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Overview

Our mission is to accelerate the process of robotics innovation, enabling faster, cheaper, and easier robotics development and adoption by everyone.

In order to achieve this vision, we are contributing our robot Ohmni, consisting of a robotics repository, high level behavioral library, and modular components as the basis for an open robotics innovation platform.

We named the platform Kambria, after the Cambrian Explosion, 500 million years ago, when an accelerated evolutionary rate gave rise to biodiversity and abundance. We believe this platform will be the catalyst for a similar explosion in Robotics.

Technology

The Kambria Architecture is made up of five pillars: Codebase (KDNA), innovation marketplace, the manufacturing alliance, value capture, and legal protection. Each directly addresses the shortfalls of modern robotics and is designed to maximize the game theoretic incentives.

Interactions on the platform are facilitated by the Kambria Token (KAT), Maker Credit, and Kambria Karma. KAT is a native ERC20 utility token. Its main functions are to enable access to the Kambria platform, reward participation, and align incentives for all stakeholders in the ecosystem. As with any ERC20, KAT will be listed on exchanges and can be traded for other cryptocurrencies.

Maker Credit and Kambria Karma are not ERC20 tokens, but rather non-tradeable ledger entries for every wallet address. Karma is used to track actual work performed. It is also an incentive to promote useful work and is awarded for concrete contributions. Credit is similar to reward point or "cash back”. Its purpose is to stimulate transactions and spendings in the ecosystem.

Users Benefit from Kambria

• Increase innovation rate
• Large scale reuse and sharing of technology can reduce costs and make robots more affordable
• Robotics technology as a social good, accessible to everyone

Token Holder Perks Program

A large community of roboticists together is valuable resource. Based on this, the Kambria Foundation will negotiate and manage a perks program for all token holders, such as discounted access to makerspaces, coworking spaces, or parts/tools/supplies.

To participate in the program, you only need to hold a minimum of one KAT in a wallet and be able to validate ownership of that wallet. Subsequent tiers ($500+, etc.) will give you access to additional perks/discounts as the Foundation negotiate them. More details will be announced in the future.

Phases and Milestones

January 2018 - May 2018: Kambria Alpha

• Deploy key smart contracts on testnet.
• Have GitHub repos linkable to the testnet contracts.
• Open up OhmniLabs’ 3d printing and waterjet aluminum processes to ensure KDNA orders are fabricated into real world parts as fast as possible.
• Work with roboticists and groups around the world to start sharing KDNA and evolving the tools and processes as needed.
• Ohmni robots available to order as a base platform. Continue building out APIs and SDKs based on needs and engage other roboticists in guiding the development.
• Start initial bounties for add-ons, enhancements and other valuable technology contributions to Kambria. These may start off-chain and move to on-chain once the smart contracts are ready.

June 2018 - December 2018: Kambria Beta

• Open up smart contracts on mainnet.
• Open up major subcomponents of Ohmni with appropriate licensing transferred from OhmniLabs. Motor drives, touchscreen and display, USB, embedded system, battery charging, vision algorithms, etc.
• Be able to view these pieces (and those contributed by others) in the code base and remix/work on integrating them into new forms. Collaborate with other teams on demos showing what can be created.
• Receive real KDNA or fiat orders for these parts on the main chain and send back completed parts.
• Issue some initial real bounties on mainnet and start bringing the new technology into Kambria codebase for all to share.

Q1 2019: Full release

• Full release of Ohmni in the Kambria codebase. Entire KDNA and open for full remixing.
• All bounty systems and Dapps active, released, and usable.

Team

Thuc Vu - Co-Founder, CEO
Thuc is a serial entrepreneur, with multiple company acquisitions, the last one by Google. He has deep expertise in game theory, tournament design and multi-agent systems. He earned his PhD from Stanford and BS from Carnegie Mellon, both in computer science. Thuc is a social entrepreneur in Vietnam, involved in several community projects.

Jared Go - Co-Founder, CTO
Jared is an avid maker and roboticist, previously CTO and founding member at a networks startup. He has an extensive experience in blockchain, AI, real-time graphics, VR, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. Jared is a Stanford Graduate Fellow, and has a BS in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Tingxi Tan - Co-Founder
Tingxi has a background in cloud computing, network infrastructure and distributed system design. He has been active in Crypto Investment since 2010. He was responsible for building the global scale cloud infrastructure at a networks startup. He graduated from MSc Computer Science U of Calgary and BSc Applied Math Western University.

Manuela Veloso - AI & Robotics
Manuela Veloso is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She was the President of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI, IEEE, AAAS, and ACM. She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.

Dhana Pawar - Marketing
Dhana Pawar is seasoned business and product management executive. Launched award winning, innovative products with an emphasis on delighting consumers. She has led teams to develop compelling applications which led to strategic acquisitions and mergers. Her other expertise include product management, product strategy, end to end product development and partnerships.

Ned Semonite - Partnerships
Ned Semonite brings a wealth of experience as a seasoned product and marketing professional with over 25 years of experience in bringing innovative hi-tech products and services to enterprise and consumer markets. Mr. Semonite contributed significantly to the development of the videoconferencing industry. In his various past leadership roles, Ned worked to sign and develop telco channel partners, then rose through the organizations in a series of management roles including VP of product management, VP of engineering and EVP of worldwide marketing.


Advisory Board

Simon Seojoon Kim - Hashed
Simon Seojoon Kim is CEO and founding partner of Hashed, a leading crypto fund based in South Korea. He is a Blockchain evangelist and organizer of Hashed Lounge, a premier Blockchain Seoul meetup community. Prior to Hashed, Simon was a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded numerous companies. He served as Chief Product Officer at Knowre, an ed-tech startup that was named one of World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education by Fast Company.

Loi Luu - Kyber Network
Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON. Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente, the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain with KyberNetwork, taking inspiration and developing value for the community.

Karen Hsu - Blockcypher
Karen Hsu is the Head of Growth at BlockCypher. With over 20 years of experience in software applications and infrastructure, Karen is co-inventor for four patents and worked in a variety of engineering, marketing, and sales roles. At Siebel System, Informatica, Datameer and SugarCRM, she has led teams to bring new products to market. She has also worked closely with financial standards organizations, such as SWIFT, ACORD, and FpML.

George Li - Wetrust
George is an ex-Googler who previously co-founded CottonBrew, a Stanford StartX computer vision company. Prior, he held roles in Corporate Strategy and Infrastructure at Google, and was a consultant at McKinsey. He holds a M.S in Management Science Engineering from Stanford and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Eng from Rutgers.


Partners

• Carnergie Mellon University
• Intel RealSense Technology
• Humana
• AUTODESK
• Genesis Healthcare System
• Nanyang Technology University
• Stanford University

is there any bounty campaign sir ?

No, we don't have any bounty campaign at the moment.

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our founders, Thuc Vu and Jared Go, are giving a presentation at "Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference" today. Please come say hi If you are in Doha, Qatar!
"Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference" today. Please come say hi If you are in Doha, Qatar!

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Our CEO, Thuc Vu, will have a seminar at NTU, Singapore this Thursday 22 March 2018, 2pm, RRC Meeting Room (N3-01A-01). Please come join us if you are in Singapore!
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/cuong/seminars.html

Any details on date of token sale? Total supply? Price per token?
What different between Kambria and other project (Deepbrainchain, SingularityNET) ?
The project has mvp or not?

We haven't published any information about the Token Sale yet. Please join our telegram group (https://t.me/kambriaofficial) for future announcement.

Kambria is very different from DeepBrainChain and SingularityNET. Kambria is a decentralized open robotics and AI platform to accelerate the development and adoption of impactful robots. Robot developers will be the main users of our platform.

Regarding the MVP, we are very close to finishing the first version of the platform. This is also the reason why we haven't published any information about the token sale. The team want to focus on the development first at this point.

Good idea. This project will be popular. When will the project fully work?

We are on track to launch in Q2, 2018

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our MVP is released!!! Hurry up register for access to the test platform
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/kambria-progress-update-march-2018-23104143afd3

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follow us on Medium for official annoucement:
https://medium.com/@teamkambria

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thanks John

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Our CEO Thuc Vu had a podcast interview with Daniel Song from Asia VC Cast:
"This week's special guest is Thuc Vu from Kambria. His ambition is to bring robots into every home to create a positive impact in people's lives. His latest project Kambria - a decentralized AI and Robotics platform - is his next move to bring this goal one step closer to reality. Graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a BS and Stanford with a PhD, Thuc is a successful serial entrepreneur who has exited his previous companies to Google / Weeby.co and actively invests in early-stage startups in Vietnam to help grow the ecosystem.

Together, we attempt to lift the lid on two overlapping but distinct technologies of AI vs Robotics. And discuss the current challenges we are facing in the world of robotics and why solving them with blockchain & crypto-economics make sense."

Listen here: http://asiavccast.libsyn.com/ep-8-thuc-vu-from-ohmnilabs

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/asia-vc-cast/id1347869842?mt=2

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Kambria CEO, Thuc Vu, interviewed by Hashed Post
http://www.hashedpost.com/2018/04/eng-hashed-people-fueling-robotics.html

KAMBRIA's name is very unique
this is the first time I see a coin that has historical value and philosophy
I hope a lot with this project
hopefully what his mission can provide a lot of benefits for all users

What is your special things of your project?

Are there any news or release gonna be announced before end of this month?

we haven't published any information about the token sale yet. Please follow our channels for future announcements:
Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial
Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea
Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam
Telegram Announcement Channel: https://t.me/kambria
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork
Facebook: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaIO/
Medium: https://medium.com/@teamkambria

For more details about the private sale, please email us at info@kambria.io

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BitcoinExchangeGuide has published a very well written review on Kambria:
https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/kambria-ico-kat-token/

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another review on Kambria, this time it's from PickACrypto:
https://www.pickacrypto.com/coins/kambria-ico/

The project seems legit and authentic. The team has impressive background. Might deliver their objectives. Though you are not the first to have robotics and AI combined, but maybe you have the factors that can make this project successful. Good luck!

 Where can I get information about your partners ?

To date, nothing has changed? You still not planning to spend the bounty campaign?

Kambria has published monthly progress update for April
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/kambria-progress-update-springing-forward-cf57aacc5470

advertising in all directions. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3203316.0

Interesting to see words in action. Good luck with this project

Hi everyone, for the last few months we have been working on generalizing the concept and design of Kambria, taking in all the valuable feedback of our community. Today, we are very excited to unveil our vision for Kambria in the following Open Innovation Manifesto:
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/open-innovation-manifesto-d3ce79273e9f
This is the first one in a series of posts and papers we will release in the next few weeks to give you more details on our plan going forward.

Thank you again for your awesome support! All of us at Kambria are very excited to go on this journey with all of you to help make our world a better place.

Developing Robotics and AI is some kind of progress maker that will help shaping the future through robotics and AI.
I believe those 2 things is really important during the building process for the future.
I wish you a good luck KAMBRIA

Hi community!
Our developers team can help you if are interested :
-Blockchain builders (Masternode, pow, pos, variable rewards, superblocks, darksend,...)
-Block explorer
-Android wallet
-Web wallet
-IOS wallet
We are very experienced in many cryptocurrencies projects , so we can help you in all aspect.
If your team are interested, send us a PM

Regards, and good luck with your project.

Robotic and AI markets are futures markets with huge investments and huge turnover. It is unlikely that big players will want to share profits for the sake of the progress of human civilization in general.

How tokens will be used in robotics manufacture? I cant see any liquidity in tokens here of any benefits for investors.

This is really an impressive project. This is actually one of the very few project which looks it is organized and established well and back by a really good team. Hoping the best for the project and for the team.

Funding on robotics will be able to increase the robotic industry, and also it will also combined with AI.
The result will be incredible, and also the quality should be better with the funding.

The demand for robots is becoming more and more common in all areas of human life. KAMBRIA is the platform for accelerating robot innovation, enabling faster, cheaper, easier production. I think KAT will prosper if it can expand to other areas in the future ... I support the project!

I hope this crypto can really make the world a change. Everything will be a lot easier when we live in a robotics and AI technology. Nice project with great developers behind this token. Wishing you guys success

Crush Crypto review on Kambria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9M54dTe9Kk

judging by your road map, in June you should launch the beta version of the platform, is that so? are all your plans in place or are there changes?

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and it's all? only 2 pages of discussions, but there is no answer to questions from the manager, there is no news. it looks strange

Have you done your crowdsale plan yet? Will you have any bounty campaign for youtuber?

Hi everyone, we are happy to announce the strategic partnership between Kambria and Midas Protocol:
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/midas-protocol-kambria-56d8b42dec21

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ICO Alert had a robot office tour at Kambria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siqH2mmvOg4

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ICO Alert had a robot office tour at Kambria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siqH2mmvOg4

I think that this project has a future! Bounty planned?

Where i can find some information about your developers team? Sorry, but im not see this in your topic

Kambria .. this project looks very modern and fresh. As the times progressed, the kambria brought about a change of progress with technology that offered real positive benefits in people's lives. seeing from kambria trip, this project is very serious and prepared by team which I think is very great. I hope the kambria step will have a very positive impact. hopefully this project is successful and supported by everyone ..

Dear Kambria community, we are happy to announce a reduction of our hardcap from $25M to $19.9M
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/hard-cap-reduction-a7ee657503d3

im interested a lot in your project. All related with AI have a good future and be sure are promised. good luck. i stay tuned for new updates

While the idea, team, technical and business development progress are all above average, the nature of the project (robotics and AI) is still somewhat niche.

Please stay tuned for official announcement in the future!

In the meantime, please make sure to follow our different channels  by clicking on the links below

https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork
https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork
https://t.me/kambriaofficial
https://medium.com/@teamkambria

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Please go to our website (link below) and learn more about the Kambria Team!

https://kambria.io/#our-team

NEO Global Capital’s Roger Lim joins Kambria advisory board
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/welcome-mr-roger-lim-to-kambria-advisory-board-98518d8e19cc

Thank you. Keep supporting our project  :) . Any questions/suggestions u might have in mind are always welcome.

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AI and Robotics ERA is just starting. Join our journey in this great leap to enhance the experience of designing and producing robots that could be our aid in the near future. Feel free to join Kambria community in telegram at https://t.me/kambriaofficial and discuss everything about Kambria  :)

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Thank you! Links below will keep you updated with Kambria

website : https://kambria.io
Telegram Announcement Chanel : https://t.me/kambria
Telegram : https://t.me/kambriaofficial

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Sorry for the delays. The team is busy preparing everything :) We have just announced our strategic partnership with Midas protocol more than a week ago. This partnership will enable the integration of Midas Protocol Wallet into Kambria ecosystem. To know more about our partnership please click on the link  https://medium.com/@teamkambria/midas-protocol-kambria-56d8b42dec21 . We value your questions/suggestions/comments so just let us know.

The project expects a great future, a team of professionals in their field, have extensive experience and clearly know how to achieve their goals.keep it up and one thing your amazing.

You making robots? You have working prototypes already? And I cant understand, which role of tokens in your project?

Thank you! we appreciate your support  :) Pls stay tune for future announcements and join us on our telegram community at https://t.me/kambriaofficial .

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Our Founder started a robotics company in 2015 and with that being said he is very well aware of all the challenges in producing robot. Kambria platform is made for developers and designer to help them make better design easier and help make the production faster too. The Token which is ERC20 type can be used in the platform and can be traded too.  check out our white paper, link ( below ) Ohmni and it's specs are in page 35.

white paper : https://kambria.io/Kambria_White_Paper_v1.1.pdf

Indeed, we are already in the stage where robots and AI are working hand in hand to perform duties that can't be done by humans. But, still their capability relies on humans that built them. So the team might have great minds to endeavor this kind project. We will see their performance once kambria is a fully functioning platform already.

Thank you  :) you can keep tract of our progress by joining our telegram community (Links below ) and social media accounts. Updates and announcement will be posted there :)

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial
Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea
Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam
Telegram Announcement Channel: https://t.me/kambria
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork
Facebook: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial

this thread explains the advantages of following this project and also explains the composition of the activities in this project, what is the total supply of coins at ICO? and also does this project develop a bounty program?

Nice project in a sector called to lead the future. I will follow you. Good luck.

Total tokens : 5,000,000,000 . For bounty program please stay tuned for future announcement.  You can also join our community at telegram https://t.me/kambriaofficial
to stay up to date :)

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Thank you :) We appreciate your support . Below are the links to our social media accounts and telegram channel to keep you updated :)

 Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial
Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea
Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam
Telegram Announcement Channel: https://t.me/kambria
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork
Facebook: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial/
Email: info@kambria.io

But how your tokens will be used? Which utility of your token? And what advantages for investors in holding your tokens?

The utily of KAT token is fully explained on page 21 (2.5. Legal Protection Utility) please give this a read and let us know if you still have questions.
 

Thank you, I read this. But liquidity of your tokens very poor. Investors here for getting profit. And we must have good liquidiity and use of tokens for future.

I saw the YouTube video of the team showing the office with the robot, very impressive. Jared also had this to say
“Security includes developing security tools for the code but also around handling. What does the moderation process look like? Companies move fast and often overlook security but investing in security is really important."

here is the link to MIDAS PROTOCOL and KAMBRIA partnership article :) https://medium.com/@teamkambria/midas-protocol-kambria-56d8b42dec21

Updated information here:

https://kambria.io/#our-partners

Thanks for asking

Dear all, it is with great pleasure that we announce a strategic partnership between TomoChain and Kambria!
As part of this partnership, TomoChain CEO Long Vuong will join the Kambria's advisory board, and Dr. Thuc Vu will join the advisory board of TomoChain.
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/kambria-tomochain-partnership-announcement-1d51f50418a5

Amazing concept, a very interesting project   

An in-depth discussion about KambriaVote, an on-chain voting mechanism create for Kambria:
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/an-in-depth-look-at-kambriavote-e202476ee79f

Hey guys, in Robotics and AI it is a lot about superior technology and patents to secure the future of the project. What's the situation in that regard? Do you have anything at hand or are you just getting started? There are other projects with approved patents in this area.

I definitely consider that this project will have a huge success. Good active team. I wish you good luck devs!

Thank for update !!!

I really like robotics innovations development ICO's. I am sure the Ohmni robot will help us with lots of things. Good luck platform Kambria, i am sure you will be successful. Project Co-Founder and CEO Thuc Vu is very good at his work, i made some researches about him too..
 

Hello and thank you for your question.

Please remember Kambria is part of OhmniLabs, and since  2105 we have been working in this industry and managed to to build the best customizable and
programmable telepresence robot. We have been deploying 200+ worldwide, with diverse use cases and amazing user feedback.

As you can see, we've come a long way in the robotics industry and therefore our experience speaks for ourselves.

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!!!ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

This Friday, June 22nd between 10am to 12pm PDT, Jared Go, CTO of Kambria will be doing an AMA right on Telegram ( https://t.me/kambriaofficial ). Jared will be thrilled to answer all your questions. For Jared's profile visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredgo/

 

This project is great, I like the idea and the concept, I will continue to support in your project.

Dear Kambria Community,
Summer is here, and Kambria is getting hotter! We have made great progress on all fronts since our last update.
As usual, we want to give our community a recap on what we have achieved in the past month
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/kambria-progress-update-gearing-up-for-summer-a63a07527c86

speed up the process of innovation in the field of robotics - this is a very cool idea, but it is already going pretty quickly, and I would like to know, after the robots have replaced people and fired people? where will people work, what would you do with such a problem?

Thank you for your support :) Dont hesitate to come join our community. Link will be listed below

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial
Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea
Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam
Telegram Announcement Channel: https://t.me/kambria
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork
Facebook: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial/

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Thank you for bringing this up :) This project does not intent to replace people or fired them. This will enhance every human being lives with innovation. We people are the makers of cool and functional robots/machine that would cater to our needs (e.g. are the machines that is already out there and helping us out with our quick phased lifestyle  like the one u use to wash your clothes, cook, wash your dishes ect ) With Kambria we can all make it more advanced and cater our personal need to give us more time to spend on things and people that we truly love. Time efficient if u would :)

"Wash your clothes, cook, wash dishes" for washing clothes there is a washing machine, for cooking there are half-finished products, or do you want real robots like in the movie "I, the robot"? if so, how long can you show your results?

precisely :) what are your washing machine made of? MACHINES which can be improved and developed into a robot.  Now if your question is, are we aiming to build a robot like the one from the movie, my answer would be it is possible. endless possibility because with the use of our platform not only ideas are being shared but prototype as well and those design that have been made by other dev can be used again and improved.

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Emerging Robotics & AI industry pose great opportunities. Our platform will help revolutionize the development process & empower creators worldwide, when people reunite and collaborate together, the opportunities are countless. Regarding results, we are currently Building Kambria Beta version, during Q3 we will Release this version & Issue our tokens, while the Full Launch will be in Q2 - 2019; results are determined by the expectations set; therefore, we expect to see results through out the different stages. If you are talking about robots playing the world cup, o.k. that needs a bit more time ;)

Ok that is certainly the answer to my question :) Going to have a closer look at the resources you provide and may come back with questions.

Dear Kambria Community, We are launching a Kambria Stickers & GIF Design Contest! What better way to show some love for Kambria than with awesome GIFs and stickers? And who could possibly be better at designing them than our amazing community?!

Here is a quick summary of the contest:
Prizes:
1st place: 1,000 USD
2nd place: 500 USD
3rd place: 250 USD
4th-10th place: 100 USD each (700 USD total)
Prizes will be paid in ETH

Contest Period:
June 25, 2018 11:59 PM PDT to July 02, 2018 11:59 PM PDT

How to participate:
submit a Kambria logoed GIFs and/or Stickers as a Facebook comment under this post on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=181963159164430&id=116308369063243) along with #KambriaContestEntry during the Contest Period

Winner Selection:
On or around July 03, 2018, a panel of judges consisting of Kambria’s team members will select the top ten winners.

We can’t wait to see all your submissions!

Best of luck!

For more details about the official rules, please see the following blog post:
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/kambria-sticker-and-gif-design-contest-june-2018-official-rules-79fe2f75ab7f

I checked your website, your project looks very good . I saw that your project on many rating sites has a positive rating . I hope in this falling market of cryptocurrency you collect capitalization.  My best regards

Thank you! Keep supporting us :) Our gif and sticker making contest is now live. head over to https://t.me/kambriaofficial for more info. Prizes will be given to top 10 most creative entries according to their places on top 10 :)

We have just published the first post in our techincal mini series discussing the "Key Players in Kambria EcoSystem"
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/series-1-key-players-in-the-kambria-ecosystem-a2f20e13cd44

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Thanks Rowling Stone for the detailed review and for naming us "Sleeping Giant of the Week" :)
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/rowling-stone-kambria-sleeping-giant-of-the-week-e71201ca28f3

Great review of Kambria from 'Young and Investing', take a look:

https://youtu.be/a6t_vh-EeyA

Thank you Quinten!

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Congratulation to all the winners of our Sticker Contest!

Check the results at our Official Medium Post! (https://medium.com/@teamkambria/kambria-sticker-contest-winner-announcement-10e4321f16d9)

thanks Young and Investing for the review on Kambria:
https://youtu.be/a6t_vh-EeyA

Seems to be interesting, nice and promising project with a strong team to back it up. I am sure it will go heights.

Business Opportunities with Kambria’s AI & Robotics:
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/series-3a-business-opportunities-with-kambrias-ai-robotics-1a27a3ac7aaa

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Growing Technology Trees with Research Partners:
https://medium.com/@teamkambria/series-3b-growing-technology-trees-with-research-partners-299614037286

I've read your whitepaper, and that was really long and very descriptive whitepaper. This project will make a huge change on the ai and robotics industry. This future innovation to technology is easing a lot of engineering works. Like who is patient enough to create a technology that takes months years of planning and creating. And also you have a doubt that it will work or not. So this project is serious on eliminating this doubts. Cheers to the team. Hoping to collaborate to the team :)

Thank you very much for such positive feedback!

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Hello everyone  :)

We have just launched our Bounty Campaign to reward our supporters in ETH!  8) 8) 8)

To participate, simply register with our partner Bounty0x and then complete our bounties https://beta.bounty0x.io/hosts/Kambria

Help us spread the word about Kambria!

Real World Blockchain with Quoine, WeTrust, and Kambria:
https://www.facebook.com/events/262442317676730

like his robot lovers should join project KAMBRIA because they carry about a robotic project I think it later can work together

we have published a blog post discussing how Kambria's open innovation platform can help reshaping the future of healthcare. Please check it out and we would love to hear feedbacks from the community!
https://bit.ly/2NJAXOV

hey, i saw on 0x the bounty you guys are hosting, i was wandering what exactly does this mean ?

‘Attention: Submitting multiple submission content throughout multiple Kambria bounties is not allowed, and will disqualify you from all.‘

 I’ve written a lengthy and well thought out review and  posted it on a platform of my choice, as your bounty states that bounty hunters get two submissions i want to post the same review on another, different, platform and submit it again but will it count as ‘ Submitting multiple submission content throughout multiple Kambria bounties’ ?

by the way, absolutely love the concept of Kambria, really really awesome project !

when will tokens  be distributed
include pre-sale?

when will bounty hunters be paid their eth?

Friends don't worry, you can go to travel first, you will find that you are bankrupt after you come back.😄

Great campaign i found on Bounty0x. Kambria glad to join this community 😃

With so much development around using AI to help improve our educational system, one big question is what will its impact be on the very nature of how we educate. How will our interactions with students change if we start relying more heavily on high-tech educational resources?
For more details, please read our full post here: https://bit.ly/2vtIaLJ

Why would anyone reward you if you copy/paste the article two places? All content should be original.

Kambria is a platform for the development of Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence.

The members of the team are experts in their fields, and the project has already received excellent publicity from authoritative media outlets like CNN, Forbes, and TechCrunch.

Check out the review of the project by clicking on the picture below:

https://i.imgur.com/arcfIpv.png/ (https://icoshock.com/kambria-ico-review/)

In the past month, we made huge strides on both development and marketing. For more details, please see our July Progress Update:
https://bit.ly/2nhZ4ZQ

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New technology in automation, sensors, and AI promises to solve transportation’s critical problems while simultaneously creating a more efficient and data-driven ecosystem. How will the adoption of frontier technology contribute to the reimagining of the movement of people and goods and how can Kambria speed up the process of adopting impactful technology? For more details, please see the blog post below:
https://bit.ly/2w8nucn

​I'm bullish on the long-term prospect of the project. Many companies would like to incorporate robotics in their operations but shy away because of the high initial setup and recruiting costs. With Kambria, any company is able to develop and produce robots with much lower costs. If the team is able to attract developers, manufacturers and companies to generate the network effect and gain traction, the potential can be substantial.

The traditional development processes used by robot companies lead to costly production, effectively isolating the everyday consumer market.

Hi everyone! Quick update as it's been a while since we've posted in here. We have been working diligently on getting our platform developed, and we are excited to announce that we've had a soft-launch of our platform!

I will leave the link below to our Kambria Website with the video to our soft-launch event where our CEO Dr. Thuc Vu goes over the details of our Open Innovation Platform! I will be compiling a list of resources for you all to checkout over the next few days, so keep an eye on our channel here for more information. Thank you!

-Kambria CMs

Be sure to click "Kambria Launch Video" and "Panel Discussion Video" https://events.kambria.io/launch

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That is certainly the goal. When we build a development community across the globe, people will be able to collaborate and host bounties, thus incentivizing and promoting innovation. Great things can, and will, be accomplished!

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Join us tomorrow evening on Telegram!

October 24th -- AMA with Kambria Advisor and TomoChain Founder, Long Vuong, on our Telegram Channel

Join us on Wednesday at 8:00 pm Pacific for an AMA with TomoChain Founder, Long Vuong. Bring your questions!

https://t.me/kambriaofficial

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Just find this project after I saw partnership with Tomochain. You dont have ICO or its finiched already? And I cant find tokens as well ...  ???

Hey! Yes, we love TomoChain as well. The token sale and release of the tokens have been pushed back until market conditions are more favorable, which I'm sure most people can understand. The last thing we wanted is to put our token holders in a bad position during such tumultuous times, but do not fear, we will have more information concerning the token sale very soon! I look forward to hearing more great questions about it. Also, feel free to join our Global Telegram channel, where we have live discussion going 24/7. I will update this channel the moment I have more news concerning this.

Don't forget to stop by and participate in our TomoChain AMA with TomoChain Founder, Long Vuong! It's at 8 PM Pacific Time (GMT -7)

Thank you for your continued patience.

Regards!

-Kambria CMs

Global Telegram (https://t.me/kambriaofficial)

Website: https://kambria.io/

Whitepaper: http://bit.ly/2JbuET7

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial

Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea

Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kambria/

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial/

Medium (ENG): https://medium.com/kambria-network

Medium (CHN): https://Medium.com/kambriachina

Steemit: https://steemit.com/@kambrianetwork

Weibo (CHN): https://www.weibo.com/kambriachina

Email: info@kambria.io

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Here is a great article written by CryptoShowdown, a Huobi Global Contributor, about Kambria's Open Innovation Platform, which we soft-launched on September 26, 2018. Check it out!

https://medium.com/swlh/kambria-creating-a-new-paradigm-by-launching-an-open-innovation-ai-and-robotics-platform-39cc0980dc25

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From an article on our Medium Channel (https://medium.com/kambria-network/unpacking-the-our-whitepaper-e7944c080fe1), and a discussion we had in Telegram (http://t.me/kambriaofficial):








This week, one of our Telegram channel members asked a question about the Kambria Platform (http://kambria.io) based on what he read in our whitepaper.

Question

“Hey guys. I had a question about the whitepaper. This ecosystem seems largely dependent on "expert judges" to decide when a bounty has been earned. Are there judges identified already, or a pool of suitable expertise on hand to perform this role?

“Also, what would happen if the appointed judges couldn't agree on the outcome or were unable to approve the bounty. Would the smart contract need to have certain clauses?”

Answer By Dr. Thuc Vu, Kambria’s CEO

“We have a pool of AI and Robotics experts ready to become the judges. These are the independent experts we carefully curated from our network. [OhmniLabs], in the beginning, will play a role in this as well since we already gained deep expertise of the entire robotics tech stack.

“We are writing a yellow paper on the judging protocol and will share the draft and code with you soon. One more thing to keep in mind is that the bounty format will [be] tournament style as well, so multiple stages, not just one. Teams will progress through ideation, to prototyping, to production and earn rewards along the way.

“You can think of the judges as a proxy of the community. If they cannot reach an agreement, we'll open up to the larger community to vote. In the worst case, if there is no winner for any round, the remaining bounty will go back to the proposer, but at least we will have materials to build upon from the previous rounds.”

We understand that whitepapers can be jam-packed with complex information that may require clarity, so we want to give you a platform to ask the tough questions. What other questions to do you have about our whitepaper that we can answer? Jump into Telegram  (http://t.me/kambriaofficial)(or BitcoinTalk!) and ask us there!

The Kambria Team

Source: https://medium.com/kambria-network/unpacking-the-our-whitepaper-e7944c080fe1

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Update! We had a great AMA last night with TomoChain Founder Long Vuong! Here's the recap: http://bit.ly/2D2K24j

At the same time, in DC, OhmniLabs and Kambria were hosting a small dinner with representatives from Capital One, Microsoft, Engine, Consumer Technology Association, R Street Institute (libertarian think tank focusing on free market), University of Colorado Denver, and also the reigning Miss DC (who is a developer for Microsoft Azure and women in STEM advocate). We had a great time discussing about how to promote more open source innovation and sharing about what we are working on with OhmniLabs and Kambria to push robotics and AI development forward!

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We also have a new Kambria Team Spotlight series going on. Here's the latest: (Link below)

 ;D We are so proud of Kambria’s amazing team around the globe. Over the next few weeks, we will spotlight our leadership team to share a bit why they are so passionate about Kambria and developing a community. Please meet Son Tu, Kambria's Blockchain Developer. We hope you enjoy it! http://bit.ly/2D4sXH2

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Looking normal for this kind of project, the question is whether it is able to survive this kind of situation? the team must be more serious if you want to develop this project so that it can look better someday.

Yet another fantastic article by LindaCrypto featuring Kambria! Bravo!

How losing your job to a robot can actually be a good thing by LindaCrypto

 https://link.medium.com/HGrT7DD9kR

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Hey! Thanks for the feedback, though, I don't quite understand what you mean. Survive what kind of situation? I can assure you the team is very serious. We have a full dedicated staff working on Kambria, hosting events across the globe while continuously developing our Open Innovation Platform. We soft-launched the platform before we even began our public token sale! We love what we do! We'd love to chat more about this. Please, any questions you may have, leave them here.

Cheers!

So there is no exact date of token sale? Your tokens will be builded on Ethereum blockchain or Tomochain or you will have own blockchain?

Robot is the technology for the future. The idea of KAMBRIA project has foreseen the future. The project also shares measures to accelerate the robot renewal process, allowing faster, cheaper and applicable by everyone. Minimum conditions to be able to join the Kambria platform?

Hey! We will be announcing the terms of our pre-sale in the very near future, including dates. We are currently being built on Ethereum, but I'd like to let you know that we are actually blockchain agnostic, and if ETH becomes unusable for our usecase, then we will move to another blockchain or build our own. Tomochain will assist in helping scale ETH and making it more usable :D

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Great feedback, thank you!
Do you mean to join the token sale, or to join as a contributor on the Open Innovation Platform as a developer or other contributor?

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Kambria in the news! We are proud to have such a great relationship with IDEAS and Stanford University!
Read more: https://www.prweb.com/releases/kambria_partners_with_ideas_to_bring_global_hackathon_to_stanford_university/prweb15868007.htm

Kambria Partners with IDEAS to Bring Global Hackathon to Stanford University

Global Hackathon Event at Stanford University - This free event will have a data analytics focus and is an open invitation to developers, startups and investors to collaborate on industry trends, real-world applications, open source software and solutions-based case studies.

"The Kambria team’s main focus is bringing forth innovation in an exponential manner and providing value to multiple audiences around the world" Dr. Thuc Vu, CEO and co-founder."

Kambria (https://www.kambria.io), the “first-ever” open innovation blockchain platform that enables and incentivizes collaboration in
R & D, manufacturing, and commercialization of advanced technology, is excited to host the Global Blockchain & Data Analytics Hackathon at Stanford University on October 28th and 29th. This is the second event in their partnership with International Data Engineering and Science Association (IDEAS) to host hackathons at major universities in the US and an important part of Kambria’s effort to support the developer community. The Kambria team will be working with data science experts to present problems to hackathon competitors related to building APIs for personalization in retail, including personalized promotions, cross-selling and upselling. Participants will have the opportunity to share and demonstrate their cutting edge technologies and startups can pitch their solutions to top global investors.

Solo developers, coders and startup teams in data analytics and blockchain are welcome and encouraged to participate in this event. Coding and developer teams will have two days to hack a project together with their team and compete for prizes. Startups will be pitching their big ideas to 10+ top venture capital investors. Previous events have attracted more than 500 attendees with 50+ teams participating.

"We are thrilled to partner with IDEAS and host a hackathon focused on data science, as it supports our core values of growing the development community and accelerating technological advancements,” said Dr. Thuc Vu, Kambria’s CEO and co-founder. “The Kambria team’s main focus is bringing forth innovation in an exponential manner and providing value to multiple audiences around the world. Kambria will be holding additional data analytics and blockchain hackathon events in November and December in NYC and Austin, Texas.”

Tech support for this event will be provided by IBM. For more information and to register a team please go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-global-blockchain-data-analytics-hackathon-at-stanford-university-tickets-49578195718.

About Kambria
Founded in 2017 by the team at OhmniLabs (https://ohmnilabs.com), Kambria is an open innovation platform to enable and incentivize collaborations in R&D, manufacturing and commercialization of advanced technology. Kambria’s mission is to enable faster, cheaper, and easier development and adoption of technologies. The founders named the platform Kambria after the Cambrian Explosion 500 million years ago, when an accelerated evolutionary rate gave rise to biodiversity and abundance. They believe the Kambria platform will be the catalyst for a similar explosion in the adoption of frontier technology. For more information, please visit https://www.kambria.io.

Media Contact
pr@kambria.io

About IDEAS Global Blockchain & Data Analytics Hackathon
Our goal is to create a data engineering and science developer community. The Global Blockchain & Data Analytics Hackathon contains competitions across the U.S. in two major technologies: blockchain and data analytics. All competitors will demonstrate cutting-edge technology and cover diverse topics including industry trends, real world applications, open source software, solution-based case studies and many others.

Robotics is a promising, developing industry. Interesting name of the project. But what about the team? I think on the site you need to add links to the accounts of team members in the network LinkedIn. For investors and bounty hunters, it is important to study the history of the team.

That is great feedback, thank you. I am sending this up for review. So, more on our team:

The founding team for Kambria is the same team for OhmniLabs, which was created in 2015 to create a telepresence robot for people's homes and in healthcare. You can find the website and team here: https://ohmnilabs.com/team

Here is a brief description from the OhmniLabs website: "OhmniLabs makes useful and affordable robots that bring people together. Our robots enable shared experiences that are delightful, engaging and spontaneous - far beyond what video calls can provide. Our state of the art robot provides an unprecedented emotional connection, while allowing for interaction in a way that no existing tool can match. Ohmnilabs robots are made in the USA using lean and scalable manufacturing via 3D printing to enable rapid and low cost products. Our founding team is composed of technical experts from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and Google and experienced entrepreneurs who have grown and sold companies in the past."

CEO and Co-founder Dr. Thuc Vu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thucvu/

CTO and Co-founder Jared Go: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredgo/

COO Dr. Tra Vu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travu/

I invite you to check out the rest of the team page for LinkedIn as well while I see about adding it to our website. Please, if you have any more questions, ask them here!

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/v2/?facetCurrentCompany=%5B%2218469073%22%5D

But why you have partnership with Tomochain if you are not going to build tokens on their blockchain? What main gola in your partnerships than?

Special Announcement!

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We are pleased to announce an exclusive event that Kambria is hosting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Wednesday, November 14th, 2018! We will be hosting a number of established and well-known blockchain investors and entrepreneurs. Our CEO Dr. Thuc Vu will have a fireside chat with Joe Lonsdale, followed by a panel discussion that will focus on important topics, such as how corporations can utilize bleeding-edge technologies in their own businesses. We would like to invite all of you to join us via livestream! We are excited to be a part of building this community for broad social impact. You can find the link in the Medium post below. Thank you for all of your support!



https://medium.com/kambria-network/you-are-cordially-invited-to-a-special-gathering-c34d3850b742

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The community asked TomoChain CEO Long Vuong a very similar question in the AMA. I will link you to the recap here: https://medium.com/kambria-network/ama-with-long-vuong-ceo-and-founder-of-tomochain-10-24-2018-9b8678dcb624

Here was the dialogue:

Can you be more specific in your relationship with Kambria? How will the two companies work together? Any potential examples?

Long: I love what Kambria is doing with Robotics, and AI. The core team is brilliant and hard-working, and I think with the right framework, Kambria can attract a lot of talent, and good projects globally working on cutting-edge technologies such as Big data, Robotics, IOT, new Financial services, etc. Tomochain wants to participate in the ecosystem, offer a permissionless financial system that projects in the Kambria community can take advantage of. We can also co-fund promising projects in the future.

[Moderator] You can also read more about the partnership between TomoChain and Kambria in the following article. We are very proud to have TomoChain as our strategic partner! https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambria-tomochain-partnership-announcement-1d51f50418a5

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❓ Did you know? ❓ Kambria is now on Steemit! We have an active account, and we invite you to folow us on Steemit! Here's an article we recently posted about our incredible event we are hosting in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday, November 14th! We have a heavy-hitting lineup attending the event, and we are thrilled to be broadcasting the entire event on livestream. You do not want to miss this! Tune-in as Kambria hosts some of the most important names in blockchain and technology.

https://steemit.com/investors/@kambrianetwork/you-are-cordially-invited-to-a-special-gathering

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AMA with Jared Go, Kambria Co-Founder & CTO

Please join us for a one-hour Ask-Me-Anything session with Kambria’s Co-Founder & CTO Jared Go on Kambria official Telegram channel https://t.me/KambriaOfficial on Tuesday October 30th 5PM PST.

✔️ About Jared Go
Jared is an avid maker and roboticist, previously CTO and founding member at a networks startup. He has an extensive experience in blockchain, AI, real-time graphics, VR, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. Jared is a Stanford Graduate Fellow, and has a BS in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

✔️ About Kambria
Kambria is an open innovation blockchain project that enables and incentivizes collaboration in R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization of advanced technology. We are developing our own public chain with protocols uniquely designed to address the current waste and inefficiencies in today’s innovation model. Kambria will allow for many verticals, including Biotech, Space, and Autonomous Vehicles, to be developed and thrive in the ecosystem. We are focusing first on the AI and Robotics vertical with the backing of our well-established robotics company, OhmniLabs. Through existing partnerships with top universities and large international corporations, as well as access to talented developers, we aim to build an ecosystem that can bring the next wave of frontier technology to provide value to billions of people around the world.

More info at: kambria.io

We can't wait to see everyone's questions!

I thought you will have tokens on Tomochain blockchain. I like this project (Tomo) very much and I think they will have a good blockchain (maiinet in just about one mounth later). So it would be nice to have your project at Tomo blockchain (like this made RedPulse - they were first project on Neo blockchain and they are were very succesfull.)

We also love TomoChain  ;D Long Vuong is a very trusted and close advisor to Kambria. We are actually blockchain agnostic, so if our current implementation cannot scale, we are open to moving to another chain. We love innovation at its core, so we keep an open mind.

Cheers

-William@Kambria

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Thank you to all of the Kambrians who participated in our AMA with Kambria CTO, Jared Go. Jared is one of the community’s favorite guests because he provides such detailed answers. Below is a summary of our conversation. For clarity, the original text has been lightly edited for grammar and spelling.

If you could not catch the AMA live, please post your question in our main Telegram channel. The team will get back to you quickly.

Hi Jared. What is the plan to attract experienced blockchain developers who also understand the AI world? Experienced devs are getting scarce.

Great question. I think we’ve already built a fairly strong blockchain team but are always looking for good devs to participate in Kambria. But to participate you don’t need to be a blockchain dev alone — we have firmware engineers, mechanical engineers, software engineers, embedded systems people, AI, and deep learning folks, etc. all collaborating together. That’s really the heart of Kambria and our vision for the community — bringing together people across disciplines with various expertise because some of the hardest problems to solve in the world need cross-disciplinary collaboration.

I think as Kambria and the community grow, we will continue to attract top devs who just want to get stuff done and stop reinventing the wheel all of the time. Those who want to build off of all the good stuff out there, just like no one rewrites Linux to launch a new webapp.

Our hope is that together we make such a compelling, easy-to-use, and affordable set of technologies in robotics and a few other verticals, that companies and entrepreneurs and individuals just start there. Great question!

As there is not much competition for Kambria in robotics and Al in the world, do you think Kambria will benefit?

There is absolutely a huge opportunity and a need for this. Just this week we had a bunch of meetings with professors from Lehigh and other schools interested in working with Kambria. I think we are here at the right time and the right place to really make a difference. The story a professor told me was that it took them 2 years to make their robot base and tablet, and only then could they start doing their human-robot interaction research.

When I described what we are trying to do she was blown away and talked about how useful that was. She had to manually go and buy another really bad cheap arm and cut it apart and spend all this time putting it back together to do what they wanted to do. With Kambria we want to stop reinventing the wheel all the time and make maximum forward progress together.

[Moderator] Here is picture and video from Lehigh’s visit to our office. Lower right corner is Jared controlling the robot arms with VR. https://www.instagram.com/p/BpGihk0Am7q/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=s3ijo9jze54

How much time will it take Kambria to make itself known as the best robotics company?

It’s hard to say, but I think Kambria can have a huge impact quickly in a few years. We will depend on an awesome community like you to really help bootstrap and keep bringing in other interested groups and projects and being active participants.

I really believe in the open collaboration model beating out closed innovation.

Do you have companies lined up and ready to utilize the platform? I understand the theoretical benefits of an open platform. It would be reassuring to know real companies are waiting in the wings and wanting to use Kambria.

We do have companies lined up and ready to participate. For example, we have a large partner that is interested in doing a large deal on a particular vertical on Kambria, bringing hackathons and innovative ideas to their development pipeline. Our goal is to incubate some of the technologies and put them together into an easy to use form, i.e. a really good robotics platform, etc. And we have other large companies already thinking about applying robotics to their own vertical, i.e. cleaning services, hospital monitoring, etc.

The interesting thing is that many of these aren’t traditional robotics companies, they’re companies that have a particular vertical and existing line of business and want to explore how to use robotics in that business. That’s the perfect target for initial Kambria users as they need the help of Kambria tech and community to get what they want completed as fast as possible.

So we think of it like your business of today + our robotics tech and community = your transformed business of the future.

That’s our pitch for a lot of these large companies. We also have a bunch that want to execute on R&D projects faster and better. So far the response has been really great.

How does the value of KAT appreciate? Do they become more scarce (how would that happen)? There’s obviously bounties paid in KAT up for grabs. However, how would a token holder benefit from holding and buying these tokens?

KAT is used as a game theoretic utility token to incentivize people to contribute technology and be rewarded. Our goal is to use the token to track and facilitate contributions and real value added to Kambria (for example, sponsoring a project, completing a bounty, winning a tech competition, contributing some tech that someone else buys/commercializes, etc.)

As companies license tech out of Kambria to commercialize, we can burn tokens as part of the license fee they pay and also give the people whose projects contributed to the commercialization a bonus of the tokens. We really want to make sure the people putting in work are rewarded on top of the pride they get from engineering and making awesome stuff.

As a developer, what’s the benefits of using Kambria over other projects such as Watson? Why would I consider using a platform that has token economics over anther than one that doesn’t?

Hi Jen! First of all, Kambria is not the same as Watson. Watson is basically a set of web APIs to do a few different recognition and other tasks. That’s about it. There’s nothing about making a robot, getting plastic or metal made, moving motors and arms, etc. So basically if you give someone Watson APIs and then make a robot to look for stuff in the kitchen, then you are still at square one with the robot part.

The whole point of Kambria is to make the stuff that’s hard (design a robot? motor controllers? display? sensors? arms? web control? navigation algorithms? etc.) all together as ready working high tech systems and platforms but that are open enough such that they are easy to modify to do what you need — rather than like — oh, this platform is so close but DANG, I can’t control the motor how I like so I need to start from scratch.

So Kambria is actually a lot larger vision than Watson, I believe. Watson may be an API that you can use from a Kambria robot, but Kambria is way more than just web APIs. Hope that helps!

Can you provide a little insight about what sparked Thuc and yourself to come up with the idea for OhmniLabs and your telepresence robots?

Sure thing! The interesting thing for both of us was first to get together and think about how to help with long-term positive change for society. Being technologists, we believe in the promise of robotics long term to improve the quality of life for everyone, everywhere. But looking at the many failed promises for decades we knew we had to be careful and do things differently.

Also, initially starting as software folks, we thought that we needed to reinvent a new way to develop and also produce robots — a way that’s more flexible and cost-effective so that the entire robot development pipeline can be much cheaper and things can be tried and explored at 1/10 or 1/50th the cost.

To start, we chose one of the few initial applications we thought added value in homes, etc. to everyday people, which was telepresence to connect families. From that, we found several related verticals that showed strong adoption, for example, senior care and stay-at-home kids who can’t attend school in person.

Selling a product like this and not just being an R&D robotics company forces you to be ultra-disciplined. Probably unlike any blockchain company out there, we run production, shifts, material sourcing, support, etc., every single day with our lean team. We wanted to see the whole thing end-to-end to make sure we understand the entire value chain for robotics and can use that to help other people do their own development faster and better.

[Moderator] Jared spoke in this podcast about what inspired Kambria. Hope you can check it out! https://medium.com/kambria-network/what-inspired-kambria-ff0b4a0ab304

A follow-up question to this — how do you and other founding team members know each other?

Basically, Thuc and I have known each other since 2001. We were roommates at Carnegie Mellon undergrad in Computer Science. We did a ton of robotics research together, robosoccer, doing multiagent systems for teams of unreal tournament bots that play capture the flag and a whole lot of other things.

After that, we both went to Stanford for our Ph.D. in CS. Thuc went for game theory + AI and I went for graphics. Thuc finished and started a company with his professor that got acquired by Google. I left the Ph.D. program for a different startup where I was CTO and got into a lot more hardware stuff. From that, I got more into making, 3d printing, electronics, everything end-to-end. Then we reconnected later and wanted to work together again.

Tingxi is my really close friend from that last company; he was engineering director when I was CTO. We worked really well together. He did a ton of grid computing, backend stuff, etc. so it was a good fit.

BTW, a piece of advice for any other entrepreneurs doing hardware…I feel like 3 is a good number for founders. There are just SO many things to tackle in hardware that I couldn’t imagine only 2 of us or even (eep!) a solo founder. We all have a ton of fun every day together.

I notice you worked at Microsoft. What did you do there?

At Microsoft, I was on the Windows UI team. I wrote some of the controls for the Viewbox, part of the new .NET stuff at the time that was going into Vista and later Windows 7. I also wrote some really cool exploded 3d views where you can take any app UI and deconstruct all the layers in 3D. That was for fun/bonus work! :)

What roadblocks did you encounter that caused the team to feel a responsibility to launch Kambria’s Open Innovation Platform?

This is a really interesting question. There are SO many things in hardware and software and putting them together that are challenging. For example, think of the simplest thing: building a good and safe charging system for a robot. You can go to AliExpress and maybe buy a lithium battery charger board. But then you need to source your own battery and make sure the chemistry matches. You can buy a battery pack, too, but maybe it’s for an ebike and too heavy or too large for you. Now you find one, you need to find a good balancing charger. You look for one and realize most are all wall powered. You need to plug it in and press buttons, you can’t use it unattended. Then you also want to make it safe charging. How are you going to put some circuitry on top of all of this? So you now have to go and design our cool magdock system from scratch. Magnetic contacts of particular stainless steel allow ultra compliant contacts so you never scratch/damage the dock or the robot, safe charging to only turn on when the bot is touching.

BUT now look at what happened. Being able to safe charge a robot is not (necessarily) the most key differentiator of all the different things that go into say a telepresence robot, but we had to spend R&D time and effort. (By the way, I think our system is pretty darn awesome!)

But now if company B wants to make that, they go and repeat the whole thing. It’s much better if we can share and get some value out of it, right? If they reward us for the design/tech in a way that doesn’t take too much overhead for us to share and we can get a bit out of it and they have a charger they can use now, it’s a win-win. THAT is the spirit of open tech in Kambria — eliminate all these oodles of redundant work, finding vendors for things, finding what good parts are to use, how to combine them, etc.

If we all have more common ways of interchanging these designs and getting them made, we can all collaborate more and reuse more. And with the financial incentive model/reward model, people can actually take a bit more time to clean up and share their work and get rewarded for it.

Now, consider the same case except that Ohmni needed to design and build our own HDMI + USB touchscreen, our own mic system, our own motor controller boards, and drives, etc. You can see how much work stacks up. You just can’t find those good, open designs ready to go and be made online, again because today there is no incentive. We will bring and put together all this at your fingertips.

In terms of technology, what are the key challenges for you as you are trying to build the Kambria platform?

Really great question. Mature blockchains is always a challenge. It’s a moving target but we are optimistic and it’s good to be an early mover here. I still really like what the ethereum team is doing overall and there are lots of other good ideas out there. I feel that these are all very solvable problems and we’ll have scalable, cheap blockchains fairly soon for many different applications.

For us, we are working really hard to grow three things — content, community, and contributions (i.e. sponsorships, large companies putting in bounties, etc.) Each has its own challenges but I think we’re learning a ton every day and really reaching hearts and minds.

We have a lot of people who really want to contribute content or want to use content (i.e. a good cheap arm, etc.). And we are working hard to grow the community with folks like you and also in various sectors like various expertise in robotics, etc. Contributions we are lining up — universities and corporations that want to participate in open innovation or robotics/AI tech. So I think we’re making some good progress pushing on all fronts at once.

How does the company handle disputes?

For disputes like tech ownership, our goal is to make sure the community as a whole can protect itself. We want to make sure no company can come along and try and patent all the work going into Kambria, for example. And we think we have a good strategy for that, a mix of publishing prior art clearly and stamping it on-chain if needed, and a way for the community to crowdfund action against bad actors trying to cheat the community. I think this can be the basis for protection for projects that are way stronger than anything being done today.

There will also be nominated experts and judges as well from the community who can help weigh in on events, for example, about tech ownership or other issues, such as if someone uploaded a copy of some other code versus authoring it originally. I plan to do a lot of this cleaning and triage work early on.

What are some of the blockers and limitations you find with the current state of the tech?

Great question! It’s all about predictability and speed. I was actually at SF Blockchain Week speaking on a panel about developer tools. For example, the first time you use some Dapps, you probably feel a bit…uncertain, right, because the metaphor is so different. You click the button and then wait and…wait and…check etherscan…why is my transaction not pending…etc. Did it go through? Is the gas price right?

So we need good UX/UI encapsulations as well to give users understanding and comfort + expectations. Faster/more scalable chains also help. I’m not a huge fan of delegated authority systems because as already shown in some cases, humans will collaborate to try and cheat systems if they can. So I think it’s a lot about developer tools (i.e. you need an etherscan, you need an eth gas station, all are a must to actually use or develop eth stuff), about user experience, and about blockchain maturity/scalability. Those are the three key areas I would push on to really keep getting more and more adoption and to bring crypto and tokens to the mainstream.

What are your thoughts on the scalability issue of blockchain?

I think this will be solved sooner than people think to at least get to the “next level” of applications that can be built. Of course, from then on it’s always a race as usage goes up, but I think people are pursuing the right research and the right directions with sharding, reducing energy usage with proof of stake, doing micropayments and stuff with off chain, etc. So I am quite optimistic overall.

I also think everything right now is necessarily a hybrid. It’s hard to provide a good user experience in many cases totally depending on things to clear on-chain, for many things that are not as naturally financially or transaction-oriented. So expect many popular dapps to still involve lots of other things like centralized real-time messaging systems, etc.

How do you feel the Kambrian explosion of robotics will affect the job market? This is in relation to the hot topic of jobs being replaced by robots.

Great question! What I really believe in my heart is that the path to better living for everyone on earth goes ultimately through getting assistance and help to everyone on earth. And it doesn’t scale with only humans helping humans. So automation will continue no matter what, it’s just a question of whether it will get stuck as automation helping business save money (some of which does get passed down to consumers) or will it really also help people live everyday life such as helping to provide cleaner streets, safer neighborhoods, medical care for everyone, help when your parents are sick, help when your baby is fussing and you need to go to work and pick up food and do a thousand things.

Our bet with Kambria is that we need something more open, more inclusive, and more aspirational to really go straight for the latter. If only driven by corporate profit then those solutions will happen later and in a very controlled/centralized way. So ultimately I think humans will still have more than enough work for everyone in the world.

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Once again, thank you, everyone, so much for your overwhelming enthusiasm and your support for this AMA! And thank you, Jared, for your time and your insightful answers to all of the questions from our community today!

We are delighted to give away TWO tickets to “Innovation, Community, Impact: Protocol for the Future,” our premier event in Ho Minh Chi City, Vietnam on November 14th for the BEST questions in tonight’s AMA!

Congratulations, Jen Blockchain and bigdaddyX! We appreciate your awesome participation along with the rest of our community.

ABOUT Jared Go — Co-Founder & CTO

Jared is an avid maker and roboticist, previously CTO and founding member at a networks startup. He has an extensive experience in blockchain, AI, real-time graphics, VR, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. Jared is a Stanford Graduate Fellow and has a BS in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

ABOUT Kambria

Kambria is an open innovation blockchain project that enables and incentivizes collaboration in R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization of advanced technology. We are developing our own public chain with protocols uniquely designed to address the current waste and inefficiencies in today’s innovation model. Kambria will allow for many verticals, including Biotech, Space, and Autonomous Vehicles, to be developed and thrive in the ecosystem. We are focusing first on the AI and Robotics vertical with the backing of our well-established robotics company, OhmniLabs. Through existing partnerships with top universities and large international corporations, as well as access to talented developers, we aim to build an ecosystem that can bring the next wave of frontier technology to provide value to billions of people around the world.

Thank you for your time!

The Kambria Team

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We are so proud of Kambria’s amazing team around the globe. Over the next few weeks, we will spotlight our leadership team to share a bit why they are so passionate about Kambria and developing a community.

This week we introduce you to the incomparable, Dr. Tra Vu, Kambria’s COO. Tra has a background in Financial and Civil Engineering. She earned her Master’s in Financial Engineering and her Ph.D. in Transportation Planning & Engineering from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Tra currently teaches at her alma mater and was responsible for leading her previous company in designing the first city-wide Transit Signal Priority system in New York City.

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What led you to Kambria and excites you most about this project?

I met Thuc at a conference in NYC in the fall of 2017. Of course, I was interested in meeting him especially because he was the co-founder of VietSeeds, a nonprofit organization that helps underprivileged students attend college. It is an absolutely wonderful organization which I heartily support.

When Thuc introduced me to the concept of Kambria, I was intrigued and joined on a part-time basis to help draft the white paper. I got more and more involved with the project as it developed and evolved. What excited me most, and the main reason why I eventually joined Kambria full time, is the Team. Our team is made up of brilliant individuals who are ambitious, hardworking, funny, magnanimous, and humble. I am grateful to be part of this Kambria family.

Have you always been involved in robotics or blockchain?

No, my background is in Civil Engineering, Transportation, and Financial Risk Engineering. At my former company, I was leading a team to design the first wireless Transit Signal Priority system for NYC, which was quite different from robotics and blockchain. But my interaction with Thuc opened my eyes to this new world and I haven’t looked back. I get to learn and do something new every day. It is exhilarating!

What Kambria vertical are you most excited or passionate about?

Autonomous vehicles because of my background in transportation. We are at a game-changing junction in which the strive for seamless mobility could really come at a great expense of personal freedom if the public and its governments do not set the right direction and policies.

As a futurist, where do you envision Kambria in the next 1–3 years?

I envision Kambria in the coming years will become a hub for innovation. And we are working furiously to make this a reality through grassroots movements, innovation labs, and partnerships.

What is your motto?

My motto is “always be fair”. I try to apply that in all aspects of my life.

Who do you most admire?

My dad. He sacrificed a lot to give my sister and me the best education he could afford. He has instilled in me the courage to be independent and the perseverance to achieve anything that I set my mind to.

What personal accomplishment are you most proud of?

I feel most proud when I teach. I’ve been a professor for 6+ years and it’s heartwarming to see the positive impact I have made on my students’ lives.

Is there anything else you’d like to share with our community?

Blockchain technology could potentially solve many roadblocks that we currently face, particularly social and infrastructure projects. I hope that together as a community we will be able to truly bring value to this space.

What questions do you have for Tra? Stay tuned for more stories like this over the next couple of weeks. And thank you for supporting our community!

The Kambria Team

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What will the future look like?

With all of the innovations being developed today, people often wonder what our near future will look like and which technologies will be implemented on a large scale to simplify and improve our lives. Let me paint a picture…

It is the year 2035 and Bob is looking forward to visiting his friend Alice. Upon waking, he goes into the bathroom to brush his teeth and receives the latest news through his bathroom mirror. Bob lives in Paris but Alice lives in Amsterdam in a house built using 3D-printer technology. Bob could arrive at Alice’s house using an autonomous car service or take a drone helicopter taxi. But instead of traveling for six hours, he decides to use the Hyperloop and pay for his ticket with Bitcoin. Traveling by Hyperloop will only take 30 minutes! At the Hyperloop station, a Humanoid robot preps Bob for his ride by giving him specific details. When Bob arrives, Alice is bed bound due to an unfortunate electric scooter accident. But she pre-approved Bob’s entrance to her home using his smartphone so Alice doesn’t have to trouble herself.

So what do you think? Does this slice of the future seem possible to you? I certainly believe it is; developers are already working on developing and tweaking all of these solutions. So it’s quite possible that they will be regulated and implemented into our society in the next 20 years. Let’s take a look at recent developments in the drone industry with an emphasis on projects that may change our lives for the better. To get everyone up to speed, I’ll provide a brief history of drones.

History


The first drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was created by the Austrian military during World War I. The idea was to fill unmanned balloons with bombs and have them explode in the enemy’s territory. Unfortunately for the Austrians, the plan somewhat backfired when some of the balloons exploded in their own lines, killing several Austrian soldiers.

After being used my military-based operations for about a century, drones began to gain popularity in other fields and became more than just a warfare product. The consumer market greatly expanded as the quality of drones and added features consistently improved with ‘unicorn’ startup DJI leading the way. Over the years, drone technology has been introduced into various types of industries (discussed below), and the total market capitalization of commercial applications is over $ 127 billion U.S.

Drones have also become a part of social interactions as well through the countless drone competitions in which participants fly a specific parkour to become the best UAV-racer.

To provide developers, manufacturers, and end-users guidelines on how to handle these air-based robots, several countries have already implemented legislation regarding operating a drone.

Drone Verticals

The drone industry has entered the specialization phase which allows for various verticals to emerge. Let’s take a look at different industries where drones are implemented in various business models.


Transportation and Delivery Sector

The steady pace of urbanization in big cities around the world means massive traffic congestions, which no one likes! The number of cars on the road increases every day, leading to more traffic accidents and casualties. Luckily, various companies are trying to solve these issues by offering innovative solutions. Passenger drone project Volocopter has already finished a successful pilot study in Dubai. And Chinese manufacturer Ehang is also ready to offer its passenger drone to the public.

Amazon has officially started piloting Amazon Air, a delivery system whose goal is to deliver packages up to five pounds in 30 minutes or less using drones! As Amazon claims, “It looks like science fiction, but it’s real. One day, seeing Prime Air vehicles will be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road.”

Supplying survivors of natural disasters with emergency aid kits has become easier with the help of cargo drones. Californian startup Matternet sent its cargo drones filled with food and medicine to Haiti after the country’s massive destructive earthquake back in 2010. And the United Nations World Food Program is a firm believer in deploying cargo drones to help feed those stuck in war zones.


Healthcare Industry

Drones in the healthcare industry have already proven to be very useful in life-threatening situations. In the future, small indoor drones will be used to deliver the required daily medicine to bed-bound patients or nutritious, fresh meals to the elderly who cannot cook their own meals. In Rwanda, the Ministry of Health has teamed up with Silicon Valley-based robotics company, Zipline, to start the “Uber for blood”, a drone delivery service that delivers blood to hospitals in need of blood. If services run smoothly, Zipline will start another pilot in Tanzania.

TU Delft University is developing an Ambulance Drone, a “flying toolbox” carrying supplies for advanced life support. The drone can transform into a fully functioning automated external defibrillator (AED). As research has shown, the first few minutes after someone suffers a heart-attack are critical. By calling the emergency services, the ambulance drone can be deployed immediately to the person in need.




Government Solutions

Drones can be helpful to a police department on many fronts, like: monitoring hostile situations, locating victims after a disaster with the help a thermal camera-equipped drone, helping with the reconstruction of a multiple-car traffic accident, monitoring a crowd or analyzing a crime scene. And, according to pilot studies, fire departments can benefit from using drones to fight fires by connecting to hoses from water trucks on the ground, reaching far higher than ladders.

Energy Industry

Drone developments in the energy industry are also ongoing. Drones are cleaning wind turbines, which can improve production by up to 20%. By mapping oil spills or even locating potential oil and gas sites, drones can be used to simplify processes and lower cost.

Kambria

At Kambria, we are passionate about supporting the development of frontier technologies. Drones are one of the main verticals we will target in the future.


By creating an open innovation ecosystem that incentivizes R&D collaboration, collaborating and incentivizing in research and development (R&D), Kambria aims to eliminate waste and inefficiencies that haunt the advanced technology industries.

Kambria offers an open source architecture where developers, manufacturers, universities, governments, innovators, and token users come together and form a community that rewards its contributors in native KAT tokens. Kambria’s codebase (K-DNA) which is the center of the platform, has all the key ingredients to start developing and deploying advanced technologies.

Kambria can help drone businesses accelerate by working together, sharing helpful information and resources and incentivizing people that contribute to the community. Whether it is developing new modes for transportation, providing the opportunity to build upon already existing healthcare devices, or speeding up the process of creating life-saving solutions, all can be facilitated by the Kambria platform.

A big part of Kambria’s business plan is focused on working together with universities. Kambria has already established partnerships with renowned universities worldwide that work on creating innovative and ground-breaking developments in the robotics and AI industry. Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, and Nanyang Technological University are three of the top universities that collaborate with Kambria.

In the meantime, the team is not sitting idle. Currently, the Kambria team is working on creating a low-cost, high-performance robotic arm that will be able to manipulate objects in the real world. At the same time, they are developing autonomous navigation which will enable food delivery robots and hotel room service robots.

As you can see, the drone vertical has enjoyed a steady increase in development over the years. Commercial and enterprise developed drones can solve many real-world problems. What do you believe will be the next drone invention that will disrupt this frontier technology?

The Kambria Team

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Introducing Kambria Advisor Kenzi Wang

Dear Kambria Community,

Kambria is pleased to welcome Kenzi Wang to the Kambria Advisory Board as the Co-founder of AU21, a venture capital firm focused specifically on the blockchain ecosystem. Before starting AU21, Kenzi was CEO and Co-founder of Traction Labs. In addition, he founded Fantoon Growth Labs and Growthathon. Kenzi has deep knowledge of exchanges and the crypto markets. Kenzi studied Mathematics at Columbia University and graduated with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

“I am happy to join Kambria as an Advisor because of the massive potential value that their open innovation platform in the robotics and AI space will bring to consumers. At AU21, we back the most brilliant founders who want to start a revolution in the blockchain space — Thuc and Kambria fit that description.”

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“Kambria is confident that Kenzi’s business acumen, deep understanding of the blockchain space, and connections to other amazing projects will be a huge asset to our team. We are thrilled to have Kenzi onboard.” — Dr. Thuc Vu

You can learn about our other amazing Advisory Board members on our Team Page.

About Kambria

Kambria is the first blockchain project to build an open innovation platform for frontier technology. Kambria will allow for many verticals, including Biotech, Space, and Autonomous Vehicles to be developed and thrive in the ecosystem. We are focusing first on the AI and Robotics vertical with the backing of our well-established robotics company, OhmniLabs. Through existing partnerships with top universities and large international corporations, as well as access to talented developers, we aim to build an ecosystem that can bring the next wave of frontier technology to provide value to billions of people around the world.

If you have any questions about our project or our team, please feel free to contact us via email at info@kambria.io or to message us through Telegram. We always love hearing from you! And if you are not yet a Kambrian, please join our community to get updated news, and the scoop on our upcoming events.

The Kambria Team

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Casting My Vote for Blockchain


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Two years ago, on the eve of the US presidential inauguration, I appeared in a documentary on the British TV station iTV. A friend of the family asked my mom if she would be willing to be interviewed by the show’s journalist who was traveling across America speaking with voters on across the political spectrum. My mom wasn’t particularly interested so she nominated me.

Now, admittedly, most of my life, I’ve been politically apathetic. My approach to politics was to put my head in the sand because even if I didn’t pay attention, life worked out. As immigrants, my family and I created prosperous lives for ourselves in the American Midwest. We lived in safe neighborhoods with great public schools. We made enough money, we bought real estate, and moved up the economic ladder. My sister and I both attended great universities. Outside of academic achievement, I never worried about much. So I never cared much about politics.

That was until two years ago. On the eve of the inauguration, the documentary aired. Watching the broadcast, you would never know I was formerly a political schlep as I shared my aversion to current events. I’d like to say that I didn’t know what had come over me, but, I did. I was broken by the year-long public war on the American people, by the American people.

To cope with my upset, I learned how to meditate. Focusing on something besides current events made me less anxious. Eventually, I began to feel better. Over the next year, I stumbled upon Bitcoin and blockchain technology and slid down the infamous rabbit hole. I watched the documentary Banking on Bitcoin and immediately the topics and themes made sense. I started researching Bitcoin and altcoins and the underlying blockchain technology.

Like many, I became fascinated by the potential of digital currency to transform financial systems and tried to learn as much as possible. I learned about the implications of government-controlled fiat and how crypto could shift control to individuals. Domestically, Americans didn’t have to remain at the mercy of “too big to fail” banks. And abroad, crypto could be used as a strong hedge again national currency devaluation resulting from political turmoil. I read about economic issues in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, India, Greece. Learning about the rise of digital currency gave me hope. Imagine if crypto could do for banking what the internet did for media; to give access, power, and control to individuals rather than governments or financial institutions. This was thrilling.

For the remainder of 2017, I enjoyed the dramatic rise in crypto prices and continued to learn as much as possible. Of course, at the start of this year, prices tanked but luckily, these new valuations did not completely destroy my enthusiasm for the space. I began to learn about blockchain technology and the potential impact of decentralization. I learned about the 19 industries blockchain will disrupt. Heck, it can even help us with election tampering. I immersed myself wholeheartedly into this new space. I loved the technology and the quest for solutions to long-standing issues of money, control, centralization, power. I was hooked!

But what I enjoyed just as much as the promise of this new technology, was operating in a world where politics didn’t matter. I mean, how could they with so little regulation? This was uncharted territory where the same forces of polarization and manipulation did not exist. There was no precedent. There were no rules until we made up our own. DYOR, HODL, and BTFD applied to everyone. Politics didn’t matter because we all wanted the same thing — mass adoption. In this ecosystem, our desires were aligned. It was magic. Forget putting down someone else’s candidate. We were having too much fun speculating about the market, comparing shitcoins, and choosing our lambos!

Fortunately, my understanding of and appreciation for blockchain today extends beyond making money. Of course, the bear market has forced me to manage my expectations and to adjust my portfolio. But it has also eliminated weak hands leaving only true believers to BUIDL a decentralized future. These believers include members of two outstanding, international teams I have worked with — first with Bitcoin for Beginners (BFB), a crypto education website, and now Kambria, an open innovation protocol initially focused on the robotics and AI verticals. At BFB, I was the only woman on the small, core team of leaders living around the world. At Kambria, our leadership team is all-female and split between Silicon Valley and Vietnam. In both organizations, team members value growing the crypto/blockchain ecosystem by sharing their knowledge, with integrity, with their respective communities.

In my work, political parties do not apply. We don’t need to take sides in a zero-sum game because we know that connected communities are stronger than divided ones. We are all students and teachers at the same time, innovators intent on creating a new reality. I am grateful for my work, my colleagues, and this new space. Bring on the future!

Laura Guy for the Kambria Network

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Medium (CHN): https://Medium.com/kambriachina

Steemit: https://steemit.com/@kambrianetwork

Weibo (CHN): https://www.weibo.com/kambriachina

Email: info@kambria.io

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November 15th -- Fueling the Innovation Economy: Startup Pitch and Blockchain Networking Event


Kambrians! In partnership with TomoChain, we have added an amazing Startup Pitch event on November 15th to follow our premier "Innovation, Community, Impact" event on November 14th. Please take a look and share with anyone you know who may be interested.



November 15th -- Fueling the Innovation Economy: Startup Pitch and Blockchain Networking

As part of our continuing effort to support innovation and help build a strong and vibrant startup ecosystem in Vietnam, Kambria and TomoChain are very excited to invite you to a special event titled “Fueling the Innovation Economy: Startup Pitch and Blockchain Networking” on November 15th in Ho Chi Minh City. Guests of the event will include some of the most successful investors and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and Vietnam. The pitch competition follows our premier event "Innovation, Community, Impact: Protocol for the Future" on November 14th. Startups will have the chance to pitch their company in front of top global VCs, with a potential opportunity to receive funding for their ideas.



To learn more about the event, go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/1899759233473485/

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⭐️ Hey, guys! We have incredible people attending our premier event, "Innovation, Community, Impact" on November 14th. 



Can you guess which panelist made the statement below?  Tag your answer with #Panelists for a chance to win a FREE entry ticket to the event.

I can not find information about your team, could you give a link?

These guys really seem switched on. Getting a lot of attention and really finding successful people to join the team and partner with.

https://kambria.io/#our-team

Thanks for the question. If you go to our website: https://kambria.io, the team page is accessible. Click on each team member's photo and information about their background and LinkedIn will populate below. We have an all-star team, many of whom are PhD's from top US Schools such as Stanford, Carnagie Mellon, ETC. There are several serial entrepreneurs as well, Thuc Vu, Kambria CEO has sold 2 companies to Google in the past. There's extensive history. Let me know if you have any questions at all. Don't forget to checkout our parent company: OhmniLabs.com !

Thank you for your support! The best is yet to come!

Line up so far to our Innovation, Community & Impact Event. More details here: https://events.kambria.io/impact2018


Winklevii

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Real-estate Tech Giant Michael Milstein

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Managing Director at Founder's Fund: Jeff Lonsdale

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The Atomic Bomb

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8VC in the house!

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Once again, thank you, everyone, for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support for this AMA! And thank you, Kenzi, so much for your time and your insightful answers to all of the questions from our community today! Here is a recap of our conversation; for clarity, the original text has been lightly edited for grammar and spelling.

If you could not catch the AMA live, please post your question in our main Telegram channel. The team will get back to you quickly.

Kenzi, what attracted you most to Kambria and where do you think it might be in 5 years?

What attracted me first about Kambria is its team. They are great engineers from Stanford. Secondary is the market vision. What Kambria tries to do has a huge potential impact on the AI robotic space. I also like the fact they have great reach in the Asia Pacific region already.

I think we are at the early days of crypto still. In 5 years, Kambria could be a very large company due to the network effect it brings

Do you have any contacts in the AI/Robotics/Crypto (or other) sectors that can help drive adoption of the platform?

In terms of contacts, Kambria has a good collection of VCs globally. Together we can assist in bringing more brilliant minds in the AI space. Since our firms’ focus is Asia and US, we can help make connections to Silicon Valley and China investors

Can you tell us about your venture capital firm AU21?

Absolutely. AU21 Capital is a blockchain venture firm based in San Francisco. The firm’s focus is to 1. Invest in great founders in Asia and the US (hence the name AU21, 21 stands for 21 million BTCs) and 2. Provide ecosystem services to help them grow.

[Moderator] You can learn more about AU21 Capital at https://au21.capital/. And check out their portfolio! It’s very impressive!

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What are some ways Kambria could grow?

Kambria’s technology is already very robust. I personally visited their office in Silicon Valley and was very impressed by what they have already built.

This is an advanced level team with an existing product and use case. And both of their developer and customer (enterprise) growth is very much so dependent on the community. That’s why the community is very important here.

I see the self-serving model working very well here. I can also see the token model making sense to enticing users and customers to sign up and use the product.

Again, I think what they are doing is extremely fascinating. It’s one of the few hardware-based AI product company with a real token economy. It also has already received backing from tier 1 investors globally.

Can you tell us more about exactly what market making is? Little confused on this.

Market making helps to generate liquidity for a new token launching. People do it to help sustain token price and avoid crashes. Market makers are usually hired by exchanges or projects. They can also be hired by funds. There are many reasons behind when and how they work.

I learned that you are an active blockchain investor with deep knowledge in exchanges and market making. What advice would you have for founders of blockchain projects in terms of choosing which exchange to work with?

I think in terms of choosing what exchanges to launch projects on — in the current market, it’s best to launch on an exchange that has good liquidity to begin with first. Think a top 15 exchange

What are the top qualities you look for in a blockchain project?

Top qualities for me are 1. Team 2. Market size 3. An existing product, tech or traction 4. Teams’ connections to exchanges and service providers.

What’s the next coin you’re buying. I want some!

I can’t give advice on investments. I’m a big fan of the stellar ecosystem and like what they are working on.

What are your views on Security Token Offering?

STO is definitely a trend in the mid to long run. However, I think it will take time for adoption. It’s very new and early still.

What do you see as the biggest difference between traditional VCs and crypto VCs?

Traditional VCs and crypto VCs’ — the main difference is that a lot of crypto VCs buy tokens that have faster liquidity, their liquidation timeframe is much quicker.

You have a lot of experience as an entrepreneur in the traditional market and now you are an investor in the blockchain space. What do you see as the unique challenges for blockchain entrepreneurs?

The unique challenge for blockchain entrepreneurs is that they need to adapt fast to many external factors such as market forces, regulatory changes, trends. They need to move fast and be nimble on their feet. Make fast and hard decisions on the go. It moves a lot faster than non-blockchain projects

What surprises you the most about how the crypto exchange landscape has evolved over the last 12 months?

A lot! The big exchanges have grown big very quickly. It’s now very hard for smaller exchanges to compete. Listing on big exchanges now will make or break a project so it’s important to work backward when thinking of doing a new token project

What advice would you have for blockchain entrepreneurs in approaching you and AU21 for funding?

The funding landscape has changed quickly over the past few months. It’s now a lot harder than before. So I encourage folks to differentiate and build more and better tech.

My email is kenzi@au21.capital. Free feel to reach out.

What advice do you have for founders of blockchain projects on whether they should do an ICO?

ICOs have become smaller and smaller. So unless there’s a reason to do so, I recommend that founders raise capital through a private sale. It will reduce liability and risks. It will also make exchange listing easier!

A follow-up question on that. If we decide to do an ICO or STO, what are some other factors we should keep in mind to make sure we will have a successful process?

Have a big community that is ready and willing to spread positive sentiments!

For the blockchain space as the whole, between the technical challenges and regulation challenges, which do you worry more about?

I would also worry about market trends. Market public sentiment matters a lot in crypto. Incorporation and company setup matter, too.

[The End]

A huge thanks again to Kenzi and to our community members for participating in our AMA. If you’d like to ask your questions live next time, join our Telegram channel. See you there!

ABOUT Kenzi Wang

Kenzi Wang is the Co-founder of AU21, a venture capital firm focused specifically on the blockchain ecosystem. Before starting AU21, Kenzi was CEO and Co-founder of Traction Labs. In addition, he founded Fantoon Growth Labs and Growthathon. Kenzi has deep knowledge of exchanges and the crypto markets. Kenzi studied Mathematics at Columbia University and graduated with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

For more info about AU21, please visit: https://au21.capital/

ABOUT Kambria

Kambria is an open innovation blockchain project that enables and incentivizes collaboration in R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization of advanced technology. We are developing our own public chain with protocols uniquely designed to address the current waste and inefficiencies in today’s innovation model. Kambria will allow for many verticals, including Biotech, Space, and Autonomous Vehicles, to be developed and thrive in the ecosystem. We are focusing first on the AI and Robotics vertical with the backing of our well-established robotics company, OhmniLabs. Through existing partnerships with top universities and large international corporations, as well as access to talented developers, we aim to build an ecosystem that can bring the next wave of frontier technology to provide value to billions of people around the world.

The Kambria Team

Website: https://kambria.io/

Whitepaper: https://kambria.io/Kambria_White_Paper_v2.pdf

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial

Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea

Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam

Telegram (CHN): https://t.me/KambriaChina

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kambria/

Discord:https://discord.gg/rjqDSdC

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial/

Medium (ENG): https://medium.com/kambria-network

Medium (CHN): https://Medium.com/kambriachina

Steemit: https://steemit.com/@kambrianetwork

Weibo (CHN): https://www.weibo.com/kambriachina

Email: info@kambria.io

KAT is sold to be used on the Kambria platform.

Source: https://medium.com/kambria-network/ama-recap-with-kenzi-wang-co-founder-of-au21-and-kambria-advisor-11-8-18-eee2e715b2b7

🌟Dear Kambria Community,🌟
 
Thanks so much for all your incredible support. We have received an overwhelming interest for the Nov 14 - Innovation, Community and Impact event. Due to our venue capacity, we are unable to accommodate any further guests at this time. Our guest list is now closed. Kindly note that only those with an official invitation will be granted entry. Please tune into the livestream the night of the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/714945508868161/

👍Thank you again for all of your support 👍

Kambria's idea is for robots and AI is the technology of the future. It will therefore face many challenges and may take longer. I think this should be a long -term, about short-term investment that is hard to get profit.

Hey guys. I found your project on a website that publishes ratings from popular experts: https://topexperts.io/ico/kambria
There are 21 scores from 3.8/10 to 8.6/10

We have both long and short term goals! But we are in agreement in that we are in this for the long vision. We want to build a global innovation community to collaborate and solve real world problems and create new frontier technologies. In the short term though, we have a lot of exciting things planned as well. Stay tuned :)

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

Kambria whitelist is now OPEN! Interested individuals should visit https://app.kambria.io/kyc to join the list. To be eligible, you must obtain a distributor code and verify that you are not a citizen or resident of the following countries: Balkans, Belarus, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burma, Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Nicaragua, North Korea, People’s Republic of China, Qatar, Sudan, Syria, United States of America, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. The whitelist closes on Friday, November 30th at 10 am UTC+7.

Kambria is the first blockchain project to build an open innovation platform for frontier technology and the KAT token is your access to that platform.

- Community members use KAT to promote specific projects and fundraise for the shared technology.
- Individuals or teams are rewarded with KAT for designs or code they contribute.
- Companies can use KAT to issue bounty challenges which are awarded to projects when fulfilled.
- Manufacturers earn KAT through prototyping and producing robots and robotic parts.
- Token holders can upvote and back projects that are meaningful to them.

KAT is sold to be used on the Kambria platform. Only buy KAT if you intend to help us build the Kambria ecosystem.

Thank you for your continued support!

In case you missed it, we had another fantastic hackathon co-hosted by Kambria in partnership with IDEAS on November 10th and 11th.

The Global Blockchain & Data Analytics Hackathon at Fordham University in New York saw solo developers, coders and startup teams in data analytics and blockchain come together to participate to build exciting projects. Developers and multi-disciplinary teams had two days to hack a project together with their team and compete for prizes.

"We are thrilled to partner with IDEAS and host a hackathon focused on data science, as it supports our core values of growing the development community and accelerating technological advancements," said Thuc Vu, Kambria CEO and Co-founder. "The Kambria team’s main focus is bringing forth innovation in an exponential manner and providing value to multiple audiences around the world. "

Stay tuned for details about our next hackathon in Austin on December 8th and 9th. In the meantime, please visit https://blockchainhackathon.io/ and enjoy these images from the NY event!

Kambrians, there were SO many great insights shared by our esteemed guests at our premiere event on November 14th that we’re summarizing them for you in 3 parts. Check out part 1 of our conversation with Joe Lonsdale, Partner at venture capital firm 8VC.
https://medium.com/kambria-network/innovation-community-impact-protocol-for-the-future-recap-part-i-ffb956667df0

Kambrians, here is Part II of our November 14th event recap. Lots of great nuggets for entrepreneurs and cryptocurrency enthusiasts from our panel discussion with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Joe Lonsdale, and Jack Abraham. http://bit.ly/2DF2lMv

Dr. Thuc Vu had a great AMA session on TomoChain’s Telegram channel @TomoChain last week. He received so many good questions from their community members about Kambria and our partnership with TomoChain. Read the AMA recap here:
https://bit.ly/2RndWDW

🔹 Vietnam Startup Funding CAMP 2018: Fireside Chat with Thuc Vu and Loi Luu

On November 27, Dr. Thuc Vu, CEO and Co-founder of Kambria, will have a fireside chat with Dr. Loi Luu, CEO and Co-founder of Kyber Network and Kambria Advisor, as part of the SFC Gala Dinner program in Da Nang, Vietnam.

Startup Funding CAMP (https://fundingcamp.vn/en/) is a startup development program at nationwide scale in Vietnam. As an official initiative of The Vietnamese Youth Association, the program is highly recognized by prestigious funds and promising startups for its extensive coverage and strong credibility among start-up community.

On November 30th, Tingxi Tan, KambriaNetwork CPO, will speak at the VanFUNDING 2018: Converge Conference on a panel called “Unlocking Global Growth." For tickets and more info: http://bit.ly/2Asdk8G


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On November 30th, Michelle Tsing, Kambria Advisor, will speak at the VanFUNDING 2018: Converge Conference about “Launching an ICO, STO or HYBRID". For tickets and more info: http://bit.ly/2Asdk8G

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Our very own Thuc Vu was spotted at the SF Gala dinner next to Phillip Rossler. Mr. Rossler was the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2011 to 2013.

Also pictured is Don Lam, founding Partner of Vina Capital

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Kambria is very honored to be part of the conversation with officials from the Vietnamese government and contribute our ideas toward building a strong and sustainable Innovation and Startup Ecosystem in Vietnam!

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Our CEO, Dr. Thuc Vu, is participating in a forum with the Vietnamese government, including the Prime Minister, the Minister of Science and Technology, the Minister of Information and Communications, and various other officials to discuss a breakthrough solution for building an Innovation and Startup Ecosystem in Vietnam. He is proposing Kambria to work with the government and build an open innovation platform for the ecosystem in Vietnam.

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I am very glad that the Kambria project is presented in Vietnam at such a high level. Have you considered the options of partnership with other successful projects in the field of the Internet of things and artificial intelligence? For example, Robotina or Skynet

Thank you! Absolutely. We are building a global ecosystem. Partnerships are an essential part of this, as we need these frontier companies to participate and collaborate to solve these problems. We will be the platform they can come to and build many things. We would love to have relationships with all of these companies. Noted the two you mentioned and will bring it to the team. Thanks!

Dr. Thuc Vu, Founder of Kambria, and His Vision for the Robotics Industry

Source: https://medium.com/kambria-network/dr-thuc-vu-founder-of-kambria-and-his-vision-for-the-robotics-industry-27253237374e


A well-known Vietnamese publication, TienDienTu.org, recently featured Kambria CEO and Co-founder, Dr. Thuc Vu, by publishing this insightful article about Thuc’s passion for technology and his vision for Kambria. Below is the English translation.

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Thuc Vu (left), Simon Kim (co-founder and partner at HASHED, middle), and Jared Go (Co-founder of OhmniLabs and Kambria, right)
Despite the market decline in 2018, many projects have been launched with the goal of changing the face of traditional industry with blockchain technology, among them Kambria. Kambria is a project that is creating excitement in the cryptocurrency community, especially in Vietnam. The reason is that it was founded by Dr. Thuc Vu, a well-known Vietnamese talent who has many years of experience in robotics and AI from the Silicon Valley.

With international success at the age of 28, Dr. Thuc Vu is considered a pride of the Vietnamese people, and above all, an inspiration to many young people.

The Life of a Technology Student

At the age of 10, Dr. Thuc Vu showed intense passion for mathematics by spending hours finding the right answer to a math problem. For him, each problem was a journey, and the process of finding the shortest solution among dozens of different ways was exhilarating. Over time, this personality trait led to the opportunity to study at the most prestigious school in Ho Chi Minh City — Ho Chi Minh City High School for the Talented — and then Carnegie Mellon University, one of the most prestigious computer science schools in the United States. Here, he surpassed millions of students from other universities to win North America’s Best Student Award in 2014. More notably, Thuc Vu was the first Vietnamese to win this award.

Due to his passion for technology, Thuc decided to begin his studies at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1980s. He decided to start a multi-agent system in artificial intelligence — a field in robotics and AI. Thuc published three studies and three scientific papers while still in college. This impressed many universities and Thuc was granted a full Ph.D. scholarship. In 2010, at age 28, he became the youngest Vietnamese ever to receive a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

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“Each person has a different definition of success and happiness. I personally think that success is bringing value to many people in a meaningful and sustainable way. “- Dr. Thuc Vu

With this in mind, Thuc Vu developed the Kantago project while attending the Ph.D. program. Katango is an AI application platform for analyzing user relationships on social networks. The startup received a $5 million investment from Kleiner Perkins. After being acquired by Google in late 2011, Thuc joined the Google+ and Android development teams. Thanks to his experience in research and start-up, he has continued to contribute to the development of other startups such as:
- Tappy: social networking site sold to Weeby.co
- KnightScope: a startup robot in the US
- ELSA: English pronunciation app with AI technology
- Umbala: A video chat application that was very popular in Europe
- OhmniLabs: interactive, remote robot called Ohmni

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Most of all, what makes young Vietnamese fans of Thuc Vu are his dedication and love for his country. As noted, he established the Vietseeds Foundation, which provides scholarships to support tuition and a living allowance for disadvantaged students. After five years of operation, hundreds of scholarships have been awarded, and many students have achieved good academic results, as well as won international awards or scholarships to study abroad.

Kambria’s Vision of AI and Robotics

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Over the years, robots have been constantly evolving and gradually replacing human positions in many industries. In 2016, the total market value of the robotics economy and automation reached $ 40 billion. According to a recent study, the market is poised for double-digit annual growth in the future and could reach $135 billion in 2019. But despite their strong influence, robots have not yet been widely adopted in the home, and the process of creating affordable robots is slowly evolving. Unfortunately, the traditional development process faces too many difficulties:

1. There is a lack of common interfaces to be able to combine specialists in the areas related to robot fabrication (software, electrical, mechanical)
As we all know, making robots is complex and requires expert knowledge in a variety of areas, or a combination of experts in a variety of areas. Accordingly, this requires a common interface to combine these fields.

2. Lack of tools, programming language, and methods to share the design of a robot in the distribution.
The combination of the mechanical, electronic and software industries is an indispensable trend in the robot industry. However, not having the same programming language leads to incompatibility between programmers who cannot share information. Imagine three people who speak three different languages ​​doing the same job; certainly, they will not be able to understand each other and need another person to do the interpreting work for all three.

3. Dependence on manufacturers
The creation of the actual products depends entirely on the manufacturers. However, the link between the programmer and the current manufacturer is very weak, leading to difficulties in the production of new products.

4. The application of robotics is slow, expensive and difficult to implement
Currently, funding is only available for large-scale projects, while the development of new projects lacks support.

5. Wasting resources and data

Robotics development information is not generally shared, which increases the cost, time and manpower needed on each project for the same construction. Therefore, standard and practical guidelines should be developed so that manufacturers and users can capture and process all data from the beginning to the end.

Through the Kambria protocol, the founders believe that promoting an open, decentralized, collaborative ecosystem and allowing people to share knowledge will create a real revolution. Companies can benefit from community contributions to build custom applications without having to hire experts in the field. And users can own more advanced technology products and services, thereby improving the quality of life and practical experience. At some point, the robot will be seen as a human friend, able to share and support in the most ordinary work of the family.

Conclusion

The age of the robot and AI technology is around the corner. And with the experience that Dr. Vu and his team have accumulated, we fully believe this project will make great breakthroughs for the robotics industry.

The Kambria Team

Website: https://kambria.io/

Whitepaper: http://bit.ly/2JbuET7

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial

Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea

Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam

Telegram (CHN): https://t.me/KambriaChina

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kambria/

Discord: https://discord.gg/rjqDSdC

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial/

Medium (ENG): https://medium.com/kambria-network

Medium (CHN): https://Medium.com/kambriachina

Steemit: https://steemit.com/@kambrianetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/pKzbZK8

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kambrianetwork/

Weibo (CHN): https://www.weibo.com/kambriachina

Email: info@kambria.io

KAT is sold to be used on the Kambria platform.

Partnership Announcement: Qrypto Queens

Kambria is excited to announce its new partnership with Qrypto Queens and Women INVESTING in Women DIGITAL. Launched in December 2014, WIIW Digital includes:

Over 1,000,000 followers on Facebook across 120 countries

The Women INVESTING in Women and Girls radio show on Voice America Kids

The State of Women Radio Network

The WIIW Global Summit and Women in Private Equity Roundtable Series in New York City, Stockholm, Johannesburg, San Diego, Scottsdale, Muscat, Singapore, Phoenix, Vienna, & Ankara.

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With a predominantly female leadership team, Kambria is committed to supporting women in blockchain. Partnering with Qrypto Queens and WIIW will enable Kambria to further its initiative to empower women everywhere with the help of WIIW’s global reach. Through this collaboration, more women will learn and benefit from the opportunities related to the Kambria platform and our community.

“Now more than ever, women are in a unique position to reshape the world with innovations that can lead to more peace and prosperity. We are delighted to partner with Kambria and share their vision for open innovation to changemakers of the present and the future.” ~Anu Bhardwaj, CEO of Qrypto Queens

About Kambria

Kambria is the first blockchain project to build an open innovation platform for frontier technology. Kambria will allow for many verticals, including Biotech, Space, and Autonomous Vehicles to be developed and thrive in the ecosystem. We are focusing first on the AI and Robotics vertical with the backing of our well-established robotics company, OhmniLabs. Through existing partnerships with top universities and large international corporations, as well as access to talented developers, we aim to build an ecosystem that can bring the next wave of frontier technology to provide value to billions of people around the world.

If you have any questions about our project or our team, please feel free to contact us via email at info@kambria.io or to message us on Telegram. We always love hearing from you! And if you are not yet a Kambrian, please join our community to get updated news, and the scoop on our upcoming events.

The Kambria Team

Website: https://kambria.io/

Whitepaper: http://bit.ly/2JbuET7

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial

Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea

Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam

Telegram (CHN): https://t.me/KambriaChina

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kambria/

Discord: https://discord.gg/rjqDSdC

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial/

Medium (ENG): https://medium.com/kambria-network

Medium (CHN): https://Medium.com/kambriachina

Steemit: https://steemit.com/@kambrianetwork

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kambrianetwork/

Weibo (CHN): https://www.weibo.com/kambriachina

Email: info@kambria.io

KAT is sold to be used on the Kambria platform.

Hello Kambria Team,

We have already listed your project on our website and give your project A rating.

https://icoscale.com/ico_listing/kambria/

Thank you!

Kambria Abroad

Speak another language? Kambria has a variety of Telegram channels and communities setup across the globe. Make yourself at home in one of our other fantastic communities and get to know your local Kambrians! Here is a list of our (growing) channels!

Announcements (ENG): https://t.me/KambriaAnnouncements

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/KambriaOfficial

Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea

Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam

Telegram (CHN): https://t.me/KambriaChina

Telegram (RUS): https://t.me/KambriaRussian

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Strategic Backer Announcement: DF Capital Led By Jun Hasegawa

Kambria is excited to announce that DF Capital, managed by Jun Hasegawa, Founder and CEO at OmiseGO, has signed on as a strategic backer of Kambria.

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Jun Hasegawa is the CEO of Omise Holding, a multinational payments company currently present in Thailand (HQ), Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia. He has led the company through dramatic growth, from its launch in 2013 to its establishment as one of Southeast Asia’s leading online payment platforms.

In 2015, Jun’s desire to stay on the pioneering edge of practical tech innovation led to Omise becoming one of the first companies, and the very first financial services company, to join the Ethereum community. In 2017, after over a year of research and development, this culminated in the launch of OmiseGO, the crowd-funded blockchain division of Omise tasked with creating the OMG network, an Ethereum-based public blockchain with the vision of enabling financial service equity by radically decentralizing value transfer and exchange. He has also invested in and supported multiple blockchain projects over the world to help accelerating blockchain ecosystem grow.

We are delighted to have Jun’s support in positioning Kambria to grow our community in Japan and Asia. Under Jun’s incredible leadership, both OmiseGO and DF Capital are well-known in the tech and financial industry throughout Southeast Asia and we are honored to have their valued trust.

About Kambria
Kambria is the first blockchain project to build an open innovation platform for frontier technology. Kambria will allow for many verticals including Biotech, Space, and Autonomous Vehicles to be developed and thrive in the ecosystem. We are focusing first on the AI and Robotics vertical with the backing of our well-established robotics company, OhmniLabs. Through existing partnerships with top universities and large international corporations, as well as access to talented developers, we aim to build an ecosystem that can bring the next wave of frontier technology to provide value to billions of people around the world.

 If you have any questions about our project or our team, please feel free to contact us via email at info@kambria.io or to message us through Telegram. We always love hearing from you! And if you are not yet a Kambrian, please join our community to get updated news, and the scoop on our upcoming events.

The Kambria Team

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Email: info@kambria.io

Kat is sold to be used on the Kambria platform.

📢 AMA with Ro Charlz, VP at Vickers Venture Partners and Kambria Advisor 📢

🚨Please be advised that the time of this event has changed from 8:00 pm PST to 7:00 pm PST.

Please join us for a one-hour Ask-Me-Anything session with Ro Charlz, VP at Vickers Venture Partners and Kambria Advisor, on Kambria's official Telegram channel @KambriaOfficial on Sunday, December 2nd at 7:00 pm PST (UTC-8).

✔️ ABOUT Ro Charlz
Ro Charlz is a technology evangelist and serves as an investment professional with Vickers Venture Partners, one of the world’s leading tech-focused venture capital firms whose team has been involved with several prominent unicorn start-ups. Ro covers a wide-span of sectors including blockchain, robotics, AI, IoT, mobility, automotive tech, automation, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and general consumer tech. Ro has previous experience in the energy sector and serves as an active angel investor and advisor to several start-ups. He comes from a background in professional motorsports as a consultant to the automotive industry with a focus on tech development for over 10 years, consulting to several of the world's largest automotive makers.

We can't wait to see everyone's questions! 🔥🔥🔥

Join us in Telegram: https://t.me/kambriaofficial

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​ If you have received a confirmation from Kambria regarding KYC and Whitelist, please visit our presale portal: https://app.kambria.io/presale-dashboard. This is the ONLY verified web address. Please do not forget to check the HTTPS link as you proceed.

If you encounter any suspicious activity, please contact the Kambria team immediately via email: support@kambria.io.

For more information, please visit Kambria Vietnam: https://t.me/KambriaVietnam

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​ Here is a photo of Kambria Co-founder Tingxi Tan speaking on the UNLOCKING GLOBAL GROWTH: Cybersecurity, Digital Identity, Trust and Transparency panel at VanFUNDING 2018 in Vancouver today. The panel was comprised of:

-Magdalena Gronowska - Senior Managing Partner, HiHi! Wallet
-Manie Eagar - Executive Chairman, Quantex Ltd.
-Godfrey Hobbs - Lead Software Developer, Consensys
-Nhat Nguyen - CEO and Co-Founder, Organify
-Tingxi Tan - Co-founder and CPO, Kambria

The panel discussed:
Technologies, frameworks and the roadmap for global innovation and growth.
Trust and transparency solutions, uses cases and implications.
Data privacy and ownership.
Who is winning the war?

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Strategic Backer and Partner Announcement: ISOKEN

Kambria is pleased to announce that ISOKEN has signed on as a strategic backer and partner of Kambria. Together Kambria and ISOKEN will promote the development of frontier technology in Japan and beyond.

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ISOKEN was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan with a branch in Tokyo. Their main business is to help companies obtain and maintain ISO standards. Currently, ISOKEN has 96 employees and over 7,000 clients.


Representative Director Toshiro Yamaguchi

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To learn more about ISOKEN and its management team, please visit their website: http://www.isosoken.co.jp/company.html

Kambria is delighted to have ISOKEN onboard!

About Kambria
Kambria is the first blockchain project to build an open innovation platform for frontier technology. Kambria will allow for many verticals including Biotech, Space, and Autonomous Vehicles to be developed and thrive in the ecosystem. We are focusing first on the AI and Robotics vertical with the backing of our well-established robotics company, OhmniLabs. Through existing partnerships with top universities and large international corporations, as well as access to talented developers, we aim to build an ecosystem that can bring the next wave of frontier technology to provide value to billions of people around the world.

 If you have any questions about our project or our team, please feel free to contact us via email at info@kambria.io or to message us through Telegram. We always love hearing from you! And if you are not yet a Kambrian, please join our community to get updated news, and the scoop on our upcoming events.

The Kambria Team

Website: https://kambria.io/

Whitepaper: http://bit.ly/2JbuET7

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial

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Email: info@kambria.io

KAT is sold to be used on the Kambria platform.

Kambria Weekly Progress Update: December 2nd, 2018
Kambrians, we’re still very busy over here creating community and spreading the good word about our platform. In case you missed it, here’s the replay from this past week!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Strategic Backer: DF Capital, managed by Jun Hasegawa, Founder and CEO at OmiseGO

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New Strategic Partner: Amplifi Capital

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New Advisory Board Member: Ro Charlz
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New Partnership: Qrypto Queens and Women Investing in Women Digital
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EVENTS

November 25th — Kambria Vietnam Meetup: Blockchain Investment & Real World Applications Landscape
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This was a fantastic event for Kambria! Dr. Thuc Vu introduced our project to everyone and provided an update on the latest market news. We also hosted two panel discussions: Current Cryptocurrency Investment Trends and Practical Blockchain Projects. You can watch a reply of the livestream by clicking here.

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November 27th — Vietnam Startup Funding CAMP 2018: Fireside Chat with Thuc Vu and Loi Luu
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Dr. Thuc Vu participated in a fireside chat with Dr. Loi Luu, CEO and Co-founder of Kyber Network and Kambria Advisor, as part of the SFC Gala Dinner program in Da Nang, Vietnam.

Startup Funding CAMP is a highly-recognized startup development program and an official initiative of The Vietnamese Youth Association.

November 28th — Crypto Brunch with Thuc Vu and Loi Luu

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Dr. Thuc Vu and Dr. Loi Luu, CEO and Co-founder of Kyber Network and Kambria Advisor, hosted a crypto brunch in Da Nang City, Vietnam to chat about their respective projects and the blockchain and crypto markets in general.

November 29th — Dr. Thuc Vu at Vietnamese Government Forum
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Dr. Thuc Vu participated in a discussion forum with the Vietnamese government, including the Prime Minister, the Minister of Science and Technology, the Minister of Information and Communications, and various other officials to discuss a breakthrough solution for building an Innovation and Startup Ecosystem in Vietnam. He is proposing that Kambria work with the government and build an open innovation platform for the ecosystem in Vietnam.

November 29th — VinCapital Founders Retreat in Vietnam
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VinaCapital Ventures collaborated with key leaders and founders across Vietnam during this retreat to brainstorm how to bring Vietnam to the forefront of the global technology stage. They switched off their phones and switched on their creativity to develop new strategies moving forward to bring the best innovations that Vietnam has to offer. It was an incredible event and Kambria was honored to be a part of it. #Kambria #Innovation #Vietnam

November 30th — Tingxi Tan, Kambria CPO, and Michelle Tsing, Kambria Advisor Speak at VanFunding 2018 in Vancouver

Tingxi Tan spoke on a panel titled “Unlocking Global Growth: CyberSecurity, Digital Identity, Trust and Transparency.”
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And Michelle Tsing spoke on a panel titled “Launching an ICO, STO or HYBRID: Best Practices for Planning and Marketing Your Sale.”
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NEW ARTICLES

A well-known Vietnamese publication, TienDienTu.org, featured Dr. Thuc Vu by publishing this insightful article. Please check our English translation.

Recap of Blockchain on the Beach event in Laguna Beach, California

TELEGRAM CHANNELS REMINDER

Kambria now has 5 language-specific Telegram channels. Join us!
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Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/KambriaOfficial

Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea

Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam

Telegram (CHN): https://t.me/KambriaChina

Telegram (RUS): https://t.me/KambriaRussian

UPCOMING EVENTS

Stay tuned for more events this coming week including an AMA with our new Advisor, Ro Charlz.

And soon we will announce our next hackathon on Austin, Texas, as well as a huge AI summit in Vietnam!

Thank you for continued support, Kambrians!

The Kambria Team

Thank You for Attending Crypto Coffee!

Thank you to everyone who attended Crypto Coffee on Sunday, December 2nd in Hanoi! Dr. Thuc Vu, Kambria CEO and Co-founder, had a great time meeting everyone and hanging out with his friends and partners from TomoChain, Kyber, Coin 98, and the local blockchain community!

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We received a lot of interesting questions from the audience! Thuc discussed AI, robotics, and blockchain. And he also shared his thoughts about growing the developer community in Vietnam and in many parts of the world, which is one of Kambria’s top priorities. Building strong communities to contribute to the entrepreneurial movement in Vietnam is very important to Kambria.

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“The foundation of Kambria will create a clear bridge between practical products and blockchain technology. In 2019, Kambria will focus on connecting projects from large companies to attract the community. This is a special feature of the Kambria project, as we have built practical applications from blockchain.”

And Long Vuong, CEO and Founder of TomoChain, shared his perspective about utility tokens. We love partnering with TomoChain!

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All in all, it was a fun and educational morning for Kambria and our community members.

If you’d like to watch a replay of our meeting, please check it out here:
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To stay abreast of upcoming events, please join us on Telegram. We always love hearing from you!
 
The Kambria Team

AMA Recap with Ro Charlz, VP at Vickers Venture Partners and Kambria Advisor — 12/3/2018

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Thanks to all of our community members who joined us yesterday for an AMA with our new Kambria Advisor, Ro Charlz. In addition to being a venture capitalist, Ro is a Formula Car, which probably makes him our “coolest” Advisor yet. Here is a recap of our conversation; for clarity, the original text has been lightly edited for grammar and spelling.

If you could not catch the AMA live, please post your question in our main Telegram channel. The team will get back to you quickly.

Which sector in your opinion is the easiest to scale? The most difficult? Why?

I think “easy” is probably not the right word as there are so many factors at play. For us, we more so focus on B2B strategies and/or deep tech, as it allows us more to get embedded with the customers, learn the problem, the solution the start-up is proposing, and understand the potential around the product (i.e. figure out early in if the unit economics appear to make sense). We are less specialized on trying to predict the next social driven trend, rather we’re more focus on key architectural layers for the direction we see the world going. Then we invest in the underlying tech supporting those areas.
 
Some examples would be our investment in JJE, who have gone on to become one of China’s largest manufacturers and exporters of electric motors to the EV industry. We made this investment many years ago due to a thesis we had around the macro shift we’ll see towards EV’s…BUT we didn’t want to take the manufacturer risk of an auto brand (i.e. a Tesla, Nio, Faraday, etc)…Instead, we chose to get exposure to the sector via a platform technology that all players in the space may use as a supplier (B2B).

Can you tell us about your venture capital firm Vickers Venture Partners? What is your investment thesis?

Sure thing! We are a top-performing venture capital firm with seven offices globally. We manage 5 funds and are one of the most prominent VC tech investors in Asia (current NAV circa USD$3bn). Our firm has consistently been ranked as one of the world’s top-performing venture capital firms and the Vickers’ team have been involved in some of the world’s largest tech unicorn start-ups, which includes near USD$100bn of value creation.

We tend to focus more on tech we can measure. For us, the perfect venture investment is where we can measure the tech and assess its magnitudes better than what currently exists, measure the defensibility around that tech (IP, etc) and measure the market and their willingness to adopt such tech. If we can answer those questions well and it’s attractive, then it’s a dream investment…

But that also means we’ll miss some things. We are likely not the guys who’ll find the next Facebook or Twitter. For example, if Twitter came to us in the early days and said, “We’re going to build an app where users can post 140 characters,” we probably wouldn’t have noticed the need for such a thing. Hence we don’t like to punt. But other VC’s do that and are very good at that. Each to their own.

[Moderator] You can learn more about Vickers Venture Partners’s impressive track of records here: http://www.vickersventure.com/performance/. “Vickers is ranked 6th in the world across all funds, and is the most highly awarded Asian VC.”

What attracted you most to Kambria and in what way do you assist the team?

I had the chance to meet Dr. Thuc Vu via his previous start-up and was always very impressed. Not only does he conceptualize, but he also executes and gets sh*t done. I like that! Hence I’ve enjoyed following him and his team. In terms of how I’m assisting, well that is an ever-evolving work in progress but I’m assisting to open doors in Asia to stakeholders who may add-value to the Kambria ecosystem.

What is it like to drive a formula car?

Haha, it really is the most natural form of a car. So light and such a high power to weight ratio so you have so much feeling. You actually drive a race car not with your hands or eyes alone, but with your butt by feeling what the car is doing through the seat. You feel every little thing the car is doing and adjust your inputs in a predictive manner rather than reactive (as that would be too late). So if you enter a corner 1 mile faster and brake .3m later, the weight transfer you’ll feel and the car’s behavior will be different. Hence, it’s all about feeling once you’re behind the wheel.

[Moderator] Ro was a professional race car driver that participated in top-level international competition and championships winning several times. That’s super impressive!

How is motorsports like start-ups?

Although very different of course, there are parallels to draw on. Motorsport is a mix of science and competition. Actually, 90% of what we do at the race track is scouring through telemetry and data with our engineers to find improvements. So it’s quite quantitative, but at the end of the day, there’s also a large element of gut feeling involving. Add to that the ultra-competitive environment and the cutthroat nature and the two worlds have a somewhat similar feel.

What are the top qualities you look for in a startup in general, and in a blockchain project in particular?

As any investor will tell you, the hardline fact in early-stage investing is really about the team. Sounds cliche but that is just how it is. Every start-up, no matter how good their tech alone or product is, will face huge obstacles on their journey. They’ll all run into brick walls. But its what they do when they get to that brick wall that makes the difference. A great team will hopefully figure out whether they climb over, tunnel under, or blow through this brick wall, rather than just ramming into it to death.

What other projects are you working with and what’s your sentiment about the state of blockchain right now?

We are very bullish on blockchain as we see it as a key fundamental architectural layer the future-world will be built on. We are moving toward a more automated and more integrated society, an age where big data and microtransactions will need to be automatically facilitated. The world as we know it has been built in a siloed manner, but that is changing and blockchain will help facilitate the shift. Much like the internet as an architectural layer has changed how the world operates, blockchain can also be an integral piece of architecture that we build upon.

What benefit will blockchain bring to AI and robotics? And what role will play Kambria?

I think one of the major benefits is that Kambria is connecting minds, talent, and resources and creating an ecosystem that is in line with the macro direction the world is going (gig-eco based, etc). AI and robotics clearly have a huge part to play in the world and the platform connecting and managing tech development in this area can be very powerful.

What are the top lessons you have learned through your investing experience that you would like to share with any startup entrepreneur?

I’m always learning, but the one thing stands out time and time again — surround yourself with the best possible people/team. Know your strengths, but more importantly, know your weaknesses, as then you can get the right people around you to fill those gaps. But as good people are the most important aspect, finding these people may be easier said than done.

What kind of technologies do you think would be important in the future?

I think all the much talked about areas are valid. Areas like AI, blockchain, robotics are all so important as they translate across all industries. If you look at the implications AI has around drug discovery in the biotech space, it’s truly incredible. So we are going to see some massive advances. BUT it’s important to remember these things can take time and often V1.0 of that technology is limited in capability.

For example, years ago in the ’90s when I was at school we had a weekly IT class where we were all allowed on the internet. But the internet we had access to was a very different internet to what we have access to today in terms of experience. And things like blockchain will also need to go through those developments. So sometimes people expect things too quickly. But this is an evolving game and we have to be prepared to take time for some of this tech to mature.

What are the top three trends in blockchain that have captured your attention?

At Vickers, although we are bullish and invest in blockchain, we probably are not as close to it as some of our peers who purely focus on it because we are more active in other areas. For us, we are seeing all the major traditional players accept and adopt the tech, and they are investing into R&D in the space (for example, in Singapore, all the major banks, the regulators, etc, are exploring how they’ll make use of blockchain). So we like the enterprise solutions space using blockchain, but for MANY of these types of solutions, they don’t need someones ICO tokens to execute in order to receive the value/ benefits from using blockchain. They can create solutions amongst themselves and are doing so (but I agree for other areas, the tokenized model makes great sense). So for me, I think the biggest trend noticed has been how traditional players are now fully onboard with blockchain.

In Asia, in what markets are venture capital investors most active? Both in the traditional VC investing space that startups need to give up equity, and now in the ICO and crypto space?

China is still dominating the landscape in Asia for good reason. But we are seeing more and more happening in S.E Asia as well. Many feel the next decade or two will be the era of S.E Asia. We have a big population and strong demographics — young populations, growing middle classes, etc. Singapore is the natural hub for start-up tackling S.E Asia as it’s a very mature, sophisticated business environment and this is where the capital is. So many businesses are trying to solve problems in Indonesia or even India and are headquartered here since this is also where the capital is based to a large degree.

What advice would you give entrepreneurs, especially as we get into the new year?

Where to start, haha! (By the way, I also need advice and by no means know any more than the next person.) I guess my advice would be to realize what you’re getting yourself into and the amount of hard work and dedication it takes. Creating a start-up has become the “cool” thing to do, but success is generally never easy. There are A LOT of smart people in the world working hard 24/7 to solve the same problems. So if you want to fight in that battle be prepared for the realities of it. Also, be relentless but agile and smart at the same time. You just need to hustle and find ways to push things forward.

Robotics + AI are great, but have you thought about a massive cyber attack? Should we only depend on technology?

Sure, that’s an interesting thought but either way, the world isn’t going back. There are a lot of questions regarding the implications of AI, but actually, the human race is going down this path regardless. So I guess we really need to figure out how we fit together. I agree with you but don’t have an answer at this stage other than it’s just part of the human story. We’ve invented this so we need to find a way to exist with it long-term. More of a longer conversation piece and fun to debate.

[The End]

A huge thanks again to Ro and to our community members for participating in our AMA. If you’d like to ask your questions live next time, join our Telegram channel. See you there!

ABOUT Ro Charlz
Ro Charlz is a technology evangelist and serves as an investment professional with Vickers Venture Partners, one of the world’s leading tech-focused venture capital firms whose team has been involved with several prominent unicorn start-ups. Ro covers a wide-span of sectors including blockchain, robotics, AI, IoT, mobility, automotive tech, automation, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and general consumer tech. Ro has previous experience in the energy sector and serves as an active angel investor and advisor to several start-ups. He comes from a background in professional motorsports as a consultant to the automotive industry with a focus on tech development for over 10 years, consulting to several of the world’s largest automotive makers.

For more info about Vickers Venture Partners, please visit:
www.vickersventure.com

ABOUT Kambria

Kambria is an open innovation blockchain project that enables and incentivizes collaboration in R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization of advanced technology. We are developing our own public chain with protocols uniquely designed to address the current waste and inefficiencies in today’s innovation model. Kambria will allow for many verticals, including Biotech, Space, and Autonomous Vehicles, to be developed and thrive in the ecosystem. We are focusing first on the AI and Robotics vertical with the backing of our well-established robotics company, OhmniLabs. Through existing partnerships with top universities and large international corporations, as well as access to talented developers, we aim to build an ecosystem that can bring the next wave of frontier technology to provide value to billions of people around the world.

The Kambria Team

Big Win at State of Chain Hackathon!

On December 2nd, members of Kambria’s development and marketing team participated in the State of Chain hackathon in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Sponsored by Framgia and LongHash, the event challenged each team to create a product that solves a real-world problem. In order to win the competition, teams had to present their final product before the judges, experts in the IT industry.

Twenty-six teams from all over the world competed during the 40-hour event to develop solutions utilizing blockchain technology across five subjects: Infrastructure, Healthcare, Education, Digital Money, and Games.
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We are proud to announce that members of our team — organized under the name Nairbmak (Kambrian in reverse) — won the top prize in the Healthcare division! This division was the most popular among all of the teams so the competition was especially stiff.
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Nairbmak finished with 2 prizes:
- First Runner-up with a cash prize of $2000
- A Special Award by PwC Japan including a visit to Japan’s startup and blockchain communities fully sponsored by them
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Nairbmak’s win goes to show the strong development skills and creativity of our technical team here at Kambria. Congratulations on your win, gentlemen! We look forward to tracking your excellence!

The Kambria Team

We were recently featured on a few project review websites as well. We are very pleased to be covered in such a positive light. Check out these few:

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2018 Year in Review Highlights

Dear Kambria Community,

We’ve made so much progress in 2018 that we’d like to share some of the highlights with you!

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Growing Our Community

Over 14,000 Telegram members across 5 channels in English, Vietnamese, Korean, Russian and Chinese
Over 12,000 Twitter followers
Furthering Collaboration

6 new partnerships including DREP, TomoChain, ISOKEN, Midas, Byzantin, and Qrypto Queens
9 incredible Advisors providing input and guidance including leaders of Hashed, TomoChain, WeTrust, Kyber Network and NEO Global Capital
Events Organized — too many to count!

4 Global Hackathons organized in conjunction with IDEAS to grow our developer community. Events were held at prestigious universities including UC Berkeley, George Brown College, Stanford University, and Fordham University
Highlights include our two premiere events in Vietnam in November — Innovation, Community, Impact & Startup Pitch Competition. Both were attended by prominent CEOs and successful tech investors in Silicon Valley and Vietnam. Kambria connected changemakers worldwide and shared the spirit of open innovation.
Advancing Our Platform
In September we launched our mainnet! Thanks to the hard work of our outstanding development team, we can now connect investors, developers, manufacturers, and consumers through our platform. Lots more to come!

To stay up-to-date, please visit one of our Telegram groups:
Telegram in English: https://t.me/kambriaofficial
Telegram in Vietnamese: https://t.me/KambriaVietnam
Telegram in Korean: https://t.me/KambriaKorea
Telegram in Chinese: https://t.me/KambriaChina
Telegram in Russian: https://t.me/KambriaRussian

The Kambria Team

Real World Application of A.I.

In the world we live in today, we often hear about frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), but many of us are not aware of how these technologies are affecting our everyday lives. Understanding the concept of potential is evident for most, but let’s take a look into how they’ve already changed the world we live in today. How are these technologies being applied currently, and where do we go from here?

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One of the most impactful examples in the application of these technologies is built right into our smartphones. In the years preceding the application of AI and machine learning, in order to travel, most people had to rely on ordinary maps. The next phase of technology was the implementation of such internet technologies such as MapQuest, but today, apps such as Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze have dominated the navigation industry. These apps wholly rely on the use of complex algorithms based on AI and machine learning. Location data, traffic information, and other various forms of data are used in calculating the fastest possible route to your destination. Additionally, with the creation of autonomous vehicles, self-driving cars utilize this same technology, except it is applied in conjunction with other data inputs to prevent collisions. Examples of this are real-time monitoring of other vehicles, pedestrians, traffic flow, and road hazards.

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Google Maps showing alternate routes, including traffic (see route in red).

Does your e-mail provider have a spam filter? AI has you covered. Google’s spam filter touts an impressive 99.9% success rate for catching spam, and Google has even taken it one step further. With the development in AI, Google has been able to apply these same technologies to categorize different kinds of emails into different inboxes to provide you a more desirable and user-friendly experience.

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These are just a few examples of how AI has radically changed the world we live in. Learning algorithms have been applied to just about every area in this digital age from the ads you see to your mobile banking check deposit. Grading papers, credit decisions, fraud detection, object recognition, facial recognition, and voice recognition are just some of the other ways these technologies are being applied that do, in fact, affect our everyday lives.

With Moore’s Law in full effect, advances in computing power have allowed the application of AI to robotics to create complex reasoning ability and logic, vastly improving the capabilities of modern day robots. Kambria’s approach to this application is multi-faceted. In addition to applying AI to robotics to create more complex reasoning capabilities, the Kambria Open Innovation Platform will use an incentivized platform to promote innovation and collaboration in AI development, where developers receive rewards for their contributions. Rather than have siloed and fragmented libraries, these newly developed AI frameworks will be openly shared across the Kambria Platform. Open-source innovation drastically cuts down on the wasted effort that silos create, and by allowing these frameworks to be easily applied to new innovations being built on the Kambria Network, innovators no longer have to double their efforts for work that has already been completed by other innovators. This modular and plug-and-play approach will significantly reduce the cost, time, and effort to develop the new technologies that will radically shape our tomorrow.

For more information on the Kambria Open Innovation Platform, visit our website at https://kambria.io.

The Kambria Team

Industry 4.0

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In this digital age, data collection has become an incredibly valuable tool for assessing efficiency. Efficiency directly impacts profits, so manufacturers are keenly aware of the constant need to improve their current systems. Data is the key to understanding where and how these improvements need to be implemented. Currently, one of the biggest problems with robotics in industries are the regular, unscheduled downtimes of integral robotics equipment. It’s been estimated that an unscheduled downtime costs GM around $20,000 per minute. GM, Cisco, and FANUC have developed new cloud-based software, ZDT (Zero Down Time Solution), that uses machine learning to be able to accurately predict mechanical failures before they happen, as well as preventing unnecessary scheduled downtime on machines that are not in need of service. This is saving GM from losing obscene amounts of money. ZDT has proven so effective, they are exploring new ways to revolutionize robotics efficiency in their plants that have never been possible before.

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“For example, a robot might be designed to have routine scheduled maintenance at 1,000 hours. So we would plan to maintain it at that time,” says Linn. “But it might actually last 1,250 hours before it needs maintenance. So we’re working on getting away from fixed maintenance schedules to instead schedule as needed. This is one of the major ways you can find significant savings going forward.” -Marty Linn, Manager of Advanced Automation Technologies and Principal Engineer of Robotics at General Motors Co.
Fact or Friction?
With a focus in robotics and AI, Kambria’s approach to frontier technologies encompasses every aspect of hardware development, the logic that runs it, manufacturing, and the materials used in that process. All of these separate, but vital, ingredients in the innovation process can be directly developed, sold, shared, and applied directly within Kambria’s Open Innovation Platform. Our open-source approach is designed to significantly reduce the additional effort required in the lengthy process to get from concept to finished product. This includes nearly every aspect of the development process, including where roboticists source their materials from. Removing friction plays a huge role in efficiency, and time is money. That is what robotics in industry 4.0 is all about: efficiency, time, and cost reduction.

While the Kambria vision is quite complex in nature, the goal is very simple: Kambria is building the “go-to” platform for developing new innovations. In an open collaborative environment, many of the difficulties in creating a new product are drastically diminished, if not eliminated completely. Kambria’s approach to industry 4.0 is providing the right tools for the right job, an infrastructure to support it, a global community of innovators to work alongside. This allows innovators to do what they do best: #BUIDL. There truly is no limit to what we can achieve together, so our question to you is: what will you build? #Kambria

The Kambria Team

I think this Kambria project has everything, this project was built by professional people and has many good advisors such as Roger Lim "NEO GLOBAL CAPITAL" besides that the Kambria has also been covered by many large media and has many potential partnerships. but I haven't found information about tokens and sales of Cambrian tokens, can you tell me?

Sure! Thanks for the question, and the support. The Private Pre-Sale took place on 12/1-2018-12/5/2018, and is now closed. We have no plans to have an ICO. Currently, our next steps are being implemented, and we will update the community with these details. I will provide some information about the pre-sale below, but for the future, users will have to purchase tokens from the exchanges when they go live.

📢 ​ Dear Kambria Community,

We would like to inform you that the private presale has ended with a capital raise of $1,990,050.24. This could not have been possible without your incredible support during these challenging market conditions.

All of the unsold tokens in this presale will be burned. Detailed information will be announced on Kambria's media channels within the next few days.

On behalf of the Kambria team, we would like express our heartfelt gratitude. We are committed to work even harder to develop the Kambria Platform as well as the Al & Robotics community worldwide.

There will be a host of events down the road, and we hope you will continue to join us on this exciting journey.

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December Progress Update — Pre-Sale Completion, State of Chain Hackathon Win and More!
Dear Kambria Community,

Can you believe that 2018 is almost over? As we approach the end of the year, we have so much to be grateful for! We had an incredible couple of weeks executing our private pre-sale that closed on Wednesday, December 5th. Our goal for the pre-sale was to further build a strong backer community and we believe we achieved that! We received a lot of support from our target countries despite a depressing market. Thank you to everyone who contributed; we look forward to a strong collaboration with you.

In addition to our pre-sale, this past month we recruited two new advisors, signed on new strategic backers and partners, and continued to host community-bridging events all over the world. Click here to see our gorgeous graphic with highlights and keep reading for more details!

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NEW ADVISOR: Kenzi Wang

Kambria is pleased to welcome Kenzi Wang to the Kambria Advisory Board as the Co-founder of AU21, a venture capital firm focused specifically on the blockchain ecosystem. Before starting AU21, Kenzi was CEO and Co-founder of Traction Labs. In addition, he founded Fantoon Growth Labs and Growthathon. Kenzi has deep knowledge of exchanges and the crypto markets. Kenzi studied Mathematics at Columbia University and graduated with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Learn more about Kenzi in this announcement and read about how he will contribute to Kambria in the recap of our AMA with Kenzi held on November 8th.

NEW ADVISOR: Ro Charlz

We are also thrilled to have Ro Charlz onboard. Ro is a technology evangelist and serves as an investment professional with Vickers Venture Partners, one of the world’s leading tech-focused venture capital firms whose team has been involved with several prominent unicorn start-ups. Ro covers a wide-span of sectors including blockchain, robotics, AI, IoT, mobility, automotive tech, automation, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and general consumer tech. Ro has previous experience in the energy sector and serves as an active angel investor and advisor to several start-ups.

Meet Ro and learn how he will support Kambria in this announcement and in the recap of our AMA with Ro held on December 3rd.

New Strategic Backer: DF Capital

We are excited to count DF Capital as a new strategic backer. DF Capital is managed by Jun Hasegawa, Founder and CEO at OmiseGO, a multinational payments company currently present in Thailand (HQ), Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia. Read more about Jun and how DF Capital will support Kambria in our announcement.

New Strategic Backer: Amplifi Capital

Amplifi Capital is a venture capital firm that makes strategic investments in blockchain companies. Led by a group of early crypto adopters that became private investors, Amplifi has invested in over 35 sector-specific companies. Learn more about why we’re excited to partner with Amplifi.

New Strategic Backer and Partner: ISOKEN

Kambria is pleased to announce that ISOKEN has signed on as a strategic backer and partner of Kambria. Together Kambria and ISOKEN will promote the development of frontier technology in Japan and beyond. Learn more about ISOKEN in our announcement.

New Partners: Qrypto Queens and Women Investing in Women Digital

With a predominantly female leadership team, Kambria is committed to supporting women in blockchain. Partnering with Qrypto Queens and WIIW enables Kambria to further our initiative to empower women everywhere. Read more about our collaboration here.

PAST EVENTS

November 10th and 11th — Global Blockchain & Data Analytics Hackathon at Fordham University

In partnership with IDEAS — Int’l Data Engineering and Science Association — Kambria organized a hackathon at Fordham University in New York to support the developer community. This year we have hosted events at UC Berkeley, George Brown College in Toronto, Canada, and Stanford University. Details about our next hackathon are coming soon!

November 14th — Innovation, Community, Impact: Protocol for the Future
Our Innovation, Community, Impact event held in partnership with Lixibox was definitely one of the best parts of the year! Kambria brought together prominent CEOs, successful investors, and other technology advocates to discuss entrepreneurship and how best to create an impact.

There were so many great insights shared by our esteemed guests who included Joe Lonsdale (8VC), Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss (Gemini Capital), Jack Abraham (Atomic), Jeff Lonsdale (Founders Fund), H.E. Chu Ngọc Anh, Vietnam’s Minister of Science and Technology, Sonny Vu, Minh Le, Sao Lonsdale (CEO of Lixibox) and our very own Thuc Vu, CEO and Co-founder of Kambria.

Check out the awesome sizzle reel by MoonRadium below, the event livestream (the conversation starts around 30:00), and our three-part recap we created to highlight key takeaways from our discussions:

Part I, Part II, and Part III.

Checkout this video of our Innovation Impact and Community Event with the Winklevoss Twins!
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November 15th — “Fueling the Innovation Economy: Startup Pitch and Blockchain Networking Event

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Kambria and TomoChain hosted a startup pitch competition on November 15th in Ho Chi Minh City. We were overwhelmed by the number of applications and chose eight teams to present their businesses to our panel of judges and receive valuable feedback. Meet the winners and watch a livestream of the event here.

November 25th — Kambria Vietnam Meetup: Blockchain Investment & Real World Applications Landscape

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This was another fantastic event for Kambria! Dr. Thuc Vu introduced our project to everyone and provided an update on the latest market news. We also hosted two panel discussions: Current Cryptocurrency Investment Trends and Practical Blockchain Projects. You can watch a replay of the livestream by clicking here.

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December 2nd — Big Win for Kambria Team Members at State of Chain Hackathon

On December 2nd, members of Kambria’s development and marketing team participated in the State of Chain hackathon in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Twenty-six teams from all over the world competed during the 40-hour event to develop solutions utilizing blockchain technology across five subjects. We are proud to announce that members of our team — organized under the name Nairbmak (Kambrian backward) — won the top prize in the Healthcare division! This division was the most popular among all of the teams so the competition was especially stiff. Read all about the prizes the team earned here. We are so proud of them!

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WHAT’S NEXT?

Soon we will announce the opening of the Kambria Open Innovation Hub in Silicon Valley. We’re also planning a Developer Meetup in the US and an AI Summit in Vietnam. Members of our Telegram channels are always the first to be invited. So join us!

Telegram in English: https://t.me/kambriaofficial
Telegram in Vietnamese: https://t.me/KambriaVietnam
Telegram in Korean: https://t.me/KambriaKorea
Telegram in Chinese: https://t.me/KambriaChina
Telegram in Russian: https://t.me/KambriaRussian

The Kambria Team

Attention! Kambria is giving away a custom Limited Edition Ledger Nano S!

See Tweet for more details!

🎊 GIVEAWAY! Kambria is proud to show off this fancy Kambria Limited Edition Ledger Nano S. Want to get your hands on one? Click this Tweet, and follow the instructions! #Kambria #Innovation #Ledger 🎊

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Dear Kambria Community,

Following the conclusion of the Kambria token sale, we are happy to announce that all of the unsold KAT tokens will be burned. The details for the burn is as follows:

+ Initial Supply: 5 billion KAT
+ Burn Amount: 1.2 billion KAT
+ New Total Supply: 3.8 billion KAT
+ Burn Date: Dec 19, 2018

We would like to thank our community again for your immense support. We are truly humbled and grateful to have you here with us.

We have a lot planned for the development of Kambria in the coming months, so kindly follow our social channels and blogs for up-to-date information on the Kambria Platform.

All up-to-date information will be posted on Kambria's official sites below:

🇺🇸 Kambria Official: https://t.me/kambriaofficial
🇺🇸 Kambria Official ANN: https://t.me/KambriaAnnouncements
🇻🇳 Kambria Vietnam: https://t.me/KambriaVietnam
🇻🇳 Kambria Vietnam ANN: https://t.me/KambriaVietnamAnn
🇰🇷 Kambria KR: https://t.me/KambriaKorea
🇰🇷 Kambria KR ANN: https://t.me/KambriaKRAnnouncements
🇨🇳 Kambria CN: https://t.me/KambriaChina
🇨🇳 Kambria CN ANN:  https://t.me/KambriaCNAnnouncements
🇷🇺 Kambria RU: https://t.me/KambriaRussian
🇷🇺 Kambria RU ANN: https://t.me/KambriaRussianAnn

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Tokens trading anywhere already? As far as I know you have partnership with Tomochain which mainnet launch in just few days. Are you going swap tokens from Ethereum blockchain to Tomochain blockchain?

Very glad that the unsold tokens were burned, market is very difficult for new coins as they get listed on exchanges and you guys have quite a high token supply; really hope the price doesn't tank once listed.

+ Burn Amount: 1.2 billion KAT

Thanks for the question. Because the pre-sale just closed, we have not announced any exchanges yet, but we will be sure to update the community the moment it happens. Thank you for your support.

As far as the tokens being on TomoChain blockchain, currently, we are focused on building the Open Innovation Platform to provide full functionality. Kambria is chain agnostic. We will remain on the Ethereum blockchain. Because TomoChain is a scaling solution for ETH, then it is something we would certainly consider in the future, but right now the main focus is building functionality.. In the meantime, our partnership with them will focus on education and training programs. Our vision is aligned globally, and in Vietnam, to educate, train, and empower underserved youth and college age men and women for a brighter tomorrow.

Thanks for your support!

I agree that the landscape currently has been less than favorable, but the good news is, that we sold our tokens during what appears to be most difficult time, so we now have the opportunity to be patient and persistent in building our roadmap. We are prepared to weather the storm and continue to work through it. We cannot predict how things will go in terms of people's sentiment, but we are confident that we have the recipes for success, including funding, a great team, talent, and a solid business plan. Our primary concern right now is to #BUIDL and deliver.

Supply is a highly debated issue. I am not convinced that supply is as big of a factor that people make it out to be. I understand the logic behind it, but there is no evidence to support that it affects things one way or the other, only speculation. However, reducing the supply for unsold tokens is something our community and advisors encouraged us to consider, so that is what we've done. We care about and listen to our community. We are happy to announce that the supply for KAT has been reduced by a factor of ~25%. The burn will take place on Dec, 19th 2018.

Regards,

William
Kambria Community Manager

Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/kambriaofficial

Sharing Economy v Token Economy: You Decide


While the term “sharing economy” first started to appear in the early 2000s, services such as Airbnb, Uber, and Lyft have dramatically increased the popularity of peer-to-peer service delivery over the last ten years. Also referred to as “collaborative consumption”, the sharing economy has successfully harnessed technology to allow individuals to market tangible and intangible personal resources — like an extra room, office space, or a ride — at scale.

But as cool and innovative as these sharing economy businesses are, lately they have come under fire. To begin with, some argue that the term “sharing economy” is a misnomer because there is no actual sharing; consumers are merely paying to “access” the goods or services of another person.

Moreover, due to the centralized nature of sharing economies, the company providing the platform remains in charge — not the users. Take reputation data, for examples. No matter how many stellar reviews you receive as an Airbnb Superhost, you can’t take it with you to another platform. Airbnb continues to own that data, not the host. Moreover, the company remains in charge of what data to share and display on the site. This type of data-siloing makes users dependent on the intermediary and limits both choice and income for all users.

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So while the sharing economy solves old challenges, it does raise new issues. Luckily, humans are awesome in their ability to innovate and improve. Enter the token economy.

The token economy aims to deliver what the sharing economy did not. The data and vast profits that formerly were kept by the centralized sharing economy company can now be distributed directly to and shared by users. Because token economies utilize their own form of currency, users can participate, earn, vote and profit equally based on their level of interaction with the site. Users who provide the service benefit more than the company organizing the users, which seems much more democratic and in the spirit of “sharing.”

Keep your eyes open for new versions of your old favorites. Bee Token wants to create the future of home sharing via a decentralized, blockchain platform that levies zero percent commission on transactions. And SnagRide wants to leapfrog Uber’s current model using token economics by offering decentralized ride-sharing on the Ethereum blockchain.

Kambria will also utilize token economics in delivering its open innovation platform. The goal is to eliminate data and provide as much transparency to users as possible in order to accelerate innovation. Programmers will be able to access the open-source library, make contributions, and build upon software and hardware repositories thereby increasing the value to all users. We are excited to develop this decentralized blockchain platform for our users and to transform how we innovate.

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We’re eager to share more with you about Kambria’s token economics. Stay tuned to our Telegram channels to be the first to know.

The Kambria Team



KAT is sold to be used on the Kambria platform.

Kambria <> Perlin Strategic Partnership Announcement

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We are pleased to announce a strategic partnership between Perlin and Kambria!

Perlin is the first practical, trustless, and decentralized cloud computing marketplace that leverages underutilized compute power in everyday smart-devices to make supercomputing economically viable and accessible globally.

Through the partnership, Perlin and Kambria will work together towards advancing distributed ledger and computing technologies globally. Kambria will have priority access to Perlin’s test net and cloud computing network and Perlin will support Kambria in growing the developer community through hackathons and developer-focused events.

“Being the first practical, trustless, and decentralized cloud computing marketplace to leverage the computing power of smart-devices, we are thrilled to work with the Dream It, Make It team at Kambria. Kambria is ushering in the next wave of millions of smart-devices by facilitating the development and adoption of robotics and AI worldwide. Together we can deliver exponential value to smart devices users!”
Kambria is thrilled to partner with Perlin. We are so impressed by their ledger technology and community. Perlin will be valuable in helping Kambria understand the potential of distributed computing in the Kambria Network. We look forward to a long-term partnership with Perlin.

About Kambria

Kambria is an open innovation platform that enables and incentivizes collaborations in R&D, manufacturing, and commercializing of advanced technology. With Kambria, we are changing the dynamics of innovation through collaboration and open source, where developing strong communities is a key component.

If you have any questions about our project or our team, please feel free to contact us via email at info@kambria.io or to message us through Telegram (links below). We always love hearing from you! And if you are not yet a Kambrian, please join our community to get updated news, and the scoop on our upcoming events.

The Kambria Team

Kambria Advisor Highlight: Long Vuong, Founder and CEO of TomoChain
In the last few months, Kambria has added to its ranks an arsenal of incredible advisors and partnerships, so we wanted to take a moment to recognize our awesome support.

We would not be where we are today without our incredible team, support, and community. Long Vuong is among these talents as a Kambria Advisor, so we’d like to take a look back and show our community some of the great contributions we have made together.

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Long’s vision for Kambria is to utilize TomoChain to provide the projects in the Kambria Community a financial system to take advantage of, as well as co-funding promising projects on the Kambria platform. TomoChain is a layer 1 scaling solution based on Ethereum codebase and can provide additional advantages to Kambria, as TomoChain supports all Ethereum smart contracts and tokens. His role is to provide support and strategic planning to Kambria’s new blockchain platform to build a robust ecosystem that promotes innovations at a speed and cost never possible before.

Additionally, Kambria and TomoChain have been working together in Vietnam to help build and support their home country’s infrastructure, with a special focus on youth and technology education. Take a look at some of the events our projects have hosted together.

AMA with Long Vuong on October 24, 2018 https://medium.com/kambria-network/ama-with-long-vuong-ceo-and-founder-of-tomochain-10-24-2018-9b8678dcb624

Long Vuong and TomoChain co-hosted our “Startup Pitch and Blockchain Networking” event in Vietnam, where Long was a panel judge.  https://medium.com/kambria-network/meet-the-kambria-startup-pitch-competition-winners-bb688d527d91

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Crypto Coffee: AI, Robotics, and Blockchain in Hanoi on December 2, 2018 https://medium.com/kambria-network/thank-you-for-attending-crypto-coffee-de2f06f3e692

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Needless to say, we love partnering with TomoChain! Here’s to further mutually supportive collaboration!

The Kambria Team

Awesome article and interview with OhmniLabs and Kambria CEO, Dr. Thuc Vu

http://vietcetera.com/how-i-manage-kambria-ceo-and-tech-entrepreneur-thuc-vu/

Great to see you guys listed on exchanges and that you managed to "protect" it's price! Fantastic job!

​​ Dear Kambria Commumity,

We are happy to announce that we have completed the first round of KAT token distribution to our community of backers who participated in our recent presale. Thank you for your support. Please review your registered wallet to confirm the amount.

Below are some details on Kambria Token (KAT):

- Contract: 0xa858bc1b71a895ee83b92f149616f9b3f6afa0fb
- Ticker: KAT
- Decimals: 18

Kindly subscribe to our official channels below for latest updates:

🇺🇸 Kambria Official: https://t.me/kambriaofficial
🇺🇸 Kambria Official ANN: https://t.me/KambriaAnnouncements
🇻🇳 Kambria Vietnam: https://t.me/KambriaVietnam
🇻🇳 Kambria Vietnam ANN: https://t.me/KambriaVietnamAnn
🇰🇷 Kambria KR: https://t.me/KambriaKorea
🇰🇷 Kambria KR ANN: https://t.me/KambriaKRAnnouncements
🇨🇳 Kambria CN: https://t.me/KambriaChina
🇨🇳 Kambria CN ANN:  https://t.me/KambriaCNAnnouncements
🇷🇺 Kambria RU: https://t.me/KambriaRussian
🇷🇺 Kambria RU ANN: https://t.me/KambriaRussianAnn

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Dear Kambria Community,

It is with utmost pleasure that we announce the world premiere of our Kambria Token (KAT) on the KuCoin Exchange.

Please take note of the following schedule:
+ Trading Pairs: KAT/BTC & KAT/USDT
+ Deposits Effective Immediately.
+ Buying order: December 12, 2018 at 17:30 (UTC+8)
+ Selling order: December 12, 2018 at 18:00 (UTC+8)
+ Withdrawal: December 14, 2018 at 18:00 (UTC+8)

We couldn't have asked for a better partner to premier with than KuCoin. We greatly appreciate all their support, and look forward to future collaborations.

KuCoin - The People's Exchange is the most advanced cryptocurrency spot trading platform for many digital assets.

KAT is sold to be used on the Kambria platform.

Kindly subscribe to our official channels below for latest updates:

🇺🇸 Kambria Official: https://t.me/kambriaofficial
🇺🇸 Kambria Official ANN: https://t.me/KambriaAnnouncements
🇻🇳 Kambria Vietnam: https://t.me/KambriaVietnam
🇻🇳 Kambria Vietnam ANN: https://t.me/KambriaVietnamAnn
🇰🇷 Kambria KR: https://t.me/KambriaKorea
🇰🇷 Kambria KR ANN: https://t.me/KambriaKRAnnouncements
🇨🇳 Kambria CN: https://t.me/KambriaChina
🇨🇳 Kambria CN ANN:  https://t.me/KambriaCNAnnouncements
🇷🇺 Kambria RU: https://t.me/KambriaRussian
🇷🇺 Kambria RU ANN: https://t.me/KambriaRussianAnn

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Thank you! We are very excited, and happy to have you here!

We are so proud of Kambria's backers and strategic partners. Take a look at how we will work together to #BUIDL the Kambria ecosystem. To see the full graphic, please go to our Medium post: http://bit.ly/2Qw8bHi

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Kambria now listed on coinmarketcap
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kambria
Congrats for all dev team and supporters

What price was on token sale in usd and in ETH? Price is below or above ICO right now? And as I know Kucoin have trading competitions airdrop when listed every new coin. So they have airdrop for KAT token as well?

If the current price Coinmarketcap.com KAT $0.027 and it has been up as much as 6%. If the value is kept relatively membaikdan views of the flat, there is no change that is too striking.
Source: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kambria/

Thank you!!! Onwards!

Kambria Weekly Progress Update: December 16th, 2018

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Dear Community Members,

There was so much happening here at Kambria this week — and we’d love to catch you up. In case you missed it, here’s an overview of what we accomplished.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Strategic Partnership: Perlin

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KAT TOKEN UPDATES

Token Distribution

On December 12th we announced that the first round of KAT token distribution was completed. KAT was distributed to our community of backers who participated in our recent presale. Thank you for your support!

Upcoming Token Burn

The KAT Token Burn will take place on December 19th. The details for the burn are as follows:
+ Initial Supply: 5 billion KAT
+ Burn Amount: 1.2 billion KAT
+ New Total Supply: 3.8 billion KAT

NEW ARTICLES
Business Partners Light Paper

Research Partners Light Paper

How I Manage: Kambria CEO and Tech Entrepreneur Thuc Vu published by Vietcetera

The Role of Robots in Industry 4.0

Sharing Economy v Token Economy: You Decide

Real World Application of AI

HIGHLIGHTING OUR BACKERS AND STRATEGIC PARTNERS

We are so proud of Kambria’s backers and strategic partners. Take a look at how we will work together to #BUIDL the Kambria ecosystem.

TomoChain Partner Highlight

Hashed Partner Highlight

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HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY

As a thank you to our community, we’re giving away a Limited Edition Kambria Ledger Nano S. Join us on Telegram, where we will announce the winner on December 21st, 2018.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Stay tuned for our upcoming events including an AI Summit in Vietnam on December 22nd. And thank you for your continued support!

The Kambria Team

Which tokens you want to burn? This is unsold tokens from token sale? How much were raised at ICO from hardcap?
Which role of KAT token in your project? How your tokens will be used? Are you going to have own blockchain?
Which role have partnerships with Tomochain? As I understand you are from the same country as Tomochcain (Vietnam). So you will works together?

The presale price was $0.02 USD. We are above ICO. We are going to announce a new contest soon. We were listed on Bitmart today!!

It's going well!

We burned 1.2 billion unsold tokens.



~16 million USD was raised



 

Please see the whitepaper here: https://kambria.io/Kambria_White_Paper_v2_20180615.pdf
There are far too many uses to list here. There is documentation provided for this. Please read :)




Long Vuong is a Kambria advisor, as we do work very closely with the TomoChain team, as we have our vision's aligned. Thanks for all the questions!

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Dear Kambrians,

It is with great pleasure that we would like to announce that in accordance to our committment to burning all unsold KAT Tokens, we have burned 1.2 billion KAT. With a reduction of ~25% of the total supply, we hope this is yet another stride in building our community's confidence in the Kambria Platform. We thank you all for your support. Can't wait to see what we #BUIDL together 🤖

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Kambria's KAT Cold Storage Tutorial. Enjoy!!

-William

https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambria-cold-storage-instructions-1696217980e5

We are announcing the Ledger Nano S giveaway in Telegram in 6 hours tonight! Come join us :D

t.me/kambriaofficial

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Something wrong here... I see at ICOdrops that you raised 16 mln usd from 19.9 mln hardcap and today price on coinmarket is $0,02 too ... and cap is 4.3 mln. What this means than? Not all tokens unlocked?
As for Bitmart exchange, I think people must know that there needed KYC for withdraw funds. So better to trade at Kucoin.

Exactly right. Not all tokens unlocked. We have a vesting period. They will all be released over the next year :) As far as Bitmart is concerned, they have a lot more volume, but we love both exchanges. It's all personal preference! Whichever you prefer :D

Any plan for burning tokens next year?

What stage is your ICO in right now?

Kambrians, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! Our team wishes you immense joy and prosperity as we close 2018 and ring in the new year. Thank you for being a part of our family.

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KAT TOKEN UPDATES

On December 19th, we completed our token burn of 1.2 billion KAT! The initial supply was 5 billion KAT and the new total supply is 3.8 billion KAT.

We are pleased to announce that KAT is now listed on both CoinMarketCap.com and Blockfolio. Download Blockfolio and watch “KAT” to receive updates directly from our team.

EVENTS

AI Summit in Vietnam

On December 22nd, Kambria and VietAI hosted an AI Summit in Ho Chi Minh City. The event brought together many experts in the Artificial Intelligence field. Attendees included researchers from the global stage and local universities, entrepreneurs and executives from high-tech companies and startups. More than 20 speakers from all around the world discussed the current state of AI and how local corporations can start to adopt AI into their current businesses.

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Here’s a photo of Kabria CEO and Co-founder, Dr. Thuc Vu, participating in a panel discussion about AI in Real World Applications with top researchers and entrepreneurs in AI in Vietnam and overseas. Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make this event a great success! We’ll see you at the next AI Summit next year.

VietSeeds Foundation Fundraiser

On December 16th, the non-profit organization, VietSeeds Foundation, co-founded by Kambria CEO Dr. Thuc Vu, held a scholarship fundraiser titled “VietSeeds — The Untold Story.” With over 180 people in attendance, the event was a great success! Using music and theater, supporters experienced a lively and sincere tribute to students impacted by the VietSeeds.

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Visit this link for the event photo album: http://bit.ly/2LtZlEz

ARTICLES PUBLISHED

Kambria Cold Storage Instructions

Kambria feature by Coin World Story

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY WINNER

Congratulations to our Telegram member HILIH KINTIL for winning a Limited Edition Kambria Ledger Nano S in our Holiday Giveaway! Please be sure to read our article with cold storage instructions. We are grateful for everyone who participated.


Happy holidays, Kambrians! May your days be merry and bright!

The Kambria Team

We don't have any plans at this time, but next year, we are going full swing in our marketing and community building plans, so we have a lot of tokens to give to the community. Stay tuned, and join Telegram from up-to-date information. I will also post it here

We are not having an ICO. We had a private sale and private pre-sale, in which we raised ~16 million USD. We are now well funded, and are proceeding forth with the roadmap :D. We released our tokens on 12/11/18, and are now trading on KuCoin, Bitmart, IDEX, Hotbit, and a few other exchanges. The ticker is $KAT. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Kambria Supports Female Founders

Kambria is spreading holiday cheer! Recently, we sponsored the Female Founders Community (FFC) holiday party in San Francisco and a good time was had by all.

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With over 6000 global members, FFC is the go-to place for female founders to find advice, guidance, investment, and support from other female founders. Members share about their startup, resources they find valuable in running their startup, advice/tips/tricks on fundraising, and reviews of investors and tools to find valuable events.

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Kambria is committed to supporting women in blockchain and entrepreneurship so serving as a sponsor of the FFC holiday party was absolutely our pleasure. Other event sponsors included French Tech Hub and Unboxd.
Happy holidays to our community of innovators. May the magic and the wonder of this holiday season stay with you throughout the coming year.
The Kambria Team

VietAI Summit 2018 Recap

On December 22nd, VietAl and Kambria co-organized the VietAl Summit 2018 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Many projects on Al research and adoption were introduced at the event.

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Applying AI to Agriculture

Kenneth Tran, an engineer at Microsoft Research, introduced his project on AI applications in agriculture. Tran’s project helps “develop an algorithm which has the ability to operate indoor farms in an automatic and effective way.” In an experiment of planting cucumbers in a greenhouse, an AI system was used to control the machines and to make decisions on the amount of water and light. The productivity of this crop was significantly higher compared to previous crops. According to Tran, this technology will be utilized not only in agriculture but also in other industries such as energy or transportation.

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Another outstanding presentation was from a new graduate of the University of Natural Science, National University of Ho Chi Minh City, Chuong Huynh. Huynh is currently a Product Engineer at HasBrain. His healthcare project concerns “the diagnosis system on lung X-ray images by combining chest x-ray bone shadow exclusion with deep learning.” This technology provides an automatic diagnosis for patients through lung x-ray images.

Next two young men, Do Truong and Minh Thang from VietAl, introduced their four demo models on how Al can automatically transcribe Vietnamese with high accuracy. This technology promises to improve the interaction between machines and humans in the Vietnamese language and has been utilized in smart homes.

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The Big Picture of AI Adoption in Vietnam

These projects from well-known Microsoft experts like Kenneth, start-ups like Do Truong and Minh Thang’s, or even a student like Chuong Huynh received a great deal of attention from the audience. And “we can infer that Al research and training activity in our country has taken great strides,” according to Dr. Thuc Vu, Kambria CEO and Co-founder.

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VietAl is a non-profit project co-founded by Stanford PhDs, Dr. Thuc Vu, and Dr. Thang Luong, with the aim of training IT engineers who are eager to learn more about AI. “Our foreign co-workers will share their expertise with us while working together and play an important role in building a strong AI developer community although the number of them is still small in comparison with other countries,” Dr. Vu said.

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Real-world use cases of AI have received a lot of attention in Vietnam and according to Dr. Vu. “In healthcare, big data and Al can be used to identify diseases. Some focus on fintech, for example, and credit scoring to know the credit indexes of borrowers. We also have a recommendation system of applications used for advertising. Some have used big data in agriculture to increase productivity.” However, Dr. Vu also said that AI is still not popular enough in Vietnam.

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In the event, Dr.Thuc Vu also introduced Kambria, a platform leveraging the development of robotic and Al technologies. This project will offer solutions for the existing drawbacks such as dependence on big companies and lack of cooperation between experts in this field.
VietAl is an educational organization founded by Thuc Vu and their mission is to provide AI courses to young Vietnamese engineers. Through the VietAl Summit, the founders hope that more programmers will join the movement to contribute to the development of the Kambria platform in Vietnam.
The Kambria Team
Website: https://kambria.io
Whitepaper: http://bit.ly/2JbuET7
Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial
Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea
Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam
Telegram (CHN): https://t.me/KambriaChina
Telegram (RUS): https://t.me/KambriaRussian
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork
Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kambria/
Discord: https://discord.gg/rjqDSdC
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial/
Medium (ENG): https://medium.com/kambria-network
Medium (CHN): https://Medium.com/kambriachina
Steemit: https://steemit.com/@kambrianetwork
Weibo (CHN): https://www.weibo.com/kambriachina
Email: info@kambria.io
KAT is sold to be used on the Kambria platform.

Wow it looks like so much fun to be there, Exchange information and share knowledge, everything is assembled.
by the way, your road map in writing that your platform is currently in full development, the extent to which it's already running?

Yes, it has a great team Kambria, they also do some meetings to discuss issues surrounding the crypto. This is a good thing, so they will more meet great people out there, and it's easier to find supporters and community, I hope it goes well.

Hey! Thanks. Yes, it was incredible. We are working really hard on development for the full launch of the platform. Currently, we have soft-launched the platform with limited functionality. You can find the platform at https://app.kambria.io - Users can view the codebase, vote for events, hackathons, and purchase development kits. We will soon launch the ability to import githubs, and begin to build out the Kambria Codebase. We are developing a community hub as well. This is all being done as we speak, and we're making significant progress :) We'll update you with more soon!

We have a huge amount of support coming out of Vietnam. We are overwhelmed by the community, as we continue to work closely with up-and-coming technology visionaries, we believe that Vietnam will be a hub for new innovation, and we will be a part of it!

According to one of the specifications of the website:

A new type of open source

Is this open source technology just for the development of new software? Or will a new OS be developed with the open source code?

From what I read, it is likely that the Kambria project has had so many members from Vietnam.
The core team has lots of experts in AI area, they come from Vietnam.

You could look at it like that. We are building a development environment that encompasses all aspects in the innovation process. From concept, design, manufacturing, material sourcing, production, delivery. So, it isn't an OS.. we use that analogy because of what Linux has done for open source collaboration. We will create the same kind of environment, but center it around innovation of robotics, ai, and other frontier technology, complete with a codebase and modules that can be used and applied across the entire platform.

Correct. :) Thuc Vu, CEO of Kambria, has started several Vietnamese projects including vietseeds.org and the VietAI Alliance!!!

We are starting with the ability to import githubs directly into the platform, and then creating a community hub for developers. This will be the beginning of the codebase, where everything will be reviewed, and if passed, will allow developers and innovators to import the code from the open source codebase and apply it to their new innovations. That is just the very first stage. Everything will be built on top of, and from, that.

Special Announcement!

Special Announcement

Bibox has just announced that Kambria is on their Community Vote, and we need your support! Voting has begun, so let's come together and win this!

Voting began December 28th at 1:00PM GMT+8 and will end January 4th, 2019 at 12:59PM GMT+8.

Show your support for Kambria by voting for Kambria on Bibox Exchange. Please be sure to read all the rules and conditions for the contest.

Sign up for Bibox at https://www.bibox.com/

Voting: https://www.bibox.com/votelist

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Kambria is now on BitUniverse Link! Sign up to receive up-to-date signals for Kambria on BitUniverse Link by adding KAT to the app. Thank you BitUniverse! 🤖 💪

Download the app here: https://www.bituniverse.org/

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Do I have to download, and install the app to sign up?
I don't like to install many apps on my computers or mobile devices.

You don't have to. I will post all news events here as well, and you can join our Telegram channels. That is another way. This is just another tool

Kambria Weekly Progress Report: December 30, 2018

Are you ready to ring in the new year? We sure are because we know our best year is yet to come! Here’s a quick recap of our progress this week.

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NEW DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

We created a new Meetup group for Open Source AI Developers. Please join other developers here.

TOKEN UPDATE

BitUniverse Listing

Kambria is now on BitUniverse Link! Sign up to receive up-to-date signals for Kambria on BitUniverse Link by adding KAT to the app.

PAST EVENTS

VietAI Summit 2018

On December 22nd, Kambria and VietAI hosted the first annual AI Summit in Vietnam with over 200 attendees.


Dr. Thuc Vu, Kambria’s CEO and Co-founder, delivered the opening speech
Here’s a recap highlighting some of the cutting-edge projects presented at the event. You can watch a livestream recording of the event here.

Kambria Supports Female Founders

Kambria had the opportunity to spread holiday cheer! Recently, we sponsored the Female Founders Community (FFC) holiday party in San Francisco and a good time was had by all. Learn more about the event here.


Happy New Year, Kambrians! Our resolution is to continue to innovate and improve in 2019. What is yours? Let us know in our Global Telegram Channel; we always love hearing from you!

The Kambria Team

Kambria: Looking Back to Look Forward

Dec 30

Photo by Michael Skok on Unsplash
2018 has been a year of new beginnings, trials, volatility, and vision. We began this journey in the early part of the year, and over this time, we are incredibly thankful for the great support, partnerships, and connections that we have made. As our vision grows, so do we, and so does our incredible community.

Kambria’s Top 10 of 2018

We’d like to take a look back at our favorite ten articles, events, and announcements over the last year, and we want to thank you all for being a part of it!

1. Open Innovation Manifesto https://medium.com/kambria-network/open-innovation-manifesto-d3ce79273e9f

2. Soft-launch Open Innovation Platform   https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambria-announces-mainnet-release-september-26-2018-7f16dced6e58

3. Kambria Year in Review https://medium.com/kambria-network/2018-year-in-review-highlights-fde0d98c45a5

4. Innovation, Community & Impact I  https://medium.com/kambria-network/innovation-community-impact-protocol-for-the-future-recap-part-i-ffb956667df0

5. Innovation, Community & Impact II https://medium.com/kambria-network/innovation-community-impact-protocol-for-the-future-recap-part-ii-efb3cd7ded69

6. Innovation, Community & Impact III https://medium.com/kambria-network/innovation-community-impact-protocol-for-the-future-recap-part-iii-ff422e148a9f

7. Strategic Backers & Partnerships https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambrias-backers-and-strategic-partners-efa2a99039a
 
8. Key Players: Kambria Ecosystem https://medium.com/kambria-network/series-1-key-players-in-the-kambria-ecosystem-a2f20e13cd44

9. Kambria AMAs https://medium.com/kambria-network/tagged/ama

10. Blockchain Rising https://medium.com/kambria-network/blockchain-rising-adoption-legislation-and-regulation-9b84b93171fd

Which is your favorite? Or do you have your own top 10? Let us know in one of Telegram channels linked below.

Looking Forward to 2019
In December, we closed our private sale and pre-sale with a total raise of ~$16M. While many offered us congratulations, our perspective is quite different. We are very thankful that we were able to raise money in such a difficult time in the space, but this is not the time for pats on the back. It is the beginning. This is the time to #BUIDL.

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This is where we really get the opportunity to make our mark in the world of innovation. The real success and congratulations will be when we successfully build our product, and that is our main focus. We look at this raise as a vote of confidence as our backers have provided us the runway for the Kambria Platform to take flight. We are committed to delivering above and beyond what many expect.

Into 2019, we are wasting no time. Currently, we have made significant progress on the Kambria Innovation Hubs. This will be the first major step in the full launch of the Open Innovation Platform. These Innovation Hubs will include functionality to import Github accounts and codebase directly onto the Kambria Platform. This is a very important step in developing and completing the Kambria Codebase, which is the backbone of the entire platform.

Additional items that we are working towards in the short term are:

Kambria’s AI Alliance
Open Innovation Hubs Worldwide
Corporate Partnerships
Hackathons
Bounties/K-prize challenges
Full Kambria Platform
On behalf of the entire Kambria team, we wish you a happy and healthy 2019! Onwards!

The Kambria Team

As I see Kambria taking first place in votin on Bibox right now. How many winners they have in this round? As I remember they have listed top 3 coins in previous rounds. How many will be listed in this round?
Are you going list KAT token t 2st tier exchanges (like Binance, Huobi)?

Bibox lists the first 2 places. Otherwise, no listing and all funds are returned. We are giving away 600k to our voters. Bibox is a tier 2 exchange. We are also trying our best to get on Tier 1, but these things take time. Please be patient. We are a small and new startup. Our goal is to take care of all involved with the platform, but this is not a day 1 process. It takes time. Thanks for being Patient. In the meantime, we are listed on KuCoin and Bitmart. :)

More clarification on the terms, Tier 1 and Tier 2, please.
What are tier one exchanges, and the same question for Tier 2 exchanges?

Tier 1 and Tier two would be descriptors for how much volume and exchange gets. Tier 1's like binance sometimes trade 1 billion per day in transacitonal volume. Bibox trades at about half of Binance, so it's around Tier 2 status. Still very good.

Dear Kambria Community,

Kambria is very happy to announce to you that we will be listing on the DragonEx Exchange!  DragonEx is a cryptocurrency trading platform registered in Singapore. Currently, DragonEx lists over 55 tokens/coins which trade in one or more of 4 possible trading markets (USDT, ETH, DC, NEW) for a total of 100 trading pairs. DragonEx has over 220,000 users spanning across more than 30 countries.

DragonEx will add KAT/USDT trading pair in the New market.

The schedule is as below:
15:00 Jan.4, 2019, UTC+8  Open for deposit
15:00 Jan.5, 2019, UTC+8  Open for trading

We are also very happy to announce that in support of this partnership, DragonEx is hosting an online event to help the education and exposure for the Kambria Platform, so we would love to have you all be a part of this exclusive event.

DragonEx Academy Lecture:
Topic: Kambria, the First Blockchain Project that Possess AI Robots
Time: 16:00-17:30, Jan. 4, 2019, Singapore Standard Time
Speakers:
Annie - Chinese Community Manager
William - American Community Manager
Venue: DragonEx Chinese Telegram Group: https://t.me/Dragonex_io

William will be in the English DragonEx room if any English speakers have questions! https://t.me/Dragonex_EN

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Note: Active participants will be rewarded handsome prizes.

Come on and join us!

I can't find any airdrop as well.  Please advice.

As i see voting ended yestarday and KAT took 2nd place there. So KAT will be listed to Bibox?
I don't think that tier 1 exchange will affected a lot to price owdays. May be in short-term only. Better list when market will start to grow (probably with Bakkt launch which they postponed again  :-\)
Why you want not swap tokens to Tomochain blockchain? They have almost 1500 TPS in their mainnet  ::)

Hi! We do not have an airdrop at this time, but keep an eye on our channels, because there might have something coming for you! Wink

Regards,

William

Yes, KAT will be listed on Bibox :D As far as TomoChain, they are our great partners, and we value what they are doing very much, however, we are blockchain agnostic, and currently are an ERC20 token. If the ETH chain becomes unusable for any reason, then we will consider moving chains to a more suitable solution. We don't have any need for 1500 TPS, as our token model doesn't require high throughput. We will be releasing a tokenomics paper shortly! Thanks for you feedback!

Here is our DragonEx Roadshow Recap! We had a great time at the event. Special thanks for DragonEx for hosting this very informative and fun event!

https://medium.com/kambria-network/dragonex-roadshow-recap-f8590451c87f

Kambria <> Terra Strategic Partnership Announcement

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Dear Kambria Community,

We are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership between Kambria and Terra!


Terra is building a decentralized stablecoin that will power the next-generation payment solution, paving the way for mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. The protocol ensures price-stability by algorithmically expanding and contracting supply and makes a decentralized guarantee of solvency through a collateral token called Luna, which protects Terra from the speculative and regulatory risks other cryptocurrencies are exposed to.

Through our partnership, Terra and Kambria will work to implement Terra’s Cross Chain Stability Mechanism to provide a stablecoin solution on the Kambria platform so that decentralized applications (dApps) running on Kambria may provide services more suitable for mass adoption.

“Terra looks forward to working closely with Kambria, the first blockchain platform designed for frontier technology like robotics and AI. A stablecoin solution is necessary for businesses and developers to easily collaborate and offer mainstream applications to end-users. We are excited to provide such a solution to Kambria and collaborate to further drive adoption of blockchain technology,” said Daniel Shin, co-founder of Terra.

“Kambria’s partnership with Terra demonstrates our commitment to building a long-term and stable infrastructure for the expansion of robotics, AI and other frontier technologies,” said Thuc Vu, Kambria’s CEO and Co-founder. “Terra’s technology will be instrumental in our path towards mass adoption and increasing usability for everyday users of our dApps.”

To learn more about Terra, please visit their website and watch their introductory video.

About Kambria
Kambria is an open innovation platform that enables and incentivizes collaborations in R&D, manufacturing, and commercializing of advanced technology. With Kambria, we are changing the dynamics of innovation through collaboration and open source, where developing strong communities is a key component.

About Terra

Terra is designing a price-stable digital currency that will power the next-generation payment network on the blockchain. Terra partners with an ever-growing alliance of global eCommerce platforms to bring blockchain’s benefits such as low transaction costs to merchants and everyday consumers. By bridging the gap between digital currencies and real-world application, Terra aims to evolve into an open platform for innovative financial dApps and grow the real GDP of the blockchain economy. Founded by a team of business, finance and blockchain experts, Terra has offices in Singapore and Korea. For more information, go to https://terra.money/. Follow us on Telegram @terramoney and visit our blog for regular updates: https://medium.com/terra-money.

If you have any questions about our project or our team, please feel free to contact us via email at info@kambria.io or to message us through Telegram (links below). We always love hearing from you! And if you are not yet a Kambrian, please join our community to get updated news, and the scoop on our upcoming events.

The Kambria Team

Do you have exact date when KAT will be listed?
But as far as I know you have partnership with Tomochain. I though that you was going swap tokens from Ethereum to Tomo... So what sence in your partnership if you want not use their blockchain?
Tomo working  very well and their transactions much faster now. I tried and this takes just few seconds, instead of ethereum where is takes log time...

Kambria does not have a need for high throughput, as we are not an acting currency or needing high TPS. Doesn't mean we're against it, but that is not what makes our platform effective or brings value to Kambria. It is nice, but whether or not it takes 3 seconds or 2 minutes to validate a bounty or reward on the Kambria platform is inconsequential. We are building robotics and AI, not acting as a currency. Our partnership with Tomo is one of innovation. They will assist us in many ways, including funding new projects and community outreach in Vietnam and globally. They are a very valuable partnership to Kambria.

DragonEx Roadshow Recap!

In support of our new partnership, DragonEx Exchange invited Kambria Team members to participate in an exclusive online roadshow with both the DragonEx English and Chinese-speaking communities.

The event featured Kambria community managers Annie Wang (CH) and William Ryan (EN). Both sessions were focused and very active. Here is a recap of the conversation with William in the English channel; for clarity, the original text has been lightly edited for grammar and spelling.


Do you have any idea about Kambria? Today’s roadshow is mainly about Kambria’s project progress. and its future planning.

I understand the bulk of the conversation is going on in the DragonEx Chinese channel, but in case there are any English speakers here who are interested, we were recently listed on DragonEx. I met the team in May in New York City, and was very impressed with their professionalism. They are awesome people to know, and I am even more excited to now be working with DragonEx. They are a great exchange!

I wanna know, how is Kambria different from other AI projects?

Kambria is an open innovation platform designed to cut down and drastically reduce the time and cost it takes to innovate robotics, AI, and other frontier technologies. Kambria allows for innovators to collaborate on every aspect of the innovation process. So a company can host a bounty to utilize developers to help them build their ideas. This also allows for innovators to modularize their ideas and allow other innovators to utilize their work, and earn KAT in the process.

Can the Kambria project run without blockchain?

Kambria’s Open Innovation Platform is designed around the KAT token. It technically could work without a blockchain, but it likely would not because we all know that incentives are the basis for the work that most people do. So we use KAT to power the network, pay bounties, pay developers, companies, and innovators who contribute to the network.

The best way to achieve this is to use a decentralized blockchain with smart contracts. No one would contribute without incentives. That is the backbone to any healthy economy. That is why we believe we do need a token.

But how advanced is the project in terms of progress?

Currently, the features that we are focusing on are building out Github support to allow developers to import the githubs to build out the Kambria codebase, which will be utilized in the Kambria codebase, the backbone of the platform. Additionally, we are creating innovation hubs across the world that will allow roboticists and AI developers to come in and innovate new products.

What if a big company copies Kambria? Are there any barriers to competition?

There are currently no other companies who are doing what we are doing. Our platform encompasses every single aspect of the innovation process from concept, to design, to manufacturing, to sourcing materials, to production, to delivery. We will also not open source all of our intellectual property. Because of our experience with OhmniLabs, Kambria’s sister company, we have discovered ways to build robots using 3-D printing far cheaper than most have heard of.

Could you please introduce your team members to us?

Yes. My name is William, and I am the American Community Manager, and I have with me Annie Wang, who is our Chinese Community Manager.

Let me get you some info on the rest of the team. Let’s start with the top :)

Dr. Thuc Vu — Co-Founder & CEO — AI & Game Theory — Dr. Thuc is a serial entrepreneur, with multiple company acquisitions, the last one by Google. He has deep expertise in game theory, tournament design and multi-agent systems. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford and BS from Carnegie Mellon, both in computer science. Dr. Thuc is a social entrepreneur in Vietnam, involved in several community projects.

Dr. Thuc Vu, first of all, is just incredible to work with. He is the nicest man, but he’s also very talented. He is also a very generous person who sows back into the communities around him. He has created several foundations in the world to “give back” to people, including his very own VietSeeds Foundation in Vietnam that helps poor Vietnamese children get a great college education. He sold one of his companies to Google, and then created OhmniLabs, which is Kambria’s sister company. You can visit the OhmniLabs.com website for more information.

Here’s a pic of our founders with the OhmniLabs robot.


Left to right: Jared Go (CTO), Dr. Thuc Vu (CEO), Tingxi Tan (CPO)
Our CTO, Jared Go, met Dr. Thuc Vu in college. They both attended Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon together.

Jared Go — Co-Founder & CTO — Robotics — Jared is an avid maker and roboticist, previously CTO and founding member at a networks startup. He has extensive experience in blockchain, AI, real-time graphics, VR, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. Jared is a Stanford Graduate Fellow, and has a BS in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Tingxi Tan — Co-Founder & CPO — Blockchain & Cloud Computing — Tingxi has a background in cloud computing, network infrastructure and distributed system design. He has been active in Crypto Investment since 2010. He was responsible for building the global scale cloud infrastructure at a networks startup. He graduated from MSc Computer Science U of Calgary and BSc Applied Math Western University.

Dr. Tra Vu — COO — Operations & Infrastructure — Tra has a background in Financial and Civil Engineering. She earned her Master’s in Financial Engineering and her PhD in Transportation Planning & Engineering from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Tra currently teaches at her alma mater and was responsible for leading her previous company in designing the first city-wide Transit Signal Priority system in New York City.

Tingxi, Dr. Tra Vu, and Jared are also just fantastic people to work with. The team is not only wildly talented, but also very pleasantly nice. It’s refreshing to see.

Is artificial intelligence a moral issue? How can I overcome this problem?

I believe it could be; however, it is up to us how we build such technologies. In our open collaboration system, everyone has the ability to solve this problem. If you want to solve it, you simply can participate in building it ethically.

Is the Kambria Innovation Platform open now in public?

Yes. The Open Innovation Platform was soft-launched in September 2018, and we are preparing for a full release this year. You can check out the platform here: https://app.kambria.io

I think artificial intelligence is a big trend: very good. Is there a potential market now? What are the plans for the Kambria project in the future?

AI is one of the fastest growing technologies in the frontier space. We already have hundreds of developers ready to begin working on the Kambria Open Innovation Platform, which is why we are so eager to finish our full launch of the platform, as well as our codebase. We are not far away. The full launch will be this year.

In addition, we are opening five innovation hubs across the globe, the first in Silicon Valley, California. We also working with major universities, including Stanford and Carnegie Mellon, to host hackathons in collaboration with the International Data Engineering and Science Association (IDEAS). Additionally, Thuc created the VietAI Alliance, which is dedicated solely to AI development. There will be several more of these that work with governments and universities in many different countries

I’m just a robotics engineer, but with no knowledge in Blockchain. How can I manage your platform? In our case, we have a team of robotics engineers and AI programmers, but they have no knowledge about Blockchain.

Follow up question: Do you have an infrastructure already in place?

The great news is that many roboticists such as yourself are not familiar with blockchain, and that’s OK! You don’t need to know how the engine of a car works in order to be able to drive it. It’s the same idea. Much of the blockchain underpinnings will be taken care of for you so that you can focus on innovation. Blockchain will primarily serve as the payment vehicle for bounties, services, and other functions on the network, such as staking coins, but the actual building of the product will be very familiar to you.

We do have an infrastructure ready and proven to be HIGHLY effective. Because of our experience with OhmniLabs, we have a “tried and true” method that we will allow other projects, such as yours, to utilize, and not just ours, but everyone else’s that uses our platform. It truly is open innovation for everyone.

I hope that the Kambria project will be carried forward in the future. I want to ask if the Kambria project is an artificial intelligence platform. Can Kambria help people with disabilities? They really need this project.

Yes!!! We love this. One of the verticals that we are focusing on is healthcare. Also, we build consumer robots, and robotic arms, which are very important for helping disabled people. It’s one of the use cases we are most passionate about. That is what robotics is for after all — making human life more comfortable and easier.

One of our robots (potentially) helped save an elderly woman’s life who had fallen. Her family was able to find her quickly and easily, preventing any further damage.

Is the Kambria Platform open now in public?

The platform is open to the public. Currently, you can vote for bounties, hackathons, buy robotic development kits, and explore the codebase, but there is much, much more coming in the short term this year. You may find it at https://app.kambria.io

Is Kambria currently based on ETH, and has Kambria considered the subsequent rise of the public chain.

Yes, we are based on ETH, but we are blockchain agnostic. If ETH, for any reason, cannot scale, we will look for a more functional chain.

Yes, ETH has been criticized for its slow processing speed. Has the Kambria project considered EOS?

We have considered EOS, and that would certainly be on our radar as one of the potential chains to move to, if necessary.

Could you tell us the history of Kambria, I am very interested in it!

Surely! Our founders started a robotics company in 2015. It was built upon the premise that to really accelerate adoption of robotics in the homes, a new type of company was needed. Being far away from home ourselves, they could relate to the need for affordable robots that bring families closer. So they set out to design robots with modular components, and utilize lean, toolless manufacture. To close the cost gap, they were ultra-focused on iteration speed. Reusability and integration were the cornerstones of their fabrication process, allowing for orders of magnitude, less capital spent, and a fraction of the development time.

Being able to foster an open collaborative ecosystem, where every contribution can easily be shared, manufactured, and implemented, will be revolutionary. Companies can benefit from the collective contribution from the community to build custom applications without having to employ teams of PhDs. End users can enjoy the higher quality of life potentially afforded by more available robot products and services. A combination of reduced costs, cutting-edge technologies, and swift delivery will spur rapid adoption of the Kambria platform by companies, developers, and manufacturers. This cycle of innovation will pave the way for the next wave of robots to provide immense value for people across the world.

Ohmni has achieved good results in the market, and the architecture behind it is indispensable. However, OhmniLabs development was not easy. Built from scratch, the establishment of laboratories, and the search for supply chain production, robotic startups was very difficult. In the difficult process of exploring Ohmni, an idea gradually formed: since there are so many barriers in the field of robot development, why not create an open platform where development, purchase, research, investment, and other needs coexist? It not only brings together talents from all sides but also promotes the development of robotics. In that thought proces, Kambria was born!

We named the platform Kambria, after the Cambrian Explosion, 500 million years ago, when an accelerated evolutionary rate gave rise to biodiversity and abundance. We believe this platform will be the catalyst for a similar explosion in intelligent robotics.

How many people are there in the Kambria project? Is there a blockchain related person?

Yes, our CPO is Tingxi Tan, has extensive knowledge in blockchain development. Additionally, we have a wide array of blockchain and full-stack developers. In total, our full-time staff is 20 people and growing. There are also many part-time employees as well! You can find most of them on our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kambria/

While we are technically a global company, our two main “home bases” are in Silicon Valley and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where much of the team is from. OhmniLabs is also in Silicon Valley.

Our advisor list is also quite extensive. I will list them here:

Prof. Manuela Veloso — AI & Robotics — Manuela Veloso is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Veloso will be the Robotics and AI judge on the Kambria platform.

Simon Seojoon Kim — HASHED — Simon Seojoon Kim is CEO and founding partner of Hashed, a leading crypto fund based in South Korea. He is a Blockchain evangelist and organizer of Hashed Lounge, a premier Blockchain Seoul meetup community.

Loi Luu — Kyber Network — Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON. Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology.

Roger Lim — NEO Global Capital — Roger Lim is an experienced angel and blockchain investor. He is the Founding Partner of NEO Global Capital and an advisor for projects like Bluzelle, Qlink, CoinFi, Thekey, Tomocoin, 0Chain, Switcheo, Open Platform, and nOS.

Long Vuong — Tomochain — Long Vuong is CEO and founder of Tomochain, a public blockchain infrastructure providing an innovative solution to the scalability problem with the Ethereum blockchain. He is often invited as guest speaker of many reputable blockchain events around the globe. Long and Tomochain will also be partnering with Kambria to develop an educational certification program in blockchain and AI.

George Li — WeTrust — George is an ex-Googler who previously co-founded CottonBrew, a Stanford StartX computer vision company. George has helped connect us with influencers and market movers in the crypto space.

May I know some recent news about this project?

In addition to our new Innovation Hubs, we launched our KAT token in December. It is currently listed on DragonEx, KuCoin, and Bitmart Exchanges. We also recently hosted an incredible event this last November where the Winklevoss Twins, and Joe Lonsdale, and several other high-level venture capitalists were in attendance. I will get you the video! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8y4MxyAvTc&feature=youtu.be — Enjoy! I know we did.

The Vietnamese government also attended our November event called Innovation, Community & Impact. It was a very big deal. We wrote several articles recapping the event if you’d like to read about it. I will drop the links from our latest post that contains all of our best top ten articles for last year.

https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambria-2018-beyond-9820242c86c1

Within that article, you can find a ton of information about our project.

Great, I hope that the Kambria project will be carried forward in the future.

Thank you! We want to change the world, and we are unique enough to do it. There is nothing in the world like Kambria. We aim to make frontier technologies WAY cheaper and easier to build. An estimated 85% percent of the work being done is considered to be “wasted effort.” Because much of the work is done in silos, that means almost everyone is doing “double work.”

We can modularize everything and allow the different pieces to be applied, thus saving a huge amount of time in the development process. Why create something from scratch when someone else has already perfected it?

Do you build great motors? AI logic? Robotic arms? You can allow others to use your innovations to build theirs, and earn KAT, promote innovation, get paid, and collaborate on a number of different ideas.

“We aim to make frontier technologies WAY cheaper and easier to build.” Yes, this sentence is very similar to what Xiaomi, the technology giant of our country said so that everyone can enjoy the fun of technology.

That’s what it's all about. Improving the quality of life so that we can focus on the more important things that life brings. Great questions by the way. You’ve been a pleasure to speak with this entire time.

We expect that you can change the world through artificial intelligence + blockchain. Thanks, William and Kambria.

You are very welcome. Please feel free to join our Telegram Channels. We do have a Chinese Channel as well. We’d love to see you there. I am going to post our channels. If you have any more questions, feel free to ping me or DM me directly. My inbox is always open.

We’d like to thank not only DragonEx Exchange for having us, but also to all of the community members who asked us such great questions!

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About William

William Ryan is a part of the Global Kambria Community Manager Team, and a resident of Texas. He has been in blockchain since 2015, and has a strong passion for frontier technologies, including blockchain, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

The Kambria Team

We don't have an exact date for Bibox unfortunately. To touch again on your previous comment though, if the ETH chain does in fact become unusable, we will certainly consider TomoChain or another blockchain platform to run The Kambria Platform on. Cheers :)

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It’s 2019 and we’re off to the races! We had a number of wins over at Kambria this week — here’s a recap in case you missed it.

NEW PARTNERSHIP: Terra

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We are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership between Kambria and Terra! Through our partnership, Terra and Kambria will work to implement Terra’s Cross Chain Stability Mechanism to provide a stablecoin solution on the Kambria platform so that decentralized applications (dApps) running on Kambria may provide services more suitable for mass adoption.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Kambria Open Innovation Hubs

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We are excited to announce the launch of our Open Innovation Hub Program set for January 29th. The Open Innovation Hub is a network of physical research and development labs across the globe, supported by Kambria’s online open innovation platform. These labs will be Kambria’s local champions to promote and accelerate the use of KAT to develop new advanced technologies.

Read more about the mission, worldwide locations, and features of our Innovation Hubs here.

TOKEN UPDATE: Bibox Competition Win!

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It was a tight race, but in the end, Kambria supporters showed their love with their tokens. Kambria placed in the top 2 chosen by Bibox users and with the highest number of voters! Stay tuned for more details from Bibox.

EVENT: DragonEx Academy Lecture

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DragonEx hosting Kambria Community Managers Annie Wang and William Ryan in their online academy lecture this week. Here’s a recap of questions and answers from the event.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED

Looking Back to Look Forward

Founder’s Report | Creating the Ohmni Robot and the Kambria Open Source Blockchain Platform

The Kambria Team

Website: https://kambria.io/

Whitepaper: http://bit.ly/2JbuET7

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial

Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea

Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam

Telegram (CHN): https://t.me/KambriaChina

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kambria/

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial/

Medium (ENG): https://medium.com/kambria-network

Medium (CHN): https://Medium.com/kambriachina

Steemit: https://steemit.com/@kambrianetwork

Weibo (CHN): https://www.weibo.com/kambriachina

Email: info@kambria.io

KAT is a token to be used on the Kambria platform.

Artificial Intelligence is Disrupting the World https://medium.com/kambria-network/artificial-intelligence-is-disrupting-the-world-1fa73d1f92fb

Peruse today’s internet and artificial intelligence reports are everywhere. At the 5th World Internet Conference held in November, private docking services were provided for 10 driverless cars.


On the same day, the Xinhua News Agency launched the world’s first “AI synthetic anchor” initiating a hot discussion in both the Chinese and foreign media “AI wants to grab our rice bowl.” If you’re like most people, the thought of a robot stealing your food is scary!


The world’s first AI news achor
A few days later, shoppers joined the frenzy of China’s Double 11 — the biggest online shopping day of the year. Billions of dollars worth of transactions occur in just 24 hours and new tech, like Alibaba’s AI called Lu Ban, can help design an incredible 400 million advert banners during the sales period at a rate of 40 million a day.

LuBan is powered by machine learning and is trained on millions of sets of design data. First, the algorithm understands the components of the design, then it extracts features from raw images in the design library. Next, the algorithm produces a virtual canvas and places the design elements on a board. Team members provide feedback on the designs so that the AI can learn what kind of design is “good” or “preferred”.


Lu Ban’s AI can generate about 8,000 banner designs per second.
Over at Alibaba’s “smart warehouse”, 60 unmanned robots shuttle around the warehouse floor delivering goods to workers for packing and posting. They can carry up to 500 kilograms and have managed to reduce the workforce requirement by 70%. Here’s a look at the robots in action.


But even with all of these reports, is the AI field really a success?

There is a hidden worry behind the explosion

Behind the rapid development of artificial intelligence are the multiple forces of government, enterprises, and capital. Like the “bubble” that has appeared with the development of the Internet, AI development is accompanied by problems such as disorder, repeated investment, and high start-up costs. Surprisingly, not many projects start with “original technology” from the artificial intelligence algorithm layer due to issues such as data siloing, research and development isolation, labor cost, and high costs.

At the same time, top tech companies such as Google, IBM, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, BAT, etc. are rushing to deploy artificial intelligence, and some companies even regard it as the core driver of future business. As a result, many artificial intelligence patents are in the portfolios of these large companies, and data resources are difficult to fully utilize. In many fields such as speech recognition and driverless driving, for example, many teams do their own work, with very little integration or collaboration with other projects.

Innovation platform

How can the tech field make artificial intelligence development sustainable and healthy? How can we establish a fair and transparent platform for developers, investors, manufacturers, and others to work closely to minimize costs and allow the general public to participate in and share in technological achievements? As a decentralized, open and collaborative platform, Kambria is making huge strides in seeing this type of innovation come to life.


How does Kambria work? Kambria uses blockchain technology to build an open-source platform that accelerates the industry’s innovation process by introducing a broad community of program and patch developers and providing them with the necessary tools and market needs. At the heart of the platform is an open robotics library consisting of a high-level software and modular hardware components to maximize reusability and teamwork in the development process. Because it utilizes crypto-economics, Kambria’s community of investors, companies, contributors, manufacturers, and users will be optimally motivated by the cryptocurrency system, and all parties will work together to grow together.

In the Kambria platform, each step of the innovation process — development, production, manufacturing, and commercialization — is segmented. Parties can manage each step separately while maintaining transparency and trust through the use of blockchain technology. They can also take advantage of token-economics. In this way, excellent engineers can concentrate on creating the best robots, and outstanding entrepreneurs can concentrate on finding the best market and use. Professional manufacturers can produce the best quality parts. And everyone can receive a fair reward.

Artificial intelligence helps the future of mankind

Today’s artificial intelligence has begun to change human life in the areas of transportation, e-commerce, finance, education, medical care, etc. It has greatly improved people’s experience and work efficiency in learning and living and has also triggered some social, political and moral changes.

While some are worried about the future of AI, it is undeniable that this technological revolution will bring tremendous opportunities for the prosperity and development of mankind. We just need to ensure that this technology is applied in the right direction and use a reasonable framework to guide the development of AI-driven applications to ensure reliability, transparency and ethical compliance. There is reason to believe that Kambria, an open innovation platform, can bring creators together and allow artificial intelligence to better serve all humankind.

Please join us in building this future. Join any of our Telegram or social communities linked below to learn more about the mission and progress of Kambria. We always love hearing from you!

The Kambria Team

Website: https://kambria.io/

Whitepaper: http://bit.ly/2JbuET7

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial

Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea

Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam

Telegram (CHN): https://t.me/KambriaChina

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kambria/

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial/

Medium (ENG): https://medium.com/kambria-network

Medium (CHN): https://Medium.com/kambriachina

Steemit: https://steemit.com/@kambrianetwork

Weibo (CHN): https://www.weibo.com/kambriachina

Email: info@kambria.io

KAT is a token used on the Kambria platform.

Ask a few dozen random people about the things they cannot live without and many will immediately respond, “my smartphone!” Who would have thought that an invention could scale so quickly and become an inseparable part of our daily lives? In just over 10 years the mainstream adoption of smartphones has increased to a point that many are solely reliant on their device for news, weather, social media, hotel or restaurant reservations, online shopping, playing a game, email, text, and yes, even making phone calls!

Needless to say, technology is making great advancements. Take for instance the development of the supercomputer IBM Watson, the accelerated interest in blockchain technology, and the increasing popularity of drones that have been the topic of many media news stories. As devices become smarter and technology advances, we see a shift taking place from a traditional economy to an automated economy. We are entering the automated revolution and frontier technologies are leading the way.

What Are Frontier Technologies?

Frontier technologies are basically technological advancements that have passed through the research and development (R&D) phase but have not yet been mass marketed nor adopted by the mainstream. Examples of frontier technologies include robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, machine learning, blockchain technology, drones, renewable energy, and augmented reality.

Another feature of frontier technologies is that they usually outpace the ability of regulators and policymakers to adapt and set specific standards for their particular industry. In some cases, especially where mainstream adoption is concerned, regulation can cause the advancement of an innovative technology to slow down.

Robotics and AI

The robotics and AI industries are accelerating at a rapid pace. Various projects have emerged that have already started to shift the perspective people have about robotics from being things of the future to real possibilities in the present. Take, for instance, the humanoid robot Sophia that was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia or the OhmniLabs telepresence robot that allows children to be present in classrooms when they are unable to attend in person. To be sure, robotics and AI will play a big part in the upcoming 4th industrial revolution. Estimates show that more than 50% of our jobs will be overtaken by automation and the time frame in which this will occur is slowly creeping up.

Machine Learning

A new frontier tech solution that has emerged from AI is machine learning. As a new field, machine learning is used to explore the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data sets. Uber and Lyft are already using algorithmic pricing, which dictates that people pay a certain price per ride depending on specific customer-related data.

Autonomous Vehicles

Driving a car is an inefficient way to move from point A to point B. Drivers need to constantly be aware of their surroundings and potentially dangerous situations. Each year on average 1.25 million people worldwide are killed while traveling from one place to another. At some point in the future, autonomous vehicles will replace traditional motorized vehicles and make traveling a lot safer.

The automotive industry is testing autonomous vehicles on roads in a number of cities. Recently, Toyota announced a $500 million investment in Uber’s autonomous car development department. BMW is working on developing a fully autonomous car. These are examples of big, traditional companies that are adapting to frontier tech.

Drones

When you hear about drones, you might only think about recreational commercial drones. But DJI, the world’s largest commercial drone company, does a ton of business; it is currently valued at $15 billion. Not bad for a company that was founded in 2016. Interestingly, drone development has the ability to help people in need. Drones can be instructed to help people perform medical care, they are ordered to deliver blood and vaccines near (remote) hospitals in Rwanda and drones can get emergency care packages, medicine, food, and water delivered to a specific disaster location.


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Blockchain Technology

Blockchain or distributed ledger technology has seen steady growth since 2008 when Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the world to the peer-to-peer electronic cash system called Bitcoin. Besides its countless decentralized use cases, such as streamlining a supply chain, building decentralized applications (Dapps), digital identity management, and peer-to-peer trading in the energy market, it can also be used in a centralized way. According to this Forbes article, there are currently more than 50 big corporations exploring the ability to adapt to blockchain technology.

Why Are Frontier Technologies Important?

A companion robot that supports elderly citizens, a Pinterest starting page that automatically shows photos that might interest you based on your personal user data, a glucose monitor that attaches to your smartphone, or a drone that delivers your online orders — these are just a few examples of innovative technologies that might impact our lives in a positive way.

By definition, frontier technologies are always at the forefront of innovation. These technologies have the ability to provide ground-breaking solutions that may be implemented later on a large scale and achieve worldwide mainstream adoption. Frontier technologies can contribute to increasing overall life expectancy and quality of life as we get older.They can provide large-scale solutions to real-world problems.

Corporate Interest in Tech Innovations

Google has been very active in acquiring small tech companies that focus on technologically savvy products. Those companies are absorbed by Google and the technology is further developed within the Google sphere. Besides Google, other companies like Apple (with the acquisition of AI device startup Silk Labs) are following the same path. Just look at the example of Toyota investing $500 million in Uber’s autonomous car service. These are two large corporations that will only become bigger. Not only will they become bigger, but they are also slowing down the industry’s development by keeping their resources and development to themselves. This will not benefit the technology industry. It will only benefit centralized entities.

The Case for Open Innovation in Frontier Technology

A solution to growing the technology industry with equal opportunity for small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as, individual developers, is to provide them with the ability to participate in an open innovation platform where knowledge and resources will be shared and active development will be incentivized. At Kambria, we are creating an open innovation platform where developers, manufacturers, companies, and users will work together and share resources to accelerate frontier technologies. Kambria is a decentralized platform that is based on blockchain technology.


We developed Kambria with blockchain for several reasons:

Our innovations can remain open and available to humanity forever.
Contributions to Kambria will be transparent and immutable.
Attributions to contributors will be fair, transparent, and decentralized.
We are actively collaborating with worldwide universities to avoid waste in university research projects. At Kambria we aim to redefine and turbocharge the innovation process with the help of our contributing community members. Active participants will be rewarded with our native KAT tokens.

What is your vision for frontier technology? Let us know on our Telegram channel or join us on social media through one of the links below to become part of the project that accelerates this next revolution.

The Kambria Team

Website: https://kambria.io/

Whitepaper: http://bit.ly/2JbuET7

Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/kambriaofficial

Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea

Telegram (VIE): https://t.me/KambriaVietnam

Telegram (CHN): https://t.me/KambriaChina

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/KambriaNetwork

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kambria/

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KambriaOfficial/

Medium (ENG): https://medium.com/kambria-network

Medium (CHN): https://Medium.com/kambriachina

Steemit: https://steemit.com/@kambrianetwork

Weibo (CHN): https://www.weibo.com/kambriachina

Email: info@kambria.io

KAT is a token used on the Kambria platform.

Here is our weekly progress report from last week!!

Enjoy!!

https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambria-weekly-progress-report-january-13th-2019-2591da65c522

Here is my personal journey with OhmniLabs and Kambria to CES. I hope you enjoy reading about my journey with the team. It was great fun, and I learned a lot.

Cheers!

William Ryan
Kambria Community Manager

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We are VERY excited to present to you the Kambria Master Plan Business Model. Do not scroll past this!!

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Dear Kambria Community,

Our new year is off with a bang, and we are eager to deliver the best open innovation platform possible to the market. This article discusses our master plan which will drive the initiatives we are building over the course of the year. (It complements the technical roadmap that was discussed in our Whitepaper.) Our mission is to create a strong, sustainable ecosystem that supports all interested parties both from the top down and from the bottom up, thereby reaping the full potential of the Kambria platform.


Specifically, we will focus on the following three outcomes, all of which are vital to our success.

1. Build a strong token economy

2. Build a strong developer community

3. Generate real-world revenue streams

How We Will Build a Strong Token Economy

In order to build a strong token economy, we need to create a high demand for KAT. Our entire model centers around the KAT token, as it will be used to facilitate the transfer of value for every aspect of the platform. We will do this by requiring that all bounties issued on the platform be payable in KAT, that licensing fees be paid in KAT, and that all membership fees for the Kambria platform are paid for with KAT. To facilitate the ease of use of tokens in these and other platform activities, we will create a fiat gateway for those who want to purchase KAT. We will also periodically buy back KAT on the exchange to assist users and corporations.

In addition to creating demand and increasing ease of use, Kambria will focus on reducing the token velocity by providing incentives for users to stake KAT to vote for viable projects on the platform or stake KAT to win badges and extra membership benefits. We will also participate in revenue sharing so that token holders can receive a portion of revenue generated by our ecosystem.

How We Will Build a Strong Developer Community

Building a strong developer community is crucial to developing a strong, sustainable ecosystem. Without talented and engaged developers, Kambria will not thrive. Therefore, we will focus on creating talent pools through educational programs and organizing hackathons with social impact. We will also incentivize developers to join our platform by offering them project bounties, making the platform easy to use, and allow them to innovate on the work of others, thereby saving them the time and cost of reinvention.

We will also create a collaborative environment for developers through our global Open Innovation Hub, a worldwide network of physical research and development labs. Hubs will be located in Silicon Valley, Vietnam, India, and other countries and will bring together academia, industries, startups, and funds in one physical space. Our goal is to enable collaboration across the globe in a trustless manner.

How We Will Generate Real-World Revenue Streams

The third element of our sustainable platform strategy is to generate real-world revenue streams. To this end, we will provide community services, offer open innovation as a service (OIAAS), develop a licensing program and create a product and technology marketplace.

Community Services

Community services include providing content on the Kambria platform at varying subscription levels corresponding to the number of features provided. For example, one level may allow the user to access Kambria’s KDNA codebase and high-level resource library while the next level also offers a prototyping and manufacturing portal which includes a set number of hours of 3D printing services.

In addition, we will provide educational programs for a set fee. Programs will include training courses for CAD, 3D printing, and/or lean production; educational courses in AI, robotics, data science, and blockchain; mentoring and advisory services; and job placement. Certifications will be issued at the successful completion of the programs.

Lastly, Kambria will continue to host quality events and summits in conjunction with our partners. These include both worldwide meetups and hackathons, which also serve in building our developer community.

A significant portion of the revenue generated will be used to purchase KAT from the market and will be used for bounties, revenue sharing allocations, training programs, and other activities that support our first two initiatives of creating a strong token economy and supporting our developer community. In addition, KAT that is paid to Kambria will be collected in a Community Fund, from which a portion of tokens will be periodically removed and burned.

Open Innovation as a Service

With respect to open innovation as a service (OIAAS), Kambria will utilize several approaches. The first approach is a top-down approach that focuses on bounty challenges. Corporations will be able to propose a bounty for some advanced technology they need. Multiple teams will compete for rewards in multiple rounds. At each round, Kambria community and a panel of experts will pick the teams to go to the next round and reward them accordingly. The final winner will receive the biggest prize of course.

Kambria will earn an administrative fee for organizing and running the challenge and a portion of the bounty will be used to purchase KAT from exchanges and distributed to the winning team(s). In this way, winners will be able to access higher levels of community services via the platform. Community members will be encouraged to stake KAT to vote for teams at each stage of the bounty. Voters will be rewarded with Karma if the team they support wins the challenge.

The second OIAAS approach is referred to as our “bottom-up” approach which generates KAT through Kambria’s Innovation Marketplace. Users will be able to upload their project in the Marketplace and request funding. Backers who are passionate about that project can stake KAT to support it. If a specific project garners sufficient support, then Kambria will collect KAT from backers to help the project lead with development, prototyping, and market fit. Once the technology is fully developed and commercialized, Kambria will distribute revenue earned to stakeholders.

The third approach to OIAAS is to drive innovation through funding university research projects just like NSF or DARPA programs, but without the bureaucratic hurdles that researchers usually have to go through in the grant application process. In this instance, we will create a funding pool from corporations for a category of advanced technology such as robotic arms or computer vision for moving objects and have teams of university researchers apply to receive part of the funding. Kambria community and the corporations’ representatives will be able to vote and select which teams they want to participate in the program. Each team will have to stake KAT to receive the codebase, mentoring, and training. Their final work will also be judged by a panel for the remaining rewards, and their reputation score will be updated for future funding pool participation.

Open Innovation Hubs

In addition to supporting the growth of our developer community, Innovation Hubs will be used to provide community services. Some Hubs will be operated solely by Kambria and others will be managed as joint ventures with our partners. Hubs will be able to provide sourcing services for corporations seeking ideas and tech to integrate into their businesses. For such companies, Kambria will be able to organize hackathons, challenges, and exclusive recruitment programs to uncover experts within specific verticals. This talent sourcing is related to the Hub’s educational mission to train and develop talent pools, both internal and external to corporate clients.

In addition, Hubs will provide consulting services to our corporate clients. Kambria will work closely with internal client teams to identify problems and opportunities and then design solutions using both our internal team and our open source community. If appropriate, we may also be able to deploy the technology itself on behalf of our clients.

Lastly, Hubs will be a source of development services where companies can purchase well-defined, stand-alone technology solutions for a specific need.

Technology Licensing

Another primary source of Kambria’s revenue will be generated from technology licensing. Kambria will charge a fixed fee for available technology which companies or individuals wish to license for commercial use. Revenue will be distributed to inventors, backers, and Karma token holders in a predetermined proportion.

Kambria Store and Products

Lastly, Kambria will generate revenue through sales in the Kambria Store. Store items will include the telepresence robot development platform, the autonomous indoor platform, the cobot (dual arm) platform, and other products as they are developed by Kambria members.

Revenue Projections for 2019

Given the scale and breadth of revenue-generating activities, we project the following revenue goals for 2019:

Projected Revenue $3M USD
Profit sharing: 20%
Projected KAT to be purchased $600,000
Projected KAT to be burned $50,000
Currently, we are pursuing several projects including an AI alliance, a hackathon series, a K-Prize bounty challenge, and are working diligently to launch our Open Innovation Hub Program. All of these initiatives will be live in Q1.

We are confident that our strategy to create a strong and sustainable ecosystem is robust and achievable. We will work diligently on supporting the economics of our token, in creating a vibrant developer community, and in generating various streams of revenue with inside and outside of the platform. All of these pieces are important and need to come together to support the growth of the Kambria platform.

Thank you for your continued support! Our community cannot grow and thrive without you. Please be sure to contact us through one of our channels below should you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you.

The Kambria Team

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Guys, what happened with Kambria? Any major news today? More than 60% decline in last 24 hours...

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Dear Kambria Community,

With the recent changes in the KAT token price, our team has received many questions from those trying to understand what is happening.

For the convenience of all community members, we would like to summarize the questions and answers here.

1. Why did the price of KAT drop so much today?

As many of you know, today is Kambria's second token distribution. In this distribution, Kambria has distributed tokens to all pre-sale, private sale, and seed round groups based on the respective vesting rates for each group.

Unlike the first token distribution, in this second distribution, all token holders must access the app.kambria.io portal, create an account, and follow the instructions to withdraw tokens to their wallets.

Although we have made great efforts to offer bonuses and benefits that encourage the token holders to continue to hold KAT, we still respect the token holder’s right to choose. Many people have chosen to HODL, but some have decided to liquidate it, which is why the KAT price has fluctuated as you see today.

2. Did the team sell their tokens?

We confirm that 100% of the team's tokens remain unchanged.

KAT plays a very important role in the success of the Kambria Platform. As real BUILDERs, we believe that the Kambria Platform will grow very strongly in the future.

3. Token Private Sale and Seed Round will be vesting for how long?

Private Sale tokens will be vested for 3-6 months depending on the bonus. The more bonuses the longer the vesting period.

Seed Round tokens will vest for 12 months.

4. Did the team transfer the 930 million tokens KAT to the KuCoin exchange?

This is completely false.

As mentioned above, Kambria has built a portal to allow token holders to withdraw their tokens monthly. This 930 million tokens KAT is the total number of tokens that are in the portal so that the token holders can receive tokens more conveniently at each distribution.

5. What are Kambria’s plans to develop the value of KAT in the near future?

To ensure the stable development of KAT's value in the future, we will simultaneously carry out many activities such as:
- Enhance Kambria community development in countries that could not participate in buying KAT tokens in private sale, presale, and seed rounds.
- Grow the AI and Robotics developer community to attract more developers to use the Kambria Platform.
- Launch bounty challenge programs and fund those programs with KAT buyback to support the participating teams.
- Convince prominent technology companies to join Kambria's ecosystem to promote the AI ​​and Robotics community.

6. Does Kambria have any future exchange listing plans?

We regret that we cannot comment about exchanges on this channel.

However, we believe that all token holders who have followed us since the first day understand that we are very interested in the rights of the holders. Anything we can do for the holder, we will do.

These are some answers to questions many community members are interested in learning about today. We hope we have shed some light on the current situation for you.

If you still have any questions, do not hesitate to ask us questions at https://t.me/kambriaofficial

Thanks again to everyone who supports Kambria! Our team will be working day and night on your behalf.

From the entire Kambria team,
Thuc Vu, CEO 🙏

The price was above ICO price and in last days it fallen a lot (around in 6x) and now much more below ICO price  :o
What was the private sale and pre-sale bonuses? If price fallen in 500-600% just after distribution this tokens, than does this means that private sale investors had such big bonuses?  :o

Hey my apologies on the delay. I am in California in our offices taking footage and creating content to share with you. I can explain a bit more in details, but many of our private sale investors bought when the price of ETH was much, much higher, so even though the USD price was down, many of them were still able to recoup the ETH they spend, even though it was under the token sale's USD price. The average price for the private sale was around 1.3c, depending on how long some had to wait, and their vesting schedules. We understand this was a big drop, and we are working hard to develop the platform and continue moving forward. I hope you understand that we cannot control what people do with their tokens, but we can control how hard we work on delivering our roadmap to you. I am here if you have any further questions. I will be happy to try to answer them.

Regards,

William Ryan
Kambria CM

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It is our great pleasure to announce that Kambria has taken home yet another award! We are thrilled to bring you this news as we continue to grow and develop into a mature robotics and AI development company.

This week, Kambria was named the Best Innovation in Robotics for our Open Innovation Platform at the 2019 DEVIES Awards! The 2019 DEVIES Awards recognize technical innovation, adoption, and reception in the developer technology industry and by the developer community.

The DEVIES Awards are the only awards recognizing excellence in developer tools, products, and technology, with the DEVIES Awards Ceremony taking place during DeveloperWeek 2019, the world’s largest developer and engineering conference and expo with over 8,000 attendees.

The 2019 DEVIES Awards received hundreds of nominations, and our developer technology was selected as a DEVIES Award winner based on three criteria:

(1) attracted attention, awareness, and adoption;

(2) general well-regard by the developer, engineering & IT community; and

(3) a leader in its sector for innovation.

“Developer technologies and tools are massively growing in their importance to a business’ operations. Kambria is a great example of the new era of products and services empowering developers and engineers to have a greater impact on a company’s bottom line.” ~ Geoff Domoracki, CEO of DevNetwork, the producer of DeveloperWeek.
Kambria will receive its award at the 2019 DEVIES Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019.

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, please join us at DeveloperWeek 2019 on Thursday and Friday, February 21st and 22nd with a free EXPO Pass sponsored by DeveloperWeek! There will be tons to check out including hackathons, a hiring expo, a series of workshops, open houses, and events all across San Francisco. Click here to learn more about DeveloperWeek.

As Kambria transitions into our next phase of development, we have an open call to roboticists, developers, and innovators who wish to build new technologies. We are creating a full spectrum of development tools that will lead the next wave of development in the space, and we are hosting a variety of different programs to not only incentivize growth but to catapult true innovation on the heels of open-source collaboration.

Let’s see what we can build together!

The Kambria Team

The Role of the Open Innovation Hub in the Kambria Ecosystem

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Kambria is so excited to launch its Open Innovation Hub Program next week on Tuesday, January 29th! Located in Silicon Valley, Vietnam, India, and other countries, our Innovation Hub is an integral part of our strategy for building a vibrant, integrated ecosystem around the world. For many reasons, our Hub is an ideal way to execute on the long-term goals we set out for ourselves in our Master Plan based on how they support strong tokenomics, how they help us create a strong developer community, and how they will lead to the generation of real-world revenue streams. Read on to learn more about the role of the Innovation Hub and how this program will help us reach our audacious goals!

Background and Purpose of Our Hub

In the wake of the Innovation 4.0 movement, there has been an explosion in the demand for advanced technologies such as AI & Robotics, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning in many sectors including banking, healthcare, energy, e-commerce, and logistics. Early adoption and adept application of these frontier technologies can transform industries. In fact, winning today requires a company to succeed at translating brilliant ideas and inventions into rapid prototypes and mature products or services that bring real value to end users ASAP! This Innovation process, when coupled with an Open Source approach, can trump both capital and scale.

Unfortunately, companies struggle to innovate. Large teams are slow to deliver, and when they do, the technology often falls short of expectations or fails to scale. On the other hand, it’s well-known that some of the best sources of creativity and innovation are found in the startup ecosystem. Through joint innovation, large companies and innovative startups can mutually benefit from broad expertise to deliver tailored and impactful solutions to end users.

This is where our Innovation Hub comes into play.

Kambria aims to foster joint collaboration by connecting pools of raw talent, world-class engineers, and scientists with large corporations. Our Innovation Hub will help corporations access the technology they need and to incubate unicorn startups with the potential to scale globally and create worldwide impact.

In addition to developers and large corporations, Hub stakeholders include universities with their own rich talent pools and existing technology licenses; existing startup and open source projects who can use Hub resources to jumpstart or even propel their projects; mentors and advisors who can serve as subject-matter experts to Hub teams; and governments seeking high-tech partnerships.

Supporting a Strong Token Economy

As a network of physical research and development labs across the globe, the Innovation Hub will be Kambria’s local champion in promoting and accelerating the use of KAT to develop new, advanced technologies. Through our Hub, teams will work on technologies under the supervision and mentorship of experienced entrepreneurs and technical experts from all over the world to build the technology stack of a specific vertical. The teams can use KAT tokens to gain access to the existing codebase, premium content, training programs, prototyping services, and more.

Proposed Hub services and activities include:

A tech shop and access to hardware such as 3D printers, computers, and workspace
A talent development program including mentoring, training and certification
Community development featuring hackathons and bounty challenges
Access to the Kambria Open Innovation platform which includes the use of our high-level KDNA codebase, access to prototyping and manufacturing services
Collaboration opportunities with Kambria development team members and other innovation hubs members worldwide
Potential to receive funding from other VCs in the network and to receive support in building out a new project
As mentioned, many Hub services will utilize a membership feature, dues of which will be payable in KAT, thereby supporting the value of the token.

Creating a Strong Developer Community

It goes without saying that developers are the backbone of the Kambria ecosystem and therefore, vitally important to our Innovation Hub. Developers will have the ability to collaborate directly with Kambria platform users around the world on both hardware and software projects. Through the Hub, they will be actively supported in their endeavors. Developers who previously found themselves held back because they worked independently or on a small team will be able to unleash their full potential in our innovative and collaborative environment.

As noted above, developers will have access to the resources and services we provide. They will benefit from mentoring and advising, they will be able to access 3D printing, Kambria’s high-level KDNA codebase, and more. They will also benefit from educational programs and training provided through the Hub. We are committed to supporting our open-source developers and the Innovation Hub is a great way to do that.

Generating Real-World Revenue Streams

In addition to supporting developers, the Innovation Hub will support the generation of real-world revenue streams, which is important to the growth and success of any ecosystem. Planned revenue-generating activities include managing joint ventures with our partners. The Hub will be able to provide sourcing services for corporations seeking ideas and tech to integrate into their businesses. For such companies, Kambria will be able to organize hackathons, challenges, and exclusive recruitment programs to uncover experts within specific verticals.

In addition, the Hub will provide consulting services to our corporate clients. Kambria will work closely with internal client teams to identify problems and opportunities and to design solutions using both our internal team and our open source community. If appropriate, we may also be able to deploy the technology itself on behalf of our clients.

Lastly, the Hub will be a source of development services where companies can purchase well-defined, stand-alone technology solutions for a specific need. All of these services will be provided for a fee in order to generate real-world revenue.

Our Open Innovation Hub Program officially launches on January 29th! If you are in Silicon Valley, please come visit our new space — we would love to see you! And stay tuned for news about the opening of other sites around the world including Vietnam, India, and Japan.

The Kambria Team

Kambria’s Open Innovation Hub Launch +TomoChain Meetup Invitation!

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Hey, hey, hey, Kambrians! As promised, our Open Innovation Hub Program launches today with a soft opening of our Silicon Valley location. We’re putting the final touches on the space, getting it all organized and arranged in order to accommodate co-working, workshops, and events for our local community members. Kambria’s Open Innovation Hub is an integral part of our strategy for building a vibrant, integrated ecosystem around the world so we’re very excited to begin!

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Interested in Hosting an Event at the Hub?

It’s shaping up nicely, wouldn’t you say? We look forward to welcoming you and/or your group. You’ll be able to host events here, reserve the space for education training, and utilize 3D prototyping services. Reach out via email or through our Telegram Channel to discuss!

Hub Contact Email: social@kambria.io

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TomoChain Mainnet Meetup on February 12th

Mark your calendar! We will host our first event at our Silicon Valley Hub on February 12th in conjunction with our esteemed partner, TomoChain. After two years of pursuing the goal of building a unique blockchain infrastructure, TomoChain reached one of its most critical milestones last December — its Mainnet launch.

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Please join us for the TomoChain Silicon Valley Meetup, the fifth meetup in the TomoChain Global Mainnet Launch Series hosted by local TomoChain community members and friends such as Kambria in multiple cities. The meetup is where blockchain believers and TomoChain fans gather to keep themselves updated about the project and network.

If you’re in or near Silicon Valley, we’d love to meet you! Please click here to RSVP.

About TomoChain

TomoChain is an innovative solution to scalability problem with the Ethereum blockchain, and other blockchain platforms. TomoChain features a 150-Masternodes architecture with Proof of Stake Voting (POSV) consensus for near-zero fee, and instant transaction confirmation. TomoChain is an ideal scalable smart-contract public blockchain for decentralized apps, token issuance and token integration for small and big businesses. Learn more here: https://tomochain.com/

If you’re looking for an innovative space in which to host your event, please contact us! We would be delighted to discuss the details of your event whether it be a training session, seminar, or workshop.

Hub Contact Email: social@kambria.io

The Kambria Team

Kambria Global Innovation Fund Launches with Lehigh University

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Kambria is thrilled to announce the launch of the Kambria Global Innovation Fund! The Global Innovation Fund leverages our academic and corporate networks to globally match researchers looking for funding with companies interested in making connections with top universities, intent on investing in R&D, and hungry to be innovative.

As part of that initiative, we are proud to sponsor a CS capstone project at Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. Over the course of the year, students from Lehigh will use the OhmniLabs’ robotic platform, which has been licensed to Kambria for developer use on the Kambria platform. Lehigh researchers will have full access to the open source code to create real-world designs and solutions including facial recognition and possibly guiding users to relevant locations, thereby making the OhmniLabs robot even more useful in daily life scenarios.

Our bright minds will be guided by both Kambria engineers and Lehigh Computer Science Professor, Mooi Choo Chuah. Professor Chuah is a Full Professor at Lehigh University, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Investors. Located in Pennsylvania, Lehigh University is one of the United State’s most distinguished private research universities. For more than 150 years, Lehigh has offered world-class academics to challenge students to become leaders and to advance the frontiers of science.

“We couldn’t be happier to be working with Professor Mooi Choo Chuah and her CS students,” said Jared Go, Kambria Co-founder and CTO. “We get to support their academic development and they get to contribute to a real-world project that will help further innovation in the robotics industry. We believe this will be a productive and rewarding relationship all around.”
Please watch this space for updates on how Lehigh students are using the Kambria platform to push the boundaries of innovation in the areas of navigation, speech, and robotics. We look forward to sharing their progress with you!

The Kambria Team


Email: info@kambria.io

KAT is a token used on the Kambria platform.

Kambria Joins #Outliers Accelerator for Blockchain Adoption

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Kambria is honored to be a member of the inaugural class of the #Outliers Accelerator Program. #Outliers is a blockchain accelerator and fund across San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Seattle. The #Outliers Accelerator is a fraternity and fellowship for vision-driven blockchain startups to propel their technology development, product growth, and user adoption.

“Searching for and helping outliers” is the core philosophy of our business. We wholeheartedly believe in those who embrace their differences and persist in their quest to be more in life. While every person demonstrates this quality in diverse ways, we usually see vigorous faith, exceptional leadership and a dash of craziness in an “Outlier”.
Throughout the 100-day program, Kambria will be working closely with a group of incredible, established mentors who are themselves outliers.

Vikram Jandhyala — Vice President of Innovation Strategy, UW; Executive Director, GIX & CoMotion
Ethan Zuckerman — Director of Civic Media, MIT Media Lab; Co-founder, Global Voices
Jason Hsu — Crypto Congressman & Legislator, Taiwan; Founding Chairman, FutureX
Joe Roets — Founder & CEO, Dragonchain; Principal Blockchain Architect, Disney
Habib Haddad — Founder & CEO, Wamda and Yamli; Managing Director, MIT E14 Fund
Kyle Wang — Founder & CEO, Global Energy System; Senior PM of Server & Tools, Microsoft
Jun Qian — Principal Director, Microsoft AI+ Research; Founder, Amazon Machine Learning
Ira Winder — Faculty, MIT Urban Studies & Planning; Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
Jeremy Rubin — Founder, MIT Digital Currency Initiative; Bitcoin Core Developer
#Outliers | Blockchain Accelerator & Fund

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Please keep a close watch in this space as we deliver on our Master Plan and accelerate our progress under the guidance and mentorship of #Outliers throughout the 100-day accelerator program. We look forward to seeing what we can #BUIDL together!

The Kambria Team

Email: info@kambria.io

KAT is a token used on the Kambria platform.

Kambria Hackathon: Global Grand Challenge 2019 — $50K Prize

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The Artificial Intelligence and Robotics industries are developing at a rapid speed. According to a report by IDC (International Date Corporation), a research organization, the robot market will reach $135 billion in 2019. With the application of AI, robotics technology is set to become a big industry in the very near future.

The Kambria Global Grand Challenge is an opportunity for programmers and AI solution providers to innovate according to the actual needs of Robots and AI in the world. The competition is also an opportunity to connect participating teams, helping to build a global community of programmers in the AI and Robotics industry.

The Challenge will be held in many different countries tentatively including Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Japan, China, India, Russia, and the United States. The final round of competition among the best teams in each country will be held in Vietnam. This year, the competitions will be sponsored by our partners in Vietnam, including major corporations such as SSI, VPBank, and VTV. Participants will receive challenges and data from our partners to create intelligent virtual assistants based on AI and Robotics applications which can be applied in many areas such as banking services, shopping in stores, merchants, and e-commerce.

During the Challenge, Kambria will hold meetings to introduce the program and meet AI ​​community members in the host countries. To participate in the Challenge, programmers will register, form teams, and submit their projects on Kambria’s platform. Teams are required to use KAT tokens to access and use Kambria’s platform resources.

Kambria Foundation plans to purchase $50,000 USD worth in KAT from the market to support the program.

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To provide background and support to the participating teams, as well as more information on practical topics, Kambria will host workshops guided by both leading experts and representatives from our sponsoring companies.

The total prize value of the program is up to $50,000 USD. In addition, after the Challenge, the winning team will have the opportunity to gain funding, and continue to develop and improve the product under the guidance of a team of leading experts, professors, and technology researchers within the Kambria Network.

This is the first of a series events that Kambria will host in a line of hackathons and bounty programs, centered on catapulting innovation in this space. This is an open invitation to all developers, so if you, or someone you know, is interested in developing artificial intelligence or robotics, come and join us as we shape the world’s tomorrow. We can’t wait to see what we can build together.

Competition details and registration information to follow shortly.

Email: info@kambria.io

KAT is a token used on the Kambria platform.

Kambria on Blockchain Stars TV Show + KAT Giveaway!

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Kambria will be one of twenty blockchain projects to participate in the greatly anticipated Blockchain Stars television show hosted on YouTube.

With over 100,000 subscribers, BTC TV is hosting the first-of-its-kind “Shark Tank” style blockchain startup competition, where twenty startups will compete head-to-head in a winner-takes-all event for a total prize worth $100,000! BTC TV is sponsored by several major companies including CoinMarketCap, ICO Bench, Bitbay Exchange, Exrates, and more!

The competition begins by giving a one-minute pitch, followed by questions from the judges. If we are selected by a judge, we will move on to the next round. Round two, aired the following week, involves the Judges selecting one project each to move on to the final round. Round three allows the community to vote for one of the projects (from those that did not pass round two) to continue on to the final round. For round four, one winner will be selected to win a total prize valued at $100,000.

The pre-recorded episode will be posted on the BTC TV YouTube Channel on January 27th. We will be sure to post the video in our Telegram as well.

We are also giving away $1,000 in KAT to the person who asks the best question to Kambria in the YouTube comments in the episode. Please leave your questions no later than January 30th at 11:59 PM PST (UTC-8). So be sure to tune in, turn up, and bring your best questions!

Details
Venue: BTC TV YouTube Channel

Date: January 27th, 2019

For more information, please visit the BTC TV Website: https://stars.b-t-c.tv/

We look forward to your support. Kambrians! Please be sure and tune in for a chance to win $1000 in KAT.

The Kambria Team

Take a look at this! Kambria's Community Manager William Ryan aired on the new startup competition on YouTube "Blockchain Stars." The show, hosted by BTC TV, aired on 1/27/19. We are happy to announce that we have passed the first stage, and now have a chance to win $100,000 in prizes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOEtzL4KmsM&list=PLCXDHxz2F6VuVvObHOTpBLwMb3IAOM__6&index=4

Dear Kambria Community,

Kambria is pleased to announce that we are one of the final 5 selected to compete in Allbit Trade-Listing Project5 (AxU). This event is a collaboration between Upbit and Allbit. Top 3 winners will be listed on Allbit BTC, ETH Market, and receive priority review and recommendation for Upbit KRW Market listing.

Competition will be conducted on Allbit APOT Market from January 30 until March 4, 2019 (KST, GMT+9).

The selection criteria for the Project5 winners are based on KAT Volume, Number of Traders, Hold Amounts, and Token Votes. Each evaluation item is updated 24 times every hour (from 09:00 AM on each start date to 09:00 AM on the next date).

How to participate
Step 1: Register an account on https://allbit.com/register, completed the verification and issue/import a wallet
Step 2: Go to https://allbit.com/project5/vote and Vote on Kambria project (either use CREDIT or APOT)

Please note that:
- Voting is possible using credits or APOT tokens. (Can be used together) 50 credit = 1APOT
- Voting is only allowed once per day and cannot be canceled after the voting is complete.
- You will receive airdrop rewards after the event ends.

This is a community event in which we hope you all will participate in! Kambria will need to place in the Top 3 in order to be considered for listing on the Upbit KRW Market. Thank you all for your support!

For more information, please visit: https://allbit.com/project5/vote

Special Event

On Thursday, February 21st,  we will go back to the fundamentals to discuss the concepts of open source and ethics in relation to AI and Blockchain. Speakers include Kambria, Lily, Robotics for Good, Bee Token, MOAC, Microsoft and Google & ABC Blockchain Community. For more information and to RSVP, please click here: https://opensourceaiandblockchain.eventbrite.com

Kambria in the News!

Kambria has recently been featured in a Q&A session with CODE_n!

CODE_n is a leading cross-industry innovation hub for entrepreneurs, ambitious business founders, and established companies. CODE_n provides a stage for new business models and digital trends, enriched by an international network of startups and corporations.

For more information on Kambria, check out this newsletter as we dig into the key metrics of the Kambria Platform, our business model, and the next stages in development! We'd like to thank CODE_n for having us!


https://www.code-n.org/blog/kambria-building-an-open-robotics-and-ai-platform/

Special Announcement

The Allbit Project 5 Trade-Listing Competition is now live! Here's an article written by William Ryan outlining the competition. We are inviting our community to participate in this event. If you have any questions about Project 5, don't hesitate to reach out to @RobotComms directly, or ask any questions you may have in our Telegram channels.

Kambria is one of the final 5 selected to compete in Allbit Trade-Listing Project5 (AxU). This event is a collaboration between Upbit and Allbit. Top 3 winners will be listed on Allbit BTC, ETH Market, and receive priority review and recommendation for Upbit KRW Market listing.

Competition is live now on Allbit APOT Market March 4, 2019 (KST, GMT+9).

https://medium.com/@FinTechWill/kambria-project5-axu-competition-63e3b6c1a639

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🎉 TomoChain Silicon Valley Meetup at Kambria Open Innovation Hub 🎉

Kambria will host its first event at our Silicon Valley Hub on February 12th in conjunction with our esteemed partner, @TomoChain. After two years of pursuing the goal of building a unique blockchain infrastructure, TomoChain reached one of its most critical milestones last December — its Mainnet launch.

Please join us for the TomoChain Silicon Valley Meetup, the fifth meetup in the TomoChain Global Mainnet Launch Series hosted by local TomoChain community members and friends such as Kambria in multiple cities. The meetup is where blockchain believers and TomoChain fans gather to keep themselves updated about the project and network.

To RSVP, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tomochain-silicon-valley-meetup-tickets-55566049550

About TomoChain
TomoChain is an innovative solution to scalability problem with the Ethereum blockchain, and other blockchain platforms. TomoChain features a 150-Masternodes architecture with Proof of Stake Voting (POSV) consensus for near-zero fee, and instant transaction confirmation. TomoChain is an ideal scalable smart-contract public blockchain for decentralized apps, token issuance and token integration for small and big businesses. Learn more here: https://tomochain.com/

About the Kambria Open Innovation Hub
The Open Innovation Hub is a network of physical research and development labs across the globe, supported by Kambria’s online open innovation platform. These labs will be Kambria’s local champions to promote and accelerate the use of KAT to develop new advanced technologies. Read about the Hub opening here: http://bit.ly/2CQHun5

Interested in Hosting an Event at the Hub? Send an email to social@kambria.io

Kambria Business Model Master Plan – Part I: How Kambria Will Generate Real-World Revenue Streams

Kambria’s mission is to create a strong, sustainable ecosystem that supports all interested parties both from the top down and from the bottom up, thereby reaping the full potential of the Kambria platform. We will work diligently on supporting the economics of our token, in creating a vibrant developer community, and in generating various streams of revenue with inside and outside of the platform.

Take a look at how Kambria will generate real-world revenue streams as part of our sustainable platform strategy.

For more information, read the full Kambria Business Model Master Plan: bit.ly/2BcraNz

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Kambria Business Model Master Plan – Part II: How Kambria Will Build a Strong Developer Community

Building a strong developer community is crucial to developing a strong, sustainable ecosystem. Without talented and engaged developers, Kambria will not thrive. 

That's why we will use many approaches — such as incentives, hackathons, educational programs, and collaboration within our Open Innovation Hub — to meet this objective.

Want to learn more? Read the full Kambria Business Model Master Plan: bit.ly/2BcraNz

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Dear Kambria Community,

As promised, here is our technical update with Jared Go, Kambria CTO. Thank you to everyone who submitted questions for Jared! If you have another question that was not answered, you can ask it below, and we will try to get an answer for you! Enjoy!

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

Look at the chart, better buy now. Project looks really cool, exchange is coming and partnership with TOMOchain!

Kambria Purchased $50k in KAT!

Hello Kambrians! As promised, the Kambria Foundation has purchased over $50K of KAT from the market to support the Kambria Grand Challenge!

We are thrilled to host the Grand Challenge in order to showcase Kambria’s core features and build a strong developer community, one of the primary initiatives laid out in our Master Plan. Through our series of hackathons, innovators will be competing for 10M KAT!

To view the wallet address and learn more about the Grand Challenge, click here: http://bit.ly/2DeebuW

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I am in too. Pretty huge project with great team. Take a look at their website, it's impressive. Listing on Bibox coming this month...tons of great news!

Special Announcement

Kambria is happy to announce to you that KAT will be listed on CoinPlug Digital Asset Exchange (CPDAX).

KAT/KRW will begin trading on Tuesday, February 12th at 3 PM KST (UTC+9). CPDAX, otherwise known as "CoinPlug" is a Korea-based digital asset exchange, offering several trading pairs, including the Korean Won. Founded in 2013, CoinPlug is an industry leader, and is among the most active in filing for blockchain patents, already having over 40 blockchain patents themselves.

This partnership is one example of the initiatives outlined in the Kambria Master Plan, such as building a strong token economy, building a strong developer community, and creating real revenue streams. By expanding the Korean market, we provide the access to KAT to a large developer community in South Korea, where we intend to build another Innovation Hub.

You may begin making deposits within 24 hours prior to the listing date of February 12th. We look forward to working with our Korean community. Thank you!

Website: CPDAX.com
Trading Pair: KAT/KRW
Deposits: February 11th 3PM KST (UTC+9)
Trading: February 12th 3PM KST (UTC+9)

Kambria Channels
🇺🇸Announcements (ENG): https://t.me/KambriaAnnouncements
🇺🇸Telegram (ENG): https://t.me/KambriaOfficial
🇰🇷Telegram (KOR): https://t.me/KambriaKorea
🇻🇳Telegram (VIE): https://t.me

Seems Tomochain becomes more popular. They are better than ETH technically. Its time to move from ETH to Tomo blockchain for Cambria I think  ::)

We are open to it :) Right now, we're more focused on building the platform, but its an option for sure.

Kambria Passes Semi-finals.

After twenty teams went through two rounds, Kambria has made it to the FINAL round for Blockchain Stars TV Show! Kambria will be competing in the final round against three other projects for a total prize worth $100K! In the semi-finals, Kambria was selected by Saeed Gouda of Zeos.Capital to enter the final round.

You may see the semi-finals here (Kambria starts at 36:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=temmEw_9i3c&t

We need your help for the finals. Community voting is worth 25% of the vote, so please vote for Kambria in the final round. If Kambria wins, you win! The prize includes two exchange listings, as well as a large amount of exposure for winning the first blockchain tv startup competition.

Voting will take place in the video of the final round, which will be posted according to the schedule below. Everyone will have a chance to vote, as it is not a live event.

Details:
Finals Date: February 17th, 2019
Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpeIePAikBsbdsiaGA0WL_g
We will post the video in our channel as well.

​​ (https://telegra.ph/file/64a011972806202d24777.jpg)Kambria team and community members around the world ushered in Lunar New Year this week. It sure started with prosperity! In case you missed it, here is a recap of this week's special announcements, events, press, and articles published including:
~ Completion of Kambria's $50,000 KAT Buy Back
~ Kambria advancing to the finale of Blockchain Stars TV
~ Our nearly sold-out DeveloperWeek event
~ Amazing Vietnamese TV features of Dr. Thuc Vu on local networks

You can read all of the highlights here: http://bit.ly/2TOp5ys

Dear Kambria Community,

As most of you know, we recently announced that KAT will be listed on CoinPlug Digital Asset Exchange (CPDAX). KAT/KRW deposits are now open, and trading will begin on February 12th at 3:00 PM KST (UTC+9).

CPDAX was kind enough to write this introductory article on Kambria, and they have announced several contests, offering KAT and KRW for rewards!

Contest Details
- Contest 1: Solve the Kambria Quiz for a chance to earn 50,000KRW. 

Contest held from 2/11 through 2/18.

- Contest 2: Pay the highest price for the day, and win 100K KAT.

Contest runs 2/12 through 2/16, and one winner will be drawn each day at 14:59:59 (KST).

- Contest 3: 25 people who hold over 50K  KAT at 10PM KST on 2/16 will win another 10K KAT!

 The 25 winners will be drawn via lottery.

Please read the article to learn more about Kambria and the CPDAX KAT Contests! http://bit.ly/2MXb3Ig  (You will need to auto-translate the page)

Details about CPDAX
The first Coinplug exchange was a pioneering trading platform originally launched in 2014, which served the fledgling Bitcoin and Korean Won (KRW) markets. In 2017 CPDAX was officially launched and began adding new alt-coin markets to the original Coinplug exchange’s offerings.

As of December 2018, Coinplug is the world’s number 1 blockchain family patent holder, and has been pioneering blockchain-based technology development since the company was established in 2013.

Thank you!!

Kambria is honored that our CEO, Dr. Thuc Vu, was featured in two important television programs which aired in Vietnam in celebration of Lunar New Year. The programs were “The Return Day” and “Welcome Tet with VTV.” “The Return Day” is an award-winning and well-known program of VTV (Vietnam Television), the national television broadcaster of Vietnam, that tells stories of Vietnamese community members living, studying and working in many parts of the world.

This special television program explores:
📍Stories of successful Vietnamese citizens currently working and living abroad
📍How Vietnamese people face and overcome challenges
📍Dr. Thuc Vu and his robotics startup, OhmniLabs
📍Dr. Thuc Vu's plan to build the developer community and encourage technology engineers in Vietnam in support of Kambria's Master Plan initiatives

Click here to read more about the program and to watch Dr. Thuc Vu's segment on the show: http://bit.ly/2IaC24o

Special Announcement

Have questions for Kambria? Cryptocopia is hosting a special live event, featuring our very own co-founder and CEO, Dr. Thuc Vu. The event will be held live in Cryptocopia's YouTube Channel on February 13th at 8 AM EST (UTC-5). This will be an hour-long, in-depth, and educational dialogue where Kambria's technology, philosophy, and vision are covered in finer detail. Please direct all questions for Thuc by joining the Cryptocopia discord channel. We hope to see you there!

Details for the AMA
Live AMA with Thuc Vu and Cryptocopia
Date/Time: February 13th @ 8AM EST (UTC-5)
Location: http://bit.ly/THUCVUAMA
For questions, join the Cryptocopia Discord: http://bit.ly/2DFaGy7

About Cryptocopia:
Cryptocopia is a community focused around fundamental discussions facing the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. Topics range from token metrics & economics, upcoming projects, layer 1 & 2 protocols, mining, airdrops, blockchain programming, and many more. Currently over 1000 members strong, Cryptocopia is a helpful place for anyone who wants to learn more about this rapidly evolving space.

I am sorry that you feel that way, but as we discussed, the Telegram channel is not a place where we want people screaming and shouting at each other over price, screaming "buy" or "sell." Kambria is a utility token focused on bring real value to the robotics and AI space. Your statements are completely baseless. With less than an hour of research, you can see that what we are building is very real (and tangible), with many evidences to support this. You were banned for your constant rudeness. It's not like it happened once or twice. It is all the time. It's fine to have critical thoughts, but when you continuously say things in a toxic manner, and it happened over and over and over again, and you know exactly what I'm talking about. There is nothing wrong with wanting to protect our community from all the noise about buying and selling, as many people use this as a manipulation tactic. We did not say you can't ask about token distribution details. We simply said we don't want price discussions in our channel any longer, and that didn't sit well with you so you are launching this attack with multiple account to create trouble unnecessarily. We are not your enemy. We just simply cannot allow that discussion to continue in our channel any longer. We must protect our ecosystem and the people within it, and despite your claims, there were far more people complaining about all the price talk than there are now complaining that we no longer allow it. We can't make everyone happy, but in given the chance to stop people who are cluttering the channel, using it as a means to fulfill their own personal agenda, we are opting to disallow it. There is an Unofficial channel that you can discuss price in all you want. Here is the channel: https://t.me/joinchat/IJwtwhWeIn0whWrbeJw1Ew

I cannot discuss exchange listings until they have been officially announced by the exchange. Sorry!

Let me know if you have any other questions. In the meantime, here's our top 10 articles from 2018: https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambria-2018-beyond-9820242c86c1

You can find a ton of great information in there about Kambria

Cheers

I am not going to keep arguing with you. You have been in every channel, under different aliases, saying the same thing on repeat. We asked you to stop talking about the price, and you kept doing it. In DM, you told me that despite us asking you to stop, that you have 90 accounts, and that you are going to keep doing it anyway, and that if you get banned, you get banned, but you would "make sure it gets talked about." So, I banned you. Telling someone that their rules mean nothing and they are going to keep breaking them IS disrespectful in itself. In addition, your tone is constantly toxic and harmful to the community. We've had many complaints about not only the price discussions, but you and your antics in particular, so we did what we felt was best for the community as a whole.

Yes, we post a lot of banners, articles, and content. This will be the first time I have heard it used in a negative light. All of the information that you are complaining about was readily available before you purchased KAT. Nothing has changed since before you bought. You are upset because of the price, and are looking for a reason to blame. The distribution was talked about NONSTOP prior to your purchase at 300 sats. In fact, it was basically the only thing that was talked about. Distribution is still talked about regularly. If you would have "not bought" due to the distribution schedule, then all you would have had to do was scroll up a few hours worth of conversation (if that).

We also ask those who are screaming "buy" to stop as well, and yes, I have removed TONS of these comments. We don't want people screaming "sell" OR "buy" in the channel, and yes, I do encourage anyone reading to join the telegram and verify if you see it littered with "buy" comments, as this is infactual.

You bought KAT, and we do appreciate the support, but just because you hold KAT tokens, does not mean you get to dictate our community rules. You have your thoughts, and you have that right, but you should stick to the facts.

Team tokens are locked for two years, so no, it is not us "manipulating" price, as you have asserted (without any factual basis). I am not going to feed you any longer with this back and forth.

We do have a bounty challenge that we've just announced! Here's the details on it:

https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambria-hackathon-global-grand-challenge-2019-50k-prize-4eb9b717337c

  First of all, i should state that when you made upwards of 12 million dollars from an ICO and technically still control over 50% of the token in existence, comments like "team token are locked for two years" holds almost no value. I will repeat something i already state in the unofficial but real channel, "Banning price talk while you still distributing tokens, goes against ethical economics" A platform looking out for the interest of their investors wouldn't do that, just like they wouldn't ban price talk during an ICO.
 
 So, when you done with the sneaky weird distribution, discussion about price can be banned. till then, the only way for a new investor to know about your economic side will likely initiate thru discussion about price. i never made any complaint about the tech, staff etc but from an economic standpoint, this particular rule/stance exudes suspicion.

 As for my baseless comments, its just as valid as your predisposed comment that everyone with interest in price discussion (especially during the distribution phase) is only interested in manipulating the price.

Better than ETH technically, but don't forget how important the ecosystem is. And although I have not looked into Kambria, do you really think that this team outcompetes the army of geniuses working for Ethereum?

Kambria distribution plan was outlined for the community long before tokens were disbursed. There's nothing sneaky about it. Everything was outlined in the SAFT agreements that they all signed, and we announced it to the community many times. I am done replying to this conversation. It is completely fruitless. If you are unhappy with the way things are structured, then that is something you should have taken into consideration before joining. All of the information has been made public on all of our channels, long before you arrived. Even in the traditional business world, it is not uncommon at all for companies to raise funds, and only go public with a small portion (or half) of their company to the public. This, however, does not apply to Kambria, as we are not a stock. These are not shares. Token holders are not shareholders. KAT is a utility token, but its still not unheard of. Some companies only share 25% of their company to offer to the public. When Microsoft went public, they only sold 10% of the company to the public and their investors. They retained NINETY PERCENT of their company, and selling too much is often looked at as a bad sign. This is crypto, so it's a little different, but you get the point. You make it sound like this is unheard of. It's not.

This is a fruitless argument, and one I will not participate any longer. It is obvious you are trolling us with baseless comments and accusations. Feel free to continue to do so, but I will not respond to your antics any longer. We don't allow price discussions in our channel because it was heavily abused and got way out of hand. It's as simple as that. That is why you were banned. Almost everything you have said has either been completely false or a gross misrepresentation or just a flat out assumption. If you did not like the token distribution, then I think you should have done some more research. I never said "every person who talks about price is manipulating." What I said is that its happening often, and we cannot allow it. Does that mean everyone? Of course not, but unfortunately, it got out of hand, and the people who were doing it ruined it for the people who were not. We had to make a decision, and we stand by that decision as the correct one.

Telegram is not a good place for research by the way. Too much conversation going on to really get into much meaningful research (unless you are specifically asking questions) and most people don't research this way. They use other resources, like BTCTALK and Reddit, Medium, content. I'm sorry you didn't scroll up, or ask questions, or read backchat or any one of the hundreds of other articles and such that we post, but you're directing your anger at the wrong person. I can go line-by-line and pick apart everything that you are saying, but it would be pointless, as you will come with some other off-statement, but what is the point? Real crypto people will do their own (real) homework.

"Anyway,  I have close to 90 telegram account and don't mind making more but I do intend to respectfully make sure that as long as am an investor in the project,  every aspect of the project will be discussed and made available to a potential investor" AKA - You dont care about the rules, and you're gonna keep doing it.

Imagine walking in the Apple store and screaming you dont like the way their store is setup, and that despite telling you that you cannot rearrange it, you tell them that you're going to do it anyway because you own a macbook or a couple Apple stocks. They would ask you to leave too. That is what you've done here. You can discuss price in the Unofficial channel like everyone else.

  We all know this is not the stock market and the same rules do not apply, so you can't compare your motives to theirs. If the price of my stock fell from a count of 8 to 1 in a matter of weeks, like the price of kambria feel from 800 sat to 100 sat and its quite possibly heading to 40-50 sat in another week, then someone will have some answering to do and quite possibly end up in jail. That why those guys pull it off, and its bearable to the general public. But the idea of a company gaining 13-16 million liquid and retaining ownership of an amount more than 50% of the token they sold with zero liability to their investors, is some of that unicorn phenomenon currently happening in this space till some real regulation/enforcement is introduced.  

 Most don't even know a distribution is still occurring and the few that are aware don't know the token release dates. A comment was finally made on telegram today that "we will try to put together a distribution schedule" but we will see how many hrs it takes before the statement is buried with lengthy banners and filler talk.

 Also, I will find it weird if apple is a new company, and when i walked into an apple store in January, they encouraged everyone to talk about the price of their new phone cos we had some sort of economics were the current price of the phone has a direct relationship to the current price of their stock. So, they intend to boost up their pre order, which translates to higher stock value.......... But in March when they were done with pre-order/collecting funds, you were banned from discussing the price of the phone with other customers in the store. You were only allowed to talk about the phone tech/aesthetics. It was done under the guise that such talk is disruptive, though it was encouraged during the pre order stage.

 To make matter worse, they have a weird distribution were several million phones were distributed every month. And though apple value the phones at $100, the resale value of a brand new phone is severely impacted.

If they were done with distribution, then its a different thing.  
 
 so, yeah, if i encountered such a scenario, i will find it weird and make a note to expose the practice.

Kambria AMA: Thuc Vu on Cryptocopia

Recently, Kambria CEO had a chance to sit down in an exclusive interview with Cryptocopia! The discussion took a hard look at the current landscape of technology, Kambria's development progress, how Kambria came to be, a deeper look into the Master Business Plan, and our vision for the next year.

This video is a great opportunity to glean a lot of new information about Kambria, so we hope you will take the opportunity to watch! Some of the information contained in this interview has not been previously released, so what are you waiting for? Dig in!

Learn more at: http://bit.ly/ThucAMA

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Vote for Kambria and WIN! 10,000 KAT

The final episode of Blockchain Stars is live, and we need your help! We are currently in second place. Your vote matters, so please vote for Kambria in the final episode of Blockchain Stars, and you can win 10,000 KAT. Vote here: https://www.youtube.com/user/CRonaldoproductions7/community

If Kambria wins, you win! Included in the $100K prize are two exchange listings, as well as a large amount of exposure for winning the first blockchain tv startup competition.

We are hosting a giveaway for our voters! Three confirmed voters will be selected in a lottery to win 10,000 KAT! All you have to do is take a screenshot of your vote, and fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/GZgNLUCulp1R7Pwy2

All votes must be in before 2/21 at 7 AM PST (UTC-8).

Details:
- Instructions: Open the poll, vote for Kambria, screenshot your vote, and submit your vote to the Google Form.
- Poll Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/CRonaldoproductions7/community
- Submission Form:  https://goo.gl/forms/GZgNLUCulp1R7Pwy2 (https://goo.gl/forms/GZgNLUCulp1R7Pwy2)
- Voting Closes: February 21st at 7AM PST (UTC-8)
- Lottery Submission Due Date: February 21st, 2019 at 11:59 PM PST (UTC-8)
- Lottery Winners Announced: February 22nd, 2019
- Link to Blockchain Stars Finals: https://youtu.be/BElASCkD5DU

A second giveaway.

Details: https://twitter.com/fly_nryan/status/1097242932803964929

Another week has flown by! We’re super excited to announce that Kambria has advanced to the final stage of the Blockchain Stars pitch competition and we need your help!

Please read our Weekly Progress Report for details on how your vote can qualify you for a chance to win 10,000 KAT! That plus other highlights — such as the upcoming DeveloperWeek and lots of great exposure for Kambria — are all right here: http://bit.ly/2X4nG9c

I want to thank the kambria team for finally addressing the distribution issue. I believe most investors will be happier with the clearer outlook.

https://medium.com/@teamkambria/kambria-community-update-4381d30f2fe1

Investors will be happy when the price is high. :) Any investment must be profitable, otherwise it is a bad investment.

Thank you for your patience. It just took us a bit to try to nail down our "next best steps," and couldn't really share details that were not set in stone yet, but, I for one am really happy that this is the direction and response that we chose to take, as we considered all possible outcomes from each decision that we would have to make (or not make) concerning this issue. We hope this is a vote of confidence moving forward as this ecosystem adapts to these harsher conditions in the blockchain space. Thank you all for understanding.

Dear Kambria Community,

Kambria has now joined DAIA - The Decentralized AI Alliance. DAIA is a coalition of companies and participants in both AI and blockchain ecosystems with the goal to decentralize this very important technology for an ethical and truly open future in AI. We will be working alongside several other market leaders in this space in a collaborative environment, where the end goal is to benefit all walks of life.

We would like to thank not only DAIA, but to all of the other projects involved. We anticipate authentic relationships to be born from this partnership, so stay tuned as Kambria continues to grow a strong developer community of innovators. Read more at: http://bit.ly/2EklGlY

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Kambria has won the Blockchain Stars competition!! We'd like to thank everyone who voted. You are an incredible community.

Read more: https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambria-road-to-victory-blockchain-stars-35e3c2b232a0

Special Announcement!

Last month, Kambria participated in the 9th Bibox “Vote for Listing” contest. You supported us. You voted. And we won a free listing! We are thrilled to let you know that the wait is over! Kambria will now officially be listed on the Bibox Digital Asset Exchange. Bibox will open the KAT/ETH pair on March 1st, 2019. We would like to thank our community for being so patient while we worked with Bibox to get KAT listed on their premier exchange.

and...we have even more great news!

Bibox Deposit and Trade Event

Bibox will be hosting a giveaway of 4 million KAT for Bibox users who deposit and trade KAT on their platform. Please visit the Bibox website for more information on how to qualify for this awesome giveaway. Thank you! 

Listing Details:
-Trading Pair KAT/ETH
- Deposits and withdrawals open on 03/01/2019 (GMT+8) at 11:00 am.
- Trading opens 03/01/2019 (GMT+8) at 4:00 pm.
- Bibox promotion will be live from 3/01/2019 at 11:00 am through 3/06/2019 at 11:00 am (all times GMT+8).
- Giveaway details: http://bit.ly/biboxkat

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Kambria is now hosting a masternode on the TomoChain network. If you support Kambria, please vote for us! We are currently in the top 150, so you will start to earn rewards immediately!!

For more information: https://medium.com/kambria-network/vote-for-kambria-on-tomochain-earn-rewards-53e93afb1d87

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Like many cryptocurrency enthusiasts, I am a strong supporter of open source projects and decentralized systems. I quickly became enamored with the idea of distributed systems, fair voting, and true transparency. But, why does it matter? Long-standing is the debate between open source and closed-source, decentralized and centralized. Over the last several decades, we have learned a great deal from the triumphs (or lack thereof) in innovation, and I think it’s time we took a hard look at what it really means to be open source.

The birth of the smartphone
After ditching the idea to develop a new PDA (yeah, those were a thing for a while), the late Steve Jobs, founder of Apple (rest his soul ❤), set to work on his new vision, a world where he believed that cell phones would play a huge part in our daily lives. He pursued this idea, piggybacking off the highly successful iPod, and then in January 2007, Steve Jobs realized his dream: he changed the world. Announcing the iPhone at Macworld, his vision became a reality, and Apple immediately began its rise to become the biggest technology company in the world (topping over 1 trillion dollars), but they would not continue on without a challenge.

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Google had also been working on its own iteration of the smartphone. In 2005, Google quietly acquired Android, an unknown software company building prototype operating systems for mobile phones. Shortly after Apple announce the iPhone, Google and HTC announced the first production release of their shiny new competitor: the HTC Dream. Built on top of a modified Linux kernel (UNIX), Android boasted limitless ability for open-source developers to contribute to the mobile OS, building on, and adding to a fully customizable platform built on open source technology.


HTC Dream
The birth of the smartphone sparked an arms race of technological firepower that is still ongoing today, and likely will be for a long time. There is a lot to glean from this competition, and the debate continues: which OS is better? Is it iOS, the closed-sourced, proprietary giant? Or, is it Android, the open-sourced operating system that powers nearly 2.3 billion devices across the world?

I am here to make a case for the latter. Open source is innovation, and without it, many breakthroughs are stifled. To better define these terms, closed source software is proprietary, private source code that the developers do not share with the general public. Inversely, open source reveals the source code so that developers can tinker, modify, and build on it with ease.

Closed source does have its benefits. In general, iOS closed source software is targeted far less by malicious actors for two reasons: a) it is more difficult to find vulnerabilities when the source code is not public, and b) which is likely the biggest reason, there are about 500% more Android devices on the market than iOS. Your software is only as safe as the developer makes it, and while the iPhone does boast great security, it is just as important to be prudent when downloading unknown software on your iPhone and Mac than it is any other device. Very recently, we saw a case of closed-source software where a user reportedly lost a significant amount of cryptocurrency. The popular wallet, Coinomi, reportedly sent the users’ secret passphrase in plain text to Google’s API for spell-check. Had this software been open source, it would have been far easier to spot this security flaw, as most competent developers will do their due diligence before sending their hard-earned money into a new wallet.

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Why are you hollering about phones? This is crypto.
Because! Innovation. We are talking about the next wave in technological breakthroughs. Whether it be in phones, robotics, AI, blockchain, or any other advanced technology, people are building and developing products right now. As we speak, some developer is out there is attempting to change the world that we live in, and it’s demonstrably true that when you have an open-source platform, and a proper set of tools, people are able build more. They will build faster, and arguably more creatively. Not only are they building more, but as time moves forward, open source platforms are increasing their market share, thus increasing the number of developers who build on them. Look at the two charts, and you tell me, what do you think open source software is doing to the smartphone industry? It’s taking over.

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Let’s look at Linux
Linux, the popular open-source operating system, is also beginning to increase their market share of devices, with an increasing number of new desktops delivering with the OS from the manufacturer. With almost 26 million lines of code, from over 19,000 authors, the Linux Kernel is a great example of community collaboration focused on true innovation. Somewhat of a social experiment, Linux has proven itself highly successful, and free! For many developers, this is their “go-to” platform, and despite the source code being open, is also widely considered to be the most secure operating system in use today.

“Linux and Unix-based operating systems have less exploitable security flaws known to the information security world. Linux code is reviewed by the tech community, which lends itself to security: By having that much oversight, there are fewer vulnerabilities, bugs and threats.” -Troy Wilkinson, CEO Axiom Cyber Solutions
A case for open-souce
People have a history of taking a good idea, and making it better. Society itself is open source. The world we live in is the result of continuously building upon, and improving, the work of those who came before us. It is often said “the smartest people in the world do not work for your company,” and it begs the question: how can you tap into this global pool of innovators? The answer is open-source. Open-source has the ability to maximize talent. Because most closed-sourced platforms are built from scratch, it often discourages innovators who do not have the time, resources, capital, or even the expertise to completely redevelop an entire new product. By allowing others to work with your source code, they can plausibly focus on what they excel at: their niche talents, which often includes improving the very platform itself. It is also governed in a more democratic way, as commits to the source code must be peer-reviewed before accepting any changes, whereas closed-source platforms generally take a more authoritarian approach. People working together can achieve more. Not only can users easily collaborate in open-source systems, but they can utilize the work that has been completed before them. When utilized properly, open-source platforms allow innovators to focus, instead, on building the last ten percent of an innovative idea. Rather than reinventing the wheel, they are adding to (and reinventing) the way it’s utilized. How can you improve upon what is hidden? How many killer apps have come out of closed-source systems? And most importantly, can you completely trust the central power that governs your software?

Collaboration is key
I believe the future of advanced technology will be dominated by decentralized, open-source systems. A future for the people, by the people. We have a moral and civic responsibility to each other to collaborate to solve common challenges that benefit humanity as a whole. World-changing technologies, such as AI, are far too important to leave in the hands of just a few companies. It is potentially dangerous, and certainly susceptible to corruption. Open-source evens the playing field. We can build better together, and we minimize the risks for abuse. Very few share ideas. But what happens when you promote true open-source collaboration? Well, just look at Bitcoin. Cross-border payments, governance, online payments, censorship, true monetary ownership, and sovereignty will never be the same.

Now is the time to apply the same strategies to all of today’s most important innovations. Robotics, AI, machine learning, and data science are radically reshaping tomorrow, and with open-source platforms, you have the ability to participate and impact what that future looks like. Yes, you, and that is why we’ve created the Kambria Open Innovation Platform. While building a successful robotics company, OhmniLabs, we learned that essentially all other start-ups encounter the same bottlenecks, and we realized that we’re all wasting time. Almost all research and development are done in silos. Why is every company recreating nearly the same work, when we can open source, share, utilize, and then deploy these foundations? Just imagine what we can build if we no longer have to spend months, or often years, developing what someone else has already perfected.

So, this is an open call to all innovators. It is time to roll up our sleeves. Let’s build together, and that’s why we have created developer centered initiatives such as our Global Grand Challenge, where we will be awarding $50,000 to the best team(s). If you are interesting in building on an open source initiative, earning incredible rewards, and increasing your exposure and reputation, sign your team up today for the first ever Global Grand Challenge, where you can compete with other teams from across the globe to build the best AI personal assistant! To sign up your team, please visit: https://bounty.kambria.io/team. Come and #BUIDL on Kambria. ✌️

William Ryan — Kambria Community Manager

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Kambria

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Dear Kambria Community,

We are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership between Kambria and Bangladesh Venture Capital Limited (BVCL)!

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BVCL is a venture capital firm that invests in companies with high growth potential and encourages entrepreneurs to reimagine the world with technological solutions. They help entrepreneurs at every stage of their business development and support capital requirements to drive rapid growth.

Through our partnership, BVCL and Kambria will work together to create innovation hubs, training and skilling programs, hackathons and applied research in the fields of AI, Robotics & Blockchain. We are very excited to work closely with BVCL to achieve the goals discussed in our Master Plan. Specific initiatives under this partnership include:

Promoting inter-academia collaboration
Expanding college and university-level education in AI, Robotics & Blockchain with ongoing training programs
Creating innovation labs at the college and university levels
Encouraging close collaboration between industry, academia, and government
Enabling female entrepreneurship programs by leveraging our open innovation platform
This collaboration is also an important part of our global AI Alliance initiative. Through our Alliance, we hope to work with the governments and outstanding companies in India, Vietnam, the United States, and China to create local employment opportunities by developing curriculum based on artificial intelligence, robotics, and blockchain.

As Kambria’s CEO and Co-founder, Dr. Thuc Vu, states, “Kambria’s partnership with BVCL is a great addition to our global AI Alliance, where we are excited to connect countries at the policy and technology level. With BVCL’s help, we can further scale Kambria platform’s mission and reach in creating strong developer communities worldwide. We especially look forward to bringing our Open Innovation Hub to Bangladesh!”

BVCL is investing in new technology and young entrepreneurs of Bangladesh. BVCL believes that many economic challenges could be overcome using the right technology through a viable business model. Collaboration and sharing knowledge would be the key in this endeavor.

“We look forward to working with Kambria in the fields of AI, Robotics and Blockchain. Through Kambria’s open innovation platform, the team’s academic excellence and innovation mindset, we are confident that together we can create practical use cases for frontier technologies in the real world, and build a skilled workforce that is ready for the future.”
About Kambria
Kambria is an open innovation platform that enables and incentivizes collaborations in R&D, manufacturing, and commercializing of advanced technology. With Kambria, we are changing the dynamics of innovation through collaboration and open source, where developing strong communities is a key component.

About BVCL

BVCL aims to create an alternative investment opportunity for businesses with high-growth potential. They want to foster a healthy environment in the investment ecosystem to make funds available for potential startups in Bangladesh. BVCL gives the highest value to the potential business that offers the solution to an existing problem and also makes a positive social impact. BVCL is teaming up with leading business leaders and highly-skilled mentors and advisors. They inspire young entrepreneurs to take a risk and back them until their business becomes successful.

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If you have any questions about Kambria or our team, please feel free to contact us via email at info@kambria.io or to message us through Telegram (links below). We always love hearing from you! And if you are not yet a Kambrian, please join our community to get updated news, and the scoop on our upcoming events.

The Kambria Team

Kambria Partnership Highlight



With a large variety of public offerings, the Bangladesh Venture Capital group is designed to cultivate entrepreneurs to will lead the next wave of innovations. BVCL is focused on start-ups and young visionaries who would like to turn their ideas into a real business, but lack the experience or capital to do it on their own. By utilizing Kambria's platform, BVCL will offer a unique set of tools to innovators that they would not have access to otherwise, while also allowing them access to funding through bottom-up innovation. BVCL will leverage its wide reach of partners and small businesses, bringing with them a pool of new talented entrepreneurs who are eager to build new ideas.



Specific initiatives under this partnership include:



- Promoting inter-academia collaboration

- Expanding college and university-level education in AI, Robotics & Blockchain with ongoing training programs

- Creating innovation labs at the college and university levels

- Encouraging close collaboration between industry, academia, and government

- Enabling female entrepreneurship programs by leveraging our open innovation platform



For more information about BVCL, please visit: http://bit.ly/2SMvtoO

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Kambria Update

Please take a moment to read our latest update concerning the token release schedule, OTC services, and equity conversion. Thank you for your time and support!

Read the update at: http://bit.ly/2u3sfTZ

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Kambria Developer Update!

Dear Kambria Community, our developers have been hard at work and we are pleased to provide you with another update highlighting progress completed on the Kambria platform. To further deliver on the initiatives in our Master Plan, several key feature sets have been enhanced including:
~  our Bounty mechanism (GitHub link provided)
~  the KAT Wallet (GitHub link provided)
~  the KDNA Codebase

In addition, developers can now sign up for our Global Grand Challenge, a series of hackathons around the world with a focus on creating the Ultimate Personal Assistant using advanced Artificial Intelligence and Robotics technology. 

Read our full post here for all of the details: http://bit.ly/2F0nxLS

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Blockchain Dapp Development Workshop
We are excited to announce that Kambria will partner with TomoChain and Alpha Blockchain to host a hackathon called "Building Blockchain Dapps on TomoChain."

Please join us on April 20th and 21st in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

As part of the event, we will host a workshop in HCMC on April 6th on How to Build Blockchain Applications. Through the workshop, we will showcase how the Kambria platform will be used by developers and hackers to form teams and submit their projects in the hackathon.

Also, we will share additional details about the Vietnam Grand AI Challenge (https://t.me/KambriaAnnouncements/175), a hackathon series that is part of the Kambria Global Grand Challenge kicking off this April!

📎 April 6th Workshop Tickets: https://bit.ly/2UdwwQ2
🔖 Register for the Tomochain Hackathon: https://bit.ly/2tQhrsp
💡 More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/2288471051388939/

The Role of Hackathons in Corporate Innovation
Next month Kambria will launch its Global Grand Challenge (https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambria-hackathon-global-grand-challenge-2019-50k-prize-4eb9b717337c), a series of hackathons with a focus on creating the Ultimate Personal Assistant using Artificial Intelligence and Robotics technology. This series is a great way for corporations to source new tech for their business thanks to ambitious developers who undergo an intense innovative process over the course of a few days. 

If you're new to hackathons and want to learn more about how they're structured and the benefits, read our full article here: http://bit.ly/2UJaUvc

Kambria Community,

Kambria COO, Dr. Tra Vu, was recently featured in a 3rdBlock Podcast! Tune in as Tra and 3rdBlock discuss AI and Robotics on the blockchain, and what the future of innovation will look like on Kambria's Open Innovation Platform. 😎

http://bit.ly/2Tnf1eU

Dear Kambria Community,

Kambria is happy to announce that as a result of winning the Blockchain Stars, we have been listed on the Exrates Exchange! Available for deposits and trading immediately, you can now trade KAT against BTC, ETH, and USDT! We would like to thank Exrates for this free listing, and to all of our community for voting for us in the final round of Blockchain Stars!

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Look at what we've been up to! Kambria recently joined in a first-of-its-kind bootcamp event with our partner #Outliers. The startup accelerator program is a unique offering in that they are connecting hand-picked startup companies with incredibly talented mentors who are experienced in disruptive technologies. Come see what all the buzz is about! http://bit.ly/2CFFn6x

We just published "Pro Tips to Rock your Hackathon Challenges!" In light of our upcoming events with Tomochain and Alpha Blockchain, we wanted to challenge you to sharpen your skills! The competition will be great, and we can't wait to see what the participants build. Read on to learn some best practices and tips on how to successfully complete a hackathon challenge. Read on at: http://bit.ly/2WDVOrj

You are a partner of Tomochain, but why your tokens built on Ethereum blockchain while Tomochain is more faster and more secure?

Kambria is an ERC20 token and is using Ethereum blockchain. So, the speed of the transactions depends on the Ethereum network. Tomochain has its own mainnet. By the way, what is the problem if two project are partnered, but use different blockchains?

Dear Kambria Community,

Interested in Kambria products? Love tech? Have questions about the Kambria Platform? Want to schedule a fun test drive of the OhmniLabs' Telepresence Robot? We've got you covered! Schedule a 15-minute test drive or one-on-on session with William Ryan, member of the Kambria Community Management Global Team on Calendly today! Please DM t.me/RobotComms for additional information. #communitydriven

▶️ OhmniLabs "Supercam" Robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7gaTEH2BmA&feature=youtu.be

▶️ Click here to schedule your 15-minute session! (https://calendly.com/williamryan/ohmnibot-test-drive)

That may change in the future, however, at this time, we are remaining an ERC20 token for now. We will announce any changes to our community. While TomoChain is absolutely very fast and very secure. The ETH chain has also proven to have great security as well. If the ETH chain becomes too slow for our usage, we will consider moving blockchains or creating our own. For robotics development, there is no need for 2 second block times. This is not a currency, but a utility token that does not require insanely high throughputs for the purposes of our chain.

Partnerships can come in many forms. We are great friends with TomoChain, we love their project. They are an incredible partner, and we work together frequently, however, this does not automatically mean that every partnership require that we join their blockchain. They are a fantastic option though, and we may one day utilize their incredibly amazing technology for our own purposes. They are surely great at what they do!!!

We have released our new Bounty Portal for the TomoChain Alphablockchain Hackathon. You can now find it at bounty.kambria.io (http://bounty.kambria.io)! Thank you.

Yes. I know. Thats why i asked why they not moved tokens to Tomochain blokchain. This is strange for me too, that they are using Ethereum.

Have you ever seen a token on Tomochain Blockchain? Most of the tokens are using Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum is more trusted by the community.

Yes. They have few daaps already and even one ICO on Tomo have finished few days ago. Tomo is quite new but very promising blockchain. At last one of the best among new blockchains.

Dear Kambria Community,

We are proud to announce we have become a member of Silicon Valley Robotics. The non-profit is the largest cluster of robotics and AI technology innovation and investment in the world, providing Kambria a significant networking opportunity with a large number of robotics and AI companies.

As part of the Kambria Master Plan, we will utilize our relationship with SVR to continue to build and expand our reach in the robotics space through the onboarding of new developers and corporations who are interested in building robotics and AI technologies.

For more information, please visit http://bit.ly/2CZdYfL

Kambria Abroad

Kambria joined the Vietnam Global Leaders Forum (VGLF) 2019 event in Paris, France on March 30-31, 2019! Kambria CEO, Thuc Vu, presented to over 200 successful and influential Vietnamese entrepreneurs and thought leaders as a catalyst to help support the long-term, national strategy of awakening the potential of Vietnam. The event was a great success, and provided us an opportunity to share about Kambria's innovative solutions to a large global audience.

To find out more, visit out blog post at http://bit.ly/2WVnhoN.

Our April 6th Workshop WAS A HIT!! We are looking forward to the April 20-21 Hackathon with partners TomoChain and AlphaBlockchain.

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Kambria Community,

With the launch of the newest major exchange, Kambria is proud to announce that the KAT token will be listed on Beaxy Exchange!

The KAT/BTC trading pair will be listed with “Group B” in their third round of listings.  To start things off, Beaxy is launching a friendly competition, and we need your help! Be sure to vote for Kambria, so we can be listed first. Vote here (https://twitter.com/BeaxyExchange/status/1116023185219178497). So, let’s come together and vote as a strong community!

For more information, please visit our official announcement: https://blog.kambria.io/kambria-listed-on-beaxy-exchange/ (https://blog.kambria.io/kambria-listed-on-beaxy-exchange/)

About Beaxy
Beaxy is an upcoming cryptocurrency exchange built in collaboration with OneMarketData. The exchange is bringing legacy finance, speed, power, and sophistication to the cryptocurrency space. To prepare for trading on Beaxy, sign up here (https://beaxy.com/Registration?code=SHO9L5DRQE) and receive a free platinum account for 60 days.

Bounty Challenge Infographic

With upcoming events such as the Vietnam Grand AI Challenge (https://medium.com/kambria-network/kambria-hackathon-global-grand-challenge-2019-50k-prize-4eb9b717337c) and our upcoming hackathon with TomoChain and Alpha Blockchain (https://t.me/KambriaAnnouncements/267), we are putting together documents to share with our community how companies and developers will be able to create bounty challenges of their own. By using our technology, companies can sponsor bounties to solve challenges and bring their ideas to life. Check out the newest infographic on our blog post, and find out how you can be involved!

Kambria Bounty Challenges: http://bit.ly/2v5FDY7

G’Day, Kambrians! Your Weekly Progress Report writer is back from vacation and eager to catch you up on our progress. Here’s the scoop on:
~ Our upcoming hackathon with TomoChain and how you can register
~ Our new partnership with Silicon Valley Robotics
~ Our newest exchange listing
~ Kambria at the Vietnam Global Leaders Forum (VGLF) in Paris
~ Overview of the Kambria bounty process works + awesome infographic

Click here to read the full report: http://bit.ly/2KDftql