2019 has drawn to a close and 2020 promises bigger things Insolar Team Follow Jan 6 · 5 min read

Much work done, partnerships formed, conferences attended, new clients and award participation, not to mention the technology that we have been pioneering. Let’s take a moment to recap the moments of 2019.

1. Partnerships

2019 saw Insolar conclude a number of partnerships with high-profile companies worldwide. We began cooperation with some of the biggest names in enterprise tech: Oracle and Microsoft. While we also formed partnerships with the Swiss national innovation agency and universities including UC Berkeley.

Moreover, we formed a partnership with a Toronto-based engineering company to create a blockchain-based transactive energy system. This idea has won us plaudits worldwide (more on that below in the Awards section).

The most recent of our partnerships was with leading blockchain tech media outlet, Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph chose Insolar as its launch partner for its new enterprise consulting arm.

2. Awards

As mentioned above, Insolar has been winning plaudits across the globe for its pioneering approach to energy usage in implementing a blockchain-based transactive energy platform. The idea captured the imagination of national and international energy agencies alike, with Insolar being invited to attend several conferences as a finalist in the UK, Dubai and Germany.

Insolar Nominated for UK Energy Innovation Award

Insolar Participates in World Energy Congress

Insolar among top 100 green energy innovators

3. Projects

Insolar technology is being implemented in a mobile application for people to jointly talk, save, spend, split, lend, and manage money in a transparent, visible way. The project is for a leading financial services company.

Our blockchain platform is being used to create an over-the-counter trading and settlement solution for energy markets at the request of a leading mining company. The blockchain-based commodity trading and settlement solution will provide a trusted producer-buyer marketplace for contract negotiation and execution.

Together with York University, Insolar is building a system of automated control and orchestration of DERs for applications in demand response, peer-to-peer energy trading, and smart electric vehicle charging in a community microgrid. The potential of such a project could bring about a complete overhaul to energy usage.

Insolar also created a solution for multi-tenant, shared business networks that enables trustless and transparent transactions between EV Owners, electric utilities, and distributed energy resources management system (DERMS) vendors.

Our blockchain-based automation solution for supply chains is powered by digital contracts to provide high-quality, visible data. We built the solution for a leading US supermarket chain.

We are also creating a trusted provenance record book for a leading car manufacturer. Insolar’s solution is a trusted database connected to all supply chain participants with a gateway to the personal mobile application for car owners

4. Products

We have been busy building pilot products for clients to demonstrate the capabilities of Insolar Blockchain Platform. Among the products we have built are an invoice reconciliation product to resolve discrepancies between contract terms and invoices issued, and a blockchain-based supply chain solution which offers complete end-to-end visibility from point of manufacture to point of consumption.

You can see how our supply chain solution works in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW0SLSRs9Lg

5. Tech

Our development team has been hard at it all year round, with new additions that bring the number of engineers at Insolar to 50! Our tech team has come up with their most important developments on Insolar Blockchain Platform during 2019:

Creation of a scalable, asynchronous network consensus protocol

Nodes that can dynamically join and leave a network

Async messaging between nodes

Switch to protobuf for message and record serialization

Built-in smart contracts

Detached Requests (request that start executing only after the parent Request has been completed successfully)

Parallel execution of immutable calls

Request execution ordering: requests are always executed in the same order they were registered

New textual encoding for IDs and references (base64 with ‘insolar:’ schema)

In-memory storage for Light Material Nodes

Object Lifelines consisting from multiple Filaments

Custom, non-blocking, high-performance logger

Successful running of TestNet 1.1 with multiple external partners

6. Team

2019 saw a massive onboarding of new employees with the team being bolstered with over 40 new staff. This is set to continue and you can see more information about our openings in the link below.

December was also no anomaly when it comes to the hiring of new staff:

Catherine Rogushkova joined Insolar as a Software Development Engineer in Test

Catherine has over 3 years of experience in automation testing, tuning of CI/CD services and team management, with additional experience in developing back-end services. She completed a Master’s degree at MIPT. Previously worked in the Mail product of Mail.Ru Group.

Yury Pevgonen joined Insolar as a DevOps Engineer

Yury graduated from Moscow State Industrial University. He has experience working in system engineering across multiple enterprises since graduating: from infrastructural OS support in the beginning, to then mostly applying DevOps-oriented practices.

Alexander Aleshin joined Insolar as a Go Developer

Software developer with 10 years of experience in high load and distributed systems. Previously worked in Deutsche Bank as developer of integration solutions.

Oleg Shaburov joined Insolar as Head of QA

Oleg has 6 years’s experience working as a QA engineer, with broad experience in organization/reanimation of QA processes for products and software development. He has solid experience in automatization, DevOps and QA tools development (Java, Python). Before starting his career in QA, Oleg managed two business projects connected to education and vehicle maintenance.

Dmitry Rozhdestvensky joined Insolar as a Senior DevOps Engineer

Dmitry is a DevOps engineer passionate about his work. He has 15+ years of Linux experience and deep knowledge of DevOps methodology. Dmitry has previous experience building distributed systems for startups and large companies for their diverse set of projects.

Do you think big and have what it takes to be part of our team? You can see all of our openings here.