LangNet Weekly Roundup — April 27, 2018

News and Updates from the LangNet Team and Community

It’s been an action-packed week with amazing achievements by the LangNet team all-round. We are racing towards the upcoming pre-sale, and are putting together the final preparations, so stay tuned!

LangNet wins the Judges’ Choice Award @ Echelon TOP 100 APAC 2018 🎉

LangNet won the Judges’ Choice Award at Echelon TOP 100, earning a coveted spot to compete against the top startups from around Asia this coming June in Singapore! Check out LangNet CEO Rob’s pitch here.

LangNet CEO speaks @ Oracle’s Blockchain &Cloud ⛓️

LangNet CEO & Founder, Rob, spoke this week at the 2018 Blockchain & Cloud conference hosted by Oracle. Earlier this month, LangNet and Oracle Digital Prime APAC announced a strategic partnership. During his talk, Rob introduced LangNet and spoke about the importance of blockchain-based IP and managing data as an asset.

LangNet advances to final round @ Naver AI Hackathon💻

LangNet developers made it to the final round at an AI Hackathon hosted by Naver, Korean search portal giant. Within a frenetic 24-hour span, they coded up deep neural networks that identify movie review ratings and disambiguate search queries. The developers got to network with the top aspiring minds of AI and NLP research and learn the latest industry practices.

Bot & Translation Bounty Campaigns Launched! 💰

This week we launched the bot and translation bounty campaigns! To begin contributing your voice and earn LANG tokens right away, check out this video and get started! We are also looking for experienced translators to localize our content into 16+ languages! If you have translated documents before, sign up to become a translator or proofreader by clicking here.

New full-stack developer Ryan joins the LangNet team! 🙌

Ryan is the newest member to join the LangNet team, and brings with him his solid experience as a full stack developer. Ryan will work with the LangNet DevOps team to build the LangNet token dashboard. In his spare time, Ryan is an avid boxer, and also enjoys riding his bike around the city parks.