Our community and ecosystem have seen a lot of activity since our Kyber Network 2.0 event and in this blog post we would like to share some details of what we have been up to and what is happening around the world of Kyber Network.

We have also released our new website, developer portal and Kyber explainer to help you understand what Kyber is building, as well as provide you with all the information needed to start using Kyber Network. To learn more about our Kyber journey, you may read Loi’s recent post Kyber, Together, which details how Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol was conceived and how we are going to power the next phase of the tokenized world.

In order to have significant impact, the collective efforts across a wide range of ecosystem players are often required. It is therefore important for Kyber to not only build our team and increase adoption of our protocol, but to also develop solutions and initiatives to enable the entire decentralized space. We are pleased to share below some of the highlights of our efforts in June and July.

Ecosystem Updates

Increasing Adoption and Utilization of the Liquidity Protocol

Given the importance of connecting the different ecosystems in the decentralized world, Kyber is developing measures to engage more projects for integration and increase adoption of our protocol. For instance, we have established the KyberDeveloper Portal to provide a set of elaborate documentation and APIs for any application and platform to easily tap into the protocol.

Some platforms powered by Kyber

There are 4 new entries into the growing list of decentralized projects in the Kyber ecosystem: Betoken, MoatFund, Easwap and Galion. These projects have integrated with Kyber by using the public documentation guides and our smart contracts*

Betoken is a decentralized crypto hedge fund where anyone can invest, and anyone can get paid for their investment insights. To learn about the Betoken integration and their reasons for utilizing Kyber’s technology, please refer to this article.

MoatFund is a fund managing protocol governed by smart contracts running on Ethereum. Tapping into Kyber’s liquidity pool helps MoatFund easily rebalance their portfolio.

Independent developer Samyak Jain (Twitter @smykjain ) has built a token swap platform that taps into Kyber’s liquidity protocol. Samyak developed his platform easwap.com in just 15 days, and he recounted his experience here. This would be an interesting and relevant read for blockchain developers who are considering starting a platform.

Galion is a financial platform for people to manage their crypto portfolio, keep track of their daily expenses, access token-based services and source for financial expertise. Galion has integrated with Kyber to allow instant, secure and seamless token-to-token swaps on their own platform. The team also shared their reasons for choosing to leverage Kyber’s on-chain liquidity pool.

Making it even easier for many more of such projects to access liquidity is critical for ecosystem growth and definitely one of Kyber’s major objectives. Such integrations help Kyber lay the framework to enable the next phase of the tokenized world where there are potentially millions of different tokens and applications. Kyber aims to be a core infrastructure in this next phase by making tokens liquid and useful across all these applications.

We welcome feedback on how to improve our developer portal and integration tools, and will continue to provide technical support on our KyberDeveloper Telegram channel when necessary.

*All project integrations were achieved by utilizing publicly accessible documentation and guides on the KyberDeveloper Portal . Any application or protocol can openly and freely tap into our liquidity protocol for their inter-token transaction and payment needs, without requiring permission from Kyber Network.

Community Updates

New Kyber Office in Vietnam

At Kyber we strive to foster a welcoming, collaborative and creative work environment for our team members. With over 30 members, our Vietnamese developer team is an important hub of activity and now they can look forward to a brand new office that provides the required tools to support their daily tasks. The modern and open office concept helps inspire creativity and encourages greater collaboration between the different cross-functional teams. It is also an ideal venue to host guests and conduct meetings with potential ecosystem partners.

Modern open concept office in Vietnam

Special conference rooms for meetings and skype calls

Members of our Vietnam team

Growing the Global Team — Entering the Japan market

Kyber is constantly on the lookout for talented and driven individuals from around the world who can help us achieve our vision and goals. Recently, Kyber started an expansion into the Japanese market and we are happy to welcome Taisuke into the Kyber family. He is moderating Kyber’s community activities in Japan and joins other country representatives in increasing awareness of Kyber Network through meetups, events, interviews and social media engagement.

We’ve launched our official Japanese Twitter account to provide our growing Japanese community with updates in their native language. Taisuke was involved in a workshop in Tokyo that was attended by 40 participants ranging from mainstream crypto investors to developers and influencers. During the session, participants learned about the components of Web 3.0 and Kyber’s role in enabling this decentralized space. This is just the start of many more events and activities planned to grow the community and ecosystem in Japan.

Crypto Valley Presentation by Loi

Attending key conferences around the world is an important part of our broader strategy to establish relationships, expand our network and educate the community about what Kyber Network is trying to accomplish. Loi in particular has been travelling extensively to increase awareness about the importance of Kyber’s liquidity protocol. He has made trips to Malta and Liechtenstein, and was one of the key speakers at the Crypto Valley conference held in Zug, Switzerland, alongside other noteworthy guests such as Professor Emin Gün Sirer, Luis Cuende from Aragorn, Mona El Isa from Melonport, and Dominic Williams from Dfinity.

Loi’s presentation in Crypto Valley

In his presentation, Loi shared insights about decentralized exchanges and why Kyber’s focus is fundamentally different from the existing DEXes; Instead of focusing on order books-based trading or professional trading techniques, Kyber is committed to powering the decentralized ecosystem by facilitating instant and seamless inter-token transactions and payments between applications, platforms and other use cases.

You can find a good summary of Loi’s presentation by Daily Fintech here.

DappCon Berlin Presentation by Yaron

Our CTO Yaron was invited to talk at DappCon Berlin. Organized by Gnosis, it featured an impressive roster of speakers including Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joseph Lubin, Martin Koppelmann from Gnosis and many others. Yaron gave a presentation about how Kyber is bringing liquidity on-chain through an open reserve architecture and smart contracts, as well as our approach towards decentralized exchanges. For instance, he shared about how token swaps through Kyber occur entirely on-chain in a single atomic transaction with guaranteed liquidity. Yaron was also on a panel alongside Balazs Deme from Herdius and Alexander Hermann from Gnosis to discuss the future of decentralised exchanges.

Yaron at DappCon Berlin speaking about bringing liquidity on-chain and at the panel discussion on decentralized exchanges

Introducing Gormos at the TXGX — Tech Forum by Ground X

After Europe, we turned our attention to Asia for Korea Blockchain Week. Loi paid a trip to Seoul to attend the Beyond Blocks Summit and travelled to Jeju to speak at TXGX Tech Forum by Ground X (Blockchain arm of Kakao Talk). Loi was on the same panel as Zhuling Chen from Aelf and Qi Zhou from Quarkchain, as he introduced the developer community to Gormos, the upcoming high-performance scaling solution by the Kyber team. Gormos, which is expected to be ready around Q3 2019, is designed for specific applications that require an extremely fast, low cost and low latency scaling solution. Other speakers at the forum included Xinshu Dong from Zilliqa, Dawn Song from Oasis Labs and Long Vuong from Tomochain. The forum brought together the best minds in the blockchain space in Asia, and was a good opportunity for mutual sharing between Kyber and other ecosystem players about how to bolster collaboration and build strong communities.

Loi on a panel with Quarkchain and Aelf at TXGX Tech Forum

Engaging with the student developer community in Seoul, Korea

Kyber’s Korea representative, Tiger helped organize a fully-subscribed developer meetup at the #Hashed Lounge in Seoul. Participants were student developers from Decipher, Seoul National University’s blockchain academy and research group. Loi shared about how Kyber is working towards becoming the liquidity protocol for the tokenized world, as well as the challenges and milestones we have experienced since our token sale.

Speaking at #Hashed Lounge to student developers from Seoul National University

Block72 Meetup in Korea

Kyber Network participated in another meetup organized by Block72, a Korean blockchain consulting firm, with the theme “Bringing Blockchain Technology to the Mainstream”. Our Head of Business TN Lee presented on how Kyber’s liquidity protocol was going to power the decentralized ecosystem and make tokens liquid and useful for mainstream applications, before joining Theta Network and IoTex on a panel discussion about the potential benefits and challenges of decentralizing incumbent industries. Other attendees at the meetup included well-known names in blockchain such as Richard Ma from Quantstamp and Xinshu Dong from Zilliqa. The Kyber team left Korea with many new connections while reinforcing existing relationships.

TN sharing about Kyber Network, and on a panel discussion with Theta Network and IoTex

In August, we will release more educational and communication material to further articulate our broader strategy to the community and ecosystem. You can keep track of the major updates lined up for the rest of the year on our roadmap:

About Kyber Network

Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol allows decentralized token swaps to be integrated into any application, enabling value exchange to be performed seamlessly between all parties in the ecosystem. Using this protocol, developers can build innovative payment flows and applications, including instant token swap services, ERC20 payments, and financial DApps — helping to build a world where any token is usable anywhere.

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