Hey everyone,

We (Nebulas.io) recently published a article on our Medium blog discussing the process of taking Nebulas from a corporate structure to a community structure. In addition, this article talks about the future of Nebulas, community governance and how Nebulas Force will make this a reality.

We welcome your feedback, a discussion on governance and suggestions on what you would like to see in the future.
https://medium.com/nebulasio/aero-wang-nebulas-nova-will-play-a-key-role-in-transforming-nebulas-from-a-corporate-model-to-a-b88faed4ee8f

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For those that don't know, Nebulas is a public Blockchain that  launched March 31, 2018. Our primary focus is to Discover the Value of Blockchain Data, build a sustainable ecosystem and finally a autonomous metanet capable of on-chain upgrades without the need of a hard fork.
http://nebulas.io

We recently posted a article on our Medium page discussing governance and turning Nebulas from a corporation to a community. Come take a look and let us know what you think.

https://medium.com/nebulasio/aero-wang-nebulas-nova-will-play-a-key-role-in-transforming-nebulas-from-a-corporate-model-to-a-b88faed4ee8f

We, Nebulas.io are developing a self-evolving network that will be upgradable without the need for a hard fork. This is one of our primary tech goals!

From our white paper:

Upgrades to the protocol/software will be included on-chain so all nodes will be at the same version at all times. In addition, we hope to incorporate a voting mechanism where people can choose what upgrades should be included.

If you are interested in learning more, I suggest reviewing our white paper at: https://nebulas.io/docs/NebulasTechnicalWhitepaper.pdf and if you have any questions, please ask.

Hey everyone,
With Nebulas NOVA going live on March 31st, we have recently launched the NOVA Testnet Developer Incentive Program. Developers who deploy smart contracts on the testnet can receive mainnet $NAS based on the Nebulas Rank/Developer Incentive Protocol. We encourage all to take part in this program and start today! If you have any questions about it, please ask!
For more information about the program, visit: https://medium.com/nebulasio/nebulas-nova-testnet-developer-incentive-program-launches-today-59bbb58db940

Technical White Paper in English is ready: here

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UPDATE
Sept 12: English Technical White Paper & Open Source TODAY!



Introduction
As the first global Blockchain Search Engine in the world, Nebulas aims at discovering new value of the blockchain world. Nebulas features NR (Nebulas Rank), which helps users efficiently identify and utilize information of value among the ever-increasing amount of data on the blockchain; NF (Nebulas Force), which drives the smooth upgrade and self-evolution of the system.
Facing the opportunity and challenge as above, we aim to create a self-evolving blockchain system based on value incentive.


More specifically, our targets are:
Defining Rank Value
We believe that world of blockchains needs a standard of value to measure the value of blockchains’ underlying data so as to explore information’s higher dimension, which serves to discover and uncover more value of blockchains.

Building Positive Feedback for Community Ecosystem
We believe that to build a prosperous decentralized application ecosystem with a developer-friendly positive feedback mechanism is the most fundamental premise. Only this kind of application ecosystems can empower the blockchain system with stronger vitality.

Achieving Self-evolution
We believe that a blockchain system endowed with self-evolution mechanism can evolve automatically. With a little external intervention, the system will provide faster computing, more powerful systems and better user experiences.

Nebulas Rank (NR)
Nebulas Rank (NR) is the measure of value in the world of blockchains, which can be used to measure the importance of various blockchain users, smart contracts, DApps.


In Nebulas, we measure value regarding:
Liquidity
Finance essentially is the social activities which optimize social resources via capital liquidity and promote economic development. Blockchains establish a value network in which the financial assets can flow. Daily volume of Bitcoin and Ethereum, which are most familiar to us, already exceeds $1 billion. From these data, we can see that the more transaction volume and transaction scale, the higher liquidity. In turn, higher liquidity will increase the quantity of transaction and enhance the value. That will further strengthen financial assets’ value, creating a complete positive feedback mechanism. Therefore liquidity, i.e. transaction frequency and scale, is the first dimension that NR measures.

Propagation
Social platforms like WeChat and Facebook have almost 3 billion active users per month. Social platforms’ rapid user growth is a result of the reflection of existing social network and stronger viral growth. In particular, viral transmission, i.e. speed, scope, depth of information transmission and linkage, is the key index to monitor social network’s quality and user growth. In blockchain world, we can see the same pattern. Powerful viral propagation indicates scope and depth of asset liquidity, which can promote the blockchain world’s asset quality and asset scale. Thus, viral transmission, i.e. scope and depth of asset liquidity, is the second dimension that NR measures.

Interoperability
At Internet’s early stage, there are only basic websites and private information. Now, information on different platforms can be forwarded on the network, and isolated data silos are gradually being broken. This trend is the process of identifying higher dimensional information. In our point of view, the world of blockchains shall follow a similar pattern, but its speed will be faster. The information on users’ assets, smart contracts, and DApps will become richer, and the interaction of higher dimensional information shall be more frequent, thus better interoperability shall become more and more important. Therefore, NR’s third measure dimension is interoperability.

Based on above-stated dimensions, we start to construct Nebulas’ NR system by drawing from richer data, building a better model, digging up more diversified value dimensions, and establishing a measure of value in blockchain world.

Proof-of-Devotion (PoD)
Based on Nebulas’ NR system, we shall adopt PoD (Proof-of-Devotion) consensus algorithm. PoD gives an “influential” user of Nebulas Blockchain an opportunity to become a bookkeeper and receive Nebulas’ block rewards and transaction fee as revenues, which will encourage them to contribute to Nebulas’ stability and security continuously.

Developer Incentive Protocol (DIP)
In Nebulas, we propose the concept of DIP (Developer Incentive Protocol) for developers of smart contracts and DApps. DIP’s core concept: in pre-specified blocks’ interval, for those developers whose smart contracts and DApps deploy online in the most recent interval with NR value higher than a specified threshold, DIP shall reward them corresponding developer incentives (NAS token), and these incentives shall be recorded on blocks by bookkeepers. With DIP’s positive incentive mechanism, more and more developers get incentives to create valuable smart contracts and DApps, which helps to build a positive feedback ecosystem for the developers’ community.

Nebulas Force (NF)
A series of basic protocols such as NR, PoD, DIP shall become a part of blockchain data. With the growth of data on Nebulas, these basic protocols will upgrade, and this will avoid fracture between developers and community as well as the “fork”. We call this fundamental capability of blockchain “Nebulas Force” (NF).
As Nebulas community grows, NF and basic protocols’ update ability shall be open to the community. According to users’ NR weight and community voting mechanism, the community determines Nebulas’ evolution direction and its update objectives. With the help of NF’s core technology and its openness, Nebulas will have ever-growing evolving potential and infinite evolving possibilities endlessly.


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LEARN MORE
Read the full Non-technical White Paper (English)
Read the Technical White Paper (English)
Watch the Blockchain Search Engine DEMO (video)

OFFICIAL
website: nebulas.io | blog | linkedIn | Github

CONTACT
contact@nebulas.io

COMMUNITY
Twitter: @nebulasio | slack: nebulasio.slack.com