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A Distributed Network of Smart Economy On June 22th, Antshares blockchain, China's first ever original and open source public chain project, has been officially renamed NEO. Inspired by the same Greek prefix meaning innovation, modernization and youth, the project wishes to share a similar sentiment. And apparently, one can also take the meaning from the protagonist of ‘Matrix’: Neo, The One who woke up and changed the world.
With the success of Antshares, we hope that this rebranding can usher in a new age of this blockchain. One that puts more emphasis on realizing a smart economy through the use of smart contracts, making registering, distributing and trading digital assets more intelligent.
LATEST UPDATES [Aug. 10 2017] Nikolai Kuznetsov , FORBES Contributor : NEO Co-Founder Banks On Blockchain To Build A Smart Economy [Article] [Aug. 9 2017] INC. : NEO now a top 10 cryptocurrency. [Article] [Aug. 8 2017] NEO Website is online! [Aug. 3 2017] What is NEO: An Interview With NEO co-founder DA Hongfei Credit goes to Boxmining for this awsome and informative interview! [Aug. 3 2017] NEO and blockchain-labo.jp | meetup in Tokyo, Thursday, August 10, 2017 [Event Detail][Aug. 2 2017] NEO and ELASTOS reaching strategic collaboration to further the development of the Smart Economy: [Article]Read this blog post for dates and details of our Rebranding plan. [Related Article]We've just held our first AMA on the NEO subreddit!! NasdaQ: Antshares Rebrands, Introduces NEO and the New Smart Economy(also on Bitcoin Magazine. )CCTV(China's predominant TV broadcaster): China's first original open source blockchain platform has launched. Watch here
Design goals and Technical Advantages*Our goal: To be the vanguard in the effort of building a smart economy. SMART ECONOMY = Digital Assets + Digital Identity + Smart Contracts Digital Assets: The main design goal of NEO’s predecessor (Antshares) was ‘Digital Assets for everyone’, to build a digital financial system bridging the real-world assets. With blockchain technology, the digitization of assets can be decentralised, trustful, traceable, highly transparent, and free of intermediaries.
Continuing from this original intention, NEO firmly believes that it is an irreversible trend that real-world assets become digital and programmable. To reach this goal, Antshares takes a very different underlying design: - Use Digital Certicate to Guarantee Trust
NEO supports digital certificates, solves the potential problem of untrustworthy nodes on a public blockchain. With digital certificates, one can legally issue assets on the blockchain and be protected by the regulations. - Original Superconduct trade mechanism
This mechanism makes a trustless digital exchange possible. Support decentralized digital assets exchange. Match between sellers and buyers will be handled without need for users to deposits anything on the exchange. On the NEO blockchain, users are able to register, trade, and circulate multiple types of assets. Proving the connection between digital and physical assets is possible through digital identity. Assets registered through a validated digital identity are protected by law.
Digital Identities: Digital identity refers to the identity information of individuals, organizations, and other entities that exist in electronic form.
For digital identities on blockchains to have rights, they need to be legally authenticated. The most widely accepted digital identity system is based on the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) X.509 standard. We will implement a hybrid trust mechanism supporting X.509 + Web of Trust. Our verification of identity when issuing or using digital identities includes the use of facial features, fingerprint, voice, SMS and other multi-factor authentication methods. Smart Contracts: Smart contracts are automatically executed programs in the blockchain environment. A blockchain system that supports smart contracts makes it possible for any kind of contracts, rules or instructions to be automated.
The NEO Smart Contract 2.0 (NeoContract) includes the following features: high certainty, high concurrency, and scalability. The contract types include: validation contracts, function contracts, and application contracts.- Write Smart Contracts in any language
The difference between NEO Smart Contract 2.0 and Ethereum is that NEO is more intuitive: unlike the original Solidity language in Ethereum, the NEO smart contract can be used directly by almost any high-level programming language. Supporting languages such as C#, Java, Go, developers can quickly start developing smart contracts on NEO blockchain. - NEO VM lightweight Virtual Stack Machines
NEO uses a lightweight VM that has short booting time and takes up a small amount of resources. The instructional setup of the NEO VM includes a series of cryptographic instructions to optimize the execution efficiency of cryptographic algorithms in Smart Contracts. Both features are very much suitable for short programs such as smart contracts. Other Features: - Better Scalability: Distributed Storage Protocol - NeoFS
When competing with traditional technology solutions, scalability is the handicap of blockchain technology. In order to have a censorship-immutable and trust-free system, blockchains such as Bitcoin compromises latency and throughput in its design. NeoFS is a distributed storage protocol that utilizes Distributed Hash Table technology. Large files will be divided into fixed-size data blocks that are distributed and stored in many different nodes. The old block data can be stored in NeoFS, so that most of the full nodes can release the old data for better scalability and at the same time, ensure the integrity of historical data. At the moment, the block generating rate is manually set at 15 seconds. With low enough latency in inter-nodes connection in the future, most blocks will be generated by every 1 second. With the bandwidth at 100Mbit/t and external cryptographic computing hardware, NEO Blockchain is capable of handling thousands, if no tens of thousands, of transactions per second. - Innovative dBFT consensus mechanism
Consensus nodes use Byzantine Fault Tolerance(dBFT) Algorithm to reach consensus and ensure the finality of transactions. The system is operable as long as less than 1/3 of the nodes are dishonest. It is also ensured that the system keeps its finality, meaning that once confirmations are final, the block can not be bifurcated, and the transaction will not be revoked or rolled back. ( more) - Cross-chain interoperability protocol -NeoX
This protocol allows multiple participants to exchange assets across different chains and to ensure that all steps in the entire transaction process succeed or fail together. It is possible by creating a contract account for each participant using the NeoContract function. Any chain should be compatible with NeoX as long as they are compatible with NeoContract or can provide simple smart contract functionality. - Quantum-computer-proof technology: NeoQS
The emergence of quantum computers creates a major challenge to RSA and ECC-based cryptographic mechanisms. For quantum computers can solve thses cryptographic prblems in an extremely short time. Using Lattice-based cryptograph signature and encryption technology, NeoQS can prevent the quantum crisis as Lattice-based cryptography provides encryption problems (e.g. SVP) beyond the capability of quantum computers. *For more in-depth information on NEO’s design goal and technical advantages, please reference our whitepaper.
NEO Seed ProjectNEO Seed is a project aimed at developers around the world. With this project, NEO hope to spread the knowledge on NEO blockchain and bridge the distance between NEO and community developers. We hope to see more developers taking part in new smart contract projects. In the meantime, we shall endeavor to promote new projects on smart contracts, construct the NEO ecosystem, and hopefully find out and foster outstanding projects and project teams. λ Blockchain WorkshopNEO will form a ‘Blockchain Workshop’, uniting the technical members of the community to establish a dedicated column on blockchain technology. This column will update the news about blockchain technologies and discuss about the application practices based on NEO. Technology volunteers will comprise this club. They can submit contents about their related technologies. The NEO team will check these contents before letting them go public. λ Blockchain Programming DayNEO plans to organize online open courses to help global developers open the gate to the smart contract application and development. For the developers with great ideas, NEO would provide technical assistance to help them develop their targeted blockchain applications. λ Testing your NEO applications on the Testnet If you are starting a NEO ecosystem application project, and need NEO or GAS in the test net, please fill in the following application form and send it . Once your application is passed, you will receive an email notification. Note: Application form currently only available in Chinese, please reference this file for the translation of each entry.
Developer's CornerIntroducing directories on GitHub/docs Technical documents including the whitepaper. See the technical doc on /docs/index.md || getting-started.md offers an introduction to the development of NEO. /neo-compiler Compiles Smart Contracts written in multiple coding languages like C#, VB.Net, Java, and Kotlin /examples A collection of smart contracts written in C# that can run on the NEO blockchain. You can reference these for the syntax and details on how to write smart contracts. For more on writing Smart Contracts, please see /introduction.md /neo class library of the project /neo-cli Full Node with Command Line Interface, designed for developers. /neo-gui Full Node with Graphic User Interface, aka Client. For more on nodes please see /node/introduction.md /neo-vm Visual Studio Virtual Machine /neo-devpack-dotnet Development Kit
FAQs* *The full FAQ is available at GitHub. This document is still under constant update. - What is the purpose of rebranding? What new things will the rebranding bring?
NEO wants to be more professional, combining digital assets, securing digital identity and allowing users to write smart contracts in multiple coding languages like Javascript, C++ and Python. NEO is the use of blockchain technology and digital identity to digitize assets, the use of smart contracts for digital assets to be self-managed, to achieve "smart economy" with a distributed network. Additional features will include NeoMessage that supports secure, encrypted peer-to-peer messaging and NeoFS, a distributed cloud storage. Smart fund investments, Online Networking and a Decentralized Exchange will also be implemented in the near future. - When will the new NEO website be updated to fit the rebrand?
NEO Website & Network will be released on August 8. - What's the relationship between ANS and Neo?
Neo is the new name of Antshares(ANS), Neo gas is the new name of Antcoins(ANC). Your ANS will become Neo automatically after the rebrand. Similarly, Your ANC will become Neo Gas as well. - What's the relationship between NEO and NEO Gas?
NEO is the ’shares‘ of the Neo blockchain system. As long as you possess NEO, NEO Gas will be generated automatically in the system according to generation strategy and you can claim your NEO gas as dividends. NEO stands for ownership of the system, NEO gas stands for the right to use the system. PC: Download the NEO client. MAC/Web: use the web app . You can find more information and apps on our reddit sidebar.
NEO CommunityReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NEO/
Slack: https://neosmarteconomy.slack.com/
QQ: 23917224
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NEO_Bloackchain
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NEOSmartEcon/
Blog: https://neo.org/BlogYou can access the latest developments and news on NEO on any of the platforms above. You can post your feedback and advice about NEO on these platforms well. We welcome the participation of volunteers from all over the world. Anyone with expertise and willing to help can get in touch with members of the NEO team. With your help, we hope to bring NEO to a bigger and better place. |
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Rebranding to NEO: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2057932.0
8BTC's new international site holds a joint interview on WINGS and Antshares partnership
check it here http://news.8btc.com/joint-interview-on-collaboration-between-wings-and-chinas-antshare
Introducing Antshares VM: A Light-Weight Universal Blockchain Virtual Machine, see
https://www.antshares.org/en-US/Blog/Details/47
Android/WP/iOS wallet Apps are now available!
WeChat Group: RealTime Updates, add @DavidthePangwaer
Official Announcement from TAT
https://www.antshares.org/en-US/Blog/Details/41
Contributor ANS Claim Guide
https://coins.newbium.com/post/3012-antshares-mainnet-launch-how-to-claim-antshares
https://www.antshares.org/Download/Index
Software Roundup:
Windows Client: running Mainnet, EN supported
Web Wallet: running Mainnet, EN supported
Android Wallet: running Mainnet, EN supported, available via Google Play
iOS Wallet:running Mainnet, EN supported, available via AppStore
WP Wallet: running Mainnet, EN supported, available WindowsStore
MAC: under development
Blockchain Explorer [provided by community contributor]
antcha.in, almost full EN localization complete
ICO Statistics here
https://www.antshares.org/en-US/Blog/Details/36
ICO Escrow Address
https://blockchain.info/address/3Q8pgRFtxbUp8wtGbtQqRNXPs1B4i6enu1
ICO Lottery Draw
https://www.antshares.org/en-US/Blog/Details/34
Winner Announced!
https://www.antshares.org/en-US/Blog/Details/38
Rank Reward
Ranking by amounts invested, top 100 participants may receive rewards:
Reward A: 1 of the top 10, drew by lottery: Round-trip air tickets, hotel allowances and admission fees to the New York Consensus 2017 International Blockchain Summit.
Reward B: 10 of the top 50, drew by lottery: 10,000 AntCoins, this could be used for advanced issuance of your digital assets. AntCoins shall be generated by the ANS held by the Antshares team.
Reward C: 20 of the top 200:
Two Books, Blockchain: Blueprint for A New Economy and Blockchain: from Digital Currency to Credit Society, both served with the authors’ signatures.
Remainders Reward Pool
As the ANS received by valid participants of this ICO will be rounded down, all the remainders will be stored in a Reward Pool. After the termination of the ICO, ONE lucky guy will acquire ALL the remainder ANS accumulated in the Reward Pool.
Digital Asssets for Everyone ICO Escrow：2-of-3 Multi-Signature BTC Wallet Antshares have partnered up with two trusted and reputable institution which will get one key to the multi-signature wallet each. - HaoBTC.com, Chinese famous mining & BTC wallet provider. This 2-of-3 multi-signature is powered by HaoBTC, too. - DACA.asia, Digital Assets Coalition Asia. It was initiated by the companies of : OKCoin, BTCC, HuoBi, BTCTRADE, YuanbaoHui, BITMAIN, and some well-known experts : Yang Linke, Han Feng, Liao Xiang, Hu Hongjie, etc . Asia BlockChain DACA Association is committed to serve the Bitcoin and Blockchain development in Asia area. Dear All: Antshares team will not ask for your private key, or under any circumstance, provide special ICO offer. Watch out for people asking for bitcoin transfer in private. Also, we do not approve any form of IOU trading and advise you to use EXTREME caution.Cointelegraph Storyhttps://www.cointelegraph.com/news/antshares-partners-with-microsoft-to-digitalize-real-world-assets-with-blockchain
BraveNewCoin http://bravenewcoin.com/news/antshares-sets-out-to-be-the-peoples-digital-asset-blockchain/
Also in the news:
Bitcoinist http://bitcoinist.net/antshares-million-ico-two-weeks/
CryptoCoinsNews https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/antshares-blockchain-successful-ipo
Yahoo Finance http://finance.yahoo.com/news/antshares-blockchain-based-ledger-protocol-211400004.html
NewsBTC http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/08/29/antshares-blockchain-based-ledger-protocol-for-financial-applications-launches-successful-ico/
to be continued...
Antshares' Chief Architect Shed Light on the Upcomming Developer Initiative! Tech guys check this out!
https://www.antshares.org/en-US/Blog/Details/31Antshares is a decentralized and distributed ledger protocol that digitalizes real-world assets into digital ones, enabling registration, depository, transfer, trading, clearing and settlement via a peer-to-peer network.
Antshares keeps records of the transfers of digital assets with e-contracts. In Antshares, digital tokens generated by e-contracts function as general underlying data and could be used for recording titles and assets like equities, creditor’s claims, securities, financial contracts, credit points, bills and currencies, and could be applied for areas like equity crowdfunding, equity trading, employee stock ownership plans, peer-to-peer financing, loyalty programs, private equity funds, and supply-chain financing, etc. understand antshares in 90 seconds Linking the Real-World with Compliance - Replacing Tokens with E-ContractsThe transfer on Antshare is conducted in the form the e-contracts. In most cases, the transfer of assets requires the digital signatures signed with the private keys from both the sender and the receiver. In certain cases, an extra signature from the issuer of the asset is required. Recording transfers of assets on the Antshare is merely an onchain solution of the transfer of offchain assets. There are no new legal relationships that parties could enter into, so unlike the tokenization, flaws in laws are eliminated. - User-Controlled Identity AuthenticationAntshare employs digital certificate to perform user identity authentication. Users (individuals or institutions) may apply for digital certificates from the certificate authority (CA) to prove the correlation between the identity and the public key controlled. CAs will not be appointed by Antshare, but freely chosen by the parties of a trade. For example, Chinese users may choose any one of the 38 CAs recognized by the MIIT, or choose the company who registered the equity to be the CA, to perform identity authentication and issue the certificate.Rather than the X.509 digital certificate solution, Antshare employs blockchain to maintain the certificate revocation list and is set to gradually develop a blockchain-based digital certificate and identity authentication solution. Meeting the Demands of Financial Trades - Certainty Bookkeeping without ForksAntshares uses Joint mode for bookkeeping. Joint mode is advantageous over consistency and finality, it requires nodes to authenticate themselves to achieve a weak trust from other nodes. - We Use Fiat CurrencyCrypto-currencies like bitcoin could deliver a sound function as the medium of exchange, i.e. users may transfer assets globally via bitcoin. However, inflexible supply of crypto-currencies makes them highly volatile in price and jeopardizes their capacity to function as bookkeeping units and value storage.This is to say, while ANS is the stake and ANC is the gas, fiat currency can be directly used as currency on the Antshares Blockchain. - The Division of Labor of Nodes and their ProfessionalizationWith Antshare, our design goal is to have a clear division of the system’s workload. Bookkeeping nodes are at the center of the Antshare Blockchain. They are trusted by the holders of AntShares in reaching consensus and generating new blocks. Full nodes are critical participants of the Antshare network. They are run by service providers to store complete historical data and detect and relay transactions. Highly Scalable Framework Design - Low Latency, High Throughput and PluggableAt the moment, the block generating rate is manually set at 15 seconds. With low enough latency in inter-nodes connection in the future, most blocks will be generated by every 1 second. With the bandwidth at 100Mbit/t and external cryptographic computing hardware, the Antshare Blockchain is capable of handling thousands, if no tens of thousands, of transactions per second. - Hierarchical Design and Superconducting TransactionOur hierarchical design places the order-book-keeping and order-matching functions on the second layer while achieving the full trading capacity through a mechanism called superconducting transaction. dBFT Consensus Algorithmhttps://www.antshares.org/Files/A8A0E2.pdf1st refundable ICO (rICO) in the WorldRefund Policy We do have a refund policy should an over-funding scenario comes up due to the unlimited ICO funding target. When the ICO terminates on Sept. 7th, 2016(Beijing Time), ICO participants could have the option of continuing or quitting based on the general conditions of the funds raised. If a participant wishes to continue, he/she will not be required to do any extra operations; if he/she wishes to quit, a refund application should be submitted on www.antshares.org/ico anytime before the formal release of the Antshares Mainnet. When a refund takes place, 100% of the bitcoins invested by the participant shall be refunded to the bitcoin address designated by the participant in his/her refund application. The refund option will become unavailable upon the formal release of Antshares software, which is under development. The release date of the software is not determined yet but will not be within 7 days after the ICO termination, leaving adequate period of time for the participants’ deliberation. All the bitcoins due in the refund process will be sent 30 days after the formal release of the software all together. The refund policy does not support a partial refund and is not revocable once applied. Valid ICO amount and its allocations will be announced within several days after the formal release of our software. Should a special occasion occur during the ICO, say, malicious refund leading to a 2/3 refund ratio, Antshares team reserve the right to proclaim invalidity of this ICO and refund all bitcoins raised.  DA hongfeiCEO & FounderCrypto-currency evangelist since 2011, key opinion leader in China's crypto-currency/blockchain community ZHANG ZhengwenCTO & FounderFormer key bitcoin developer at huobi exchange LI JunArchitect14 years financial IT experience, incl. infosys & China Financial Futures Exchange CHEN ZhitongDeveloperFormer bitcoin developer at huobi exchange LIN PengtaoDeveloperFormer bitcoin developer at huobi exchange FAN ShoushouQA EngineerBusiness members: TAO RongqiBusiness StrategyFormer marketing officer at BTCC with years of experience incl. Standard Chartered, China UnionPay, etc YANG WentaoBusiness DevelopmentLeft Morgen Stanley in Baltimore to join the antshares team, Master of Sci. in Finance at Johns Hopkins WANG TingtingCommunitySocial media marketing expert LUO TianBusiness DevelopmentFormer BTCC marketing officer ZHAO XiaolingMediaGraduated from the top journalism school in China, Fudan UniversityAntshares Blog www.antshares.org/Blog/Index - Bounty Hunter Wanted! Claim your Antshares NOW!We have our ICO rules here: https://www.antshares.org/en-US/Blog/Details?id=21Our short video here: https://youtu.be/eVawK0volwA (Our investment process changed a little bit from what's shown in the video to make it more user friendly, process shown in video is just for reference) ICO process explained: https://www.antshares.org/zh-CN/Blog/Details/26ICO Rules Highlight - 20 million ANS will be issued; in addition, a 4 million ANS weighted reward (early bird reward), amounting 20% and 4% of the total ANS respectively, or 40% and 8% of the volume in circulation of the first year. - This ICO does not have a pre-set price. The price shall be determined by the market. The ANS distribution will be proportional to the investment. To calculate: ANS received by a participant= (BTC invested by the participant/all valid BTC investment)*20,000,000*weighted factor. - A 120% factor is rewarded to those who participate between Aug. 8th and Aug. 13th. Beginning on Aug. 14th, the weighted factor will decrease by 1% each day until the termination of the ICO. For example, the factor will be 119% on Aug. 14th, 118% on Aug. 15th, 117% on Aug. 16th, and finally 100% on Sept. 2nd - When the ICO terminates on Sept. 7th, 2016(Beijing Time), ICO participants could have the option of continuing or quitting based on the general conditions of the funds raised. - When a refund takes place, 100% of the bitcoins invested by the participant shall be refunded to the bitcoin address designated by the participant in his/her refund application. The refund option will become unavailable upon the formal release of Antshares software, which is under development - The refund policy does not support a partial refund and is not revocable once applied. Antshare Press Coverage & Syndication2016-06-29 超级账本中国首次公开见面会，探讨区块链行业标准制定 http://www.8btc.com/hyperledger-onchain-ibm2016-06-28 Onchain与微软合作探索区块链应用，小蚁二期众筹将于七月开启 http://www.8btc.com/onchain-microsoft2016-05-23 Onchain小蚁加盟“超级账本”，参与制定区块链国际标准 http://www.8btc.com/onchain-hyperledger2016-04-07 Onchain发布小蚁共识算法白皮书 http://www.8btc.com/onchain-paper-antshares2015-11-02 10天2100个比特币，小蚁股众筹你“抢”到了吗？ http://www.8btc.com/antshares-2100btc2015-10-09 小蚁众筹目标公布，2100BTC致敬中本聪？ http://www.8btc.com/antshares-2100Antshare in Other Language - German Thanks starsnshamrocks
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Antshare on ICO Research Sites - Smithandcrownhttp://www.smithandcrown.com/event/antshares-ico/ - ICOCountdownhttp://www.icocountdown.com/ - Cyber.fundhttp://www.Cyber.fund/ - ICOLISThttp://www.ico-list.com/Any bounty questions, please contact antshares below  for details |
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There's an official ANN for Antshares' ICO https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1571738.0This would be locked.  AntShares is holding its second ICO in early August.The Antshares blockchain will be used to register digital assets. Asset owners can digitize many different types of assets, which then can be traded on the AntShares blockchain. The team’s approach to asset registration involves tokenizing proofs of ownership over that asset, not trying to represent the asset itself through a token. In other words, a token on the Antshares blockchain represent a standard legal proof-of-ownership accepted in modern society rather than trying to substitute for it. They plan to list private company equities immediately on launching Antshares, with more companies to follow. The crowdsale itself will involve buying Antshares (ANS). ANS will be one method of acquiring Antcoins (ANC), which are used to actually register assets. Both Antshares and Antcoins will be tradeable and Antshare holders will be able to acquire Antcoins through block creation.[1] More on the consensus protocol below. This ICO has a unique refund feature. The BTC raised will go into a 2/3 multisig escrow account, and the development team won’t touch it until the Antshares chain is launched. At any point up until the launch of the final blockchain, participants can request to withdrawal their BTC. Antshares held its first ICO back in October 2015. The ICO lasted for 10 days and raised 2,100 BTC. Since then, they have grown from a team of 4 to a team of 12, and they still have funds left from that sale. The development team will also run a separate company call Onchain that will serve as a marketing and consulting entity for the Antshares chain. Anyone can use Antshares without Onchain, but they can provide support to entities who want assistance. The code underlying Antshares was written from scratch and is the only blockchain based in China that started as open-source. The code is posted on GitHub, with the first commit posted May 2015. Crowdsale DetailsHow are funds collected? Antshares will collect funds on its page www.antshares.com. Logging in will generate a private key which will be associated with the user and their distribution of Antshares. Funds will enter an escrow account until the Antshares mainnet launches, estimated for October 2016. The private key can be used to access the purchased Antshares at this time and begin trading them in October or November 2016. Coin Distribution A total of 100 million ANS will ever be created. 17.5M were distributed in the first ICO. 22.5 M will be involved in this ICO. 10M were distributed for early contributors, including the development team. 50M will be held in reserve for bounties and other strategic investments, to be distributed after one year at a maximum rate of 15M per year. They are not being held for the development team. Escrow Used Funds will be held in a multi-signature escrow managed by HAOBTC.com and DACA. Rate Funds will be distributed proportionally based on the total funds left once Antshares launched. This means the effective rate will not be determined until after the refund period is over. There are bonuses for early participants. Contributions in the first five days will enjoy a 1.2 multiplier. Each day thereafter, the multiplier will decrease by .005, with no multiplier on the final (the 45th) day. Project Valuation Based on the 2100 BTC raised in October and the average October price ($265), the project is estimated at roughly $3.1 million. Based on average June price, this is $7.6 million. The second ICO is likely to change this valuation. Currencies used BTC How do the coins or tokens work?How are they used? Antshares are used to accumulate another token, ANC, which is used to register assets. ANS holders can also vote for nodes to confirm transactions. What is the market for these coins? Tokens on the Antshares blockchain will represent ownership over assets. Moreover, the blockchain is set up to support asset ownership transfer, which is more legally complicated than money transfer. The blockchain transaction is two-way: both sender and receiver sign electronic agreements signifying the transfer. This helps make the Antshares blockchain be compliant with existing regulations and not serve as an independent verification of ownership, but rather a seamless way to digitize and trade existing verifications of ownership. For company equity registration, the Antshares blockchain will keep the information transparent, unchangeable and cheaper relative to existing methods. The first asset to be registered on Antshares will be shares in Onchain, but they expect other companies to follow and other types of assets to be registered. How are they produced? There will only ever be 100M ANS tokens. At launch, 50M will be distributed (40M between two ICOs and 10M for early contributors). ANC will be distributed during block confirmation. ANC are ‘burned’ when assets are registered and return to a pool. Only 100M ANC will be produced. The consensus model is a Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance, which is similar to Delegated Proof-of-Stake Model. In Antshares, ANS holders will vote on trusted nodes who will confirm transactions. Who is the team behind Antshares?The team behind Antshares is very well known in the Chinese community. CEO Hongfei Da spoke at Bejing Blockchain Summit in 2016 and is a prominent spokesperson for the cryptocurrency community. Other members have been involved in various cryptocurrency projects. Learn MoreAntshares Website https://www.antshares.com/ICO/IndexAntshares Whitepaper (currently in Chinese) https://www.antshares.com/Home/Index/#page3Bitcointalk announcement and discussion News About AntShares1）超级账本中国首次公开见面会，探讨区块链行业标准制定 http://www.8btc.com/hyperledger-onchain-ibm2）Onchain与微软合作探索区块链应用，小蚁二期众筹将于七月开启 http://www.8btc.com/onchain-microsoft3）Onchain小蚁加盟“超级账本”，参与制定区块链国际标准 http://www.8btc.com/onchain-hyperledger4）Onchain发布小蚁共识算法白皮书 http://www.8btc.com/onchain-paper-antshares5）10天2100个比特币，小蚁股众筹你“抢”到了吗？ http://www.8btc.com/antshares-2100btc6）小蚁众筹目标公布，2100BTC致敬中本聪？ http://www.8btc.com/antshares-21007) Microsoft-Partnered Onchain Implements Blockchain Projects with Antshare Technology https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1560815.new#new[1] The model is similar to Factom’s approach of having Factoids and Entry Credits. Antshares function similar to the former, Antcoins similar to the latter. The two differences are that Antshares aren’t used to buy Antcoins directly but instead earn them during the block creation process. The second key difference is that Antcoins will be tradeable. Bounty SystemWe’re going to introduce the Bounty system during AntShares ICO. Anyone earns Antshares will receive them after the ICO termination. (Last edit June 27, 2016) Please take a minute to read through the rest of the introduction post about the bounties: 1, Translations: 50 antshare/500 words The translation bounty applies to any antshareblog. Please stick to the languages you are familiar with and will help the community to know antshare project well. 2, Published Blog/Article: 300 antshare* 100 The original articles or blogs post discussing the AntShares or Onchain onto an existing blog or news site are welcomed. The article must be at least 500 words long. We will awards up to 100 articles. Any interested freelancers or correspondent can contact us through contact@antshares.com with questions you’re interested. Each writer can submit multiple articles. 3, YouTube Videos about AntShares: 300 antshare* 5 The Video can be the combination of AntShares, OnChain and Smart contract, at least 30 seconds long. It can be in the form of an animation, a real life video or whatever you feel it conveys the positive message about Antshares. The first 5 videos that are of acceptable quality will get 300 antshares. 4, bitcointalk.org Signatures: 5 antshare/signature Each signature on our bitcointalk.org win 5 antshares. Multiple signatures are acceptable. The deadline will be announced via our official site. [code][code][center][url=https://antshares.com/?ref=ANTSHARES][color=#F08080]██████[/color][FONT=Century Gothic][b] ... [color=#DB7093][b]ANTSHARES,[/b] DIGITAL ASSETS FOR EVERYONE [b][/b][/color] ... [/b][/font][color=#F08080]██████[/color]
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Antshares is decentralized and distributed network protocol which is based on blockchain technology. People can use it to digitalize assets or shares, and accomplish some financial business through peer-to-peer network such as registration and issuing, make transactions, settlement and payment. It will launch ICO in early Aug. https://www.antshares.com/ICO/Index Antshares use electronic certificate to record digital assets. This certificate as common underlying data can be used to record all kinds of rights such as shares, options, debts, bonus points, fund portions, warehouse receipts, and receivables. It can be applied in equity-based crowdfunding, P2P lending, bonus point system, private funds, supply chain finance and other fields. Antshares blockchain code is completely open-sourced, you can find it on github here: https://github.com/AntShares/AntShares Creativity: Refundable ICO: Uniquely refundable design permits the investment is based on rational choice Consensus algorithm：dBFT (delegated Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus) Original blockchain: AntShares blockchain is not the fork of existing blockchains, the code is totally writen by AntShares blockchain group. We’re the first HyperLedger member from China. Application Scenarios of Antshares: 1 Equity-based Crowdfunding; 2 P2P Lending; 3 Employee Share-Motivation; 4 Electronic Contract Signing Law & Regulations. More information about AntShares ICO will be released constantly… |
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作者介绍：达鸿飞，昵称达叔，80年人，现居上海。11年接触比特币，中国比特币社区的早期参与者。目前正在主持“小蚁”项目——一个合规对接实体世界，基于区块链技术的股权转让和交易系统。微信号dahongfei002。
比特币圈无政府主义和自由主义盛行。比特币试图塑造一个平行于（而不是对接）实体世界的金融系统。这是一场理想和现实的谈判。理想年经、鲁莽，不想对现实做一丁点让步；现实略显老态，但掌握着当下。现实或许愿意变革，但有诸多制约，做不到理想所期望的彻底和决断。
虽然必须羞涩地承认我也是个自由主义者，但是对于区块链的未来，我更愿意和现实讲和。我相信区块链的实名化是一个难以阻挡的趋势，也是区块链进入主流应用的前提。凡是能够分清“实然”和“应然”的理智思考者，看完我的论述，也应该不难得出一样的结论。那就让我们开始吧。
什么是区块链？
最初的区块链仅指比特币的总账文件。这些文件记录了自2009年比特币网络运行以来的所有的交易记录。时至今日（2015年6月）这些文件大约占据了35GB的磁盘空间。总账文件并不集中存储于某台服务器，而是在每个客户端都有一份实时同步的备份。文件公开，任何人都可以查阅、审核。
自比特币后，许多其他数字货币系统使用了和比特币区块链非常类似的总账文件方案。比特币和这些数字货币系统一起可以被称作“区块链1.0应用”。
然后最近两年还出现了一批不再局限于货币领域的区块链应用。涉及领域的包括股权登记、版权登记、智能合约、公证、博彩游戏等等，其共同点是：用和比特币区块链类似的技术来解决货币以外的问题。这类应用通常被称作“区块链2.0应用”。
至此我们可以给出一个广义的区块链定义，即：区块链是一个去中心化维护的公开数据库。区块链1.0应用，用这个数据库来记录货币交易；区块链2.0应用，用这个数据库解决货币以外的问题。
区块链上承载了什么？
1.0时代，区块链上记录的就是数字货币本身。这些数字货币以区块链为母体，因此我们可以将这些数字货币称作原生资产。在区块链上，原生资产的财产本体和权利证明是二者合一的。拥有对应的私钥，就拥有了对应账户下数字货币的绝对支配权，而无需任何第三方（如政府）的确认或协助。
到了2.0时代，区块链上登记的内容发生了重大变化。用区块链登记的股份、债权、版权、产权等不再是本体和权利的二者合一。股份、债务、房产等财产的本体存在于实体世界，区块链上登记的只是实体世界财产权利的一种映射，我们可以将其称作映射资产。拥有对应的私钥，只能保证映射资产在区块链上的支配权。而在实体世界里真正行使权利时，往往都需要公司、政府等第三人的介入和配合。
映射资产需要法律介入
映射资产所反映的权利往往受严格的法律程序的约束。比如：股权的设立需要符合《公司法》的相关规定；股权的转让需受《公司法》对股东优先受让权、股东人数上限等条款的限制；房产的转让属于要式合同，必须在房地产管理部门登记等等。
一个匿名区块链上的映射资产由于缺少资产发行人、持有人等各方的身份信息，一般认为属于法律意义上无效的合同。当资产持有人试图在实体世界行使对应权利的时候，难以证明其所持权益的合法性，无法获得法律救济。过去两年发生在比特币世界的事实已经证明，区块链上虚拟股票的持有人碰到发行人作恶或不作为时，只能自认倒霉。
当区块链开始大量承载实体世界资产的时候，匿名性成为了妨碍区块链技术在金融机构、主流企业得到应用的障碍。
区块链实名化，路如何走？
实际上，我国的现行法律已经为区块链的实名化提供了完整的法律框架。2005年颁布的《电子签名法》确认了“可靠的电子签名与手写签名或者盖章具有同等的法律效力”。并规定可靠的电子签名需满足以下4个条件：
（1）电子签名制作数据用于电子签名时，属于电子签名人专有；
（2）签署时电子签名制作数据仅由电子签名人控制；
（3）签署后对电子签名的任何改动能够被发现；
（4）签署后对数据电文内容和形式的任何改动能够被发现。
是不是发现区块链上用户以私钥进行的电子签名完全符合上述要求呢？于是只要证明某个私钥（或其对应公钥）的持有者的身份，那么区块链上所有这个经过私钥签名的交易就都是实名化的了。证明的方法就是向CA机构（数字证书认证机构）申请一份认证其身份的数字证书。
截止2015年，国家商用密码管理办公室已经许可了38家CA机构提供具备法律效力的电子认证服务。这些CA机构一般都采用和区块链类似的密码学方案。CA机构用自己的证书为个人或公司颁发一份认证其身份的数字证书。证书内包含该个人或公司的真实身份信息以及证书持有者与颁发机构两者的电子签名。这样就可以证明，未来用该证书所签署的电子签名是其本人的真实意愿，且在必要的时刻可以公开证书持有人的真实身份。
至此，在区块链上进行要求实名的交易时，双方互相提供CA机构颁发的数字证书即可，并且保证了身份信息只向对方披露。不参与交易的第三方不会获得这些数字证书，也就无法得知双方的身份信息。不想进行实名认证的用户也可以继续使用匿名的账户，但是无法参与到对方要求实名的交易中去。
等等，还有些小障碍
上述思路在实践中还有一些小问题有待解决。在小蚁的开发中我们发现，各种区块链应用普遍使用ECC（椭圆曲线密码学）方案，而我国的CA机构大部分还在使用陈旧的RSA方案。同等安全性下，RSA方案需要约8倍的存储空间和带宽。我国自行研发的ECC方案叫做SM2，而SM2的问题在于它没有在国际上被公认，通用性比较差，比如Windows就不支持。为此，我们正和中国最大的一家CA机构一起探寻兼顾兼容与效率的解决方案，并且取得了一定的进展。
前面说过，区块链是一个公开数据库，每个账户里的资产、交易记录都是公开的。这样的公开透明带来了一个隐私问题：当你把你的账户地址告知交易对方时，对方就能通过区块链查询到这个账户里的所有资产和历史交易了。这可是个大问题！
为了解决这一隐私问题，比特币客户端建议用户每次收款都使用新的地址。这样每次和你交易的对方就只能看到该笔交易，而不是全部；支付协议Ripple由于设计成了新账户需要充值激活，使得用户不得不重复使用同一个账户，导致了Ripple账户的隐私性相当脆弱。
那么实名化的区块链上通过了身份认证的账户怎么办呢？总不能每次交易都换个新账户，做一次身份认证吧？
所幸密码学给了我们强有力的工具。通过使用一些巧妙的密码学方案，完全能够做到保持区块链的公开透明，同时让用户可以重复使用进行过身份认证的账户，而不必担心名下资产、历史交易的隐私泄露。具体的方案，我将会在今后的文章中再详述。
总结一下：
1、区块链正越来越多的被用来承载实体世界的财产，实体世界的财产权利必然受法律的约束和规范；
2、因此，区块链必须结合身份认证，才能合规地对接实体世界的财产权利，才能进入主流应用；
3、区块链在保持公开透明性的同时，也必须保护使用者的隐私，才能被用户所接受；
4、身份认证已有技术上可行且具备法律效力的方案。区块链创业者们，加油！
最后卖个广告。我正在主持的“小蚁”项目是一个区块链2.0应用，以去中心化的方式来完成股权的登记、转让和交易。单是这么说一点都不sexy，但是如果告诉你小蚁可以合规地让任何公司在互联网上发行、交易自己的股权，你会不会联想到P2P化的纳斯达克，或者是证券市场版的Uber呢？
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As Gavin Andresen wrote today posted in Core Development Update #5 https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=290Smarter transaction fees
Today, transaction fees are hard-coded into the Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind wallet software, and the rules surrounding those fees are a collection of heuristics that evolved over the last four years. In short, the current fee-handling code is a complicated mess that will stop working as soon as transaction volume doubles a couple of more times.
In theory, it should be simple: transaction fees should to be set by a give-and-take between the people creating transactions (who want to pay as little as possible) and the people validating and storing the transactions (miners, who would like to be rewarded with higher fees).
And the code that miners are using today to select transactions is simple: they fill their blocks with the highest fee-per-kilobyte transaction (and highest priority transactions, if they choose to set aside some space in their blocks for free transactions).
I’ve been working on teaching the wallet code to estimate how low a fee (or priority) a transaction needs, at the moment it is sent, to be accepted by miners and included in the next block or three. The estimates are based on watching transactions as they are broadcast on the network and keeping track of which of those transactions are accepted into blocks.
The danger with estimating transaction fees is miners have an incentive to try to game the estimate to make transaction fees higher. For example, if the estimate was based on the average transaction fee for all transactions in the last N blocks, miners could add very-high-fee pay-to-self transactions to the blocks that they mine to drive up the average. However, by only considering fees for transactions that have been broadcast on the network that threat is eliminated– miners could broadcast very-high-fee pay-to-self transactions, but would end up paying those high transaction fees to other miners. The transaction estimation code also uses median transaction fees, not averages, to make it much harder for a minority of transactions to influence transaction fees.
If most of the miners got together and agreed to all broadcast lots of high transaction fee transactions they could succeed in driving up the average transaction fee… but that isn’t going to happen because it would be easy for miners to “free ride” by breaking the agreement and just collecting the higher transaction fees for themselves.
All of the above will work well for fully-validating software like Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind. More thinking is needed to figure out how lightweight simplified payment verification software (like Multibit) can better estimate transaction fees, because today they can’t calculate how much transaction fee each transaction is paying.
What do you guys think of this approach? |
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