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hi everybody and welcome to the 84th
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town hall on the 14th of march 2022.
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thank you so much for joining um us
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today and we hope that you get some
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great updates from the team um so first
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up we are going to head to peopleops and
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monica will give us an update from
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peoplehopes avt monica
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thank you so today's update is going to
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be focus on giving a shout out and a
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highlight to our new contributors and
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the contributors that have been
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contributing to status for a while now
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first of all jessic comes
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has been contributing to the research
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team leading the research team including
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projects like neem or back for four
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years
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then we have andrea who's been leading
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the mobile project
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we also have andrea frank two andreas in
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the team
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who's been contributed to a few projects
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title score key card and now he's
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transitioning to status broader status
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network then we have eugene and jordan
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bull from the nimbus team rachel from
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finance operations and frank who's been
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leading the waku project then we will
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welcome elena michelle stefan to the
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desktop project and orders the mobile
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project
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thanks monica
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next up um angel would you please be
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able to give us an update on what the
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fabulous talent team is doing on hiring
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yes
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for sure um so yeah like it like shows
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we've had a uh gonna have a really busy
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day yeah this year we're gonna be dublin
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um so we've hired seven people
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across the teams so far
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um
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and we still got a few outstanding
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offers
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and a lot of final interviews happening
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so hopefully
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within the next sort of 15 16 days
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you've got left that a month we can uh
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add a few more contributors to each team
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um can you switch to the next slide
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please
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so we've got quite a few positions still
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open um
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they're across communications director
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for the network state we've got creative
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strategists for branding software
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developer and test for desktop
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we've got more software engineers for
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nim
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and for vac we are hiring production
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engineers and blockchain engineers
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um and then for mobile we're hiring a
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closure ui uh for codex we've got
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several researchers and the networking
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engineer um and then for the consensus
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team a maths researcher focused on on
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probability and complex systems
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um so there's a lot of positions
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um so yeah if the communities or anyone
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watching and the teams can all help with
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letting us know any specific areas or
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platforms we can uh focus on to to hire
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more brilliant people that would be
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awesome
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thanks angel um and as always i know
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angel normally mentions um we do run the
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referral program so any referrals are
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very welcome
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next
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next up we're going to listen to um
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andrea on the mobile team for your
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update so over to you please
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thank you terry um so in the last weeks
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we've been working on a few things so
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we've been working on wallet connect
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integration both uh one and two and
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that's going to be released in the next
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release but it's gonna be toggled off
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because we haven't finished um
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with all the
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tasks that we wanted to finish before
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releasing proper
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and we have also been working a lot on
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syncing and backup and we had a remote
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android notification
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as an option um in addition to the local
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notification that we have as the
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centralized notifications
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um we are still working on 1.19 as it
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has been slightly delayed
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because we're still trying to finish off
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a few things one related to syncing with
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my servers and one related to syncing
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and backups and we really want them to
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get it in
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hopefully we're going to be cutting
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at least branch this week
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next we're going to be working we just
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started the work on the upgrade design
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um so that's something that is gonna be
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uh ongoing um so we'll have to basically
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like re-implement many of the screens
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and just
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to give it a fresh look and add some new
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features
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and we keep working on other features
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that um we've been working before like
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for example mutual content request and
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we'll keep working on performance as
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always
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and that's all from mobile uh thank you
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very much terry back to you
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thank you andrea that sounds super
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exciting that the app redesign can't
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wait to see some uh some updates on that
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going forward
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next up we're going to hear from yuri
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from desktop so over to you yuri
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all right so
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what could v2 it's something we've been
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uh
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working to to get it on on desktop and
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um
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and as well as mobile and our plan is
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the next release to have it by default
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as the as the main approach as the
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default protocol
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uh and we we're about to do some more
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testing with this before we can actually
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do the that release
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then
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the simplest plus app so again it's
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currently sort of a side project but
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we're trying to make sure we got
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everything right so that was the poc for
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the wallet
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and the base of it is
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it was restructured
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to make sure everyone is happy with it
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and there's a type of architecture we
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can we can build from
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now very exciting uh some very exciting
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features uh we got now uh in the next
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release that should be the display names
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so this effectively replaces the three
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word user names so people can set up
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their own
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dom names
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and this also includes some identity
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identity features such as a emoji hash
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so everyone gets their own
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sequence of emojis that uniquely
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identifies them there's also the rainbow
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ring which is this ring around the
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profile that identifies that profile uh
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uniquely
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and we also have been working a lot on
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this new onboarding screen so import
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improving the onboarding process
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also making it a bit nicer with you know
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there's some neat animations
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uh there's
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that we're also working say on the
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password
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strengthener
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uh indicator so it's
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you know the user can get some good
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passwords integrate better with
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features like touch id
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uh so a lot of these features we had but
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the the the new designs are are much
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much nicer and working integrating that
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we we also uh i've been working on a lot
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of new setting screens from the wallet
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for
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the chat browser and so on
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um and
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we also added the multi network
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support
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to the wallet on the client side as well
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this currently hidden with the toggle
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but it's something we're
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actively experimenting with currently
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and this is part of the new new wallet
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work
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and um something i forgot to say in
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other under tone holes that we also this
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pascal is working on this long-term
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community history
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fetching so we can support more than uh
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30 days
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and without relying on on mail servers
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so users can get
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can get the base 3 for
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whatever community they are on
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then next we still have a lot there's a
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lot of new design so it's a lot more to
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do in those onboarding screens as well
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as setting screens
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uh there's the
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identity verification work is currently
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ongoing and that's kind of needed
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because the
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you know as if anyone can just then set
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their own display names we need uh
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we need a way for people to verify the
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other person is who they they say they
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are
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uh we should also resume the key card
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integration
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and again there's gonna be other new
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community features that we're gonna be
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working on uh and uh as well as uh
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continuing the
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work on the wallet redesigns and new
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features that it has
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and
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yeah back to you terry
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thanks very much for those updates
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jewelry i'm sure the community really
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enjoyed listening to those
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um next up we are going to hear from
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alec who's going to give us some data
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and some graphs on our growth and
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retention so over to you alec
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thank you terry hello everyone like
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always let's start with app installs
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so far this year we have had over 375
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000 app installs
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or a little over 5 000 installs per day
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almost half of all those
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app installs
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so a little over 180 000 occurred after
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our last town hall
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um in the in this period 23 percent of
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happiness came from algeria 11 from mali
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and six
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from brazil
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um in recent in recent weeks we have
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observed an increased interest in our
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application in africa which is very
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interesting
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let's move to the next slide
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installed audience this chart is limited
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to google play users only it shows a
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number of people with the app
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on their device
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so once again we reached 600 000 users
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um in week 10 of last year we had
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approximately 4 400 000 users so that's
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an increase of
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60 um 36
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year and year
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um
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let's see on the next slide where these
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users are coming from
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so over nine percent from mali almost
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seven and a half from algeria
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over five and a half from brazil
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right now almost 37
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percent and uh steadily increasing uh of
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users come from africa a little over 24
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uh four percent from asia and almost 90
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and a half 19 and a half percent
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from south america so
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i think it's it's safe to say that in
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terms of users we are growing fairly
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steadily in africa and asia
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let's move on to the next slide
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daily active users
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more or less we are around 13 000 daily
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active users especially in last few
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weeks
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um obviously the goal is to keep
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increasing this metric uh or at least
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your maintenance this value
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um and yeah so it's it's good so far
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it's good um let's see on the next slide
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how many peers do we get from 13 000
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daily active users
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and as you can see in the last four
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weeks
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so since our last downhill we have been
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having on average over 6 000 daily peers
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of course the more the better
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although this increase this rapid
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increase
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in week 7
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doesn't really look organic
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and as a matter of fact in the last
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three days
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and daily peers went down to around 3
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000
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which seems natural
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okay and now let's go to the summary on
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the next slide
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so things to remember
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over 375 000 app installs or little over
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5 000 app installs per day
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over 600 000 users with app on their
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devices
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on average
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10 000 daily active users but recently
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around 13 000 daily active users
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and on average about 4 000 daily active
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peers that's all from me thank you for
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your attention and back to you terry
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thank you very much alex for that and
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useful information on the graphs it's
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really nice to see the visual and graphs
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there to see the numbers so thank you
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and next up we are going to hear from
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fred and jacob from security and
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infrastructure
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so i believe it's fred up
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first hey everybody
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so this month's
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business as usual like few interesting
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hacker reports
12:32
also work on some product feature
12:34
also work on the team multisig
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governance setup
12:39
we talked with a few team about it
12:40
already your opinion is welcome not
12:42
hesitated to ping me also approach on
12:45
our risk management how we can optimize
12:47
it and hear the same your opinion is
12:50
welcome um
12:52
this year like since the beginning we've
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wanted to focus a little bit more on
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contributor security so
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in the last two or three months we've
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been
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having security touch point with
13:04
newcomer
13:05
we learned a bunch of things and what
13:08
they need the most so
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this year we're going to do a multisig
13:13
learn up series and the first one will
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be in in 10 days so
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if you don't know much about multisig
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your non-tech
13:21
you're really welcome because this is a
13:23
good way to to get started with it so
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it's gonna be not them questions so
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please join us
13:29
also
13:30
we add some feedback but if there is
13:33
more educational content that you would
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uh want in terms of security so your
13:37
opinion is welcome here again so we had
13:40
some about mobile phone setup
13:43
also workstation if you need anything
13:46
about ub keys or any other subject
13:48
please come to us
13:50
also be aware of the username takeover
13:54
especially with github so when the core
13:56
contributor register
13:58
a github username and then change it and
14:01
if you don't update it then they can be
14:04
taken over and we have a bunch of hacker
14:06
that always come to us
14:07
saying that they took over some of our
14:10
username so be aware of that
14:12
also we are working on the off-boarding
14:15
security
14:16
and and how we can optimize it finally
14:19
we're still recruiting for an
14:21
infrastructure security engineer
14:23
so if you are interested or know anybody
14:26
don't hesitate to apply thank you
14:32
thanks very much fred much appreciated
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um over to you jacob
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hey hey people
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uh i finally
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got the next upgrade ready for the
14:42
mobile application
14:45
it was a bit painful
14:47
but
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i fixed this unboxing issues i fixed the
14:50
mac os
14:51
temporary directory issues
14:53
it's ready it's just waiting for
14:55
the mobile release to come out so we
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don't want to mess with dev setups right
15:00
before the release is going to be
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cut
15:04
we have a squish license server for
15:05
desktop tests uh i know the
15:07
worker has already started on developing
15:10
the
15:10
new test for desktop so that's going to
15:12
be
15:13
an improvement to the stability of the
15:15
ui
15:16
uh we have a boris instance of our own
15:18
uh
15:19
right now it just works for jswaku but
15:21
if you're interested in some automation
15:23
for
15:24
merging prs and and similar
15:26
uh reach out to me
15:29
we have a new git hook for uh to go
15:32
version updates in mobile uh so you
15:34
might see if you have uh updated the
15:37
distance go version you will get
15:38
injected with a roll for the diff
15:42
between the old and the new version of
15:44
subsco so please don't remove that
15:46
that's useful for qa
15:48
to track down issues that might have
15:50
been caused by changes in status go
15:53
we have added openc api keys for both
15:55
mobile and desktops so the issues with
15:57
openc api should go away soon
16:00
and there's also a new docker image with
16:02
some extra
16:04
packages for desktop so if you see any
16:06
issues with builds on linux please tell
16:08
me
16:10
we've been seeing some weird spikes
16:12
in piers on the if broad fleet
16:16
that around studies go
16:17
i'm not sure what it is but they've been
16:20
periodic
16:21
every 24 hours they have calmed down for
16:23
the past week
16:24
but they looked like some kind of
16:26
probing uh
16:28
error by a
16:30
single person or an organization it
16:32
involved multiple hosts i'm not sure
16:33
what the purpose was maybe they were
16:35
essentially measuring the scale of our
16:37
fleet uh but they were definitely
16:40
checking something
16:42
we have a bunch of new fleets we have
16:43
the
16:44
fluffy fleet
16:47
which is the new implementation of if
16:49
one client
16:51
done by nimbus team
16:53
we have kiln test net
16:55
which is a merged test net
16:57
for f1 and f2
16:59
we have an additional if one client
17:02
which runs open ethereum in addition to
17:04
the kef one we have and i'm also
17:06
probably going to be setting up an uh
17:08
edible one so we have more variety in
17:10
terms of f1 clients that we used to sync
17:13
as for nimbus mainnet
17:16
we also have a new essentially main
17:19
status fleet running the mwaku which is
17:21
going to be used in the next desktop
17:23
release
17:24
uh and ultimately it's going to replace
17:26
the old status go running if prod fleet
17:30
so and it should be much more uh
17:34
efficient and and
17:35
faster
17:37
uh in other news we have a new contacts
17:40
page which has also been put behind off
17:42
so we have more contact information
17:44
values of hidden behind google based off
17:47
so external people can see it
17:49
we have a source credit instance which
17:52
will be used by people for essentially
17:54
finding external contributors that might
17:55
be worth
17:56
talking to uh possibly hiring it's
17:59
available at cred.status.m
18:02
and that's essentially it
18:05
from all the major changes
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thank you
18:09
thanks very much jacob um that was
18:11
really interesting to hear all your
18:13
updates um next up we are going to hear
18:15
from juan david who's going to give us
18:18
an update from marketing and also from
18:20
the community as well so over to you one
18:23
david
18:24
thank you terry here one david
18:27
so
18:28
first of all we have new listings of smt
18:30
in my encrypted.com and coinbase thank
18:33
you eduardo for all the management of
18:35
that relationship and partnership
18:37
on our special ambassador program we got
18:40
our three special ambassadors doing a
18:43
great job like natalia she helped me out
18:45
with the
18:46
hackathon that we host this weekend for
18:49
the system uh it was done here in bullet
18:52
time and as you can
18:54
as you know defcon is going to take
18:56
place here in colombia so we are
18:58
building our community here
19:00
uh
19:01
it was super successful in terms of
19:03
growth for our social media spanish
19:05
accounts in instagram and twitter we
19:08
have grown by 50 percent
19:10
our influencers alejandra and lucio did
19:13
a great job promoting the event and also
19:15
educating new people uh on boarding them
19:18
on nft's uh next slides please
19:22
on the community side um we did this
19:26
event was a great learning experience we
19:29
got three tech talks uh remote uh
19:34
mentors thank you frank and all the waco
19:37
connect team to give you more context uh
19:40
the waco team gave a 2 000
19:44
a grand or bounty
19:46
1000 for the best use case of waku on a
19:50
pool price of one thousand also we got
19:53
road to defcon with uh one thousand for
19:56
layer two solutions so there were we got
19:59
a lot of learning with whack one layer
20:02
two
20:03
we had twenty percent of hackers as
20:06
participants so we onboarded uh web 2
20:09
developers into web 3
20:11
and next slide please
20:13
and as you can see we have a lot of fun
20:16
we got this winning team they were using
20:19
the technology to improve
20:21
the agricultural sector here in colombia
20:24
so we awarded that that uses cases for
20:27
local communities once again thank you
20:29
frank for all the support uh remotely he
20:33
was working with us during the weekend
20:35
so thank you so much and the next stop
20:37
will be ethereum medellin we are
20:39
planning that stars want to be really
20:42
uh present and helping a lot the
20:45
ethereum columbia community which i'm
20:47
part of so the next edition of the
20:49
hackathon will be in medellin so i will
20:52
keep you posted thank you
20:57
oh and
20:59
last but not least jin ho did a great
21:01
presentation regarding ambassadors so 31
21:04
of them completed the task
21:06
we got new ambassador applications as
21:09
you can see events were going in
21:12
india burundi uganda and the philippines
21:15
under the translation side we got
21:17
three contributors that translated
21:20
uh
21:21
different posts and you can see all the
21:24
updates and the campaign that we are
21:25
running on translate that status that i
21:28
am
21:29
thank you so much
21:31
thank you very much one david and thank
21:32
you for your debut of uh joining the
21:34
town hall for updates and what an update
21:36
that was um it sounds like you had lots
21:38
of fun over the weekend so thank you so
21:40
much to yourself and to everyone who
21:42
participated in those events
21:44
um and that is it for the status town
21:47
hall this month thank you to all our
21:49
community for tuning in and listening to
21:51
our updates we would love to hear um any
21:54
ideas or thoughts you have
21:56
for the next town hall um you can put
21:58
those in the disc uh discord channel um
22:02
in town hall questions um the next town
22:05
hall will be on the 11th of april 2022.
22:08
so thanks again everyone for tuning in
22:10
and thanks to all our presenters today