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There is a new project that has some pretty big hitters on its team and they are building a new protocol to replace the current standard "Gossip Protocol"

marlin.pro

The system will be using a plethora of new networking solutions to create on-demand custom overlay networks. These include packets being forwarded even before they are received in entirety (cut-through switching), routing over low-latency multicast trees (to replace the epidemic flooding/gossip), randomized path selection before the diffusion process (a modified stemming+diffusion approach common in systems like Dandelion - for lightweight anonymity), ttransport layer improvements to improve over TCP head-of-line blocking and congestion control, and many more

This will be the project we hear a lot about in 2019 and few non-engineering people will really understand what it does.

A core dev from Zilliqa is heading it up. The project won a competition at Stanford earlier this year. With its mixed team from MIT, Stanford, IIT Mumbai with support and advise from City of Zion and other world class Research labs, the project is built for success.

Edit: There is now an official ANN discussion here

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5074571.msg48342672#msg48342672

Interesting tech, keeping an eye on this.

The concept of the project looks good. But how MARLIN PROTOCOL  works ? What is our assurance if we will adopt this kind of platform.?

I think the concept of P2P data transfer is nothing short of revolutionary. It makes sense, there are others who are working with this kind of concept but the ones who first perfected this will have the first mover advantage in this kind of tech. No more centralized data storage and even an ordinary individual can host his/her local storage facility using this tech. And with that interest in mind, I am really eyeing this tech.

The methodologies listed are all available today, but no one has added them into a universal protocol set. By having them as part of a decentralized relay framework, you can make them all available as modules with unlimited scalability and fault-tolerant uptime

The most important thing is to understand what a big affect this has on other blockchains. The network layer will always be a bottleneck for scalability and through-put if there aren't solutions like the marlin protocol available.

Few people actually understand that finality is more than just a consensus algorithm....

May i ask what's the motivation of the core dev from Zilliqa to making his own coin?  ::) Kinda interesting though

This looks interesting. I hope this project works out for the good. Thanks for the heads up. Will be keeping an eye on it. Hope to hear more about Marlin Protocol.

What the Marlin Protocol is talking about offering seems huge and the project on first basis looks very much promising. If the project delivers on their idea could be a very big things as it can give an ordinary individual the ability host his/her local storage facility using this tech among other things. It'll take time until we can fully understand and see what this project will offer in the end.

Very informative. What will be the approach of this start-up about blockchain? Will you create new blockchain or adopt any existing blockchain?

At the moment, the network is very little information about this project, I need more information to form an opinion.

We are not fixated on building our own chain (def some advantages and have a design for it), but are also open to using chains like eth, neo, nem. Our testnet is being developed over Ethereum to allow modular testing.

Glad to hear that. Choosing the right blockchain plays important factor in the anonymity of a transaction. 

good information for a new project, let alone the project won the competition, I think it's a good breakthrough to attract someone to join this project. that achievement will be an attraction

Monero enhances anonymity thru Opaque Blockchain, how does Marlin enhance its complete anonymity on top of the network layer?

From what I had picture out in mind of this so called new project this will highly rely on network maker or masternode.
Overlay network layer is interesting when embodied with privacy. Is this some kind of disruption of some big content provider like netflix or youtube?

Marlin is not a solution for transaction layer anonymity, but its a good thing you bring up Monero. As things are today, Monero still is vulnerable at the network layer, with the Kovri project still under development to integrate TOR like capabilities into the protocol.

With Marlin, Monero could be protected at the network layer.....today!

The disruption is at the network layer -- P2P communications have not been designed with the decentralized systems of today in mind. Netflix is a good example of one of the areas this disruption will be felt. Today, Netflix has a huge AWS bill. With Marlin, the same infrastructure can be replicated at a fraction of the cost

So with marlin, scaling and security problem will be aided. I heard you have something big to come this Nov7, can't wait to see that.

This project is quite interesting, but now is not a good time for the development of new blockchain platforms due to the deterioration of the total capitalization of cryptocurrencies and an increase in distrust of many projects due to scammers. It would be better to take (buy or forge cooperation) an already existing and practically operating blockchain project and make corresponding changes in it that significantly improve its attractiveness.

That's one of the areas we are seeing the most interest in. It's going to be hard to choose which blockchain to partner with first as its important to have a partner that can exemplify the quality we are looking for.

There are a number of projects we've heard pitches from. Do any come to mind that feel like a good fit?

https://i.imgur.com/s6E2U6K.jpg

Is this legit event? Are you pitching with ICOdrops and Genesis Group? This is big event in Moscow this week tbh.

I see where its going but my question is, Why would other blockchain projects would apply marlin technology?

How does thos project work ?

Wow! I wish I can go to this event. But I am from another country. This is so far away. How did the event go? Is there any feedback on what happened?

I have yet to see more about their project, only visit the homepage website but nothing just like WP, information, core-team and others, there is nothing wrong we ask to join channel telegram.

From it, I see a project MarlinProtocol technology-based on DAG and I think the implementation of NAKAMOTO whitepaper about P2P like Bitcoin. Also, MarlinProtocol project to build dApp a new network with limits of blockchain. Because we need to know the DAG and Blockchain..

DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) is a model data structure that operates on the implementation of graphs. The technology offers the networks an ability to combat the limitations of blockchain

Men...additional information, I Join into group from they will be release Whitepaper at 7 november. I’ll following this project.

Whitepaper is now released to the public!

https://www.docdroid.net/JQ6N8iu/

Yup, I learn a overview of whitepaper.
Did you know the framework of marlin protocol so this a technology based-on blockchain, DAG, DLT, RFID, decentralized, cryptonite or another (I heard they say privacy and decentralized) Can you explain for it?

because we don’t see back-end developer like teams, roadmap, progress project, and their social media.

While Marlin is a blockchain-based solution(currently being developed on Ethereum), it can be used by any type of application which requires a high-performance P2P networking layer - even traditional non-blockchain applications. Our technology works by creating a marketplace of nodes providing various networking services and deploying an overlay network on top of them. This allows us to incorporate the latest networking innovations and even tailor it to a specific application if necessary to get performance much better than current approaches. We foresee a wide range of applications like transaction and block propagation, speeding up consensus, decentralized exchanges' order relay, streaming, etc.

Our privacy efforts are directed towards network level privacy - for example, your transaction shouldn't be associated with your IP address, otherwise you can be deanonymized.


We have been in semi-stealth for around an year and are slowly coming out. The current website is a temporary one. We are working on a new website and will be launching it in a few days, you will be able to find more info there.

Moscow meet-up was a success  ;D

Any good news regarding the Moscow meet-up? Would love to see any news/partnership from that expo.

Waiting for an article in regards to the meet-up as well. I believe it was a successful event for Marlin.

Been waiting for latest update as well with regards to the Moscow meet up, there were alot of good news lingering around. Cant wait to have those information...

I think it's better to have a live telecast using social media so that other investor in other countries can join the Moscow big event like they can ask a question too and someone in the Marlin management will answer.

Since the marlin protocol are launching soonest, so what are the benefits that we can get in marlin protocol ?

Hello marlin can i ask, how will you guys deal with privacy and security of your customers?

It certainly pleases that modern technologies penetrate deeper into our ordinary life and change it. This project can be very popular, since we are straggling especially in gaming.

If Marlin could increase the network adoption. What could possibly the result? Will it perform more efficiently or will it have the same problem as the other blockchain?

If it's too complicated to understand then not many people will want to invest in it. Monero and ring signatures has proven to be fairly reliable and easy to understand

Monero and ring signatures are transaction layer privacy solutions for their cryptocurrency. I dont think its a correct comparison.

Here is something to consider - Monero users still need to use TOR to be completely anonymous, because their network connection (IP address) is visible to anyone that is eavesdropping. If Monero used Marlin, they could offer their users TOR-like capabilities (by using solutions like Onion routing and dandelion++ to name a few) without needing their users to separately connect to TOR.

Does that make sense?

Basically this will help all blockchain projects to scale even more with their existing solution for their scaling problem. the concept and aim of the project is really interesting.

There's no need to complicate things, Marlin Protocol is a jet-fuel used in speeding up things in different areas including Blockchain (Layer 1) and Off-chain (Layer 2)

Next time you play stream games, no need to experience the disconnection through lag and high ping (high latency) - Marlin will take care of that.

Okay, let us say that it is very promising. Is there a way to make an investment in this project? I see a great opportunity of making profit on it.

Sounds great, but there were a lot of such cases. I want to see this project in work to form certain stable opinion about it in the nearest future.

I have a question about integration. What shoudl motivate all the gossip users to trust this project and up usage of current solution? Any clues?

Where is the github or code or demo?

We should be releasing that at the end of December/early January

Remember, this was a project that has already participated and won in a competition at Stanford in April - the code has been massively expanded since then

Ultimately the motivation will exist in the need to scale and compete with other projects. The proof will be in the pudding

There is no information about the team. Are they skilled enough to create such project? Will they held ICO or they will attract money in some other way?

There is actually plenty of information about the team. Have you looked at the ANN?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5074571.new#new