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

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

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/

📢 Over the weekend we hit the 1000 Likes mark on our Facebook page. Huge thanks to our awesome community! 2019 is our year - let's do it! 📢 #MADANA #PrivTech

Christian Junger, CEO MADANA on Twitter:

Recently I published the first blog post of my two-part long series depicting my story of becoming the #entrepreneur that I am today and the hardships associated with it.  https://lnkd.in/duimk4p . For the people who prefer to read in German: https://lnkd.in/dAfQArC  #startup

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

Where is this exactly? Thanks

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

The ICO is live.

The price is determined at the end of the ICO dependant on how many participants join.

The overuse of
prescription medication

Currently, it is possible to be prescribed the same medicine
from one or more online pharmacies as well as your
regular NHS doctor. Opioid painkillers are one class of
drug that can be addictive, and when taken in quantities
above recommended British National Formulary (BNF)
doses, opioids can be life-threatening.

For example, a patient could be prescribed an opioid
from two online pharmacies. In a short window of time,
they receive two batches of opioid through the post and
also use their regular NHS prescription to receive a third
supply from their local pharmacy. They are now in possession
of potentially lethal quantities of the drug. More extreme
cases exist in the real world with patients obtaining over
10 sources of opioid.

Essentially, the scenarios described above only become
possible when there is no reliable source of information on
what medicine a patient has been prescribed, regardless
of who prescribed it.

Medication provenance and the
pharmaceutical supply chain - Counterfeit Medications

Trust is absolutely integral when it comes to any
conversation about medication. When a patient takes
medication, they are trusting that it is in the best interest
of their health, and also that the medicine has been
manufactured and supplied to them in accordance with the
agreed standards. The same goes for pharmacists. They
have to trust that the medicines they are dispensing and/
or selling are purchased from a reputable source where
Good Distribution Practice (GDP) is followed and the
integrity of medicines is without question. For this to be
the case, the medicine manufacturer, wholesaler, and
courier all need to be operating a high quality, compliant
supply chain; the more transparency that exists in this
supply chain, the greater the level of trust of all involved,
including the patients.

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

Dear Kambria Community,

We are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership between Kambria and Bangladesh Venture Capital Limited (BVCL)!



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.

http://www.venture.com.bd/

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

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.


Nasdaq.com

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.


Market Share of Smartphone End Users — Statista

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.


Source Android Police

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

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

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

The year 2018 is slowly coming to an end. We at MADANA are looking back with joy at a year full of hard work, new partners and change in the company as well as in the world of data privacy.

To conclude with 2018 we want to sum up all the major events of this year and have an outlook on the year 2019.

Setting Sails
Many might not know that MADANA’s roots lye in the beautiful city of Aachen. Here our founders set up the groundwork for the company that it is today. Out of the academical environment of the local elite university RWTH Aachen, and together with Max Kordek, we have established a successful Bitcoin Meetup and even Lisk itself has originated from here.

With further growth at the beginning of the year, we finally could initiate the next step on our journey to the epicenter of our industry, moving to Berlin. Here, right before the Lisk Relaunch event, we announced Max Kordeks investment in our cause (followed by a second round investment in October) together with our partnership with Lisk to bring the world a blockchain driven data analysis market to protect and secure peoples data privacy.

Partnerships
MADANA is not only beneficial for everyday people, moreover, all sorts of businesses also have a high interest in discrete data analysis with a focus on data privacy. The use cases span from fields like health care and energy over to IoT and online advertisement.

Therefore we have set up our strategy in a way that we could conquer the B2B market first, delivering businesses a tool to analyze data from foreign sources while proving privacy and purpose-specific analysis integrity. The possibilities in times of data leaks and scandals are unimaginable, especially with the enforcement of the GDPR on May 25th.



This spring we could finally celebrate our partnership with Capgemini for this cause, with whom we now have a strong and experienced partner to make ourselves a name in various competitive industries. To further strengthen our position here, we are already in talks with another, even bigger and internationally respected, consulting company. With them, we are following a particularly interesting use case, that we can’t wait to reveal in 2019.

Throughout the year we could also win a variety of partners in the academic and political sector, as well as welcoming highly experienced and renowned Advisors, like German Ramirez, who love and share our vision. They help with their experience and network on every step of MADANA’s journey.

Token Sale
After a successful patent filing of our technology in spring, we could finally present our community the complete vision of MADANA in the form of our White Paper, our Tokenomics Paper, and a One-Pager to get an overview. This marked the starting point for our PAX Token Pre-Sale, which started with the whitelisting in August and ended on October 31st. Setting up such a business in Germany is not easy by any means, therefore we are proud to be one of the first BaFin checked German businesses to conduct a Token Sale here.

To celebrate this kick-off event we organized a party with over 100 attendants at our office.


PAX party invitation poster

The total amount of funding MADANA has raised so far is accounted to € 1.42 Million Euro. This money will ensure our growth and product development in 2019, yet it is still only the beginning as our Main Sale is still on the horizon.

International

Consensus New York 2018: https://youtu.be/2C3dnTzb-MU
“MADANA is not only for Europe, but also the World” our CEO Christian Junger once said. The vision is a global one, and in this means we have traveled the world this year to make new business contacts and learn from different cultures. MADANA has made a debut in New York at this year's Consensus conference, found partners in China and Hong Kong and had an extensive Roadshow throughout Moscow, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.




At this point, we would like to make a big shout out to our Ambassadors in the USA, Poland, Netherlands, Russia, and China. With your support, we grow our community in your countries and establish the vision of a global decentralized pool of information that our founders had.


Outlook on 2019
The ground for a successful 2019 has been laid by our community and us in 2018. Therefore we can say that, despite a difficult market situation, this year was a good one for MADANA. We have been following our roadmap and reached one milestone after another. This, of course, will continue in 2019!

We are looking forward to collaborating further with our current, and yet to be announced, partners on B2B use cases and pilot-projects to demonstrate the power of MADANA to the industry. Because we are already in talks and have concrete use cases with a renowned company from the automotive industry, an international shopping mall provider and a well-known telecommunication provider, we are certain that 2019 will be the year of massive progress for us and our partners in the regards of our technology integration. The community can expect the release of the PAX token, and much more, that we have been preparing for you.

As our new year's resolutions, we have set ourselves to grow, share knowledge and be open for change in an accelerating world of technology.


Our Team with MADANA Ambassador Alexey Usanov (Russia)

We wish every single one of you a happy and successful new year!

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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

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