2 Years Ago on 8th March 2016, Omise Was Officially ..
.. Special Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation! Not sure how many of you know this :D
https://twitter.com/JUN_Omise/status/707168442449661952?s=19
Posted Mar 7, 2018, 4:21 PM UTC
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Look at far they’ve come, and then imagine how far they’ll go!
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Nothing can escape from OMG paparazzi
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Ayako Miyaguchi an omg advisor is also the new executive director at the ethereum foundation since about a month ago
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good to know haha
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Nice! Didn’t know this.
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Actually it was one of our advisors (Thomas) who was an advisor to the Foundation, not the company Omise. But because he was also an advisor to Omise, and because another early team member (Wendell) had been part of Ethereum since its founding, this presented an opportunity for a growing multinational payments infrastructure company to begin to build a respectful relationship with what, from our research and assessment, was the most credible, knowledgeable and well-intentioned institution in the whole 2015 crypto space.
Due to the scrupulous values of the Foundation leadership, and the strength and goodwill of the Ethereum community, Omise was able to learn how to properly contribute to positive sum, public infrastructure development. In doing so, we truly internalized and adopted the real crypto spirit.
As a result, we are the first real "outside" company - a rapidly growing fintech startup raised to Series B by a combination of East Asian and Silicon Valley venture capital - to have ever come into the decentralization crypto space and make it home. And we did that before anyone else in the mainstream startup space was doing real blockchain R&D.
It is amazing how much an organization's perspective on what is possible can be changed by getting involved in exploring and developing the potential that blockchain technology, and blockchain thinking, and Ethereum culture, can deliver. We intend to share the benefits of our experience and what we've learnt as widely and as freely as possible through building the OMG Network, and through helping to nurture the growth of public ecosystem development through ECF (the Ethereum Community Fund).
I would be very interested in hearing some about what Omisego thinks the potential is, for the omg network or the ethereum ecosystem in general, in radically changing markets or systems outside of epayments, banks, and financial markets. Obviously government identification is ripe for improvement, global passports seem like a natural fit as well, but what are the limits? The more I've been thinking about it, the more limitless it seems to me. What can't benefit from better security, decentralization, increased network capacity, etc? Maybe you would rather keep some of your cards close to your chest ;)
Thanks for sharing!
Really interesting to read more about what went on back then with Omise and its blockchain lab, as very little of these can be found online.
Would be nice if a bit of the Omise history can be touched on in future blog posts etc as much of the community only learnt about OmiseGO after the ICO.