2021-08-31 18:05:18

Greg Kidd is an adviser and an early or a first round investor through the investment firm Hard Yaka for numerous reputable companies including Coinbase, Shift (now Apto), Ripple, Protocol Labs (the company behind the Filecoin), Uphold, Solana, Robinhood, Square and Twitter. He previously served as the director of Promontory Financial and senior analyst for payments for the Federal Reserve Board of Governor. Greg is a believer that one’s identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments, which led him to found and lead GlobaliD — a universal identity solution that is easy to use, ties users to unique names, and transcends borders and institutions.

2021-08-12 11:29:16

This H1 2021 report covers the most significant evolutionary aspects of the OriginTrail ecosystem thus far. In the first six months of the year, OriginTrail transformed into a multichain network. There will be additional blockchain integrations to follow (Polkadot and other EVM-compatible chains). This development makes way for faster global adoption of the first Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) that for the first time ever delivers an alternative to the way knowledge graph technology is being used by conglomerates like Google and Facebook. Achieving economies of scale and scope, the OriginTrail DKG was introduced into use within several industries, championed by the largest global associations and companies. The pioneering work done in using the OriginTrail technology in healthcare received recognition by the World Economic Forum, further expanding awareness of DKG capabilities for tackling the most dire societal challenges.

2021-08-09 13:55:12

Pursuing a multichain vision, OriginTrail has started an integration with Polygon, a full stack scaling network, to expand the OriginTrail Decentralised Knowledge Graph (DKG) availability. Providing a scalable consensus algorithm with a significant throughput, Polygon is a great network to support exponential growth of the OriginTrail DKG that we witnessed in the last few months. At the same time, all the DKG functionalities will be made available to the vibrant Polygon developers’ community, which will unlock even more potential for collaboration between the ecosystems.