RISE: 2017 in review and outlook for 2018
By: Rise Team
Tags: Rise, Technology, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, 2017

Product

2017 has been a great year for RISE, the project has made incredible progress with the RISE platform. RISE has successfully built a Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) blockchain with 101 active Delegates managing nodes securing the network and forging RISE tokens. We also released a JavaScript/Typescript and Python API, that allows developers to easily integrate RISE blockchain interactions directly into their own applications. In 2018, we will be releasing APIs for other popular coding languages such as C#, Ruby, JAVA and PHP.

Imperative to the products we are building is the user adoption of the RISE collection of API libraries. This would be achieved through rolling out optimized versions of our existing APIs with comprehensive documentation, guides and user resources. With this in mind, we are also looking to explore how to make these available for educational institutions to appeal to aspiring blockchain developers. One objective would be for teachers to include RISE APIs in their curriculum and for students to start engaging with the RISE blockchain. As a whole we strive to build an exclusive developers community within the RISE ecosystem.

The team started working on taking the RISE platform and network to a new level of advanced scalability. This is directly tied to the objective for RISE to be able to accommodate the high volume of transactions expected to be generated by mobile decentralized applications (DAPPs) found in the upcoming Rise Mobile App Store. An important step in the right direction has been made by our entire RISE Core Code Base being rewritten in TypeScript. A key element to the expansion of RISE ensuring we will be able to accommodate new businesses to be built on the RISE blockchain is to develop Side-Chain technology.

Furthermore, we are working on releasing Ledger support for RISE, which is a hardware wallet solution: https://www.ledgerwallet.com/

People & Operations

A key milestone for RISE Vision PLC in 2017 was the official incorporation as a business in blockchain friendly Gibraltar. This allows for RISE to move forward into 2018 with a solid foundation and under governance for distributed ledger technology putting consumer protection at the forefront of the business.

This year RISE grew the team with people who will be the driving force to take the business into 2018. RISE expanded in the areas of technology and product development, marketing and community.

The core RISE development team has a diverse range of skills and experience in various code languages, mobile apps and Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) blockchain technology. This background will help accelerate development in key areas for the RISE platform in 2018.

In marketing, RISE will be focusing on educating users and the wider ecosystem about its vision for offering incubator projects together with creating and executing a longer term marketing strategy for 2018.

The RISE community managers continue to focus on user engagement and listening to our existing community, whilst trying to grow members in new regions through networks, social media and marketing channels. We thank our entire team for all their hard work in 2017.

One of the most exciting additions to the business for 2018, will be MJ DeMarco as a Strategic Business Advisor to RISE Vision. MJ is an entrepreneur and author of international bestsellers ‘the Millionaire Fastlane’ and ‘Unscripted’. MJ will be a major asset for future RISE projects, as we begin to build businesses on top of the RISE blockchain.

Events

RISE took part in several meetups, such as CryptoCamp with our friends from PIVX, and this was a great opportunity to share with people what RISE is building. These informal meetups are a great forum for collaboration and learning, therefore we hope to organize and attend more in 2018. We also attended conferences, such as WebSummit, the largest technology conference in the world and this allowed us to network with people who will be able to support in executing our vision. To kick off 2018 we will be sponsoring London Blockchain Week in January and many more events throughout the year.

We at RISE recognise that we need to be both more visual and participate in the plethora of tech, blockchain and cryptocurrency events worldwide in 2018. As RISE gains momentum and achieves business objectives we look forward to telling our vision to the masses.

Thank you RISE community for a great 2017 and we are excited to have you along for the journey in 2018!