Dear Panquake Community,

October was a horrific month for our team due to the loss of our beloved colleague Eynelys but we have pulled together to support her family and each other and are propelling the project forward in all regards.

We have just posted our October Public Delivery Meeting, making good on our promise to always keep you, our supporters, in the know about our build, campaign and fundraising progress every single month.

In this Twitter thread posted by Panquake Founder Suzie Dawson you can track our key metrics and statistics, including for our tech journalism project Talk Liberation and our new deep dive investigative section Talk Liberation Investigates, which just this week launched the #WLDragnet series.

Here are a few slides of note:

Panquake Build Progress

Panquake Phase 2 funding round is now at 86% complete.

At last month's delivery meeting we announced the huge news that our developers had successfully authenticated users on our test network and they successfully sent, received and verified encrypted messages. This month the rest of the authentication service functionality has been built out and tested. We now have the ability for users to be anonymous/unregistered guests on our network, or registered and authenticated, which fulfills a fundamental promise we made from the outset.

With the user creation and authentication side of the build finished, we can now move forward into the blockchain build, which we expect will take the rest of this year to complete.

Talk Liberation Progress

Our tech publication Talk Liberation provides an important recurring income/revenue stream that feeds directly into supporting the Panquake build. Making us less reliant on crowdfunding donations and the generosity of the general public, Talk Liberation provides a valuable news service for people who care about the same issues we do: internet freedom, data sovereignty, privacy, security, digital rights, policy and law.

This month, Talk Liberation subscriptions have increased by nearly 50% and with an average opening rate of 29% (which is extremely high for this industry) we are proving that our content is engaging and our audience are engaged!

Talk Liberation Investigates Delivers As Promised

Our groundbreaking new series #WLDragnet is exposing sinister and for-profit modern day mass surveillance on social media. Part One is out now and focuses on the targeting of supporters of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange as well as whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and movements like Medicare For All and Force The Vote, among many others. Parts Two and Three yet to come, zoom out to an even bigger picture that affects us all. Deep dive investigative journalism like this, based on primary source documents, is very rare in this day and age. Don't miss out on this incredible reporting, make sure you have subscribed to our mailing list to be the first to know when the next parts are released!

With your support we're going to deliver our next generation social media app to the world. Privacy, freedom of expression and data sovereignty are coming your way. We won't stop til we push through Phase 3 & have everything in place to deliver the service quality you deserve.

Your support means the world to us. We have come so far together and by doubling down, we're going to achieve this big win for humanity.

In closing this delivery update, it's impossible not to think of Eynelys and how proud she would be that we have not stopped fighting for this cause that is so near and dear to all our hearts. Rest in power, Eynelys.

With love,

The Panquake Team