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!

Nicholas Jackson joins us after working as Creative Director of Washington Post’s brand studio, overseeing ad products and interactive branded content. He was previously Senior Art Director for brand studios at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Hexi Xiao oversees communication with Cardstack’s Chinese, Japanese and Korean communities. Hexi joined to help us meet expanding interest in Asia.

Tam Cai is an interdisciplinary design director and front-end developer with experience on large branding campaigns for companies like PepsiCo and Netflix.

Marco Otte-Witte is the founder of simplabs, and has over 20 years of experience working in open-source technology. He is a co-founder and director of EmberFest.

Chris Manson is a software engineer with a long resume of open-source projects — starting with the KDE desktop. He is an entrepreneur and founder of Authmaker, a tool for quickly building web apps.

Jorge Lainfiesta is a software engineer and media scholar. His past work includes engineering mentorship for companies such as This Dot, Inc. and Startrack.

Meet the rest of our team: cardstack.com/contributors

Exciting things are under way at the Cardstack Project!

We wanted to share some recent highlights, in case you missed them. https://medium.com/cardstack/were-making-moves-a45a0ec73a7b

Chris met with dotBC leadership yesterday here at 1WTC. Read about how we're partnering to build a decentralized music rights platform for Warner Music Group: http://dotblockchainmedia.com/warner

Exciting meeting today at Cardstack’s NYC studio previewing custom narrative prototypes using Card UI 👀

Chris' op-ed in Bitcoin Magazine, the publication founded by Vitalik Buterin, is the #1 story right now on Reddit's r/cryptocurrency.

https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/9v8vse/by_now_weve_all_read_about_facebooks_poor_data/

Hi Cardstack community, We are close to a major software release of the Cardstack framework. We are working on a set of demoable features that hooks into the Card rendering pipeline we have been working on, as well as a Git based distributed versioning work flow that is ready for the community to use. We will be scheduling a series of weekly demos starting in about 2 weeks that will walk you through various use cases of how you can leverage the Card paradigm to create decentralized applications that feels like polished web experiences, but hooks into one or more decentralized technologies underneath. Our focus is to get the top level of the experience layer right, and we will be announcing our four edges design system, which implements the common capabilities needed for Card development as a set of out-of-the-box functionalities and system services. We will walk you through what developers get out-of-the-box, and where the areas of customizations and extensions are. For those interested in the underlying architecture, we will also provide an overview of how the code works together to create this cohesive experience that could be extended to cover most of the techniques needed to decentralize the key elements of the web as we move towards a web 3.0 ecosystem.

As we approach a major release of the Cardstack software, Chris is here to chat about what we're building. Please submit your questions in our community channel (https://t.me/cardstack) using #AskChris!