When we speak about the changes blockchain brings we usually mention the removing of the intermediaries from all spheres of social life. The middlemen make us wait longer, pay more, and control less. We depend on the conditions they set, on their ethics, on their skills, on the possible mistakes they can make, on their readiness to do the service well, and so on. In the pre-Internet era, middlemen were quite useful in some spheres of our lives (e.g. postal service, or shops), but now many things can be done online, — sometimes it's really easier to send abroad a large amount of money via Bitcoin to your partner from the other country than to prove to your bank that you are you and the money you send are not stolen. Looks nice, but where's the revolution? We all know that Bitcoin transactions are slow, the wallet addresses are cumbersome, the fees are not significantly low, and the adoption of the blockchain solutions is always something rather hypothetical than real. Does blockchain have a real potential to change our lives to better in the nearest time and where should we look at? There are already many good projects, and today we'll speak about EOSIO — a new fully operational blockchain ecosystem.
What is EOSIO?
EOSIO is a blockchain platform powered by EOS tokens. EOSIO delivers dApps hosting, RAM trading, resource renting and distribution, serves as an operating system, emulates all the computing attributes, and operates smart contracts.
EOSIO utilizes the delegated proof of stake consensus type and boasts almost infinite scalability and zero fees. The EOS Block Producers system gives an opportunity to the best and the most trusted companies to participate in voting on the further development of the EOS platform. EOSphere is one of the candidates.
EOSphere
EOSphere is a wide friendly community and the platform for the development of diverse products. Partners of EOSphere get access to the EOSphere social media tools and keep the community informed of all news, updates, and events.
EOSphere provides partners with necessary CPU and Network bandwidth via staking so the contracts are running smoothly. Two data centers deliver compute and software infrastructure to the EOSphere partners.
EOSphere is interested in keeping the community satisfied and the community is happy to give back. The platform partners with developers of the projects that benefit the community, so EOSphere will do the best to raise donations for promising and useful dApps.
Moreover, the platform is ready to assist in many ways including the participation in the project and administrate the community channel. EOSphere Dev is here for consulting, development advice, and any kinds of help with the software.
The Earliest Partners of EOSphere
This project is aimed to change the world of music distribution and help artists to get paid for their music primarily from the audience as the mediation of streaming services and music labels are costly and not always this expenses can be called justified. Of course, the labels and other organizations will be able to continue their activity but they will receive the payments matching their contribution.
Emanate is going to make the music industry transparent (at last). They build a self-regulated decentralized EOSDac-based platform that is supposed to represent the interests of all parties in the music industry.
Emanate approach to work on the product met the perspective of EOSphere and companies became partners. Block.one (the developer of EOSIO) showcased Emanate's dApp on Blockchain Live in London 2018 and the year, in general, appeared to be successful for Emanate.
According to the Emanate roadmap this year the company is starting Live Alpha phase. You can figure out what Emanate is via the Live Demo environment. The presale of the Emanate tokens (EMT) is already announced.
The access to the network or CPU power on EOS is associated with staking of EOS tokens. Chintai platform is an important tool for removing of the constraint in the time of mainnet launch.
Chintai provides the constant work of the business in need of the extra EOS resource and delivers the return on your staked coins. Version 2.0 is already available.
RMIT University Blockchain Innovation Hub
The core of this platform is a group of the Melbourne researchers mapping the future development of the blockchain economy, law, politics, and so on. They are aimed to find the best ways for cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects to become adopted globally and define all possible economic, political, social and other challenges. Thanks to EOSphere the RMIT group was integrated into the EOSIO community.
Currently, RMIT is responsible for writing articles and providing the courses on the blockchain economy and the cryptofinance and cryptocurrencies.
The name of the project means the "bird-oid" which is a bird flock simulator where the nearby "boids" interact with each other depending on the simple rules. This interaction creates a meta-pattern. The BOID platform works a similar way utilizing the computing power of participants of the platform. So BOID gains a powerful computing power consisting of the small individual contributions.
EOSphere used BOID platform to create EOSphere team which can be used for renting out your computing power in exchange on BOID tokens.
This game is created by 0xGames, and it's the first game they have made for EOSIO. It is an RPG battler currently in its BETA phase. 0xGames are aimed to deliver 0xWarriors to App Store. The game supports tournaments, the weapon trade, and many other features.
Conclusion
These five projects are just several partners of EOSphere, the first ones who started the collaboration. We can see that the functionality is diverse and there are no limitations for EOSphere. They work with the companies they like and find creative. Something they would like to share with the community regardless of the nature of the service — whether its a scientific research or entertainment. People need both.