Retrospective Roadmap: Q4

Let’s take a look back at our latest developments.

Just until last month, the team had been intensely focused on the launch of the Fractal Protocol Mainnet — and we’re glad to share that since then, the adoption numbers skyrocketed for the Protocol and the Fractal Wallet relative to Testnet numbers. Alongside that, we have established new partnerships, and we launched a community initiative: the Fractal Academy. Today, we’d like to reflect upon the latest partnerships, developments and give you a refreshing look at what’s next.

OCEAN Protocol & Fractal: An Ocean of Opportunity

Ocean Protocol is the leading developer of powerful Web3 apps for the emerging data economy. The main point of collaboration is focused on kickstarting identity verification in the Ocean Market.

In particular, the partnership will allow us to leverage OCEAN’s existing infrastructure and apps, enabling their buy-side for our Protocol right out of the box. This in itself will help support the demand for the Fractal token by directly connecting users to advertisers and publishers that are buying data.

By combining Fractal’sProtocol-based Data Provisioning Incentivization with Ocean’s privacy-preserving Compute-to-Data feature and Ocean Market for data, users will be able to take ownership of their data and monetize it themselves.

Curious about the full details of this partnership? Find the full article here.

Outlier Ventures & Fractal: Accelerating the Data Economy

Outlier Ventures is a leading accelerator and VC firm that plays an active role in shaping the future of freedom and equitable economics within digital environments.

Fractal will allow founders and builders from the Outlier Ventures’ ecosystem to receive premiere access and technical support for implementing KYC identity verification, bridging the gap between data privacy and data integrity while maintaining global compliance standards. Furthermore, Fractal ID Wallet will enable any Web3 project to implement KYC processes in a simplified MetaMask like experience.

Moreover, this partnership means we are joining forces with a team passionate about building the future while also having undisputed crypto expertise in legal, structuring, branding, and token engineering. Accelerating Web 3 founders since 2014, Outlier Ventures has helped raise over 130 million dollars in funding and enjoys one of the most exclusive global partner networks that we’re now proud to be contributing to.

Find out more about our partnership with Outlier Ventures here.

Integritee & Fractal: Web3 Champions Unite

A new partnership between privacy-focused platform Integritee and open-source protocol Fractal brings a fair, open data market a step closer. Fractal has developed a basic standard for user-controlled, incentivized data exchange, reversing the privacy problems of the established free internet on a transparent, trustless platform. This goal is closely aligned with Integritee’s pursuit of insight without access. Working together, the two companies will be able to offer transformative secure data services.

With its scalable privacy solution that provides insight without access, Integritee is the perfect partner to extend our reach to enterprise customers. Together, we will create private, fast, secure data services that change the bargain made with the free internet — users will be able to take back control.

Here’s a deeper look into our partnership with Integritee.

SINE Foundation & Fractal: Building a Data Collaboration Ecosystem

SINE is a non-profit organization, consisting of professors of cryptography and economics, as well as innovative entrepreneurs, a “think-and-do tank” using state-of-the-art cryptography to make Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC) more than a theoretical possibility. Together with us, SINE will be building the world’s first open-source SMPC matching engine, and developing the Smart Cookie technology.

Thanks to SMPC, it is possible to keep private data secure and personally controlled, while still allowing other parties to make mathematical calculations on it — opening up the space for unprecedented data collaboration in all directions (B2B — B2C — C2C), while simultaneously ensuring data privacy.

Here’s the official announcement of our collaboration with SINE.

Fractal Academy Launch:

We were also thrilled to introduce the Fractal Academy last month. We want Fractal Academy to be a community initiative that will focus on educating and expanding the growing Fractal community on all things Fractal, as well as the basics of blockchain, data privacy, ad industry, and the future of the web.

Fractal Academy already has four episodes out, the latest being on Fractal ID, how it functions, the basics of the KYC process, and why a decentralized credential is valuable.

You can find all the published episodes here.

What else is next for the Protocol?

During the Mainnet rollout, we were given two stellar AMAs by our Co-Founders Julian Leitloff and Julio Santos, who shared some of the upcoming steps for Fractal Protocol — we leave you with a choice selection of goals:

• We will publish our Data Host SDK (for partners to implement and expose millions of new users to the Protocol, even outside of crypto communities).
• We will build the functionality to share data with websites (to enable the first data use cases, and explore payments for data).
• Our Fractal Token plan is on the horizon as we migrate the token from the Ethereum ecosystem onto the Substrate ecosystem, and create a bridge. We are working on bootstrapping liquidity on a DEX that will allow our users to interchange $FCL from $ETH to Substrate and vice versa. This will increase the flow of $FCL through our ecosystem, stimulating the Fractal economy.
• We will improve the compatibility of the Data Host SDK to play nicely with any browser supporting extensions, including mobile browsers. Additionally, we will distribute our Data Host SDKs in a mobile-compatible manner to integrate with native mobile apps.

About the Fractal Protocol

Built on Polkadot, Fractal Protocol is an open-source, zero-margin protocol that defines a basic standard to exchange user information in a fair and open way, ensuring a high-quality version of the free internet. In its first version, it is designed to replace the ad cookie and give users back control over their data.

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