Topic: [ANN] [DAG + Smart Contracts] Constellation | Horizontally Scalable Hylochain - page 3. (Read 24498 times)

By 2020, 56% of large enterprises will adopt DLT and organizations are starting to see its value. Research found that blockchain technology's maturity will reach within 5-10 years and some will reach for 10 years or beyond. This just means that DLT has more room for improvement and advancement.

Read more here: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/hype-no-more-56-of-enterprises-plan-to-use-blockchain-by-2020/

COO Ben weighs in on the five obstacles we need to solve before blockchain technology can achieve true widespread adoption, as originally outlined by Deloitte.   

5 Reasons Why Blockchain Technology is Failing at Mass Consumer Adoption
https://medium.com/@benjorgensen/5-reasons-why-blockchain-technology-is-failing-at-mass-consu-8a7db71908a9

2018 has been an exciting time for blockchain. In our latest blog, we take a look at the major trends of the year in the space, and how Constellation fits into them.             

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/trends-from-the-trenches/

An update from Engineering, BWSF+ Block-Con Recaps, Upcoming Events, and Recent Press all in this week's Constellation Update.

            https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/eng-news-event-roundup-recent-press/

VP of Business Development, Benjamin Diggles, will be attending MOBI’s Colloquium this Friday in New Mexico. The event aims to promote and advance standards and accelerate adoption of blockchain, distributed ledger, and related technologies. MOBI will be livestreaming the event so be sure to tune in to learn more about MOBI and the future of mobility!

https://www.facebook.com/events/689334061448775/

Our Head of Marketing, Zac, has been featured in DMN. Check out what he has to say about  marketing and hiring for the blockchain startup space.            

https://www.dmnews.com/data/blockchain/article/21025534/the-missing-link-in-blockchain

We're hosting an LA MeetUp w/ Element Group! Join us on 10/18 for presentations by Constellation COO Ben Jorgensen and Element Group CEO Stan Miroshnik, followed by networking. Hope to see you there!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peer-to-peer-blockchain-mixer-tickets-51213824929

COO Ben shares his thoughts on the future of investment in cryptocurrency:

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/a-new-era-of-cryptocurrency-investment-is-upon-us/

Constellation is a horizontally scalable, mobile friendly, transaction-free DAG ecosystem project that runs on a reputation-based delegate selection model. Constellation runs smart contracts as micro services, uses reputation-based consensus. Has the ability to run light nodes on mobile phones and other such devices and rewards for running nodes.

Exactly this moment did not like- Proof of Stake, while it addressed the wastefulness issue, it still has vulnerabilities. Smaller networks can still be easily attacked, and in terms of governance, it’s fundamentally anti-democratic. “We don’t run the world by trusting people just because they have money, right? That’s not Democratic. That’s not a governance solution" said Ryle.
That is, he believes that POW is better and he is more democratic. And there is nothing that 70% of the entire mining belongs to just a few companies and pools, and if they agree on what has already happened in the past, they can make any decision to take advantage of small players. Both badly need to be combined and sharply criticizing only one side is a bad taste in my opinion.
But you doing great work guys!

Constellation is approaching Distributed Ledger Technology differently. Learn about Wyatt (CTO) and Ryle's (VP of Engineering) unique vision for the future.   

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/our-vision-for-distributed-ledger-technology/

A new exchange listing, Hyperledger membership, Engineering Updates, new TC Disrupt content, plus a recent MeetUp and future events in our most recent Constellation Update:         

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-hyperledger-hitbtc-news-eng-updates-tc-disrupt-video-and-meetups/

This is very important news. It's odd that this news went a little under the radar. Usually such news shows that technically the team works very well. From what im know in order to get into the Linux Foundation, you need to work hard and efficiently.
It remains to run the marketing program and promote the community and then there will be success.

Constellation Labs is now a member of The Linux Foundation's Hyperledger.

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-announcement-constellation-joins-hyperledger/


and also listed now on Hitbtc

Head of Marketing, Zac, talks DAGs, Proof of Meme, and the future of the distributed ledger world with CoinCentral.         

Read more here:

   https://coincentral.com/exploring-dags-and-blockchain-scalability-issues-with-constellation-labs/?utm_campaign=explore-dags&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Constellation: Can blockchains ever move beyond economic models? VP of Engineering, Ryle, weighs in on Finder.com Australia’s premier crypto and financial outlet.             

Read more here:

https://www.finder.com.au/constellation-can-blockchains-ever-move-beyond-economic-models?utm_content=buffera73c0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer   

Constellation Update – Company All-Hands, Engineering, Product & TC Disrupt
https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-company-all-hands-engineering-product-tc-disrupt/

Our team just got back from a two-day all hands meeting at our headquarters in San Francisco, and we wanted to share some of the highlights from our time together.

Over the course of the week we established a more organized, efficient and a cross collaboration framework which will be reflected in the output from our Marketing, Product and Engineering teams. It was a two day deep dive that allowed us all to come closer together and collectively refine the mission and values of Constellation.  The overall outcome was concrete three year plan which will be reflected and communicated in our upcoming whitepaper.

Each department head presented their roadmap for the coming months. Our COO Ben Jorgensen kicked things off with an inspiring talk on the highlights of the company’s growth thus far, while outlining some of our future goals (such as increasing our community visibility with Meetups), among many others. Zac Russell (CMO), touched upon all of our marketing initiatives thus far, and highlighted some new deliverables that we’re cooking up.

Brion Hickey and Gio Valdenegro laid out the roadmap from the product side of things, sharing what we can expect as V2 of Orion gets rolled out in the coming months. Altif Brown (CCO) shared all of the incredible growth we’ve had throughout all of our communities, while Ben Diggles, our VP of Business Development, closed out Thursday by outlining all of our exciting partnership opportunities (stay tuned for more info on these!)

Wyatt wrapped up our time together by giving a mind expanding talk on Friday—hashing out the granular technical aspects underlying the grand vision of Constellation to our entire team—who was able to ask questions and gain further clarity on the scope of what we’re building.

Engineering Update


- Our Schema was updated.  We are now using a generic Edge type, similar to the model in popular graph processing libraries like Pregel or GraphX. https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/constellation/pull/147

- We’re migrating to more granular edges for building up bundle partitions to eliminate some redundancies. This is based off the schema GraphX uses for Pregel programs. It presents everything as an edge, including transactions as an edge between two addresses, and distinguishes checkpoint edges (introduction of new data to the graph) from validation edges (re-verification and merging of separate partitions).  https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/constellation/issues/126

- The team is now working off of dev branch to stage changes properly before merging to master. They’ve also merged the download updates and fixes in preparation of dev testing, and are working on setting up separate testing environments in Kube. https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/constellation/tree/dev

- Open sourced the cache for the visualizer. https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/dashboard-server

- A number of additions were made to our wiki, and have much more comprehensive arch diagrams in the works. https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/constellation/wiki

Product Update

Breakdown of recent site and Orion updates:

- Added front end validation to the transaction approval process which lets transactions run more smoothly and reduces risks that a user inadvertently stakes more than DAG than intended.

- We added the ability to link Medium accounts to your Orion profile, which will let you participate in bounty rewards related to marketing.

- Updated transaction processing screens so that they auto-refresh to show transaction updates.

- Fixed some issues that arose after Metamask released updates.

- Small changes to copy and UI.


TechCrunch Disrupt Sponsorship


We have a couple of amazing new additions to our TechCrunch Disrupt panel.  Erika Perez, Global Leader of IBM Blockchain Strategy & Ecosystem, and Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, CMO of Mozilla will be joining the panel alongside previously announced Jacob Mullins, Partner at Shasta Ventures, and our very own COO Ben Jorgensen. See you on September 7th at 1.30pm PST.

Jascha believes in two key principles: Find opportunities where no one else is looking; And, never fail the same way twice. It’s a methodology centered around Agile marketing practices and marketing technology. Coupled with a B.A. in Psychology from Whittier College, it’s one that’s served him well professionally and personally. Prior to joining Mozilla, Jascha most recently served as CMO for BitTorrent, CMO for Mindjet, senior vice president of marketing and customer success at Involver and he previously headed Global Marketing for Webtrends.

 
Erika is responsible for developing and expanding IBM’s Blockchain ecosystem across all industries to accelerate enterprise adoption of Blockchain.  Working with a broad spectrum of Startups, ISV’s, GSI’s, and industry partners, Erika leads a business development team focused on building Blockchain networks based on the IBM Blockchain Platform.  Key to Erika’s charter is to develop and pivot on the business models and commercial vehicles to monetize Blockchain Networks.  Prior to her role in Blockchain, Erika led IBM’s Global charter for FinTech partnering with both Startups and Incumbent firms.  During her tenure at IBM, Erika has had multiple sales and leadership roles including her responsibility over clients such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and PayPal.

Our TC Disrupt ticket giveaway remains open through the 27th, so if you haven’t already done so, fill out your details on Orion for a chance to win one of five GA tickets to the event: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSca-JMW4QROl6MwMAbioN-o3sndMPLclsJopZgaC5ChR61pFw/viewform

We’re extremely excited to interact with our community on site and look forward to seeing you all there!

COO Ben discusses Constellation's distributed ledger and consensus model with Markets Media.            https://www.marketsmedia.com/constellation-labs-eyes-distributed-ledger-3-0/

Want to attend TC Disrupt SF? Join our Orion portal for a chance to win a ticket!            https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSca-JMW4QROl6MwMAbioN-o3sndMPLclsJopZgaC5ChR61pFw/viewform

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/techcrunch-disrupt-announcement-ticket-giveaway/

We’re partnering with TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018! On September 5 2018, Constellation will host a panel aimed at demystifying recent developments in crypto fundraising and a workshop on how to run a node on Constellation’s Testnet. We’ll also be on the ground over the course of the three days meeting the community and interviewing some of Crypto’s leading figures.  For a chance to win one of five GA tickets, fill out your details on Orion: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSca-JMW4QROl6MwMAbioN-o3sndMPLclsJopZgaC5ChR61pFw/viewform

 We’re looking forward to seeing you there. Read on for further details…

Panel: Beyond the ICO: New approaches to fundraising and enterprise investment in blockchain.

Time: Friday September 7th, 1.30 -2.30

Moderator: TBA

Speakers: Ben Jorgensen (COO of Constellation), Jacob Mullins (Shasta Ventures), + More TBA

Constellation has been through an extraordinary period of fundraising and subsequent growth. Ben Jorgensen (COO) and team will share their experiences in this session exploring the complex and ever-changing fundraising models available, and what enterprise leaders look for in potential partners and projects.

Workshop: Running a Node on a Distributed Ledger: Live Demo

Time: Friday September 7th, 2.45 – 3.30

Speakers: Wyatt Meldman-Floch, Ryle Goehausen

Wyatt (CTO) and Ryle (VP of Engineering) will demystify the key components of distributed ledger technology, and provide a guide on how to set up a Constellation node. Participants will leave with the basic skills they need to contribute to an emerging 3rd-Gen protocol.

As mentioned, there will be more announced in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!