SkillZ
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SkillZ is the leading European blockchain infrastructure provider. We offer a platform that allows to deploy, orchestrate, and monitor read-write nodes and validator nodes (Ethereum, Tezos, Pocket Network, Polkadot, Corda, etc.) quickly and efficiently on any infrastructure type.
Team Story
Two years. I met Thomas in 2018 at The Family when he was country manager for Circle. I met Arnaud, from other friends in 2019. That's where the adventure started.
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Last updated on
Feb 10, 2021
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Investable?
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DeFi Alliance (done)
Sherif (pending)
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Related to KB2 Fellows (Related to Copy of KERNEL Adventures (People) 1)
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SkillZ makes blockchain infrastructure easy, for builders and investors. We’re offering picks and shovels for the decentralized future.
Infrastructure companies always pave the way for faster emerging technologies adoption. It was very well explained by Jeff Bezos two decades ago. Being influenced by firms like Free that accelerated ADSL adoption into French houses (2004), AWS enabling firms to access the cloud worldwide, Dataiku that help corporates leverage Artificial Intelligence for various use cases, SkillZ brings faster decentralization and blockchain adoption for builders and investors.
The infrastructure blockchain market is divided in two segments: the Builders and Investors market. In 2020, we realized the builders market wasn’t deep and mature enough to focus on. On the contrary, the investors market was ready to embrace new protocol incentives such as staking rewards. We launched Validator-as-a-Service offering to help investors get protocol rewards without the technical requirement. We are still convinced that traditional companies, either large groups or SMEs, will use blockchain bricks tomorrow, with or without realizing it. Once this market is mature enough, we will allocate resources following Builders needs.
We want to achieve it because our team is genuinely a fan of what web decentralization can bring to the world. All the team also believes it is intellectually one of the most exciting problems in our tech era.