The 2018 year for Pirl was a year of excitement. A year that led us through all the possible emotions that a team working on a project could possibly experience. We faced multiple challenges and overcame every single one of them making us better and stronger. Not only as a team, but as a resilient community driven technology project!

What was 2018 like for Pirl? What came out of it? What is next?

Four Quarters! Major Project Milestones!

Premium Masternodes

At the beginning of 2018 Pirl implemented their first major road map development. Pirl was the first eth-based blockchain with successful Masternode integration. This was the initial developer delivered proof of the Pirl teams true intentions, to follow through with a larger strategic plan for the project.

Announced Storage & Content Masternodes

After the foundations were in place with the Premium Masternode network, Pirl revealed its intentions to become a much more advanced blockchain infrastructure, by developing autonomous Content and Storage masternode networks. Allowing immutable content, and decentralized storage providing the completely decentralized hosting solution.

Iceberg Update

Faster overall transactions, faster node synchronization and major bug fixes. An update that introduced the Monetary Policy and reinforced the teams long term intentions for Pirl.

Coinomi & BTC Alpha

Mobile Wallet!

New Exchange!

Released Nautilus Wallet

New Website

With the infrastructure taking into the desired shape, the new website was released, giving more functionality and information to its visitors.The new website outlined the new brand design for the project

Branding

A new design was unified across the entire Pirl ecosystem. This was a step towards a more visibly recognizable blockchain technology and added a vivid presentation of Pirls individual products.

PirlPay

The PirlPay Project initiated with developed Proof of Concept and MVP description.

Research phase led the team to the legal requirements of fulfilling the PirlPay complete functionality which initiated the plan to work towards the required legal status.

SistemKoin

New Exchange!

One-Click Install

This feature created an easy entry for everyone who desires to operate a masternode on the Pirl network. This is also noted to be one of the first of its kind regarding ease of use setups for Masternodes.

PirlCompany

Pirl announced its future legal plans. Pirl will be a registered blockchain technology company.

A legally responsible structure behind the Pirl Project. Allowing the project to meet with business and regulations.

Whitepaper

After long anticipation, legal reviews and many long term additions regarding future planning and sustainability, the first version of the Pirl Whitepaper was released. A must read for everyone who wishes to understand the project better.

Monetary Policy

Block 2,000,001 marked the blockchain to initialize the Iceberg core update and make the planned Monetary Policy adjustment.

Ledger & Trezor HW Wallets

Thanks to the hard work and serious community contribution Pirl was supported by the well known hardware wallets — Trezor & Leger

BIGA Partnership

Marketing is important, Pirl initiated a partnership with the Miami based Blockchain Marketing Consultants “BIGA”. Later in Q3, due to the market conditions, Team paused the collaboration and continued with executing the marketing plan internally.

PirlApp Beta Launched

PirlApp is the All-In-One platform that fuses together the Pirl universe. The product serves as a portal for all of Pirls future Decentralized Applications. The complete Pirl experience will soon be available via mobile and desktop

devices, allowing you to enjoy all of your favorite decentralized applications anywhere you like.

Pirl Round Tables

We introduced the Pirl Round Tables — weekly events that welcome everyone to interact directly with the team. A dedicated time for all questions, suggestions and creative discussions.

PirlDocs

Knowledge is nothing when it is not shared. PirlDocs — the projects knowledge base was launched. The team & community of Pirl are actively participating in building this database to the desired scale.

EzMiner

Pirl EZminer is a simple application that guides you through 3 easy steps to mine PIRL with your AMD or Nvidia GPU. The application takes care of all the necessary modules that need to be installed in the background and setups the miner. The user simply needs to pick his pool and the address to mine to.

Marlin

Marlin is the technology that runs on the Pirl Masternodes which allows immutable content delivery over the network. An IPFS implementation built into a scalable monetized enterprise class masternode network.

PirlTube

PirlTube is the working example of the infrastructure capabilities.

A video and live stream sharing platform with no single point of failure, “video overlay” is ad free, completely decentralized with currently 800+ end points at the time of this writing. PirlTube is the first of many features that will be accessed with the single point of entry, our custom decentralized environment.

51% Attack

A successful double spend attack was discovered on the network. This was quite a rigorous trial that tested the strength of the team working on the project, both in terms of security development, and professionalism when handling such a critical event.

PirlGuard 51% Attack Protection

As a long term sustainable solution to the before mentioned 51% attack a custom solution was developed by the Pirl team. PirlGuard — A innovative core solution with altered consensus mechanism that disrupts the mechanics behind a 51% attack. With the PirlGuard Protocol deployed the chances of an attack succeeding are drastically reduced and future attempts greatly deterred.

Content Masternodes

The Content Masternodes provide file storage for the publicly accessible media and data needed for dApps as well as the Pirl marketplace. The Content Masternodes network operate using the IPFS protocol. Utilization of blockchain with IPFS allows for large amounts of data to be time-stamped and secured, without having to put the data directly on the chain itself. This enhances the ecosystem by providing the possibility for hosting immutable content that is protected from single point attacks and DDoS.

Pirl Service Monitor

Simple, but effective monitoring of all Pirl services made available!

Blockfolio Signal

Blockfolio Signal Added Pirl Support!

Proof Of Review

The POR Project completed their highest level research report on Pirl (Tier-3), and delivered a professional review on all aspects the project.

Graviex Exchange

New Exchange!

EXPEX Exchange

New DEX announced support for Pirl upon opening.

Poseidon v 2.0

Poseidon v 2.0 Launched with scaled infrastructure and innumerable new features and graphs.

PirlCloud

PirlCloud is a decentralized hosting solution that provides public storage and will soon offer encrypted private storage. All utilizing our highly scalable enterprise class monetized masternode network. PirlCloud will also enable decentralized DDoS protected web hosting with the integrated CDN distributed all around the globe. Together with Poseidon v2 PirlCloud beta was introduced with its first feature — Uploading Immutable Public Content onto Pirls Decentralized Infrastructure.

PirlTube Web View

Multiple Projects Implementing PirlGuard

Stats worth mentioning!

Development

Commits: 4268 #7 among Top 800 crypto projects

Releases: In the article above

Update forks: 3

Decentralized Infrastructure

Masternodes:

Premium: 622

Content: 192

Total: 814

Cloud Content Delivery(based on minimum requirements):

2 442 000 GB/m Bandwidth

3256 GB RAM

1628 CPU Cores

16 280 GB Storage Space

814 End Points on 6 continents

Community

Discord: Total: 4575

Verified: 2217

Twitter: Tweets: 682

Followers: 7056

Facebook: likes: 932

Followers: 984

Youtube: Followers: 162

PirlDocs: Pages: 141

What is next?

It was a rough year with many sleepless nights, unexpected challenges and exhausting markets. We used this time to prepare for the brighter future ahead.

Pirl is closing 2018 as the most advanced decentralized hosting infrastructure with considerable blockchain innovations and copious new features. Giving us not only a stable foundation to build on, but our first real use that opens us up to an entirely new less-speculative markets. Providing easy to use services for business and personal use, reaping all the benefits of decentralization without sacrificing user experience, privacy, security and support.

Now that we have the infrastructure ready, throughout 2019 the PirlTeam will focus developing various decentralized products for different uses and decentralized B2B services.

The Pirl Blockchain Technology Company will launch, opening many doors as a legitimized business, while offering easy entry into Pirl Ecosystem with a highly simplified FIAT-PIRL conversion process.

While generally framing our plans in this short text, we will keep much of 2019’s announcements the same as 2018’s, unexpected and amazing.

Thanks!

During this year we received nothing but support and appreciation.

Some of you became part of the team others became part of our family.

Something we cannot forget to mention is that we could not wish for a better community!

Many of you have contributed to the project in various ways such as documentation, community initiatives, suggestions, development and through social media.

A huge thank you to the community! All of you have a special place in this project!

The Pirl Team wishes you a happy holiday! May the season bring magic to your life along with health and prosperity to you and your loved ones.