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BloXroute — is a project developed by network and blockchain experts from Cornell Institute and Northwestern University with the only goal in mind — to solve the scalability issue for all blockchains.
ECONOMIC MODEL
- Currency: TBA
- Total Tokens: TBA
- Tokens for Sale: TBA
- Token Price: ТВА
- ICO Target: TBA
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- Tokens Distribution: TBA
BLXR is a first ever crypto index, which distributes between their owners all fees associated with different cryptocurrency convertors, which implement and use bloXroute BDN advantages.
INVESTORS
MetaStable Capital is one of the biggest venture funds that managed to participate in almost all TOP projects this year, such as StarkWare Industries, Coda Protocol, Kadena, Orchid Labs and Basis. One of the Co-Founders is Naval Ravikant, more details to be provided below. This fund participates in projects only at the seed stage.
Flybridge Capital Partners is a venture fund which invests in startups as well as blockchain projects at the seed stage. The fund manages over US$ 650,000,000.
There are 25 employees registered in LinkedIn and 2,145 followers. It was founded in 2002 with HQ located in Boston (USA).
1c — 1confirmation is a venture fund located in Silicon Valley. It was founded by Nick Tomaino who used to work as a Business Developer at Coinbase. The fund was established in 2017. There are 2 employees registered in LinkedIn and 107 followers. The fund is focused on seed-stage investments. As of today they’ve invested in the following projects: Marker DAO, Harbor, dYdX, Basis, Open Sea.
The Investors pool consists of quite reputable venture funds, which tells that the project is definitely worth looking at.
PARTNERS | ROADMAP | GITHUB
As of today there is no information available.
SIMILAR PROJECTS
WP (TECHNICAL PAPER)
BloXroute is a new network abstraction layer to enhance blockchain scalability.
The major problem for the current implementation of blockchain projects is scalability, which is limited by the existent P2P propagation model. To resolve this issue bloXroute developers propose their neutral, scalable and auditable decentralized blockchain distribution network.
The BDN operates on four main principles:
- Keep data in memory (it is faster to retrieve data from memory than from disk).
- Keep strong network infrastructure (gigabyte blocks).
- Have locations all around the world to facilitate faster look up.
- Have fast routing tables to quickly find the fastest and the closest location and provide the data.
EXPERT’S REMARKS
«They want to develop decentralised «highways» for blockchains and other distributed systems. Faster delivery of batches at the expense of more efficient propagation of new blocks in the network, will allow more efficient blockchains.
ADVANTAGES
- In high demand: Bitcoin miners use such «highways’ to increase revenue.
- Availability of previous experience: some team members developed similar project for Bitcoin (Falcon).
- In high demand not only for blockchains: any distributed systems will benefit from faster blocks delivery and fast delivery network charging a modest fee will help any startup operating in this area.
DISADVANTAGES
- Discouraging marketing: their major point is «to increase the throughput of existent blockchains in 1000 times», which is actually «we try to develop a network that can make a Bitcoin-like currency 1,000 times faster than Bitcoin», which is definitely not the same.
- In-built security, first of all, it is not that safe, secondly, at a rough estimate, it reduces the network throughput at least 1,5 times in comparison to similar network without any securities. It means that hardforks, which ensure safety via a different way (e.g. via the administrative centralized way) will be more competitive.
WP is rather elaborate, but there is a lot of excessive information. However, it is worth noticing, that the main concepts of the project implementation are explained in full. In addition, beware of hardforks!»
TEAM
Emin Gun Sirer — Chief Scientist. There are 6,772 followers in LinkedIn. FB.
Education: In 1989–1983 he obtained a B.S. of Computer Science at Princeton University, 1993–2000 he obtained a PhD in the same program from the University of Washington.
Work experience: Since January 2001 he worked as an Associate Professor and then a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Cornell University is a private Ivy League university and the land-grant university for the New York State. Its mission is to discover, preserve and disseminate knowledge, to educate the next generation of global citizens, and to promote a culture of broad inquiry throughout and beyond the Cornell community.
Emin is rather well-known personality in blockchain community, there is a lot of his videos lectures on youtube and many interviews on blockchain and cryptocurrency topics.
He even has his own page in Wiki.
And his blog at http://hackingdistributed.com He keeps close ties with Buterin and Zamfir (FB photos). There is no information in LinkedIn on his connection to the project yet.
Uri Klarman — CEO, he is an interdisciplinary network researcher with a passion for blockchain. There are 1,070 followers in LinkedIn.
Education: In 2007–2010 he obtained a B.S. of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center (a private institute of higher education in Herzliya, Israel).
In 2014–2019 he got his M.S. and then PhD of Computer Science from Northwestern Chicago University.
Work experience: From February 2008 through June 2012 he worked in his occupation in Israeli companies, then he obtained his PhD, later since 2017 he joined bloXroute Labs.
Uri is an interdisciplinary networks researcher, and his work encompasses innovative uses of Computer Networks, disruptive blockchain networking schemes, alternative content distribution networks, trustless peer coordination, and security.
He is skilled at computer algorithms, computer networks and cryptocurrencies. In his LinkedIn profile picture there is bloXroute Labs logo with a script: Ahh, we solved scalability problem.
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic — is a Chief Architect and a Co-Founder of bloXroute Labs — computer networks with an emphasis on design, measurement, analysis, denial-of-service resiliency, content distribution, and prototype implementation of protocols and algorithms for the Internet, including blockchain. There are 500+ followers in LinkedIn.
Education: In 1999–2004 he studied in the private Rice University in Houston (USA). Since 2005 he studied, obtained his PhD and joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University (Chicago) as a Full Professor.
Work experience: As referred to above: he is a Full Professor at Northwestern University (Chicago).
Prior to it he was a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist in Nanjee (no link is available, the profile of the company is unknown). Since June 2017 he is a bloxRoute Co-Founder.
Soumya Basu — CTO. There are 323 followers in LinkedIn.
Education: Since 2012 — till 2015 he studied in the prestigious Berkely University (California).
In 2015–2021 he works on development and defense of his PhD paper in Cornell University. The subject is not indicated, but evidently, based on the web-site and skills, it might be Computer Science.
He was an Intern in Microsoft and VMware.
He has his own web-site at: www.soumyabasu.com
He is a certified Python, Java, C++ web programmer.
Jeffrey Bussgang — BoD Member (wow)
There are 10,378 followers in LinkedIn.
Education: Since 1987 года he obtained a B.S. in Computer Science from Harvard University, then an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Work experience: He is a Lecturer / Professor in Harvard Business School since 2012, since January 2018 he is listed as a BoD member in bloXroute Labs.
In addition, since January 2003 he is a Co-Founder and a General Partner in investment company Flybridge Capital Partners (which invests in startups at an early stage, was founded in New York and Boston, focused its attention on a series of investments in technological companies. Since their establishment four funds manage over US$ 600,000,000.
The company portfolio includes Codecademy, Crashlytics, DataXu, Jibo, MongoDB and NS1.
And since June 2016 he is a Founder and a Managing Partner of a micro-seed fund The Graduate Syndicate that invests in startups co-founded by recent Harvard graduates, such as: Amartha, Analytical Space, Boundless, Camino Financial, Climacell, Digital Outposts, Fitzroy Toys, Funding Societies, Getaway, LovePop, Osmosis, RocketVisor and Skillist.
Eyal Markovich — COO. There are 976 followers in LinkedIn.
Education: He studied in Tel Aviv University in 1989–1992.
Work experience: After the graduation he worked as a web developer for 9 years, then a Chief Web Developer at Symantec and a President at Total APM Corporation. All companies are associated with the development of cloud data storages.
Then he held various managerial positions in Kaminario.
About Kaminario: Kaminario makes the autonomous datacenter a reality, letting customers stay focused on scaling their business. Their composable data platform ensures agility, scalability, efficiency and cost efficiency, helping organizations to stay competitive in a cloud world. Real-time analytics, datacenter automation and assured data access enable Kaminario customers manage their mission critical applications and safeguard their digital ecosystem.
In February 2018 he founded his own company Storage Council and joined bloXroute as a COO.
Ahmed Hentati listed in the team as an Angel Investor. The project is indicated in his profile. There are 1,226 followers in LinkedIn.
He obtained a B.S. in Finance and Mathematics at Bentley University, and in 2014 he got a degree in Venture Investment in Haas School of Business of Berkeley University (California).
Initially he worked as an Analytics in finance organizations associated with venture investment, then invested independently in several companies.
Yan Pritzker — Infrastructure Consultant. There are 1,033 followers in LinkedIn.
Education: In 2004 he graduated from Illinois University with a degree in Computer Science.
Work experience: He worked as a Web Developer and Chief Web Developer in many companies, he even managed to work at IBM.
During 5 years he was with Reverb.com. Initially he helped and later ran a technical development of Reverb.com. He developed the initial code for Rails and cloud-based architecture, hired a top-level development team, managed external developers and advisors for the creation of mobile applications and API integration, helped with the increase of traffic and supported around US$ 400,000,000 growth in sales. He developed a cloud infrastructure team and implemented best practices in scalability and security in AWS.
Now he is a Consultant and an Advisor to three projects, including bloXroute.
Josh Hibschman — Software Development Engineer. There are 500+ follwers in LinkedIn.
Education: He got his bachelor’s degree in Taylor University, an M.S. in DePaul University and a PhD in Computer Science in Northwestern University in Illinois in 2017.
Work experience: he worked as a software developer in different American companies, in 2016 he was an Intern at Google, in 2017 he joined the research lab at his university, and since April 2018 he is listed in bloXroute.
He has 4 publications in his subject matter.
It is evident that the team is a TOP-level. All team members have good academic background and sufficiently skilled in their subjects. I want to note Emin Gun Sirer, the Main Scientific Developer of the project, as he is a very famous and a reputable personality in the blockchain community. His participation in this project tells of its level and promises its successful implementation!
ADVISORS
Naval Ravikant
His FB page tells that he was conversant with the Bitcoin already in 2014. There are 5,733 subscribers, information about friends is hidden. There is a LinkedIn profile w/t a pic with the same address. There are 500+ followers in LinkedIn.
He obtained a degree in Computer Science and Economics in remote 90-s. After graduation Naval worked with venture investments.
In 2005 he founded Vast.com working with datacenter and AI. There are 174 employees in the company, he is also a CEO of Vast.com
Since 2007 he is a Founder and a Managing Partner of Hit Forge startup investment fund.
He has his own blog at: https://startupboy.com/
And the most important thing about him, as mentioned earlier: he is a Co-Founder of Meta Stable, as well as a resource founder!!! AngelList (https://angel.co/) listing all TOP Angel/Investors. He invests only in TOP-level blockchain projects and startups at pre-seed/seed stages.
Injong Rhee
There are 6,860 followers in LinkedIn.
In 1994 he obtained a PhD in Computer Science in North Carolina State University. He stayed with them as a Professor teaching Computer Science.
Since 2011 he held managerial positions in Samsung, now at Google.
He won an GSMA Samsung KNOX award for the Workspace Best Security/Anti-Fraud Product in 2015.
Bruce Maggs
There are 494 followers in LinkedIn.
He studied and obtained a PhD in Computer Science in Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Since 1994 he was a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in 2009 he left to teach Computer Security in Duke University.
Since August 1998 he is a Vice-President for R&D at Akamai Technologies, employing 7,000 people.
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Sarit Markovich is a Professor of Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. There are 1,057 followers in LinkedIn.
The profile is almost empty, it was only possible to identify that Sarit is skilled in Strategic Planning, Research and has a weakness for technological startups.
He FB profile at: https://www.facebook.com/sarit.markovich.5 show that she likes pasta and is married to Eyal Markovich, from bloXroute team.
Advisors — TOP!
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
The project is at the early stage of development: the only information is available at the web-site and Twitter. However even as of today we may say that the team plans to solve one of the most acute blockchain problem — scalability! It is supported by a reasonable WP, skilled and well-educated team, strong investors and TOP advisors.
Red Flags: as of today we may point out the absence of GitHub, metrics and project partners (though all these may be attributable to the early stage of the project implementation). In addition, despite WP advantages, it is not good that there is too much irrelevant information.
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