Read this article on medium https://pouyae.medium.com/introducing-unchained-a-decentralized-network-for-data-processing-and-validation-92d8333eb304 to understand what unchained is. (A decentralized network for data processing and validation)
Company registration process and new employees
1. We signed the documents for the company registration at the notary office on March 26th. However, Henry was travelling that day and still needs to sign a document before our application is sent to the commercial registry. The registration process is organized by our lawyer and notary, and will be finalized in April.
2. After the registration process is finalized, we will reveal the new company name to the community!
3. Pouya and other team members will be fully employed by the new legal entity starting April 1st.
4. We are in the process of choosing a crypto-friendly bank in Switzerland to open the company's bank account. Henry and other people in our
network are making the intros.
5. We are working closely with an accounting company specialising in cryptocurrency financials, and we are happy to have their help and guidance in all our finance matters!
6. In the coming weeks, we will streamline our social media presence to focus more on technical aspects. This streamlining means some topics in our Telegram group will be retired, and our Discord server will be more active. If community members want to continue any retired topics, they are welcome to do so independently.
7. We're onboarding three new software developers and a creative director:
-Parya is our new project lead; she is an experienced developer and knows her way around startups and the building blocks of a newly registered company.
-Hamid specializes in IoT devices and connecting them with blockchain networks. He will be utilizing his knowledge to extend Unchained.
-Ali is a Big Data specialist and has previously handled multiple +20 terabyte datasets. He will be optimizing Unchained storage and implementing its data availability committee.
-We cannot reveal the name of our new creative director as the hiring process has yet to finish. He has worked with some of the industry's biggest brands. He will oversee all marketing, advertisement, and content creation efforts.
We're thrilled to welcome them to the team!
Unchained and its goals
1. Two of the main objectives of Unchained are facilitating grid and edge computing.
Grid computing, simply put, means all the nodes of the Unchained network will be forming a supercomputer to distribute the load of heavy computations.
Edge computing is a distributed computing model that brings data storage and processing closer to the network's edge (users or IoT devices that request the data to be processed). This minimizes the latency at the edge of the network.
2. Katana NFTs will have a major role in the Unchained Network staking model and governance. In this model, the Unchained network will evaluate the NFT voting power based on their rarity and tier, which is directly used in the Proof of Stake consensus.
3. In the Unchained governance model, the NFTs stack. That means if a wallet holds multiple NFTs, they get the equivalent voting power of all those NFTs added to their wallet.
4. KNS will be used for gas on the Unchained Network
5. We will use Open Collective to bring transparency to the economics of the Unchained network: node rewards, data availability and sales, infrastructure costs, etc.
6. We sold a licence of Unchained to Sworn, which is a distributed network oriented towards the legal domain. The Sworn Network is projected to launch in April. Users running Unchained nodes can also participate in the Sworn Network by running nodes and earning rewards—more information on this will follow.
7. We will decentralize all our current services (Oracle Network, Deep Index) on the Unchained Network as pre-compiled smart contracts that anyone can use. After that's completed, we will discontinue our centralized services.
Products roadmaps and features
1. We will implement open technical roadmaps of our products on GitHub Projects, where people can see what we're working on in real time.
2. The community will also have a say in adding or updating features with EIP-style proposals. If these proposals get approved by our team, we will add them to the roadmap.
3. The community can make proposals on how to spend the treasury tokens or scale the network. If these proposals get approved by our team, a vote will take place for the community to accept or reject the proposal.
Pouya's open source projects moved to the new company
1. We are moving multiple open source projects belonging to Pouya to the new company. These projects have already been implemented and have a consequent user base. They will be utilized in the Unchained Network and other company projects.
The following projects will be moved to the new company:
-Clio, a distributed programming language created five years ago by Pouya specifically for decentralized and distributed networks. Until now, there were no platforms where Clio could be used to its total capacity, so we're very excited to use this technology on a large scale. Keep in mind that Clio has close to 1000 stars on GitHub by developers working for big brands like Amazon Web Services, Google, Visa, IBM, Microsoft, Netflix, and Alibaba Cloud.
-GhostFS, a distributed remote storage backend developed six years ago by Pouya, enables developers to analyze large data sets within a distributed network efficiently. Three years ago, Pouya and Nathalie extended GhostFS to make it even more efficient. This allowed Nathalie to introduce it to various international research projects for which she is a major contributor. One such project, which was part of the now-finalized Human Brain Project, is already in production and used by over 20 research centers across Switzerland and the EU. GhostFS continues to be used in the EBRAINS INFRASERV project funded by the EU and in the Lausanne University Hospital as part of the CHORUS-TRE (Trusted Research Environment) with Nathalie as its Technical Lead.
-Sia, a serialization format and library developed two years ago by Pouya, facilitates inter-process communication in distributed computation frameworks. It acts as a common data language for applications written in different programming languages (Go, Python, Typescript, Rust, C, C++, …) and allows importing functions over networks as if they were local functions.
