New technical video is out!

https://youtu.be/JZaxuQBrTgU

Surprise news everybody! We have kicked off our own weekly podcast, Point Podcast. In our first episode, we talked about Point Network, Point Social, decentralized social media, NFTs, Cardano, El Salvador government investing $150M into crypto infrastructure, and other topics.

Subscribe and listen to the first episode here in 1hr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIm0yc0d_ZY

🎉 Announcing Solana Ignition Hackathon Participation

We are pleased to announce that we will be participating in Solana Ignition Hackathon (up to $5 million in prizes and funding), and we plan to win the Web3 track, and maybe go for the grand prize as well!

The panel of Judges and Speakers include a crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried (CEO of FTX), Jeremy Allaire (Founder of Circle), and others, including a lot of representatives from the most prominent VC firms (Andreesen Horowitz, Pantera Capital, Multicoin Capital, Lightspeed Ventures etc.). Usually it’s hard to get in touch with big names through cold email, but here, they will have to watch the video and run our testnet, which is amazing!

This event has the potential to suddenly bring our technology we’ve been diligently working on into the spotlight of a lot of people in the crypto space, including the whole Solana community, so enjoy the silence while it lasts with 80 Telegram members, things might become crazy really soon 🙂

Soon you will have a chance to be one of the first people to test out the Point Network testnet, using Solana blockchain, as well as chat on Point Social. More details to follow. Ask us any questions in the meanwhile, send suggestions if you have any. Hackathon details are at https://solana.com/ignition

Inviting Alpha Testers

A new month has officially started. We are just 2 weeks away from Solana hackathon deadline! Time flies fast.

We need a few volunteers to help us with the pre-flight checks for the Point Network release. By successfully participating in this, you will be rewarded with an “Early Adopter” NFT at launch, which you can attach to your web3 profile on Point Social.

If you have a few hours per week to spend trying it out, and have a high level of frustration tolerance (calmly reporting whatever bugs stop you from enjoying the network instead of throwing your laptop out the window), we’ll be happy for you to join us here, and receive the first instructions:

https://t.me/pointnetworkalpha

Please make sure to tell us that you’re intending to become an alpha tester, because some people might join just out of curiosity. We want to know who’s onboard. See you there!

Twitter Thread

Anyone still has twitter? :) Please like and retweet so more people (and especially the tagged ones) see it

https://twitter.com/PointNetwork/status/1444023837838950403

Web3 developers, here’s today’s twitter thread unrolled, in case you missed it:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1447511943980503040.html

If you like it, please click on the actual tweets to like and retweet to reach a wider web3 audience! Thank you!

October 14, 2021

The day we launched our alpha testnet, and Point Network went level up. It went from a pipe dream to an idea to a prototype running locally, to grueling development phase, and now finally the first alpha with real users, still buggy but already working on other people’s computers. And we can even see them registering and see their posts and comments on Point Social and reply.

All previous projects, while they have laid important work, were useful stepping stones, and produced various web3 tools, were (and still are) part of web2. Uniswap.org can be taken away from Uniswap team at any moment right now, or its contents can be modified without the team’s knowledge (like when bitcoin.org was hacked recently) and you would never know it. Same is true with protonmail.com and others, you never know what files will be served to you the next moment and whether they will be served at all.

Before, when people ask you where web3 is, you would be hard-pressed to find any boundaries that are non-vague. Now, for the first time, we have a completely isolated virtual space that has the right to be called “web 3.0” and “decentralized internet” - decentralized domains, decentralized websites, decentralized storage, decentralized identities, all combined together, with no centralized server to shut down, no censorship capability, no mass surveillance, as “free speech”-free as physics allowing people to speak words into air, with no middleman deciding whether and when to take away this ability.

Web 3.0 has started now. And you are the first users to set a foot in this isolated virtual space today. Big heartwarming welcome and congratulations! Let’s see what awesome things we, together as a community, can now do from this point on.

It’s a cause for celebration, but not for slacking off. There’s a lot of things we will have to improve in the coming days, and especially as we get more users soon. But we will always remember today as a major turning point, and will probably celebrate every Point anniversary on this day, and host yearly PointCon around this time. Thanks everyone, both to first alpha users, and people who are just on the sideline rooting for us! Let’s make this journey we’re starting together as positively impactful on the world as possible

~ Serge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8tSKoSAPJo

Please retweet: https://twitter.com/PointNetwork/status/1449230101783138305

For our friends on the other side of the world who missed the notification:

Our hackathon submission video is out! Please watch and retweet

https://twitter.com/PointNetwork/status/1449230101783138305

Solana Ignition Hackathon voting is now open!

Please support us by voting for us, if you believe our project deserves more eyeballs. Crucial days, only valid for 3 days until 22th of Oct! Thank you!

(Needs a quick DevPost account, which can be done through social media authentication. The button is “Vote for this project”, not just “Like”, if on mobile it's almost at the end of it)

https://devpost.com/software/point-network