James Preston

A communications specialist & marketer from South Africa,James is a locally published journalist who ran his own marketing agency until 2018 when he joined SA's first crypto news outlet as Lead Editor

📍 Durban, South Africa

Updates

Monthly Report: August 2022

It's been another full month for the Zeitgeist team, one which was primarily devoted to "final touches". Here's everything we were up to.

Announcements

ParaDAO Wins $5000 Zeitgeist Bounty

Zeitgeist was proud to participate in the Polkadot Global Hackathon North America, and have announced a winner of a $5000 bounty.

Announcements

Zeitgeist Completes All Code Audits

We recently completed two rounds of code audits on our software, and here can present a detailed summary on the most recent report by the Chaintroopers team.

News

Monthly Report: July 2022

Like most months, July was busy for the team at Zeitgeist. We worked on a number of optimizations ahead of app launch, and finalized an exciting marketing campaign.

Updates

June 2022 Report

June was a momentous month for Zeitgeist. Here is a full list of what we were up to.

Education

Futarchy: Polkadot Decoded 2022

Our CEO Logan Saether presented the possibilities of Futarchy for governance in the Polkadot ecosystem at Decoded 2022 in Berlin. Here's the transcript.

Tutorials

So, What Exactly ARE Prediction Markets?

Here is a full run down of what Prediction Markets are all about...

News

Announcing The Zeitgeist TGE

We are excited to announce the much anticipated Token Generation Event. Here are the full details.

announcement

Zeitgeist Offers $30,000 In Bounties For Polkadot Hackathon

Zeitgeist is delighted to announce the offering of $30,000 in bounties for engineers who can build using our SDK.

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Zeitgeist’s Integration With Subscan Goes Live

Zeitgeist is pleased to announce the integration of our parachain with Subscan.io

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Zeitgeist Integrates Acala’s aUSD Stablecoin to Power Prediction Markets

Zeitgeist is happy to announce its partnership with the Acala Foundation for the introduction of their aUSD stablecoin into our Prediction Markets ecosystem.

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Zeitgeist Partners With Subsquid

Zeitgeist is proud to announce an important partnership with API provider Subsquid.

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Zeitgeist Secures $14m In Funding To Build Prediction Market Ecosystem

Zeitgeist is pleased to announce the closing of $14 million in funding to help achieve their vision of building the leading prediction market ecosystem.

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Announcing Zeitgeist Beta!

The Beta version of the Zeitgeist app is here, and provides an opportunity to stress test out application.

Updates

Zeitgeist On The Relay Chain Podcast

Two of Zeitgeist's co-founders Logan Saether and David Perry were invited onto the Relay Chain Podcast back in July, and here we have transcribed the entire episode for your reading enjoyment.

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Zeitgeist Partners With RMRK To Bring NFT Functionality To Its Ecosystem

As they approach their Testnet launch campaign, Substrate-based Zeitgeist have partnered with the RMRK team to bring NFT functionality to their ecosystem!