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Filecoin Slingshot: Launching into orbit

Filecoin Slingshot: Launching into orbit

On Friday 15 October at 14:44hrs UTC, the Filecoin network pivoted to mainnet. 🚀 🥳 🎉 This long-awaited launch marks a new chapter for decentralization, with Filecoin's s IPFS-based cooperative storage cloud providing the ability to store files and distribute content at scale without relying on the incumbent centralized (and expensive) cloud.

What is AKASHA Reloaded? What is Ethereum World?

What is AKASHA Reloaded? What is Ethereum World?

This year (2019), on World Press Freedom Day, we announced that we were going through a process dubbed 'AKASHA Reloaded' through the post AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later. Since then we have been in constant awe of the positive response that has come back to us from

Dev Team Update #1

Dev Team Update #1

With 2 Weeks Until Devcon 5 in Osaka, we put a series of questions to Dev Team member, Marius Darila, about a part of what the Team are currently working on. * The most interesting feature, to me, of what I/we are working on is... Designing the architecture for the

New deals for science!

New deals for science!

On May 10-11th, the AKASHA Hub Barcelona hosted a “STEPS” workshop. “STEPS is a grassroots, non-profit series of events focusing on the exploration of blockchain-backed applications for science, technology, education, publishing, and society” co-organized by “Blockchain for Science” a think tank founded by Sönke Bartling. It is not the first

AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later

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,

AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later

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,

AKASHA joins the World Wide Web Consortium

Thoughts & Ideas

AKASHA joins the World Wide Web Consortium

We are very excited to announce that starting April 1st, AKASHA has officially joined the World Wide Web Consortium! 🙌 While W3C is mostly about the Web, a lot of the work that takes place here is about more than just the Web. You'll notice that within this comprehensive list of

Where the Web was born — AKASHA team visit at CERN

Where the Web was born — AKASHA team visit at CERN

A delegation of the AKASHA team gathered in Geneva mid-February to meet with the group from CERN's Idea Square. Approaching CERN Idea Square. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research that operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. The mission of Idea Square resonates very well

A deep dive into the world of Distributed Governance

A deep dive into the world of Distributed Governance

We celebrated the new year by revealing the new AKASHA Foundation website alongside the first metamorphosis post outlining how the AKASHA project will evolve from its early experiments to a non-profit foundation exploring the intersection of blockchain and collective intelligence. 🙌 2019 here we come! 🙌 We then followed through with a

AKASHA 2019: Metamorphosis Part I

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

An Odyssey of Discovery: Year Two

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

Mending The Gap

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

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

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,

An Odyssey of Discovery

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

Seeking Whispers

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

The Tipping Point

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!

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

AKASHA launch imminent

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

Moving Forward On All Fronts

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

Juan Benet, the creator of IPFS, joins the AKASHA Team as Advisor

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

The First Three Weeks: Highlights & Interesting Developments

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

Unveiling AKASHA

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