Our Dev team has made a new progress update available at Dev.to.
We’d love to hear your thoughts & questions!

📍Link:
bit.ly/FulaUpdates

⌛Here today, gone tomorrow!

LAST CHANCE for discount pricing!🔥

Get your Box NOW:
http://bit.ly/Web3Box

The Dreamers…Win! ✨🎉

A special thank-you to the 900+ people who have chosen to back Box.🤩🙏

Your dream is our reality, and it’s on its way to you!✨💫

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Functionland team in Berlin for Techstars, representing Box and Blockchain-Attached Storage! 🚀

Techstars is an operational investor supporting startups on their entrepreneurial journey from idea to building the most successful business possible! 🌟


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Get ready, Toronto, here we come! 🇨🇦

Delighted to announce that we’re taking part in this year’s startup program at #CollisionConf. We want to meet as many people as possible, so make sure to drop by our booth on the event floor and say hi!
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📣Functionland is excited to announce our partnership with the 2022 Blockchain Futurist Conference this August 9 - 10, 2022 in Toronto, Canada.🤝


It is the largest, most high profile Blockchain event in Canada with last year’s conference bringing together +5000 attendees, +100 speakers on 3 stages, and +80 media.✨


As a part of the Functionland community we would like to invite you to this iconic event and want to offer you a 25% discount code off all tickets types.🔥🎫

Promocode: FUNCTIONLAND25

Come and join us!

📍 FuturistConference.com
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Update on the market condition and how it affects Functionland 📢 🐘

Like most crypto maximalists, we were really hoping that the space has evolved past 4 year cycles and there would be no more long winters.

We always planned for the TGE of $FULA to happen at the end of 2022. This had two reasons:

1. We wanted to get the end-to-end experience right. From owning a Box device to having functional day-to-day apps (with a focus on lifestyle apps instead of financials) and a network that brings value to its owners silently in the background without disturbing the user experience.

2. We’ve wanted the $FULA token to go live in a bear market! We planned for the possibility that it might happen sometime this year although the inner degen child hoped there wouldn't be one. We were even given the advice to take advantage of the bull market and release Fula Layer 1 (ERC20) without the accompanying utility of L2 and L3, solely as an instrument of speculation. We chose to stick with the original plan. Our intention has never been to ride a bull market, we have an opportunity to lead innovation in Web3 infrastructure. We can achieve this goal in the calm of uninteresting market conditions, projects that went live in bear cycles historically have a higher success rate because they didn't have to play into the hype.

Another pushback we were getting was against creating a DAO for Fula's governance. It's obvious that a central controlling body has a faster time-to-market. But at what cost? We can see where that decision has got Twitter, they won't/can't even disclose how many fake accounts they have! Same fiasco in the crypto world. The mission for $UST was to become a decentralized stablecoin, both noble and innovative. But keeping a central "tyrant in charge" proved to be the Achilles heel. This kind of recklessness will probably impair further attempts on disrupting centralized fiat for several years! We saw two lessons worth learning: “strength of humility”, “power of community”.

At Functionland, we have a trilemma of our own, creating a balance between "mainstream adoption", "building the network and protocols" and "developer outreach". Each of these is a huge feat on its own, pursuing all three at the same time at our scale was a recipe for failure. So we decided to undertake these one by one, until we’ve achieved a scale that will let us tackle all three simultaneously.

The purpose of the Indiegogo campaign was to demonstrate mainstream adoption of "data sovereignty" is not a pipe dream. It showed that people are definitely fed up with "cloud overlords" who send themselves to space while their employees can't even have proper lunch breaks, meddle in elections of countries and algorithmically turn people into addicts who have to check their social feed every five minutes! Thanks to the amazing support of our Functionlanders community, we now have hard evidence in the only language the 1% understands: "$500K+ pre-orders”!

From here, we will give our marketing drums a rest. It's time to shift all our attention to building, and a bear market gives us the breathing room to do so.

Although we want to focus head down on building, we were not immune to the adverse effects of the bear market. Earlier this year, it was really easy to raise tens of millions for a run-of-the-mill NFT marketplace! We are about to open our strategic funding round and today, we see it takes us several meetings and vigorous due diligence to get even a soft commit. We do welcome this change and benefit from being vetted for the 100th time, but the process is cumbersome and eats into valuable time that could be spent building otherwise. So we ask our community again: if you know investors who share our long-term vision and collective values, we appreciate introductions! 🙏🏼

The rest of 2022 is going to be very exciting for Functionland, we will share updates as each component of the ecosystem gets closer to the prime time. Your feedback is as invaluable and appreciated as always!

With an end-to-end ecosystem, demonstrating it's possible for users to evolve to owners without having to pay with attention and privacy, at the same time open source developers and content creators being able to earn a sustainable income, we will shift the attention to "developer outreach" in early 2023.

It's going to be an iterative process where feedback from the community shapes the next phase of development. There will undoubtedly be hiccups and suboptimal user experience at the beginning, but we can collectively change the status quo! Be it in baby steps and slower than we hope, or possibly we instigate a massive awakening that hastens this process beyond our expectations!

Looking forward to building a brighter future together, we are one with our community, one large body of like-minded people! That’s the source of strength!

Peace and much love,
Keyvan
Functionland's CEO

https://blog.fx.land/update-on-the-market-condition-and-how-it-affects-functionland

🤝 Functionland, Inc., pioneers of Blockchain-Attached Storage (BAS) and builders of the web3 home server known as Box, have announced a partnership with Formidable, a global software firm. Formidable will build applications that run on Box and store data on its BAS software solution.


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💡 Team Functionland at the Leading Blockchain workshop of the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX)

Global Innovation Exchange is a university-industry nexus for interdisciplinary education in technology innovation.✨

In partnership with corporate, government and non-profit organizations, GIX delivers transformational learning experiences through world-class graduate and professional development programs.🎓

📍 fx.land

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📣We are proud to announce that Functionland has been shortlisted to present at the 2022 Collision Conference in Toronto.

PITCH is Collision’s startup competition, and brings the world’s leading early-stage startups to Toronto to prove their mettle onstage!

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Think You Can BeatBox?

No, we’re not looking for the next Doug E. Fresh, we’re looking for a new name!🔎

Team Functionland never intended “Box” to be the final name for its flagship product. “Box” was more of a placeholder, inspired by the product’s form and its function as a storage space for data, apps and everything else people hold dear in their virtual lives.

Now that Box is attracting believers and the company is growing toward launch, the time has come to finalize its name.💫

Think of a name “outside the Box!” Choose something novel, catchy and intuitive. Something you feel reflects our free-thinking, transformative, community-oriented brand and what we stand for.

🎁🎁
Think you can beat “Box”? Fill out this short form by *Sunday 12 Jun 11:59 PM ET* and send us your ideas! Everyone who participates will be given a chance to win USD $100, and the winning proposal will receive USD $200!


https://bit.ly/BoxNewName


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On our way #CollisionConf 2022! 🇨🇦

We’re honored to have earned a spot in this year’s startup program at #CollisionConf. We want to meet as many members of our growing community as possible, so make sure you stop by our booth and say hi!


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At Functionland, we are focused on partnering with web3 companies that are aligned to our values. Creating a free, fair and better version of the internet has been our founding value.

Cudos is a company that is aligned with our values and has technology that complements ours. We are delighted to partner with the smart, hard working and innovative Cudos team.

Together we will build the next version of the web, one that will be powered by its people. Cudos Mainnet Launch brings us one step closer to this vision.


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📣 Team Functionland will be exhibiting (Stand B2413) at Collision Conference, North America's biggest startup event, and we're excited to see you there!

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We are live from Toronto for Collision Conference! 🇨🇦🚀

Ehsan Shariati, Co-founder and CTO of Functionland on PITCH stage of Collision discussing Blockchain-Attached Storage.🔥


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Functionland has been named one of the hottest Canadian startups!🔥🇨🇦

A mighty thanks to #CollisionConf and #FoundersPress! 🌟

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🎥 Project showcase at #CollisionConf

🎤Ehsan Shariati, CTO and Co-founder


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#CollisionConf is a blast! ✨

See what Team Functionland has been up to in Toronto for PITCH! 🤩

📍Read more:
bit.ly/PITCHcompetition

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