Announcements Featured Introducing akasha.ethereum.world 🥳 Ethereum is more than a technology for freedom. Ethereum is also a world-changing community of millions of hearts and minds. And to celebrate these special 5 years together, we introduce the private alpha of Ethereum World accessible at akasha.ethereum.world!
Ethereum Featured Ethereum's most undervalued asset at risk (and what we can do about it together) The financial and technological dimensions are not always in our control, but “community” begins with individuals like you and me. If Ethereum would see itself also as a social movement, it could take control of its destiny and become the #1 blockchain community in the world.
Events Blockchain, e-gov and e-union: presenting at Romania Blockchain Summit During 21-22 June, a special blockchain event took place in the Palace of the Parliament of Romania, also known as the House of the People, with the official support of the Government of Romania through the Ministry of Communications and Information Society. For some context, this event took place in
News AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later On May 3rd 2016, 279 days A.E. (After Ethereum), we unveiled the AKASHA dapp and opened the signups for the alpha version to celebrate World Press Freedom Day. We called for brave people to help us test the idea of a decentralized social network, built with Ethereum and IPFS,
Thoughts & Ideas Diving Into the Oceans of Time: Metamorphosis Part II The question “why would someone use AKASHA?” has been asked many times, both inside and outside of the Foundation. Some of our earliest answers include things like: “decentralization,” “censorship resistance,” and “freedom of expression.” We felt that these answers were good enough to justify years of active development and continuous
News AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later On May 3rd 2016, 279 days A.E. (After Ethereum), we unveiled the AKASHA dapp and opened the signups for the alpha version to celebrate World Press Freedom Day. We called for brave people to help us test the idea of a decentralized social network, built with Ethereum and IPFS,
News AKASHA 2019: Metamorphosis Part I This post has been in the making (and remaking) for months now, through every conversation and interaction we had as a team, project and community. This will be the first of a series of posts breaking the silence surrounding AKASHA. From the outside, it might have seemed at times like
News An Odyssey of Discovery: Year Two From just an idea embedded in a handful of minds, AKASHA crystallized into a community of thousands of people united by the dream of a better home of Mind. Today, 1028 days A.E. (After Ethereum), we celebrate together over two years of exciting research, intense testing, and heavy development
News Mending The Gap We are super excited to announce that AKASHA is now accessible also from Mist and classic web browsers running the MetaMask and IPFS Companion extensions!!! \o/ This release also marks an important milestone because we are starting to close the gap between the (usually slow) user experience on decentralized services
News The Emergence Today marks the 927th day A.E. also known on planet Earth as 2 years, 6 months and 12 days After Ethereum. Five million blocks after its Genesis, the Ethereum ecosystem evolved into a planetary Community with hundreds of thousands of people connected by a constellation of projects and teams
News New Horizons Many, many things happened since our last update. Following our last alpha release, we started working on an entirely new dapp, in parallel with a complete redesign of the whole user experience. In other words, the sparse updates were not caused by a lack of activity, quite the opposite. Now,
News An Odyssey of Discovery On this very special day, one year ago, we unveiled AKASHA and called for brave people to join us in the quest for a better Web. It was a complete shot in the dark but we were cautiously optimistic. Luckily, the response exceeded even our most optimistic expectations. While some
News Seeking Whispers Greetings everyone! Following the energetic last couple of weeks, filled with hard work and emotions, we bring you a new AKASHA release named Seeking Whispers. The latest 0.5 version contains multiple bug fixes and introduces new features such as Whisper based searching, easy identity backup, mentions and ... drums in
News The Tipping Point The last couple of weeks have been (very) intense and filled with excitement. After an amazing alpha public release we have been busy applying the lessons learned, fixing bugs and implementing new features. Many thanks, again, to everyone for the warm welcome and kind words following the first alpha versions!
News Into The Ether "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in surprise and were suddenly silenced. I feel something wonderful has happened." --- Ethereum Kenobi The Crypto Renaissance is unfolding through each new concept that manifests into our reality. Not only is this paradigm
News AKASHA launch imminent Hello everyone, I bring good news: the pre-alpha version of AKASHA will be launched in October! When the time comes, the invites will be delivered to your inbox and will include installation details which should make the entire setup process a breeze. However, if you encounter any problems, feel free
News Moving Forward On All Fronts Hello everyone, it's been a while since the last update! The Ethereum ecosystem has seen many things since our last post. From the rise and fall of "the" DAO accompanied by a /r/ethereum "troll invasion" to abandoned soft forks and intensely debated hard forks, we've been through a lot
Thoughts & Ideas Thoughts From The Machine Room: Ethereum Gas Price, Dapps & Adoption We are now over three months into Homestead, and it has been an intense ride as we've seen increased mainstream media attention, massive ETH price increases, and witnessed the birth of "The DAO" as the largest crowdfunded project ever. All these are reasons to celebrate and be grateful that we
News Juan Benet, the creator of IPFS, joins the AKASHA Team as Advisor "The centralized ad-driven social networks are vulnerable and not focused on our rights. We need free, private, global communication! We need AKASHA!" - Juan Benet* We are thrilled to announce that Juan Benet, the creator of the Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS), is joining the AKASHA team as Advisor. Juan will
News The First Three Weeks: Highlights & Interesting Developments Many things have happened since we unveiled AKASHA. On May 3rd, the announcement blogpost received a warm welcome and was the most upvoted thread on /r/ethereum and /r/ethtrader, which are the biggest Ethereum Reddit communities. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive across the community, leading to over 200 signups
News Unveiling AKASHA For the past year we have worked on AKASHA, a next-generation social media network powered by Ethereum and the Inter-Planetary File System. Today, May 3rd, we celebrate World Press Freedom Day by unveiling our project to the world at large and opening the signups for the alpha release. Freedom of
