I came across Chirp thru airdrop.io. It's currently one of the site's hottest airdrops. Digging further, you'll be amazed at what Chirp team's aiming to do related with IoT. I came across tokens related with IoT, but none so far that left a mark on as to what Chirp has accomplished.
Let's look at some of these accomplishments and the team behind Chirp.
I've skimmed through the articles in Chirp's medium site and there's ton of information there. But out of these articles, four themes stuck with me.
1. The Team
As mentioned by Chirp's CEO Mr. Timothy Kravchunovsky, they've assembled an all-star team. I work as a software engineer and I know how difficult it is to assemble a team. Looking at Chirp's team formation, I think you'll agree with me that they're capable of building what they say they will do (or are already doing).
For now, let's limit our research to Chirp's CEO Mr. Timothy Kravchunovsky. According to Chirp's website, he's been a network engineer for 20 years, has an executive management Certificate program from Cornell University, a Computer Science graduate at University of Maryland, and has a Masters program in Management from Columbia University. From the looks of it, the combination of these education provides a good foundation for establishing a business and a company.
Looking at his work background, he worked as a contractor for the World Bank, Comacast, Chemonics International, and RTTV Washington. I did a quick search for these companies and only found about World Bank and Chemonics International and these companies aim to improve and develop. Having experience in companies with a culture of improvement and development, you get this cultrue embedded into your system and way of working.
2. The Technology
I'm no network engineer, but I did finish college with a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering. If you go through all their medium articles, you'll know that these guys know their stuff. They've even installed their Blackbird Master Gateway in Köterberg, Germany to distribute wireless IoT access to a radius of hundreds of square kilometers.
3. Use Cases
One of the common themes I look into a project is its perceived utility. I know that there are meme tokens who at the onset doesn't promise financial returns, but I believe they just teach people to gamble. Chirp's approach is different. They've looked into the use cases of the area they are developing and have provided these use cases in one of their medium articles as well. The two use cases that stood out for me were: inventory management and smart cities.
4. Partnerships
And last but not the least, partnerships. Based on this article, they've partnered with Mysten Labs, the team behind Sui blockchain. I guess this is the reason that Chirp's zealy tasks asks for a SUI wallet address not the commonly requested Ethereum wallet address. Getting a quote from one of their medium articles:
Conscious of the blockchain trilemma, we selected Sui as it is a cost-effective, secure and high-performance blockchain that supports smart contracts right out of the box. In fact, Sui public testnet recently peaked at 297,000 Transactions Per Second (for comparison, VISA network can handle 65,000 transactions per second). Combined with its unique gas mechanism, it ensures network fees are low and stable to users no matter how much demand there is for activity on the network. We believe this is a game-changer.
Conclusion
Before investing into something, research should always be the first step. I hope this article, no matter how little, helped in giving you an idea on what Chirp is about.
