Happy Friday to all! Friday the 13th is usually considered unlucky, but here at SWIPE, we are feeling extra fortunate for the past 2 weeks and as always, are excited to share our happenings.

2nd — 3rd July: Asia Blockchain Summit 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan

CEO Clifford Lim and CSO Sean Kuay traveled to Taipei to attend the Asia Blockchain Summit 2018. Organized by the Asia Blockchain Alliance and said to be one of the most iconic summits in the world, it is host to more than a thousand attendees, a hundred speakers, and government officials from ten countries. Notable attendees are Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance and Charlie Lee, Founder of Litecoin. Some of our partners and advisors are also present as speakers, such as Jehan Chu from Kenetic, and Joshua Ho from QCP Capital.

During the conference, David Lee, Professor at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and Co-Founder of Block Asset shared with the audience a highly apt and relevant quote for us at SWIPE where we are working to build a data privacy and sharing protocol.

With Blockchain, ownership CAN be decentralized and returned to the individuals!

Our SWIPE founders also had a great opportunity to network with prominent individuals present at the summit. Check out some of our pictures below!

CSO Sean and CEO Clifford with Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao

CSO Sean with Litecoin Founder Charlie Lee

5th & 8th July: SWIPE with Wanchain @ KL & Jakarta!

The SWIPE team has been actively engaged with the Wanchain team, learning more about Wanchain’s technology and protocol and exploring areas for collaboration. Wanchain is a blockchain platform that is working to implement cross-chain transfers, transactions, exchange, and interoperability.

To celebrate the launch of the Wanchain Mainnet 2.0, the Wanchain foundation has conducted an Asian tour, together with their partners to reach out to the Southeast Asian market, seen as an attractive hub for cryptocurrency and blockchain adoption. Members of the SWIPE team are present at both of its stops in Jakarta, Indonesia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

COO Iyan Waer with Jack Lu (Founder of Wanchain) and Mark (Business Development at Wanchain)

SWIPE’s COO Iyan Waer and Community Manager Teguh Harmanda attended the Jakarta event on the 5th of July.

CSO Sean Kuay and CTO Andrew Marchen with Wanchain Founder Jack Lu

CTO Andrew Marchen and CSO Sean Kuay attended the Wanchain Meetup held 3 days later at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the 8th of July.

The SWIPE team thanks the Wanchain team and foundation for being gracious hosts, and fully appreciate their outreach efforts into Southeast Asia. We wish them the best in their endeavors and a successful launch of Wanchain Mainnet 2.0.

9th July: Partnership with Fysical

On the 9th of July, SWIPE officially introduced our partnership with Fysical, a decentralized location data market protocol. Both SWIPE and Fysical share common goals and are uniting to build a data ecosystem that is fairer and more equitable for its stakeholders. Fysical serves as an early adopter and data monetization partner on-board the SWIPE network, purchasing the data sets collected, aggregated and analyzed through SWIPE. Check out our full article here.

10th July: COO Iyan Waer speaks at SelasaStartup

On the 10th of July, our COO Iyan Waer spoke at #SelasaStartup, organized by DailySocial.id, an Indonesia-based website that focuses on technology and lifestyle. Iyan touched on blockchain technology, its capabilities and proceeded to speak about the current problem of data monetization and the value proposition of the SWIPE network in building an ecosystem where data buyers and users enjoy greater benefits. Catch him on a live-stream of the event linked below.

Iyan starts speaking at 54:25

On behalf of the SWIPE team, we thank Iyan for his speech as #SelasaStartup. Indonesia is a core focus area for SWIPE, where we have already built a strong following with the deployment of our CepatSwipe lockscreen advertising app and as founders of Ethereum Indonesia. We strongly believe that Indonesia is the linchpin for blockchain and cryptocurrency adoption in Southeast Asia, with extremely high levels of enthusiasm, evidenced by Bitcoin investors outnumbering stock investors. SWIPE thanks our Indonesian fans for their continual support, and we are surely looking forward to more networking events with enthusiasts in our community.

About SWIPE

SWIPE aims to create a network of apps that are able to work together to create valuable data as a collective, instead of relying on centralized intermediaries. As part of the network, all data collected will be aggregated, anonymized and encrypted. It will then be channeled into an analytics engine which packages it to be monetized directly to data buyers in a decentralized data marketplace. This process provides transparency to data buyers as they can trace the origins of the data, creates a fairer way for app developers to monetize data and empowers users by giving them full control and ownership of their data. SWIPE is invested by Kenetic, a blockchain firm that invested in huge blockchain projects like Zilliqa, ICON, and Bluzelle.

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