Monthly Wrap-Up June 2024: Incognitee Bug Bounty Launch, Polkadot Treasury Proposal & More

Business Updates

Tech4Trust Accelerator Program: Integritee in the Finish Line
Earlier last month, we got to the finish line of the Tech4Trust Accelerator Program, and our CEO Waldemar Scherer attended the Award Ceremony. Although we didn’t make it to the top 3 winners, we are excited and proud to be an alumni member of T4T, together with other promising and growing startups. The program featured several workshops, conferences, meetings, and networking sessions throughout several months.

Limmat Hack Panel
We were invited to join a panel on the role of innovation in cybersecurity at Limmat’Hack, a conference focused on cybersecurity that took place in Zurich. The panel included representatives from major companies such as Trust Valley’s CEO, Lennig Pedron, Marcel Zümbuhl (CISO of Swiss Post), Olivier Eyries (CEO of Saporo), Urs Kuderli (Partner Cybersecurity & Privacy at PwC Switzerland), and Isabelle Kuskin (CEO of Cyberion).

Incognitee Bug Bounty Launch
Great news! We’ve launched our first bug bounty campaign, which can be accessed via Immunefi. We are urging developers and ethical hackers who are familiar with blockchain technology to participate by finding and reporting bugs in our Incognitee network in order to make it better. Participants can earn up to 10,000 USD by completing the tasks laid out on the bug bounty official page. Want to know more? Click here and start chasing bugs!

Incognitee Test Wallet on Paseo
If you follow our work, you probably know we’ve been focusing on our new product: Incognitee is a solution designed to transfer digital assets privately. In addition to publishing an article on the relevance of Incognitee, we’ve also launched a test wallet on Paseo for everyone to try out. If you’re eager to experience it firsthand, don’t hesitate to click here and learn how Incognitee works, and why it is relevant.

Polkadot Treasury Proposal: Taking Incognitee Further
Two weeks ago we launched a Polkadot treasury proposal requesting funds to take Incognitee to the next level. Here, you can find the principles of the proposal and understand why we are asking for support from the Polkadot Treasury.

We will need more resources to accelerate the progress on the product and bring it into the final stage, building it into something we believe will help not only other users but also other projects in the ecosystem. If you would like to see Incognitee come to life sooner, don’t hesitate to cast your vote via this link. The treasury proposal is open for voting until around July 19th.

Unpermissioned Collators Live
In our mission to foster decentralization, we’re now opening up the collator set for external operators to establish an unpermissioned operation of the Integritee Network. Therefore we have created a new Integritee Network Treasury Bounty where you can claim an amount of up to 300$ in TEER for your efforts to run an Integritee Network collator. This will also put you in a good position to be considered as a Validator in Incognitee. This will help to ensure the smooth operation and resilience of the Integritee ecosystem. Check the documentation and run your first Integritee Network collator!

Blockchain for the Greater Good
This month, we released an article titled “For the Greater Good: Using Blockchain for Social Change”, in which we explore interesting blockchain-based projects that invest their time in finding solutions for humanitarian and social issues. We break it down into different industries, such as farming, energy, humanitarian aid, and much more. If you’re interested in knowing more about how blockchain can be used to help others, check out our article.

Community update
In June, we had “It’s TEE Time!” episode 17, which is out on YouTube already for everyone to check out. If you’re interested in knowing what our last chat was about, click here.

Governance

Referendum #32: Runtime Upgrade v520
The Integritee council proposed a new Runtime upgrade v520 which includes a new Sidechain Finality model, a TEER XCM connection to the Asset Hub, and enables unpermissioned Collators. The Referendum ended with 100% Aye votes from 10 participants! Thanks to our community and everyone who took part in the voting process. Check more info here.

Referendum #33: Collator Bounty
The Integritee council proposed a Collator Bounty to foster decentralization and compensate operators for running Integritee Network Collators. The Referendum ended with 100% Aye votes from 7 participants! Thanks to our community and everyone who took part in the voting process. Check more info here.

Treasury Proposal #1: OnFinality
The 2nd treasury proposal was accepted by the Integritee Network Council. Onfinality gets a proactive TEER grant to provide their public RPC service in the next 3 months. The amount of 5,829.891 TEER was awarded. Check more info here.

Tech Updates

Technical advancements:

Integritee Parachain & SDK:

• Updated our parachain from polkadot version 1.10.0 to 1.13.0
• New runtime introduces CheckMetadataHash with breaking changes
• Collator binary is async-backing ready
• Introduced collator selection
• Release of SDK version v.0.14.0.

Incognitee:

• Overhaul of wallet experience
• Division in private and public amounts
• New faucet button
• Dark mode overlays
• Text corrections

For all details, check our repository.

What’s Ahead

Incognitee: Next Steps
After successfully conducting the first Incognitee user testing campaign, launching the bug bounty campaign, and also the first beta wallet to be used by everyone to securely execute private transfers on Paseo, we are continuously working towards production readiness. In the meantime, we will launch new user campaigns to test things out and engage with our community.

Integritee at Polkadot Decoded 2024
Our CTO and CEO, Alain Brenzikofer and Waldemar Scherer, will be at this year’s Polkadot Decoded in Brussels, where Alain will present a talk on “Incognitee: Privacy for DOT Transactions”. Taking place on July 11th and 12th, this is one of the most important conferences regarding the Polkadot ecosystem.

If you’re going to Decoded or are in town, don’t hesitate to contact us and meet us. We’re looking forward to getting to know other blockchain and Polkadot enthusiasts and network. You can also register to follow the whole event online and watch every talk live, including Alain’s.

Tech updates
More features around our Attesteer, our Teeracle, and the privacy Sidechains will be released in the upcoming weeks.

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About Integritee

Integritee is the most scalable, privacy-enabling network with a Parachain on Kusama and Polkadot. Our SDK solution combines the security and trust of Polkadot, the scalability of second-layer Sidechains, and the confidentiality of Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), special-purpose hardware based on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology inside which computations run securely, confidentially, and verifiably.

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