Orbs Update: May 2019
By: Nate Simantov
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Updates, Business, Blockchain, Ethereum

Media highlights

Hackernoon features Orbs’ Co-founder on its front page

As fans and regular readers of Hackernoon, we were delighted to discover that the highly influential dev magazine chose to publish Tal Kol’s piece, Blockchain as the Next Evolutionary Step of the Open Source Movement, on its front page!

At the end of the month, Tal was featured AGAIN on the front page of Hackernoon with another article, The Blockchain Dichotomy and an Architecture to Overcome It. We are so thrilled to see that a magazine we follow express such interest in this project.

“The motivation is clear. #opensource is good for humanity. It is making technology more accessible and open — anyone can build anything.” by @koltal @hackernoon https://t.co/XsHPtFs5sB - OpenSourceInitiative (@OpenSourceOrg) April 22, 2019

A bit about the Open Source Initiative, from their website:

For over 20 years the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has worked to raise awareness and adoption of open source software, and build bridges between open source communities of practice. As a global non-profit, the OSI champions software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD), and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement. Considering that Orbs has gone fully open-source only a month ago, having already garnered the attention of a firebrand organization like OSI is something everyone here is extremely proud of. We are excited about the possibility of collaborating with a corporation like this, whose work has been a major inspiration to the Orbs project.

CODC Blockchain Trade Mission to Israel

Orbs has been singled out by The Chamber of Digital Commerce and the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Service as an example of what blockchain innovation in Israel is all about! The purpose of the mission was to promote greater collaboration and business activity between the United States and Israel’s blockchain communities.

Check out the full press release: Blockchain Trade Mission to Israel.

Global Blockchain Business Council

GBBC Newsletter | April 12th, 2019

This past month, the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) chose to highlight Orbs in its newsletter that goes out to GBBC members, board, founding advisors, government officials and business leaders from around the world. The GBBC is the leading industry association for the blockchain technology ecosystem, which brings together innovative organizations and founding thought-leaders from over 40 countries to advance understanding of blockchain technology amongst global regulators and business leaders.

See the full press release here.

TheMarker article

This month is Tal’s month, apparently! The daily Hebrew business newspaper TheMarker (by Haaretz) interviewed our Co-founder for a monthly special publication on all things blockchain. Israel has been at the forefront of blockchain development for a couple of years now, so being chosen by one of its leading magazines to represent the booming industry is no small feat. Kudos, Tal :)

Read the full article (in Hebrew):

Ongoing collaborations

Yes24

Yes24 Orbs MOU signing last October

A contract has been officially been signed with Yes24 and Orbs: Yes24 has partnered with Orbs with the plan to develop an improved marketplace for digital goods and services, by implementing the technology into its online bookstore. The now finalized deal puts Korea’s largest online bookstore a step closer to transforming it into a blockchain-based ecosystem after the MOU signed in December.

Techstars

We are proud to announce that Orbs has become a technical partner to Techstar’s inaugural Alchemist Blockchain Accelerator! Techstars is one of the top accelerators in the world, having helped in more than 1,200 companies. Their portfolio includes big successes like SendGrid, DigitalOcean, Everledger, and Chainalysis. Techstars is helping to make killer blockchain use cases become reality by launching the accelerator.

All startups resulting from the accelerator receive investment, mentoring and other useful resources including lifetime support from the Techstars network of 1,200 alumni, 10,000 mentors, 2,700 investors, and 180 staff members. Orbs team will take an active role in the mentoring of these blockchain app developers, and we couldn’t be more excited about sharing this valuable knowledge.