibright CEO)

https://t.me/unibright_io/147719

Great input indeed Wu Wei, very much appreciated, very thoughtful.

That is why we started unibright.solutions too, to work together with customers on the question which part of their existing business processes can be put on blockchain on profit of DLT technology.

And of course, as Stefan started to point out it will always be about connecting off-chain and on-chain elements of business processes. So the picture of having every part of a business process transformed into a DLT representation does not hold true for most processes.

In total that is why we focus so much on integration.

Best!

25th of September 2019 - Update on Blockchain Minor for Hague University Students

Ruud Huismann

https://t.me/unibright_io/147763

Just finished a nice presentation/workshop at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Second year in a row that we are a part of their blockchain minor.



Twice as many students compared to last year. Definitely the room was bigger compared to last year.

You recognize your work @ryutza ?

17th of September 2019 - Strategic partner meetings, Tokenization, Frankfurt.

https://t.me/unibright_io/147438

Dear community.

Greetings from Frankfurt. This week is 100% focused on meeting strategic partners for our tokenization cases. Great weather, great mood, great opportunities.

Have a nice week!

Follow up from Ruud Huismann (Ambassador & Network manager for Unibright)

Great Stefan. I’m meeting our students this week again. We will be covering blockchain in supply chain and STOs. Soon they will start contacting companies who might have an interest in blockchain.

For those interested, you can always watch our webinar. A great way to learn more about the basics of blockchain, especially in the supply chain industry.

https://medium.com/unibrightio/unibright-shares-know-how-with-institute-for-supply-management-b71d0d4606de

9th of September 2019 - Student projects, Tokenization presentations and partnerships.

https://t.me/unibright_io/147123

Good Morning, Unibrighters.

This week we will host the result presentation of our students project at the technical university in bingen.

For our tokenization cases, we are presenting to contacts and building future partnerships in Tel Aviv, Berlin and London.

Have a great week!

2nd of September 2019 - Final regulator meetings, decentralised security exchanges, custodians and Data centers.

https://t.me/unibright_io/146909

Hello Unibright Community,

Thanks Jack for this great summary (Link). It's exactly that spirit that defines our work this week:

- Preparing the final regulator meetings concerning everything related with our tokenization cases

- Doing research and integration work on GO Language

- Meeting potential tokenization partners in the field of decentralized (Security) exchanges, Custodians and Data Centers

And also follow ups on last week

- Going deeper into our proposals for the German blockchain use case competition

- A review meeting for the students project

Have a great week!

Stefan

Follow up from Ruud Huismann (Ambassador & Network manager for Unibright)

https://t.me/unibright_io/146913

Great Stefan. And just to add, as all of you know, last year Unibright was part of the Blockchain Minor at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in The Hague. Another minor is starting this week for about 120 students. I will drop some tweets at the kick off tonight so keep an eye out. 120 students means that the number of students has more than doubled compared to last year for the minor. I will be presenting shortly for the students and tell them about Unibright.

26th of August 2019 - Students, Client Consultations, Proposal Submissions

https://t.me/unibright_io/146627

Dear Community,

This week, we will have another event with our cooperation with the Technical University in Bingen. Students are working on templates for different voting processes that are settled on the blockchain. It is about Solidity coding, and on top creating an abstract model for it that can be used by the Unibright Framework to create code for voting processes for other protocols as well.

With Unibright Solutions, we have workshops with different vendors and providers in the data center space, here we mainly talk about Custodian solutions, which will also be very relevant for our tokenization cases.

For a blockchain use case competition (backed by the German government) we work on different proposals we will hand in until the End of September.

We are building, building, building (and of course educating wherever it is needed 😉)

Have a great week,

Stefan

19th of August 2019 - Follow ups, regulators, tokenization, partnerships & clients

https://t.me/unibright_io/146271

Dear Community,



This week there will be a lot of after work of all the meetings and calls we had last week.

One area is related to legal stuff, for example we will send out a mailing to all wallet.unibright.io users soon, telling them to move their ubt from our ico solution to their own private ledgers, as this wallet was mainly used for the purpose of the ico.

Other calls are with regulators, related to best possibly prepare our tokenization cases. Here we will get support by Ernst & Young, among others.

Continuously on our list are our tracing clients, libra and other partnerships we are currently checking on.

Have a great week!

Stefan

13th of August 2019 - Client & Partner Meetings, Tokenization Milestone

https://t.me/unibright_io/145985

Dear community.

This week seems to be the week of calls and meetings, we are using Skype, Hangout, Zoom and whatever fancy conference systems out there to talk to potential partners and clients.



From development side we reach an important milestone in our tokenization cases and will focus on integration tests and deployment tasks here.



Sorry for the delay, expect our next week's update on Monday again.



Best,

Stefan

5th of August 2019 - Libra Camp, Regulators, Tokenization, Partnerships

https://t.me/unibright_io/145545

Hello dear Unibright Community,



this week started with a student's project at the Technical University in Bingen, that we "host". Students will use and extend the Unibright Framework to get their hands into Blockchain and Smart Contract Development. This is a future oriented investment, to early bring students closer to Blockchain (and hopefully meet some of them again as future Unibright developers 😉)



And:

- LibraCamp proposals

- Conversations/Meetings with Regulators and Financial Investors on future of Tokenization and Securities (rather generic, but also interesting for our Tokenization cases)

- Development

- Partnering



In the 2nd half of the week, we will also have some face to face meetings in Berlin, moving some contacts from the digital world to the "real world", meeting them personally and in 3D 😉



Have a great week, Stefan

30th of July 2019 - Libra Camp, Digital Asset Holdings, Tracing Consortium, Tokenization Client

https://t.me/unibright_io/145127

Dear Community,



this week:

- we are intensifying talks to Libracamp

- we push our DigitalAsset partnership further to the official announcement

- we have follow up meetings with potential participants of our planned tracing consortium

- we continue developing, mainly in the tokenization case



Have a great time!

22nd of July 2019 - Tokenization, Batch Tracing, Energy Related Start up, DAML Partnership, Libra Integration.

https://t.me/unibright_io/144548

After some days off last week enjoying some family time we returned to the Unibright headquarters today.

This week we have quite a few meetings coming up, covering pretty much all spaces we are currently active in: our tokenization cases, our tracing cases, a new use case from a energy related startup (early stage), DAML partnership, Libra development and most probably additional things coming up we just don't know yet - it's just Monday 😉

Stay tuned and have a great week!

16th of July 2019 (Bastian Update) - Cross-Industry Tracing Template, Novatrace.org

https://t.me/unibright_io/143947

Dear community,

since Stefan enjoys his well-deserved vacation, I take over our Monday’s update... on Tuesday :)



This week‘s focus is on tracing...

As you guys know, we are currently working on a basis for a cross-industry tracing template.

The goal is to develop a standard that, depending on the industry, can be adapted to the respective requirements.

We would therefore like to work with both sides equally:

Those who issue certificates and are responsible for quality assurance (e.g. Novatrace), as well as genuine customers who wish to comply with these standards.



This means a lot of meetings and intensive conversations, and hopefully we will be able to tell you more about their success soon.



Have a great week!

8th of July 2019 - DigitalAsset.com Partnership, DAML Integration, SAP Hana Migration, Tokenization Template

https://t.me/unibright_io/143285

Hi Unibrighters!

This week started with another meeting with digitalasset.com on our partnership and further DAML integration today. Good progress!



Topics for our development team this week will be SAP Hana migration, and adding features to our tokenization template, here mainly addressing automated tests and some extended front-end concepts.

Have a great week!

1st of July 2019 - Libra/MOVE Integration

https://t.me/unibright_io/142493

Dear Community.

After our successful Carbonara Launch last week, this week is mainly about setting up LIBRA/MOVE integration into the Unibright Framework. We will have a dedicated blog post on our development here soon - stay tuned!

26th of June 2019 - Carbonara Launch with Zuehlke

https://t.me/unibright_io/141903

We are extremely excited about Carbonara.



Unibright is blockchain agnostic and we are sure, that clients will make their decision for a specific blockchain not only by technical arguments, but also by "How green is the underlying technology"



Carbonara will raise awareness for this matter, and we invite you all to spread the word about it and to contribute (by coding, tweeting, and so on).

17th of June 2019 - Presenting the UB Framework at Synchronize Europe in London

https://t.me/unibright_io/141034

On our way to "Synchronize Europe" conference in London, where we present Unibright and DAML together with digitalasset.com

11th of June 2019 - Blockchain Expo Europe, DigitalAsset.com partnership

https://t.me/unibright_io/140213

Dear Community,

yesterday was an official holiday in Germany, and now we are happy to tell you what this week brings to the Unibright Universe.



One part of the team will be attending Blockchain Expo Europe next week (Amsterdam) and is preparing.



Marten and Stefan will join Snynchronize Europe (https://www.imn.org/financial-technology/conference/Synchronize-Europe/Agenda.html) in London. We are teaming up with digitalasset.com here and showing how DAML (their blockchain agnostic programming language) and Unibright can work together. Stefan will also show a demo of the Unibright Framework creating DAML code out of graphical representation with our Workflow Designer.



The Unibright / Digitalasset partnership will be launched officially some weeks after the event, but we both are really excited about joining forces. Digital Asset is backed by 15 strategic investors, including leading financial and technology companies that are uniquely positioned to help drive the adoption of blockchain solutions on a global scale.

3rd of June 2019 - Workshop, STO, Novatrace.org, Carbonara

https://t.me/unibright_io/139677

Dear Unibright Community,

it is Monday and we just had our start into the week. A perfect moment to tell you what we are currently at:



- We are preparing the Unibright Meetup and Workshop at The Hague University, also giving an outlook on how Unibright is useful for STO related projects

- We had an exciting call with Novatrace and are aiming to work together on tracing standards for out Tracing templates and clients

- Our current plan on Carbonara is a launch at end of June (exact date will be announced soon)



We wish you a great and (uni)bright week, all the best,

Stefan

27th of May 2019 - Blockchain Conference, Tracing Clients and templates, Carbonara with Zuehlke

https://t.me/unibright_io/138880

Dear Unibright Community,

it is Monday and we just had our start into the week. A perfect moment to tell you what we are currently at:

- Ruud and Jack returned from the Malta Conference and we have to catch up to all contacts they met and made there, mainly from the STO sector, also with useful information for our real estate client

- For the tracing clients, we are preparing talks with a non-profit organization aiming to set standards in transparent tracing processes, which would be very helpful in synchronizing our batch tracing template features with international standards

- Carbonara is 90% ready, we will discuss next steps with the Zuehlke marketing team this week to ensure a proper launch of a great project



We wish you a great and (uni)bright week, all the best,

Stefan

15th of May 2019 - Tokenization and cross-chain integration, German food company, ISM webinar and Unibright Meetup

https://t.me/unibright_io/137840

Dear Unibright Community,

as it has been exactly one month after our road map update (see the pinned message), I want to give you a short heads up on some of the different client cases we have been working on, from a CTO perspective 😉



US-based real estate client (tokenization and cross-chain integration):

We made a lot of progress here, met in Dublin last week and have a development focus group working on the related template this week in Bingen (3 Backend/Blockchain Developers, 1 UX specialist, 1 front-end developer, 1 architect, 1 legal expert, 1 market expert, Ingo, Marten and me). It is still a lot of work to do, but once the template is up and running, it has potential for a lot of consumption / traction on the UB framework.



German based food company (transparent supply chain)

Basically we are using our batch tracing template here, but the specifics needed takes some time. The client is dealing with medical food, so there is studies and clinics involved and at this time we have to wait a little bit to continue. There is another (Canada based) company who want to do exactly the same, using the UB framework, and we are working on both cases in parallel to put as much domain knowledge into our template as possible.



Carbonara: Our CO2-compensation related side project also comes closer to its public launch, we expect to have something ready to show in June.



Speeches, workshops, meetups, webinars: The ISM webinar has just been published (see our Blog), and a meetup is about to come.



There are of course tons of details on all ends (development, networking, showcasing) and we still follow our credo to publish details about certain news once they are 100% fix - so this message is just the exception proving the rule 😉



More info soon, all the best,

Stefan

LINKS

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