Syn = Together; Rheo = Flow

And from the ashes of the old, arises the new. With “Synereo” gone, the path is clear for something fresh. A new name, a new brand, a new beginning; same motivation, same vision, and more energy than ever to materialize it.

Starting the month of November — with the next email newsletter — the Synereo team will continue communicating with you using a new name, which will stand for both company and product, and share details about our evolving direction.

The days and weeks ahead of any product launch can be exciting and unnerving, both for the company investing in its development and for its anticipating users. The coming weeks and months will bring with them much activity and many updates, which we will be sharing with you as they unfold.

The Synereo team continues to burn the midnight oil ahead of Product X’s rapidly approaching Alpha release. Our R&D, Product and Marketing teams are working around the clock and engaging in meticulous testing to ensure every deadline is met and every feature is fine-tuned and flawless.

The Alpha will run for a month only, where 1,000 of our community members will be given early access to the new product before Product X moves forward to a (similarly short) Beta phase.

As a token of our appreciation for your continued support and interest in Synereo, those of you who are among the first to sign up for the Alpha will receive exclusive benefits in the form of Synereo’s digital currency, the AMP. Used in Product X, these AMPs will translate to a significant degree of influence in setting the tone for the fledgling network, a direct result of our novel economic model governing social spaces and the flow of information in them.

Beyond the tangible rewards we’re happy to share with you, your proactive, long-standing involvement and understanding of the Synereo vision make you most suited to help us shape the future of our upcoming product. As the product launch progresses to more advanced phases, your status as a pioneering member will be recognized in ways we’re still keeping hush about.

Much secrecy has surrounded the development of Product X, to prevent copycat attempts and allow us to present its best version upon completion. Once our product, marketing strategy, and other loose ends have been tied up, we will be thrilled to finally reveal our exciting new product — and what exactly it aims to do.

All product and marketing-related release dates have now been set; within the month of November, we’ll announce our new name — as well as many details about the path ahead. The Alpha will follow shortly after.

Follow us on our channels to be the first to know:

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We appreciate your attention,

— The Synereo Team

Product X Alpha Launch Imminent was originally published in Synereo on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The ambitious deadline we set last year for Synereo’s upcoming product, tentatively code-named Product X, is here. The team is now working on the infrastructure needed to invite the first round of beta-users to start experiencing and testing it, and we’ll soon begin releasing all the details about it… including its name.

With the lull in the cryptocurrecy markets and public perception of decentralized projects being at a low, it’s been an unfavorable time to launch a product we’re aiming to be immediately interesting to mainstream audiences. With the product being ready, though, we can’t wait any longer; to compensate for the greater difficulty in being heard, we’re simply going to have to be louder.

We’ve also kept details of Product X more closely guarded than we normally would. We believe the new paradigm Synereo has created is going to be quickly imitated by many other projects in the space, and so we preferred keeping the advantage this time around. This will continue being the case for a little while longer, until we’re sure we can fully own our evolved narrative, in terms of both product and marketing.

In the very near future, we’ll start ramping up our marketing machine — recently bolstered by a new CMO as well as a social media expert — and release more and more details about this new product, which will usher in a new era for Synereo.

We appreciate your attention,

— The Synereo Team

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Building Towards Product X was originally published in Synereo on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Introducing the next blog post in our “Creator Spotlight” series, this one featuring a unique talent in the verified WildSpark Creator community. Welcome WildSpark Creator Lucas to the Spotlight!

Synereo: Hello, Lucas, please tell us a little about yourself.

Lucas: Hey! I’m Lucas a young juggler and YouTuber from Brazil who creates videos for Malabarize-se, a YouTube channel focused primarily on juggling, circus, and the arts!

Synereo: How did you come to be a content creator?

Lucas: I’ve been making video projects since I was a teenager and was always passionate about teaching and sharing content. After learning to juggle using YouTube, it felt natural to give back to the community with my own art-videos and tutorials.

You can actually still find my old school projects on the channel. I like to keep the older content there even though I see it as lower quality content compared to what I do nowadays. It inspires me to see how much I’ve improved, and am still improving.

Synereo: What is your go-to Medium and what does your content focus on?

Lucas: My life’s project is called Malabarize-se (in English it would mean something to the effect of “juggle yourself”) but you can call it just MS for short. As I mentioned earlier, it’s a channel on YouTube where I post juggling and circus videos. YouTube is my go-to medium because my content creation is heavily reliant on video. it’s much easier to teach juggling using video than text, for example.

My goal with my channel and videos is to develop and popularize juggling and circus worldwide. The content is in Portuguese, but when necessary, every video contains English subtitles. I produce art-videos, videos of events, interviews, juggling tutorials, and more.

Synereo: Do you see changes in the way people are starting to create and consume content online and on social media? If so, please explain.

Lucas: Yes! As a Creator, I see a big movement starting, where we focus less on ad revenue and more on other ways of funding our work — like fun ways of funding.

Perhaps in the future we’ll have less annoying, unwanted ads and propaganda before the actual video plays, and find other ways to finance good, artistic content.

Synereo: That’s what we’re working on with WildSpark and future products! Which brings us to the next question: How did you learn about WildSpark?

Lucas: I’m interested in cryptocurrencies and have seen AMP on the open markets for a while now, so it was natural to research what Synereo and AMPs were all about. My reaction when I learned more about WildSpark and Synereo was like: Click — WOW! It’s more than just a normal crypto project. It’s a creative economy! Let’s dig more into it.

I use it to Amplify and share my own videos, as well as to discover new content creators.

Synereo: Three words to describe the benefits Synereo/WildSpark provides.

Lucas: Power for creators!

Synereo: What feature would you like to see added to the WildSpark platform?

Lucas: Maybe playlists and creator profiles — or a way to import YouTube playlists to the WildSpark website.

Synereo: Thanks Lucas for taking the time to answer some of our questions and for letting the community get to know you better!

Lucas: You’re welcome! And thank you for developing these technologies, and for the opportunity to share and discover content in different places!

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Creator Spotlight: Lucas Q&A was originally published in Synereo on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

With content creation at the epicenter of everything we do, we’re pleased to introduce the first teen Creator in our series, “Creator Spotlight,” featuring the talent that makes up the verified WildSpark Creator community. Today we’re happy to welcome WildSpark Creator Kade into the Spotlight.

Synereo: Hello Kade! Please, tell us a little about yourself.

Kade: Hi! I’m Kade from Louisiana. I enjoy cooking — in fact, I was a contestant on Masterchef Junior, season 4. I also like drawing. And I’ve become increasingly interested in learning about emerging technologies.

Synereo: How did you come to be a content creator?

Kade: I asked my dad to do a cooking show for YouTube and it started from there. More recently, I’ve started another channel that focuses on the tech I’m interested in: emerging technologies, 3D printing, and cryptocurrency.

Synereo: What is your go-to medium for publishing content, and why?

Kade: YouTube, but since I see that people’s attention spans are getting shorter, I also use Twitter, and Instagram. These are great for getting my content out there — and they’re very popular with younger people.

Synereo: Tell us a bit about how you use Synereo and WildSpark and what you like about it.

Kade: I am an investor in AMP, and my father is as well. We joined WildSpark when you launched the Creator Program, back when it was just a Chrome extension, before the release of the main web-app. We joined, because I think that offering a new way of sharing content is a good idea. I myself am looking for new ways to share all the time, and WildSpark is a unique way to monetize my content. As it is now, WildSpark is easy to use, fast, and engaging, although I would like to see filters on what you can share, as well as more specific categories.

Synereo: Thank you Kade for checking in with us, for taking the time to answer some of our questions, and for letting the community get to know you better! Good luck with your channels

Kade: Thank you and you’re welcome!

Creator Spotlight: Kade Q&A was originally published in Synereo on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The WildSpark Leaderboard that you have all come to know and love is undergoing its most significant transformation to date. As of Monday, August 27, everyone will be given the chance to enter the WildSpark Weekly Theme Contest, a competition that follows a different theme each week.

How it works

Each week the Synereo team will select a popular or trending theme (similar in style to the WildSpark World Cup contest), and give participants the opportunity to win the prize pool, which is 7.5% of all Amplifications made throughout the course of the week.

Participants will need to:

1. AMP fresh content on WildSpark that is in line with the weekly theme
2. Tweet about it with the hashtag #WildSpark, and tag @Synereo

Winners of the prize pool will be those who posted the three pieces of content that received the most engagement over the course of the week. The calculations for engagement will be based on a combination of how many Amplifiers rewarded the piece of content, as well how many total AMPs the content earned. First place wins 50% of the prize pool; second place wins 30%; and third place gets 20%. The larger the pool, the bigger the prize.

The WildSpark Weekly Theme Challenge was created in order to:

1. Emphasize the creation and curation of fresh, new content
2. Promote the various categories on WildSpark
3. Capitalize on major global events and trends

Tune into all our social media channels for information and updates on the theme of this week, as well as for the announcement of the weekly winners:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Discord
• Telegram

We welcome everyone to take part in the WildSpark Weekly Theme Contest, and we look forward to seeing all the unique content that you create, share, and Amplify as a result.

Happy WildSparking and good luck in the challenge!

New Weekly Challenge was originally published in Synereo on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

For the third post in our “Creator Spotlight” series, we’re happy to welcome WildSpark Creator MistaPotta into the spotlight.

Synereo: Hello there MistaPotta, please tell us a little about yourself.

MP: Howdy, howdy! My real name is actually Tony Potter. In addition to making YouTube videos, I taught high school and college math and computer science courses for eighteen years. For the past three years I’ve also been a software developer.

Synereo: How did you come to be a content creator?

MP: I started by flipping the classes I taught to an online medium.

The future of education is making learning available for students wherever they are, whenever they’re ready, and at whichever pace they want to learn. With an entire class online, students can go at their pace, review as they need, get ahead as their time permits, and schedule extra-curricular events more freely. Educators who make their coursework more accessible will help to educate far more people than they could in a classroom. The opportunities for students in places with a shortage of qualified teachers abound!

Synereo: Tell us about a little about what your content focuses on.

MP: My first videos were classes that I taught for a summer program I worked with: Symbolic Logic, AP Calculus, and Computer Science. Later I got involved with AR, VR, and XR videos, including 360 degree “Spherical” videos. I’ve recently gotten into more recreational math videos, as well as 3D printing and design.

Synereo: What is your go-to medium and why?

MP: I really enjoy hiding out in the Technology and Science sections of WildSpark. You can get some really great content there without the taint of advertisers driving the message in a particular direction. Seeing content creators from many continents, you get to expand your own horizons, growing out of your own bubble. I also often reach out to Code Like a Girl and Hacker Noon.

Synereo: Do you see changes in the way people are starting to create and consume content online and on social media?

MP: For the longest time, the limiting factor for creating media wasn’t clever content, but access to professional publishing architecture. Now, almost everyone has a phone that will create video at a high enough quality for social media, and the abundance of free and open software (F/OSS) means that people can publish well-rendered video with convincing special effects. My son started his YouTube channel when he was ten. Anyone can be a creator!

Synereo: How did you learn about WildSpark and what do you like most about it?

MP: With my mathematics background, I’ve always been a supporter of cryptocurrency. I saw the start of Bitcoin with Satoshi’s paper, saw the rise of advanced concepts like contracts and dApps with Ethereum, and the privacy offered by Monero. Having a “for us, by us” currency, where creators and curators can support each other, is yet another novel application of cryptocurrency concepts.

Synereo: Tell us a bit about how you use Synereo and WildSpark and what you like about it.

MP: I’m an avid supporter of smaller creators, the ones that get lost in the sea of PewDiePies and Paul brothers. I’m able to support smaller creators twofold with Synereo — by getting them some early funding by creating WildSpark links, then getting word-of-mouth by sharing those links and exposing their media to people on my social media who I think would enjoy that content. They get funding and exposure. I get some change in my pocket as well. Win-Win!

Synereo: Three words to describe the benefits Synereo/WildSpark provides.

MP: Decentralized, Collaborative, and Supportive.

Creators are no longer beholden to the financial gatekeepers of media publishing, Creators and Curators can work together to spread their works in a way that supports both of them — and the community as a whole grows stronger.

Synereo: What feature would you like to see added to the WildSpark platform?

MP: I like the notion of a personal front page, one that members could create with their choice of curated links.

Synereo: Thanks MistaPotta for taking the time to answer some of our questions and for allowing the community to get to know you better!

MP: Thanks, you’re welcome!

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Creator Spotlight: MistaPotta Q&A was originally published in Synereo on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The French national football team are world champions. After a month of competitive spirit, drama, and terrific on-field action, the World Cup 2018 is now officially over.

Our #WildSparkWorldCup contest has drawn to a close as well — and like the World Cup for which it is named, it was a great success.

Over the course of the Russia 2018 tournament, we ran a campaign to shine a light on WildSpark’s capabilities, the Sports category, as well as our Imgur integration.

To recap, the contest worked like this: Users were asked to share a World Cup-related meme/picture/GIF from Imgur; Amplify it under the Sports category of WildSpark; and Tweet the WildSpark link on Twitter with the hashtag #WildSparkWorldCup and tag @Synereo.

Every week, Synereo CEO Dor Konforty, together with a panel of football-fan judges from our team, selected the favorite submissions and awarded two winners with 500 AMPs each. Throughout the tournament, ten lucky posts won a total of 5,000 AMPs.

Check out the winning posts below!

• World Cup Beer Prices - by Stlfilmwire
• Ronaldo’s Winning Goal Against Morocco - by Arnel
• Between the Legs - by Sam
• Harry Kane’s Story of Success - by Nylsan
• Passionate Germany Fan - by Obbly
• Funny Brazil vs Mexico - by Thontruongan
• Brazil Fan with Trophy - by Lijonhabib
• Balloon Pop - by Daspc3
• What Do They Call the World Cup in Paris? - by Stlfilmwire
• Japan Cleaning Up - by Pronab

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Follow us on social media — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram, and Discord — for timely updates on contests and events.

Congrats to the WildSpark World Cup Champions was originally published in Synereo on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Following our update to the weekly Leaderboard competition, which changed the parameters of participation to include freshly AMPed content, we have also improved the Trending section.

In the fast-moving world of social media, the sheer volume of viral videos, memes, and Internet celebrities that can be created almost instantly is incredible.

Our Trending algorithm has been modified to reflect the pace of content consumption by showing what is currently popular, rather than merely advertising the all-time favorite videos that received the most Amplifications.

Be sure to jump in to WildSpark and check it out!

We thank you for your support and feedback as we strive to create a more free and fair ecosystem for your content creations. Keep the feedback coming!

New and Improved Trending Section on WildSpark was originally published in Synereo on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Two hundred forty two years ago, on July 4, 1776, with the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress declared that the thirteen American colonies were no longer part of the British Empire and regarded themselves as a new nation. With this liberation, the United States of America was born.

America is all about freedom. Personal, individual freedom. The struggle then was for liberation from the oppression and exploitation of their then-rulers — much like the struggle in our day and age for freedom online, in the Attention and Content Economy.

In our day and age, our rulers are not kings and queens, but rather media corporations.

In our day and age, we are not enslaved in our bodies, but rather enslaved in our minds. We’ve been hacked, we’ve been robbed of our time, attention and identity. We’ve been commoditized.

When it comes to the Attention Economy, users in the content community — Creators, Curators, and all who add value — should be able to control their profiles, privacy, and content, as well as have the freedom to earn a profit from their creations and reward others for their efforts.

To paraphrase over the effective words of the Trump campaign: Let’s Make the Internet Great Again! The Internet was intended for individuals with equality and opportunity for all, not for the existing, centralized content-hub paradigm, where the conglomerates merely provide platforms, and earn billions of dollars in profits on the backs of the individuals that create and share their passions with the world.

What we need is a decentralized social environment, one that levels the playing field, lowers the barriers of entry, remedies monopolies, and compensates all individuals based on their contributions.

WildSpark is the first step on our path to liberating the Attention and Content Economy, and the Synereo roadmap still has a long and interesting way to go. So, this 4th of July, let’s celebrate the progress we’ve made, but also not lose sight of what’s important — together, we can to make the Internet great again.

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Happy Independence Day was originally published in Synereo on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The Synereo crowdsale is capped at $1.2m. Here is what we’re planning on doing with the funds we raise over the next 6 to 12 months, depending on the final amount.

All milestones contain the previous ones.

$115k: Alpha release; distributed node software available to play with (PoC). 6 months.

$330k: Implementation of extensible APIs, allowing our developer community to grow and for development to proceed at a great pace. 6 months.

$650k: Beta application; improved user experience. 9 months.

$900k: Extend APIs to non-JVM environments. Greater ability to support both dev and user community. 9 months.

$1.2m: Allow the in-house app and 3rd party apps developed on top of the mature Synereo platform to host its first million users. 9–12 months.

A platform allowing devs to play with Synereo distributed software will be available in 6 months if we reach the first milestone in all cases. A beta application will be available within 9 months if we reach $650K in all cases.

We hope this provides a clear picture of what Synereo’s plan are — both in terms of the platform and in terms of the social networking application we wish to build — with the funds you’re supporting us with.

We appreciate each and every dollar contributed!

Originally published at blog.synereo.com on April 15, 720.

Crowdsale Funding-Based Milestones was originally published in Synereo on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.