Four years, around a dozen freelancers, and more than $750k in non-dilutive funding from the Open Technology Fund, Mozilla Corporation, and others. That's what it took to build the Awala network, despite significant challenges.

References

• Awala on the Open Technology Fund website: https://www.opentech.fund/projects-we-support/supported-projects/awala/
• Awala security audits: https://awala.app/en/about/#security-audits
• Mozilla Builders, Summer 2020, Open Lab winner: https://twitter.com/mozillabuilders/status/1324427116809580544
• Lowering the barrier to adopt Awala: https://awala.app/en/blog/lowering-adoption-barrier/
• ‘Wednesday night massacre’ as Trump appointee takes over at global media agency: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/media/us-agency-for-global-media-michael-pack/index.html
• Letro: https://letro.app/en/
• VeraId: https://veraid.net/
• What my desktop looked like whilst building and testing Awala: https://twitter.com/0xgnarea/status/1307340115115741186

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