Why you should join Round-0 and Testnet of Desmos

Terence Lam
Forbole
Published in
2 min readJul 15, 2020

Forbole has a special market position in blockchain space as we are wearing three hats:
- PoS validator
- Block explorer (Big Dipper)
- Desmos (a sovereign chain for social networks)

Working on multiple fronts seems crazy for a startup. But this is the model that has kept us moving forward. This is especially true during the global pandemic and political turmoil: we have doubled our team in the past 6 months without VC’s funding.

We are speeding up the development of Desmos. We think relying on VCs too much in early stage will lead to centralization which is difficult to be rectified later. So we want to rely on contributors in this space to become our early supporters as this helps us to build a great project. That’s why we call it “Round-0”. I explained further in this post.

✅ Please read our deck
✅ Please read this more detailed introduction
✅ Please register for Round-0

If you are validator, please also join the Phase 5 of Desmos Primer. We provide large reward for validator even during this testnet stage such that we can have a healthier distribution of DSM when we launch our mainnet.

Guideline to join Phase 5
Validators chat

If you cannot help in the above ways, you can help us by referring one friend to us who you think may be interested in Desmos. You may also retweet this Tweet. Don’t estimate these efforts!

Cosmos needs more projects which have their own specialties, use cases and target audience. We will focus more on providing some alternatives of token economic design, social networks and communications, digital advertising and Southeast Asia.

Please support Desmos now because if not you, then who? If not now, then when?

I have to keep telling you about Desmos as we don’t rely on VC’s money to do paid advertising. Your personal support and world-of-mouth are very important to us in this stage. Thank you!

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