Recap of SAO Network & Nulink AMA
On November 29th, SAO Network was invited to participate in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Nulink Discord to discuss their partnership with Nulink and share the details of their collaboration. The AMA received a significant turnout of participants who actively engaged in the session, making it a great success. One community member expressed their gratitude, stating, “We appreciate the opportunity to gain such valuable knowledge here.” We would like to extend our appreciation to Nulink and their community members for joining us, even though we were unable to address all the questions within the limited time frame.
Let’s go through the recap of the AMA.
Host:
Greetings Nulink community! Thank you Nulink for inviting me as the host. I am Lexy from SAO Network, the host for today’s AMA. It’s my honor to have Alex from Nulink and Chase from SAO Network, to talk about the details of their partnership here today. So if you guys have any problems, feel free to raise your hand and text it out. Now let’s go.
Let’s start with Nulink. Can you Introduce yourself and your experiences?
Alex:
Hello everyone and welcome to our AMA with SAO Network. My name is Alex. I’m the Community Lead at NuLink. I have more than two decades experience in the IT industry, I’ve explored a variety of roles, ranging from sysadmin to SQA, and have experienced the full spectrum of tech support levels, from L1 to L3. Also lead teams in tech support, which has provided me with substantial knowledge and expertise in both people and community management.
Host:
Cool. Thank you Alex. Now let’s go with Mr.Chase, What are your experiences?
Chase:
Yeah sure! I am Chase. I am the tech lead of SAO Network. I have been working in blockchain since 2014, and have rich experiences in web3 and blockchain development.
I have led the SAO team to develop the web3 storage infrastructure SAO Network based on cosmos-sdk. Besides, our team has also built a social dapp — Storverse, which participated in the 2022 DATA DAO hackathon and won the first prize.
Host:
Oh great you got nice achievements! Thank you Chase. Now can you Introduce the community to Nulink Alex?
Alex:
As this is our server, I hope a lot of people know about our project, but I will try to be brief about it.
Ok, NuLink is a decentralized solution that focuses on providing privacy-enhancing technology to decentralized applications. Our main goal is to simplify the process of creating secure and private applications for developers, startups, small businesses, and enterprises.
Host:
Perfect! So Nulink is trying to protect data privacy in Web3, right? How can Nulink make it?
Alex:
Now let’s get a little bit more technical. That’s right, data privacy in Web3 is our mission. The architecture of NuLink Network is built on a robust foundation, integrating various cutting-edge technologies. It comprises the application layer, encryption layer, storage layer, blockchain layer, and observer network. With NuLink’s unified API, developers and users can easily integrate and access multiple storage and blockchain solutions. In a nutshell, NuLink empowers developers to build applications with the utmost security and privacy practices.
Host:
Great! How about the SAO Network? Can you introduce the SAO Network to the Nulink community, Mr. Chase?
Chase:
No problem. SAO Network is a Web3 data infrastructure built on cosmos-sdk and IPFS preserving user’s sovereignty. SAO Network aims to build a data verse where data can be stored, protected, shared and tokenized together with web3 natives and dApps. It’s a permissionless open storage network composed of consensus layer, storage layer and computing layer that allows users to access data computing services.
Host:
Ok sounds like SAO Network and Nulink are both Web3 pioneers protecting data privacy and sovereignty. So what are the key features of SAO Network?
Chase:
We build a new decentralized storage network with an ecological incentive mechanism, aiming to provide functions that the existing decentralized storage projects cannot offer, such as data fast access, data privacy protection, data ownership and data access management etc.
Besides, SAO also provides tools such as SDKs, gateway and data indexing for developers to make it easier to build Dapps based on the SAO storage network.
Host:
That’s amazing! Now let’s talk something about the cooperation. Do you have any story behind your cooperation to share with the community? @Alex
Alex:
Of course. As I mentioned above, NuLink Network features a storage layer where we invite both miners and storage projects to join and offer storage services. The NuLink team became aware of SAO Network early in their development, but the collaboration didn’t take shape until the two teams met at KBW in September this year. We talked and found a common ground for work and since then, our partnership has gained momentum.
Host:
OK it’s such an interesting story! What are the future points of cooperation between SAO Network and NuLink? Can you share this?
Alex:
The collab between SAO Network and NuLink is set to cover several areas such as Secure Credential Management, Privacy-Preserving Identity Verification, and Secure Identity Storage and Authentication. Beyond these, we’re also looking at broader cooperation in areas like interoperability, enhanced privacy in data sharing, user consent and control, and initiatives for user education and awareness. These elements are key to forging a well-rounded partnership between our two projects.
Host:
Thank you Alex for such detailed information. Do you have anything else to add? @Chase
Chase:
Yes, Mr Alex has put it quite clearly. I just want to add some more details of our collaboration. While NuLink has already successfully integrated with IPFS, Web3 Storage and Greenfield, SAO Network will further enhance NuLink’s data encryption storage services, offering users a wider range of choices. SAO Network will provide more data computing and encryption services with the support of NuLink’s solutions like Proxy Pre-Encyption and ZKPs.
Host:
Ok got it. So What do you think this collaboration will bring to Web3?
Chase:
I believe the collaboration between NuLink and SAO Network will be a win-win decision for both parties. At this very important stage, data and its value and sovereignty have been no more essential for web3 development. Our two projects have built partnerships based on the same faith on data value and web3. NuLink and SAO Network agree on the importance of data privacy and sovereignty protection and we are trying our best to do it. So base on a mutual collaboration. NuLink and SAO will hold hands in the way of web3 data privacy protection and data sovereignty realization.
Host:
Nice points! How about you Mr.Alex?
Alex:
Well said, Mr. Chase. We are eager to explore these potential cooperation points and work together to serve the Web3 ecosystem. By leveraging our respective expertise and technologies, we can contribute to the advancement and adoption of privacy-preserving solutions in the Web3 world.
Host:
Good! Now let’s move back to the two honorable projects. What’s the next step for NuLink? I understand that you’re close to launching your mainnet. Can you please share more about that?
Alex:
Our mainnet launch remains on track for Q4, but we’re considering an additional brief testnet to refine our technology and engage the community. This testnet would ensure a smooth mainnet transition, provide valuable feedback, and reward active participation.
There are few reasons behind this: We’ve made significant upgrades to our technology since our last testnet over a year ago, and we want to ensure a seamless mainnet operation. Another testnet with community rewards would allow us to gather important feedback and address any potential issues before launch.
We’re committed to protecting user privacy, and we believe this additional testnet will be crucial for a secure and user-friendly mainnet. We believe community testing adds immense value, and we’re confident this additional testnet will benefit both us and the community.
Host:
Good luck with that! What’s the next step for SAO Network?Can you share with us Mr Chase?
Chase:
Currently SAO Network is integrating Chainlink’s product: price feed, functions and CCIP to support cross-chain storage payment.Meanwhile, SAO Network will build the computing layer to provide data computing service.
Next, SAO will start the encryption development, SAO will support peer to peer data encryption with the support of NuLink PRE, besides, SAO will support MPC too. so as to protect data safety.
Host:
Great! Looks like SAO is immersed in its way to realize its mission. What about plans for the community?
Chase:
For community and ecosystem growth, SAO will launch incentive programs to involve notable storage providers and validators in our Network. We are giving SAO Credits as rewards. which can be used to pay for data storage service on the Network.
SAO will also improve and perfect functionalities to establish partnership with more projects like NuLink which need to store their data onto a premium decentralized storage network.
Host:
Ok cool! Thank you both for sharing. Any other things that you would like to share? @Alex @Chase
Chase:
We are also conducting a series of events to encourage users to try Storverse https://storverse.app/ and post content on it. Friends from the NuLink community are most welcome to join our discord https://discord.com/invite/q58XsnQqQF and win rewards.
Besides, devs are mostly welcomed to build storage nodes on SAO Network, you can check the tutorials from our documentation: https://docs.sao.network/run-nodes-in-sao-beta-network/run-beta-storage-node.
Alex:
First, a huge thank you to our NuLink community for your unwavering support. Your active involvement is the cornerstone of NuLink’s growth and success. As you can see, we’re actively expanding our partnerships to bring more innovative projects such as SAO Network into the NuLink ecosystem, and this commitment to collaboration will continue.
Secondly, we’re nearing our final goal — the launch of the mainnet! Stay tuned for exciting community events and initiatives designed to be both fun and rewarding.
Thank you for being a part of the NuLink journey. We’re incredibly grateful for your support and enthusiasm.
Host:
Thank you Mr. Alex and Mr. Chase for today’s AMA! And my special thanks goes to the Nulink community for being active in the whole process!
About Nulink
NuLink is a privacy-preserving technology for decentralized applications that combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide enterprise-level security.
About SAO Network
S.A.O. (Storage Autonomous Organization) is a decentralized data infrastructure for Web3. It’s based on SAO Network, a decentralized storage network with privacy-preserving computation to ensure user’s data sovereignty and facilitate Web3 mass adoption.
Join us to stay in the loop!
- Website: www.sao.network
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/SAONetwork
- Blog: https://medium.com/@saonetwork
- Github: https://github.com/SaoNetwork
- Discord: https://discord.gg/q58XsnQqQF
- Telegram: https://t.me/sao_network
- Contact Email: contact@sao.network
