Talking with a lot of great people at EmberCamp in Chicago today—be sure to stop by and say hi if you're here!

New article discusses how real utility will be hastened by tech that facilitates interoperability, mentioning Cardstack as a front runner: https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2018/09/super-dapps-are-coming-software-orchestration-hits-blockchain/

We believe that the usability of dApps is a life-or-death question for crypto.

Here's a new article we spotted, about how Cardstack can help crypto pivot away from speculation 👍🏼 https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-24/success-dapps-can-curb-speculation-crypto-market

Reddit is discussing the latest article featuring Cardstack! Join in 👉🏼 https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/9iqbqf/the_crypto_market_continues_to_trade_based_on/

Cardstack Joins Hyperledger
We're very proud to announce that Cardstack joins the Hyperledger community today, officially stepping aboard the Linux Foundation’s open-source effort to bring blockchain technology to real industry use cases around the world: https://www.hyperledger.org/announcements/2018/09/26/hyperledger-continues-strong-momentum-with-14-new-members

Why we're joining Hyperledger: https://medium.com/cardstack/cardstack-joins-hyperledger-d980d56c689c

Chris will attend the Hyperledger Member Summit in Montreal, Canada next Monday: https://twitter.com/christse/status/1044987544017018882

What can teenagers teach us about blockchain? Turns out, a lot.

Chris judged a student hackathon last weekend, where a team of 16-year-olds won by creating a blockchain system for health data.

Read the story: https://medium.com/cardstack/what-an-afternoon-with-high-schoolers-at-a-hackathon-taught-me-about-blockchain-5448a47467b6

New article on Forbes by blockchain expert Yoav Vilner that includes Cardstack as one of the top 9 most promising crypto projects looking into 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/yoavvilner/2018/09/29/9-blockchain-and-cryptocurrency-companies-all-set-for-2019/

Hyperledger and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) are joining forces.

As the blockchain industry adopts a cross-chain, enterprise-focused approach, the Cardstack Framework for building composable decentralized apps is becoming more vital than ever.

https://www.hyperledger.org/announcements/2018/10/01/enterprise-ethereum-alliance-and-hyperledger-to-advance-the-global-blockchain-business-ecosystem

Today Chris is in Montreal at Hyperledger’s private annual summit, speaking with other enterprise blockchain leaders about the way forward.

Here’s Chris with Jack Lu, founder of Wanchain, and Brian Behlendorf, executive director of Hyperledger:

Chris' piece about how to make blockchain more inviting for everyone is now trending on r/cryptocurrency.

Join the discussion: https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/9kooa8/what_an_afternoon_with_high_schoolers_taught_me/

Cardstack Partner Dot Blockchain Media Announces Deal with Warner Music Group to Build Media Rights Platform Using Cardstack Framework

Congratulations to our partner Dot Blockchain Media (dotBC), who have announced a deal with Warner Music Group (WMG) — one of the top three largest record labels and music publishers in the world — to build a media rights management platform on the blockchain, using the Cardstack Framework.

The industry-leading pilot program enables record labels and publishers to form a collective truth about their media assets using a distributed ledger, ensuring metadata about ownership rights and representation remains up to date and is permanently associated with recorded media wherever it goes. The platform will manage an initial collection of 5,000 tracks under WMG.

The Cardstack Framework allows the correlation of the metadata and media files to be bundled as a version-controlled repository using our Git plugin. Using our Card Flow workflow UI, participants can submit changes and updates to these bundles, which can then be viewed, edited, approved, and/or denied by counterparties. The complete record of metadata submissions and amendments is tracked via a permissioned ledger running on Hyperledger Sawtooth — which can be searched and viewed by anyone using Cardstack’s search engine plugins.

We applaud dotBC and Warner Music Group for taking this important step toward creating a modern media rights infrastructure for the music industry — and we’re excited to be a part of this groundbreaking implementation of blockchain for solving real world problems.

READ MORE: http://dotblockchainmedia.com/warner

Cardstack is mentioned in Forbes as a key player in the drive toward blockchain interoperability. We are happy to be recognized as one of the few projects working on the end user layer to help blockchain gain mass market adoption.

Read all about it here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2018/10/06/blockchain-or-bust-can-software-orchestration-boost-adoption-of-decentralized-apps/

Hallo from EmberFest in Amsterdam! Here’s Lead Developer Ed Faulkner, Senior Developer Balint Erdi, and Senior Developer Alex Speller with our team at simplabs—the premiere Ember.js consultancy that’s working alongside Cardstack’s development team to build Card Space.
Among this squad we have an Ember steering committee member (Ed), EmberFest co-founder (Marco with simplabs), and EmberFest co-organizers (Alex and Balint).

Cardstack mentioned in The Bitcoin News: https://thebitcoinnews.com/why-hubs-are-so-important-and-why-the-decentralized-internet-needs-one/

Founder of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee thinks centralization has gone too far. In a recent blog post, he wrote:

“The web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division; swayed by powerful forces who use it for their own agendas."

BanklessTimes wrote about how Cardstack is building something better: https://www.banklesstimes.com/2018/10/23/the-founder-of-the-web-believes-centralization-has-gone-too-far/

The Tim Berners-Lee story has been trending on the cryptocurrency subreddit — don't miss the discussion: https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/9s1mrt/tim_bernerslee_the_founder_of_the_world_wide_web/

Join us in welcoming the six newest members of our team!