[ANN] 💦💦 HYDRO 💦💦 Security & Identity on the Blockchain

[truongdhnh]

I read in the first post that it is related to artificial intelligence. Moreover, there are many areas, i think it will not be easy. Hope to see good project.

[franco_crypto_2001]

salut from paris! Met mr. kane at Paris FinTech Forum. Great project, enjoyed his panel and pitch. Will you have whitepapers in Francais (German)? 

[ProjectHydro]

Yeah I am also confused. How are we going to get the Hydro Tokens? Will it be send on our dashboard or we just have to request access on dev form, even we are not dev? Thanks for the help..

Sorry for any confusion.

Here is a video walkthrough of the signup process - it takes less than 2 minutes! We've also added this video to the OP.

Because the Hydro tokens are used to build on the platform, the airdrop is for those who sign up as Hydro developers. However, it's not necessarily limited to people who code for a living. Please let us know if you have any other questions about that.

[ProjectHydro]

I read in the first post that it is related to artificial intelligence. Moreover, there are many areas, i think it will not be easy. Hope to see good project.

AI is definitely a use case for Hydro where we believe a public ledger layer can add value. We appreciate your kind words and feedback!

[7thsign]

a very interesting project, but it seems it only attracts devs, am i right, please enlighten us more

[ColdEmbrace]

How would you know if the person who signed up is a developer or not? I hope you will have an Airdrop for non devs

[ProjectHydro]

salut from paris! Met mr. kane at Paris FinTech Forum. Great project, enjoyed his panel and pitch. Will you have whitepapers in Francais (German)?  

We appreciate your support all the way from Paris!

There will hopefully be many translations of the white paper in the near future. There is an open bounty if you'd like to participate

[amacar1]

How would you know if the person who signed up is a developer or not? I hope you will have an Airdrop for non devs

They can check person's GitHub repositories.

[HydroAndy]

How would you know if the person who signed up is a developer or not? I hope you will have an Airdrop for non devs

They can check person's GitHub repositories.

That is our plan. It isn't a perfect system and we aren't going to enforce that every repo is filled with projects, but it is the best way we could think of.

[jelma]

I support this projetc, hope this project will be successful and I have filled form airdrop to registration and status still "pending review"
how long untill status accepted ?

[strelok25]

I see this project very promising, i will try to participate in the airdrop of this project.Hopefully this project goes smoothly and good luck for HYDRO. Invite 25K developer to join is pretty great strategy to build strong community.

[ProjectHydro]

I support this projetc, hope this project will be successful and I have filled form airdrop to registration and status still "pending review"
how long untill status accepted ?

Great to hear that you signed up! All of the reviews will be complete by February 16th, 2018 and tokens will be airdropped.

[ProjectHydro]

I see this project very promising, i will try to participate in the airdrop of this project.Hopefully this project goes smoothly and good luck for HYDRO. Invite 25K developer to join is pretty great strategy to build strong community.

Thanks for the kind words! Please let us know if you have any questions during the signup process

[jelma]

I support this projetc, hope this project will be successful and I have filled form airdrop to registration and status still "pending review"
how long untill status accepted ?

Great to hear that you signed up! All of the reviews will be complete by February 16th, 2018 and tokens will be airdropped.

that sounds good, airdrop participants will see and wait until reviews will be complete

[ProjectHydro]

We have launched a referral program for airdrop participants. To all those who have successfully signed up - check your email for details on the referral bonuses!

[ProjectHydro]

Check out our video on the Hydro Raindrop here!

[goplgopl]

The pitch seems similar to other finance-focused projects like ripple/stellar. What's going to separate it from those

[Cryptoinvestor54]

The pitch seems similar to other finance-focused projects like ripple/stellar. What's going to separate it from those

I think the biggest difference is that xrp/xlm are more focused towards payment systems. Hydro seems to be more focused on finance as a whole.

[goplgopl]

The pitch seems similar to other finance-focused projects like ripple/stellar. What's going to separate it from those

I think the biggest difference is that xrp/xlm are more focused towards payment systems. Hydro seems to be more focused on finance as a whole.

XRP and XLM are definitely geared toward payments solutions, but XLM also seems to be building more of a platform (with tokens being launched and FairX exchange, etc). At the end of the day, they are both protocols designed for large-scale payment processing and they offer tangible benefits for financial companies in terms of operational efficiency and speed.

It does seem like they might be targeting the same kinds of companies as Hydro though

[ProjectHydro]

The pitch seems similar to other finance-focused projects like ripple/stellar. What's going to separate it from those

I think the biggest difference is that xrp/xlm are more focused towards payment systems. Hydro seems to be more focused on finance as a whole.

XRP and XLM are definitely geared toward payments solutions, but XLM also seems to be building more of a platform (with tokens being launched and FairX exchange, etc). At the end of the day, they are both protocols designed for large-scale payment processing and they offer tangible benefits for financial companies in terms of operational efficiency and speed.

It does seem like they might be targeting the same kinds of companies as Hydro though

The functionality of Hydro is very different from Ripple and Stellar. We are building a more diverse set of products rather than building our own protocol or focusing on the actual mechanisms of token transfer.

In terms of general design, the main differentiator is the hybrid private-public model Hydro promotes. It adds blockchain as a separate layer to off-chain systems and integrates the two, so companies don't need to rebuild their systems from the ground up with blockchain (and waste tons of money and time). This is how we think blockchain will get adopted in the real world more readily.