IOTA Review 2021 - Preview 2022

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] hello hello hello and welcome for those of you who don't know my name is terry shane and i will be your moderator for today's amazing event wow what a year it's been i for one could never have imagined all of the incredible advancements in the iota project at the start of this year and i seriously doubt that our good friend chris muller at halo iota had any clue that he'd be kept so damn busy reporting on all of it as you can probably tell from my background i'm way up in the frozen north of canada in my log cabin located just down the street from santa's workshop santa's elves have been really busy preparing some amazing gifts for all loyal iota community members and he wants you to know that he's been keeping track of who's been naughty and who's been nice this year there's a huge christmas tree that's been set up in discord and all good little boys and girls who are good at sharding and parallel transactions can jump into the defining moments meetup 2021 channel and pay attention to what's happening there while the live stream is playing remember santa doesn't mind if you celebrate christmas hanukkah eid or diwali he doesn't even care if you hold bitcoin ethereum or cardano as long as you believe in iota don't you kids i thought so so every 15 minutes or so santa will give you an opportunity to vote on some wonderful proposals and rumor has it that he'll be sending amazing presents to some lucky boys and girls courtesy of our amazing community sponsors the elves have some beautiful iota merchandise from iota shops magazines from einfach iota i ordered tarot cards from pixel doggy iota promo cards from myotomorons. and perhaps even an nft or two so keep an eye on the defining moments discord channel and settle in for what promises to be a wonderful way to wrap up the year and look forward to what's still to come i don't know about you but i can't wait for 2022. so without further ado let me introduce our first speaker of the event a giant among men and the nicest guy you could ever want to spend time with the iota foundation director of partnerships mr holger curta now we've all heard dom talk about how this is the time to build all well holger has been busy this year helping corporate partners roll out real world use cases there's a lot more good news to come but mrs claus just told me that holger has brought a special guest all the way from bangkok to join us for today's event so holger take it away hey terry thanks for having me here yes i indeed i brought a special guest today to kick it off with uh with a really nice surprise excellent so i would like to ask alex onto the stage hi it's me from bangkok right now it's like 1am hey alex so nice to see you nice to see you yeah i wish i could live in your cabin for me it's like 32 degrees so yeah different situation here and i think alex you're not wearing a santa hat but i think you still brought us something so we have reserved some minutes for you so take it away for the community okay i will focus on the really interesting aspects of it yeah um i'm actually representing a company called probops uh probs is a cloud you can check it out on products.com thanks for sharing the slides already and what we are doing is basically disrupting real estate and um well everybody's talking with on about iot but in reality it's a technology which is like really groundbreaking so we can use it in uh way other industries as well so for propubs it's actually a great foundation to help um optimize real estate operations by making it more transparent and especially compliant so how does this work what does this mean well if you are a portfolio owner let's say you own a couple of hundreds of buildings let's say it's one billion of us dollars in real estate assets this basically means to manage your assets and to keep it operating you need around about 50 million us dollars and there's literally no system there to do this in a transparent and trustful way so um basically um all your real estate is on autopilot and you know where this can lead to so um right now we have a lack of everything um there's no scalability i need people to keep those buildings running to um have like all the service contractors in check um you are still dependent on those service contractors because you basically have to believe what they're telling you you don't have the insights you might need for uh your compliance needs and basically that's not really good way of doing risk management right because like there's so much legislation out there especially in europe and um especially in the german market once again that you really have to make sure as an owner that everything is going to your power according to your plans so basically if you do it like people do it just right now you can't grow your assets as much as you want because you need more people doing your technical property management you are relying heavily on your service providers who actually do all the facility management in your buildings they know more about your assets than you actually know and well there is a lack of compliance and for sure it's super risky if you have like hundreds of buildings out there and you don't really know if you're compliant or not so this is where we're coming from and this is where we found a great market and and this basically means that we set up a central cloud you might think um central cloud how does this fit with like all the decentralized um things we're talking about at uh yota and um well let me explain this to you so basically on the left hand side we have like all the legacy systems of service contractors where they are attracting their work let's say maintaining an elevator for you and having like all the documents scanned in their legacy systems which can be like tens and tens and basically decades of all software they're using and what we're doing is connecting the broadband clouds to these systems and pulling in all the data they have in there and then from there actually we have to make sure that um we have that data tamper-proof in our central cloud so all the data that's coming in including documents and pictures and all this um stuff we are fingerprinting it and saving this to the tangle and they're in of course a permanent note because we have to have it there for a long long time so let's say after 16 months you have to give proof to an authority or for a certification or in case there's a lawsuit or something then you can actually show that you have all the data in the broads cloud and that this data actually wasn't manipulated because you can compare the fingerprints of the current data set with the one you stored in the tangle and so you're basically compliant and based on that wonderful combination of a central cloud and the decentralized tangle we're building core functions and i want to give you an idea on what that core functions are so we have some sort of property lectures so to speak so basically you can have a look at like all the data that's coming in for your particular um property and um i actually um highlighted you in this lens and the iota logo already because we're showing our clients that they don't have to fear or distrust that data because we're basically fingerprinting the hell of the data coming coming from the legacy systems of their service contractors and then if you go into like every little detail and every ticket and every document that's attached to that ticket everything once again gets fingerprinted and so you can really really be sure that what you're seeing actually arrived in that system months and years ago in exactly the same state so this is true for tickets basically like maintenance tasks or inspections this is also true for metadata of your technical assets within a building and in the end what we're doing then is having algorithms algorithms and that are showing you okay where are we compliant where's data missing what is due so this is a very very great tool for real estate owners that have like billions of us dollars of real estate and wanting to make sure that their operation is fitting into the 21st century so this is just going to give you an idea of what you're doing here higher sure and alex and alex you're already doing this in one building uh well actually traction-wise there's a slide for you right now we're doing this actively already in 1 billion us dollars of real estate assets so we have another 450 million us dollars signed and they're like pilots for another 100 million dollars of real estate so we're talking real really big numbers here and actually how good to be honest like the one or two billions we are talking here um about this is just a very small fraction of the industry so we are quite convinced in 2022 with our technology combined with your technology we can roll up the market and add another couple of billions for sure so you're telling me you already have like 1.4 yeah 1.3 1.4 billion controlling all the operation flows all the information about operations through our system and we are basically fingerprinting the hell out of it and storing it in a tangle yeah wow that's impressive yeah well you taught us how to use it we waited for chrysalis and the permanent notes and what actually wasn't difficult to implement and we had one issue and they all came with like you're a young company you're not that many people i mean you see a couple of uh my faults here uh john as the head of product jonas as the cto but they were basically asking so and how can you personally guarantee that that data doesn't get tampered with and then the only solution can be a technical one and this has has to be a decentralized one basically because we don't want to build a new authority right and we we don't need to so yeah we checked the market and we found the iota foundation and found really great partners in you and so yeah we we just started implementing it got some help and now it's actually on by default so every customer we are on boarding every property we are on boarding and all the data coming in from all the different service contractors basically gets fingerprinted and thanks to the tango we have that trust that never existed in that industry before oh that's amazing wow incredible so yeah in case you're in just uh interested there's some contact data on the slide you can check out probops.com you can uh um search for prolops cloud on twitter or linkedin so in case you have more questions well ask them um i don't want to crash too much it's just a surprise to see how happy we are and how successful you can be in implementing or combining traditional industries with new technology so uh thank you for listening thanks for giving me the time tyrion holger and well one of you guys and girls watching if you have like real estate assets let's say north of 1 billion us dollars give me a call write me an email hit me on twitter and i am happy to discuss this with you thank you guys wow thanks a lot alex again and thanks for tuning in like no it's very late for you so thank you and everyone here in the event you heard it here first so we are going to publish this on monday on our blog but we thought it's going to be a nice surprise for the community event all right then i'm going to share my screen to also give you a little bit of heads up what we have been into over this year at the foundation all right so let me does this work like this no let's do it like this great great so um you can already see like here's a first change i don't know if you have recognized but we are now i think like over 180 persons in the foundation which is absolutely incredible and we still have like a lot of positions listed so if you're keen on working on iota then just check out jobs.iota.org and then maybe we'll grow with you to 200 or 220 or even more great so some updates global trade and supply chain the team has been this year really on fire it's absolutely thrilling with trademark east africa you can see it here there was like a trade agreement signed between africa and the uk we have been building out the team so i'm going to do like a 2021 recap now we are working with four kenyan government agencies also they're also in the corresponding steering committees as you can see here and now we're really starting to set up the infrastructure to develop the software to really make this trade pipeline viable with all of the partners we are having the developers already like on the ground in the country um they're very active for several months now already and we already have like multiple pilots which we are now implementing and not only in east africa but we're extending it essentially to like a lot of more countries and a lot more like industries as well so i think this is like quite nice to see then with zebra there were some news also this year and last year also about the co-ed vaccination so we have like especially for global trend supply chain sdk developed i'm not going to write here like a date but essentially you can see it here it allows the owners of rfid readers to update the devices and send inside data directly to the tangle from the edge from the edge device directly to the tangle and iola is quite lightweight so this works very well we have an identity card pilot which we're going to show so how do we enable identity card printers to issue these id cards and how is this then tying into digital identities as well and we're going to have like multiple demos tutorials and so on but we have been broadcasting also as well in a webinar with zebra uh just to show the zebra developers how they can also use the not only this deeper but the whole secret zebra ecosystem how they can also use the iota technology as part of what they do already you might have seen it as well we are working on the epics standard actively in trade and supply chain and like this is a really big one because you can see it here it's a standard for event serialization and this enables like a very easy way for iota where you can have like sort of like even like a plug-and-play mechanism which is completely interoperable so you can like get into the system very fast you can get data out very fast and it's all secured by iota's digital letter so where the data is immutable and you have like a really immutable strong audit trail of where your goods have been which is a real problem at the moment because paper documents are just easy to fake so absolutely stunning work it's just like a smaller excerpt i would say as i said the team has been completely on fire there's also a little bit more what you can look forward to beside additional activities from those projects so deposit return schemes i'm not going to go into more detail so there's a soon alert as you can see here but let yourself be surprised then grant agreements and tenders you'll probably have seen that we've been working with the european blockchain for the european blockchain service infrastructure project edsi together with the european commission i know there are a lot of questions if you already have received a reply so not until today we have not received a reply but it also should come very soon with chase we have started it this year so this is really to develop a bachelor program also for universities to teach blockchain skills over the upcoming years because it's a very important topic in order to get the students engaged in it to understand what it can do and how you can use it for automation so we are quite proud to have been selected as the only dlt organization i think with this vast amount of partners here to really develop this program city exchange has been ongoing for a little bit more time but we have been also quite active there to build an energy marketplace to build a multi-modal traffic management system and you can see it here it still goes a little bit but then we are also going to have some really nice things to present to you and some platforms in which you can then also build digit was also kicking off as you can see here it started in may but there was a little bit of delay there as well from the kickoff and also obviously here it's going a little bit longer than 2020 but the team has been meeting they've been visiting the mine as well so this is a really exciting project to collect data as you can see it here from the mining industry and essentially understand how we can improve the health the safety of the workers of the industry how can we track the data which is being aggregated during this mining process then also how can we make sure that we have like a sustainable approach to mining insurance is also a really big project so to utilize iota in order to improve the cyber security also in e-commerce and just to give you like a little glimpse because this project also has like kicked off uh like this year very strongly there has been i don't know how many thousands of hours of implementation behind the scene but the team has laid out some absolutely stunning apis how to do identity management in retail how can i ensure that or how can i show that i'm over 18 and i can do this remotely in a very easy way to qualify myself for example for purchasing more goods with this use case and many more use cases and just to dive a little bit into the details because it always sounds a bit so easy when you say ah this is just a there's a project and you're doing some implementation so i just took took out some of the activities which the team has been doing this year you can see here definition of api design we're using verifiable credentials multi-branch channels pre-shared keys we started the wiki we are going to do more demos presentations video recordings as well with the tm forum we're doing more reviews we're going to have this audit uh trail gateway and the ssi bridge to set up the two links there and then also share them with the community that they can be also used very easily as plug-and-play across the whole field to show what disabled ledger technology can do and we are going to have some more pilots as well in early 22 so also stay tuned here nido is quite interesting as well it's an energy project in japan for risk-based maintenance where essentially we understand how the different parts need to be replaced with a maintenance cycle and because everybody is putting the data on the iota ledger and the data gets anonymized there's no competitive how to say downfall or drawback when you are sharing your data but essentially you're still sharing your data and you profit from everybody else also sharing the data so you can have a lot more like a lot bigger databases to run analytics on which benefits the whole industry than in japan of course to be more competitive orchestra is a nice project which also started today it's quite awesome because it's about synchronizing multimodal transport and if you are living in a city you've probably seen that the traffic jams are getting a little bit i'll say more over the past years we need like a smarter way to steer traffic and with orchestra we are deeply looking into this how we could use distributed ledger technology for this as well secant is also a big project which is now starting today you can see here i think it's like even our largest funding for projects with like over half a million euros so this in the area of healthcare as you can see and essentially to understand how can we share data how can we share our health care data how can we use the data without really exposing ourselves we're going to also build like a full platform here for everyone then to use and i think like last but not least we have the susie project to secure sensor energy networks which we're doing with prs pure s and m cloud there are also two startups in the iota ecosystem antonio is going to dive into this a little bit more as well into this project but into the ecosystem itself and there we also show how you can secure data on the iota tangle how can you share data over laura van over 20 kilometers with really a minimal footprint and also this enables a lot more automation in the future when you can have devices talk to each other with a very long battery life as well oh yeah oh there's another soon alert you can see it here so you remember maybe the biodigester project in chile where we are instrumenting different co2 counters and then we are demonstrating how you can secure co2 values directly at the edge device itself and sign them off from the sensor and have them secured directly on the iota tangle and we are going to extend this in 2022 to another facility to so also stay tuned two projects i still want to mention even if we are not directly involved but indirectly is the smart driving project it's called alfred where they're like a smart highway post so the ito groupe is strongly pushing forward to this benjamin and the team absolutely heads off to what you guys are doing so we are talking about a smart highway post because automatic driving is still very reliant on pattern recognition so even the tesla autopilot is not 100 good at it and essentially what we are looking forward to do here is to have like smart highway posts which understand the road conditions with like over a dozen sensors in it and then they can function as external reference points for self-driving cars or any other actors in the ecosystem in order to understand how the road conditions are if there's a construction yard ongoing if there is like oil on the track or anything like this to make driving safer and especially automated driving and then of course the trade project where feline core is also strongly involved with really pushing the edge of digital identity and what is possible here also together with the aether group and the technical university in english that like also for safe autonomous driving and combine this with decentralized access management good and then what's the outlook so you've probably heard of gaia x which is the large cloud infrastructure project by germany to not rely so that europe doesn't really rely on the u.s and asian cloud providers just looking a bit at the clock yeah sometime and we also have handed in applications for six more grand projects as well they're going to be strategic projects which then provide the platforms the apis so to really build on the iota technology as part of strategic use cases where we see a strong level of scalability what is needed as well as a strong level of automation what is going to be needed in the future and we think it's still very important to apply for those grants simply because they just open up completely new ecosystems as well for us and where we show how disruptive this technology can also be and then maybe you remember this slide that iota is really made for the iot with all of these devices but wait a minute io iota's only for the iit no not at all anymore there is a lot of stuff going on and if you have been missing the past announcements of the past four weeks then buckle up the we have released smart contracts beta already a little bit longer than four weeks but this is like the basis for a lot of other projects so the iota smart contracts they are based on the ethereum virtual machine you can already run the first tests on layer 2 so we have seen or we are seeing that the ecosystem is starting to build but essentially this is opening up like a lot of new possibilities and one of them is that we're going to deploy all the smart contracts and tokenized assets on the shimmer network which is also completely new you can also see it here there's like a small icon with a with a parachute so because there's going to be like a larger staking event when you stake your iota tokens you get shimmer tokens completely for free and the idea behind it is that shimmer is going to be the incentivized testnet for iota so that we bring all those innovations which we're developing first on shimmer and then we are going to bring them on the iot mainnet and in addition to shimmer we have something else we have also launched assembly and i think assembly is the project which has been it's one of the longest projects i think in the making because it's like really like a vast topic and it's a very complex topic as well but it's also a really disruptive topic this is the absolutely amazing thing about it so if you don't know what assembly is with launch assembly like a couple of days ago like a week ago something like this and essentially assembly is building on the iota smart contract framework and is providing an additional chain and you can imagine it like a transition layer between different smart contract ecosystems because at the moment you still have the problem that when you are running different smart contract ecosystems you still are relying on bridges between all of those systems and usually when you are using a bridge you have to trust the bridge provider but typically you also have to pay a fee info in order to use the bridge and if you're into trading or if you are into asset swapping then you quickly realize wait i'm moving this asset over from ethereum to somewhere else and i have to pay a hundred dollar fee or like fifty dollars fee and of course this is not sustainable especially when you think about the metaverse when you think about web3 like how should a metaverse the metaverse work when you want to transition all of your assets or several of your assets and every time you have to pay a fee and this is where we have assembly so assembly is a highly scalable platform which connects different smart contract platforms which makes them interoperable as well so you can use like a token from one smart contract platform in the contract of another smart contract platform and you can do this transition between those ecosystems completely natively and for free and you can do this for the tokens you can do it for nfts digital assets and so on and all of it is secured by the iota ledger so it's a huge accelerator here's also like how it works it's a huge accelerator to get the web 3 going and i think it's also the most advanced project in the whole space because we can utilize the iota ledger on the bottom with a directed acyclic graph it's really the biggest advantage which we have to scale it up and this enables you can imagine it it can enable like hundreds of thousands of smart contract ecosystems talking together for free in real time which is absolutely blowing the head off and yeah you can join us here at assembly.sc sc there is also you can see it here like a small addrop icon as well so what we have for shimmer we also have for assembly when you stake your tokens then there are also assembly tokens and last but not least today we announced an additional ecosystem funding with a hundred million dollars so we have strong venture capital partners which we are bringing in and those partners are then also being matched how to say matched matchmaking matched to startups starting to build on assembly so when you are have something on the ethereum network when you have written something into solidity we make it really easy for you to port over to assembly and build your system there the fees are like zero to whatever you want to define it's really up to you to define the fees for your smart contract chain to become really competitively or for competitive benefit for your user base as well it's lightning fast when you use it you have this interoperability and you can port over your existing project very fast to assembly and when you're new to assembly and when you want to build something when you say this sounds really awesome then also join us on assembly we have the the funding but what we also have is a builders program which is called touchpoint where we take you in where we lead you on where we improve your project with you and where we give you the support that your project is going to be successful and here also completely chapeau heads off to the team what then everybody has been doing dan corey chris it's absolutely amazing what has been developing here over the last 16 months also together with the external partners and yeah i'm really thrilled about seeing what the community is going to build maybe antonio is going to share a bit more so thank you very much this is from my side and back to you terry thanks holger that was a lot to absorb and the funding details that went public today are amazing alex that was also fantastic and i'm really excited to learn more about prop ops and the work that you're doing in germany and further afield yeah um just for those of you watching i've spent some time a couple of hours actually talking to alex this week and i can personally assure you that his knowledge and expertise in the property management space are simply second to none these are exciting times to be sure and it's just a taste of how this technology can be applied in in so many different fields okay so this is a perfect time for everyone watching the live stream to check back in on the defining moments discord channel a couple of people have asked about which channel it is it's called defining moments it's on discord i hear the elves are busy over there and you don't want to miss out on what they're doing i was also monitoring the chat during holger's presentation and noticed that master user master wrote that he's long thought that terry was a woman and he's very disappointed to discover that i'm a guy master i am so sorry i've let you down okay so now that we've heard from holger about some interesting build all news there we go there's the build all news it's my very gate great pleasure to introduce our amazing iota foundation community manager mr antonio nadella now you have to admit that we have some pretty good looking guys on the iota team and antonio is certainly no exception he also sports some pretty impressive facial hair and it's clear that he's a big supporter not only of the build-all directive but also of the whole beardle initiative and uh he's doing that together with our our good friend hunts moog who couldn't be with us today but uh he's been trying to get a look in and it's now an opportunity to hear from antonio antonio you have been incredibly busy this year look that beard it's unbelievable but you should you should you should use the uh that uh swiss army knife there to maybe uh do a little trimming but well you know um i have um an agreement with the german community that once courteside it out is out it will be also beer decide oh and with all the news that come out i have to trim it a little bit because you know cordyced is coming closer and the beard is getting shorter that's good well you've been incredibly busy this year working with the community on so many initiatives that frankly it's it's impossible to keep track of everything so why don't you review for us some of the community accomplishments in 2021 and give us a glimpse of what lies ahead for 2022 it will be absolutely my pleasure thank you very much there is you okay later all right hello everyone um again this this presentation is all about you um i am now finally working with another community manager so i'm really happy to have file on the team holger for others not the holger with the partners the other holger that spent a lot of time with the community was a community member himself and we are absolutely eager to present what the community did so far so first things first we start right ahead with what we have in the numbers so we have our very active community on discord and yeah the green screen can handle can't handle my beard and we grew 32 percent from last year so it is really great to see the engagement there to see the discussions to see the eloquent criticism and how people love being with us and interact with the developers with all the members together the builders and everyone that is engaged in in our community and ecosystem if we'll have a quick look at the other personalized networks we've seen an overall growth over all channels one note about the facebook and telegram groups those are 99 community driven so heads off to all the administrator moderators uh from all the telegram and facebook channels and um groups from all the different languages so from turkey to taiwan to finland to germany thank you very much for supporting us and supporting your community in your native language which is really important and really helpful to um to get the information out of what we are building as you can see linkedin had a really great increase here with 70 which means that also on the professional side we had really good connections here uh e-grant i can't give you my t-shirt but you can find it at iota shops news for this year we have a twitch channel and an instagram channel and i wanted to give my kudos to ani our developer advocate that is doing streaming on twitch where he is uh helping and going through different ways of building smart contracts with ic with iota smart contracts so go to twitch.tv iotadev and subscribe to his channel so that you can follow his really great really great videos that can support you in your building and of course for the funds of instagram and meta platforms follow us there for different updates so really quick uh about the ecosystem development fund uh some of you might have heard that the edf is moving to the swiss so that they can support even more our builders community and our developers so for the edf right now until it is fully moved to the swiss um it provides grounds up to 350 dollars for open source project and mainly for frameworks uh and other interesting tools that support the community and the ecosystem to build further for this year we had seven projects and uh around 440 000 euros more or less were funded this year you can find the information on transparency.iota.org i am terribly sorry for being so quick but we have to talk about community engagement we have to talk about what the community brought us this year and it's a lot so let me start right away with some special mentions for our iota experience teams x teams are members that spend more time with with us with our community with other members they own [Music] projects they own different initiatives like for example adamski which is championing the identityx team and they meet weekly on mondays and they talk about the projects that they're building they share information about uh what uh iot identity is all about and of course they also are visited by yale and other experts in the uh iota identity framework huts off also to gman214 also known as greg he's championing the smart contracts x team and they meet every two weeks on tuesday so if you are eager to learn more and to um and to engage with other builders that are building on smart contracts with are a little more knowledgeable about iota smart contracts meet uh with them on tuesdays last but not least uh chris from zignar he's championing the uh smart um the iota streams x team uh so if you are eager to know more about how to use iota streams for secure data transfer and the iota streams framework in general and talk to or know our iota foundation lead they meet every two weeks on wednesdays so make sure to join them in the x teams another special mention goes to uh mzk91 he supported us in launching the hackatonians initiative we had so many uh changes this year that it did not really take off but he championed it really with strength and passion and with next year more and more will come so i hope that he will support us even further the more we build together with the community let me talk a little bit about other community initiatives that started independently where we are not involved uh if not requested or if not asked to enable them there is now an america's group which is a hundred percent uh community driven initiative it started out as a twitter list if i remember it correctly still by gman he will be everywhere in this presentation one way or the other and um they started meeting um on thursdays to talk about iota the activities and the ecosystem i'm terribly sorry that i will have to rush a little bit through the presentation but we have wallet jesus waiting for us and a lot to talk about another really important community initiative where um i have to be really grateful what i'm fakieota is doing besides sponsoring this evening and supporting us daily in the german community the shantish the shtamtish is a german tradition where people met at this so-called beer harlan so this think about it like really big holes with a lot of tables and surrounded by shops where you can buy food but at the center you have all these beer tables where people meet they have their own own plaquettes where you can read or write the physicists meet every third wednesday of the month or at seven o'clock and every um and every time you can actually meet these groups and talk about uh what you are interested in and they can be about chess they can be about sports and it's a really important and old tradition in germany and they are doing the same thing virtually of course about iota and they meet every monday and i absolutely invite the german speaking community to the german stamp dish on the iron faciota discord and again thanks for everything you're doing uh i'm for hilda another important initiative is the treasury governance initiative we um have around 60 ti terra iota locked since the migration to chrysalis and the community is working really hard and is enabled by the iota foundation on the vote for the treasury so this funds can be unlocked by the by the community enabling treasury but it is going to be decided by a vote and this vote is being implemented in firefly and in our software today we had the news that the hornet version the iota node version got upgraded with the support for voting and it is important for us to make sure that everyone knows about it and that joins the discussion around the governance and how to build this treasury which we hopefully will see totally a hundred percent community driven so next step will be the vote to burn or to build where um this funds and this treasury will and hopefully can be used by the community to support different initiatives so let's invite everyone to the discussion on discord another special mention is for the community members that launched the iota wiki initiative the wiki.iota.org became the complete reference for all the iota documentation and for everything around iota it is mainly community driven it is taking our official documentation and putting everything in one place for the developers and [Music] it is uh also open to community members to contribute and add their content or fix maybe something that is wrong so feel free to join uh the iota wiki uh community initiative to present your content and to extend the wiki with whatever you uh might contribute to the community the special mentions here go to final that after uh a while became another foundation member but started out as a community member dr electron or dr moon sometimes on discord uh joanne vandenhoutz critical and jso you are the core contributors to the wiki and so thank you very much for making this possible and dare i say it are you seeing this um so this is this insider in our spec channel that i am keeping an eye on we had this q2 and this beautiful meme of opening the floodgates well the community and ecosystem was not ready to build so we closed the floodgates again but we can now say in the q4 that the community is building and maybe we can open the floodgates a little and so let's have a look at what is here already my first mention goes to the suniverse uh the suniverse thank you for get to mazza for the floodgates uh meme and spec the sunoverse is now an all-in-one feedless platform for you community members to build your own spaces groups and dows so it is possible to create your space invite people to your space make proposals vote on decisions and slowly slowly begin building your tao from there so make sure to join soonerverse.com and have a look at what the ecosystem and the community are doing there it has been launched not many days ago and already has around 3 000 members joining and interacting on the platform next one is iota up and make sure to bookmark this link and to visit as much as possible because it is a project sharing platform where creators of all kinds so if you are a content creator a video creator a nft creator if you're building a project if you are setting up a project within the ecosystem make sure to list it on iota up so it will also be on one stop shop for getting support and exposure to the groundbreaking innovations that you are building within the ecosystem so if you are building something and if you want to um showcase to the community in the ecosystem what you're building make sure to visit iotaup.com and put it out there another important mention is a community initiative by stefan brown which from scratch built the iota php library to use iota rest apis to connect your php application with the iota tangle from iota payments and other stuff so kudos and thank you very much stefan brown for joining our community and supporting other builders like you that build uh with php this is a prime example of how community members can contribute and extend the reach of the iota technology to other community members another important community project from this year is ipa interplanetary precision agriculture by zignar if you're following um closely what's happening in the iota discord you might have seen the one or the other presentation of the ipa so make sure to visit the website and to learn about their project which maximizes yields by automating the farm management identifying the optimal growing conditions for specific for each crop and i heard something about a project on mars and yeah the planet so make sure to visit the website and check out what they are doing another important project that might not be mentioned as often as it should is by our community member nobody um he's someone and his nickname is nobody and it is tangle bay um he's supporting the community member by providing public and highly available iota node pools so if you're a community member and setting up your own hornet hornet shimmer or hornet ghoshimer and vastnotes you can use his swarm script to install it really uh easily and maintain your notes and also join pools to support the community with your note so make sure to uh if you're a node operator make sure to visit tanglebay.com and add your note to the pools and yes tommy tom i said mars and not moon next project that uh absolutely deserves uh mention is raspy hive from our german community member uh martin so it is a really quick and dirty quick and easy sorry set up for setting up your raspberry pi notes with with simple scripts where you can actually start participating in either private networks if you want to play around with it like zigner is doing or also uh set up a node to participate in the network while uh the transactions are not that many so if you want to play around with it and learn a little bit before setting up a vps and paying monthly fees and you have a raspberry pi lying around i absolutely invite you to raspberhive.org and have a look at how to install your node on the raspberry pi speaking of edf and the ecosystem development fund i'm happy to present a project that was uh presented yesterday on or was it two days ago oh my god the time is flying on the iota discord by the team it is the identity suite which is a full digital identity and verifiable credential management system which is completely open source which is completely available for everyone to you to set up thank you damsk it was on wednesday i was presented on wednesday and it is completely available for you to build upon your digital identity management system so um you can use this to um [Music] to build applications to um [Music] as an organization to set up from your local chess club identity systems to uh business-wide identity integrations so if you're looking if you're looking at a way to integrate the iota did digital identity framework within your application have a look at this framework which might make things a little simpler or at least give you a good overview or idea how to do that um of course what would life be without the memes um and i must say that we have really um really engaged people in our discord that love our memes and so have a look at iotamemes.com to learn about inside jokes and to share your memes about iota so of course we are doing i mean if you listen to holger we do serious stuff but we absolutely love our community and our memes um i think this is one of the last ones for community projects for this year but not the less important ones but a really important one because this is for all the artists out there that are building um nft projects there is a project by pxdg which i might suppose that it is short for pixeldog but i might be corrected in speculation he is building this site called iota-nft.art where all nft projects are being collected so for all the collectors and nft aficionados out there make sure to learn about all the nft projects on iota nft.art and a special mention goes to the first and most known nft projects that are testing out um isc iota smart contracts which is in beta right now and getting a gist of how it will be to build uh smart contracts on iota uh this special mention goes to iotabots bot 49 checking in morons with their special cards iota whales with i didn't get one monkey rusty robot country club and creamies you were the first you are you absolutely deserve this special mansion and i am sure that more nft projects will be published and if you're doing so make sure to get in touch with pxdg to get it listed on iotanftart.com huge thank you to the iota dow pioneers so this is the last slide for this year 2021 for this overview if i forgot someone uh i'm terribly sorry i hope that i will learn more about your project for 2022 make sure to get in touch with me um for being here next year and hopefully to meet live somewhere in berlin or in another city but before we close the review of 2021 a huge thanks to all the participants of the the iota dow pioneers learning circle um we spent countless hours with our community members to learn about what um what a dao actually is from the description of the word to the history to the toolings to the legal challenges and to everything around dao's so thanks again to all the members that got their pi their pioneer badge and that spent their time with us learning about them yeah the last five weeks philo uh slash holder and i had really really enjoyed our time with you um and all the countless and really important discussions about dao's challenging our ideas challenging what we know about organizations decentralizations governance voting theories and everything around that so uh thanks again for being with us there and this is not the end join the movement and just dow it because 2022 will be explosive and talking about 2022 let's have a preview of what's coming i had the opportunity to um get some juicy juicy news that will bring us to the moon and beyond and i'm really glad to and really honored to um present to you some of these projects that are building in secret some of them at least others are already pretty vocal but you have seen nothing yet let me start with the first one yes it's still without pioneers linus our committee member is making ready and proposing to the community an ideathon where the dows in our ecosystem will have the opportunity to participate in the challenge and be funded within a sandbox ecosystem and figure out what actually dowing means and being a taoist means and so make sure to get your manifestos ready make sure to join the discussions uh and make the ideathon a really awesome community initiative and of course since we are going to have a voting um plugin within the nodes and firefly we will use that and enjoy using that to vote and enable three community dows to start their journey nft marketplace some of us had the opportunity to already test the alpha version in the early days make sure to bookmark this link nftiota.org because it is one of the first nft marketplaces that will be launched um in 2022 hopefully no guarantees all right it's all in their hands so let's see what's coming and it is it was a really nice platform to test out and i am really eager to see what is going to come for 2022 so if you are nft artist if you are ready to uh present your collections and to um sell them on the upcoming nft platforms the first one to bookmark is nft iota.org so make sure to visit it and bookmark it juicy juicy this is almost secret besides for some insiders the metaversation the metaverse messenger uh it might be that the link is already online i'm checking with with the developers is it online give me a ping the metaversation is a privacy first peer-to-peer messenger which offers richer text voice ar vr conversations with integrated crypto payments and nft functionalities so heads off to the team we from tangle hub tanglehub and it is going to be built on their open source decentralized infrastructure and is ready to connect any web 3 applications oh i'm getting a ping and getting a ping let me check my sources yeah it's it's happening live and it is live so make sure to get go to metaversation.io which has been posted to our speculation channel and try it out and let me know how it is live feedback on discord oh my god i'm sorry this i need a little water for this over you 20 22 this was pre-announced yesterday and the correct way of saying is it's elizi and elysium is a permissionless decentralized metaverse platform that brings together multiple blockchains for an endless world of customizable nft experiences elizi is um important to me because i'm an adventurer i'm exploring the metaverse and i know that uh cam camilabs chemilaps oh you have to excuse me for this and please let me know how to read it correctly partnered up with vercadia and they are going to build this um [Music] metaverse platform where you are going to own not only the nfts not only your avatar but the whole infrastructure so the server where you connect to is not in the hands of meta is not in the hands of someone um setting up on on aws you can control your meta world your whole infrastructure privacy oriented and self serene and i absolutely love this so i cannot i cannot sit still and wait to see it in action so really hyped for this one another really important uh project will be tangle c tangle c is the future decentralized exchange on the assembly network focus on offering a premier trading experience so get ready with your tokens get ready to experience decentralized exchanges where um where yeah where you are in control and not someone else where we cut out the middlemen for good and not still rely on some centralized exchanges and be ready to be part of these decentralized exchanges they have a dedicated team with combined more than 50 years of professional experience so get ready to join them on tanglesey.com another important uh community project that was um that was pre-announced in our discord which is individual and i am sorry for my italian pronunciation but this is how i might read it and it is a uh platform which builds bridges between individual human identity and secure decentralized digital identity solutions um and you can onboard people with ai systems within 30 seconds so make sure to join individny.net and participate i think they have a sign up for the beta or something and this is a professionally oriented kyc and digital identity solution so if you're a business and looking for a solution be ready for 2022 oh my god how much are there oh my god we are not finished yet this is coming out of stealth with this presentation and it is chromie i hope i'm reading this right uh chromie chromie.io is a nft social gaming platform that combines storytelling and gamification to make nfts useful through collect and play to earn minigames so if you know this i'm an 80s kid so i've seen some of these really cool stuff and back in the day you have this collectibles and make sure to visit chromie.io and um explore this collecting experiences like sticker albums comics music and more and movie boxes murals and mini games so i don't know what it is yet have a look at their whole of their website it is already really cool and get ready for 2022 there it is my beard where is my ox volks mythica speculation was waiting for this one um volks mythica or folks mythica depending on where you are from and how you read it is the first in a sega saga of decentralized nft collectible games so it will allow anyone to it will allow anyone in the world opportunity to build up a unique collection of nfc characters and items to earn rewards by engaging with the global community through playing the game so if you're a gamer like me and if you're ready to use nft technology within a game and collect and build and share and engage in a global community let is let get ready for when folks mythica is coming out make sure to read their white paper and their roadmap because it is coming in hot wow wow wow wow awesome news also from another decentralized exchange tangle swap which is an aftermarket automated market maker decentralized exchange aimed at providing a wide portfolio of iota d5 solutions so um get ready to trade stake earn leverage assets discover and connect make sure to bookmark also tangleswap.exchange because you have seen nothing yet you have heard about tangle c and now there is tangle swap and these are the first two building on the iota technologies and um are trying out our um iota smart contracts um beta right now and getting ready when everything comes out so pretty much soon for 2022 we are almost at the end but it is important to uh share another project that came out of um of hiding also yesterday i think or in the last days which is inspired inspired is a multi-chain mft marketplace to bring art form from different networks to on to one single platform so if you are building on different chains and you are an artist selling your nfts on tuesday thank you damski again um it was pre-announced on tuesday so if you are um an artist and already sharing your art on other chains like tezos or cardano you will be really glad to find a platform where you can share and sell your projects on a multi-chain nft marketplace and i think that it might be connected to something else that we have heard today so this is going to be a groundbreaking um building block for many other projects out there i'm really happy to have inspired dot io in our community check their website out and be ready for what's coming next year yeah kanye i'm also so happy of being able to present so many community projects this year and i hope that it will be more coming um thanks chris last but not least for today is jenna tech yen attack is a marketplace that helps land owners or businesses to digitize their land to rise raise investments for chosen industrial agricultural crops through a process called digital share offerings dso with promises promise returns for two percent success fee so um this uh i didn't read i i know nothing more than what i'm presenting here so i'm sorry if i have to read the slides but you know uh this is the beauty of our ecosystem um these projects pop up uh from nowhere but and listen to my to my calls so if someone from yen attack is online and listening to this get in touch with adamski he wants to speak to you so connect connect connect if i remember it correctly yeah it was the last one so i thank you very much for listening and for rushing through this marathon it was a real pleasure for me to present the review 2021 and the preview of 2022 i am so ready and so pumped and so hyped for what's coming next year out of the iota and broader ecosystem with assembly and shimmer so make sure to follow our channels to follow all these community projects on discord on twitter and on their platforms i will share these presentations for uh with everyone so that you can find the links also they will be linked in the description of the youtube video and um again thanks for listening in and terry join me on stage wow i'm sweating wow that was a lot of news and it was all incredible um i i didn't think you were going to come back to me i was i was wondering when i'd come back to the stage here um [Music] yeah it's it's it's really wow and i'm just excited yeah i'm just excited as you are speechless speechless and and honestly i'd i'd love to say a huge thank you not only to you but to all of the amazing iota community members who make this space such a safe supportive innovative and welcoming place it really does feel like home and honestly i can't wait for the time when perhaps we're all able to meet together in munich or somewhere similar in the not too distant future but this really does feel like uh a global family uh so many people that i feel that i know in in ways that's really quite shocking considering that we've never met face to face but uh yeah good times ahead uh antonio thank you thank you and uh i i'm fascinated by the incredible uh appearing and disappearing beard so uh very very cool okay kitties now would be a good time to head back over to the defining moments discord channel because those iota foundation elves are at it again and by the way have you noticed how clean it is in here that's because mrs claus has implemented her dust protection protocol which ensures that there are never any pesky dust motes floating around up here at the north pole it's extremely effective as you can see and meanwhile i have a big surprise announcement to make i have just been informed of some late breaking news the following community members have just created a new space on the suniverse website uh here are their names they are at dasha at dancer prancer at vixen at comet cupid at donna and at blitzen and they've just formed the new the all-new rain dao they've also set up a governance committee and voted on a new initiative that i think we can all support the consensus was unanimous and i'm honored to announce that this year the newest reindeer of all will be leading santa's sleigh i am of course referring to our new leading light at shimmer shimmer will also be supported by millions and hopefully billions of fireflies this year and here to tell us more about it is our good friend the iota foundation tech lead on everyone's favorite crypto wallet mr charlie valley better known to some of you as wallet jesus charlie take it away yes jesus i'm doing great you know i i couldn't sleep last night thinking about today's event and you would not believe yeah you would not believe your eyes if 10 million fireflies as i fell asleep so it's a good tune though it is i know i would sing it but uh youtube might uh censor us so i think like everyone i'm so excited to hear about all the good stuff in store and perhaps you'll finally answer the question i know is on everyone's mind right now when will we see the news of firefly perhaps perhaps charlie it's the stage is yours cool let me share the presentation so they uh they've let me out the salt mines for the next 15 minutes um deep in a work funk on the staking with the rest of the team everyone's been working very hard um and we're excited to share the current status of various uh firefly features with the community i'm just going to close discord because i have some cycles they're taking me but as they stay focused so um it's a really exciting time for the firefly team at the moment we've we've had a lot of new devs join over the last year um we've had nicole matthew amadeo jean um i mean we have a few new people joining in the new year as well so uh as as with the iot protocol it's a very exciting time lots to build and it's nice to have such a full team to work on it so it's a good vibe at the moment the team we're getting a lot of work done um and hopefully through this presentation i can share a little bit about what our priorities are at the moment um so without further ado let's jump to the next slide so first thing's nice my play mobile um a lot of communities have been asking when about firefly mobile um and it is coming along nicely i'm pretty content with the current progress we've made a lot of progress recently um one of the main blockers we had was hooking up the rust back end to the front end and getting all of the different um areas of logic within the app up and running so now that we've surmounted that huddle i think we're on a really good path and from here it's just going to snowball with development as we hook up the different parts of the wallet um so just to give you a quick overview of how it works and how it relates to desktop so we're using the same code base as desktop um that means that certain functionality is shared between both platforms so obviously there are unique elements that are only on mobiles such as unique ui features that are mobile specific um also any of the the native functionality of mobile so let's say you're scanning a qr to fill in transaction data and send a transaction or say you're exporting a stronghold to the transact to the to the file system that will uh dig into native api so it's it's nice that beyond that everything is shared um it means that it's a lot more maintainable it means we can develop faster um and in terms of the technical stack we have felt for the front end which is a very nice javascript framework we we're very vocal about smart video it's a foundation a lot of people use it for their various projects as our javascript framework of choice um and and the way it works is it compiles code down into pure vanilla javascript so uh things are a lot more performant than any of the competitor frameworks like react view etc um i fully recommend you check it out if you're a front-end developer then we have the capacitor runtime so this is what exposes the native apis for us this is what allows us to choose fault for our front-end language meanwhile also exposing all of the native functionality and then we have the rust port so this is those two native uh rust libraries that we have for firefly desktop wallet rs and stronghold and these cover everything from everything associated with the wallet so transactions accounting any sensitive operations like generating addresses or generating private keys that all happens in the rough side and means that we have a very performant app so if you've used the desktop app you'll notice that it's quite snappy the same will be true of the mobile one and then we'll have all of the security benefits from the stronghold integration so in terms of milestones um the next one is alpha this would be a closed testing group i believe not fully decided maybe we'll invite some more community members to it but we have a lovely group of testers we're very active i then think that things are going to move between each of the respective stages alpha beta to production very quickly um obviously given that it's uh it's a clone of the desktop app in a mobile environment it means that we're not going to be finding bugs in logic we're going to be finding maybe incompatibility issues uh on particular devices or stuff so it should have a much smaller surface area for bugs um and yeah it's it's in a good state um can't give any etas as is tradition in the iot foundation but i'm looking forward to sharing that with you now the the mobile team has been doing a brilliant job there so moving on we have the voting so um this is an interesting feature it's something that's been worked on by a decent section of community for the last few months um and and what sort of uh triggered this was the um these unclaimed tokens that have become present as a result of chrysalis so like when uh we had previous network migrations throughout the history of io to all of these different network upgrades certain um holders never claim their tokens and after a certain point it makes sense to be like okay we should do something with these tokens rather than just having them lost forever so the idea is that there'll be this build versus burn vote where community members have the opportunity to vote either for option one where you build a community treasury and you use that to set up various dowels and ecosystem incentives to stimulate development from from community developers or option two where you you burn the tokens uh i guess in the hope that um the token price about editable golf in price so this is uh this is coming up soon um and the vote would be fully conducted from within firefly so this is using the same plug-in as uh staking um it's it's a no plug-in and the way it works is in order to register your vote in firefly you simply hit vote for a given option and then behind the scenes what's happening is that your funds are sent to the same address by firefly so you're sending your funds to your same address and by doing that you're giving a certain preference to a given option in the vote and then you leave that for the period the vote last so if we assume that the vote will last one week or two weeks then if you you uh send this transaction to yourself by a firefly then you've given a certain weight to a given voting option and the reason we're doing this is because if you just allow a single event then people can go to an exchange buy a load of tokens and uh and vote for a particular option um so by locking it's not it's not really knocking because you can unlock them at any point by locking your tokens um you then vote for a given option with a particular faith and uh because we want this feature to have more utility than just for the build versus band vote we're also providing a sort of voting tool via fireflies so if you are a community project like say the suniverse which is a brilliant initiative that i recommend you check out if you haven't already let's say you want to initiate a vote via firefly um you have a deep link that you can host on a given website and within that deep link you'll have a given vote id and firefly will open up and pull in the vote data what are the options with that given vote let's say uh thomas from spec shall we promote him to the iowa foundation board i think we should that could go up to community vote and uh some community project could have a nice deep link on their website open up firefly and then in the dashboard you'd see from the model you know like a pop-up do i want to vote yes or no so it's a nice way to have decentralized votes on there um on various aspects of the iot ecosystem and as we increasingly see dowels and all sorts of things popping up it would be nice to to see what sort of votes will happen so moving on to the next topic there and this is this is a juicy one so this is we've hinted at it and we've mentioned it i'm sure a lot of community members aren't particularly aware of this project so something that's been going on for several months we've been building a browser extension with a community developer and the idea here is that um it's going to be your sort of relay 2.3 so you have all of these interesting community projects popping up you have entity marketplaces you have things like tanglesee tango swap various dexes that kind of stuff um they will take place in the browser meanwhile firefly desktop is a separate application so you need some sort of relay device in order to use your funds in firefly for certain activities in certain web 3 applications um and and the way this browse extension differs to the likes of metamask or solana's phantom is that it's not a standalone wallet so in its simple form the way in which metamask is used um most often it in my opinion at least is not particularly secure any private keys are stored in local storage in the browser which is subject to attack as soon as you have any sort of malicious program on your computer it can all malicious uh extensions there are all sorts of ways that those can be extracted so we were like let's not make this a standalone wallet let's make it purely a relay device let's benefit from the security of firefly from stronghold um and and just make it a sort of a communication medium between browser and the wallet so all of the the access policies for domains and stuff will go and sit within the stronghold um and is it a good base so at the moment it's working you can send transactions you can hook it up to the browser you can send transactions around the next phase with uh the coming months will be to implement smart contracts so really uh bringing it to the next level currently is it's just a way to send transactions as soon as it has that smart contract functionality it's going to really kick-start the iota community and then we can transition away from metamask for some of these smart contract use cases moving on into the next topic so this segues quite nicely into tokenization and smart contracts so this is like in my opinion the biggest um biggest protocol upgrade in iota's history possibly ever um this will turn iota from a a measly single asset ledger into a multi-asset ledger with nfts on layer one on layer two native tokens layer two tokens erc20 all of this kind of stuff suddenly iota becomes incredibly useful having historically had a more narrow set of use cases um and and i'm very excited for this this is going to be massive for utility within the iot ecosystem we can already see the sheer amount of community projects building against the devnet um and that's kind of crazy right we always had these historical uh links to the phrase cambrian explosion i feel like we're starting to see the first uh footsteps towards that happening um so from firefly's perspective there's there's a hell of a lot to do here um this is a a substantial feature and we don't want to spread ourselves too thin by considering too many peripheral features in the early stages so our plan is perfect the core term firefly is one of the the best user experiences in the entire space for multi multi-asset management and then further down the line after we get um smart contracts data tokens et cetera launch with shimmer then we'll begin to look at the profile features so in the future you can do all sorts of interesting things you can have sort of a creative platform within firefly where you can min nfts you can native tokens and really simplify things so that you don't need to write code for these sorts of things so there's like there's all sorts of things we can do here um our plan is narrow the scope get it out as quickly as possible because the most important thing is facilitating the community at the moment enabling the camera an explosion um and then we will go from there so moving on from this we have we have our final topic uh which i think most people are excited about at the moment um i don't have any uh live demos or anything planned i considered it but they they often go tits up so i thought it would be better to just show you a nice screenshot from the wallet so you can see what this is going to look like um just to give you a quick overview of how this is going to work so in the coming weeks again not going to give you an eta i know people are crying out for one but we do not have a policy of giving etas at the moment um we did just release a build to testers so it is actively being tested by the closed testing group at the moment but the the gist of this is um when the staking feature is released in fireflight there will be a 90-day staking period in which people can earn shimmer and assembly tokens by locking up their tokens in iota um again like voting it's not strictly locked up you can send your tokens around um as you please it would just unstake them and you need to restate them again so in terms of phases uh this this hasn't been really communicated yet but i think the the way this is going to work ultimately is um we'll announce that a new firefighter version is going to be released um the day before it gets released and then firefly will be released and there'll be a seven day pre-stake period so during this one week period you can stake your tokens um you know you can get ready uh make sure that you're ready to receive those rewards but you won't start receiving the rewards until the week is over so the idea here is that you know you might have people traveling around the world people on business trips people not with access to their computer and we want to give them a little bit of time so they can get prepared to uh to stake their tokens ahead of the reward period going live so one week free stake then it goes live and there's a 90 day staking period in which if you don't need your tokens if you need your tokens untouched then you will get the maximum rewards for the number of tokens you have in iota um and then once the staking period is over um they'll then be uh the networks launched in the future and as soon as those who launch you'll have access to uh both your shimmer and your assembly tokens um and i i think it's a really sensible approach so like historically uh air drops in the space have taken sort of one or two flavors one of them is uh you just reward your current uh community members by sending an airdrop to everyone who's been active in your community already and this is a really nice way of rewarding your community but it doesn't get any new blood into your community whatsoever then there's another side of their job where you you you set a future date you're like okay we're gonna have an air drop of this day make sure you get involved with the community before that in order to receive it but this has pretty much the same problem you know you have a lot of um chances and freeloaders who will come in grab the tokens and then run um what's really nice about our chosen approach is that people have to hold iota for 90 days so during that time they would have used firefly they would have hopefully started reading the reddit you know they would have been on the disc or they would have joined spec they'll get enamored with the item community and hopefully we'll bring in a load of new people and you also get that big benefit of all of the existing community also being reported um and i think this will likely be one of the largest air drops in crypto like few people are really sort of cottoning on to how much value is being or hypothetical value is being distributed to the community um in shimmer's case for example the entire token supply is is being air dropped and you know if you if you stake iota you get 77.6 of that in shimmer and you guys can do calculations to work out the hypothetical value for that but in addition you're also getting assembly so it's a really nice way to reward the item community to um prime other people to join the community and and at the perfect time really like we're we're well on our way to launching smart contracts and all of those things so having attention on iota now is is extremely important and i think this is going to be a turning point for us where certainly people are going to be like hang on a minute maybe iota is cooking something tasty after all so um that's it for my talk um hopefully you enjoyed it um i'm gonna after this get back to the salt mines continue working on staking just want to say a big thanks to the firefly team for all the work they've done over the last year i've got an amazing group of people working in the team um have a uh enjoyable christmas make sure you don't drink too much uh i don't check the price too often like spend time with your family that's always important and i will see all of you soon i'm sure in the speculation channel thanks charlie that was fantastic i i'm ready for staking to begin my i have been migrated and i just can't wait to see that shiny new button appear in firefly so it would have been a exciting drop to do a live staking launch on this but sadly we're not quite there yet i i i was hoping i was hoping it would be a great christmas present but uh i i think i could still go we still got a couple of weeks before christmas we'll see so santa might deliver something under the tree for us charlie i don't know i'll have to chat too um all right well i i think i can speak for many of us in the community when i say iota is life and we we truly believe in this project and uh and that belief is uh is gonna change the world and of course uh you know we've been through ups and downs and uh it's a tough time at the moment but uh i'm really excited for 2022 and i i think it's going to be absolutely incredible and of course the change that we're about to see would not have been possible without the incredible vision of the original founders of the iota project it's uh never easy to swim against the tide but as kipling so famously said if you can keep your head when all about you were losing theirs and blaming it on you you clearly don't understand the gravity of the situation well our next guest had to put up with a lot of doubters and fudsters over the last few years but it looks like iota is on the brink of its big moment in the sun now i am not sure if any of you have seen this amazing art that was posted about three days ago by multiverse dom using artificial intelligence to show us the many faces of dom sheena iota co-founder it's truly remarkable and for those who haven't seen it i wanted to share it with you all right now this is really cool and it's so interesting to see how dom has evolved over the years um you know in his early days this was young dom you know when he was just growing up and into gaming and the original ideas of iota were just forming in his head and then according to some of those images in that video he he started experimenting apparently uh experimenting with blockchain and uh and dags and so on until ultimately he he found his place and matured into sexy dom um soon to become biddledom where he uh he got on board with the whole iota meme thing of the of the beards um right now he's experimenting uh being metaverse dom but uh we know that as he matures we will see uh dom sun and uh gandhi dom uh but eventually with the the launch of the of the main net and uh the whole assembly launch and quarter side he will eventually mature and become wise dom when all of this has come to pass dom it's a pleasure to have you join us are you there hey terry hey sorry i just really had to laugh at that have you have you seen all of these yeah i've seen it and and you know like uh and like like i think uh mark sent it to me first i was like that's that's absolutely insane and the more i thought about it the more like ingenious i thought it was because obviously there's there's a lot of thought that went behind it wasn't just about doing like it's pretty cool stuff yeah it's all it's pretty cool i i have to say just like mochita used to think or thought until today that i i was a girl you're actually a pretty cool woman you uh you know yeah no so uh you you're actually pretty pretty good looking as a girl but uh i think we're all happier with you as a guy and uh looking forward there's so many there's so many images in here but uh i'll just give it one more play through but it's uh it's pretty well there's some odd odd things going on in there but um anyway it's it's fascinating you know like it's it's the internet you can be whoever you want to be there's no limits and and i think that's why all of us are here right absolutely limitless possibilities i'm hoping multiverse dorm might do a version of me that that would be an nft i could i could buy into anyway dom it's a pleasure to have you here i know we've been going for quite some time but uh this is your opportunity to uh to take it away share some final words encouragement as we end 2021 and head into 2022 i for one can't wait it's going to be amazing thank you for all your hard work and your vision your leadership um what do you have to share with us i saw all of the announcements today about the uh the funding partners which is really incredible and uh gives me a great feeling for uh for the for the new year but uh here over to you and uh wrap it up for us yeah no thank you very much terry right uh um looks like you guys had a really great show it's been going for like one and a half hours and um i mean that's the beauty of what we're creating here right i think i think iota in 2021 all of us have to realize it's not about the founders it's not about individuals and it's also partially no longer about the foundation and if there's one thing if there's like one indicator to really um realize the path that we're on and like be excited about this path it's it's the amazing achievements of all of you right um iota is only as valuable as its community and especially over the last few months um the contributions coming out of the community have been absolutely amazing and um it's it's it's it's really about building all of this together right at the end of the day iota is a community project and and we took certain decisions we went uh a painful path we didn't take shortcuts um exactly because we had a vision of the future and and all of us are sort of united by a shared purpose and this shared purpose is to create value to the world we are not here to have a quick money grab we're not here to uh write an insane pump and dump um we are here because we believe in the future of blockchain the future of distributed ledgers and the future of iota um we truly believe that this technology can change the world and it's not just a headline on uh on a silicon valley type type esque presentation but it's really something where all of us can feel that is that that it that it really is game changing right um being able to own your assets and being able to create these open digital worlds and um in 2021 it's not just a bunch of crazy people that are involved but it's really big companies and is is big funds and the the market is obviously bigger than 2 trillion but it just feels that we're just getting started and um for yoda it also feels that now now we're really on the right path and think about it right chrysalis or chrysalis and as it's pronounced um it's not even a year away and and that's just like such a crazy thing that it's not even a year away and it feels like this is how iota should have always been and um obviously we we we made certain decisions in the past that uh had to be reversed and uh we made mistakes as everybody else does but what matters the most is that you adapt and you improve and you do better and i think iot in 2021 all of us have really shown that we are on the right path and not just the right path for for the project but really on the right path to also bring distributed ledgers to to mainstream adoption and um iot in 2021 right um we we upgraded the core protocol and it's it's a wonderful piece of software that it can really utilize transactions confirming in a couple of seconds no transaction fees and now we really have to sort of launch pad on which you can build and what we have coming up is is the biggest utility upgrade in our history where we have um native tokens layer one tokenization um coming to the core protocol right and that is something that nobody else has in this space and it will really be a competitive advantage for us and it will really open up many opportunities for all of you uh to realize and and to create um amazing applications and then we always you have smart contracts um where many of you have already had a lot of fun with with iota bots with some nfts i hope that the metaverse dom i'll definitely be bidding for the metaverse dom to to get my piece of that and but it's been crazy to see you and crazy to participate and uh the the tech is getting ready um to build on and my job here is to empower all of you the the only way that i would say that we are remotely successful is if we can say that we have an ecosystem that is self-sufficient and where we have applications that really have an impact right that are being utilized tangible adoption um where we can participate uh freely right no restrictions because at the end of the day this is about permission as innovation right and where the ecosystem itself is actually more valuable than the iota core protocol today the value of iota is three or four billion dollars we want to have an ecosystem that is even bigger than that and if we achieve that we can say that we're successful um we're obviously not there yet but i can give everybody my commitment that um if there's one thing that i really want to achieve in 2022 it's it's the ecosystem around iota around assembly and around shimmer that will really be my core focus um to help empower all of you to be successful um because that is where the greatest opportunities are iota is is is a is a land of opportunity now because we have one of the biggest crypto communities all of you here who are listening are part of this creation right and are part of this community and and now we are opening up this community to exciting new applications um that can really um that can really be utilized in the real world to change lives like uh lending money and borrowing money and being able to participate in decentralized finance and non-fungible tokens for um community engagement and obviously decentralized autonomous organization organizations it's on the one hand there's a bunch of buzzwords uh for some um but quite frankly it is the future and we need to be part of the future and that's also why we've obviously uh broadened the horizon and the focus um of iota because iot is no longer just about the machine economy we've really extended our focus and extended our capabilities where iot is becoming this decentralized multi-asset ledger that is programmable and we leave it up to all of you to realize these opportunities and today we we announced this 100 million dollar ecosystem funding support and this is a really huge um stamp of approval for the direction that we're taking and it's also a stamp of approval for the kind of opportunities that are ahead of us and i can just really encourage all of you um who who are builders who are creative people who are innovators um to look up the documentation to be part of the community and to start thinking about the the next crazy idea that you can build on iota because now is the time right now is really the time where you can be productive and um where these scheduled um upgrades are are coming up um where it will hit the mainnet and and then we we we don't just want to then start the ecosystem building the ecosystem building starts now and and that's why i can really encourage all of you um to get started building now and as i already said my job and the job of the people at the yoda foundation is it to um provide the support to all of you to be successful right for one it's uh technical support uh for another it can also be um support on like business models on how to set up your first company or how to um even do token launches get legal advice and all of that and obviously most importantly funding and we are here to provide all of that for you like we are we're really creating a sort of support framework and i can really encourage all of you to to reach out to us directly we now have a dedicated program which is called touchpoint and where you can apply and where our team will support you um but overall i think right now is really um you know i was thinking about this for before because last year i also like that was we the the most exciting year ahead of us and it would be kind of wrong if i didn't say that every year because every year has to be better unless we're improving we're falling behind right and every year we've iterated we've improved and we've gotten better and now we're really um increasing the improvement exponentially it's even hard for me to keep up with uh with everything that's happening uh with all the amazing applications that are being built uh by the community and we're really just getting started um but um i can really encourage everybody to get involved now and and to to be part of the community because iota is first and foremost a community project and we have a bunch of amazing dolls coming up uh where the community will be empowered with managing funds and with managing certain aspects of the project and where all of you will will probably be involved in the community full-time right you will be able to quit your job and be financially stable through this ecosystem that we've created and that is what this is all about right we are here to create something beautiful together and we are really here to to have an impact together and that is what matters first and foremost are we on the right trajectory and uh the next few weeks i hope that all of you will be able to take some time off it's been a crazy year um but overall um we we need to be prepared for 2022 where we really have some some big things happening and 100 million dollars ecosystem funding support was a great start and and there's a lot more coming and i'm i'm really excited for for doing all of that together with you guys and i you know i've been in this crypto space for like 10 years now uh which is kind of a crazy crazy long time during iota for like six years right and i've i'm i'm more excited than ever and it doesn't get tiring even though it's like super super stressful um it it's like it just feels like the first day where you just find something new and you're like damn like this makes so much sense and like it's so exciting and and that's how i feel about iota right now and i really hope that all of you also feel the same excitement because now we really have the the technology and we have the ecosystem support and all of you who are part of the community where we can create our own success why are we not dependent on others and that's the most important formula uh for growth and um i'm very confident in all of this and obviously i'm i'm a long um iota shimmer and assembly i'm i'm going all in and uh the next few months will be quite crucial and i'm very excited to be on this journey with all of you guys and um yeah like i i hope you will be able to have some time with your family take some time off drink some glue wine have some fun and other than that i see you all in the community um i'm always there so feel free to reach out to me and with without further ado i would say thank you all for an amazing year and i'm really really excited for the next chapter with all of you awesome thank you dom uh yeah thank you you said we can do all of these things i disagree we will do all of these amazing things exactly we will we will and uh we just have to believe and uh i am convinced we will be back in the premier league of uh the crypto space but uh for now i i can only echo what um what charlie said and that is we have to stop constantly checking the price we have to yeah you know just believe in the project believe in what it's doing believe in the people who who are working on all of these tools it's going to be an amazing year to come and but for now be with your families spend time with those you love and care about put your arms around people that you can connect with and just have a safe and a happy and a wonderful holiday season an incredible new year and here's to all the amazing things to come thank you dom yeah and thank you terry for everything that you've done and uh thank you everybody else who who also helped to to lead the community so it's very amazing all right bye-bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Fri Dec 10 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/spaceship_engine_no9]

I only caught the end, but Dom was really on fire. His enthusiasm really shines and lights up the path forward for the community and the builders. I´m damn excited for 2022 and beyond. Also, quit your jobs, Dom said the ecosystem can support us! jk...not yet, but soon ;)

[u/snowflakesmasher_86]

How professional was it this year and loved Terrys hosting skills. Couldn’t stop smiling!

[u/cuercas]

So much information in this video.

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