CEO Jarrod Dicker's Weekly Update July 31, 2018
A Path to nLightnment
In May we announced Po.et Development Labs (POEDL), an official
initiative to support emerging products and platforms that leverage
the Po.et Network. The announcement was covered in various trades
(pasted at bottom for reference) and highlighted one key component of
Po.et's strategic focus; to enable and attract new and existing
companies to build on top of the Po.et protocol. Today, the first
POEDL partner Inkrypt made a major announcement with their application
nLIGHTn. I've pasted it below for all to see:
"Back in May, we launched Po.et Development Labs as a way to support
projects that believe in Po.et’s vision and expand the number of ways
to engage with content on the Po.et Network. Inkrypt, the first
project to be welcomed into Development Labs, is building a
distributed media-hosting platform focused on providing journalism
around the world with censorship resistance. Inkrypt seeks to create a
comprehensive media ecosystem for Web 3.0 by becoming a one-stop shop
for content aggregation and distribution and by partnering with
synergistic protocols like Po.et for service integrations such as
cryptographic content attribution and licensing.
Inkrypt’s mission is to not only eliminate the single-to-few points of
failure in media hosting and devolve the deep concentrations of
network power that currently acquiesce to or are subverted by
malicious actors who seek to manipulate the flow of information, but
also to create a journalist-led governance model to monitor content in
an ethical fashion.
As part of its greater effort to empower publishers and make
journalism truly free, Inkrypt is launching its very first product
offering, nLightn, which is a decentralized application for
journalistic publishing that combines a peer-to-peer, encrypted
storage protocol with an anonymity overlay that ensures comprehensive
front- to back-end censorship resistance. The Harvard-based team
conducted the very first live demo of the DApp on July 19, 2018, at
the Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco.
In the coming weeks, the Inkrypt team will deploy nLightn with
freelance and citizen journalists in censorship-prone geographies,
such as Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey.
We’re thrilled to have Inkrypt as part of the Po.et family and hope
that you’ll keep an eye on them as they work to usher in a new era of
freelance and citizen journalism that will not only inform and empower
citizens of censorship-prone geographies, but also facilitate the
production of valuable content for global consumption."
This is the first of many innovations built in partnership with Po.et.
I am going to focus solely on POEDL for this update even though there
are many more things happening at Po.et right now. Why? Because in the
next few weeks, we will be giving more granular expectations for main
net launch, new partner acquisitions, new product updates to the
protocol and much more. These will release as their own updates
because they are BIG news. The work Inkrypt is doing is an excellent
example of how earlier adopters are thinking about the platform to
help strengthen their offering in partnership with a like minded
technology and cause. This is just the beginning, and there are many
other developments happening on Po.et today. Stay tuned for updates
while we're heads down building the platform you all deserve.
JD
POEDL:
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/319634/poet-announces-inkrypt-anticensorship-project.htmlhttps://techcrunch.com/2018/05/22/po-et-launches-lab-for-developers-to-build-apps-on-publishing-blockchain/https://www.nasdaq.com/article/this-decentralized-media-hosting-service-aims-to-challenge-censorship-cm967217https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-0f657410-6347-41f5-a829-4b327da57f54.html