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We have seen many different ICOs in the past months that have garnered attention from the usual channels available to crypto-enthusiasts, but Kik’s announcement of their plans for the Kin Token is different.

Mainstream media picked up the story immediately, with sites like Bloomberg Technology, Forbes and Reuters all jumping on the news.  All of them seem to think that the Kik’s future launch of the Kin Token takes things to a new level.

To see our complete article click on the link below:

https://urbancrypto.com/kin-token-introduced/

The rise of the crypto bubble!

I watched their CEO on cnbc today. He could of done better. I wish he would of corrected the interviewer that this cryptocurrency can be traded to other currencies like usd.

It's interesting, it continues the rise, but this Token is different then many others.  It will be interesting to see if other established applications follow their lead.

Oh, this one is gonna be good. The already has 300 mln of users! We still have no competitors to chinese wechat, kin can do it.

Anyone know when the ICO will start?
I received by mailinglist the mail, it says couple of weeks.
I would like to know how to invest... fiat/ btc. TIA

It doesn't look like they announced the time yet.

From my understanding, that's not the point of Kin.  It is to incentivise users to help others.  And other applications to join their network.  They are changing the whole KIK ecosystem.

Looking forward to this one.

Do you know if they have a bounty program ?

As far as i know they have not released too much details.

They haven't even posted an official Announcement thread so far. ICO start date is still unknown.
Just a little hype until now, but not so much informations on this promising project...

Received a message on my email.

Registration for the Kin token sale is now open on kin.kik.com

https://kin.kik.com

my country is not on registeration form & i do not have passport
how can i register ?

Is the app for smartphone available?
I see on his site the distribution of his tokens immediately started, what date?

the number of tokens is somewhat worrying, even with the gradual release.

Need to see the ICO token pricing structure before i get excited.

Why a chat app need to launth an ico? There are too many chat apps, how will this app return its investors?Now it's ico rush time , but not every shit should issue an ICO to raise money , search 'chat' in google and apple app store,  so many chat app, let all of them issue icos.

Don't throw your money to a shit!

WHEN Will trade on the exchange?somebody realized

ico still not run
coin still not yet created and distribution, so without exchanger can accepted kin token trade

do you people realise that in order to participate in their ico you must submit passport photos , addresses etc
Are they serious? Why not ask for a dna sample also just to give them our money!
I thought that one of cryptos main purposes was privacy!
And they don't even state the reasons are asking all this sensitive personal info!

I just had the disappointment of Learning that Cannadian residents can not register on the pre-registration list for ICO Kin but do you think that on the days of the opening of the sale of the ICO we will be able to buying tokens or this restriction is only on pre-registration.

Regards

Tim

10 TRILLION tokens? And they don't even have a bitcointalk thread? LoL

this is the first time I hear about this ico, it seems interesting to me, I will try to read your article in full
thank you :)

 https://mercatox.com/exchange/KIN/ETH (https://mercatox.com/exchange/KIN/ETH)
Kin Token markets added ?  :)

Congratulations to the big success! I participated and I hope it will pay out for all of us.

Kik ICO Raises $98 Million But Falls Short of Target
Social media platform Kik has officially closed its initial coin offering (ICO), having raised a total of $98 million.
The firm's dedicated ICO webpage states that the public portion of the sale raised a total of 168,732 ether (the token powering the ethereum network), worth over $48 million at the time of writing. The intended funding target for the effort, including $50 million already raised in a private pre-sale, had been $125 million, as previously reported by CoinDesk.

Damn, this ICO failed. Price is already below the ico.
Devs don't care about investors, they will just continue making more gifs with cats for their chat using our money.

What was the ICO price?

Approx 0.000000500 ETH initial price and 0.000000410 with bonus tokens (unsold during ICO).
Current price is 0.000000345 ETH and falling 8)

Wow, that's a huge decrease. I think the fault was far too much supply

They raised a lot of capital, so the fundraising is a bit success.

 The token may go up and down in the future.

 :o :o :o :o total token supply is 10,000,000,000,000

Yeah, the good thing that 50M USD were raised from investment funds. So whales are in this game and sooner or later they will have to pump it for exit  8)

Got an email from Kik saying the Kin token is going to be rolled out to selected users on of their platform which is great news as the sooner it gets used the sooner the price will start to rise.

Maybe maybe not, the whales bought in at pre ico 40% less than normal ico folks. My friend already sold his and made $30,000.
Don't forget after 3 months they add 40% more coins to the supply. Kin seems like a money grab but time will tell.

Is there any official thread of KIN or there is no announcement? And they are not getting any new users in Slack, do not post in Twitter. Extremely disappointing.

I think we all just screwed lol I believe that they create these fake ico to steal peoples Eth coins when they raise enough money the shut down and run like hell cause they already made money and screwed all of us.

Latest news: Kin Rewards Engine — Request for Comments.
As stated in the whitepaper, the goal of the Kin cryptocurrency is to create an alternative ecosystem of digital services that is compelling for consumers, and fair and open for developers. To achieve this goal, Kin needs to economically align a large group of users, developers, and digital services in order to form a robust ecosystem. We plan to do this through the Kin Rewards Engine, an innovative economic structure that will promote the use of Kin as a common currency, will do just that.....
https://medium.com/kinfoundation/kin-rewards-engine-request-for-comments-82514fad5429

Well Kin should have created it before hosting it this guy is a crook took everyone.s eth tokens left us high and dry 10 trillion tokens Ted has no idea what he is doing the tokens that gain price are the ones around 21 000 not trillion retard kin was doomed from the get go go fuck yourself Ted

WHEN Will trade on the exchange?somebody realized

Free Price Alert of Kin on BitScreenr: https://bitscreener.com/coins/kin/price_alert
https://i.imgur.com/BT4VceX.png

This project is alive?

I think no, as no new exchanges, no big news, no activity from devs, and coin have -70% price from ICO. I will not recommend to buy this shitcoin with big marketcap.

this coin is about to moon big time! I hope everyone has moon boots on and is strapped in....

Good Luck.

See you on the darkside

Who knows... HODL!!!!!!!

+79% and gaining relevance... and this looks important:

https://www.kik.com/blog/first-kin-earn-and-spend-experiences-live-in-kik/

nice to see it rising while still flying under most people's radar.

Buy or Sell ??? Dev is not active  :-\

Quick Overview of Consensus Models

A lot of technologists seem to think that the big divide is between proof-of-work and proof-of-stake. And then they encounter creatures like Ripple, BitShares or AlgoRand and get confused. But the PoS/PoW only applies to eventual/asynchronous/non-finite (slow) consensus models, and other methods are in use for synchronous/finite (fast) models; in fact PoS is used as the basis for voting in quite a few fast consensus models, making it all more confusing.

To try to make sense of it all, we had a short presentation about consensus models in Kik TLV office.

https://medium.com/kin-contributors/quick-overview-of-consensus-models-53640cae32a1

TLV Hacks: We Built Awesome Things For Hack Week

https://medium.com/kin-contributors/tlv-hacks-we-built-awesome-things-for-hack-week-c4d9e06d91b8
Once a year Kik hosts an annual Hackathon week at all of its distributed sites across the globe. Everyone who seems themselves connected to Kik or Kin in any way gets the chance to learn, grow, and experiment by putting down the normal day-to-day tasks and exploring new ideas. It’s a week where we can test out new technologies and work together to make something awesome. For one week, we’re able to work on anything, as long as it’s related to making Kik better and bigger and moving us forward as a company and as a culture.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*AE5Fd2n_xg1XkMw6.

This year, we could choose to focus on one of the following categories: open-source, Kin experiences and culture in Kik. The teams participating in Tel Aviv focused on various projects related to Kin and its implementation in different applications.

What are the news that the coin is growing so quick? I heard that they plan own blockchain is that true? Who got the last info about them :)

I dunno why Kin has exploded but other ico's I did like Kick and Cindicator are going through the roof as well. Might be that loads of new money is coming into the market.

I think it is true that Kik is planning to shift its Kin token network from ethereum to Stellar. It's in the news as well https://www.coindesk.com/goodbye-ethereum-kik-plans-move-ico-tokens-stellar/ (https://www.coindesk.com/goodbye-ethereum-kik-plans-move-ico-tokens-stellar/) I have sent an email to both stellar and KIK but have not received any response yet. I will update you when I hear back from either of them.

Ah, that might be why, thanks for sharing

Yes they said they were going to change to Stellar. Hodl to the moon!!!

This is not like other ICO's, some refer to it as a reverse ICO - an established company looking to raise revenue without going through the standard venture capital routes.  KIK has an established messenger app with over 300M registered users and 15M active users.  They are far off from competing with the most popular messenger apps and could never expect to overtake them.  As a result, they are issuing a token to raise funds and differentiate themselves.  This could be big or could flame out.  The bottom line to me is that they are a real company with real users and real customers.  Their established platform could make them one of the survivors of all this hype and integrating P2P payment within their messenger app has real potential.  I'm in for the long run on this one but WTFDIK!

Kin — Structuring for Success

Kin is a digital sharing economy of equal opportunities. In our 2018 product vision post we detailed where we want to focus and what our main product efforts will be — the ones that we believe will drive Kin usage and adoption among users and developers. In order to accomplish that, we needed to rethink the way the teams are structured and ask ourselves if we are structured in the best way — a way that will enable us to win and accomplish our goals.

https://medium.com/kin-contributors/kin-structuring-for-success-1cdbf4e174be

 ;D

Insights from Kin Initial Product Launch

https://medium.com/kinfoundation/insights-from-kin-initial-product-launch-441c458a4ece (https://medium.com/kinfoundation/insights-from-kin-initial-product-launch-441c458a4ece)

This is pure awesomeness! Kin is going places, it sure will!  8)

" Kin’s potential is huge. It’s not just a hunch. We have the benchmarks to support our vision. We also need to have a scalable foundation for number of users and the amount of transactions, so we will have to move Kin to a different blockchain as part of our roadmap.

We are very exited to move on to the next steps in bringing a new economy the masses and to see how Kin will power a digital sharing economy of equal opportunities.

Stay tuned! "

 ;D

Love this kind of information. I've always said KIN is a huge project and I'm planning to hodl long term.

Interesting project, I might have to look into this more.

Кaкoй мaкcимaльный oжидaeмый pocт этoй мoнeты?

sounds awesome. So glad I got in on the ico, this coin has so much potential.

Automated Unit Tests — Kin Mobile SDK on Ethereum Part II: iOS

Introduction
In the first part of this series, we wrote about how to setup the environment for unit testing the Kin SDKs, using testrpc and Truffle. In this post, I’ll describe how to integrate it with Xcode, to make the mock blockchain available when running the tests.

*Integrating testrpc within Xcode tests
*Giving Back to OSS and Making Tests Succeed
*Wrap up

https://medium.com/kin-contributors/automated-unit-tests-kin-mobile-sdk-on-ethereum-part-ii-ios-23ef42dbb95b

This coin won't make you earn much in the long run. Devs have 13 times more coins to drop on you. They are the ones who will become billionaires. Don't buy into a coin that's making the devs richer but not the investors.

I am not the only one to think this way:
Michael Novogratz‏:
"Seems to me market cap tables should include all coins issued, not just in circulation."

Introducing: Kin Standalone App Team

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*zUv2TyF67AVoVWFL8tdkUg.png

Obviously, our motto tells a lot about the way we work internally, but it also says a thing or two about our entire culture and the way we look at you — our supporters — and your role in this. We feel you’re an integral part of the project and keeping you in the know is key for us. For this reason we decided to open not only our code, but also our office for you to see who we are and what we’re all about.

https://medium.com/kin-contributors/introducing-kin-standalone-app-team-2095a46aca7a

Kin Standalone App — Product Vision

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*_41frySICiBuJ_LQl8syjg.png

Kin Product Vision For 2018 was recently shared explaining the product’s building blocks, goals and roadmap for Kin — a digital sharing economy of equal opportunities. Our focus in 2018 is going to be on 3 efforts:
Kin Ecosystem, Kin Standalone App and Kin Blockchain.
In this post I will try to shed light on the Kin Standalone App.

The Motivation
Kin standalone app’s main motivation is to be the gateway to the Kin ecosystem —a decentralized economy in which everyone can easily earn cryptocurrency and spend it on digital services for daily life.
With that in mind, we are aiming to achieve the following goals during 2018:

A standalone Kin experience
Easily earn and spend KIN and quickly learn how cryptocurrency can become useful for daily life. The app is open to all, anyone who wants to learn about Kin is welcome!

The simplest and most secure place to hold KIN
Using crypto today is unbelievably complex. With Kin, this can be changed. However, simplifying the crypto experience is only one part of the equation. Since everyone can potentially become KIN holders, we should provide them with the best place to manage it. Things like sharing KIN balances from the digital services, tracking transactions, and easy to use backup tools are a must and will be very intuitive and clear.

A discovery point
Educate KIN holders and newbies about Kin ecosystem by exposing them to new earning opportunities and spending offers both within the app and on other apps / digital services. This allows any brand or individual developer to add opportunities and offers and to gain exposure.

https://medium.com/kin-contributors/kin-standalone-app-product-vision-4646332b9973

Looking at the actual information in the website, Kik's ico really is something.
It able to rise that many investment in real money.
I think that will be good starter for the ICO.

Our Community: Going Above and Beyond

It’s obvious, our community is the driving force of Kin. Without their voices, conversations would never be sparked, ideas would not come to life, and Kin’s uniqueness would never shine. So, now is time to shed some light on one of our biggest voices in the community: Dillon. He is a constant source of fresh air. Whether he is sticking up for Kin in our Telegram channels, creating new content on our subreddit, or sharing his thoughtful opinion on Medium, he is always around and the community feels his presence.

Dillon is one in a million. This blockchain enthusiast has been an advocate for Kin from the very beginning. We first discovered him when he selflessly wrote a killer FAQ for our subscribers on Reddit. “The Kin community was growing rapidly around the turn of the new year, so I wrote the FAQ, hoping it would be the first place every new or prospective member would look and have all their basic questions answered.” From that moment on, Dillon has been a sort of celebrity here at the Kin Community Team.

After his successful FAQ on Reddit, he decided to write “The Magic of Kin” as his next step. Definitely check that one out…“I had given everyone the What, When, Where, and How. But there were, and still are, a lot of folks out there that haven’t wrapped their heads around the Why. And I get it- when I first found Kin, I didn’t realize what actually set it apart from potential competitors. At first glance, the KRE doesn’t really hit you. Then you put yourself in the shoes of a big-time mobile app that’s failing to monetize, and the incentives model suddenly clicks. The Medium article is an attempt to bring everyone to that ‘eureka!’ moment.”

And he’s remarkably humble too, “I’m just a regular guy that designs fire sprinkler systems when I’m not spending too much time on the Kin subreddit or playing PUBG.”

You can follow Dillon on Reddit and Medium

So you see, our community is the reason we are moving forward. You, yes you the one who’s reading this, are part of the revolution. Kin is becoming more than just a project, but a whole new world just waiting to be discovered by the masses. What will YOUR contribution be? Give us your thoughts, share your wisdom, and keep the Kin mojo flowing.

https://medium.com/kin-contributors/our-community-going-above-and-beyond-f1066ead4644

Does anyone know the total supply of tokens for Kin. The amount on ethplorer is different to coinmarketcap. https://ethplorer.io/address/0x818fc6c2ec5986bc6e2cbf00939d90556ab12ce5

Kin’s Blockchain Considerations https://medium.com/kin-contributors/kins-blockchain-considerations-ebd0b60aebd5

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*LGBusjZUFt2MMfJx3nVs5w.png

While working on Kin IPLv2 , we faced a lot of challenges with the Ethereum network. We found that the most critical pain points for us were high fees, slow confirmation time, and unreliable network performance.

The main goal of Kin is to be used by casual users in day-to-day activities within digital services. We aim to reach millions of users on a global scale by providing them with great experiences. We are building a decentralized economy in which everyone can easily earn KIN and spend it inside digital services that can be useful for daily life.

Kin initial launch taught us a lot about our users. We saw that Kik’s users loved to earn KIN. Poll completion rate was around ~98.9%! We were also very excited to see great success with spending — all KIN featured sticker packs were purchased by Kik users. Our data analysis showed that Kin is progressing nicely and data supports many of our assumptions.

For Kin to grow and succeed, we must have a robust and scalable foundation for a large number of users and a large number of transactions. To accomplish that, we will have to find a suitable blockchain as part of our roadmap. The first step is to focus our requirements and prioritize the parameters below according to where we can find better infrastructure solutions for Kin.

Community Team Vision For 2018
A couple of months back we declared that transparency is what we’re all about. We decided to share everything about the progress we’re making at Kin in all fronts — product plans, technology, even ongoing tasks that keep us busy on a daily basis.

Not only that, but we decided we’ll be giving our community a behind the scenes look at who we are personally and where we came from.

So this post is in the same spirit, laying out what are some of the things our team is working on, our goals for 2018 and some of our considerations. Tomorrow you can expect a post showing our faces, letting you know what we’re all about but today — we focus on the community itself. https://medium.com/kin-contributors/community-team-vision-for-2018-a2cbdb2fefec

Saw KIK few year ago, it was better than Skype at that moment, now i think with monetization it will be 1-10 cents per coin in 4q 2018

1 cent would make me very happy, 10 would be out of this world.

Interesting charts showing Kin's price moving up and down! Right now the increase of Kin is +48%: https://www.coinranker.net/cryptocurrency/kin (https://www.coinranker.net/cryptocurrency/kin). Will Kin's prices drop again today?

Our Multi-Year Blockchain Strategy for Kin
https://medium.com/kinfoundation/kin-multi-year-blockchain-strategy-e0a3808f0894

Our vision for Kin is a digital sharing economy of equal opportunity. The Kin Ecosystem will compensate developers and app users for the value of their time, attention, and ideas — ultimately creating new ways to monetize digital services or pay people for their expertise.

Fulfilling our vision to its fullest will take years. Research estimates the total number of active cryptocurrency users in 2017 to be just under 6 million. This number is humbling, as it shows how much further the industry has to grow before cryptocurrencies are in widespread use.

There are dozens of challenges to overcome when working toward this goal: from scalability issues to governance; dealing with regulatory uncertainty like tax implications of earning tokens; safeguarding user privacy while allowing regulators to audit for anti-money laundering (AML); user experience and productizing the process in a way that not only the tech savvy will be able to operate a cryptocurrency wallet; and many others.

Blockchain infrastructure plays an essential role in this vision. It is one of the technological foundations cryptocurrencies like Kin are built upon. When planning the long term Kin roadmap, we must prepare a multi-year strategy that will carry us through the challenges ahead.

As the industry matures, we’ve grown to understand that this vision will be built on more than one blockchain. Complex decentralized applications like Kin will eventually span multiple technology infrastructures. As different types of blockchains specialize in solving different aspects of the problem, it becomes clear that no single blockchain will just “win” on all accounts.

We’ve seen this with the Kin launch on Ethereum. We’ve realized that while the Ethereum blockchain is a great platform for fundraising, trading and exchange, it fails to meet our requirements regarding scale — long confirmation times, low transaction throughput and high fees prevent us from bringing Kin to millions of users inside digital services.

This does not mean that Kin will stop using Ethereum. The ERC20 standard for tokens has been wildly successful in creating an ecosystem around Ethereum-based tokens. With a streamlined integration to all tokens implementing this standard, powerful tools emerged such as third-party wallets for the management of ERC20 tokens, hardware wallets for secure cold storage of high value assets and out-of-the box integration to a multitude of exchanges and trade platforms. These tools are essential for asset management by professionals in the Kin ecosystem, such as developers of digital services earning large amounts of KIN from the KRE.

To deal with the next phase of our pressing scale requirements within the bounds of digital services, we are planning to expand in parallel to another blockchain infrastructure. We are working closely with Stellar for this purpose.

The Stellar blockchain resolves digital services’ basic needs for scale, quicker confirmation times, and lower transaction fees. Other critical benefits of Stellar are its years long stability in production — which we view as the best production environment today — and their team, who has been great to work with throughout this whole process. While emerging blockchains may show promise, we prefer to avoid unproven solutions for the next critical growth period in Kin, as it becomes integrated inside digital services other than Kik.

Looking further into the future, we foresee several complex problems that off the shelf solutions will not be able to accommodate. Blockchain solutions like Ethereum or Stellar were not designed specifically for the Kin use case. As such, we will reach challenges that they were not built to overcome.

To handle those, we plan to invest efforts in customizing a blockchain solution for our needs. We are doing this via a long term collaboration with Orbs. By collaborating with the Orbs blockchain and co-locating our engineering team with the Orbs team, we will help design a blockchain from scratch that will accommodate our future needs as they evolve.

Enabling a new digital sharing economy is an ambitious goal. As we progress with the Kin roadmap, we will gradually expand the Kin Ecosystem to rely on all three blockchains: Ethereum for general liquidity, and Stellar and Orbs for digital services. We believe that only a combination of the unique value proposition of each solution will help us realize our vision.

xoчy пpeдлoжить цeнитeлям тoкeнa KIN oт мecceнджepa KIK pyccкoязычный чaт t. me /kinfoundation_ru
I want to offer connoisseurs of KIN token from KIK messenger Russian-language chat t. me /kinfoundation_ru

Packaging the Experience: Kin Ecosystem Upcoming Version Release

The Kin Ecosystem SDK will be one of the first to enable users to use cryptocurrency in real time, on blockchain. There’s no service today that offers users a blockchain experience like this–especially while simultaneously allowing developers to experiment with main-net transactions and tokens in a seamless, no-friction way.
Our next task is to take the leap and bridge the transition from raw technology to the next phase–in which we’ll introduce new ways of using Kin (at scale) to everyday users.

https://medium.com/kin-contributors/packaging-the-experience-kin-ecosystem-upcoming-version-release-555c6cf8e46e

The Kin Ecosystem needed a more predictable blockchain in terms of transaction confirmation time and fees, and Stellar was our winning candidate.

Now, we’re using Kik’s nine years of experience and knowledge in network engineering and scaling to test the Stellar public blockchain network for Kin. Our aim: To see if Stellar indeed stands up to its performance claims. https://medium.com/kin-contributors/stellar-load-testing-results-for-the-kin-ecosystem-64c4d8676e69

Unity Technologies and Kin Partner to Bring Cryptocurrency to Game Developers Through Unity Asset Store Partner Program

Unity Developers Will be Able to Use Customized SDK to Integrate Kin-Powered Experiences Directly into Apps

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unity-technologies-and-kin-partner-to-bring-cryptocurrency-to-game-developers-through-unity-asset-store-partner-program-300621591.html

Hi there, beware of this "airdrop post" seems it's fake to me...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3277022.0

can you confirm?

This really didn't do anything.
I don't understand how people are still into it?? When they see Telegram is doing the same and raising tons of money.
It will easily crash Kin/Kik. Telegram is like more suited for crypto than Kik.
Just my 2 cents.

A key piece of the Kin mission is rewarding the digital contributors who make communities stronger. This week, we took that mission IRL.
Our first Kin Ambassadors event brought 28 top contributors from the Kin community together in NYC. We flew attendees in from from 13 different countries to hear from leaders across our organization — spanning product, partnerships, engineering, and community teams — about our progress and roadmap. (With a few special guest speakers, too.)

Kin: A Decentralized Ecosystem of Digital Services for Daily Life

Uniting a broad group of participants to create an open ecosystem for digital communication and commerce that prioritizes the consumer.
https://medium.com/coinview/tanner-philp-director-corporate-development-kik-interactive-kin-virtual-currency-ecosystem-765ca2be1c87

Tada. I am on it.

$0,000169 USD a piece.

Your 2 cents could buy you a lot of kin's at todays price :-=)

Kin 55% today. check out this price: https://www.coinranker.net/cryptocurrency/kin (https://www.coinranker.net/cryptocurrency/kin)

Price look good. How much profit since ico already?

This coin deserves the same treatment as Ripple: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5938711a9de4bb74f63b4059/t/5aebc4112b6a28e0ef4a0381/1525400594617/Coffey+v+Ripple+Labs+Complaint.pdf

Kin Blockchain — Taking Fate Into Our Own Hands https://medium.com/kinfoundation/kin-blockchain-taking-fate-into-our-own-hands-f5bdfa759502

Kin’s mission is not simply to make the digital world better, but to actually make it good. What would this look like? It would be a place that is fair, transparent, accessible, and that privileges co-creation and experience, over competition and possession. This is not just a fundamental shift in how we think about our digital lives, but also in how we imagine cryptocurrencies will be used.

Rather than seeing crypto as an investment vehicle, or something to be held, we are creating a new model in which crypto is something to be used as much and as frequently as possible. That means rethinking how the digital world is built — which is why creating the right blockchain strategy is so important to achieving our goals. Current blockchains aren’t set up to handle the level of transactions we are working to create, so we’ve decided to take things into our own hands and build our own.

When I think of where we started and where we are now, I couldn’t have predicted the decisions that have moved down this path to date. It’s like we are in the blockchain jungle trying to find our way through a thick forest without a compass or map. Since no one has tread this path before, there is no one to follow. We need to move step by step, learn as we go, and adapt to the challenges that we find along the way. This is exactly what we have done over the past several months.

Live Q&A #5 with Ted Livingston, Kik Founder and CEO. Ted Livingston, founder and CEO of Kik will do a live Q&A the second Tuesday of each month at 2:00pm EST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH7Oaelz0FY

Do you have anything to back that up?

Kin Founder Livingston answers questions in this article: Months After Raising a $100 Million ICO Kik Founder Calls Blockchain”Unconvincing”

https://www-ccn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.ccn.com/months-after-raising-a-100-million-ico-kik-founder-calls-blockchainunconvincing/amp/ (https://www-ccn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.ccn.com/months-after-raising-a-100-million-ico-kik-founder-calls-blockchainunconvincing/amp/)

everything I have read may be a strategy to get positive information that will impact on this coin, when it will spread everywhere can make a ranking increase in the market

IMVU and Kin Partner to Deliver Native Crypto Experiences in 3D Social Networks.

The world’s largest avatar-based social network integrates token to give users the ability to transact in the Kin Ecosystem


Every month, users on the IMVU platform spend an average of 55 minutes per day customizing avatars, connecting with friends, and having shared experiences in a virtual community. These users generate more than 15 million transactions, spending nearly ten billion monthly in the platform’s existing native currency, IMVU Credits.

Of four million users, more than 50,000 people earn money on IMVU by creating virtual products, selling them for IMVU credits and converting those credits into fiat money. Now, IMVU will integrate the Kin SDK and marketplace to give its user base native ways to earn cryptocurrency in the broader digital world.

This is great news and show that the Kin team are working very hard and developing meaningful partnerships that will increase adoption and get investors a good ROI.

Read more here -> https://medium.com/kinfoundation/imvu-and-kin-partner-to-deliver-native-crypto-experiences-in-3d-social-networks-3c1c8089172a

Super optimistic prediction: I'm still sticking with my $1 price prediction. It just makes sense  ;D ;D

https://www.reddit.com/r/KinFoundation/comments/8s3tq0/im_still_sticking_with_my_1_price_prediction_it/

Not so sure about this considering the recent test integration that KIK is doing with them. This seems like a big deal, as tokens are rewarded for activities that the company benefits from such as surveys and quizzes. So that is a very big social media platform offering an altcoin that is very cheap right now, but is already on a major platform that is entirely legitimate. Pretty good buy imo.

Kinit Beta App Now Live in Google Play
https://medium.com/kinblog/kinit-beta-app-now-live-in-google-play-372e975804d0

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It’s been a busy month. On June 27, we added new Kin experiences into Kik, and more Kik users are earning and spending Kin everyday. And last week, we rolled out the Kin Developer Program. We’re happy to share that applications from smart, motivated developers are already pouring in from around the world.

Today, we’re taking another step towards making Kin the most used cryptocurrency in the world: Kinit Beta for Android is now available for download.

Kinit is the first publicly available app dedicated to Kin. Our goal with Kinit is to get Kin into more consumers’ hands. It’s a major step towards making crypto truly consumer-friendly through fun and engaging experiences, and we plan to learn and iterate based on real-world user behavior. We’re excited to get even more people earning and spending Kin — all on the Kin Blockchain.

Doubling Down on the Kin Blockchain
As you all know, Kin has a three-step plan:

-Build a scalable blockchain
-Launch Kin in Kik
-Expand Kin beyond Kik
-I’m happy to report that we’re on track with all three steps. In some areas, we’re already ahead of plan, specifically in our efforts to build a scalable blockchain.

In May, we announced our intention to create the Kin Blockchain. This decision allowed us to get the best of both worlds: the Ethereum blockchain for liquidity and security, and our custom fork of Stellar for scale. So far we have been getting great results. In June, we were able to reach 1.2M transactions per day. And we already have live consumer experiences running on the Kin Blockchain: new earn and spend opportunities inside of Kik, and the Kinit Beta app.

We’re doubling down on the Kin Blockchain and are investing more heavily in our internal development team and our blockchain solution. As such, our current plans for Kin no longer include working closely with Orbs or migrating to the Orbs blockchain. We continue to wish the team at Orbs all the best as they continue to move their project forward.
https://medium.com/kinblog/doubling-down-on-the-kin-blockchain-5fb91c61468c

Red Bull and Swarovski Are Testing Cryptocurrency Tokens in Exchange for Engagement

Kin's app KinIt debuted last month

https://static.adweek.com/adweek.com-prod/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/redbull-cryptocurrency-CONTENT-2018.jpg

The app, called KinIt, is the first test case for user interest in the crypto—and, in turn, the first test case for whether the promises of Kik’s $100 million initial coin offering will pan out.
https://www.adweek.com/digital/red-bull-and-swarovski-are-testing-cryptocurrency-tokens-in-exchange-for-engagement/

Only three more days to apply for the Kin Developer Program! You could be one of 25 developers receiving grants to integrate Kin into your consumer app. Applications close Friday, Aug. 10 at 1p.m. EST. Apply now: https://www.kinecosystem.com/dev

https://twitter.com/kin_foundation/status/1026884913683939329

Today I just know about Kin Token. I have read the website that announce new project ICO throught Kik's Plan Chat App. I support this, because it is interestiing.

Former Ethereum Foundation Special Advisor William Mougayar Appointed to Kin Ecosystem Foundation Board of Directors
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/former-ethereum-foundation-special-advisor-william-mougayar-appointed-to-kin-ecosystem-foundation-board-of-directors-300701460.html?tc=eml_cleartime

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They probably have done that during the time when the price was higher, they could be buying now. I'm not a fan of this token, I don't even want to invest to it. But most of us are aware of what the developers are doing when they get the chance to do so. No one is telling them not to dump anyway but somehow its best that someone will have to keep reminding them to finish what they started.

ICO projects are expected to experience high growth because blockchain technology is also growing exponentially in popularity. In Kin’s case, i just don’t think issuing a crypto token is going to help its business that much. This is because the typical cryptocurrency enthusiast is not a Kik user. I wouldn’t go so far as saying Kik is failing, but it is indeed declining and still exploring new ways to grow the company again.

Kin Developer Program: Use Cases for Crypto in Gaming
https://medium.com/kinblog/kin-developer-program-use-cases-for-crypto-in-gaming-b546a9ca3b79

We're less than two weeks away from Demo Day for the Kin Developer Program!
https://medium.com/kinblog/kin-developer-program-apps-from-our-community-eaf3580a0cbe (https://medium.com/kinblog/kin-developer-program-apps-from-our-community-eaf3580a0cbe)

Q3 was our busiest quarter so far. The last three months included Kin integrations from Kik and Perfect 365, the launch of Kinit beta in both Android and iOS, the launch of the initial Kin Developer Program, and a few new personnel announcements.

Kin Developer Program Apps —Live in Week Four

Last month, teams in the Kin Developer Program showcased the Kin-powered experiences they created to our selection committee. Thirty-two teams were given either a green light to proceed directly to the production environment, or a yellow light where they were asked to make small changes and resubmit their demos before proceeding. https://medium.com/kinblog/kin-developer-program-apps-end-of-milestone-one-26cf2eec8428

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Tapatalk and Kin: New Peer-to-Peer Experiences Coming Soon

Today, Tapatalk, the leading mobile forum app, has announced that it will integrate Kin. Through the partnership, Tapatalk will harness the power of crypto-enabled, peer-to-peer experiences to increase engagement in its large, online community. Soon, Tapatalk users will be able to receive Kin for posting quality content in the app, and in turn, they can send Kin to other creators on the platform.

https://medium.com/kinblog/tapatalk-and-kin-e2a7d7b0ee16

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OK yes I read about this just last night too. Actually tried Tapatalk a while back but have more or less drifted out of forum apps and only sticking to bitcointalk even though Tapa is way more smoother than this forum.

I've heard of other forums also distributing users for posting content, with tokens or crypto. But I wonder actually if this will only encourage spam? It's bad enough as it is on some places that give people "points". Can't imagine all the armies of spammers coming aboard for "Free" tokens.

Kin Developer Program Q&A: pop.in

https://medium.com/kinblog/kin-developer-program-q-a-pop-in-4de8a775bdb1

Earlier this year, Kik announced chat themes — the first Kin-powered experience that would put cryptocurrency in the hands of millions of real users. By focusing on chat themes first, Kik was able to release a highly-requested new feature and introduce its users to the paradigm of earning and spending cryptocurrency in their digital lives. Now that Kik has scaled chat themes to 100 percent of Android users, its armed millions of users with wallets on the Kin Blockchain, positioning it to launch Kik’s social economy with a new feature, admin tipping.