EOS.pacific is pleased to officially announce our candidacy to be elected as an EOS block producer. We build both local and global communities for EOS developers who have interests to promote their products in Asia-Pacific regions. We provide Asia-Pacific access and one-stop solutions for global developers. EOS.pacific-Asia and Pacific, EOS and GO!! Let’s play the Decentralized Symphony of EOS Power!
EOS.pacific is powered by Node.pacific, a company promoting blockchain technology.
1. Public Presence:
Official Website: http://www.nodepacific.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eos_pacific
Steemit: https://steemit.com/@eos.pacific
Medium: https://medium.com/@eos.pacific
Telegram: @EOSPacific
2. ID Information
A) Official Block Producer Candidate Name: EOS.pacific
B) Location of Company Headquarters: Hong Kong, China, and USA
C) Expected Location of Serves: Hong Kong, Singapore, China
D) Type of Servers: Cloud service
E) Team and Background:
has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years, previously working with Goldman Sachs as a proprietary trader and China Investment Corporation (CIC) as Head of Trading. He later founded Sinolink Securities (HK). Since 2016, He headed China team of HKEX group which designed and implemented stock connects, bond connects and various products and services. Gao Han obtained his BS degree from Tsinghua University, and Master’s in Statistics & Ph.D. in Computer Science (parallel and distributed computing) from the University of Chicago.
web team leader of personal network disk in Alibaba, who was involved in Moody's credit rating system and core development of the Thunder network membership system, has ten years of website product architecture and development & management experiences in business model combing, system development, implementation and equity financing, etc. At present he focuses on Fintech, as well as the consulting, technology, investment and financing services in the area of blockchain finance.
LLM, University of California at Berkeley, has managed many investment funds and has many years of experience in Mainland China and Hong Kong capital market, including but not limited to backdoor listing, convertible bond issuance and reorganization, large-scale mergers and acquisitions.
obtained his bachelor degree from Hydraulic Engineering department of Tsinghua University in 2005 and Ph.D. from Civil Engineering department of Virginia Tech in 2011. His research focused on high-performance computation and simulation. Then he worked in multiple disciplines of energy industry for 7 years and started his own offshore engineering consultant company before joining NodePacific. Now his enthusiasm is focusing on block chain technology and application in North America energy sector. He is also serving as the president of Houston Tsinghua Alumni Association.
obtained Bachelor of Science degrees in both Geophysics and Mathematics from Peking University in 2007. His practice includes a broad range of business transactions in the areas of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, project development and finance, and blockchain. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Geophysics and Applied Mathematics from Purdue University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from University of Houston Law Center.
has nine years of development experiences in mobile technology and Internet of Things, previously worked with first-tier technology companies such as Meizu, Allwinner, etc. Elliot currently focuses on research in smart contract, governable blockchain, and construction of ecosystem for development of EOS DApps.
graduated from Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, blockchain enthusiast, has unique insights on blockchain field. As an independent self-media, Garry runs an official account about blockchain and has tens of thousands of followers. He has also organized several high-quality discussion groups.
director of design and operations, has rich experiences of rigorous innovation and profound understanding of the Internet industry. He cooperates with clients from different industries, constantly offers good user experience design and generates new value. He is well-experienced in Internet design and community operations.
3. Estimation of the technical specifications and expenditure by June 3, 2018 (Test Node)：
Period: before June 3, 2018
CPU: 8-core
RAM: 32GB
Storage: 512GB
Budget: $470 per month
Note: The testnet node will continue running for beta testing of the coming new version of the EOSIO system, after launch of mainnet.
4. Estimated scaling plan for hardware after June 3, 2018
The specifications listed below are our estimations made in May 2018, based on our best efforts. The real figures might be different from these estimations subject to the availability and the market price.
First of all, EOS.pacific would like to highlight our three core safety measurements:
- A) We will have a professional operation team to manage and maintain the server.
- B) EOS.pacific will also hire third party to have safety audits of the server.
- C) We will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) Shield for DDoS attack and adjust “load balance” and extend the capacity of AWS Shield, according to the threat to the server.
We will be following up with the plan made by EOS community once EOSIO initiates the IPFS layer. We will deploy enough bandwidth and storage for IPFS node and respond quickly for the request from global locations. Also, we will delete certain inappropriate contents following the requirements and guidelines from EOS community in a timely manner.
We are implementing the scaling plan in two phases. In Phase 1 we will deploy the node with Amazon Web Services. The server will be based in Singapore. We might consider other geographical or jurisdictional choices in case of unexpected catastrophic events happen in the regions. In Phase 2, we will scale up the server capacity according to the usage of EOS.
Phase 1
When launch of mainnet, we will deploy BP nodes on AWS. We will leverage AWS’s reliable services and flexible extensions, to provide one of the best servers available in the world, for developers running DApps on EOS.
In Phase 1, our Block Producer Node will include one primary machine and one backup machine. The configurations of both our primary and backup machines are the same:
Amazon Web Services Cloud Machine:
CPU: AWS EC2 r4.8xlarge, 32-core
RAM: 244GB
Storage: 1TB SSD
Cost: $4,262.20 per month (AWS Shield for DDoS attack or other features NOT included)
Phase 2
After launch of mainnet, we will continue monitoring the capacity of our nodes and scale up our capacity in advance. EOS.pacific might consider multiple locations of servers to enhance node stability. Depending on future EOS traffics, we might also consider implementing docker cluster based on k8s.
5.Community Benefit Project Outline
5.1 Partners and Representatives for our global EOS communities
We will set up partners and representatives to be the champions building local communities in global cities. They will play an important role in organizing events to help EOS communities connect the resources with each other and with us.
5.2 Offline EOS Meetups globally
We will host offline meetup events in global cities. We have plans to expand our footprints in G20 countries within a year. We have two upcoming offline events in Hong Kong and Houston by the end of May.
5.3 Communities for Bankers, Lawyers and other professionals
We build EOS communities for professionals and experts to promote the concepts and technology of EOS to them. They will be able to help EOS communities to develop useful skill sets to make meaningful applications.
5.4 Communities for Institutions and Corporates
We build EOS communities for institutions and corporates. This would be a useful resource for EOS developers to find a solution for a real business case.
5.5 Training and Educations
We will provide blockchain and EOS training and educations to the communities.
5.6 Asian Access
In our team, we have specialists ready for those developers who have interests in Asia-Pacific market. They are professional and understand Asia with solid experiences in blockchain implementation.
5.7 One-stop Solutions
We have developers who are able to help and provide one-stop solutions.
6. TELEGRAM+TESTNET
Testnet ip: 23.100.91.242
Port: 8888
Contact Telegram: @DevEOSpacific
7. Roadmap
The roadmap below is indicative only. The real execution will be subject to the market, block producer elections, resource availability and other considerations.
March 2018 - Assembled a team with EOS / Blockchain knowledge and the ability to access Asia-Pacific market, also a team who understands professional industries like bankers and lawyers.
- April 2018 – Prepared the first round of resources necessary to run an EOS node
- May 2018 – EOS.pacific founded
- May 2018 – EOS.pacific announced officially for the candidacy to be an EOS block producer.
- May 2018 – First offline event in Hong Kong.
- May 2018 – First offline event in USA.
- May 2018 – Kick off the communities
- May 2018 – Test node will be done
- June 2018 – Main node will be done
- June ~ Oct 2018 – EOS Wallet will be developed
- June ~ Dec 2018 – Will support EOS circulation
- July 2018 – Will support EOS Airdrop SDK
- Aug 2018 – First round of sponsorships
- Sep 2018 – Will have communities in Europe
- Oct 2018 – Will build communities in South East Asia and China
- Nov 2018 – Will build communities in North America
- Nov 2018 – Second round of the sponsorships
- Dec 2018 – Will build communities in Australia
- 2019 – Will develop tools on EOS to support smart contract.
8. Our stance on“Vote Buying”
We do not support the actions so called “vote buying”. A block producer should earn the qualification, not buy it. We believe that any of these “vote buying” actions will eventually cause damage to the EOS therefore we will not accept the “vote buying”.