MASQ Browser 2022 Year in Reflection

With 2022 behind us, it is incredible to look back at all the wild, exciting, and challenging moments across the year. For the MASQ team, it was the most memorable year since the project started, with many achievements to make the team and community proud.

Let’s recap the most notable milestones and consider what’s coming in 2023!

Accomplishments

MASQ Browser App (2022 v0.4.7)

• Completed total working concept web3 privacy browser app, progressing through four phased testing rounds — the community testers are amazing!

• Opened Beta MASQ web3 privacy browser for all community users with Guild.xyz integration for utility token holder access

• Full support for Over-the-Air updates of the MASQ web3 browser app

• Released public web3 dApp Store with open source library repository on Github — with the expansion of 26 dApps in 2022

• Designed and implemented MASQ Premium, offering an exclusive feature suite for users holding premium-level $MASQ utility tokens

• Onboarded three new developer contributors to the MASQ team

MASQ Beta Testing

• Over 300 Beta testers completed onboarding as active users of the MASQ browser app in 2022

• We launched our feedback platform using Canny for public feature requests, dApp listing requests, and bug reports.

• Achieved all time high of 200+ MASQ Node users actively connected in Mumbai test network

• Fostered Beta testing bounties and rewards for community testers.

Community

• We published a MASQ Activity Board to act as a living roadmap and show strategic progress items for public reference.

• Launched a modern MASQ website (v2), showcasing the technology and the MASQ Network protocol with its ecosystem possibilities and unique selling points (USPs)

• Implemented Plausible for website analytics, which is a privacy-focused and zero-cookie method to respect user privacy

• Announced formal partnership with Akash Network, the leader in cloud computing and Supercloud provider for permissionless VPS deployments

• Deployed the first Polygon Network Crucible (with partner incubator community Alchemist), providing non-custodial staking reward programs and extended subscription rewards through Q3 and Q4 2022 — continuing further into 2023

• $MASQ utility token holders on Ethereum increased by 50%, and over 1300 unique holders are currently on Polygon Network

Marketing

• We executed successful organic marketing efforts through 2022, expanding the MASQ community brand and market presence

• Website traffic increased over 100% Year-over-Year (YoY)

masq.ai visitor metrics for 2022

• Twitter followers increased 100% YoY with impressive statistics for 2022

• Discord membership increased by over 100%, and Telegram membership increased by 40% YoY.

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What is planned for 2023?

The MASQ core team remains incredibly focused on three main areas for the first half of 2023:

• Expanding Software features — MASQ Premium features and MASQ Spaces (v2) User Experience enrichment

• Web3 integrations, including dStorage and dMessage

• Additional ecosystem partners, including expanding web3 dApp store library

With the imminent release of our newest MASQ Node core software upgrade and updated MASQ app under v0.5.0, the first look at further progress across these critical elements is immediately revealed to jump-start the 2023 year!

The MASQ ecosystem vision is expansive, with the ultimate goal of centering MASQ Network as a gateway for all internet users of web2 to enter the world of web3, regardless of their geographical location, while also evolving the mesh network technology itself to become more censorship-resistant so it continues to exist independantly of any person, entity or group.To achieve this vision, the ecosystem has to be supported by core concepts (pillars if you will) that will support this digital future, providing a truly decentralized experience for users:

- dWeb (MASQ protocol and browser software suite)
- dComms (decentralized messengers and wallet to wallet communication)
- dStorage (supported in-app by a critical partnership soon to be announced, and secured by IPFS protocol technology)
- dValue (*peer value transfer* by means of digital utility and ecosystem connections across trustless protocols secured by blockchain technology)

I am most excited to be able to guide our progress across these pillars, with a key one being in our sights for Q1 2023 announcement!

- KauriHero, Project Lead