Thank you for the feedback everyone, I'll update the OP with a short summary of the project and Pre-ICO terms today. We're also working on a blog post that will shed some light on the platform's applications, stay tuned to that.
How does the Google cloud platform relate in Figure 4.2?
Rados is, technically, a traditional SaaS business when it comes to features. We will host the data processing pipeline and the data warehouse on google cloud platform because we believe that they have the best infrastructure primitives available compared to, say, AWS, and charge a better price. Namely, when it comes to data warehousing,
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/ blows the competition out of the water, and lets you query and analyze petabytes of data in a convenient format.
Access to some datasets will be restricted behind a paywall and you will be able to get access for a monthly subscription fee. The fee will be charged in Saturn, an Ethereum token that's an extension of the ERC20 standard. Cryptocurrencies have many redeeming qualities, but the one that got us excited for this project is the fact that you can treat smart contracts as programmable money. The goal is to use Saturn as the payment currency for Rados, and display the full history of rados.io's wallet transactions on the website. Think of a typical report that an internet company sends to its shareholders every quarter: revenue, total number of users, number of active users, average revenue per user, etc. etc. By utilizing Saturn's smart contract and our data processing tech we'll be able to update this report in real time.
Will all Eth wallet (MEW, Parity, etc) be able to interact with Rados to withdraw tokens?
Yes, Saturn lives in the Ethereum ecosystem and is compliant with ERC20 standard. So, on the very first day of the ICO, you can already store tokens on your desktop (say Mist), mobile (token.im) or hardware (Ledger Nano S) wallet, and you can trade it on ERC20 exchanges such as
https://cryptoderivatives.market/ and
https://etherdelta.github.io/#PLU-ETH. This ecosystem is one of the main reasons why we chose Ethereum over other platforms that offer token creation, despite all the hacks going on.
The good news is that all recent hacks are caused by negligence rather than exploiting a fault in ethereum's protocol. That's why we won't be releasing our smart contract until we can prove beyond reasonable doubt that all methods of interacting with it are secure.