When I was thinking of a name for a place where makers from all over the world could congregate, share and collaborate freely, I could only think of one word — Ellcrys. A term I learned from watching the movie series Shannara Chronicles. Ellcrys was a mystical tree that kept…

I have been asked what I’ve been doing for over a year 😅 and the state of the Ellcrys project. Well, I was trying to save the Ellcrys project. We stopped operating when we exhausted our runway and I was unable to raise new funding. You see Ellcrys was a…

After thorough consideration of the impact of the last Airdrop, we have decided to cancel the next Airdrop event which was planned to begin on the 7th of October. Here are our reasons for our decision: Lots of Fake Participants In the last Airdrop, we noticed a high number of fake participants who participated…

Last month, we announced our plan to conduct a Pre-IEO that was expected to help our project prepare for an IEO where we expect to distribute more tokens to a wider population and in turn, we would be able to increase our community size and also attract the funding required…

We are pleased to announce the release of the first alpha version of the Ellcrys project. Accompanying this release is an alphanet (a test network) composed of nodes running an alpha version of the Elld client. This release, codenamed Inception, marks the beginning of a series of client releases designed…

The past few months have been quite amazing for us at Ellcrys. Building a protocol such as ours requires a lot of research, engineering and strategy. We are have been actively doing all of these things and happy to announce that we have a much clearer plan and pathway to…

1. Introduction In this article, I will attempt to throw some light on the various functionalities we plan to build into elld — Our official client for the Ellcrys network. I will also break down these capabilities into different alpha releases in which they will begin to appear. 2. What is Ellcrys? Ellcrys is a general…

Blockchains are supposed to create a levelled playing field for everyone and not create another class of elite by rules built into their protocols. — What is it? Equitable coin distribution refers to the distribution of the supply of coins of a decentralised project to people in a way that is impartial, merit-based, and effort-driven. A coin distribution mechanism that does not strive to be equitable will lead to a distribution economy only accessible to a category of…

1. Looking Back It has been a little over 3 months since we announced the postponement of our ICO due to the performance of the Pre-Sale. In that announcement, we identified a number of reasons that contributed to the performance, of which the most worrying was the lack of verifiable progress in development…