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Latest Tron (TRX) Crypto News on Project Atlas
Back in mid-June, news spread like wildfire that Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation had officially acquired the peer-to-peer file sharing platform of BitTorrent. The details of how Justin and the team at Tron were going to integrated the platform and its 150 Million users, was not yet known at that time.
What was known was that BitTorrent was key to decentralizing the web according to Justin’s vision as outlined in the Tron Whitepaper. Some fans had even noted that BitTorrent had been mentioned eight times on the document.
The Revelation of Project Atlas
At the end of July this year, Justin and his team unveiled Project Atlas that would kick-start the integration of the BitTorrent platform onto the Tron Ecosystem. Since then, the team has updated continuously on the secret project including during the Tron Virtual Machine (TVM) launch on the 31st of August.
How BitTorrent will Work on the Tron Blockchain
Project Atlas is meant to usher in a new era of content distribution. By using the BitTorrent protocol extension, a custom token, and an in-client token economy to address existing limitations, the team aims at changing how users can exchange value for computer resources on a global scale. The BitTorrent protocol has always had a system to incentivize users, and the Tron blockchain provides a gateway on how to do it.
Justin Sun would further explain the project as follows:
Project Atlas is the foundation for a new way of content distribution. To start, the product will feature faster downloads, more seeds, no mining, and backward compatibility. It is adapted to the world we live in today: mobile, connected, and transparent. We aim to eventually empower all content creators and their communities by eliminating the middleman and enabling content creators to distribute directly to users.
Users will have the option of providing tokens to uploaders in exchange for faster download speeds. BitTorrent peers will be able to offer tokens to incentivize other users to run clients on faster networks and to seed torrents for more extended periods. This will lead to better swarm longevity and faster download speeds for all swarm participants.
Users will also be able to earn tokens for continuing to seed files after a download is complete. That then means the token economy will be based on resources provided and not mining.
Justin Knoll, Project Atlas Lead, explained this further:
Project Atlas is an evolution of torrent technology, not a revolution. With TRON’s blockchain expertise, our growing development team of seven people expects to ship the first features in the coming month.
The Tron Foundation and BitTorrent will be sharing more information about Project Atlas in the coming days and weeks. The first of these events will be on the 28th of September, 7 pm, PST. The livestream will be available on the Tron Foundation twitter page.
In conclusion, this new development has provided the much-needed clarity as to whether TRX will be used inside the BitTorrent protocol. With a custom token to fuel operations on the BitTorrent protocol, this then means it will be created on the Tron network and through the different incentives of Project Atlas, users can accumulate these tokens.
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Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 25th January, 2021, // ChainWire //
Xeno Holdings Limited (xno.live ), a blockchain solutions company based in Hong Kong, has announced the listing of its ecosystem utility token XNO on the ‘Bithumb Korea’ cryptocurrency exchange on January 21st 2021.
Xeno NFT Hub (market.xno.live ), developed by Xeno Holdings, enables easy minting of digital items into NFTs while also providing a marketplace where anyone can securely trade NFTs.
The Xeno NFT Hub project team includes former members of the technology project Yosemite X based in San Francisco and professionals such as Gabby Dizon who is a games industry expert and NFT space influencer based in Southeast Asia.
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XENO starts VIP NFT trading service and collaborates with contemporary artist Hiro Yamagata
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 24th December, 2020, // ChainWire //
The XENO NFT Hub (https://xno.live) will provide a crypto-powered digital items and collectables trading platform allowing users to create, buy, and sell NFTs. Additionally it will support auction based listings, governance and voting mechanisms, trade history tracking, user rating and other advanced features.
As a first step towards its fully comprehensive service, XENO NFT Hub launched a recent VIP service to select users and early adopters in December 2020 with plans for a full Public Beta to open in June 2021.
“NFTs are extremely flexible in their usage, from digital event tickets to artwork, and while NFTs have a very wide spectrum of uses and categories XENO will initially focus its partnership efforts and its own item curation on three primary areas: gaming, sports & entertainment, and collectibles.”, said XENO NFT Hub president Anthony Di Franco.
He also added “This does not mean we will prohibit other types of NFTs from our ecosystem However, it simply means that XENO’s efforts as a company will be targeted into these verticals initially as a cohesive business approach.”
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