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Open Source Development at Dock

As Dock continues moving toward complete decentralization we're excited to share a significant update that's been in the making for awhile. Following through on our previous commitment to the community, we are proud to announce that Dock is now fully open source!

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Dock Intro Series: Article 1

Digital Claims are now being issued frequently across a variety of industries, exposing the need for user-centric, privacy-enhancing standards. Dock is improving zero-trust validation of data ownership, integrity, and validity for verifiable claims - empowering data owners and validators alike.

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Dock Vision Update: Lightpaper, Roadmap & more

Dock was founded with a mission to solve inefficiencies in existing data solutions: untrusted and inaccurate information, data silos and gatekeepers, incompatibilities, and lack of control for users. After exhaustive research, the solution: standards-compliant, verifiable digital credentials.

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Release: Dock Plasma Cash Contracts

Our team has been making significant progress, successfully completing a POC and MVP of our protocol. Today we mark another exciting milestone in our mission to give you control of your data, the release of the first of our smart contracts via GitHub!

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November ’18 Updates

The Dock team was heads-down in November releasing a new feature which was a crowd favorite, making substantial progress on the protocol, introducing an SDK and onboarding a new partner. Market conditions do not impact our progress and fundamentals are only getting stronger. Introducing Find My Acco

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Plasma Nano — Overview and Introduction

The Dock protocol affords data owners the opportunity to take centralized control over increasingly distributed data. A critical aspect of this model is to incentivize sharing among data creators and data consumers via data owners’ consent by providing a cryptographically secured, Censorship-resista

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September ’18 Updates

September marked two big milestones as we introduced our App Marketplace and completed the Plasma Cash-based Proof of Concept (POC). We also added another industry veteran to the team and learned a lot from our users. Dock App Marketplace We introduced the Dock App Marketplace which will serve as a

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August ‘18 Updates

August was a busy month between app updates, blockchain scalability test results, new hires and being listed on Binance! Protocol Scalability Test Results Everyone in blockchain knows scalability is the biggest hurdle in building a successful application at scale. Our team has been hard at work,

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Dock’s Blockchain Protocol Evolution

Dock is making great progress on our protocol. We have been evaluating blockchain scaling solutions for the Dock protocol and are designing a hybrid Ethereum solution that gives us the benefits of the public main net while also the cost and scale advantages of a L2 solution. After evaluating

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July 18' Updates

July has been an exciting month — we reached 1 million registered users in the Dock App, deployed large releases, and made great progress on R&D for layer 2 scaling solutions for the Dock protocol. Safe Scan We introduced Safe Scan last week as a feature to help you better control your data online.

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Automated UI Testing at Dock

We rely heavily on automated UI testing as a primary way of ensuring quality and preventing regressions in our web apps and satellite projects. We have found it to be an excellent method of testing by simulating how our web applications are supposed to work for our end users. In light of this

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Dev Update 7

Welcome to the last developer update of Q2! Our focus this quarter has been on implementing the core building blocks of the infrastructure layer that supports the DOCK data exchange protocol. We built the DOCK OAuth Server & the DOCK Protocol Gateway earlier in the quarter & then shifted our focus

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June 18' Updates ~ The Road to 1 Million users

It’s been about two months since our last major update in April and we have some exciting news to share. We are currently on track to reach 1 million new users by the end June! As promised, I wanted to personally send out this update to the entire Dock community. Some recent major developments

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Dev Update 6

Dock has launched key optimizations to the Dock app with work on furthering the implementation of GDPR and the Dock Gateway. GDPR Data Portability via Export Tool Learn about our commitment to protecting your data and GDPR on our new web page. Dock also launched an export tool so that you can

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Dev Update 5

Partner Integrations have started on schedule! We have reached a very large milestone with the deployment of Dock OAuth as part of the Remote.com Partner Integration. The past two weeks consisted of improving the app with further optimizations and work on two main projects: Dock OAuth and Token

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Dev Update 4 ~ 500k+ Users

The Dock network hit an incredible milestone this week as we reached 500,000 registered users in the Dock App just 4 months after launching, as projected in a previous post. Development progress has been consistent and as usual the team delivered substantial results in a two-week sprint period.

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Dev Update 3

As usual, the team has been hard at work ramping velocity and moving the needle on multiple projects. The past two weeks consisted of work on two larger projects, the Gateway and OAuth projects, as well as additional web designs and App optimizations. Dock.io Gateway— Stage 3 Stage 3 of the Gateway

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Dev Update 2

The dock.io team has been working hard on a few different efforts. Here are a few of the things that we have been working on over the last couple of weeks. Redesigned Web Pages We are proud to present our updated web page designs which describe our vision for dock.io. With these updated pages we are

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Dev Update 1

We are proud to present our decentralized voting to the community. We wrote and deployed a voting center smart contract on the ethereum network to enable the creation of polls for our community to vote on. The contract is available on the ethereum network and code has been published on github.

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Dock.io and ERC-20 Tokens

The word ‘Tokensale’ is either extremely lucrative or extremely ludicrous depending on whom you are asking. The sheer pace at which it has caught the public eye is unprecedented amongst all financial terms in the history of the world. To put in perspective the magnitude of this, there are some

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Meltdown and Dock.io

Encrypted Data Hosted on IPFS. Two weeks ago, a huge microchip vulnerability was discovered for intel processing chips. This vulnerability is called the “Meltdown.” Meltdown exploits hardware vulnerabilities of Intel processors which ultimately can lead to a leak of passwords and other data.

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Chainpoint and Dock.io

Notarizing Professional History With Blockchain Technology One of the significant problems with privatized professional networking platforms is that you don’t have control over your data. Therefore, you can’t transfer the professional history and reputational value that you’ve built on one platform

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