We're excited to announce https://oroshi.io/ which aims to map the worlds' facts and opinions on cryptoassets from trusted individuals. The platform is already functional with an embedded Ethereum token, created on https://aragon.org/. It is however still in beta so you can expect to find some bugs here and there. Please do let us know if you find any!

We will be giving away 450,000 Oroshi tokens of the 3,000,001 total supply (15%) to our community participants in return for sharing their knowledge. If you are interested in participating, just sign-up to the platform to see a list of research tasks you can do in return for tokens - there is something for everyone!

What is Oroshi

Oroshi maps the world’s facts and opinions on digital currencies through a curated community of contributors and data partners. Blockchain projects committed to transparency and self-regulation can share key information and have it validated by the community through an open-source platform.

What problem does Oroshi solve?

Digital currency markets are complex and opaque to navigate. The industry is rife with fake news and market manipulation. In the absence of regulatory bodies, the industry has yet to agree on standard disclosure requirements and auditing systems. Questionable information and opinions are therefore scattered across a large number of disparate sources with inconsistent formats. In other circumstances, information that would be common place to have in traditional assets is completely missing.  This misinformation or lack thereof, results in a sub-optimal allocation of financial and human capital.

The solution: Oroshi

The Oroshi solution creates economic incentives for cryptoasset stakeholders to embrace transparency, self-regulate and share information. Oroshi uses a curated community of researchers, thought leaders and validators to complete due diligence and analysis of cryptoassets, enabling greater transparency. The native token, WIND, is required to be listed in the registry and is also used to economically reward community members for their research, analysis and validation activities as well as data steam providers.

The Oroshi organisation

At the core of our philosophy is disintermediating the creation and maintenance of information on digital currencies to present a global, unbiased opinion and pulse. The Oroshi organisation is itself decentralised and was created on Aragon. All major decisions are put to vote on Aragon and only token holders are able to participate. This decentralised governance model helps align incentives amongst token holders and ensures the project is run in a manner that best serves all token holders.

The Oroshi Experts

Oroshi makes it possible for everyone in the world to organize the world's information on digital currencies in a structured, trusted and economically incentivised manner. Experts that apply start off at the same level, building up trust and experience over time. Validation and research activities are then allocated to members according to their skill, experience and Oroshi level. The allocation algorithm is itself open source, ensuring transparency and consensus.

Our principal focus for Oroshi experts include:

• Thought leaders with an interest in writing opinion pieces on digital currencies and blockchain
• Principals and partners at venture funds that have significant experience undertaking general due diligence
• Lawyers across every jurisdiction with an interest in blockchain law
• Financial auditors that want to apply the same financial scrutiny to large blockchain projects as listed companies
• Software security auditors with a knack for unearthing code vulnerabilities and implementing security fixes
• Blockchain metric analysts that can understand how mining data and token supply data impact pricing and network performance
• Financial traders with strong digital currency trading performance track records
• Liquidity providers for digital currencies with a solid understanding of evaluating the liquidity dynamics

If the above sounds like you, please email analysts@oroshi.io

Benefits to Self-Regulating Companies

• Earn Trust - Earn the trust of your community by being transparent and open with them
• Get Feedback - Improve your product by collecting valuable feedback and opinions of others
• Communicate efficiently - Reduce time and friction when releasing product updates
• Shape Development - As an early user, influence the platform features and design
• Acquire Users - Increase your user base through smart product placements

Benefits to Others

• Earn WIND tokens - Get paid in WIND tokens for completing one-off or ongoing research and validation tasks.
• Become a thought leader - Prove yourself to the go-to expert for a specific digital currency
• Good Samaritan - Improve blockchain transparency, reduce scams and expose the best projects
• WIN licences - EARN recurring WIND tokens by winning a contract to become the preferred supplier of a specific dataset

Learn More

Site: https://oroshi.io
Source Code: https://github.com/prediction-vc/CoreOS (coming soon)
Documentation: https://oroshi.gitbook.io/project/ 
Ethereum Token Address: https://etherscan.io/token/0xc9c0ff6344b4bfdee7ace21c4deddd6e43ecb454
Aragon Organisation: https://mainnet.aragon.org/#/oroshi.aragonid.eth/
Forum: https://spectrum.chat/oroshi-io
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/GL1cCEwc0zYYv_Wxtp77gQ


General Queries: info@oroshi.io

Hi There!
Excellent question! We are currently in the final stages of auditing the code internally and are following this approach:
- Phase 1: We will be releasing the API documentation within 2 weeks. We are going to release bounties for developers to built apps/portfolio trackers/news feeds/chrome plugins on top of our own API.
- Phase 2: Releasing our scoring backend modules such as the algorithms for the trading competition, the project scoring and the user ratings. This way we can show exactly the systems behind our website.
- Phase 3: Release of all the modules. Subject to an external code audit.

If you are interested in building something on top of our platform send me a message at marc@oroshi.io and I will send you the docs/updates
as soon as they are available.

Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

Thanks for the kind words @tiosimon

1. The WIND token a MiniMe ERC20 compatible token created on Aragon

2. Members can earn WIND by completing research tasks such as writing opinion pieces on cryptoassets or collecting missing information such as a Github link. You can see a complete list of ways to earn WIND here: https://oroshi.gitbook.io/project/faqs/token-faqs

3. Yes, we were incubated by PredictionVC and raised a private financing round from Yellow.com. 

so oroshi was built to become a platform that became a source of reliable information and knowledge for everyone. will you create the mobile app too?

Good question, we definitely plan on releasing a mobile app in the future yes. Especially given the preference for most people in the world to consume news content on mobile. That said, we are currently laser focused on building a great user experience on the web version. We also need to get the timing right of the mobile app given the Apple app store and Google Play banned quite a few apps that had embedded tokens.