peaq
Max Thake (Co-Founder)
Leonard Dorlöchter (Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder)
Summary
peaq technology is a company that provides a blockchain platform for the Internet-of-Things. It offers directed acyclic graph technology that solves existing blockchain problems by combining blockchain and DAG technology. Its platform allows companies to reduce costs, create new revenue streams, and automate processes.
peaq is the Web3 network powering the Economy of Things (EoT). peaq enables people to build decentralised applications (dApps) for vehicles, robots, and devices, while empowering dApp builders and dApp users to govern and earn from machines providing goods and services to people and other machines.
The peaq network leverages Machine DeFi and Machine NFTs to align the incentives of all stakeholders in the Economy of Things. peaq is designed to solve some of our most pressing societal and economic challenges of our time, ensuring that people earn more as machine-associated job automation increases.
History
peaq was established in 2017, as a flagship project by EoT Labs, an open-source development, incubation, and deployment lab.
Taking a different approach to all aspects of blockchain for the machine economy, peaq chooses a bold strategy, opting to use the technology to create value before using the technology to exchange value. The inverse of the status quo.
?peaq enables companies to build decentralised applications that enable machines to solve problems, save resources, and support people. An economy in which trust is built into its foundations. It aims to create a world in which people don’t fear machines - because they don’t have to.
Mission
peaq's mission is driven by taking the opportunity to make a global impact. In a recent interview with Hilton Supra, Vice Chairman of Ztudium Group, Co-Founder Leonard Dorlöchter illustrated an example of a real-life use case where peaq has made a significant contribution. He said that the company is working with a mission to a seamless machine economy:
“The Internet of things presently is a place where machines send and receive data, and the Economy of things is going to be a place where machines also can offer and consume goods and services. An electric vehicle goes to a charging station, gets charged, and then pays the charging station with energy. And then this EV picks up someone who has booked a taxi ride and then receives money from that person, and then it pays for a toll road that it is driving through and all of that happens directly Peer to Peer. You need an open ecosystem, open identities in order for those things to work frictionless.”
Vision
According to its website, peaq is "striving for a new economy, a decentralised Economy of Things, by safely empowering machines to the benefit of society."
According to Leonard Dorlöchter:
“peaq's vision is really focussed on the real world, creating real value and revenue in real-world transactions. We are not just an on-chain project that is just moving money from A to B but really making that bridge to the real world.”
Key Team
Michael Knip (Content Marketer)
Mauricio Zolliker (Business Development & Ecosystem Growth Lead)
Miguel Santafé (Creative Director)
Daria Tagliabue (Communications/Director)
Cody Gregoryk (Global Partnerships)
Max Thake (Co-Founder)
Leonard Dorlöchter (Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer)
Recognition and Awards
References
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/28/web3-network-peaq-raises-6m-led-by-fundamental-labs/
https://www.peaq.network/blog/welcome-to-the-peaq-network-2
https://hackernoon.com/web-30-and-blockchain-will-nourish-the-economic-infrastructure-of-tomorrow
https://venturebeat.com/datadecisionmakers/machine-nfts-income-security-in-the-age-of-automation/
https://www.peaq.network/blog/peaq-partners-with-datarella-gmbh
https://www.connect.de/news/breaktrough-award-2021-sieger-connect-3202032.html
https://www.peaq.network/blog/peaq-partners-with-deltadao-ag
Max Thake (Co-Founder)
Leonard Dorlöchter (Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder)