The Milestones Of The Shard: The Protocol’s Achievements In 2018

Introduction: The Importance Of Progress And Ambition

The Great Bear Market of 2018 has taught us a variety of different lessons about cryptocurrency projects within the space; one of these important lessons are, progress and technological development are crucial components to a projects success. The Sharder Protocol understands this notion and has achieved many milestones within 2018 which include, an updated website, recruitment of various admins and team members that work with the protocol, partnerships with GT Investments and the Chemmai/Sharder Partnership and Bean Cloud being enacted as a judicial node for the Hangzhou Internet Court; over 280,000 documents of certified data are registered within Bean Cloud, one of the main Sharder d’apps within the ecosystem. During the last quarter of 2018, The Sharder Protocol tested their mining hardware devices known as the Sharder Hub, a micro-node miner that enables individuals to stake their Sharder and earn Sharder Token and, in the near future, other storage oriented cryptocurrencies that are TBD and will be released to the community soon. The Great Bear Market of 2018 didn’t stop The Sharder Protocol regarding expansion, partnerships, successful testing of the mainnet which is set to launch this year alongside The Sharder Hub and Box, and the overall recruitment of team members that live throughout all parts of the world, including China, The United States, The Netherlands, London and India. During this article, it is incumbent to delve into the enormous progress that The Sharder Protocol has achieved throughout 2018 as we embark on a new year with new prospects and developments!

2018: The Year Of Partnerships And Networking: Roadmaps and White Papers

2018 was filled with disappointing surprises as many projects attempted to garner legitimacy, funding and partnerships during one of the worst bear markets in cryptocurrency history (the worst bear market by dollar evaluation) and collapsed; this didn’t stop The Sharder Protocol from branching out and conceiving of various partnerships and networks that solidified and perpetuated the progress of The Sharder Protocol as a whole. The Sharder Protocol has solidified many partnerships in 2018, most notably GT Investments, the Chemmai/Sharder Partnership, and the achievement of Bean Cloud being utilized as one of the official judicial nodes of the Hangzhou Internet Court. GT Investments is a Russian Marketing Firm that has partnered with Sharder to market the protocol inside of Russia, the largest country on the planet and one of the most populated countries in the world. In late 2018, Sharder entered a strategic partnership with Chemmai on multiple levels of cooperation, which begin, but are not limited to, product advisement and platform testing followed by product development & wallet listing, and finally continue with the utilization of cross-chain and data storage in the future. The Sharder Protocol announced in Q4 2018 that Bean Cloud is an official Judicial Node for the Hangzhou Internet Court, a recently created judicial court in China that has dealt with over 10,000 cases related to internet inquiries. It is evident that the Sharder Protocol continues its expansion on multiple fronts, garnering partnerships and solidifying networking opportunities throughout the world.

The Sharder Protocol conceived of their Technical Whitepaper in March 2018 and simultaneously, The Sharder Team created their road-map, setting up milestones that were achieved throughout the entirety of the year. In 2018, The Sharder Protocol perfected and completed their research and development of the Sharder Chain Test Net: The Back Bone Of The Sharder Ecosystem. Bean Cloud simultaneously was created during 2018 and now, Bean Cloud has over 428,000 copies of data that has been stored and validated within the d’app itself; not to mention over 1450 E-Contracts have been signed utilizing Bean Cloud. Approximately 350 users are utilizing Bean Cloud as a service that provides judicial notarization needs for sensitive documents, the storage of data and much more! As The Sharder Team states “one step a day, one thousand miles away”, great things take time to develop, and Sharder is achieving its vision one day at a time and the protocol will finish its thousand mile journey! During 2018, The Sharder Team developed their block browser and conceived of a community concept known as Task Hall: A community driven project where the team can create bounties for the community to complete and in return, receive rewards in Sharder Token for doing so. During 2018, The Sharder Team also completed its research and development on the Sharder Hub: Sharder’s micro-node mining machine that enables individuals to stake their Sharder and receive rewards for mining in Sharder Token or other storage oriented tokens that are TBD. With the assistance of our community, the community governance framework has been completed, and The Sharder Council is in development as well! By the end of 2018, The Sharder Protocol has achieved over 75% of what was outlined in their whitepaper, and continue to make strides in research and development while simultaneously, garnering marketing from agencies such as GT Investments and judicial enterprises such as the Hangzhou Internet Court.

2019: The New Beginning, Never An End

2019 will be a year hallmarked in cryptocurrency history as the year of implementation and validation. The Sharder Protocol has completed its 2019 road-map already and can be found on www.sharder.org; 2019 will be the year where Sharder focuses on the open testing of The Sharder test network, the launch of The Sharder Mainnet where Sharder Tokens will be their own native token, free from the grasps of the Ethereum Blockchain. Our decentralized applications and blockchain itself has the ability to scale to up to 1000 TPS, a major milestone in the blockchain sector. 2019 will also be the catalyst of the commercialization and monetization of the Sharder Storage Network, the overall improvement and expansion of the Bean Cloud decentralized application and the expansion of paid consumers utilizing Sharder’s technology. As the Sharder Ecosystem grows and garners more exposure, one can infer that the Sharder Token will be more widely used within the entirety of the ecosystem: as the token is the anchoring currency of the entire ecosystem.

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency technologies are but a decade old, and Sharder is a toddler. Just like a toddler grows into a productive adult that can stand on two legs and prosper in this world against all odds and obstacles, The Sharder Protocol will achieve the same thing. The Sharder Team wanted to give a special shout out to the community for their passion, love, commitment, tenacity, patience and resolve during the worst bear market in cryptocurrency history by dollar evaluation. It is truly an outstanding feat that such a young project that was released in the midst of The Great Bear Market of 2018 continued to press on; it shows The Sharder Team’s resolve and undying conviction to achieve its vision as the go-to distributed data storage solution of the 21st century. Our goal is to build an entire ecosystem on the foundation of our protocol, and The Sharder Team will not rest until that is achieved.

Conclusion: 2019, The Year Of Hope And Progress

Progress is a difficult feat to achieve when negative sentiment has strangled our beloved market and industry; projects are dying because of lack of funding and the conviction and resolve of many projects team and communities continue to folly and falter; this is not the case for The Sharder Protocol. The road-map for 2019 is now complete, and we have our eyes on the development of various different things including The Sharder Conference! The Sharder Conference will be a blockchain conference held in Amsterdam that discusses business applications of blockchain technology and most notably, The Sharder Protocol’s various business applications. The Sharder Mobile Website has been updated in conjunction with the main Sharder Website and the second phase of the sale of the Sharder Hub is underway! The Sharder Protocol’s team is making constant strides for success; as we define success in progress, validity and growth. The Sharder Nation will not stop until we achieve our grand vision of a mature ecosystem that meets the needs of consumers for numerous business applications which include, but are not limited to, data storage, judicial notarization and validity, e-contract signatures, the purchasing and selling of data through the use of One-Fair, another d’app being developed within The Sharder Ecosystem, and so much more! We will persevere and we will succeed! #Shardernation.

Interested in learning about Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology? Enroll in my course on Udemy! https://www.udemy.com/cryptocurrency-investment-a-beginners-guide/learn/v4/

Disclaimer: Cryptocurrency investing requires substantial risk, do not invest more than you can afford to lose! I am not a financial adviser and I am not responsible for any of your trades. I am an investor of Sharder Token and the information within this article represent my own thoughts and opinions. It is incumbent that you always do your own research before investing in anything!

____________________________________________________________________________________________

Link to Corey Costa, our community writer's Medium page: https://medium.com/@coreycosta