https://medium.com/crownplatform/moving-home-c1797a59e27f
The Crown homepage is moving from crown.tech to crownplatform.comTL;DROn Monday, 23 September, the Crown homepage will be relocating to a totally new address: crownplatform.com (at the time of this writing the page is not yet active). The old address will be updated with a redirect message and an automatic redirect which will last until the old domain registration expires. What is happening?The Crown homepage is moving to a new address. When is this happening?The Crown homepage will move on Monday, 23 September 2019. Why is this happening?The annual registration fee for crown.tech with our current domain name registrar is an exorbitant, rent-seeking USD 1700. They justify this price by saying it is a premium URL. Admittedly, it is short and snappy with possible high-value connotations. A single Crown contributor has personally paid this fee for the last 2 years. With the current depressed price they are unwilling to spend this much money again this year. We have investigated the possibility of transferring the domain name to a different registrar. The best price we found was about EUR 588 which is more than we can afford through the infrastructure part of the superblock. In comparison, a new bog-standard, less desirable, run-of-the-mill .tech domain name can be registered for about USD 40 per year. And we already own a perfectly good and even cheaper .com domain name. How is this happening?The current website is being duplicated on a new server with the new address. Once it is working the old address will be configured with a redirect to the new address. Who is doing the work?Unsung hero Crown contributors. Where is this happening?(This is really stretching Rudyard Kipling’s six honest serving men poem…) An interweb near you.
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sure why not, it does not have to be knights. On the other hand, Jedi knights are universal as well  lets see where this goes |
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Nonfungible Tokens, Explained:What does nonfungible mean?To fully appreciate what makes these tokens special, it’s worth taking a look at the difference between “fungible” and “nonfungible.” When something is fungible, in this case a token, it means it can be easily replaced by something identical – and it is interchangeable with ease. Real world examples of something fungible could include grains of rice, or the $1 bank note in your pocket. If you were to lend that $1 to someone, it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t return the exact same one. This all changes when something is nonfungible. Although two items may look to be identical at a glance, each will have unique information or attributes that make them irreplaceable or impossible to swap. One physical example of a nonfungible asset could be a plane ticket. Sure, they look the same as other tickets, but each one has different passenger names, destinations, departure times and seat numbers. Exchanging yours with someone could have serious consequences – not only could you end up thousands of miles away from where you wanted to be, airport security might not be too impressed either. Why are nonfungible tokens different from other tokens?Because they can offer unique characteristics which make them different and digitally scarce. Many tokens – and indeed cryptocurrencies – are fungible. If you send someone a Bitcoin, and get one back, you wouldn’t notice any difference. A lot of the time, fungible tokens are built using a standard called ERC-20. For the sake of simplicity, let’s imagine each of these tokens is a $10 bill. If you sent a token to someone, and got another one back a week later, they would be identical. (That said, there might be some fluctuation in price.) This all changes with nonfungible tokens, many of which are ERC-721 compliant. These can be compared to baseball cards, as each has unique information and varying levels of rarity. If you were to accidentally send one of these tokens to someone, and get a different ERC-721 token back, you might be very upset. There’s one more crucial difference you need to bear in mind. Fungible tokens are divisible – meaning you can send a fraction of one ERC-20 token. (Like cash, where you can pay with a $10 bill and get change.) On the other hand, nonfungible ERC-721 tokens cannot be divided and must be bought or sold whole. (Like baseball cards, where no one in their right mind would want to buy half.) What can nonfungible tokens be used for?Collectibles are a common use for nonfungible tokens. One early pioneer of nonfungible tokens was CryptoKitties, a blockchain-driven platform where players have the chance to collect and breed digital cats. If you’ve ever owned a cat, you’ll know that they are not easy to replace, as their appearance and personality make them unique. In this case, CryptoKitties replicated this concept in the crypto world – with each cat’s digital genetic material being stored on the blockchain. They can be bought and sold using Ethereum, and some are rarer than others. Indeed, sales hit $12 million last year – with the most expensive CryptoKitty reportedly going for $120,000. Other games have promptly followed, such as fantasy titles where fighters are collected for battles. And in another apt development (almost like we planned it,) Major League Baseball in the US is planning to launch a game where baseball cards can be exchanged on blockchain. What are their advantages and disadvantages?Although the nonfungible ERC-721 token has offered improvements on ERC-20, there are a few setbacks. As we recently explained in an article looking at alternatives to ERC-20, advocates of this token protocol believe it could become “the ultimate vehicle for putting every significant asset on a public or hybrid blockchain with 100 percent immutability and security.” Nonfungible tokens allow you to detail more of the attributes that make them special – far beyond the name, balance, token supply and symbol. This is because you can include rich metadata about an asset and include information about ownership – and these authenticated details can ultimately add value because investors can be confident about its provenance. That said, there are downsides. Nonfungible tokens have not been embraced as speedily as some advocates hoped, in part because the ERC-721 protocol is so new. It can also be tricky and time consuming to develop decentralized applications for non-fungible tokens properly. So why not carry on using real world solutions?The world is moving on from paper – and supporters believe there are many use cases for nonfungible tokens beyond collectibles. For example, it could become a secure and immutable way of storing birth certificates, academic credentials, warranties and identities – even artwork and property ownership. These real world assets can then be properly digitized and stored in a wallet, keeping them safe and ensuring that they cannot be altered or counterfeited by a third party. But how are nonfungible tokens created?There are concerns that the use of nonfungible tokens could end up becoming fragmented, with different standards and varying degrees of certification. At the moment, as we mentioned a little earlier, it can be an expensive and complicated thing to achieve. It can sometimes take months to develop a DApp, and in the fast-moving blockchain world, that could cost an entrepreneur their competitive advantage. Instead of every outlet interested in nonfungible tokens creating their own framework (which would result in a breeding ground for inconsistency,) some platforms are trying to create a technological layer which unifies and standardizes these tokens. One of them is Crown CRW, which offers a “plug and play” framework which means that a nonfungible token can be developed and verified quicker – and the platform claims it is achievable in days. The company says it eliminates the need for in-depth blockchain knowledge, while stopping precious data from being siloed and preventing developers from having a lengthy, expensive and insecure process. excellent idea. actually it would be a great idea to build something similar on Crown NFTs like Crypto Kitties but instead of cats we would have knights which would be tradable and collectable. If anyone is interested in helping to build this idea / usecase on Crown PM me. I actually think this could give us some good exposure. |
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https://medium.com/crownplatform/development-update-september-2019-683ef811c0b3Crown Development update September 2019Still moving forwards, not quite as smoothly as we’d like.This month’s news is not the best but at least we’re still making news and still releasing development updates. The ongoing altcoin bear market is putting existential pressure on everything that’s not called Bitcoin. Crown is one of the few coins still under active development but the low price unfortunately means it will slow down this month. Even top 30 coins like Litecoin (CMC rank #5) and ZCash (CMC rank #28) are struggling to fund development so Crown is fortunate that some funding is still available every month from the superblock. Juggling actThe superblock creates up to 54,000 CRW each month to be distributed according to the wishes of the community and the decentralised governance system. A year ago the development portion of the superblock was 30,000 CRW and funded 5 developers. Last month the development portion of the superblock was 40,000 CRW and it only barely funded 2 developers. We are fortunate that Artem and Ashot have been very accommodating in reducing the fiat equivalent value of their monthly ask while continuing to work full time on Crown. They have both been working at way below the market rate for experienced software developers for several months now. Yet the development percentage of the superblock has been rising to pay for them, squeezing other activities out of consideration. Some community members have expressed concern about the level of development spending versus other activities. Infrastructure, marketing and design have all suffered. Discretionary items are all but impossible to get funded. This is damaging to the community because it disincentivises contributors from participating. Responding to community concerns, Artem and Ashot have agreed to request only 50% of the next superblock for development funding. That’s 13,500 CRW each. At current market price that’s about $675 each, or less than 10% of what they could be earning elsewhere. Obviously this is unsustainable for them and it means they can no longer afford to work full time on Crown. They have committed to finishing their current projects, but will be seeking additional work elsewhere to make ends meet. Until they have secured that work they won’t know what percentage of their time they will be able to devote to Crown. Unavoidably the delivery dates for our active projects are going to slip. On the positive side, that does mean there is a larger percentage of the next superblock available for other activities than we have seen recently. With the next superblock due in only 10 more days we hope contributors will take advantage of this and get their proposals in soon. To facilitate proposal submission there is now an easy to use tool available at CrownCentral. OK, time to get stuck in NFTsThe registration and API aspects of the NFT framework are proving to require more work than Artem originally anticipated. Add to that he is now unable to commit full time to working on Crown and the estimated release date for v0.14 (“Emerald”) has slipped. This is hugely disappointing, not least because we were looking forward to releasing the NFT framework in mainnet ahead of Crown’s 5th anniversary on 10 October 2019. His current best estimate is sometime around early November 2019. Unfortunately, given the current market conditions the delay can only be avoided if someone steps in with additional funding. The NFT framework is currently only available in testnet. We are keeping tabs on use-cases under development in the #use-cases channel of our Discord server. If you’re interested in developing your own use-case you could jump straight in with the simple generator built by contributor Andy D (defunctec). It’s so easy to use you probably won’t even need to read the technical doc. CodebaseAshot has made enormous progress on the codebase update. He estimates there is about 1 month of full time work left to complete the initial merge and until he’s ready to begin testing. Given the financial constraints mentioned above that estimate will have to be revised. As a reminder, the update involves remapping all the unique stuff that makes Crown Crown onto the Bitcoin v0.17 codebase. This will bring security, speed and stability enhancements. It will also make it easier to keep up to date with critical Bitcoin changes and ease maintenance into the future. He has also completed the chain-walker which will be used by Flipside Crypto to update our rating on Coinmarketcap. TrezorWe are still waiting for Trezor to release updated firmware with Crown support. When they do it will be possible to store Crown on a Trezor hardware wallet. We hope soon afterwards to fork the Dash masternode tool to support Crown and enable users to manage their masternodes and systemnodes with their hardware wallet. They actually released a new beta test version today and announced it includes Bitcoin-specific enhancements. Some Crown contributors, willing to live at the bleeding edge, are testing to see if the update also included Crown support. We should know the answer in a day or two and will be sure to announce it if so. Would you like to know more?It seems there has been more project chatter on Telegram than on Discord lately. You can ask questions and make comments and suggestions on either platform (or any of the other social platforms where we have a presence). However, Discord is the preferred platform for development related topics so please join us there if you have any questions or feedback following this update.
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Crown was added to allnodes Staking & Masternodes Services Allnodes is a platform, which provides non-custodial Staking and Masternodes services and allows you to Stake coins or host Masternode in a few clicks, monitor rewards, statuses and other useful information. https://www.allnodes.com |
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https://medium.com/crownplatform/backing-the-crown-blockchain-value-by-registered-assets-via-nfts-d55df9040458Backing the Crown blockchain value by registered assets (via NFTs)Fiat was once backed by gold - that made sense. If crypto is to succeed, it needs to be backed by a fundamental value and not mostly by speculation aspects.How to value crypto assets?There are several methods how to evaluate a company. You can use a discounted cash flow model taking into consideration how much profits the company will generate in the future and discount those numbers to today's value. Most of the companies in the world - traded on stock exchanges or public firms, are evaluated in this way. You can alternatively look at the value of the company's assets - when you break it down into real estate, equipment, machinery, and compare for how much similar assets are being sold, or you can evaluate a company or a startup project based on your belief that it has developed a unique solution which one day in the future will turn into a profitable business. The last method is mostly used in the startup world. Investors believe that something revolutionary is being developed and they attach their personal value to it hoping for the riches. But what about the crypto space? How can one tell that the value of Bitcoin and other altcoins is high or low? Bitcoin was created as a protest. Not many people know that Bitcoin was created as a reaction to the 2008 financial mess caused by the subprime crisis affecting the mortgage industry in the US due to borrowers being approved for loans they could not afford. This created a domino effect, since the world has reached a phase where everything and everybody is connected to each other. The trust in the worlds' financial system was questioned. This is when Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, and its main idea for an alternative world, where people have the values they created under their control - in their computers, online or offline wallets. As the Bitcoin infrastructure strengthened, people were able to exchange it for fiat and other cryptocurrencies, store it safely via smart devices, renowned businesses started accepting it as a form of payment, its value was going up. Traders and bots caught up later looking for buying low, selling high strategies and bringing their added values to the value of Bitcoin and crypto. But what is next for crypto values? Is the bet on a deteriorating political situation in the world and booming stock markets enough? No! It is not! Most of it, unfortunately, are speculation aspects - as we saw when crypto market cap collapsed from 800 billion to 100 billion USD during 2018. Crypto communities are currently busy with creating ways to add real values to the blockchain, coming with hundreds of real word use-cases and offering their communities ways to interact with the blockchain. Some blockchains enable their communities to raise capital via ICOs on their chains, others offer a variety of smart contracts or anonymous transactions so people making them cannot be tracked. All of these use-cases are fostering innovation and progress to our society hoping for the world to listen and turn its eyes on this booming and exciting space. What if the blockchain is backed by real assets registered as Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)?The community at Crown Platform is also taking its own approach to create value for its community members, contributors and strategic partners. Since its launch in October 2014 as a Bitcoin clone, it has demonstrated that the community can make steps towards creating a progressive environment, where smart ideas are pushed forward and made into reality. One of the ideas bringing real value to the Crown blockchain (next to the decentralised governance budget system and our tailor-made MN-PoS mechanism) is without a doubt the Non-fungible tokens framework (NFT). You can read the NFT technical article drafted by the Crown Platform tech lead Artem here: https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-18d88f9db76"Since the beginning of the Crown Platform evolution, we wanted to build a public blockchain solution that will enable simple and fast integration with a modern distributed ledger technology. Back in August 2017, the foundational ideas of what the platform should look like were laid down. Since then, we've been working hard to realise those ideas and transform them into a tangible form." NFTs offer unique characteristics which make them different and digitally scarce. Take plane tickets for example - although they look the same, they contain passenger info which is unique. The same is actually true for other assets such as cars, buildings, legal contracts, patents - basically most physical and digital assets in the real world are non-fungible: and therein lies the huge opportunity for NFTs. NFTs have unique properties as one asset is not equal to another asset in the same set, as it is with the fungible tokens. Most tokens such as cryptocurrencies are fungible - they are mostly monetary and interchangeable, the same is true for money. One US dollar is the same as another one. But back to our NFT framework, in simple words it is a registry subsystem which enables the community to register physical or digital assets on the Crown blockchain. Several Crown community contributors are currently working on use-cases such as a blockchain-enabled asset register for luxury goods, a startup intellectual property protection tool, and artists are starting to register their digital art on the Crown Platform NFT testnet. Looking at this from a philosophical perspective, assets (with their underlying intrinsic values) are being registered (currently on testnet) on the Crown blockchain. This creates a situation where those who register them, trust that the Crown code and community will make their best effort to keep this information secure and immutable so they can use it as proof that they hold ownership of these assets. Now imagine that the few use-cases that the community is currently building, will bring many, many more assets (with their own bigger underlying values) to the Crown chain. Can fundamental value derived from the potential trust created by registering assets as NFTs back the value of the blockchain?
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Be careful not to make the same mistake I read this (thanks to the wise hv_) can be applied here on CRW. From hv_:
For the global adoption some major points needs to be ensured
Cheap and simple base layer, easy to understand and low risks that the base will change or enable illegal stuff ON PURPOSE.
That makes it easy to implement anything computers can do ON TOP
ETH was a nice experiment or still is, to let ppl get into such devs and risk analysis but pretty much as eMail is for sending text messages and oops attachments (like smart contracts containing exe files) those exe files are NEVER EVER automatically executed neither at send time nor at receiving time nor at open/ reading time , rather blocked, filtered out or checked against viruses etc.
Global adoption of autoexecution of code that can do Turing complete just anything - wont happen, especially if coded by poor script lang, that hase no proper compile time checking as java or c have.
First only sending txs at scale incl most simple defined conditions needs to be save and scaling, all the rest might come many years down the road... interesting points, forwarded those to the devs |
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Crown NFT vs Ethereum ERC-721 NFT The conceptual difference between Ethereum NFTs and Crown NFTs is that in the first case the development process is more code-oriented or smart contracts based. It means that the most part of the business logic is deployed and executed on the EVM. However, in Crown we use the data-oriented approach and the Crown Platform API as a gateway for the integration of your web or any other application with a blockchain solution. There are pros and cons to both approaches. The smart contract approach gives you the flexibility to run arbitrary code on-chain and customize your business-logic in a smart contract, and in many cases, it’s exactly what you need. But sometimes you need a blockchain solution that you can quickly integrate with your existing or developing application using the API. You don’t need to deal with the smart contracts languages and time-consuming development. You need to get clear on the data model for your non-fungible tokens set and how it fits into your architecture. So eventually, you have business-logic running off-chain on your back-end which interacts with the on-chain solution that you integrate using the Crown Platform API. Plus, you don’t have to deal with potential bugs that might be introduced with a smart contract code and are irreversible. https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-18d88f9db76 |
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Our code lead Ashot is working on bringing the BTC part of the Crown code to Bitcoin 17.1, half of the merge is done, the other half will take him a month followed by community testing. Looking forward to this, seems that after the NFT Emerald Release https://coinmarketcal.com/en/event/emerald-release-24308 the next Crown release will be with the updated Bitcoin code |
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HI
Whats going on with the Crown wallet its been offline for a few weeks now
whenis it comming back up
thanks
Paul
Yup be awesome to bring CRW wallet back online guys |
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At @CrownPlatform we have been working for a very long time on designing and implementing expanded Registry APIs that we have called the NFtoken Framework. This solution is currently in testnet and will see the light in mainnet with the Crown Core "Emerald" v0.14.0 release in September. Digital artist @Passione43 has registered the first artwork "Crown Town" on the Crown testnet chain. You can see it here: https://crwwallet.net/author/passione43/We sincerely invite you to use the pilot app crwwallet.net to register sample works and learn how to use the APIs. We will be happy to feature your artworks and give you visibility through our social media. For a guide on how to register files using the app: https://crwwallet.net/nft-guide-testnet/You can also download the app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nodemerger.crwwalletFor a technical document explaining the NFToken framework: https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-18d88f9db76If you are a techie and want to directly run testnet node to try out the framework there or develop your own 3rd party registry solution powered by Crown, you can download the Crown Core v0.13.9 testnet build here: gitlab.crown.tech/crown/crown-core/pipelines/1076 You can also watch a registration demo performed by code lead artem at UNCHAIN Convention Berlin: https://youtu.be/drM_IBZIuBsBy registering a doc or file any user can prove: - ownership (through vinculation of the nft to a keypair) - existence (through the timestamping of the file hash) - authenticity (combined through the exclusivity of the hash within the network + nft information above). Feel free to reach out with any questions. All we want is that people find the framework useful and capitalise on it! |
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https://medium.com/@busyman.cz/time-stamping-intellectual-property-of-startups-on-the-blockchain-using-nfts-5edd207decd5Time-stamping intellectual property of startups on the blockchain using NFTsStartups need to have their intellectual property securedBusyman is a startup platform connecting ideas with angel investors established in Prague in 2010. It has facilitated investments of over 10 mil EUR into over a hundred early stage startups from central Europe. Idea makers, innovators, businessmen or people with progressive ideas come to Busyman looking for smart money angels, who are willing to share their life business experiences and help to grow these brave ideas. Money is only part of the added value angels bring to the table, their know-how and contacts is what matters more to founders. Busyman has a database of over 1000 European angels and it is aggregating a professional club of angel investors who are ready to invest into well-prepared pre-seed and seed ideas. The protection of intellectual property of these startups should not be underestimated, since the majority of these early stage businesses only have their breakthrough ideas to share with the world. The philosophy behind timestamps on the blockchainWe have observed that in many specific cases, it is very challenging to protect ideas, especially from next generation economies such as information technology, machine learning, virtual reality, blockchain technology and other non-tangible asset sectors. Patent offices do not offer this protection and if they do, the process of applying is slow and not very flexible. Also, once the patent application is approved in a country specific patent office, for instance in the Czech Republic, all the details of the patents become available online to the world and basically anybody can copy the know-how, unless the patent application is submitted in most countries in the rest of the world, which is almost impossible and extremely expensive for early stage startups. Nobody in the startup industry wants to spend their energy on administration tasks, their efforts need to be directed towards scaling their ideas and becoming a business generating income. We are of the opinion that timestamping of specific know-how and intellectual property on the blockchain could be an alternative to this old and ineffective system that is currently in place. How would NFT timestamps on the blockchain work?Busyman currently aims to use the public blockchain of Crown Platform (CRW) to the purpose of protecting start-up ideas through the soon to be launched NFT (non-fungible tokens framework), which enables the registration of basically any forms of digital and physical assets on the Crown blockchain. The main reason behind this is to protect individuals with high-quality business ideas from having their ideas plagiarised by third parties. The problem needs solving with a long-term capability of enabling individuals to capitalize on their business ideas and creativity and bring a certain degree of automation to the idea protection space. To solve this complex problem, Busyman is currently working with the following three parameters: 1) Positive protection: The protection of ideas against plagiarism by third parties is complicated, because patent right is a question of national sovereignty, hence depending on the laws and regulations of a given country. Thus, instead of protecting ideas against plagiarism, Busyman aims to build an open environment which will help to protect ideas for their development. That means protecting investment ideas from third parties by getting them on the road as quick as possible and pushing them toward rollout as soon and stable as possible. 2) Templatization: To solve the problem of comparability between different ideas (i.e. in order to judge whether an idea has already existed or not), a certain degree of templatization is needed. That means to break down business ideas to certain parameters. These parameters include but are not limited to a) business parameters, b) technical parameters, c) feasibility and scale parameters. 3) Community drive: An aspect of protection of ideas is the degree of acceptance of a given rule. That is, law is powerful because it is obeyed and commonly shared by a society’s participants intersubjective world. A strong community drive in the setup of the protection process gives it further legitimacy. If the community can contribute to the process, it is more likely to be taken as a reference for the novelty of ideas. But how would the flow of the idea work in the real world? In order to push ideas toward their realization, we have devised the following procedure as a mechanism of submission and elaboration of ideas, protected through blockchain and allowing for quick collaboration in the given contexts. Ideas basically become code to which contributors from all sorts of backgrounds add respective value and get part of the idea value back depending on their contribution. Similarly as we can see in many blockchain projects such as Crown. Yes this is a vision how the idea economy will work in the future, but NFTs enable us to start now by locking the initial “idea value”, assign a concrete ownership and place it on the blockchain. Will this approach work?Naturally the protection of ideas on the blockchain will initially never be as strong as the one provided by patent offices. The main point in supporting this case is the fact that founders will have the option to open their know how to the world (similarly as Elon Musk did with his Tesla patents) while securely claiming ownership. This should attract more talent and capital in case the idea is a breakthrough. Those founders who will not be interested to open up their know-how should have an option to keep it secret, that is perfectly fine. Both models — opened and closed should be able to co-exists next to each other. In the closed model case, if anybody misuses the idea, and for example in 5 years from the time a NFT was created, the know-how is used by someone else, the creator can prove to the world that he was the one who initially came up with that specific idea. The world today is driven by social networks and communities (including the raising blockchain communities) as we have mentioned earlier in our text. These powerful forces can easily help idea makers to point their fingers towards those who are using ideas without proper rights. We believe that internet societies powered by blockchain might act as the force of good behaviour not only inside the network, but in the real world as well. Next stepsBusyman will most likely license the NFT tool, which was developed by a long term Crown community contributor “defunctec”. Once the Crown Platform tech lead Artem Brazhnikov finishes the work on the NFT framework and the release into mainnet happens towards the end of September 2019, the Busyman NFT timestamping service should come online soon afterwards. Initially, it will enable startups to register their intellectual property such as company names, logos, specific know-how as a Non-Fungible Token on the Crown blockchain. At a later stage and depending on the development of the NFT framework running on the Crown Platform, there will be other interesting features such as trading of these registered assets creating a market of breakthrough ideas and intellectual property.
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