The Second IOST Nodes Ecosystem Conference | IOST Mainnet Launch Countdown: 3 Days!

Community Self-Governance through Proof-of-Believability and Community Voting

IOST will soon be the fourth most usable public chain platform beyond Ethereum, EOS and Tron. By virtue of our Proof-of-Believability (PoB)mechanism, IOST will also become the most scalable and decentralized non-DPoS public blockchain available for users and developers.

Our PoB-based mechanism creates a positive and equitable system that motivate more users to get involved in IOST community self-governance. This outcome is also what Node Partners are pursuing and the true spirit of blockchain technology.

Therefore, IOST fully support IOST community members to exercise their rights on community governance: we will motivate community members to give us your valuable feedback and plans on IOST’s future development.

The IOST Core Arbitration Community (ICAC) initiated by IOST Pacific hopes to open a new chapter in IOST community governance. As a third-party IOST core governance community, ICAC is responsible for the education and training on community governance.

ICAC does not have any arbitration function and does not participate in governance implementation. All community members, whether you are a node or an individual, can participate in IOST ecosystem governance.

At present, ICAC has organized a number of online meetings with global Node Partners and community members totaling over 500 enthusiastic participants.

IOST Partners Ecosystem Building Conference Successfully Held by ICAC

At 10:00 Eastern Standard Time on February 21st, ICAC held the second IOST Partners Ecosystem Building Conference. The purpose of this series of meetings is to bring our Global Node Partners together to discuss equitable rewards distribution rules, share their business plans for the IOST ecosystem, and to draw inspiration and closer collaborations betweeen our Partners. IOST will decide how to distribute contribution rewards and make them available to the community after a comprehensive consultation with the Node Partners.

We hope that more Nodes Partners and community members can participate in the formulation of the distribution rules for contribution rewards based on the community consensus.

Over 70 Node Partners from around the world, including North America, South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, participated in the discussion. 26 Node Partners gave speeches sharing their commitment to the IOST ecosystem and how they plan to contribute to the growth of the IOST network.

The meeting was presided by Michael, the first Chairman of ICAC. In addition to over 70 Node Partners, Jimmy Zhong, CEO of IOST, and Ben Waters, Head of International Markets of IOST, also attended and gave their speeches.

Keynote by Jimmy Zhong, CEO of IOST

Jimmy expressed his appreciation for all Node Partners and community members present at the conference from around the world. Jimmy also announced the planned developments of IOST in the conference. Details are as follow:

• IOST Mainnet will launch on February 25th. Over a Live Stream of Twitter, Jimmy will release plans on DApps, stablecoins, decentralized exchanges(DEXs), block explorers, wallets and more.
• Token swap will start on March 10, and major exchanges are giving their support for the IOST token swap and community voting. Dapps, stablecoins, decentralized exchanges(DEXs), block browsers, and wallets will all be deployed on the same day, and ready for users to access publicly.
• On March 10, IOST will become the fourth most usable public chain platform beyond Ethereum, EOS and Tron. We welcome Partners, developers and users to join us in this fast-growing and inclusive ecosystem.
• Over 200 candidates from all over the world having joined IOST’s Global Partners Program, and nearly half of the candidates have reached the threshold of 2.1 million and officially became node partners.
• We encourage more community members passionate about the development of IOST’s network to apply to the IOST team to become nodes.
• The IOST team will continue to push towards our vision of 100M users and break into the global Top 20 projects by market value within 2019.

Within one month after the mainnet launch, IOST will fully deploy its ecosystem game plan, from games to content DApps, from B2C and B2B support, from stablecoins to decentralized exchanges, from block explorers to various wallets, from developers tools to a secret weapon that lowers the barrier of crypto adoption for users. Jimmy is highly confident and optimistic that IOST will give users, partners, enterprises and more a truly usable decentralized platform to interact on.

Keynote by Ben Waters, Head of International Markets of IOST

Ben is responsible for the development of IOST international markets outside China, Korea and Japan. Ben thanked ICAC for organizing this very meaningful meeting. “We are at the start of something truly special. We are pioneers of this nascent technology and are building the foundation for something that may shape the lives of future generations”, he said.

IOST will announce the preliminary contribution rewards program in the next few days, and they will further discuss it at the next ICAC meeting.

Speeches by Global Node Partners

1. Eversystem (Japan)

Partner Speech

By Takao Wada, Director of Eversystem: Eversystem is a Dapp developer company in Japan founded in 2017. Eversystem is currently developing a Dapp game “CryptoNinja” for IOST which is already released for Ethereum last year will launch the game right after the mainnet launch.

The game is a new type of Dapp and fully written in smart contract.

Before today, there are very few Dapp games in Japan. Recently, as more blockchain games get published, significant interest is rising from the game developer communities. It is important for Eversystem to develop games that are genuinely fun with innovative blockchain elements inside. Eversystems is focused on creating this type of next-gen gaming Dapps for gamers all over the world.

Community Contributions Made to Date

• Launching gaming Dapps on IOST.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Beside releasing more games, Eversystem will make a portal for indie Dapp game developers building on IOST that allow these developers to create and publish their games easier and faster.

2. Crypto Times (Japan)

Partner Speech

Crypto Times is a Japanese digital media publication focused on blockchain and crypto. Since the launch of Crypto Times, it has achieved 450,000 monthly page views within just six months. Crypto Times has covered a wide range of interviews of domestic and overseas crypto projects, research reports and tech contents. In addition to being a IOST media partner in Japan, Crypto Times also serves as a partner for overseas conferences, which gives Crypto Times significant global media exposure.

Community Contributions Made to Date

• As a media partner of IOST in Japan, Crypto Times will post founder interviews and IOST news in the shortest time to our audience.
• Crypto Times is actively sharing updates of IOST’s ecosystem activities and news releases to its audience daily.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Crypto Times will continue to actively promote and share about IOST in our publication and communities.
• In the future, Crypto Times may also start developing products built on the IOST blockchain.

3. Platinum Egg (Japan)

Partner Speech

Platinum Egg is operating a gaming Dapp - Crypto Derby. This is a horse racing game built on blockchain. You can sell, buy and breed your horses with other players, and earn money through various ways.

Crypto Derby is currently built on the Ethereum platform, but Crypto Derby is aiming to be a “Multi-Chain Blockchain game”. This means we will connect Crypto Derby to other blockchains include IOST.

Community Contributions Made to Date

• Platinum Egg will integrate Crypto Derby and its payment system to the IOST. Discussions are underway with IOST tech team and will be released soon.
• Crypto Derby is the 2nd largest blockchain game in Japan. Once Platinum Egg connect the game to IOST, Platinum Egg bring many cryptocurrency holders from Ethereum over to IOST.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Sell some special horses using IOST tokens, to attract players into buying IOST.
• Bring more ETH holders to become IOST holders.
• Develop more games on IOST and grow the number of IOST users.

4. 1 IOST (China)

Partner Speech

As a blockchain investor, I am very optimistic about IOST’s development. I have built 1iost.com to share various information about IOST to my friends and community, including newsletter, news videos and other information.

Community Contributions Made To Date

We originally released some pictures, GIF animations, and small videos, which we have shared to the IOST community, and later

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

1iost will continue to share and collect IOST information from all over the world, so that everyone who wish to learn more about IOST can easily find the information they need!

5. Cobo (China)

Partner Speech

Cobo is a global leading crypto wallet and institutional crypto assets management solution. Cobo has three product lines - Cobo Wallet, Cobo Vault and Cobo Custody which will all be integrated into the IOST ecosystem. As a leading wallet company, Cobo offers Staking-as-a-Service to its users, with experience in managing up to thousands of Supernodes across multiple chains. Cobo is confident that we will be an ideal candidate to become IOST Node Partner.

Community Contributions Made To Date

• Establish communities for IOST enthusiasts.
• Support IOST mainnet wallet in Cobo’s leading Wallet product.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Prioritize integrations and support for the IOST DApp ecosystem.
• Set up a fund for IOST community management, project incubation and development related products within Cobo.

6. IOST ChainTopic (China)

IOST ChainTopic community focus on public blockchain node operation. IOST ChainTopic is highly experienced in running nodes for multiple public blockchain projects, including EOS, HPB, LOOM,etc. ChainTopic provides highly cost effective outsourcing service for node operations.

Community Contributions Made To Date

• Introduced Berminal and Bermi apps to its communities.
• Design emojies and stickers for IOST.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Provide reliable node operations.
• Spread the news of IOST updates into its communities and promote the development of IOST’s ecosystem, with the shared vision of 100M users in the IOST network.

7. Link Node (China)

Link Node is an early investor in IOST, and has supported the project with capital and blockchain network resources since project inception to to encourage the healthy development of IOST. We believe in the long-term value of IOST and are committed long-term investors in the IOST token.

Community Contributions Made To Date

• We are actively participating in the promotion of IOST in node elections, spreading the word in our communities and also in offline events.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Provide quality post-investment management services including attracting top-tier developers to join the IOST ecosystem and developing partnership opportunities between IOST and our portfolio projects.
• Active participation in community activities and voting.

8. MXC Matcha Exchange (Singapore)

Partner Speech

MXC Matcha Exchange is a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange.

Community Contributions Made To Date

• Launched IOST/USDT trading pair with millions in IOST traded daily.
• Published articles on IOST and shared with their community.
• Hosted a series of trading competitions to attract traders to IOST.
• Committed participation in IOST and ICAC activities.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Organize trading competitions to give IOST more liquidity and prominence with investors.
• Community development for IOST.
• Media distribution and exposure on IOST to grow the IOST and MXC brand.
• Continued committed participation in IOST and community governance activities.

9 .Rasky (China)

Partner Speech

As a new entrant to the cryptocurrency circle, I align with IOST’s vision of a decentralized future. The team and the leaders are all from renowned universities, who are young, sophisticated and innovative. IOST was the first digital currency I bought and haven’t sold a single token to date, as I believe in its long-term fundamental value.

I stand with the IOST team on their core vision and will not waver in the face of short-term profits, however attractive. The IOST team is highly competent on a technical level, willing to risk on innovation and most importantly, have styed focused despite the huge changes in the markets in the past year. I’m looking foward to growing with the IOST team.

Community Contributions Made To Date

• I have built a website to promote IOST.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Continue to share the IOST vision with my friends and community!

10. YDapp (China)

YDapp is a Dapp player community, which was set up in February 2018. YDapp is an established player community with rich experience. YDapp community have thousands of players, and over 10 dapp influencer-players. YDapp have joined the distribution of many Dapp projects on Ethereum, EOS and Tron. YDapp is also the publisher of eosjoy (Snake). YDapp oversees a Dapp developer community, with two dapps from this community having already won prizes in TRON Accelerating Program.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Build IOST user community, and use various events such as airdrops to spark community involvement.
• Provide one-stop info portal for IOST Dapps and encourage more Dapps to build on IOST. We will help Dapps built on other chains, such as the two Dapps that won prizes at Tron’s event, to seamlessly migrate to IOST.
• Reduce the publishing cost for Dapp developers. Goal is to bring on at least five quality Dapp projects into the IOST ecosystem.

11. Huobi Pool (China)

Huobi Pool provides the IOST ecosystem with development and promotional resources. We hope to work with other Node Partners to build the future of IOST together. IOST is the future and foundation of decentralized online services, and we want to play an integral role in this success.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• When the mainnet launches and voting resumes, we will work together with Huobi Global to carry out campaigns and invest our resources to help all our users learn about IOST.
• Work closely with IOST and enhance the IOST staking rewards by also giving away HPT tokens.
• Develop a user-friendly IOST node voting platform, on which users can vote for the nodes they support and lend their voice to community governance.

12. Nirvana Capital (China)

Community Contributions Made To Date

• Business matching for IOST across exchanges, media, community and projects.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Continue to bring in high-quality Dapp projects and media partners from both China and overseas.
• Promotion of IOST across U.S., Russia and Japan.
• Bring in several flagship Dapps into the IOST ecosystem.

13. Attic Lab IOST (Ukraine)

Community Contributions Made To Date

• Development of IOST IDE.
• Possible development of a betting Dapp on IOST.
• Launch a desktop wallet.
• Promote IOST within Ukraine crypto community.
• Educate users to join the IOST ecosystem through articles and videos.

14. BlockDevsAsia (Philippines)

BlockDevsAsia is a developer group based in Manila. They are passionate blockchain builders and run regular workshops to teach coding blockchain applications. BlockDevsAsia is also the organiser of DISH hackathon in the Philippines.

Community Contributions Made To Date

• Hosted Terrence Wang, CTO of IOST, for a gaming Dapps development workshop in Manila.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Create meetups and courses to help developers get started on IOST.
• Contribute to the Bug Bounty Program.
• Build developer tools for the community to use.
• Integrate an IOST track for hackathon participants to encourage building on IOST.

15. GuestKing (Norway)

Partner Speech

As development of GuestKing continues towards our release in 2020, Guestking sees a win-win in early promoting IOST as our transaction network of choice during all future Guest visits, anywhere and everywhere. We believe IOST will deliver, everytime, for all users & services of the future.

Guestking will be a true IOST ambassador and will assist in making IOST the blockchain network of the future.

16. iBank Digital Asset (Canada)

Community Contributions Made To Date

• Organized IOST CEO & CTO Wechat meetup with Blockchain Impact Institute.
• Produced 6 IOST related articles in the official account of ‘iDigital Asset’.
• Produced 20+ community news feed.
• Established Vancouver & Toronto IOST Wechat groups.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

1. Continue to produce wechat articles to introduce and promote IOST.

2. Organize offline IOST seminars in Vancouver and Toronto.

3. Produce IOST project related videos and campaigns.

4. Make 200+ community news feed.

5. Invite IOST team to join the communities to share about IOST.

6. Establish the IOST&iBank telegram group.

7. Create relevant IOST marketing materials to participate in blockchain conferences and promote IOST.

17. IOST Bean (United States)

Partner Speech

IOSTBean is a IOST Node Candidate, owned by Spark Blockchain. We devote ourself to driving IOST’s community growth in North America and uncover top quality projects to build on IOST. Spark Blockchain is one of America’s top incubator and blockchain consulting firm. Spark works with top-tier project teams and venture funds and count over 100 leading projects, Dapps, venture funds and other partners in its client network.

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Hold monthly developer meetups focusing on IOST.
• Incubate IOST Dapp teams through hackathons, Dapp competitions etc.
• Grow the IOST overseas Partners network, and grow adoption of IOST with developers and users overseas.
• Leverage our marketing network to promote IOST the U.S market, increasing the awareness and brand exposure for the IOST.
• Organize the DApp development workshops to guide developers towards building on IOST.
• Conduct founder interviews and publish these articles in IOST Bean’s network.

18. IOST Venezuela (Venezuela)

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Develop Dapps for the general public and build tools for mass adoption.
• Build on IOST solutions for hyperinflated economies and create opportunities for Latin America.

19. IOST.BEST NODE (Russia)

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Raise awareness in the community about IOST, and share the vision from the IOST founding team.
• Long-term maintenance of the IOST network.
• Build strong relationships with Dapp developers to bring them into the IOST ecosystem.
• Reinvestment of 30–40% of profits into Servi Node development.

20. Leobi (United States)

Planned Contributions For the IOST Community

• Run a Servi Node on IOST.
• Run the weekly Inside IOST podcast.
• Promote the IOST Developer Outreach Program.
• Launch Dapps from our Dapp studio on IOST.

21. Magnum Wallet (Germany)

Partner Speech

As a light wallet, Magnum has many valuable options to bring for IOST users. We will support IOST immediately after the launch of mainnet and will provide users with extra options such as an in-built exchange, ledger support, voting, DApp Marketplace, transactions tracker bot, etc. in the future.

21. Metanyx (U.K.)

Partner Speech

Metanyx will provide ongoing support within the IOST community for network and user operations. Metanyx has led by example in supporting the community and has a significant knowledge of IOST blockchain which it plans to extend into Smart Contract programming.

Metanyx in the future will integrate a variety of Dapps from other technical sectors once the network stabilizes the source code. Metanyx plans to use a proportion of the Node rewards to fund these initiatives. We have wealth of experience in development running global networks that are currently live.

Some of the specific focuses include integrating IOST to a payment platform (point of sale as well as online), integrating IOST as a method to facilitate advertising content on a digital signage platform and using IOST to cryptographically sign documents for legal contracts.

22. Rate3 Network (Singapore)

Partner Speech

Rate3’s value proposition lies in the fact that any organization or entity leveraging upon it can create tokens (utility tokens, stablecoins, asset-backed tokens, securities, etc) and move these tokens across multiple supported blockchains.

IOST will be supported on Rate3’s cross-chain protocol for tokenization and identity management alongside with Ethereum and Stellar. This will allow the network effects of all these interoperable blockchains to grow exponentially, where products may be constructed out of integrations to various Dapps from seperate blockchains. The iStablecoin on IOST will be a prime example of this, as users of each of the different chains will be able to seamlessly transfer payments among each other.

Having already established strong relationships with licensed and reputable legal and custodian partners in Singapore, Rate3 can also help IOST gain a good initial foothold on the security token space, thus enabling potential STO issuers to conduct their security token offering here in Singapore on top of the IOST platform.

23. Sutler Ventures (United States)

Partner Speech

Sutler Ventures will place priority on the growth of IOST network participants, primarily third-party businesses and decentralized applications / crypto-networks that show very strong potential to benefit the overall IOST network and community. Sutler Ventures will provide funding, market insights, marketing and more to the IOST network participants who fit the Sutler Ventures’ vision and framework for investment.

Alongside our work with potential network participants, we’re excited to help bring our network to IOST in the US - primarily the introduction of IOST to third parties in the cryptocurrency and fundraising space who can help take IOST towards mainstream adoption.

24. IOST News (United States)

IOST News will continue to raise awareness of IOST through our community news site and contribute to the IOST ecosystem. We will continue our popular Servi Nodes interview series and further plan to interview Dapp developers and introduce Dapp reviews.

Thank You to All Our Partners For Your Support In Building the IOST Ecosystem!