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

[HydroAndy]

I want to ask what is short term plans on Hydro? Will you focus on trade on markets or developing project?

Our largest focus for Hydro at the moment is developing great tech and getting companies to use this technology.

[jesangi]

I am wondering how the remaining 75% coins will be used, except for the air drop.

Authenticator seems to be finished, but I wonder how to do marketing(channel).

[boynamnhi]

The project has a specific roadmap. I believe in the project for the immediate purpose of this phase of the project is the development of technology and the use of technology for companies. When this goal is achieved, both the project and the company are profitable. From here, TOKEN also added value and lots of interesting TOKEN have moved to the store to help develop the community. I like this and always support.

[shariomario]

I want to ask what is short term plans on Hydro? Will you focus on trade on markets or developing project?

+1

And of course I still have a few questions:)


BONUS - The project is very nice. we really thank you for your efforts. Thank you very much for your decisions and regarding the exchange and for your efforts.

CRITIQUE - As a criticism, in my opinion the biggest lack of Hydro team is the lack of social media and advertising.

Do you intend to do something about it? Do you intend to work with more people to advertise, to share products and projects on the internet?

Do you think you should make explanations about the feature of Hydro token? do you want to produce content that will lead people to take this token? (it looks like you are only focused on the firm not people)

Do you think to add other languages to your site? So I would like to state that I am ready for Turkish translation.

Thank you again for all your efforts.

We now want to use hydro products!

ta

[khoa10b1]

I signed up for the project,but I did not receive the token,please check help me
mail: k145580201021@gmail.com
my wallet:0xE78E2e949d291FaD8eF9121aBb705B9d779aC71E

[El Loco]

The team is amazing and works hard on the project! Congrats to all! Keep it up 
A little note: you should be more active on social network like Twitter and Reddit because you really deserve more people to spread awareness of the project!

[HydroAndy]

I want to ask what is short term plans on Hydro? Will you focus on trade on markets or developing project?

+1

And of course I still have a few questions:)


BONUS - The project is very nice. we really thank you for your efforts. Thank you very much for your decisions and regarding the exchange and for your efforts.

CRITIQUE - As a criticism, in my opinion the biggest lack of Hydro team is the lack of social media and advertising.

Do you intend to do something about it? Do you intend to work with more people to advertise, to share products and projects on the internet?

Do you think you should make explanations about the feature of Hydro token? do you want to produce content that will lead people to take this token? (it looks like you are only focused on the firm not people)

Do you think to add other languages to your site? So I would like to state that I am ready for Turkish translation.

Thank you again for all your efforts.

We now want to use hydro products!

ta

1. We have heavily increased our tweeting/medium/reddit content over the past few weeks. Do you have other recommendations?
2. We are working on more explainer content on the uses of the token
3. This stuff is a lot of work but we would like to do it eventually

Thanks for the great questions!

[HydroAndy]

I am wondering how the remaining 75% coins will be used, except for the air drop.

Authenticator seems to be finished, but I wonder how to do marketing(channel).

We will announce more plans for this soon

[Abdul Ca]

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UPDATE: March 15, 2018
The redistribution of Hydro is complete!
Please see this post for details on the redistribution.


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https://www.hydrogenplatform.com/images/logo_hydro.svg

The Public Ledger for Financial Services



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Hydro allows private systems to interface with a public blockchain. We propose a new hybrid private-public model that enables financial services platforms to leverage the dynamics of a distributed, transparent, and immutable public ledger. The project focuses on particular areas where this can add value, such as authentication, identity management, document security, transactions, and artificial intelligence.


https://www.hydrogenplatform.com/images/hydro/hydro_private_public.png



Background

Hydro is part of the parent company Hydrogen. Hydrogen is a tech platform for developers and enterprises in the financial services space. Its modular set of APIs offers digital infrastructure and capabilities to quickly prototype, build, test, and deploy sophisticated financial technology platforms and products globally.

We began an integration of blockchain tech as part of the Hydrogen platform during the summer of 2017. Our main consideration was how the Hydrogen API ecosystem, being fundamentally private, can be enhanced by a public blockchain layer. As we laid out our plans to accomplish that, we also realized that our proposed private-public hybrid model can and should be used to enhance systems of all kinds. We are excited to announce Hydro as an open technology suite, with its ongoing implementation in Hydrogen serving as a point of immediate adoption.



Design Principles

We are building Hydro on the Ethereum infrastructure, although we remain platform agnostic. We intend to leverage the thousands of developers globally that are working to make underlying blockchain technology faster, stronger, and more efficient. Hydro focuses on developing product-oriented capabilities, largely centered around smart contract functionality.

Our main design philosophy is that of augmenting off-chain systems rather than outright replacing them. We do not believe that all economic activity will or should move on-chain. Rather, distributed ledger technology can serve to enhance those underlying, fundamentally private systems in specific ways. Hydro is laser-focused on making that a reality and synergizing with the current environment, in order to facilitate real-world adoption of blockchain tech in a meaningful way and introduce the benefits of decentralization, immutability, and transparency.



What Sets Hydro Apart?

Hydro is architected as an independent parallel layer, and its value comes from various interactions between the private and public layers. This means an underlying private system does not need to change in any fundamental way or create any costly new architecture - allowing even large institutions to rapidly adopt blockchain technology beyond the proof-of-concept phase.

Additionally, Hydro is implemented natively into the Hydrogen API ecosystem, offering immediate and direct access to Hydro capabilities. Hydrogen can power many kinds of platforms and applications across the financial services sphere (investing, savings, insurance, financial wellness, etc.) and the company works with a range of clients, from individual developers up to large financial enterprises.



The Hydro Ecosystem

The goal of the project is to create an ecosystem of power-ups that platforms can leverage, in order to easily integrate blockchain technology in ways that add value. The graphic below sets out our vision for Hydro:


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Raindrop

The first Hydro release deals with something that is core to all systems - authentication and security. It was conceived to provide additional protection for sensitive data that is increasingly at risk of breach. In the proposed framework, dubbed ?Raindrop?, on-chain operations performed via smart contract can validate access to private, off-chain systems. This validation layer complements standard private authentication and authorization protocols, such as Google Authenticator and OAuth 2.0, by acting as an additional public factor that must be satisfied before system access is granted. The worldwide developer community, through the decentralized and transparent consensus mechanisms of the blockchain, can now offer greater protection to billions of pieces of sensitive data from bad actors.

The Raindrop authentication process involves 4 entities: an Accessor trying to gain access, a System that denies or grants access, the Hydro module (off-chain), and a Hydro smart contract (on-chain). An example of a System is a REST API, while an example of an Accessor is an API developer. The diagram below depicts how these entities interact during part of the process.


https://www.hydrogenplatform.com/images/hydro/raindrop_auth.png


Please see the white paper and website for more detailed information about how Raindrop works.



Client Raindrop

Unlike enterprises with large systems and APIs, many user-facing clients do not require every access attempt to be logged on-chain. Accordingly, we have integrated a Client functionality into our Raindrop API. This functionality creates a scalable, blockchain-based two-factor authentication for any application’s login portal. To augment this offering, we are developing a mobile app to enable users to confirm login attempts in a simple, user-friendly process. This enables a day-to-day integration of blockchain security to any client application. In congruence with our design philosophy, this process does not require more than a few simple API calls for clients.


Token Distribution for Developers

We concluded our air drop distribution to developers on 2/16, distributing 2,556,219,666 tokens to 11,208 developers. A minimum of 222,222 tokens were distributed to each developer for use in integrating Raindrop authentication and further developing with Hydro and Hydrogen. As of today, developers can sign up for Hydrogen in order to use their tokens to build blockchain-enabled applications.

Hydrogen is a platform built by developers for developers, and there is no cost to sign up. We encourage people to make world-changing applications using Hydro from day one, with no barriers.



Token Dynamics

Hydro utilizes an ERC-20 standard token. The total token supply is 11,111,111,111 (for the atomic number 1). Of those tokens, approximately 23% were distributed to the developers who successfully signed up during the rollout period described above. The remaining 27% of the initial 50% allocation for the airdrop has been moved to the repository – dedicated to helping grow the community. This portion, plus an initially allocated 20% sum to approximately 47% of the Hydro supply in the repository. We will be releasing a detailed document of our plans for the repository in the coming weeks.  The final 30% is reserved for the team.


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We are very excited to launch Hydro and see the amazing ways in which it is used by developers of all kinds! Feel free to comment and ask any questions below - we look forward to engaging with the community!



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#HYDRO IS AN AMAZING PROJECT THAT WOULD HELP TO SUPPORT FINANCIAL SERVICES, I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS HERE:
1-I HAVE A BIG ATTRACTIVE ARABIC COMMUNITY IN TWITTER AND TELEGRAM CHANNEL, WHAT I CAN DO TO SHOW OUR PROJECT MORE VALUE AND MARKETING, TODAY, SOME INVESTORS CONTACTED ME TO INVEST MORE IN THIS PROJECT, BUT I HAVE DOUBT BECAUSE I'VE TRIED TO REACH YOU IN TELEGRAM BUT NO RESPONSE YET, SO I WANT TO TALK WITH ONE ADMIN IN PRIVATE
MY TELEGRAM USER:@AbdulCa

2-CAN WE DEPEND ON #HYDRO TO REPLACE PARTIALLY INFRASTRUCTURE BLOCKCHAIN TO LOWER THE COST OF NEW PROJECTS IMPLEMENTATION?

THANKS

[HydroShane]

Have you invited any major partners to test your blockchain network?

At Hydrogen we already work with some large financial enterprises at various stages of partnership. Part of our strategy is to open the conversation with them about using Hydro blockchain features (with HYDRO tokens).

This combined with our outreach to new institutions, startups, and developers will help us to gain real-world adoption.

[HydroShane]

Out of curiosity why did you and the team decide to do an airdrop as opposed to the standard coin offering?

That's a great question

It's not something you see everyday, but we believe use and progression of the technology is critically important. We wanted to get it into the hands of the people without any financial barriers -- especially those who are developers or involved in the space -- in order to create a strong community base. Not only is this a fairer distribution strategy, it is also more effective in achieving our ultimate goal (widespread adoption of HYDRO).

[ladimeji12]

when is ICO

[HydroShane]

On the many web sites (old news), Hydrio is still not going to enter the exchanges. We have to find a way to fix this. people do not know that and people should know that Hydro is sold now exchanges.

people should know that team now wants it. people should know about the new state of the project. the most negative thing about the project at the moment is; the new state of the project (Hydro in exchanges and want it this)  is unknown to people. people think that Hydro can only be used for developers. This is wrong. Hydro is now a good investment tool not only for developers but also for long-term investors. we need to tell it to people. (team and we should tell.)

We appreciate your feedback on this and we will work to communicate everything more clearly

[shariomario]

On the many web sites (old news), Hydrio is still not going to enter the exchanges. We have to find a way to fix this. people do not know that and people should know that Hydro is sold now exchanges.

people should know that team now wants it. people should know about the new state of the project. the most negative thing about the project at the moment is; the new state of the project (Hydro in exchanges and want it this)  is unknown to people. people think that Hydro can only be used for developers. This is wrong. Hydro is now a good investment tool not only for developers but also for long-term investors. we need to tell it to people. (team and we should tell.)

We appreciate your feedback on this and we will work to communicate everything more clearly

Thank you for your feedback Shane 

I wanna translate your white paper English to Turkish (with my computer engineer friend). Because my major field is  cinema, edit and film Theory but I translated many texts, no problem for me!

[Anthomy]

When the team introduce a blockchain into the real sector, this will be a dizzying success.

[HydroShane]

On the many web sites (old news), Hydrio is still not going to enter the exchanges. We have to find a way to fix this. people do not know that and people should know that Hydro is sold now exchanges.

people should know that team now wants it. people should know about the new state of the project. the most negative thing about the project at the moment is; the new state of the project (Hydro in exchanges and want it this)  is unknown to people. people think that Hydro can only be used for developers. This is wrong. Hydro is now a good investment tool not only for developers but also for long-term investors. we need to tell it to people. (team and we should tell.)

We appreciate your feedback on this and we will work to communicate everything more clearly

Thank you for your feedback Shane  

I wanna translate your white paper English to Turkish (with my computer engineer friend). Because my major field is  cinema, edit and film Theory but I translated many texts, no problem for me!

That's awesome! We will also be giving details later on an ongoing bounty program for community members who want to help out. We had some bounties during the airdrop period, but those are now over so we have to make new ones

[HydroShane]

when is ICO

Hi, there is no ICO for HYDRO. We released an airdrop distribution earlier this year

[Nicksar]

Hi,

  Whenever I recommend Hydro to my friends, they are checking in Coinmarketcap and wrongly bought HOT (Hydro Protocol) instead of Hydrogen Platform? Is there any plans to change the name or to get listed in the Coinmarketcap?

[Nicksar]

Hydro listed in one more exchange - Coincodex

https://coincodex.com/crypto/hydro/

[amacar1]

Coincodex is not an exchange.