Double the RAM. Double the Team. Double the Progress.

The Utopian-io witness is continuing to evolve and improve. This post will cover some of our recent efforts in that regard, both on the technical front and on the community side of things.

Our Team

As Utopian continues to evolve and grow, our team is growing as well.

@elear - CEO. Ideator and founder of Utopian. A developer with over 10 years of experience in building complex web applications, Diego is the tireless machine managing the expansion of Utopian.

@gregory.latinier - CTO. With over 11 years of experience in building innovative products, known for his awesome work on SteemConnect and Busy.org, Gregory makes sure the development of Utopian v2 proceeds smoothly and coordinates our whole development team. Gregory is also about to release a pool of tasks that we will offer as bounties to our community of contributors.

@techslut - CMO. Expert in marketing and content, Ilana is the all-in, factotum, pink angel growing connections and awareness around Utopian.

@didic - CCO. Recently added to our team, expert editor, copywriter and translator, Didi manages the Utopian contents. These include our publications and the quality standards expected from the community.

@Suesa - COO. Recently added to our team, Suesa is doing amazing work in keeping the tasks well organised and prioritised. She’s making sure the operations across all the organisation proceed smoothly.

@knowledges. -Community Management. Knowledges is without a doubt one of the most committed community members we have had since the early days of Utopian. He is now responsible for the review process and customer care.

@ms10398 and @icaro. Our passionate developers, working daily to bring utopian v2 to the public while maintaining all our tools.

We would like to thank @helo for his help maintaining the witness. Consider voting for @helo witness.

The Tech

We’ve recently upgraded our server’s hardware. As part of the upgrade, our main and backup servers are located in different countries with different providers in an effort to decentralise and remove single points of failure. We also doubled the RAM on the production server.The main server has 120G of RAM and a 200GB SSD. The backup server has 64GB RAM and a 200GB SSD.

The biggest news in regards to the Utopian-io witness is that we finally have a seed node at seed.utopian.io:2001. This is something we’ve wanted to do for some time, and we are very glad to have it up and running. Much like the backup server, the seed server also has 64GB RAM and a 200GB SSD.

Progress since last update

With the mission of running hackathons on a monthly basis, Utopian ran its first successful hackathon, bringing more awesome projects to the Steem community. Read more here.

We’re supporting the new SteemCommunity Organization, and the efforts to improve HardFork testing so that the blockchain won’t have a repeat of the downtime caused by HF20. We are currently involved with @kevinwong and @trafalgar’s work to gather information and feedback from the community on improving Steem’s economics

We’ve also been very active on the community side. We’ve recently launched our new Anti-abuse category to help make Steem a better place.

Last but not least our VIPO is growing with relevant projects bringing more awesome publications and developers to the blockchain.

CoinGecko is now a VIPO. Read more here

Rocket.chat is now a VIPO. Read more here

To Sum Up:

While some of Utopian’s activities can and will happen beyond the Steem blockchain, this is our home. We are committed to helping Steem grow and improve, and that is going to remain a central part of our activities.

If you like what you are doing, please consider: Voting for Utopian Witness

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