Introducing the Enigma Collective!

The Enigma Collective is the core community — and the heart — of Enigma. Learn who we are, what we do, and how to join.

Hello to the community!

Enigma’s community has always been a vibrant and diverse group of supporters, and now it has a strong core — the Enigma Collective.

Our Ambassadors have always led the way for Enigma, contributing to and leading dozens of projects on a volunteer basis. They consistently represent the values of Enigma and push us towards the sustainable, secure, more decentralized future we’re trying to build. (In a moment, you’ll see just how many aspects of the project they work on and contribute to!) We’re extremely proud and honored to have their support. Ambassadors have been active in over 15 countries, ensuring Enigma becomes and remains a global project.

Over the past months, we’ve continued asking ourselves: how can Ambassadors — and Enigma — be more effective? How can we grow this program while maintaining the incredible quality of its participants? How can we all better support the growth of the entire decentralized ecosystem, while ensuring that we continue to solve for privacy?

Our answer — one that our Ambassadors and core team have come to together — is the Enigma Collective. It’s a restructuring of our current Ambassador program that we believe better reflects the purpose of the program and the capacity of its members. Please read on to learn why, what’s next, and how you can join the Collective.

Apply to become a Collective Member here: http://bit.ly/enigmacollective

Becoming a Collective

Since the origin of Ambassadors, we’ve always felt the term wasn’t really representative of the huge amount and breadth of effort that people were performing. To us, Ambassador feels like a passive term: someone who will speak positively of something when asked, but not someone who is actively driving its success. Together we realized the program needed a name that reflected their contributions, their collaborative spirit, and their potential.

Tor (Head of Growth) with two Ambassadors (Nick and Marcel) in Berlin.

This is how we came to the Enigma Collective. A collective is defined as “a cooperative unit or organization.” Members are not passive representatives of some central entity. They are active collaborators, organized across working groups and physical locations, helping pursue a particular vision for the future. Members do not need to agree with everything the core team decides, or even say so publicly. They do need to always be honest with our team and community— and they need to be committed to helping us uphold our values and build a better future.

Ambassadors currently play a critical role in Enigma, contributing to many important projects. There is no “typical” Ambassador — every individual contributes to different working groups, applying their own skills and pursuing their own passions and interests. Here are just some of the initiatives that Ambassadors are already working on, and that they’ll contribute to lead and contribute to as part of the Collective:

Community Education

This group produces written, visual, and video content to help people understand the importance and function of privacy and privacy technologies, including Enigma’s solutions. Participants are often researchers, writers, and artists.

University Relations

This group helps to grow on-campus awareness and engagement with Enigma and to stoke passion around data privacy and decentralized technologies. Participants are often undergraduate and graduate students or teachers themselves.

Developer Community

This group helps grow and support our developer community, especially those looking to build dApps on Enigma or contribute to our core code base. Participants are often developers themselves who are looking to build on the protocol.

Business Development

This group looks for great opportunities where Enigma’s protocol can be used inside and outside the blockchain space, constantly seeking out new use cases and partners. Participants often work in industry, government, or for other blockchain-related projects.

Secret Nodes

This group supports node runners looking to operate secret nodes in the Enigma network, producing educational materials, providing technical support, and conducting research on staking networks. Participants are often experienced node runners themselves and/or operating their own secret nodes.

Live Events

This group helps organize and execute live events all over the world related to Enigma, decentralization, and privacy. Anyone can hold a meetup in their own city or on their own campus, and the Enigma core team is always happy to support and participate.

Media and Press

This group looks for opportunities to connect with journalists and influencers who cover decentralization, blockchain, and privacy. Participants are often themselves journalists or media producers, including podcasters and YouTubers.

Online Awareness

This group monitors the online discourse around decentralization and privacy and actively participates in conversations. They also help distribute Enigma-produced and Enigma-related content. Everyone with a passion for Enigma and a desire to help educate participants in the space frequently contributes to this working group.

Visual Identity

This group helps define the visual look and feel of Enigma’s protocol and the materials Enigma produces for our community and partners. Participants are often graphic designers or motion graphic artists.

Podcast

This group supports Decentralize This!, Enigma’s interview-based podcast exploring what it will really take to drive global adoption of decentralized technologies. Participants help to edit, summarize, and distribute episodes and receive associate producer credit.