PolkaBridge x KILT AMA Recap
This is a recap of the ask me anything (AMA) session held between the PolkaBridge and KILT Protocol team on March 29 at 04:00 PM UTC. KILT is an open-source fat blockchain protocol for issuing claim-based verifiable, revocable, and anonymous credentials in Web 3.0. It allows end users to claim arbitrary attributes about themselves, get them attested by trusted entities, and store the claims as self-sovereign credentials (certificates).
PART 1. Introduction of PolkaBridge project and community questions.
The reward pool is 500$
Leading the AMA are the representatives of the project:
Cyclese — @cyclese_polkabridge — Co-Founder of Polkabridge.
Zeph Williams — @zephwilliams — Co-founder of PolkaBridge, also the UX/UI Designer
From Kilt Protocol, we would like to welcome:
Ingo Ruebe — @ingoruebe — Founder of Kilt Protocol
Christine — @christinemohan58 — Vice President of Business Development at Kilt Protocol
Elisa — @kilt_elisa — Communications and Public Relation Manager at Kilt Protocol
Paul — @paulpomerleau — Community Manager at Kilt Protocol
The plan of AMA session:
Part 1 — Introduction and preselected questions.
Part 2 — Live questions
Part 3 — The Quiz about Kilt Protocol
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Hi welcome @ingoruebe @christinemohan58 @paulpomerleau @kilt_elisa
18:02
Christine | KILT Protocol
Hello !
18:02
Elisa | KILT Protocol
Hello 🙂
18:02
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Nice to meet you
18:02
Ingo Ruebe
Hi.
18:02
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Welcome to PolkaBridge community ^^
18:02
Ingo Ruebe
nice to meet you too
18:02
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Before start, Can you introduce yourself briefly? @all
18:03
Ingo Ruebe
Sure. Hi, I’m Ingo, founder of Kilt Protocol.
18:03
Christine | KILT Protocol
Hi — I’m VP of business development at protocol, working on partnerships and ecosystem development. Just came from Polkadot and Web3 Foundation where I was CMO.
18:03
Ingo Ruebe
I’m a computer scientist, working in blockchain for a couple of years.
18:04
Elisa | KILT Protocol
Hi everyone, I am Elisa and I work as communications and public relations manager at KILT.
18:04
Christine | KILT Protocol
Paul will be joining us in a bit — he is our Community Manager and very active with the EWT community as well
18:05
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Yeah, who can tell us something about KILT pls?
18:05
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
ok thank all
18:05
Ingo Ruebe
that would be me…
I founded KILT in early 2018. KILT Protocol takes care of digital Identities. KILT Blockchain is part of the Polkadot ecosystem
18:08
Paul | KILT Protocol
Hi I’m Paul, Community Manager working on developer, collators, general community engagements 😊
18:08
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
In reply to this message
very interesting
18:08
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
In reply to this message
Oh hi, welcome
18:08
Bruce Leo|Chinapolka and BMW Venture Capital |
Ingo and Christine are excellent entrepreneurs
18:08
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Pls let me know when you finish your answer ^^
18:08
Christine | KILT Protocol
Thanks Bruce :)
18:09
Ingo Ruebe
oh. i’m finished
18:09
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Hi Bruce — my friend , nice to meet you here
18:09
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
In reply to this message
Oh thanks
18:09
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
We are very happy when conduct community partnership AMA with KILT today
So we will move to part 1 of AMA.
In part 1, we will have total 8 questions which selected from our community in advance.
18:09
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Ok, are you ready for the first question?
18:09
Ingo Ruebe
sure
18:09
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
It was from @TrHieu87
What are the highlights of Kilt’s technology and products that you believe will help you succeed?
18:10
Ingo Ruebe
KILT is an infrastructure project. That means, we build the technology and not the products. Building the products is up to the community.
Our task is to supply easy-to-use technological infrastructure. I think the KILT SDK is most important here. It allows developers to very quickly develop cool products and services on top of KILT.
— finished
18:11
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Sound good
Ah so users on your target are developers right?
18:12
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
In reply to this message
It’s mean : KILT is layer -1 blockchain like Ethereum and developer can build product on it?
18:13
Ingo Ruebe
not exactly like ethereum. On Ethereum you develop code which runs on the blockchain. In KILT you develop code in the SDK, which uses the blokchain. But you are right: we address devs and entrepenuers.
still we are layer 1
18:14
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
i like it
18:14
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Devs can use sdk to build products on many blockchains or not sir?
18:16
Ingo Ruebe
the KILT SDK connects to the KILT blockchain. It makes the blockchain accessible also for dev which dont speak rust for example. This way normal JavaScript devs can start utilizing blockchain technology, which they mostly could not before.
18:17
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Yeah understood
Thank you ^^
18:17
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Ok
Are you ready for next question ?
18:18
Ingo Ruebe
sure
18:18
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Q2 from @haizzdeptrai
Can you introduce the KILT ecosystem? What services / infrastructure does the KILT ecosystem include and what the project is headed for?
18:18
Ingo Ruebe
KILT basically includes the KILT Blockchain, the KILT Protocol and the KILT SDK.
All services around that, like cloud storage, directory services, wallets and such things are great opportunities for the community to build. Think of Bitcoin, it’s just there and the ecosystem evolved around it, giving people opportunity to make business.
Which projects are we heading for? We deliberately do not define this. It currently looks like many Polkadot ecosystems projects want to make use of KILT. And obviously DeFi and NFT projects think about using KILT.
But we are also happy about “real world” usage of the KILT system. It shows us that industry is in desperate need of digital identity and it is a good chance to bridge between the blockchain ecosystem and the “old” world.
18:20
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
What a detailed answer
18:20
Ingo Ruebe
thank you
18:21
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
So you will not develop an ecosystem yourself but let other devs do that, right?
I think that’s a good idea
18:22
Ingo Ruebe
Well, of course we support. But we leave the business to the people. That gives everyone a fair chance to grow.
18:22
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Nice
18:23
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
I’m blockchain developer too.
And can you let me know more about KILT SDK? What do they include?
Does anything like Truffle, Web3js… ?
18:24
Ingo Ruebe
thats great! please visit https://dev.kilt.io and find all information about the SDK. If you get stuck or have questions, just ping one of us and we will direct you into the riot channels where you can find the devs.
18:25
Christine | KILT Protocol
You can also ask questions here:
https://riot.im/app/#/group/+kilt-community:matrix.org
In our Riot / Element channel
18:25
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
That’s good to create a group for devs 😁
Ok
18:26
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
This is KILT Core Components
18:26
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
I think it’s enough for this question
18:26
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Let’s move to the next one
It was from @DeFi_ghost
How is KILT development going?
Can you describe current development status, market expansion plans, expected applications?
18:27
Ingo Ruebe
ok
KILT is basically ready to launch. As soon as Parachain auctions on Kusama will happen, we will bid for a slot. We hope to win an early one. When we secure the slot, we will go live within weeks.
Market expansion we do through our integrators programme. KILT can be used in so many verticals, that it would be stupid to concentrate for example on the energy sector or on defi. There are experts for that, who have the best possible connections to the relevant projects.
We ask these people to become integrators, use the KILT infrastructure, deliver great software to their customers and make money in that. Of course we never take any fees or anything from the integrators. We want them to be as successful as possible.
This architecture is quite common in successful open source projects. I just wonder why it is not used in blockchain very often.
too detailed?
18:29
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Yes 😂
Christine | KILT Protocol
hehe
18:29
Elisa | KILT Protocol
😅
18:29
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
But can you tell me why did you choose Kusama instead of Polkadot?
18:29
Christine | KILT Protocol
Ingo likes the deep dives… we can’t stop him
18:29
Ingo Ruebe
ok. next time I’ll answer shorter 😊
well, first of all: we want the go to market as quick as possible and Kusama is always before Polkadot
18:30
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
In reply to this message
🤣 LOL. we need detailed like this haha
18:31
Ingo Ruebe
Then we also feel, all the projects which are relevant to us for collaboration also go Kusama first.
18:31
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
In reply to this message
yup, agree. Kusama like testnet before go to Polkadot
18:31
Ingo Ruebe
Thirdly, its basically the same code as Polkadot, so why not?
-finished
18:31
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
good answer
18:32
Ingo Ruebe
thank you. (and quite short)
18:32
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Hmm clear
Any additional questions Cyclese?
18:33
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
i’m not
so should move to next question
18:33
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Yeah
Just do it
18:33
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Q4 from @starcryptofi
What is the mission of KILT in the competitive market of cryptocurrencies? And what marketing strategies are you willing to use to achieve greater adoption?
18:34
Ingo Ruebe
As I said, we use an integrators concept to gain adoption. Of course this is technology adoption and not crypto currency adoption. We basically believe in delivering good technology. Everything else then evolves automatically.
18:35
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Yeah, KILT addresses to technology, not crypto currency
18:35
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
yup. Short but enough
18:36
Ingo Ruebe
thanks!
18:36
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Ok let me ask you the next one pls
18:36
Ingo Ruebe
ok
18:36
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
It’s from @nova_trinaa
KILT is to develop trust market using verifiable certificates and data sovereignty. Can you explain it to us?
18:37
Ingo Ruebe
Sure. In the real world we have trusted entities. This can be companies, governments, universities, trustworthy people. These entities issue certificates, like contracts, passports, university diplomas.
These certificates are normally self sovereign. That means: you own them. You chose when to show them to whom for which purpose.
For example you show your university diploma to a potential new employer. If the employer trusts the university she will assume that you have certain skills and might employ you. The interesting part is: there is no direct communication between the university and the employer. The trust is conveyed by the certificate.
In the current internet it is very difficult for trusted entities to convey trust. KILT basically brings the system of credentials into the digital world, enabling trusted entities to digitize their business.
18:40
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Alright, everything KILT does is so basic but necessary ^^
18:40
Ingo Ruebe
exaclty
18:40
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
I like basic things
18:40
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
i have a question
18:41
Ingo Ruebe
please ask
18:41
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
can you let me know how to store data and is it secure ? like employer data…
18:42
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Yeah security is very important
18:44
Ingo Ruebe
The blochain does not store personal data. That would be against GDPR and not a good idea. KILT only stores hashes of credentials on the blockchain. Attesters store these when issuing the credential to the user. When the user later shows the credential to a verifier, the verifier can build the hash an check on the blockchain if the credential was issued by the correct entity and if it is still valid.
18:44
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
nice
understand it
so should move to next question
18:45
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Good idea
18:46
Ingo Ruebe
please do
18:46
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Next question about NFT
Q6 from @fanshinchan
NFT is very hot trend now, do you pretend to catch up with this trend or still follow and focus your original roadmap? create values, not create TREND
18:46
Ingo Ruebe
We definitely stick to our roadmap. We see many applications of KILT in the NFT world and we look forward to developers building on KILT to create NFTs and build NFT marketplaces. We are an infrastructure and we benefit from all these trends.
18:47
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Yes right
18:48
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
All of answers from Ruebe are clear though long or short 😂
18:49
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
The KILT is the infrastructure for NFT dapps to grow
Do you have any more questions, Zeph?
18:50
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
I do not Cy
18:50
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
So that should move to next question
18:50
Ingo Ruebe
please
18:50
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Yup, the 7th question was from @mrlotumeer
KILT Protocol and Finoa announced the collaboration for a custody solution for Parity Substrate.
Can you tell us more about it and why KILT is so important in this solution?
18:51
Ingo Ruebe
It is more that Finoa’s solution is important for us. Finoa built a system together with us, which allows them to offer custody solutions to their clients for all Substrate-based crypto currencies.
18:51
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
I think people always notice the collaboration
18:51
Ingo Ruebe
We built it for KILT, but as KILT Coins are not live yet, Finoa already uses the solution for KSM and DOT. Once KILT is live, Finoa’s customers will also be able to store their KILT Coins there.
— finished
18:52
Zeph | Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Ah understood
18:52
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
So the last question, also about collaboration
Q8 from @thanksdefi
KILT partners with PolkaBridge . What is the purpose of this Partnership? And what are the
benefits of this collaboration for both projects?
18:53
Ingo Ruebe
We were happy to collaborate with PolkaBridge and ChinaPolka for this AMA, to help build awareness of KILT Protocol with their communities!!
18:54
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Thanks for that ❤️
18:54
Christine | KILT Protocol
and also a shout-out to ChinaPolka! https://twitter.com/chinapolka
It is great to see such support of the Polkadot ecosystem globally
18:55
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
PolkaBridge will be also migrated to Polkadot in Q2 — Q3
18:56
Ingo Ruebe
👍
18:56
Cyclese | CEO & Co-Founder PolkaBridge (Never DM First)
Ok part 1 is finished
So we will move to part 2 right now
PART 2.Questions about the Kilt Protocol project from the live chat of the telegram community.
In this part, we open a chat for the crypto community for 120 seconds. Then the guests from the Kilt Protocol crypto project choose the top 10 questions. The 10 crypto enthusiasts have earned cryptocurrency in the sum of 500$.
Q — 1 from a telegram user @XiuMay
Q:What inspired how you arrived at the project name “KILT”? in real sense, what significance does the name have in the project functioning and ecosystem development?
Ingo Ruebe
A: KILT is a scottish garment. The pattern on the KILT identifies your clan, but it does not disclose all of your identity. It does selective disclosure. KILT credentials do that, too.
Q — 2 from a telegram user @FanDeFi
Q: As Education for crypto currency is necessary nowadays , what’s your plan to to attract those people who don’t know about cryptocurrency?What makes you feel confident about the survival & sustainable success of Your project in the near future?While you build your project, do you take into account community feedbacks and demands?
Ingo Ruebe
A: we dont really see it as our task to educate people abut crypto currencies. We educate ablout privacy, identity and such things. We are backed by industry and are pretty confident, that we will survive 😊 We always listen to community and users of our system. This is the only way to improve!
Q — 3 from a telegram user @Divya
Q: You organized a very profitable AMA meeting and received KILT questions related to utilities and technology- looking forward to the future … Now I want to ask what do KILT want from the public?
Ingo Ruebe
A: Great question! KILT is an offer to the public. Just like HTTP was one many years ago. We need devs to build cool stuff on it, we need entrepreneurs building profitable business on it. And we need users being aware of how digital identity is handled in the internet today and that this needs to change.
Q — 4 from a telegram user @Martin
Q:The Transctions Speed is an issue for blockchain besides scalability. Does KILT provide a solution for Transctions Speed?
Ingo Ruebe
A: The first part of the answer is Polkadot. Polkadot allows multiple blockchains to independently run in parallel. Every single blockchain has a special purpose. They don not compete for ressources, like on Ethereum. KILT is single purpose it only does credentials and DIDs. This scales it already. Second part: Substrate based blockchains have a gigantic throughput, compared to older technologies 😊
Q — 5 from a telegram user @DogMoon
Q: A lot of people will want to know what the strength of your project is but I want to know the weaknesses and problems faces? How do you plan to solve it?
Ingo Ruebe
A: thats a great one! I think the biggest problem we have is the laziness of people. We are part of the Web3 movement. So we try to move the world from Web2 to Web3, while Web2 is very convinient and people just dont seem to care what happens to their data. Raising awareness here is the biggest challenge we have.
Q — 6 from a telegram user @Igor
Q: What role do you think KILT plays in increasing the adaptability of the blockchain on the global stage? How KILT solves Interoperability problem? with Which blockchains KILT is interoperatable?
Ingo Ruebe
A: With the SDK we try to attract devs which are not blockchain native. This will lead to more solutions and eventually to more adoption. KILT is interoperable with all parachain, which you will find on the Kusama and Polkadot Networks. As these networks will have bridges to basically every other technology, it will sooner or later be interoperable with everything.
Q — 7 from a telegram user @TradeCrypto
Q: As Personal Data is very Important, How will You provide total security?
Ingo Ruebe
A: no one can provide total security. KILT makes sure that you own your personal data. And that without you signing a credential it will never be recognized as yours. That is much better than storing your credentials with a GAFA player and have them decide what your data is used for. But still: if you post your backup phrase on telegram, someone might impersonate you.
Q — 8 from a telegram user @Gnud
Q: Are you planning to promote your project in countries / regions where English is not good? Do you have a local community for them to better understand your project?
Answer: Yes we do have regional and local community initiatives planned for the coming months. Also, KILT community members have created 12 Unofficial telegram channels in recent months (see below list). There will be webinars led by local community members, and more AMAs to come !
Answer:
China
https://t.me/kiltchinaunofficial
Dutch:
https://t.me/KiltProtocolHolland
English:
German:
https://t.me/kilt_unofficial_germany
India:
https://t.me/KILT_Unofficial_India
Italian:
https://t.me/KILTProtocolItalia
Japan:
https://t.me/kiltprotocolJapan
Polish:
https://t.me/KILT_Protocol_Poland
Russian:
https://t.me/kilt_unofficial_ru
Spain:
https://t.me/kilt_unofficial_spain
Sri Lanka:
Vietnamese:
https://t.me/kilt_unofficial_vietnam
Q — 9 from a telegram user @prettyboy07
Question: What is your top priorities in 2021? Could you share some plans for the upcoming year? Which part of the project are you most focused on right now?
Answer: Please see our roadmap for upcoming milestones: https://kilt-protocol.medium.com/kilts-path-to-parachains-ad3be644db8a
Q — 10 from a telegram user @Gin
Q: Can you briefly describe what is KILT in 3–5 sentences? And what is your Mission and KILT??
A: KILT is a blockchain based propocol for self sovereign identity. Is uses Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identifiers to build such identities. On top of that KILT makes these Credentials revocable through the use of a blockchain as a neutral entity and supports selective disclosure. Our mission is to provide a digital identity layer for blockchain projects, industry and
Part 3 — Quiz about project
In the final part, we tested the knowledge in terms of the Kilt Protocol project. They’ve prepared 4 questions for this part, so everyone could be a part and answer. Participants had 10 minutes to answer. 500$ was distributed between the winners.
