LivenPay Project Update #005
By: David Ballerini
Tags: Blockchain, Necker Island, Updates, Digital Currency, Startup

Originally published at livenpay.io

Co-founder, Grace Wong, presents at XTC Finals on Necker Island, and becomes a finalist of the 2019 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Awards, Liven welcomes amazing merchant partners, our national media campaign launches, and we’ve been beefing up our team, tech & more.

Summary

Liven wins both the Blockchain and Digital Currency awards of Sir Richard Branson’s Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC 2019)

Co-Founder Grace Wong presents at XTC Finals on Necker Island

Grace is a Finalist of the 2019 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Awards

Welcome 60 New Key Merchant Partners

Our National Media Campaign Launches — Win $100,000 in Food & Prizes!

Liven Grows to Over 500,000 Users

New Server Coming Soon!

Liven Releases Awesome Boba Stickers

Intro

Welcome to Project Update #005!

In official Liven news, we ended the financial year strong with amazing merchant partnerships launched, and many more coming very soon. The Crypto Spring is about to come into bloom and our Public LVN Token Sale is still going strong, in the meantime we have kicked off preliminary discussions with some big name exchanges and are gearing up for the exciting next phase of the Liven story.

We continue our focus on building an A-star tech and product team, and our Telegram community loves our new boba stickers.

Our co-founder, Grace Wong was invited to Necker Island to share Liven’s story with tech industry heavyweights at the 2019 Extreme Tech Challenge finals.

Also, please welcome the bakery that brought you the iconic Strawberry Watermelon Cake of international fame – Black Star Pastry, to Liven! Watermelon cake for days...🍓🍉🍰

Grace Wong Presents at Necker Island!

Back in January, Liven Co-Founder Grace Wong, flew out to ritzy Las Vegas for the preliminary finals of Sir Richard Branson’s Extreme Tech Challenge, and did us all proud by bringing home both The BitFury Prize for Digital Currencies and The BitFury Prize for Blockchain.

Grace’s presentation was well received and she was invited to speak again, this time at the finals in April on Branson’s own Necker Island! Grace spoke about consumerising the blockchain, financial accessibility, and some of the hurdles in the way of pedestrian-level cryptocurrency use, and as always, blew the audience away.

For Grace, the action never stops, no sooner had she landed back in Melbourne, she was flying up to Sydney to compete as a finalist in the 2019 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Awards! The awards celebrate female entrepreneurs who embody the entrepreneurial qualities that allowed Madame Clicquot to revolutionise the champagne industry during a time when women were not even allowed to hold a bank account, never mind operate a business.

Grace was in the company of amazing female entrepreneurs such as Kate Morris, CEO and founder of Adore Beauty; Dr Catriona Wallace, CEO and founder of Flamingo AI; Emma Welsh, co-founder of Emma and Tom’s, and of course the very deserving winner, Kim Jackson, principal of venture capital firm, Skip Capital, the family office of Kim and her husband, Scott Farquhar, Co-Founder of Atlassian.

Merchant Network Expansion

As always, our merchant network is expanding!

We’ve recently welcomed Chat Thai, Chef’s Gallery, Black Star Pastry, Burger Project, New Shanghai, and Mamak to Liven. Other highly established key partners that joined us include Laksa King, Calia, Yu Kitchen, Lee Ho Fook, Din Tai Fung, GAZI, Jimmy Grants, Hellenic Republic, and the addition of Gotcha Fresh Tea in Sydney and CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice in Melbourne.

Liven In The News

The Sydney Morning Herald

https://www.smh.com.au/business/small-business/crypto-startups-look-to-facebook-s-zuck-bucks-for-boost-20190723-p529uj.html

Crypto startups look to Facebook’s ‘Zuck Bucks’ for boost. Facebook’s move to introduce digital currency Libra is expected to boost Australian cryptocurrency startups.

Vogue.com.au

https://www.vogue.com.au/celebrity/events/inside-the-veuve-clicquot-business-woman-awards-2019/image-gallery/bf48ed6fc2a42dba9d59ded8766383bd

Inside the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Awards 2019; Everything that went on at this year’s awards.

Architecture Work

Some of you may have noticed that we’ve been beefing up our product and development team. Our server team has been scaling up with new hires over the past few months, and work on our next-gen database is progressing smoothly. While this may not sound too exciting, to get to 5 million users and 50,000 merchants, we need a solid back-end! 🍑

Performance improvements have already been implemented for the home screen and other parts of the app, and the added engineering capabilities have also allowed the Liven team to introduce several new features and improvements including an overhaul of the map view and a brand new wallet screen.

The referral program has been reinvigorated, with personalised referral rewards earned every time you get your mates to try Liven! New users are also being treated to special bonus earn rates on certain venues, sometimes having the opportunity to earn 50–100% of their first transaction back in sweet, sweet LVN.

National Media Campaign

Our national media campaign officially kicks off this week!

Go into the running to win $100,000 in food and prizes — plus a year’s worth of food, supercharged referral rates, swag bags, bonus dinn for you and 5 mates — every time you spend $10 on the app. Entries are automatic — so it’s easy as!

To celebrate the launch of this campaign, we’ve also partnered with Time Out. Score double entries whenever you dine out at any of our Time Out-listed restaurants.

Follow our social channels to learn more about how you can pay, eat, earn, and win your way to more food. Who doesn’t want that?