What Is Hyperion?

Hyperion, as the largest decentralized map ecosystem in the globe, aims to provide One Map solution via decentralized technology, including map search, location share, and navigation, etc.

One Map offers trusted, secure and efficient decentralized map service driven by spatial consensus. The coherent and organic design of technology and social-economic structure will benefit users through crowd-built, crowd-share, and crowd-govern.

Hyperion launched three map products based on the core value of “aggressively open” and “decentralized” — Map3, Titan and Atlas Chain. Map3 is the first decentralized map service network, 2B; Titan is the first decentralized privacy map, and Atlas chain is decentralized spatial protocol which supports both 2B and 2C world-scale map services on blockchain.

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Hyperion Technology and core service

Map3

Map3 is the first global decentralized service network that supports Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPs). Similar to bitcoin off-chain lightning network, Map3 distributes diversified global map data to business users with high efficiency through open-source service ecology based on decentralized map service protocol.

Map3 adopts strong cryptographic primitive to support map data encryption, in order to secures user privacy from centralized third-party platforms.

Map3 is composed of core and edge network. While core network offers reliable source of data, edge network distributes data effectively. Edge nodes are located in edge network, which can be joined via home computers and idle broadband resources. Currently users can deploy edge nodes via AWS (global users) and Aliyun (Chinese users). Core nodes are located in core network, which ensures highly trusted and secure source of data. In future, core nodes can distribute private or public map data, standardize data value, and gain profits in HYN.

Map3 network offers basic map data for free. With increased data layer service and participation of business users, Map3 will charge value-added service. Thus, both node users and map layer contributors will earn profits on HYN deposits. Increased nodes extend the service scale with more efficiency and high-quality data service. HYN deposit also prevents infringement to the network.

Titan

Titan is the first consumer-facing decentralized privacy map app based on cryptographic technology, as a demonstration of Map3 network., Titan offers map location search, share and navigation functions, similar to Google and Baidu map.

Titan advantages in ultra-privacy protection through four features — cryptographic location share (use secure public key identity), encrypted navigation, burn-up history, and offline map.

Users can access accurate location and navigation service and enjoy secure and efficient location service without having to provide personal information,

Map data will be enriched as more contributors add map data layers. Diversified map data will be used in various scenarios, such as hiking, overseas navigation, and privation location exploration, etc.

In future, Titan users will join Map3 network as edge nodes through federated learning, and earn profits on HYN deposits.

Atlas Chain

Atlas is a high-performance spatial consensus blockchain that supports world-scale map service based on Elastic Spatial Sharding. It aims to solve spatial service requirements such as map asset transactions and validation, with special features such as censorship resistance, open participation and fault-tolerance. Atlas will empower Hyperion to build decentralized global map economy that serves 10 billion users when built.

Atlas will improve in scalability, low-latency, low-cost, privacy-preservation, extensibility, and interoperability when built, to satisfy the world-scale location requests. When MainNet launched, users will join Map3 as Atlas nodes to improve the security and performance of blockchain network, with economic rewards in HYN. Rewarding details is yet to be confirmed, but will be closely linked with edge and core nodes community.

Vision in future

After the upgrade to Map3 2.0, Hyperion team is optimizing Map3 network and Titan privacy map, while exploring more practical and attractive map scenarios. We welcome more users to join decentralized map community and contribute through building map technology, and governing location information, while obtaining sustainable economic rewards.

Main Net is expected to be launched in Dec 2020, by then nodes community will grow quickly to serve the world better and secure. We need your support to go further.