Holo—a distributed cloud computing platform built on Holochain—announced a new strategic partnership with a project called Promether. After several months of discussions between the two parties, a mutual interest in each other’s platforms from a development perspective was born.
Link: https://www.investinblockchain.com/holo-promether-partnership/
Titled “Strategic Security Partnership,” it appears that both are looking to utilize each other’s platforms in regards to certain aspects of their own projects. Currently, the partnership includes Promether providing Holo exclusive access to alpha/beta testing of the secure communication app Contact—the first application powered by Promether.
Holochain, on the other hand, will provide an adaptable platform for P2P apps within Promether’s secure endpoints. Time will tell how this partnership will play out and expand, but it is certainly interesting why Holo decided to choose Promether for a partnership of that nature. But there are some clues in the announcement, so we decided to dive into it a little more…
While Promether is a new project trying to kick-start themselves through current private sale and an upcoming ICO, the founder and CEO, Eric J Anderson (Eijah), is everything but new to the world of decentralized systems and networking security.
Most people know about the massive games like GTA5 and Guitar Hero. What they probably don’t know is that Eijah was the LEAD PROGRAMMER for both of those during his employment for Activision and Rockstar Games.
When diving a little deeper, Eijah is apparently an infamous hacker who was part of the initial Bluray hack, and has also held multiple hacker workshops at some of the most popular hacker conventions like DEF CON.
Because of the founder’s extensive background, Holo and Holochain also acquired Eijah to advise.