2022 was a rollercoaster year for the web3 industry and at AIKON, we are grateful to have not only survived but thrived. This year, we have grown more than ever before! For those new to our community, this Year In Review will get you up to speed on all things AIKON & our flagship product ORE ID. For our partners and investors – THANK YOU, let us take a glass half full approach and celebrate our collective success over the past year!
Without further ado, here are the results:
- Announced our 10M Series A funding, providing the runway to continue building the best (and only truly decentralized) identity solution for blockchain
- Increased ORE ID’s user base over 270%
- Awarded one of the best tools for product managers at the 2022 Product Awards
- $ORE Token got listed on BitMart – congrats ORE.Network!!!
- Expanded cross-chain support for Polygon
- Added a fiat onramp to ORE ID
- Coveraged in over 400 media outlets
- $ORE Token launched a new Liquidity Mining pool with Allianceblock
- Increased web3 developers using ORE ID by 54%
- Our CX team grew to handle 752 customer requests
- Scaled team size by 57%
- Published 51 blogs
- Led 13 talks and 3 conferences
- Released 1 eBook
- Achieved net 0 emissions
January started off robust —with ORE Vault’s releasing new features of NFTs transferring. We welcomed three new team members and had AMAs with some industry leaders. We ended the month with an exclusive interview with Coin Academy.
Our flagship product ORE ID broke new ground in February with $ORE officially listed on BitMart and opened for trading. We were featured in TechTimes News, Cheddar News and Beyond Enterprizes, and participated in another Coin Academy interview. We had continued a pattern of breaking our own records, increasing 100% new ORE ID accounts over 5 months.
We started March off on the right foot! ORE ID was awarded as one of the best tools for product managers at the 2022 Product Awards, hosted by Products That Count with partners Mighty Capital and Capgemini. We Completed Net Buying Competition with BitMart, partnered with SpiderDAO to host an AMA, and launched two Discord events to reward community members. We added Humanode as a login option for ORE ID and ended the month on a high note with doubling ORE ID usage.
We proceeded with our positive force into April with a Discord community chat, a Twitter Spaces AMA with Humanode, and a new partnership with FUFU.
May got off to a solid start. We announced the ORE Network’s support of Polygon, a milestone for us, and it solidified our industry presence. We continued to expand our team with some fantastic new people and participated in an AMA with Gains Associates.
Summer was hot (pun intended). Ignited by the building of the new partnerships, we reached a new milestone: increased the ORE ID user base by over 100% again. We partnered up with Exotopia and NFT Battle Miners, and attended NFT.NYC – the biggest and the most important event regarding NFT technology. We released the Q3 roadmap, got featured in crypto influencer Web3 Labs’s episode, and extended the liquidity mining pool to reward ORE Token holders.
September was anything but boring. We announced our 10M Series A funding led by Morgan Creek Digital. Also, in this round, Avalanche and BlizzardFund joined as strategic investors and partners. We got covered by over 400 media and participated in many great Podcasts (Mighty Capital, SGM & Hestia TV). We announced a new way to bridge ORE tokens to Ethereum on the pNetwork dApp, which was the latest step in our partnership since $ORE Token’s IDO. To celebrate the occasion, we conducted an AMA and a massive giveaway with $1200 in prizes. We ended the month on a high note by becoming the official partner of MetaHack 2022 – RFOX ‘s first hackathon.
Things did not slow down in October. We started off with giveaways and AMA with Crypto Miners. We participated in a Humanode interview and received more positive coverage from Ticker News, The Block, NFT Today and more. We added some awesome new people to our team, released our eBook, joined UpLifters talk show and finished the month with $ORE Token reaching an all-time high within 5 months.
We continued our positive momentum into November by attending the NFTLondon2022, where our CEO Marc Blinder joined the speaker panel. We released our Q3 Wrap Up. We integrated fiat onramp into ORE ID, announced achieving carbon neutrality, got featured on Newsy, and finished off the month by making a keynote speech at Crypto AM Summit & Awards in the UK.
And we ended the year strong with an action-packed December. We made our debut to Chinese investors, got featured on Bitpush and Fast Company. We hired a whole bunch of talented people and were busy behind the scenes setting the foundation of AIKON. The year wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t reveal that we saved a piece of BIG news with Telos for the brand new year!
Wow, that was a lot! On behalf of the AIKON team, thank you for an awesome year. We’re constantly striving to provide Dapps with truly decentralized identity solutions for the decentralized future we are building together. Keep an eye out for more exciting news from us in 2023!
About AIKON
Blockchain and crypto are technologically complex. AIKON makes it simple. We’ve built a suite of intuitive products built on the ORE Network ($ORE) for enterprise companies looking to provide a seamless user experience that works cross-chain with Ethereum, Polygon, Telos, Algorand, WAX, Avalanche and more.