Congrats on the launch--ambitious stuff! 🚀
Thank you! Great questions! Thanks for taking the time to ask.
Quick questions: How does content actually stay online in your "decentralized internet" and who's incentivized to keep it available?
EpixNet works fundamentally differently than the centralized internet you're used to. Think of it like Bitcoin nodes. Just as people run Bitcoin nodes to keep the network alive and to use the blockchain, people run EpixNet will also have the ability to host websites and content. It fundamentally uses bit torrent trackers to seed the network website while distributed across multiple nodes, so if some go offline, the content stays available through other nodes. It's a peer-to-peer web where websites live on the network itself, not on corporate servers that can be censored or taken down. The Epix EVM chain runs smart contracts that handle the immutable aspects and incentive structures for EpixNet, while xID provides authentication and identity services across the decentralized web. There have been discussions about incentives for hosting/seeding websites, but I suspect that'll be something that comes in as EpixNet matures.
For EPIX, what's the initial circulating supply and the simple breakdown (team / community / validators)?
The initial circulating supply started at ~23 million EPIX. Max supply is 42 billion tokens. The distribution was 100% fair launch, no team allocation, no presale, no VC rounds. All tokens were airdropped to snapshot holders that can be independently verified through signatures from all addresses that claimed during the testnet phase over the last year. There's also a community pool allocation that receives 2% of ongoing rewards. Validators and delegators earn through network participation rewards from the mint schedule, not through pre-allocated tokens.
Here's a detailed technical breakdown of the tokenomics if you're interested:
https://github.com/EpixZone/EpixChain/blob/main/x/epixmint/README.mdAnd in one sentence, what's the edge over other EVM chains launching this year?
While other EVM chains are just trying to be faster/cheaper versions of Ethereum for DeFi, Epix uses a modular foundation with EVM compatibility layered on top, allowing us to continuously add custom modules that support EpixNet's decentralized internet infrastructure where websites are hosted peer-to-peer and governed by smart contracts.
