Hiring has been a top priority for our team, and we are happy to say that the Enigma team is growing rapidly. Over the next couple weeks, we will be announcing numerous new additions to our team — Enigma is more than doubling in size. Our new hires are primarily software and blockchain developers, and they are all extremely talented. This growth will allow Enigma to keep pace with our aggressive internal development timelines.

We’ll be announcing our full group of new team members in a standalone blog post next month. For now, stay tuned to our Twitter and Telegram Announcement Channel where we will announce our new hires individually.

Community Growth

Community engagement and support is critical to any project’s success, and we consider our strong and active community to be one of our greatest strengths. Their incredible support allows us to continuing growing and attracting partners, users, and contributors.

Reddit growth, by month. Note - January is only half over!

Thanks in part to the success of our December 21st AMA, our Reddit has grown from 2,000 subscribers on Christmas Eve to over 8,000 subscribers. To celebrate, we will be holding our very first video AMA on January 23rd. Please submit your questions for our video AMA here.

Our other social channels continue to grow as well. Our community Telegram has more than 12,500 users, and our Twitter channel recently passed 40,000 followers. We’re thrilled with the amount of support we’ve received, and we are excited to continue to exceed the expectations of our community. Nothing is more inspiring for us than your words of encouragement. Thank you for everything!

Other Initiatives

2018 is truly Enigma’s year, with the launch of our protocol planned and many other milestones in store. We have a few short term focuses in addition to hiring and development:

Marketing

A new homepage for Enigma and more video content is planned for the very near future. Our partners at BlockchainWTF recently helped to create this great explainer for Enigma, and we will continue to make our mission and vision more digestible. If you’re interested in creating content for Enigma or helping us educate people about our project, please reach out to Tor Bair, our Head of Marketing and Growth, on Telegram — @thisistor.

Partnerships

Working together with other projects, institutions, companies, and our community is essential to our success. We are continuing to look for partners who wish to build on the Enigma protocol or who wish to participate in our data marketplace. If you’re interested in building with us or in becoming a data provider, please send an email to — partnerships AT enigma DOT co.

Live Events and Global Expansion

Enigma co-founder Can Kisagun speaking at WCEF in San Francisco.

Our co-founder Can recently spoke at WCEF in San Francisco, with another presentation scheduled at NEO DevCon on January 30th. While we’ll continue to speak at conferences, live events and meetups in the US, expanding our presence overseas is an important priority for Enigma. Our community is already global — Enigma will be as well.

We’ll have more to share at a later date about our plans to form more partnerships and spread awareness for our project and community in Europe and Asia. In the meantime, please reach out to @thisistor on Telegram if you wish to help with our global initiatives.