HTML5 - the language of structuring and displaying content on the Internet. Initially, his goals were to improve the support of multimedia technologies, maintain backward compatibility, convenient presentation on different types of devices and much more.
Some time ago, he was hammering with the popular Flash and eventually defeated him. Nevertheless, for a number of fronts, the shortcomings of HTML5 have not yet been eliminated. Perhaps, the block-platform Egretia will be able to cope with them.
What it is?
Generally speaking, Egretia is not only a block-based platform in the sense of a distributed database and service (more precisely, the marketplace of games and applications), but also a framework, that is, a set of development tools.
It all began with the appearance in July 2015 in Beijing of Egret Technology.
She tried to create an ideal platform for developers of mobile games and applications, and eventually released a dozen products in this area.
For example, Egret Engine is an open source engine for game authors. In the Chinese market, its share exceeded 70%. Based on the Egret Engine, the Beijing team produced Egret Gaming Solution - a working space (toolbox) for developing mobile content on HTML5.
The ideas of Egret Technology have borne fruit, otherwise its products would not have subdued the PRC. With the development of crypto-currency technologies, the owners of the company decided to bring another powerful argument in favor of HTML5 - in fact, the block.
To this end, in 2017 they founded Egretia Foundation Ltd (based in Singapore) - a firm to promote the project on the ICO. The search for points of contact between HTML5 and the blockbuster was taken up by Egretia Blockchain Lab.
As for the people involved in Egretia, it is enough to say the following - all these are former or current specialists of Microsoft, Adobe, Qualcomm, Electronic Arts and other technological "bison".
For example, Peter Huang (founder of Egret Technology and a member of Egretia Blockchain Lab) collaborated with Adobe Systems for more than four years, and Dirk Mayer (co-founder of Egretia) has been with Adobe since the late 1990s, where he moved from an engineer to a top manager.
How it works?
Egretia enters the market very timely. At the moment, interactive video is in full use in online (I will name the same online stores) - it's time to make HTML5 simple and accessible. The outlook for HTML5 in the video and the Internet is immense.
The platform Egretia will combine various products: marketplace for sale applications, the engine for their development, promotional tools for promoting software, an incubator, a place to trade in-game items and store them.
The developer who joined Egretia will have at his disposal convenient tools for creating games (they will become a specialization of the platform), marketing and sales.
Here are the main advantages of Egretia:
secure payment platform (no risks with a credit card). Naturally, international;
preventing the use of "cheats", etc. tricks in games (Egretia - for fair gameplay);
protection of intellectual property rights;
the motivation of developers to prepare high-quality applications (since the complexity of handling HTML5 will remain in the past);
secure storage of user-defined virtual assets - for example, items obtained in games. Do not worry that your game progress will someday be suddenly dropped.
In general, Egretia resembles the Russian-Singapore start-up VRT World. Both companies build a block-marketplace (with a concept in the spirit of the Steam online store), only VRT World focuses on VR applications, and in the focus of Egretia, HTML5 applications.
How does Egretia work?
View from the developer's bell tower:
registering in the system;
You get access to a simple SDK, which allows you to quickly create a game;
publish the application and get a profit in the Egreten tokens;
There are additional services such as promotion of the product or raising funds through the incubator.
A look through the eyes of a simple user:
registering on the platform and acquiring a unique ID;
now for access to a heap of mobile / social / browser, etc. games do not need to enter the registration data every time, since they all tie to a single profile;
You can pay only to Egreten tokens, regardless of the country in which the software is released;
Accounts of users are reliably protected thanks to a blocker;
in the framework of Egretia it is easy to make friends and change with them in-game items (or put them on sale, as in the mentioned Steam);
for participation in crowdaming campaigns in support of prospective projects, the platform owners will reward you with Egreten coins.
Why is it worth investing in Egretia?
The "road map" of the Egretia team looks like this (nobody intends to sit idly by):
Q2 2018: testing development tools, blocking and smart contracts. The consensus algorithm used is DPoS, that is, the delegated share confirmation.
III quarter - the release of the first wave of games and applications on the blockbuster Egretia.
IV quarter - release of the alpha version of SDK (development tools kit) within the framework of the Egretia blockbuster.
I quarter of 2019 - the release of a digital user's wallet.
II quarter - release of the Egretia Game Platform on the blockbuster.
III quarter - launch within the framework of Egretia platform for trade in-game items.
IV quarter - presentation of promotional tools for software promotion.
Finally, in 2020, Egretia will receive the support of popular blockers (EOS, Ethereum, etc.) and leave behind the "alpha" and "beta" phases.
Egretia wants at all times to die in the digital future, combining blockbuster, HTML5 and games.
The potential of such a hybrid is very, very money. The presence of extremely successful products in the portfolio of the creators of Egretia indicates that with sufficient financing they will be able to bring their ambitious offspring to the release.
In January 2018, Tencent, the giant of China's Internet sector, released several mini-games for WeChat service - some of them were visited by more than 100 million users every day.
Egret Technology not without reason calls itself one of the leaders of the industry HTML5.
Together with Egretia, the company aims to attract 200,000 developers and 1 billion customers to the blockbuster platform.
ICO Details
Ticker: EGT (ERC20)
Total tokens: 8,000,000,000 Egreten
Price of the Token: 1 EGT = 0.0097 $ (0.00001 ETH)
Tokens available on ICO: up to 39%
Founders: 27%
On marketing and business partners: 14%
Team and advisers: 20%
Software: 10,000 ETH
Hardcap: 35,000 ETH
Minimum / Maximum amount of investment: 0.1 ETH / 3 ETH
Whitelist, KYC: Yes
The project team
Conclusion
Personally, I believe that Egretia will "shoot."
First, startups rightly point to the cross-platform nature of HTML5 technology (the ability to use in games, advertising, video, etc.).
Secondly, the strategic partners of Egretia are Google and Facebook, which, of course, support the promotion of HTML5.
Thirdly, now the share of HTML5-games on the mobile market is 47% - impressive, is not it?
And fourthly, this is an extremely profitable area - the volume of the HTML5-games market in China alone last year exceeded 10 billion yuan ($ 1.58 billion), and the start-up market opportunities in the international market are estimated at $ 100 billion.
Well, plus an impressive team, a working product, powerful advisers and partners.
References
Official website: http://egretia.io/
Whitepaper: http://egretia.io/static/Egretia_White_Paper_V1.0.pdf
Blog: http://blog.egretia.io/
Bitcointalk ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3317184
Telegram: https://t.me/Egretia
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Egretia.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Egretia_io
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/egretia/
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Egretia/