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Looks nice , nice app and looks nice on desktop. how do i receive airdrops ?

We will release our wallet nearer with the mainnet release around Q2/Q3.

Best,

Constellation Team

https://dispatchlabs.io/
What kind of relation does this have to that?

looked almost the same to me  :o

Do you have a bounty plan, Sir? I'd like to join in

We are very different if you take a read of the two white papers. Both solving different issues in the space.

You lost me at "Proof-of-Meme consensus model" after that I'm unsure if you are taking in jargon or bullshit. Can you please explain this in English?

Can you provide more info about this proof of meme dev?

Why is there no field for the ETH address in the Google Form? How do you want to distribute the airdrop?

Interesting project with interesting event.
Does the Airdrop still open for registration?
Also, will you plan for another bounty campaign?

Looking good. Quite a wait for q2/q3 but we will take it one crypto day at a time :p
Plenty of entertainment until then

 ;)

Hi everyone! Just added Constellation ICO to my website https://concourseq.io/Q/Constellation. ConcourseQ is a collaborative due diligence community that researches and reviews ICOs. Anyone with an account can submit information to your page, so we are reaching out to this community to get you all involved in the discussion. Thanks! PS: If you have any questions about filling in the info, feel free to ask us in our discord group: https://discord.gg/j8RBAwB

Constellation SAFT round now open with 100K as the lowest amount if anybody want to contrbute here
maybe i should wait for Public Token Generation Event,,

I think this is a great project and for this reason I joined. I'm very interested in the new blockchain in particular which are adopting DAG (Directed acyclic graph).

Looking forward to seeing further development and I'm also taking into consideration to take part at the Strategic Private Round

Another different DAG. Not as fast as raiblocks but has smart contract. Looks promising.

Is it privacy?

Being fault resistant, horizontally scalable, distributed operating system that can implement full nodes as a mobile client is top notch in crypto. The project will be massive. Im in for the airdrop

want to join your ICO, when do you start it?

Hope this is a successful project.

I read your page and I'm impressed. Definitely will take a look when the open round comes.

DAG has chain?

Proof of Meme and REGRET as new mechanisms for a cryptocurrency.  For some reason I have a feeling that people are going to regret being the meme by buying this coin.

total supply of coins? And I did not find the highlights of it

This looks interesting. will keep an eye on this one.

I'm sorry, I don't know raiblock. I listen to you as if you made a comparison between Constellation abd Raiblock. Can you share your results please? Then I can learn more before I make a investion decision. Thanks

Are all those coins premined like in nxt, or will they be mined like in bitcoin?

Thanks for the nice words! The airdrop registration link can be found in the original post. The registration will close soon :)

Hi dev, i like a lot of your project. But i'm a newbie, so can you explain to me how i will earn this tokens, its just send to you my ETH wallet? you will send to me ETH? And, this adress of the wallet ETH can be of COINBASE or wallet in the desktop?

I read your project is very interesting, the transaction will be faster and more efficient.
with a great team of developers will bring your project to success

Both Dispatch Labs and Constellation Labs are projects of The Bureau — The Bureau has an enterprise advisory and incubator/lab as well and has an interrelated ecosystem of projects. Many (most?) are building on Dispatch and Constellation.

RaiBlocks also runs on DAG with the motto "Do one thing and do it better".

RaiBlocks - Instant transaction, Zero Fee, No scalability issues.  But they've not made any comment regarding any business proposals / smart contracts.  RaiBlocks is still in its early stages of development and active in development.  Also heard, it's rebranding as "Nano".

Comparing with Constellation, siding Smart Contracts, RaiBlocks is superb in all things and proved too.

The total supply of tokens is 7 Billion. More details of the token sale will be released when our public round is open.

Thanks

We may include privacy in a later release, currently we are focused on bringing smart contracts to our Hylochain architecture. One thing to note is that transactions are linearly scalable with the number of nodes on the network. This means there is no upper theoretical limit to our chain. During Q2 we will be releasing benchmarks from testing this quarter to validate this.

Best,

Constellation Team

We are glad you are as excited as us to bring this to the community. Thanks for signing up for the airdrop, we will be releasing a lot of updates over the next months and would love feedback.

Best,

Brendan

Hello,
high transaction rate, the nerve of war, good luck for your project in any case I have joined  ;)

airdrop is over?

Missed the airdrop by a few hours it seems. :/

Sorry for the noob question - but what's the difference between a microservice and a smart contract?

Thanks for following us! We hope to help move the industry forward and are excited to build 3rd generstion blockchain :)

How will be the distribution?

Our token generation event will be around Q2/Q3 :)

what is this? an inside deal? how can it be an airdrop that is already closed after 1 day of exposure to the comunity?

Hey! Thanks for asking about Proof of Meme. It's a new way of doing consensus. The history of the word meme is an interesting one. But ultimately a meme is an idea or behavior that can be imitated. It is far larger in scope than photos of angry cats. In our case, a meme represents the good behavior one should exhibit to better their reputation across the system. Specifically, the meme to be imitated would be to participate in a successful round of consensus and not act in a byzantine manner. I hope that helped clear it up! The mainstream has hijacked the word meme and have narrowed the scope of reference but memes and memetics are pretty interesting concepts if you weren't familiar with them before :)

We posted it to the channel with a goal of 3k Telegram members. It went viral very quickly and a few hours later our goal was reached. We are very happy to see that our DAG has resonance with the community and we are excited for our next bounty campaign which is being finalized :)

-A/B

Interesting, how does this proof of meme consensus deal with double spend attacks?

No inside deal - we are just heavily in demand from the community. Thank you for joining us here.

scam coin you dont distribute like that sorry.

Thanks for your opinion, please remain engaged with the community and you will see that we are not.

Best,

CS Team

looks very inspiring and the project is managed by a strong team. i'll be following it. btw, when do you start selling?

At least this project has its own website, and reveal team member... looks like different from other DAG project though

Thank you very much we ear working really had to build an even stronger team. We have just bought in more senior engineers and the website will be updated in the next week to reflect this.

Best,

Constellation Team

just waitting for  your product , 2018 Q2/Q3 not lont term.

Is Constellation going to have a Whitelist?

This..and what is the total supply and ICO price dev?

Hi there :)
Hijacking the thread to post the discord of DAG coins :

https://discord.gg/auFsMSD

We have 100 members online, and 12 channels of different DAGS projects

Feel free to join

Is there coin distribution details? how much for the team, private sale, ICO and so on.

Hi i am curious what the actual use case of this project is? why do we buy it? its a blockchain that appears to be it.? wooooo....

and how the hell do you plan to produce the never ending transactions per second you claim everywhere... jack ma is literally at worldd economic forum stating alibaba processes 240,000 transactions a second, and needs faster, you guys couldnt build rakugo successfully after saying you would before ico ended.... but somehow now you are suddenly becoming and going to be better than alibabas processing? wake the fuck up you guys are fake. you have been at this for over a year and still have not produced a functioning product whatsoever besides a dead token. You cannot sell a useless product by using fancy words that dont make sense whatsoever. who ever is the community manager is really making this project look like nothing but hot air. goooood luck hahaahhaahhaah

What the fuck is proof of meme??!! is that a joke!?  a meme? you couldnt think of a more profssional word...although its suiting as memes are mostly jokes

It seems that we'll have millions DAG coins until the end of year. All probably seen RaiBlocks hype and try to repeat it

Non of this makes any sense whatsoever... its just a bunch of misception gibberish words to fool people to think this team knows what they are talking about .. the description are hilarious on the website.. "tokenomics? blockchain architect? blockchain scientist? blockchain ambassador? come on!!!!

 they arent building anything valueable aside from a blockchain that moves tokens quickly. if you want a super fast transaction, use steemit or DGB. you dont need to buy into this phony claim of unlimited transactions..

Everyone should remember that this team promised to build a BLOG site called rakugo and promised to launch it before their ico ended and was incapable of creating the blog site for users to user and utilize the token for earning rewards.. they wanted 1 million dollars minimum for something you can create with a week in an office...


look on their website, they dont even have any valueable features

Horizontally Scalable
Throughput increases linearly with the number of nodes.
(wow more transactions based on userbase...)
9   
Fast Transactions
Transactions are faster than Bitcoin or Ethereum by a factor of 1000.
(ohyeah? so now its only 7000 transaction a second cap?)
   
No Transaction Fees
Reputation based incentives eliminate transaction fees.
(neither does steemit)
   
Truly Decentralized
Every participant can contribute to consensus.
( your whole model clearly states all delegates are validated by YOUR system based on their reputation score. so if they dont meet your standards they dont get in. proof of mee states it is an action that encourages users to imitate good actors... what is this scam?
   
Mobile Compatible
Run a full node on you mobile device.
( ok i can run electronum on my mobile, not innovative)
h   
Smart contracts as microservices
Easily integrate Constellation into existing applications.
(claims their going to be better than eth but have no functions apparently other than moving tokens fast and can use smart contract, what will the smart contracts be used for? funding? voting? dao? please explain?)


Please guys use your due dilligence with this team. they have never accomplished anyhting aside from locking up investors money for months in a crowdsale and not producing results..  now they are hosting a token sale without even sharing the economics of the token or how the distirbution will be done... they are just obtaining your data without producing anything other than a wordpress website in poor quality.

also,, anyone wanting to test the credibility/CAPABILITIES of the team,.. just simply go to their website and simply ask the SUPPORT bot a basic question..... they cant even set up a bot properly.. but they are ready to take a minimum of 100k from you in a SAFT round... ......


The bots messges are in bold.
Hello, I'm Wyo Ming, a cryptobot, how can I help you?

LOLOLOL your a robot, is this a joke????
There are many differences between us and . Although we also DAG technology, we have broad smart contract functionality and are open sourced, unlike many competitors in the DAG space.


please use proper grammer.....
I didn't understand. You can try rephrasing


this is pathetic
I didn't get your meaning.

can i email support directly?
Take care and remember to invest responsibly

is this a scam?

There are many differences between us and . Although we also DAG technology, we have broad smart contract functionality and are open sourced, unlike many competitors in the DAG space.


if you cant see the horrible english in this phrase... this is sad...  " broad smart contract technology" ..." there are many differences between us and .  Although WE ALSO DAG TECHNOLOGY"

THESE ARE AMERICANS!!! NOT FOREIGNERS!!!! they cannot fix simply typos or form sentences to submit to their bot.. this whole project is sloppy and rushed to steal your money in a saft sale.. after all SAFT is " simple agreement for FUTURE tokens" .. they dont actually have to provide the token to take your money

SCAM ALERT

Even better... the website now displays token information.... but if you want it you need to enter your name, email, accredited investor status and legal structure, company name and proof of address?


fuck this is the funniest joke i have ever seen on bitcointalk thread. i feel bad for anyone giving up their information to these people

i mean SERIOUSLY YOU NEED TO PROVIDE PROOF OF ID TO SEE TOKEN INFORMATION WHAT THE FUCK

see for yourself! https://info.constellationlabs.io/constellation-token-information

This problem is Theymos' problem. I really don't know why he doesn't hire a commando for puryfying these threads. He noticed that he raised thousands bitcoins from members...hmm he should care about clarity of this forum, instead of he thought of cooper member and other nonsense? Wtf...really weird cryptoworld

Well, we've been building for 8 months but as long as we all are moving the space forward then the more the merrier :)

Hey man! Ivan here from the Dispatch Labs team. What AB said, we are part of group that works together to help emerging blockchain technologies and is doing all kinds of cool stuff. While Constellation and Dispatch are separate projects, they share the benefits of connections within the space, a network of enterprise clients looking to use our platforms, and often work in the same office. We are doing very different things, but work synergistically (don't think that's a word, but you know what I mean). The official Dispatch announcement will be live on bitcointalk very soon! For now if you are curious jump into our TG at t.me/dispatchlabs
-Ivan

Eight months you say? Ok it's a long time so can you share with us something more than promises? I don't want to be offend, but after 8 months you should have something usefull. I think not only me would be very glad to see your progress, so please share your progress with us!

I have to bookmark this thread and come back so as to understand exactly what's going on here. Legit project or scam? I've given a look at the whitepaper and looks very complex - but I didn't have time to study it properly.

... you were claiming to be build a blog site called rakugo from the summer until september, when your last ico failed for rakugo, they held everyones money for like 3 weeks then gave it back with the gas fee, obviosuly they were trading with it for profit during the time we all waited to get our tokens back.....

. so you were building constellation at the same time? making two icos with the exact same team at the exact same time? what a fucking scam this is ! no wonder nothing got developed whatsoever your too busy making websites and white papers for your next project to launch.. whats next.. planet mars coin cause your going past the stars and constellations this time ?

they took their old domain down  to hide their failed ico project for www.rakugo.co but in their telegram they claim  to investors that rakugo will still be a key factor of the ecosystem in the future ..... why are they hiding the domain now suddenly?

See rakugo bitcointalk ann https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2044732.0

why does everyone on these team use rediculous words to prance around saying " we copied everything from something else and slightly changes a thing"

 so you all work in the same building? so now there is three ico projects coming from under the same roof is what you are telling us??!?!?!?!?

Does it mean private ico?

It means it has several opportunities for accredited investors and project insiders to buy up most of the supply. This is why ICO's are shit and contribute to the increasing centralization of crypto.

It means that we are trying to follow the guidelines set out by the United States government so we can bring the project to fruition and deliver what we are building instead of dealing with unnecessary legal ambiguities.

Cheers!

Seeing as your name is Fake News Bro, does that then mean everything you post is Fake News? Asking for a friend.

LOL great way to avoid the topic for another 12 hours

no it means you are fake news bro. You completely avoided everything on the table right now.. are you scared to be honest?? are you going to produce for us what you developed for 8 months or did rakugo and constellations website with the fancy literature take 8 months to development? Your claiming your were deving this project while working the same time on rakugo, how many other projects are you currently running right now also??? do you have two more ready to go with the same team when this one fails?

Multiple rounds of private investing is just an easy way to take rich investors money without even providing a token for them .. your just avoiding the backlash from your last failed ICO when you issued a token that noone could use at all cause noone on the team knows what they are doing

People be smart, this team is nothing but broken promises and no product whatsoever. just a way to lock your money up while they profit off it being in their control.

Care to share how much your "oversubscribed private sale" collected? i mean since your still offering to accept money while saying your oversubscribed?? why do you need more if you are over subscribed? scammers thats why

Any thoughts on Dispatch Labs? (it came out of the same company)

Immediately, the distorted, horizontal, and measurable distributed operating system is to be resolved immediately in order to let customers enjoy it immediately.

We completely understand that not every project is believed in by everyone. If you would like more conversation then feel free to shoot us an email and we can have a deep dive. Our contribution rounds were only available to those who were not only accredited by US standards, but also those that aligned well with our vision for a linearly scalable distributed operating system. It's unfortunate that we couldn't better alleviate your fear, uncertainty, or doubt, but hopefully upon TestNet launch in June you'll be able to become an evangelist for what we are delivering. Cheers!

This thread has at least one advantage - is not self-moderated as other new DAG projects. All what new projects offer has Byteball with their Blackbytes. I'm wondering how these new projects want to compete with Byteball. If devs can provide some thoughts I will be glad and believe that not only me. Question is if there is a need to have over 100k dollars to achieve their goal.

Both Dispatch Labs and Constellation Labs are projects of The Bureau — The Bureau has an enterprise advisory and incubator/lab as well and has an interrelated ecosystem of projects. Many (most?) are building on Dispatch and Constellation.

So let me get this straight... This is a clone of ethereum or something in that nature that can be used to create smart contracts??? Kind of lost here

I think this is a great project and for this reason i joined. I'm very interested in the new blockchain in particular which are adopting DAG. Being fault resistant, horizontally scalable, distributed operating system that can implement full nodes as a mobile client is top notch in crypto. The project will be massive.

It is not a fork of Ethereum. it is a 3rd generation blockchain built using DAG tech. Other companies in our tech class are IOTA, Hashgraph, and Raiblocks.

Its not about whether your bullshit is believable or not, or if anyone judges you from the start. It's the fact you won't address the obvious alarming questions.  WHICH OBVIOUSLY SHOWS YOU HAVE ALOT TO HIDE!!

How can you claim you were building constellation for 8 months when you were openly developing Rakugo with no mention of constellation whatsoever? Why did you not produce the product of Rakugo that you promised "without getting minimum funding" as you all said you would develop many times but abandoned it after creating a dead token. Why are you disregarding this?

Why do you want me to contact in email? why can't you address the problems on the table for all of the community to openly see? We all want to know the truth behind this scam trying to obtain info with no development at all while claiming to be blockchain architects and scientists LOL

"those who were not only accredited by US standards, but also those that aligned well with our vision for a linearly scalable distributed operating system"

So your' investing round is centralised to you and your friends that believe in you.. Tthis project gets scummier everytime you lay a comment. Who is running this profile on your team? They should be fired for making this project look pathetic, manipulative, and deceptive. It's not about fear, uncertainty or doubt, it's about REAL ISSUES YOUR AVOIDING AND TRYING TO HIDE IN EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS!!!!

Testnet in june!?!? so you've been developing for 8 months yet still there isn't anything on test net?!?!

SCAM ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When ICO?  ;D

A crowdsale hasn't been announced but our we are aiming to be listed on exchanges in March/April. If we have a public round, it will be before then :)

Hallo dev, I think Constellation is too simple and less interesting. You should create an interesting logo and a unique background. If I were an investor, maybe I would pass your project just like that although your project is so great, because I was not immediately interested in seeing its outward appearance. Sorry, that's only a small assessment of me, but everyone's view is different.

Thanks for the feedback! We agree and we are currently doing a logo and a website redesign, so stay tuned :)

Thanks for the feedback? is this how you answer scam accusations? such professionalism and sincerity to clear the air.. You should be fired because your making this project look so bad.... by the way guys, their saying in telegram there might not even be an ico now. so guess who gets this token!? HUGE INVESTORS AND AIRDROPPERS!!!!!.. first it was ico in q2, then it was late 2018, now their saying potentially june or none at all. they dont know what they are doing and dont have any structure in place aside from being able to take money from people via email without giving a token. and you need to have a high income...

fuck this team guys, if you want to buy a centralized project that has produced NOTHING I REPEAT ABSOLUTELY NOTTTHING BUT A DEAD TOKEN IN THE PAST, two projects no products... then you should follow this team and buy their centralized token

Hi, I own a discord server for discussing DAG coins. Every DAG is listed and has its own channel.

https://discord.gg/auFsMSD.

Feel free to join us ! See ya.  ;)

Dear Constellation Community Members,

We are currently having technical issues with our website hosting. Our provider is restoring the site with a backup which we expect to be completed within 24hrs. Until that time, expect to see a "GoDaddy Parked Domain Site" from our domain registrar.

This is localized to one of our servers and requires a manual restore process which takes some time. You can still request information from our token request form which is hosted elsewhere, click the following link for more information.

https://info.constellationlabs.io/constellation-token-information

You can still find our whitepaper on our GitHub repo here:

https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/Whitepaper/blob/master/constellation_whitepaper_v0.1.pdf

Please follow our official Twitter and Facebook channels here:

https://www.facebook.com/Constellation-Labs-731744337022268/

https://twitter.com/constellationl_

If you would like to talk to us directly, please come to our Telegram channel via the below link to speak with the team.

https://t.me/constellationcommunity

Thank you,

Brendan Playford

CEO | Constellation Labs

Do you guys have any MVP/Demo/POC? All I see here is a whitepaper ICO with bold claims. I thought we were past the stage of funding whitepaper ICOs in crypto.

Hey! We are releasing our TestNet in June and have not planned any ICO's or crowdsales at this time. We have some private contributions to make sure we can continue to build and deliver but there is no public sale available. Please feel free to check back this summer for a demo! :)

DAG+Smart Cointracts is amazing topic!I am dispointed to miss airdrop,when next round?

why the sudden change in twitter handle and logo change?? no announcement?? Are you guys trying to hide?? your twitter was constellationL and now you changed it to conste11ation .....

You still failed to address any concerning questions but continue scamming people of their money for something your claims that wont arrive on testnet until june you say.. yet you inititally planned an ico for march.. no testnet til june means YOU DONT EVEN KNOW IF ITS CAPABLE TO DO BECAUSE YOU NEVER TESTEDT IT1!!! ALLL THEORY FROM A TEAM THAT COULDNT BUILD A BLOG WEBSITE

SCAM ALERT GUYS DO NOT FUND THIS PROJECT, DO NOT TRUST THIS PROJECT,

They have also changed all of their position titles on the website and changed team members... these are all major red flagz for losin' your money!!! Remember history repeats itsself

Thanks for noticing our new logo! We have brought on some awesome marketing people and working with an amazing PR company out of New York City. We changed our Twitter handle to replace the two "L"'s with an eleven as homage to the Apollo 11 mission - the first spaceflight that put man on the moon. And yes our TestNet is slated for June and our token generation will still be in Spring. Feel free to stay tuned! C ;D ;D ;D

Technical wise a great project without a doubt but (probably to be able to follow SEC regulations) rather annoying distribution model.

What distribution model do you mean?
I agree though that waiting for the airdrop for so long is annoying.

To get further information about the token sale you have to upload a proof of address document for KYC/AML purposes and reveal other personal information (see http://info.constellationlabs.io/constellation-token-information).

Besides that you need to be an accredited investor which is defined as a "natural person with income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding $300,000" or "a natural person who has individual net worth, or joint net worth with the person’s spouse, that exceeds $1 million at the time of the purchase excluding the value of the primary residence of such person." Source: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092815/how-become-accredited-investor.asp

I doubt the average Joe is able to fulfill those requirements.

I don't see the info on the price of the tokens,the ICO/Pre-sale start date on this link https://info.constellationlabs.io/constellation-token-information
Can you please let me know more info on buying tokens.Is there any min /max limit?

Thanks for the kind words! Our CTO just finished a very technical paper that's undergoing peer review (hope to release to the world soon). Our private contribution round is not the only way that our tokens will be distributed. We have some cool community initiatives planned (thanks for your patience on the airdrop!) and we will be releasing more information around this in the coming weeks as our PR team gets ramped up. With regards to talking with those that meet US standards of accreditation, we wanted to make sure that we were as SEC compliant as we could be in order to have the bandwidth and longevity to deliver something to the space that hopefully isn't going to be immediately challenged by our host government.

Tokens are not available for purchase at this time and more info regarding when they will be generated will become public in a couple weeks :)

As harriwo stated the major portion of assets seems to be distributed to big investors only while the rest of people has to eat the dump of whales  :-[

interesting project with the best idea. i love it, i hope success and get rich . Thanks Dev! Good luck success!hope to see more in here,keep my eye on to this ;)

Hey Everyone!!! Check out our new website :)

www.constellationlabs.io

How about the nodes?
I.m interested to run

The nodes will be able to run on any device that can compile into the JVM. This means that the majority of mobile phones, PC's, etc. This will be downloadable and more details on running nodes will be released this summer :)

just came across this, am i too late for the whitelist ?

Where is your code on the github? I did not see anything except Whitepaper:

https://github.com/Constellation-Labs (https://github.com/Constellation-Labs)

Hey thanks for following up! Our codebase is being developed in private and will be opened up with the launch of the TestNet this summer :)

Great.
how many tokens do I need to stake on my wallet?

Projects about the exchange, I think this project has the potential for future success, I think there's a big investors in this crypto currency exchange because of the wonder full platform explanation that's why people invest.

hm... its almost june...this scam cannot even stay onto their timeline because they changed it so many times. they still dont have a functioning product after almost a year in develiopment, now they are selling their platofrm that doesnt do anything to more investors at conferences. these guys should be locked up

NOBODY IS BUILDING ON ANYTHING BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING THERE!!!!!!!!!

they couldnt build rakugo, a basic blog site, so they used the people they met to make a new scam that they cannot even build. they claim to have been building constellation WHILE they were marketing rakugo.. these guys have nothing, they copy ethereum code and make some small changes which anyone can do. they have no real info released other than its coing soon , no public sale and only selling to accredited investors who have the same beliefs in them only, not all accredited investors, only ones that they can scam to fund their next conference to rip more people off. the bureau, dispatch labs, and constellation should all be shut down, they all produce nothing other than taking millions from small time people who cant afford a lawsuit on them,

Going around telling people that majority of major firms are building on constellation and dispatch labs when neither have a product available at all is a laughing joke, whoever supports this project WILL be ripped off like everyone who wanted to support their last development that they stole everyones money with,  before they changed their names on  social media to make this project and do it again ( altif changed his name to AL because he put his face on too many projects)

SO BY THIS STATEMENT, ONLY ACCREDITED INVESTORS COULD INVEST , AND ONLY IF THEY HAVE THEY SAME VISION AS YOU?! HOLY FUCKING CENTRALIZED PIECE OF SHIT DEVELOPMENT WITH NO PRODUCT WHATSOEVER, WAIT TIL THE S.E.C. GETS AHOLD OF YOU GUYS, THIS IS A SIN ENTIRELY. YOU ARE GOING TO BE ROYALLY FUCKED UP WITH THE TAX MAN JUST FOR THIS STATEMENT. YOU ARE SELLING SECURITIES UNLICENSED AND PICKING AND CHOOSING WHO GETS TO BUY 100% WHILE PUBLICLY SHARING ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS. DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB,

But doesnt surprise me considering AL is running things. , saw that guy at a bar once downtown in SF few weeks ago and he was the biggest joke in the building.. talking about how his blockchain is better than the rest and going to beat ethereum and how they just copied ethereums code and everyone bought it

We encourage everyone to check out our site at www.constellationlabs.io for more information on our team, our content, and what we are building! If you'd like to see AL talk about how Constellation is different than Ethereum feel free to check out his quick interview with Nasdaq (hosted on Twitter) here (http://"https://twitter.com/Nasdaq/status/996482858377236482"). Our community portal, Orion, goes live on May 31st which will allow people more access to the team and the TestNET is set to be launched on July 7th. Check us out!!

again, you fail to address any questions, not surprised, what about exchnage trading in March /april as was mentioned many times? what about those "gossiping nodes" were they  fake news bros??

what about this article? https://www.cryptocurrencyguide.org/intel-looking-to-eliminate-block-miners-all-together-with-new-patent/
Sounds like your technology is patented... i bet next you will say your partnered with intel cuz everything this team does are lies

How will constellation compete when they are going to be obsolete before they even get developed...

Just remember everyone.. they have been taking money for nearly a year and are not even on testnet to know if their concept is possible.

Thank you so much and we hope to see you inside of Orion- our community/developer portal <3

How is it better than proof of work or stake?

What currency is your token?

The Token Ticker is DAG :)

https://etherscan.io/token/0xa8258abc8f2811dd48eccd209db68f25e3e34667

Having a delegate selection model be based around reputation and not on computers that you buy or coins that you buy allows more people to participate. Decentralization can actually be achieved when we focus on on merit instead of money.

Dude, why are you here and screaming at people? Relax.

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Hi! Thanks for taking a look at Constellation. A lot of the information posted is not accurate but feel free to email supoprt@constellationlabs.io in order for our team to send over the right info :)

At least this project has its own website, and reveal team member... looks like different from other DAG project though

Constellation's Proof of Meme Consensus model is one of the defining aspects of our protocol and underwrites our vision for a secure and fair internet.  We've produced a short video explaining the origin of the name, the basics of its functionality and how it fits into our overall vision for Constellation. For those that want to delve deeper refer to our white paper, specifically page 11 " Delegate selection model: Proof of Meme".

Given the uniqueness of our consensus model we want to encourage debate and questions on the topic. The Constellation team will be active here to answer any questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABRX43HZVmI&feature=youtu.be

Thank you for noticing! We value transparency and we want people to know who we are what we hope to achieve.

We've successfully distributed tokens.  Please see an update from CEO Brendan on our distribution approach:

Hello Constellation Community,
 
We’re excited to announce that tokens have been successfully distributed today, June the 18th 2018.  The $DAG token is live (See the contract on Etherscan here) and available for use in our community portal Orion. This marks the end of an intense sprint of development, token economics, marketing and channel development across our global community of supporters.  There are a lot of misconceptions about token distribution and the significance for blockchain businesses. We want to address some recurring questions from the community here and provide insight into the business decisions we’ve made.  Unlike a lot of projects, we’re builders and haven’t wasted resources on generating fomo around promises that we cannot deliver. We’re interested in delivering products and continuing to build the Constellation network and community. The distribution of $DAG today allows us to do just that. There are also legal and regulatory reasons as to why we’ve operated in a certain way and we want to make those clear, we have a long-term vision and adhering to these rules protects that vision.  Please read on for further clarity on our positioning:
 
A Product-First Approach
 
There will always be community members and investors who are out for a quick flip. However, we are focused firmly on building a viable and scalable network that can scale to billions of users. We are single-mindedly focused on that vision ahead of anything else. This is the distinguishing factor between a mature company and “project” that will not endure in the space. To support that, as founders we have a 4-year lockup on our own tokens. It takes copious amounts of resources, time and dedication to build a completely new blockchain from the ground up. We cannot get distracted with catching the ‘right moment’ in a time-cycle that can last for weeks, months or even years - when is the 'right moment'?
 
The right moment is a one that fits with the long-term business goals of The Foundation. One which aligns with the release of our incentivized community portal Orion from which token holders can stake $DAG and earn bounties for contributing to the success and growth of the Constellation network. In addition, our upcoming release of our permissioned testnet that has cross-chain compatibility with our DAG ERC-20 token. Allowing validators (miners) to earn monthly rewards in $DAG for contributing bandwidth and resources to the testnet. This means that without the release of the token we cannot continue to build the community or test and develop the Constellation network under real-world technical and economic conditions.
 
Communication
 
We asked investors and members of our community how they feel about token distribution in this market cycle. The answer we got was mixed, with some favoring a release and some wanting hold back. We took into account the growth of the network, functionality of the live token and a breadth of community input when making this final decision.
 
Timelines
 
Forward momentum and development require sticking to timelines. In normal tech companies, you move at speed in an agile way and have no end of roadblocks as you develop with well-established technology. In the blockchain space, you are not only moving fast but with new untested technology. In the case of Constellation we are building new technology that has never been seen before from the ground up. We are not a fork or copy/paste project and we must focus on building a new network without distraction. Timelines are essential to creating a company culture that delivers consistently. As many of you know we postponed token distribution from March to June once.  That decision was not taken lightly and we cannot pull back further on an already demanding roadmap.
Exchanges
 
We’ve reiterated this many times across all our channels but we are not in a position to discuss exchange listings. If and when $DAG starts trading the community will know and spread the word, any nonpublic information has to be protected.  We would like to share as much as possible but there are strict legal guidelines we must adhere to.
 
Finally...What has the brief history of crypto taught us?
 
Each larger bear cycle in the crypto market has enabled new strong players to emerge. In the downturn of 2013/2014 it was Ethereum that launched into a bear market. We will be seeing new players strongly emerge from this bear cycle as well. Crypto has come to stay and Constellation is at the forefront of building the new internet of connected devices that fairly rewards users and builds a global community of users. We are here to stay and are going only one way - forward!
The journey for us so far has been a humbling experience and we’re excited for the future and thankful to be building it with you. Without you, the community none of this would be possible and for that, we thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions please dive into our Telegram and we’ll answer asap.
 
Kind regards,
 
Brendan Playford
 
CEO Constellation Labs

hello constellation I know  before project this is rakugo and now become constellation , a long time ago ceo brendan say will still pay bounty hunter in rakugo when new project come and now your new project is come , when you will keeping your promise please make statement about that ?

Hi friends!

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Did I understand it correctly that there will launch own mainnet in the next months and the current token needs to be swapped?

Our Testnet in Q4 will be compatible with our current ERC $DAG token. A swap will happen for our mainnet launch in 2019.

Read about progress on our testnet here https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-testnet-video-demonstration-of-a-3-node-cluster/ (https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-testnet-video-demonstration-of-a-3-node-cluster/)

Hi,

Please where is you code base for a review?

Thx

Hi there,

Codebase will be available to review on testnet launch August 1st

Constellation (DAG) is now on KuCoin, you can deposit now. Trading pairs include DAG/BTC and DAG/ETH.

Withdrawal opens July 3, 2018 at 17:00 (UTC+8)
Buying starts July 3, 2018 at 17:30 (UTC+8), and selling starts July 3, 2018 at 18:00 (UTC+8)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhKqDDCVMAAGc85.jpg

Listing on KuCoin
https://coindar.org/en/event/constellation-dag-listing-on-kucoin-11182

Constellation (DAG) has been listed on KuCoin. DAG very interesting and promising, I will continue to monitor this project. I believe in this project team because they have smart thinking and good ideas! I think this is one of my best investments.

is there a web wallet for this? I can't seem to find one.

Hi Constellation Community,

With our recent KuCoin listing and Testnet announcement, we’ve experienced a flood of international press across CCN, Bitcoinist, Cointelegraph among many others. If you haven’t kept a close eye on our social channels, we’ve collated some of the highlights below alongside an opinion piece by our very own Ryle on China’s mining crisis and a recent AMA with Brendan, Wyatt, and Ryle. This weeks press momentum coincided with our first of six community AirDrops and updates to our developer portal Orion. Read on for more…

Recent Press

Bitcoinist — Horizontally scalable blockchain lists token and launches flagship product
https://bitcoinist.com/horizontally-scalable-blockchain-lists-token-and-launches-flagship-product/

CCN — High throughput blockchain list on KuCoin and opens up bounty program to developers
https://www.ccn.com/high-throughput-blockchain-lists-on-kucoin-opens-up-bounty-program-to-developers-using-the-dag-testnet/

Cointelegraph — Horizontally scalable blockchain system launched flagship membership portal.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/horizontally-scalable-blockchain-system-launches-flagship-membership-portal

News BTC — Blockchain platform for creating large consumer application aims at an exchange
https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/07/09/blockchain-platform-for-creating-large-consumer-applications-aims-at-exchange/

Bitsonline — Coinbase CTO on Crypto Userbase: ’60x Growth’ May Be Coming
https://bitsonline.com/coinbase-cto-crypto-60-growth-userbase/

Community AMA

Brendan, Wyatt ands Ryle take time to answer some pressing community questions on the Testnet, roadmap, marketing and node visualization.

“There are 10 years of rewards planned, what will incentivize the network after this time?”, “what industries would be beneficial for constellation?”, “I’d like to know more about the general marketing strategy, at the 10,000ft level.”:

Watch it here:
https://www.facebook.com/Conste11ation/videos/837252366471464/


Orion v1.52 Release

A lot has changed since Orion launched. The community is thriving with posts/questions monitored and tracked by the team. New features are continually rolling out, and this week marks the first of regular Orion updates. The focus this week has been on security and messaging. See a summary of the updates below and reach out directly on Orion with any questions or feature requests:

1. Boosted security settings across Orion portal. Signups now use Recaptcha to prevent bot activity.
2. Individuals who have closed Orion accounts will now see a specific message.
3. Added new test cases for verifying if inactive user cannot logout.
4. Notifications went live.
5. Occasional error and warning reports mentioned by users were eliminated.
6. Intercom integration was issued.

July 5th 2018:

1. Send user notification on transaction cancelation at rq job.
2. Retire jobs page, link to forum, Retire jobs page, link to forum remove recaptcha debug
3. Updated method to update email acc to use built-in method.
4. Updated method to update email acc to use built-in method.
5. Add recaptcha to signup
6. Add recaptcha to signup transaction
7. Ryle Goehausen on the need for Universal Node Access.

Following a flood this week in the Chinese province of Sichuan, the so-called “bitcoin mining capital of China”, crypto trade outlets around the world began reporting that the resulting destruction of thousands of mining rigs were directly linked to a decline in the Bitcoin network’s hashrate from 43TH/s to around 30TH/s. As a majority of Chinese bitcoin mining systems are located in Sichuan, some outlets have even gone so far as to claim that this flood could increase the global demand for new graphics cards, raising their prices….

Read the article on 8btc here:
http://news.8btc.com/bitcoin-mining-crisis-in-china-reveals-need-for-universal-node-access

AirDrop update

If you were selected for the first AirDrop make sure to complete the KYC process by Monday next week. Don’t worry if your application is still pending, if your application is in review we’ll get back to you. Prior to the next AirDrop on August the 14th we’ll be sending emails notifying which of the 6th AirDrops registrants have been allocated. For more info read our AirDrop schedule here:
https://constellationlabs.io/blog/wp-admin/post.php?post=104&action=edit

Until next week.

Sincerely,

The Constellation team

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Testnet Launch (August)
https://coindar.org/en/event/constellation-dag-testnet-launch-11376

Why Developers Will Feel Right At Home When Building on Constellation
Published July 18, 2018 by Anthony Scapulla
https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/why-developers-will-feel-right-at-home-when-building-on-constellation/


Let’s Face It — The Current Blockchain Landscape Simply Isn’t Friendly Enough For Developers.
Before we dive into why we believe Constellation Labs will make your average developer feel warm and cozy inside when building on our platform, let’s take a look at some of the main obstacles currently existing in the blockchain development space.

Heavy criticism has been lobbied against blockchain developers and projects by those in the wider technology industry at large, mainly due to fundamental engineering issues not being addressed in the space, and not simply a result of cryptocurrencies inherent volatility.

Major enterprises are hesitant to jump in as well, with one of the contributing factors being a vast computer science language barrier. Ethereum’s Solidity doesn’t easily integrate with the existing industry standard protocols, and Bitcoins scripting language is highly restricted and isn’t scalable. We’ve also seen the limitations of Bitcoin’s once novel Proof-of-Work mechanism, which gobbles up vast quantities of energy, whereas Proof-of-Stake coins such as NEO and DASH can be seen as utilizing a protocol that just assigns money to trust, allowing the system to essentially be bought and controlled (EOS, cough, cough).

Ethereum and Solidity wanted to secure the Virtual Machine layer, but we already have powerful VM tools in Amazon Web Services and other Cloud Providers all going unused, while the blockchain heavyweights are busy porting over this and essentially creating an inferior copy that they can control, a term in the engineering space called the “Inner Platform effect”. This is essentially a predatory approach to creating an eco-system, and is the opposite of what we’re building at Constellation.

In short, very sophisticated distributed system tools that we can take advantage of already exist, so we don’t need to change the game in that sense. The blockchain industry should stop trying to overcomplicate things, and we should utilize the functional distributed systems that already work. Let’s use the existing framework! Other protocols are trying to replicate them in their sandboxes, and are simply messing them up.

To some in the wider tech space, Bitcoin is viewed as nothing more than a linked list with some hash and a nonce, and not some beacon of technological ingenuity. This isn’t to bash either of these projects, as they’ve both gotten us this far — the point is to illustrate how much of a closed sandbox (especially from a developers perspective) that these projects truly are, and to highlight the main advantages for developers that can build on Constellations protocol, without any of the restrictions and bottlenecks of existing blockchain infrastructure.

To further illustrate this point, let’s take a look at a popular example that most will be familiar with — Apple. Steve Jobs, in all his genius, had a specific vision that he wanted to see out with his Apple products, which eventually resulted in the Apple landscape becoming an utterly closed system. Want to upgrade the RAM or hard drive space on your new MacBook, or customize it in any way similar to a PC? Good luck with that. Want to develop an app for their app store? Gotta get it past Apple first. Ethereum’s smart contracts operate in a similar manner, as potential developers are pigeonholed into using and learning Solidity and playing in the sandbox that Ethereum has set out for you.

Now that we’ve laid out some of the main issues developers face when trying to port over to the blockchain space, let’s dive into the three major advantages of building with our protocol.

Three Main Advantages of Building on Constellation


Familiarity — If your already a regular application developer, you’ve more than likely deployed an AWS, and you have all of these habits and routine usages from using programming languages like Python and JVM. At Constellation Labs, we’re focused on being language agnostic and are building our protocol with a set of existing programming languages and tools that your average developer is already familiar with. Among them, are JVM, Python, Akka, MapReduce, Algebird and Scala, as well as Spark. Each one of these are essentially applications of math in the machine learning and distributed systems space.

Instead of forcing you to learn an entirely new program like Solidity, we want blockchain to come to application developers, as opposed to getting application developers to port over to blockchain. We recognize that there are existing standards in the developer space, so we’re creating this system in a way that developers would expect to use it.

Virtually any other protocol or coin out there requires an entirely new set of coding and developer skills in order to build upon it. We’ve had enough of this coding catastrophe. Constellation is giving developers the flexibility to essentially copy and paste existing code for their new blockchain applications utilizing our protocol. In addition, when you develop with us, you’re not just getting an ERC-20 token — you’re getting your own blockchain. We’re setting out to be the tool for building you’re own blockchain that will be interoperable within a greater ecosystem.



Freedom — Customers on Constellation have essentially complete freedom, as they aren’t locked into our platform in order to foster their development like they might be with Ethereum or Bitcoin’s specific coding languages (Solidity and Ivey, respectively). In our eyes, this approach is antithetical to creating a truly democratic platform. We recognize the fact that developers have spent years using a certain set of coding languages, and most won’t want to take the time to learn yet another. To reiterate this point, here’s what our VP of Engineering, Ryle Goehausen, had to share:

“It’s much easier to deal with developers working in the same codebase and platform, so we’re targeting JVM at first, and then Python developers. From the beginning, we’re trying to make things agnostic as possible, and the most features [on Constellation] will be available on these languages.” Wyatt CTO

We want people to be able to use and integrate blockchain technology without having to rewrite their entire project specific to some particular blockchain. Developers will have the freedom to move their code around, and leverage their existing knowledge base and apply it to the blockchain landscape.

In addition, we’re not afraid of people trying to fork our code, and in fact, if people fork our code and create their own project, we’d be excited about that! We want modularity and new development. It’s not about locking people down. We want people to build on top of this and build nearly whatever they want.



Scalability and Reputation — As we touched upon earlier, POS is a reputation model that just assigns money to trust, and we want reputation to be one of the big focuses of our project. We believe that there is a better way to do consensus that doesn’t have these vulnerabilities, and so people can’t just buy into and rig the system. Let’s take a look at a quick example that shows the limitations of this approach:

Say you’re a small application blockchain developer and building a POS coin. Theoretically, a competitor can come in with more money, buy up your stakes and in the process, sink your coin and destroy all of your work.
If you have POS coins, you’re essentially saying it has to be the most centralized coin possible, and in order to foster development, you have this competitive aspect where people are basically betting money against each other.

With Constellation, we’re not about just having one singular DAG- based blockchain that’s stable, but we’re going to be supporting thousands of independent blockchains and blockchain developers. We’re creating a safe and secure environment for both the little guys and enterprises alike to come and build. To summarize this all in the words of our CTO, Wyatt Meldman-Floch:



We want to allow for people to create a true internet of blockchains by proposing a new way of doing consensus/scaling and interoperating between chains. We’re tailor-made for those who really want to build an application and own their own chain, and create a utility token that solves an actual purpose. So, are you ready to build?  Dive into the Orion Portal, which will allow developers and community members to earn tokens for contributing to our community in a wide variety of ways. You can also register to host a Testnet Node here: https://community.constellationlabs.io/t/launch-and-operate-an-inaugural-constellation-testnet-node/891

Constellation Update – Element Group, Token Price, AirDrop and New Team Members

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-element-group-token-price-airdrop-and-new-team-members/

Announcing – Element Group Partnership

Constellation has recently announced a strategic partnership with the Element Group, a full-service advisory firm for the digital token capital markets. We’ll be utilizing the Element Group’s Valence platform—a unique and fully integrated technology platform that is designed to conduct safe, compliant and user-oriented token sales—to conduct our upcoming AirDrop campaign.

Our COO, Ben Jorgensen, had this to say about the partnership:

“Utilizing Valence to power Constellation’s AirDrop allows us to implement our innovative and large-scale model that will grow our developer and community member base, on-boarding thousands of users in a unique and exciting manner.”

Addressing Token Price – Brendan Playford CEO

Our CEO, Brendan Playford, had an update to share regarding DAG’s price, and to address any concerns regarding the value of the token roughly one month post-launch.

“As many of you know, we have had two factors that affected our launch strategy.

A large institutional investor dumping tokens on both new exchanges we have listed on (IDEX and Kucoin)
The overall seven-month bear trend we may be finally leaving.
This particular investors exit has been damaging to price, but the individual is almost finished selling his entire account on the market. We are in active conversations with him to further try and control the situation.

We made the decision to launch at the bottom of a bear market because technically, as evidenced by this past weeks rally and subsequent breakout of BTC from its seven-month decline, there are indicators that we could be in for a rally until the end of the year. This is still speculative, but it is looking like the start of a positive market bias. This launch allowed us to have a complete focus on delivering our testnet and updating our business whitepaper for the community on August 1st.

This downtrend bottom shakes out uninterested investors and brings in new blood to the token – we have gone from 1000 holders at launch to 1985 holders as of today – a doubling of wallets in a month is very positive for DAGs adoption. We will continue to update this as a key metric for DAG adoption as we grow the network.

On top of this, we have our testnet release, new exciting business partnerships, advisors, and the release of our new business whitepaper that all come at the beginning of August. This phase of development will bring significant confidence to token holders as they start to see our vision come to life”.

New Team Members

Constellation is continuing to grow. With the addition of this week’s new hires, Anthony and Sasha, we are now a team of 30 strong!

Anthony Scarpulla, Staff Writer

Anthony took the “crypto red pill” back in October of 2017. With a B.A in Creative Writing & Journalism from the University of Miami, he parlayed his drive and passion for the crypto industry into a Lead Writer role with Cryptocurrency Investing, the most active cryptocurrency group on all of Facebook. There, he interviewed over a dozen ICO founders, ranging from companies like CanYa and Experty, to Swytch, Rentberry and Coinmetro.

Recently, he served as the Senior Crypto Strategist for Verma Media, a crypto PR firm that specializes in helping ICO’s gain brand awareness across all spectrums. Anthony joins the Constellation team as Staff Writer where he will be tasked with creating original content to be shared across media channels in the form of weekly blog posts and long form content detailing everything from team to tech updates. He will also be on hand to aid in editorializing content from our team members to help build authority and thought leadership amongst us all.

Sasha Bazjek, Front-End Engineer

Sasha is a front-end engineer with a passion for building things, a tendency towards detail, and an obsession with accessibility. She is a former structural engineer having helped design bridges for clients across North America. When Sasha wasn’t designing bridges, she was creating awesome web-based games, supporting non-profits by volunteering her coding skills, and working as a freelance web developer. Sasha is very excited to be a part of Constellation and will be working with the product team on the development of the Orion Portal, marketing website, and any other future projects that require a user interface.

Constellation DAG Airdrop

As we approach distribution on the 23rd here is a quick update on what participants can expect:

Airdrop recipients will receive DAG this week, starting on July 24th and completing on July 27th.

Airdrop recipients will receive an email inviting them to sign up for Constellation’s Orion portal. Users should use the email address used for the KYC process.

Once registered with a confirmed email address, airdrop recipients will see a special AIRDROP DAG section on the Orion portal where they can access their tokens.  

DAG distributed via airdrop have a six-month lockup period in which users may not withdraw these tokens. Recipients may verify that tokens have been assigned to them in the Airdrop section of the Orion portal. Recipients may also check the number of tokens allocated to their wallet address on the holding contract directly on the Ethereum blockchain.

Six months after receiving tokens, users are eligible to withdraw these tokens into the wallet they used while registering for the airdrop. Details on the withdrawal process will be made available closer to the first unlock date.

DAG locked in the holding contract may be used while locked up for the purposes of upgrading an Orion community portal account. To do so, click the “Upgrade my account with my Airdrop DAG” button on the Orion portal. Once upgraded, an Airdrop recipient may not downgrade their account until the lockup period is complete. After the lockup period completes, an Airdrop recipient may downgrade their account and withdraw their DAG as usual.

Upcoming Events

Ben and Brendan will be in New York presenting at Fintech Week from July 31st – August 2nd.  Let us know if you’re in town and want to meet!  We’ll be sharing information on our speaking engagements early next week.

Until next week.

Sincerely,

The Constellation Team

 

Cofounders Brendan, Altif and Ben will be in NY July 31-Aug 2nd for Fintech Week. Who else is going to be there?   
         https://newyork.fintechweek.com/

Curious about the advantages of DAG and Constellation? Check out the overview on Hacker Noon:            https://hackernoon.com/consensus-based-on-gossip-and-merit-6144df75fe03

Overview of the Orion Portal
https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/overview-of-the-orion-portal/

This week, we’re diving into the Orion Portal with a brief introductory video and written overview, featuring Brion Hickey, our V.P of Product at Constellation Labs.

So, what exactly is Orion?

The main function and value of the Orion Portal is to serve as a foundational source of information for all things Constellation Labs. Whether its support, marketing material, bounty campaigns, or developer documentation, it will all be living within Orion. We wanted to create a platform where the Constellation team can interact and share with developers and community members alike, while also giving our users a chance to be rewarded for their time and expertise.

In the words of Brion:

“This base enables a quick federation of content across all existing and emerging social streams and the ability for our end users to collaborate with each other. By providing a central but engaging base of information, the portal is useful in addressing various inquiries and allowing champions of our technology to earn DAG.”

https://www.youtube.com/embed/n0kkDqEfaJ4

When it comes to the types of content you can expect inside the Orion portal, essentially anything related to Constellation will live here -  be it advanced questions regarding our upcoming testnet launch, press and social media buzz, developer documentation, or app ideas. Our goal is to provide the tools and framework for the future of the decentralized internet, but the true power to shape and build it lies within the hands of the community at large. With the Orion portal, we’re inviting you to let us know what apps you want to see prioritized, or what AMA topic you’d like to see addressed next. Have some suggestions or feedback for our base code? Well, drop us a line! With Orion, our digital doors are always open.

Can you explain the tiered system for Orion?

Within the Orion Portal, we have three major tiers to address based on the number of tokens staked - Free, Community, and Developer. We realize that different users will have different needs, as someone who is an engineer will require a different subset of tools than a community member. The graphic below outlines the three tiers, as well as the main features of each.



By engaging with the Orion portal, end users will be able to earn $DAG tokens. One example of this is how we’re enabling users to earn $DAG is when they invite friends to join Orion. This is merely one example of many!

Brion had this to share on why Constellation choose this gated, three-tiered approach to membership:

“A tiered system allows our team to manage requests and app projects effectively. Gating enables us to build a successful and fully supported community.”

The portal features a simple reward scheme, whereby users will earn points by engaging on the platform, boosting their standing/clout in the community. These points can then be exchanged for $DAG tokens. Brion shared his thoughts on this, saying “this basic reward structure will create an organic hierarchy of moderators and encourage positive community behavior.”

How will Orion support the upcoming testnet launch?

With the launch of our testnet nearing, Orion will serve as the focal point for all information and documentation surrounding its launch. Our first major bounty campaign is currently live, and we’re on the hunt for our initial testnet node operators! If you have a technical, software developer background,  feel free to apply here to become a Constellation pioneer: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYZVXBu2zbiAwk6IDofHkxswurM-lxmzCaY_lMXytD1NCMXw/viewform. The testnet node bounty post will be continually updated as we approach the launch.

In the words of Brion, “with the upcoming launch of our testnet, we’re already getting a lot of curiosity from our users. You can anticipate that as we get closer to launching our testnet, that most of the real-time information and updates about it will quickly be federated into the Orion portal.”

The ‘Developer Docs’ section will be updated with our base code once the testnet is fully live, which will allow the community to dive in and review, critique and add to our base code. We’re also very excited to reveal a graphic visualization of our testnet in operation, and once again, Orion will be the platform we'll announce this on.

As we want the Orion Portal to be shaped by our community members, we also built in a “feature request” option. Brion breaks this all down below, and outlines how this will work:

“Ultimately, we realize that we have to really understand what the community is hungry for. We do have a “feature request” within the Orion portal that allows them to express to us what they're curious about, and that gives us an opportunity where we can invent on their behalf. Instead of creating features off-the-cuff, we're really inventing features that are going to be useful for our users.”

If you haven't signed up for the Orion Portal yet, click here to take the leap: https://orion.constellationlabs.io/accounts/signup/ and help shape the future of not only Constellation Labs, but the decentralized web itself.

VP of Operations, Emily, shares her thoughts on the gender imbalance in crypto as well as her experience being a woman in tech.
Read the full story on NullTX:
https://nulltx.com/we-need-more-women-in-tech-but-not-to-serve-the-drinks/

COO Altif talks diversity in Silicon Valley with Our Weekly News.   
Check out what he has to say:
http://ourweekly.com/news/2018/jul/26/silicon-valley-sill-struggling-develop-diverse-wor/

I should support this project because I see a good potential on it. Goodluck to the developers of this project. A successful project with an excellent idea, a world that is necessary and great potential! I am confident that the company has a great future and great prospects

An update about our Testnet, engineering, and Orion portal in our latest blog post.            https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-testnet-more/

Constellation is releasing its V1 base code next week. After a 5 month period of intensive development, we’re excited to share the engineering teams ground-breaking work, and we’re extremely proud of what they’ve achieved. That being said, the real work starts now as we iterate our next release and respond to the community feedback. We’d also like to thank the community for supporting us over these past few months, and in the words of our CTO Wyatt, “everybody can now see what we’ve been cooking up.” We can’t wait to hear your feedback, as we adapt and respond to your suggestions for V2.  

This code release begins the process which will lead up to a small network of nodes communicating with each other. The focus will be on extensively testing the core system functionality and handling potential node failure conditions/recovery logic. Basic transaction handling and validation is the primary goal, along with demonstrating some of the fundamental data structures, system architecture, and infrastructure. Core functional testing is paramount, along with stabilizing the release with regression tests. We encourage developers to dive into the code and set up local nodes, however, these initially will not be part of the Constellation network.

“With the launch of our testnet, we’re really excited to provide our community with social proof of what we’ve been talking about for some time. The community has been really enthusiastic and engaged with what we’re building, and this is our chance to reciprocate the trust our community has instilled in our vision.” - Brendan Playford, CEO

Alongside the debut of our code, the second aspect of the release is a basic visualization and UI of the network functioning. The idea is to breakdown the very technical architecture of our protocol in a clear and approachable way. This will consist of a map view of where nodes are functioning, a simple output for a permission node to see how they’re working within the network answering, where were the block/transaction was formed and how it was bundled with other transactions and data. We feel that current DAG projects do a poor job of visualizing the tech and explaining how each piece of data is tied to together. Over time, will be expanding the functionality of the visualization. We want to showcase the underlying democratic principles of the network, self-organizing, and constructed to reveal data which is representative of how nodes are behaving.

Engineering Update - Ryle Goehausen (VP of Engineering)

Below is a bullet point overview the engineerings team main focus for the week:

-Progress on speeding up the downloader.
-Substantial refactoring and code cleanup before release.
-Fixed several crash conditions and node failure edge cases.
-Finalized V2 schema for upcoming transition from directly representing graph sub-partitions to raw graph edges.
-More work on isolating processing logic to more granular actor handlers.
-Fix edge case on ancestry resolver causing stall condition.
-Updated file handling library and pruned unnecessary dependencies.
-Optimized cell handler to remove the redundant group by operations and added more sanity checks around data resolver and cleanup.
-Added docker internal health check to the container.
-Updated API client to scalaj instead of akka-http. More work on internal authentication around endpoints.
-Added memoization of several calls including metrics rendering for dashboard.
-Fixed memory issue around excessive bundle data. Updated bundle scoring functions to discourage stray chain formation.
-Added JMX and debug ports for JVM profiling. Ran numerous performance tests and collected data for debugging purposes.
-Parameter tuning around gossip, mempool handler, and cleanup functions.


Orion Update - Brion Hickey (VP of Product)

This week we focused on connecting 3rd party services to enhance registration, login, future rewards and more. There was also a concentration of work to support the Constellation Airdrop where end users can stake their tokens on the Orion portal.
 
Github Login: Developers are now able to login/register via Github and link their account for future developer bounties.
LinkedIn and Twitter social account linkage. Users are able to add their accounts to participate in future rewards for twitting and sharing on LinkedIn topics regarding Constellation
Airdrop participants will be able to stake their tokens to participate on Orion and earn points that can be exchanged for DAG.
Discourse point rewards have been released. Get points for participating on our forum.

Join the Orion Portal
https://orion.constellationlabs.io/accounts/login/?next=/

Constellations V1 code base is live! Dive into Github now:
https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/constellation      

We’re excited to reveal our node visualization. Click through to review our network and transactions:         https://testnet.constellationlabs.io   

Co-founder Altif shares his thoughts on the lack of diversity in tech, and how blockchain has the ability to unlock opportunities for everyone.            https://blavity.com/how-to-drive-diversity-in-tech-insights-from-a-black-lgbt-co-founder

In addition to our codebase launch and Testnet visualization, we've got news about our AirDrop and product, press coverage, and a recap of FinTech NY. Read it all in our weekly update.            
https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-ny-fintech-week-product-airdrop-testnet-news/

Constellation Update – NY Fintech Week, Product, AirDrop & Testnet News


The community reaction to the launch of our codebase has been phenomenal. We’ve been flooded with questions, requests and offers to review our code across all our channels. We’re delighted with the response to the Engineering teams tireless work, and it’s been a highly satisfying few days post-launch. The debut of our code was coupled with the release of our testnet visualization (https://testnet.constellationlabs.io/) , which has generated a wave of press and industry interest in only a matter of days. Keep those questions and ideas coming! Keep in mind that during this busy period it may take a bit more time for us to respond, but our dedicated team of community managers will get back to you. For AirDrop, press, event, and product news, read on….



Brion Product Update – Brion Hickey VP of Product

Aug 1st, 2018

This small push helped polish the end user experience across various funnels. We also added enhancements to the invite feature.

Added support email address on reset password screen to help surface issues.
Enabled end user to invite by email. 
Disable Unlink when signed up with a social account to enhance signup flow.

July 31st, 2018

We are thrilled to announce the initial AirDrop launched successfully. This is the 1st AirDrop of 6, and we found parts of the end user experience we can improve upon. This week, we focused on streamlining this experience to provide value to the end user.

We added front end validation for airdrop users to avoid invalid address.
There were many misspellings found. We fixed various typos to give additional clarity to visitors.
As we leverage MetaMask for various aspects of Orion, we changed the copy of the cancel Metamask transaction to match the Metamask UI.
We updated a few social auth designs. We did this for linking and unlinking of profile info and also on the settings page.
AirDrop Update:

Constellation’s 2nd AirDrop is approaching on August 14th.  Prior to this AirDrop, all registered members will receive an email notifying them which of the five remaining AirDrops they will be placed into, as well as a detailed FAQ on how to access your tokens and stake them on Orion. For further information on the AirDrop schedule, check out our blog post here:
https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/airdropupdate/

Constellation at FinTech Week NY

The team was in New York for Fintech Week. Our COO Ben Jorgensen sat on a panel alongside Jack J. Bensimon of the Blockchain Exchange Commission, Dan Drees of AvidXchange, and AI and Blockchain Advisor, Yannis Kalfoglou,  speaking about “The Future of Financial Institutions”.

The panel touched on where financial institutions have implemented blockchain, AI, and payment tech successfully, but also where they need to improve. Panelists weighed in on the benefits of blockchain adoption—citing reduced costs, improved efficiency, increased liquidity, and enhanced security—as well as the obstacles of blockchain adoption, including technical hurdles, legal issues, the need for regulatory approval and managing a trade-off between short-term investments vs. long-term potential gains.

We’ll be releasing video content from the event in the near future, so be sure to keep an eye on our channels.

Media Mentions

This week, Altif Brown (CCO) and Emily Arth (VP of Operations) weighed in on Silicon Valley’s persisting diversity issues.

Emily quoted in NullTX
https://nulltx.com/we-need-more-women-in-tech-but-not-to-serve-the-drinks/

Altif in OurWeekly
http://ourweekly.com/news/2018/jul/26/silicon-valley-sill-struggling-develop-diverse-wor/

Altif article on Blavity
https://blavity.com/how-to-drive-diversity-in-tech-insights-from-a-black-lgbt-co-founder

Look out for more AirDrop news later this week.

Sincerely,

The Constellation Team

Testnet Overview & Interview

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/testnet-overview-interview/

This week, we’re celebrating our August 1st Testnet launch with a written overview and interview on the subject, featuring Brendan Playford (CEO), Wyatt Meldman-Floch (CTO), and Ryle Goehausen (VP of Engineering). Be sure to join the community on Telegram. Want even more from Constellation? Join our new Discord channel: https://discordapp.com/invite/kDTsyfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsYZF4msXuQ

What is a testnet?

While we’ve witnessed a fair amount of cryptocurrencies that have either sloppily thrown together their testnet, or simply forked an existing technology, at Constellation we’re taking a more refined approach to actually testing our own technology. In the words of our VP of Engineering, Ryle Goehausen:

“We’re not just going to throw together a demo and something that minimally works. What we’re interested in is verifying that our code is actually correct, and that means fleshing out and defining what it means for our chain to be working properly.”

What can a developer expect from the Constellation Testnet?

The first release of the Constellation testnet can be likened to a pre-alpha, open source software release that runs on a variable release cycle. This means that it contains incremental iterations of testable code that can be used by technically-advanced users only. In regards to the testnet launch, here’s what our CTO Wyatt Meldman-Floch had to say: “We’re officially releasing all of our code, and everybody can finally see what we’ve cooked up! Through the actual testnet program that we’re doing with Orion, people who are interested in staking some DAG can start hosting the initial nodes.”

Our v0.1 testnet release (codenamed Spider after the first manned Apollo 9 mission), will allow skilled developers to review the core codebase, submit issues and pull requests, and start evaluating the codebase for future releases. In addition, developers will have the opportunity to earn DAG rewards for merged pull requests, squashing bugs, and solving other issues that will benefit future iterations of Constellation. This will only be available to members of the Developer tier in the Orion portal, who can apply to become initial node operators.

(If you're an interested developer or Constellation fanatic, be sure to check out our recently launched Discord channel, where lots of deep dive conversations are happening. In addition, our codebase is now live on Github, so check it out!)
https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/constellation

Ryle had this to add around how developers will be encouraged to dive into the testnet, and how Constellation wants to foster community adoption:

“We’re going to have extensive documentation explaining how to do the most basic operations—sending transactions, starting a node, getting familiar with Constellation’s core development practices and life cycle. We really want to encourage and foster community adoption and ensure that developers can get their applications and code integrated from the very beginning with our APIs.”

You mentioned a visualization of the network. What do you mean by that?

Our network visualization is now live! Click here to witness our DAG transactions in action: https://testnet.constellationlabs.io/

With this visualization, our goal is to break down a very abstract and technical concept with the idea of a DAG and make it simple to grasp. In the words of our CEO, Brendan Playford:

“I think this is really important from two aspects—one for the broader community, because it breaks down a very technical part of our architecture into something that’s easy to visualize and understand—and two, we want to prominently feature this notion of a block explorer for a DAG.”

What you’re looking at in the above graphic is essentially a visual demonstration of how the transactions were observed and how they were merged together with other transactions on Constellation. Another living example of DAG being sent and received can be seen on our site, which includes the corollary DAG wallet addresses and locations of the transacting parties.

Whereas other DAG companies don’t really show or explain how each piece of data is tied together, we wanted to demonstrate this visually because, in the words of Brendan, “once you see it, it makes sense intuitively as an understanding of why we’re trying to promote these sort of democratic principles of a network.”

Three Main Goals of the Testnet

Brendan breaks down the three main goals of the testnet as follows:

Social Proof – “With the launch of our testnet, we’re really excited to provide our community with social proof of what we’ve been talking about for some time. The community has been really enthusiastic and engaged with what we’re building, and this is our chance to reciprocate the trust our community has instilled in our vision.”

Engage The Community Visually – “Once you’ve seen our network visualized, it becomes a lot more intuitive to see how these things work—the flow of transactions, the kind of ordering and topology that comes out of these different environments, and to understand how our network sort of dynamically responds when we’re doing simulated attacks—so being able to actually see all that happen live is going to be really critical.”

Developer Engagement – “We really want to start off with a few core outside developers that can run a permissioned node and start giving us feedback and getting to know the core team. We want to build that developer community around us, and start to get people to build in parallel, understanding what the underlying data structure is and how our API’s work. While it may not all be there to start with, getting people early access to that and opening up to the community is vital for the success of the project.”

Lastly, why should developers be excited about the testnet and the eventual launch of the mainet?

One of the main reasons we feel that developers will be excited about working on Constellation is the simple fact that they should feel right at home, in terms of encountering familiar coding languages and programs that are typically missing in the Blockchain space.

Ryle echoed some of the positive sentiment from his developer peers who are thrilled to see Constellation building with tried and true tools: “I’ve told so many people who are in the Blockchain and Scala space [about Constellation] and they’re like “you’re using Akka and Cats and Algebird, this is exciting!” It’s really hard to encapsulate all that and find people working in these interesting libraries.”

Scala has become incredibly popular among functional programming and people trying to do higher-order mathematics and translate math research into actual code. Ryle also shared how one of the biggest selling points for developers is that “we’re utilizing Algebird and a lot of the libraries from Twitter and the MapReduce and SPARC and Scala community. I’ve worked with these libraries professionally in the past, and the opportunity to work on this in the crypto space is just very, very exciting.”

Wyatt went on to share his secret recipe for Blockchain success, which has been hiding in plain programming sight all along: “It’s pretty cool how the recipe to creating a clean code base and a legit blockchain was actually just functional programming principles.”

Ryle also shared his confusion around Ethereum’s intention to scale by integrating MapReduce, without actually utilizing any of MapReduce’s underlying frameworks. “It really surprises me how Ethereum has jumped all over this MapReduce train, yet Ethereum and others are trying to adopt techniques from MapReduce without actually using any of the languages, the libraries, the conventions or the common practices associated with MapReduce.”

While others are busy reinventing two things at the same time, we’re trying to reuse industry standard tools, libraries, and common conventions, making us much more appealing to mainstream developers.

To close this out, Wyatt had this message to share with the community:

“It really means more than the world that there’s a lot of people out there who believe in this dream. As we’re finally opening things up with our testnet, honestly the greatest gift that we can ask for is for people to try and get involved. The most exciting thing on my horizon is to see the kind of people who come out from the developer community and try to submit some legit code and try to build their own chains using Constellation. I’m just really excited to see you guys step on out into action – welcome to the team.”

Our CEO, CTO and VP of Engineering sat down to discuss our recently released code and Testnet. Check out the full video and read our latest blog post for more.

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/SsYZF4msXuQ

Blog:

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/testnet-overview-interview/

Constellation Update - Engineering, Airdrop 2 & Deep Dive into Testnet
https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-engineering-airdrop-2-deep-dive-into-testnet

Engineering Update


Updated the Github readme with new instructions for building and running a constellation node. Going forward we'll be supporting docker containers as our recommended way of running a node.

Engineering spent several days planning roadmap for the next 6 months, and breaking down initiatives into sprint-sized tasks.

FAQ on upcoming Airdrop 2


Over 450,000 DAG were distributed in the last week of July during the first Orion Airdrop. If you registered for the KYC process, you’ve got tokens ready and waiting for you! Our next AirDrop is right around the corner. Registrants will receive an email on the 14th of August and will need to complete KYC by the 19th of August. In addition to the AirDrop 2 KYC email, we will be informing everyone of which AirDrop round they have been allocated.

To access your tokens, you’ll need to use the email address and wallet address you used to sign up for the Airdrop and KYC process.

If you’ve already got an Orion account registered with that email address, just log into Orion with that email address. You’ll see a new “Airdrop” tab in the sidebar where you can access your tokens.

If you’ve already got an Orion account but it's registered with a different email than the one you used for the airdrop, you can still access your tokens. Just go to the “Settings” screen and change your email address to the one used in the Airdrop, and verify the email.

If you don’t have an Orion account, just sign up for a new account using that email address at https://orion.constellationlabs.io/accounts/signup/. You’ll see the “Airdrop” tab appear at left.

Below, we've answered some common questions around the AirDrop process.

When will I see the new DAG appear in my wallet?
The tokens are currently in a six-month lockup period. At the end of the lockup period in early February, these tokens can be withdrawn to your wallet directly by going to the “Airdrop” tab in Orion and clicking the “withdraw DAG” button.

Can I use my airdropped DAG during the lockup period?
Yes! You can stake the airdropped tokens to register for an Orion account. Just go to the “Airdrop” tab and follow the instructions there to stake the airdropped DAG.

I already have a Developer or Community account, but I want to use my Airdropped DAG to register instead. How can I do this?
It’s easy. Just go to the “Settings” screen to downgrade your account to the free tier. Your originally-staked DAG will be returned to your original wallet. Now, go to the Airdrop tab and follow your instructions to stake your airdropped tokens.

Can I withdraw Airdropped tokens later, even if I use them to upgrade to a Developer account now?
Yes. Once the lockup period is complete, you can unstake the tokens and withdraw them.

Do I have to use the same wallet address I used when going through the KYC process?
Yes. Tokens have been airdropped against a specific wallet address

Testnet Overview


It's been a week since we launched our code and Testnet. We recently sat down with the engineering team for a deeper dive into our code and Testnet visualization. Read the full story in our latest blog post: https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/testnet-overview-interview/, and watch the interview below:

https://youtu.be/SsYZF4msXuQ


Sincerely,

The Constellation Team

Our community member Nikolaj decided to have some fun taking apart and reconstructing our logo using the networkx Python library.

Check it out here.               
https://youtu.be/XbGvJpL5OTM

COO Ben is at Fintech Week: Silicon Valley 2018 today. If you're attending, be sure to catch his Keynote session at 2:10pm PST!            https://www.siliconvalley.fintechweek.com/agenda/speakers/301913

We sat down with the engineering team recently to learn a bit more about what distributed tech is and how Constellation is utilizing it. Read what they had to say in our latest blog post:

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/how-constellation-is-utilizing-distributed-technology/

In this piece, we’re going to explore the world of distributed tech—breaking down what it is, how it’s currently being used in the tech landscape at large, why the blockchain space as a whole isn’t utilizing certain proven distributed tech frameworks, and how we intend on using them. We’re also going to break down what inspired Constellation’s approach to “Consensus as a service.” I sat down with several key members of our engineering team to discuss all of this in depth, so without further ado, let’s dive in.

From a higher level perspective, what does a distributed system entail? To put it simply, it’s the idea of splitting up computation and data across computers to solve scalability issues. Cloud computing can be seen as an example of distributed technology, where data and applications are served to millions of users over the internet. In terms of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin and cryptos approached distributed systems in a different way, as they weren’t focused on solving data processing problems or really trying to improve anything. As our CTO Wyatt Meldman-Floch puts it, “They were trying to add some notion of cryptographic security by mixing in economics. It all started with scalability, and crypto sort of became this other thing.”

What The Heck Is Distributed Tech?
To take a more macro-level view on what some of the most popular distributed tech platforms are, let’s turn it over to our VP of Engineering, Ryle Goehausen: “I would say really the basis for most of our involvement comes from Apache’s Spark, which is the big data distribution platform.” To put it another way, Spark is essentially a general-purpose data processing engine, which can rapidly analyze data at scale.

Ryle also mentioned the Scala programming language ecosystem as being a big influence within Constellation. Scala, which stands for “scalable language”, is already used by major companies such as Twitter and LinkedIn. Ryle also mentioned several other major distributed tech influences, in Akka, Algebird, and Hadoop. Akka is a toolkit for building highly distributed applications on Java, while Algebird provides abstractions for algebra within the Scala programming language. Apache’s Hadoop is a software library that allows for the distributed processing of large amounts of data and is used by the likes of Twitter, Spotify, and Facebook to store and process mass quantities of data in real time. At the heart of Hadoop lies MapReduce, which is a programming paradigm that allows for this massive amount of scalability to occur! For a quick laymen’s term breakdown of how that works, check this out: https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-explain-MapReduce-in-laymans-terms. If you’re wondering how all of this ties into what we’re doing at Constellation and the blockchain space in general, hang in there, we’ll get there.

In terms of how all of the aforementioned distributed tech paradigms influence Constellation, here’s what Ryle had to say: “We’re primarily trying to use a lot of the techniques and the same libraries that other distributed systems are built with, and that’s all sort of oriented around Scala, Akka, Algebird and some of the other like standard tooling.”

What We Learned From Twitter
To take this a step further and explore how these tools are being used in the greater tech landscape at large, let’s take a look at how Twitter leverages MapReduce and Hadoop. In terms of processing massive quantities of data, Twitter relies on MapReduce to “literally do reputation calculations on individual tweets to figure out whether or not this show on your newsfeed.” Essentially, what Twitter does is leverage MapReduce and other streaming libraries and “mix these two tools in order to aggregate data and serve it very quickly and in such a way that is horizontally scalable. That’s how Twitter can strain billions of data points per second,” according to Wyatt.

Ryle backed this up by sharing some further details on how Twitter uses Hadoop and Spark:

“Twitter primarily lies on Hadoop, and they’re migrating Spark in a lot of places. They have separate things that are done for real-time aggregation, but a lot of it is unified under a common language. That’s why they’re developing so much Scala code—because it integrates with older code. They don’t need to rewrite a bunch of things. They can use a lot of the same code for both real-time, batch processing and analytics, so they’ll have batch jobs that run every night, but also have real-time system stuff.”

Using Hadoop basically allows them to store and process billions of tweets, log files, and other forms of data across thousands of nodes.

Right about now, you might be thinking, “Great! There are all of these proven existing frameworks for scaling distributed tech—this sounds like a perfect, seamless integration for the blockchain and crypto space!”

Well, not quite.

The main hold up is that the existing code stacks are not very friendly to a crypto stack, or in the case of Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Dash’s stack— “it would not plug in very nicely and it wouldn’t have a lot of code reusability,” said Ryle. To extrapolate this point further, we can take a look at Ethereum, whose own messaging strongly plays up MapReduce (have a look at their Plasma whitepaper), but isn’t using any of the language libraries or common practices associated with MapReduce itself. Seems a bit backward, right? I asked Ryle why this is, and his response was quite illuminating:

The obvious answer is because they already have code and dependencies that are already written specifically for Ethereum, and they’re a slow moving boat. It would be difficult for them to adapt and change all of their existing stuff over [to MapReduce], so they’re viewing it as basically tacking it on to their system. There are other people trying to migrate MapReduce—except our strategy for the migration of MapReduce is to use libraries that are other actually used for developing MapReduce, instead of trying to develop MapReduce inside of crypto libraries.

In short, there are already existing standards for proven distributed tech frameworks such as MapReduce, and we want to reuse as much of that code as we can and forge the right path from the start. Ethereum is essentially ignoring the long-standing reasons for why people chose design patterns oriented around MapReduce in the first place, and are trying to recreate something that already works, but within their own sandbox. The same can be said of their approach with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Ryle shared his take on this in the following quote:

“If you look at all the work that was done on EVM, it’s going to be scrapped because they went down a path that is now worthless because they chose to go against the standard. It’s better to go with common standards and to use tools that are already there. There’s no reason to try and reinvent the wheel for everything.”

Another example can be seen with IOTA, who are currently experiencing a crisis on their main network due to spammers creating a Side Tangle parasite chain, resulting in transactions not being confirmed. Wyatt shared his take on this by saying “this is the price of trying to customize too early.” IOTA has essentially tried to reinvent cryptography, which violates the underlying tenets of cryptography itself.

This isn’t meant to bash either Ethereum or IOTA—we’re merely trying to illustrate the importance of leveraging the existing proven tech and forging the proper path the first time, rather than trying to retroactively fit a lot of these tools in down the line.

Ryle sums it up quite succinctly:

If we go down the wrong path of attempting to prop up something that isn’t necessarily going to become the standard in the future, it’s a lot of wasted effort. And we’d like not to do that. These other tools have billions of dollars of aggregate industry value, and to ignore them is silly.


Forging the Right Path
With Constellation, we want to forge the right path from the outset. We want to develop libraries that bridge the gap between crypto and existing distributed tech, and that’s not really easy to do right now. While other projects are wasting their time trying to port existing distributed tech over into crypto, we want to leverage what already works, and focus on building the future.

“There are projects that are trying to adopt Bitcoin and Ethereum to Scala and Java, and they’re sort of in a weird state where they don’t really work all the way, and they don’t fully integrate. So we’re trying to focus on using languages and tools that make that problem go away,” shared Ryle.

While this is a difficult task, we aren’t the only ones in this space that are pursuing a similar path. As Ryle said, “Rchain are using a lot of the same functions same crypto code that we’re using. Waves is another example. When you look at a project like Rchain, they’ve essentially proven that it’s possible to do crypto on the Scala ecosystem.” But again, what distinguishes us from Rchain is we’re not trying to approach this as a language problem. While they’ve created Rholang, which is a new language for writing smart contracts that run on the RChain virtual machine, we’re more heavily focused on leveraging Scala for big data processing. Ryle went on to share how the success of Rchain has “proven that there is a demand for using the tooling of Scala and these other distributed systems within the crypto space.”

When I asked the team if it’d be fair to consider Constellation as one of the first blockchain companies intentionally building a bridge for mainstream developers to port over into the blockchain space, Ryle made it clear that Constellation isn’t unprecedented in the aspect of what toolkits we are trying to use, but rather, “we are unprecedented in the sense that we’re trying to solve a very narrowly scoped problem. We’re focusing heavily on the MapReduce aspect and using monads and other functional programming in Scala Concepts.”

Constellation – Consensus as a Service
During the interview, Wyatt shared the approach they took when dreaming up Constellation Labs, and how they leveraged their prior experience in creating scalable tech. “The approach we had was—we already build systems for the scalability side. We are also heavily into crypto, and we wanted to sort of take these things over and apply the stuff we learned for solving scalability problems and also use them for making scalable cryptocurrencies.” Wyatt went on to say that, “our approach to scalability was also a solution to that splitting protocols problem. That’s what we do. What we did was create this protocol for communicating across protocols.” By solving that, it allowed us to do MapReduce, and its like they were the same problem – one and the same. Tyler Prete, one of our Distributed Systems Engineers, added that by leveraging Java and Scala, “we can more easily integrate with these existing tools like Spark or Hadoop, because we can kind of be the connection point where blockchain needs MapReduce.”

At this point in the conversation, Ryle brought up the notion of focusing on Constellation as consensus as a service—“of trying to be that networking protocol layer between decentralized applications.” He went on to draw comparisons between us and Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service. “The same way that Amazon created S3 as its own service oriented around storage, we’re a service oriented around consensus network organization and reputation.”

To reiterate an earlier point, we’re not trying to focus on the contract language, because the contract language can be considered plug-and-play on top of a consensus player. As Ryle succinctly put it, “Our competitive edge is just focusing on consensus and reputation and big data at scale.”

The team made it clear throughout the interview that Constellation wants to integrate with as many other libraries as we can, and that they want it to be possible for code to be reused. “You should be able to run the same kind of code that does transaction processing in Spark, in Storm and even in Hadoop, and connect it to nodes also running off phones—that’s a very reasonable objective, but we can’t just do this in a vacuum,” said Ryle. By that, he means there are already standard ways of accomplishing this, and Constellation is trying to properly integrate with them.

While at the moment, you can’t really run Spark on a phone, Ryle admitted that “you can run a lot of the same libraries and code and have it very easy to connect to services that run Spark or Storm, or any of these other Hadoop-like services.” In closing, Ryle shared how the underlying problem that Constellation is tackling is very well stated:

We want these nodes running everywhere. We will also want them running on data centers. We want batch analytics to be possible on the data. We want to be able to run models to reputation and do analytics— all of that, the industry already has techniques for that, but they’re not being used.

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/techcrunch-disrupt-announcement-ticket-giveaway/

We’re partnering with TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018! On September 5 2018, Constellation will host a panel aimed at demystifying recent developments in crypto fundraising and a workshop on how to run a node on Constellation’s Testnet. We’ll also be on the ground over the course of the three days meeting the community and interviewing some of Crypto’s leading figures.  For a chance to win one of five GA tickets, fill out your details on Orion: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSca-JMW4QROl6MwMAbioN-o3sndMPLclsJopZgaC5ChR61pFw/viewform

 We’re looking forward to seeing you there. Read on for further details…

Panel: Beyond the ICO: New approaches to fundraising and enterprise investment in blockchain.

Time: Friday September 7th, 1.30 -2.30

Moderator: TBA

Speakers: Ben Jorgensen (COO of Constellation), Jacob Mullins (Shasta Ventures), + More TBA

Constellation has been through an extraordinary period of fundraising and subsequent growth. Ben Jorgensen (COO) and team will share their experiences in this session exploring the complex and ever-changing fundraising models available, and what enterprise leaders look for in potential partners and projects.

Workshop: Running a Node on a Distributed Ledger: Live Demo

Time: Friday September 7th, 2.45 – 3.30

Speakers: Wyatt Meldman-Floch, Ryle Goehausen

Wyatt (CTO) and Ryle (VP of Engineering) will demystify the key components of distributed ledger technology, and provide a guide on how to set up a Constellation node. Participants will leave with the basic skills they need to contribute to an emerging 3rd-Gen protocol.

As mentioned, there will be more announced in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

Want to attend TC Disrupt SF? Join our Orion portal for a chance to win a ticket!            https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSca-JMW4QROl6MwMAbioN-o3sndMPLclsJopZgaC5ChR61pFw/viewform

COO Ben discusses Constellation's distributed ledger and consensus model with Markets Media.            https://www.marketsmedia.com/constellation-labs-eyes-distributed-ledger-3-0/

Constellation Update – Company All-Hands, Engineering, Product & TC Disrupt
https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-company-all-hands-engineering-product-tc-disrupt/

Our team just got back from a two-day all hands meeting at our headquarters in San Francisco, and we wanted to share some of the highlights from our time together.

Over the course of the week we established a more organized, efficient and a cross collaboration framework which will be reflected in the output from our Marketing, Product and Engineering teams. It was a two day deep dive that allowed us all to come closer together and collectively refine the mission and values of Constellation.  The overall outcome was concrete three year plan which will be reflected and communicated in our upcoming whitepaper.

Each department head presented their roadmap for the coming months. Our COO Ben Jorgensen kicked things off with an inspiring talk on the highlights of the company’s growth thus far, while outlining some of our future goals (such as increasing our community visibility with Meetups), among many others. Zac Russell (CMO), touched upon all of our marketing initiatives thus far, and highlighted some new deliverables that we’re cooking up.

Brion Hickey and Gio Valdenegro laid out the roadmap from the product side of things, sharing what we can expect as V2 of Orion gets rolled out in the coming months. Altif Brown (CCO) shared all of the incredible growth we’ve had throughout all of our communities, while Ben Diggles, our VP of Business Development, closed out Thursday by outlining all of our exciting partnership opportunities (stay tuned for more info on these!)

Wyatt wrapped up our time together by giving a mind expanding talk on Friday—hashing out the granular technical aspects underlying the grand vision of Constellation to our entire team—who was able to ask questions and gain further clarity on the scope of what we’re building.

Engineering Update


- Our Schema was updated.  We are now using a generic Edge type, similar to the model in popular graph processing libraries like Pregel or GraphX. https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/constellation/pull/147

- We’re migrating to more granular edges for building up bundle partitions to eliminate some redundancies. This is based off the schema GraphX uses for Pregel programs. It presents everything as an edge, including transactions as an edge between two addresses, and distinguishes checkpoint edges (introduction of new data to the graph) from validation edges (re-verification and merging of separate partitions).  https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/constellation/issues/126

- The team is now working off of dev branch to stage changes properly before merging to master. They’ve also merged the download updates and fixes in preparation of dev testing, and are working on setting up separate testing environments in Kube. https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/constellation/tree/dev

- Open sourced the cache for the visualizer. https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/dashboard-server

- A number of additions were made to our wiki, and have much more comprehensive arch diagrams in the works. https://github.com/Constellation-Labs/constellation/wiki

Product Update

Breakdown of recent site and Orion updates:

- Added front end validation to the transaction approval process which lets transactions run more smoothly and reduces risks that a user inadvertently stakes more than DAG than intended.

- We added the ability to link Medium accounts to your Orion profile, which will let you participate in bounty rewards related to marketing.

- Updated transaction processing screens so that they auto-refresh to show transaction updates.

- Fixed some issues that arose after Metamask released updates.

- Small changes to copy and UI.


TechCrunch Disrupt Sponsorship


We have a couple of amazing new additions to our TechCrunch Disrupt panel.  Erika Perez, Global Leader of IBM Blockchain Strategy & Ecosystem, and Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, CMO of Mozilla will be joining the panel alongside previously announced Jacob Mullins, Partner at Shasta Ventures, and our very own COO Ben Jorgensen. See you on September 7th at 1.30pm PST.

Jascha believes in two key principles: Find opportunities where no one else is looking; And, never fail the same way twice. It’s a methodology centered around Agile marketing practices and marketing technology. Coupled with a B.A. in Psychology from Whittier College, it’s one that’s served him well professionally and personally. Prior to joining Mozilla, Jascha most recently served as CMO for BitTorrent, CMO for Mindjet, senior vice president of marketing and customer success at Involver and he previously headed Global Marketing for Webtrends.

 
Erika is responsible for developing and expanding IBM’s Blockchain ecosystem across all industries to accelerate enterprise adoption of Blockchain.  Working with a broad spectrum of Startups, ISV’s, GSI’s, and industry partners, Erika leads a business development team focused on building Blockchain networks based on the IBM Blockchain Platform.  Key to Erika’s charter is to develop and pivot on the business models and commercial vehicles to monetize Blockchain Networks.  Prior to her role in Blockchain, Erika led IBM’s Global charter for FinTech partnering with both Startups and Incumbent firms.  During her tenure at IBM, Erika has had multiple sales and leadership roles including her responsibility over clients such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and PayPal.

Our TC Disrupt ticket giveaway remains open through the 27th, so if you haven’t already done so, fill out your details on Orion for a chance to win one of five GA tickets to the event: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSca-JMW4QROl6MwMAbioN-o3sndMPLclsJopZgaC5ChR61pFw/viewform

We’re extremely excited to interact with our community on site and look forward to seeing you all there!

Constellation: Can blockchains ever move beyond economic models? VP of Engineering, Ryle, weighs in on Finder.com Australia’s premier crypto and financial outlet.             

Read more here:

https://www.finder.com.au/constellation-can-blockchains-ever-move-beyond-economic-models?utm_content=buffera73c0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer   

Head of Marketing, Zac, talks DAGs, Proof of Meme, and the future of the distributed ledger world with CoinCentral.         

Read more here:

   https://coincentral.com/exploring-dags-and-blockchain-scalability-issues-with-constellation-labs/?utm_campaign=explore-dags&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Constellation Labs is now a member of The Linux Foundation's Hyperledger.

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-announcement-constellation-joins-hyperledger/


and also listed now on Hitbtc

This is very important news. It's odd that this news went a little under the radar. Usually such news shows that technically the team works very well. From what im know in order to get into the Linux Foundation, you need to work hard and efficiently.
It remains to run the marketing program and promote the community and then there will be success.

A new exchange listing, Hyperledger membership, Engineering Updates, new TC Disrupt content, plus a recent MeetUp and future events in our most recent Constellation Update:         

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-hyperledger-hitbtc-news-eng-updates-tc-disrupt-video-and-meetups/

Constellation is approaching Distributed Ledger Technology differently. Learn about Wyatt (CTO) and Ryle's (VP of Engineering) unique vision for the future.   

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/our-vision-for-distributed-ledger-technology/

Exactly this moment did not like- Proof of Stake, while it addressed the wastefulness issue, it still has vulnerabilities. Smaller networks can still be easily attacked, and in terms of governance, it’s fundamentally anti-democratic. “We don’t run the world by trusting people just because they have money, right? That’s not Democratic. That’s not a governance solution" said Ryle.
That is, he believes that POW is better and he is more democratic. And there is nothing that 70% of the entire mining belongs to just a few companies and pools, and if they agree on what has already happened in the past, they can make any decision to take advantage of small players. Both badly need to be combined and sharply criticizing only one side is a bad taste in my opinion.
But you doing great work guys!

Constellation is a horizontally scalable, mobile friendly, transaction-free DAG ecosystem project that runs on a reputation-based delegate selection model. Constellation runs smart contracts as micro services, uses reputation-based consensus. Has the ability to run light nodes on mobile phones and other such devices and rewards for running nodes.

COO Ben shares his thoughts on the future of investment in cryptocurrency:

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/a-new-era-of-cryptocurrency-investment-is-upon-us/

We're hosting an LA MeetUp w/ Element Group! Join us on 10/18 for presentations by Constellation COO Ben Jorgensen and Element Group CEO Stan Miroshnik, followed by networking. Hope to see you there!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peer-to-peer-blockchain-mixer-tickets-51213824929

Our Head of Marketing, Zac, has been featured in DMN. Check out what he has to say about  marketing and hiring for the blockchain startup space.            

https://www.dmnews.com/data/blockchain/article/21025534/the-missing-link-in-blockchain

VP of Business Development, Benjamin Diggles, will be attending MOBI’s Colloquium this Friday in New Mexico. The event aims to promote and advance standards and accelerate adoption of blockchain, distributed ledger, and related technologies. MOBI will be livestreaming the event so be sure to tune in to learn more about MOBI and the future of mobility!

https://www.facebook.com/events/689334061448775/

An update from Engineering, BWSF+ Block-Con Recaps, Upcoming Events, and Recent Press all in this week's Constellation Update.

            https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/eng-news-event-roundup-recent-press/

2018 has been an exciting time for blockchain. In our latest blog, we take a look at the major trends of the year in the space, and how Constellation fits into them.             

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/trends-from-the-trenches/

COO Ben weighs in on the five obstacles we need to solve before blockchain technology can achieve true widespread adoption, as originally outlined by Deloitte.   

5 Reasons Why Blockchain Technology is Failing at Mass Consumer Adoption
https://medium.com/@benjorgensen/5-reasons-why-blockchain-technology-is-failing-at-mass-consu-8a7db71908a9

By 2020, 56% of large enterprises will adopt DLT and organizations are starting to see its value. Research found that blockchain technology's maturity will reach within 5-10 years and some will reach for 10 years or beyond. This just means that DLT has more room for improvement and advancement.

Read more here: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/hype-no-more-56-of-enterprises-plan-to-use-blockchain-by-2020/

helo,,
somebody can tell me where i can read the roadmap from constellation project, because i can't found it in the website
thank you

 An updated engineering roadmap will be released in the coming weeks! Join us on Discord and Telegram to keep up with the latest announcements:

Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/aPHNjcC

Telegram: https://t.me/constellationcommunity

They banned me for nothing, because I asked why there is no roadmap....

okay ,, thanks for your reply my friend
but i think the telegram link is incorrect mate, can fix it
thanks

do you really want to join the group? they despise the community, they ban all one who wants defend their investments. they don't care if you are a holder or not. if you talk , they ban you. take my example and read what I said... (where is the roadmap and aims?). I'm a holder and they ban me...

Constellation DAG is now on peer-to-peer trading network, Airswap. http://airswap.io/dag

Sorry about that! Here's the telegram link: https://t.me/constellationcommunity

Good thing that this one is still active. I thought that this is going nowhere as the OP has very minimal info. You can put those info from your website and some users here might find it useful. Seems that the dev team is still working behind the project.

Engineering and Airdrop updates, a look back at recent panels, a new exchange listing, upcoming events and more in this week's Constellation update.          

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-engineering-updates-panel-and-meetup-recaps-airdrop-4-updates-upcoming-events-recent-articles/

Wyatt (CTO) will be speaking at Hyperledger's MeetUp, “Distributed Ledgers and Big Data: Working with Data at Scale”. In his presentation, “Distributed Ledgers and Big Data: Tried and True Methods for Working with Data at Scale”, Wyatt will explore ways to use dynamic partitioning and locality sensitive hashing to achieve these goals, including how these approaches can be brought to the protocol layer and to the consensus model.

https://www.meetup.com/Hyperledger-SF/events/255407857

MOBI and Trusted IoT Alliance are running a four month grand challenge to showcase potential uses of Blockchain in mobility. Check out how Constellation is getting involved: https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-sponsors-mobi-grand-challenge/

Check out Blockhaven's in-depth review of Constellation. 

https://www.blockhaven.ca/releases/constellation-an-underrated-contender

Our Testnet has stabilized! Check out  our network stability update. https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/network-stability-update/

whats wrong with this alt
its down hard today,, the latest news didn't make any impact with the price
https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-testnet-stability-and-tokenomics-update-upcoming-events-engineering-updates-and-recent-press

Give our latest blog post a read to learn how Constellation verifies and validates transactions. https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/how-constellation-is-different-than-blockchain/

We recently sat down with Wyatt (CTO) to understand what fuels his underlying engineering ethos based around integrating natural law into Constellation - a revolutionary and unlike any other approach in the blockchain space.      

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/biomimicry-in-blockchain-how-constellations-design-is-based-on-natural-systems/

Check out Wyatt and Ryle’s talk from Scale By The Bay - “Optimizing Network Topologies with Monadic Execution Contexts”. In the talk, they discuss real issues in distributed systems recording data in an immutable append-only log in such a way that you cannot forge it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT5TjZGpajM

We are excited to announce that Constellation has partnered with The Blockchain University. We will be utilizing their blockchain certification platform to deploy the Constellation Ambassador Certification test.

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-partners-with-the-blockchain-university/

News about our token distribution & Airdrop 5, new video content, a partnership with The Blockchain University,  recent events & more in the latest Constellation Update.      

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-token-distribution-airdrop-5-the-blockchain-university-and-recent-events/

Check out this week's 'Constellation Industry News' series for a look at current articles surrounding #blockchain #DLT and #crypto.   

   https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-industry-news-update-12-3/

Altif (CCO) and Wyatt (CTO) discuss network partitioning - what it is, what it means for Constellation and some of the next steps on the ENG roadmap.      

https://youtu.be/AC36hqZFXl8

“One of the things that I’m most proud of from 2018 is what we did with HyperLedger so quickly. There’s not a lot of blockchain groups in the foundation, and we’re the first Directed Acyclic Graph. I think Constellation is doing a great job of forging a message and understanding around this architecture that is going to unlock a lot of opportunities.” - Benjamin Diggles, VP of Business Development

https://youtu.be/xdb-piHa7-U

We recently spoke with Constellation Ambassador Sebastian Spitzer about everything from where the mobility space stands today to where it is headed, and how blockchain and Constellation fits into it all. Read the full interview in our latest blog post!   

   https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-ambassador-interview-sebastian-spitzer/

Constellation 2018 Overview and Community Q&A with CEO Ben Jorgensen      

https://youtu.be/0wc6aLSaN5E

A new site coming, recent content, upcoming events & what to look out for next! Read all about it in our first newsletter of 2019.   

   https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-new-site-recent-content-upcoming-events-what-to-look-out-for/

Promising. Circle this one nooblets.

Getting into Crypto? Constellation's Benjamin Diggles takes you through setting up a wallet for his Blockchain For What project.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0HlK9to9MU

Check out this week's 'Constellation Industry News' series for a look at current articles surrounding #blockchain #DLT and #crypto.      https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-industry-news-update-1-14-19/

We're founding members of the Scalable Protocol Alliance, dedicated to enterprise adoption of DLT and integration across protocols. http://scalableprotocols.com/

We’re proud to announce the formation of the Scalable Protocol Alliance (SPA) which brings together leading blockchain protocols with the shared vision of building next-generation distributed ledger technology (DLT) focused on interoperability & cross protocol integrations.

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/spa-consortia-announcement/

The launch of the Scalable Protocol Alliance (SPA), news about our Ambassador program, updates from our Engineering team, upcoming events & more in our Constellation Update.      

https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-update-scalable-protocol-alliance-launch-ambassador-news-engineering-updates-upcoming-events-more/

Check out this week's 'Constellation Industry News' series for a look at current articles surrounding #blockchain #DLT and #crypto.      https://constellationlabs.io/blog/index.php/constellation-industry-news-update-1-22-19/

Our latest Constellation Update is now live on our blog. Read on for a note from our CEO,  an update from our engineering team, our new site unveiling, upcoming events and more:
https://constellationlabs.io/constellation-update-2-8-19/

seems another updates comes to your project
DAG in the first half of this year is purely focused on our B2B business/revenue model, what a nice step  ;)
https://constellationlabs.io/constellation-update-2-22-19-2

i see the last updates was at february 22, 2019 depends on https://medium.com/constellationlabs
then is this prpoject still alive ?
thanks

US Air Force Partners With Blockchain Firm to Automate Data Management

https://www.coindesk.com/us-air-force-partners-with-blockchain-firm-to-automate-data-management

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is making its way to the U.S. Air Force with a recent commercial partnership.

Blockchain firm Constellation yesterday announced a partnership with the U.S. Air Force to help automate the armed force branch’s big data management. According to a statement from Constellation, data sources like drones, planes, and satellites present unique use-cases for DLT. Constellation helps secure data silos from traditionally locked sources.

You can look at their twitter, they are very active there:

https://twitter.com/Conste11ation

When is the mainnet launch here? Do you have a comparison with other DAG projects (for example Vite, Fantom, Perlin)

Tradingview listed Constellation,$DAG price will go further after the mainnet swap with ParJar. the price is worth the double of the invested amount 2 weeks ago. The right choices always reward smart traders. The latest news regarding the partnership of the United States Air Force with this project will improve the analysis outcomes of blockchain big data management.

I saw that the founder Brendan Playford, the CEO & Founder of Constellation $DAG as left the project and I logically ask on telegram the reasons. This earned me an immediate ban.

I do not say it's a scam, but I have seen these methods of responding with banns only in shitcoins or scam projects.

The community is also very virulent, one of the worst I've ever seen...

Their only argument that they concluded a “deal” with Air Force, but advertisements and partnerships make not everything, like UnionPay with HPB or the British islands with LIFE, it does not prevent the project from dying.

But watch out with this "deal" they just joined a program like many other startups https://www.afsbirsttr.af.mil/

The news is oversold by the team, but the market never lies. It would be the partnership of the century but the project remains in microcap and this from years...

Personally, I prefer to remove everything from this project, too many redflags, we have no transparency on the team and the methods are worthy of dictator communism

I'll let you ask the question or make your own opinion or argue here.

Constellation (https://coincodex.com/crypto/constellation/) got ranked as one of the top coins to watch for this week, ranked by CoinCodex!

Read more:

https://coincodex.com/article/7936/top-3-coins-to-watch-270420-030520/