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      "memo": "Dear @cartesi, I had quite a long break from publishing my own articles since I've focused my efforts on building Project.hope community and watching it grow. Today however, I would like to share with you link to my recent publication and I surely hope to read your feedback. All valuable comments will be rewarded with solid upvote. Cheers, Piotr // LINK: https://steemit.com/hive-175254/@crypto.piotr/is-crypto-space-is-mature-enough-for-another-bull-run-i-have-my-concerns"
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      "body": "![1 5jtS5xUi4fqjpL5pELdHZw.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPECzKe7GXFrd6R3BgWW2vF6FkwxjWcbq5NYkKYMn6Fay/1%205jtS5xUi4fqjpL5pELdHZw.png)\n\n\nCartesi is pleased to announce a partnership with MixMarvel, a global game publishing platform that is focused on blockchain technology and developing innovative blockchain games.\n\nMixMarvel recently published [Force For Fast (FFF)](www.forceforfast.com), a [blockchain car racing game](https://www.chainnews.com/articles/502873444257.htm?from=groupmessage) involving NFT’s and is working with top enterprises on upcoming blockchain products.\n\nCartesi and MixMarvel will partner up to explore technical cooperation and integration of Cartesi’s infrastructure. With Cartesi’s Descartes SDK, games can unleash massive computation while preserving the strong security guarantees of smart contracts. That will allow both companies to advance with new possibilities in fully-decentralized games.\n\nIn addition, any games built on top of Cartesi will benefit from MixMarvel’s publishing platform in order to better aggregate traffic resources. Cartesi is looking forward to fostering decentralized gaming initiatives, with MixMarvel adding its force on distribution, particularly in the Chinese market.\n\n### About MixMarvel\n\nMixMarvel is a global blockchain game and NFT digital asset publishing platform based on blockchain technology. Self-developed products include the most popular game on Ethereum in 2018, HyperDragons; One of the most popular NFT + DeFi games in 2020, ForceForFast. MixMarvel is backed by well-known funds such as SNZ Holding, Hashkey capital, and Imtoken ventures. As well as established partners such as The Sandbox, NEO, Nervos, Ethereum Community Fund, NEO, Ant Financial Blockchain, Klaytn and Icon.\n\n### About Cartesi\n\nCartesi was founded in 2018 by Erick de Moura, Augusto Teixeira, Diego Nehab and Colin Steil and is building an operating system for DApps. Cartesi allows decentralized applications to run within a Linux environment. Complex processing can be executed off-chain, free from a blockchain’s computational limits and corresponding fees but without compromising decentralization. Cartesi has received funding by prominent investors and funds such as SNZ, SOSV, Artesian and recently concluded a public-sale event with Binance. The team’s vision is to make the development of DApps easy, scalable, and cost-efficient by incorporating tools developers already use.\n\n---\n\n#### Important Links:\n\nWebsite: https://cartesi.io\n\nCreepts: https://creepts.cartesi.io/\n\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/cartesiproject\n\nTelegram Community: https://t.me/cartesiproject\n\nDiscord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Pt2NrnS\n\nGitHub: https://github.com/cartesi",
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      "body": "![1 CAbQIjAarjmYIh0xnFGvOA.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZYnV6mDszp7UKbAutdqtsvYWUtHasgUMqbxgA2bCVsPo/1%20CAbQIjAarjmYIh0xnFGvOA.png)\n\n\n---\n\nDisclaimer: The full version of the CTSI Macroeconomy must be referenced for complete accuracy, legality, and any questions. This Medium version is not to be taken as the complete version under any circumstances. For more information and CTSI Macroeconomy complete version: https://cartesi.io/CTSI_Macroeconomy.pdf\n\n\n### 1. The Staking Problem\n\nAll decentralized systems need a consensus protocol that governs the network whilst trying to achieve security, decentralization and scalability. One of the defining characteristics of such systems is how they implement an algorithm that balances the tradeoffs between those three desirable properties.\n\nProof-of-Stake (PoS) systems achieve consensus by asking users to stake their funds into the platform in exchange for the rights to perform tasks on the network. The stakes are locked as collateral and can be lost in case of malicious behaviour. Moreover, most PoS algorithms are only guaranteed to work under the assumption that no malicious user holds more than 50% (or 33%) of the total amount of tokens available. In other words, it is crucial that tokens are well distributed among the members of the community who participate in the consensus.\n\nAs PoS needs user engagement to work, projects have the need to carefully plan rewards systems to achieve a target participation rate. From the perspective of the user, staking is a problem of opportunity cost: \"does the benefit of staking outweigh the risks and covers the time-value of my money?\"\n\nA popular solution to reward users for staking is to mint new tokens and distribute them among stakers. Besides the obvious incentive to gain extra tokens, the inflation created penalizes those who choose not to participate. The challenge is how to measure the opportunity costs of users and how to choose the appropriate minting amount to achieve a target participation rate, while avoiding exceedingly high inflation rates.\n\nSome projects have a fixed emission rate while others have a dynamic inflation function, which is higher when the participation is below desired and lower otherwise. There are three key problems with these methods:\n\n* You need strong assumptions about users' risk preferences to tailor the parameters of the function;\n* Users have little information about the mining income they will get as it depends on the number of total staked funds.\n* The methods don't allow for differentiation between players with different risk preferences;\n* It is hard to determine a balanced inflation target.\n\nAs a countermeasure to these three issues, Cartesi will provide a staking system based on a novel mechanism called staking rights, detailed in the sections below.\n\n### 2. The Mechanism of Staking Rights\n\nTL;DR: Cartesi Side Chain node operators can stake cartesi tokens by buying staking rights. These staking rights keep CTSI locked until the end of a staking cycle after which it pays the owner the locked principal plus a reward in CTSI. Staking rights are acquired through periodic Dutch auctions and give the owner the rights to execute rewarded mining tasks until their expiration date.\n\nStaking rights give node operators the right to participate in staking. Without the rights, operators cannot be selected in the lottery that chooses the node that will generate the next block.\n\nRights are transitory. At the end of each staking cycle, a set of rights expires and ceases to exist. Conversely, new rights are created and made available for purchase through an auction.\n\nStaking rights always have a final value of 1 CTSI, which is delivered to the account that purchased it at the precise time of their expiry. When users buy a staking right for a price of less than 1 CTSI, the difference between the price paid and the unit value is proportional to their perceived opportunity of the staking right. In that case, the difference is minted and locked in staking together with the price paid, totalizing 1 CTSI staked per right sold.\n\nWhile this is an inflationary solution, we offer methods to maintain inflation under control in a later section.\nHere is an example. Suppose that the desired staking participation rate is 50% of the circulating supply of 1 thousand tokens. In this case, the system creates and auctions 500 staking rights, each scheduled to pay 1 token at the end of the cycle.\n\n* Circulating supply: 1000\n* Target participation: 500 (50%)\n* Staking rights issued: 500\n* Auction price = 0.97\n\nAssume that each staking right is sold for 0.97 in the auction, thereby generating 0.03 new tokens. The staking rights buyer at the end of the staking cycle would be rewarded 1 token obtaining a 3.09% mining income (0.03/0.97). The total inflation generated for the network would be 15 tokens (0.03 per right * 500 rights) or 1.5%.\n\nNote that the price paid during the auction will certainly return to the bidder after the staking period. However, other sources (mine reserve tokens, minted tokens, and fees) will only be paid in case of correct execution of the staking tasks.\n\nWith this system, the user knows exactly how much mining income they will get for their staked tokens, independent of how many rights are sold or how many other stakers exist. There are also no assumptions about risk preferences, buyers will state them through bidding. This method also allows for bigger differentiation between users: instead of asking for a binary decision (stake or not to stake), we allow users to signal at what price they would be willing to stake.\n\nThe system will offer staking rights with different staking cycle periods: 2 weeks, 1 month, and 3 months. This achieves two objectives (1) differentiate between users who are willing to stake long term from short term players and, mainly, (2) decrease volatility in token emission. After all, if all staking cycles end at the same time, all new staking rights will be subjected to the same market conditions that may not represent the average behaviour of stakers.\n\nWith different staking periods, in each cycle only a small number of staking rights will need to be created to replace the expired ones. This is because in each cycle there is going to be a mix of active staking rights bought at different points in time.\n\nUser risk preferences can be stated in the form of a discount rate, the rate used to convert future values (promises of payouts) to the present. The discount rate is the mining income that makes one indifferent between gaining money in the present or in the future. For example, with a discount rate of 10% a year, one would be indifferent between receiving 100 dollars today or 110 dollars a year from now.\n\nThe discount rate of a user can be translated to a staking right value in CTSI using it to compute the present value of all incentives that can be paid by staking the right.\n\nCartesi staking rights give the owner three sources of incentives, provided that the owner remained active within the network:\n\n1) Staking right's unit CTSI value (paid at the end of the cycle)\n2) Mine reserve rewards\n3) The fees, paid by network users when they use the Cartesi Side Chain\n\n\n![0 JmQV2_bGaZqofcgr.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVMonPDrrHcbvEnXKFLwX789jUPTWJwAKChTcR98FEJDh/0%20JmQV2_bGaZqofcgr.png)\n\n\n##### Calculation:\n\nGiven a staking right in a staking cycle of 12 weeks that pays rewards every 2 weeks\n>  MRi the expected mine reward for time i,\n>  NFi the expected network fees for time i\n>  UV the staking right unit value\n>  i the 2-week mining income expected by the user\n>  The price P will be calculated as:\n\n\n![1 poVm95Ie3VHaiUElhTOfew.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQGC1hmSqzd5f2j5yXSFN1HBdhESta47YD4PDMT7YnxMr/1%20poVm95Ie3VHaiUElhTOfew.png)\n\n\n\nMine reserve rewards will come from a fixed reserve of tokens that will be made available for workers on a decreasing rate schedule. Its purpose is to help kickstart the project while there are fewer jobs to be done within the network. For every staking cycle, a fixed percentage of the tokens remaining in the mine will be made available for stakers who run our reference software.\n\nWe designed our macroeconomy in such a way that, in the long run, mine rewards will be close to zero and inflation should no longer be necessary to maintain the infrastructure, since network fees become more relevant as the project evolves and the usage increases. The long term objective is to have only the mechanisms of fees to stimulate the miners to install and run our protocols.\n\nIt is possible that, with increasing usage of the network, the fees reward reaches a level that the price of a staking right will be higher than the unit value, creating a deflationary state for the network. Users may be willing to pay more than 1 CTSI to receive 1 CTSI at expiration plus the other rewards. In this case, instead of minting the difference between the face value and value paid (that would be negative), the funds paid in excess of the face value are split according to the rules:\n\n* 50% is given to replenish the Mining Reserve and 50% is given to further development of the Cartesi infrastructure until the Mine Reserve achieves 25% of the total supply.\n\n* All excessive tokens are burned. By excessive tokens we mean those being distributed to the Mining and for Cartesi's infrastructure that would otherwise make the Mining Reserve go beyond 25% of the total supply.\n\nThe staking right will be sold through a closed price auction of Nth price, which means that the higher bid wins the token but will pay the price of the highest loser bid. For example, If 500 tokens are sold and the 501st highest bid was 0.98, all 500 tokens will cost 0.98. This type of auction, also known as a Vickrey auction (or Dutch auction), ensures all players bid their true valuation of the staking right, revealing their true risk preferences (demonstration below).\nDemonstration:\n>  Given user i has a valuation Bi for a staking right. He can bid (B+)>Bi or (B-)<Bi and the Nth price of the auction ends up being Bn.\n>  If he bids B+ there are two possibilities:\n>  1) Bn < Bi\n>   2) B+ > Bn > Bi\n>  In (1) he would get (Bi - Bn) independent of bidding B+ or Bi and in (2) he would lose (Bi - B+) that would be larger than (Bn - Bi). In neither cases he has incentive to bid B+.\n>  If he bids B- there are two possibilities:\n>  3) Bn < B-\n>  4) B- < Bn < Bi\n>  In (3) he would get (Bi - Bn) independent of bidding B- or Bi and in (4) he would not get the token, making it better to bid Bi and have the chance to win.\n>  In all possible cases there is no incentive to bid B+ or B-, making Bi the dominant Nash-Bayesian equilibrium.\n\nOne caveat with any inflationary solution to the staking problem is the risk of excessive inflation. Purchasers have little incentive to hold tokens if they are constantly being devalued by new minting and supply increases. The system of staking rights guarantees a maximum cap of inflation to protect users. To understand our mechanism, let us first discuss two ways to limit the total inflation:\n\nFirst. Auction reserve prices: In the worst-case scenario, where all tokens are sold in the auction with a price close to zero, the inflation will be the number of tokens sold, divided by the total supply (50% in our previous example).\nA reserve price means that only bids above a certain value will be considered valid. If we choose a reserve price of 0.7, the worst-case scenario in our example would be an inflation of 15%.\nWith a reserve price, it is possible to choose an acceptable inflation range and guarantee it will be complied with at all times, protecting purchasers and token holders.\n\nSecond. The number of issued tokens: The number of tokens directly affects the inflation. If only 100 tokens are issued (out of a total supply of one thousand), the worst-case scenario for inflation would be 10%.\n\nIn our mechanism, these two variables are controlled dynamically in order to make sure the inflation is never higher than a previously determined ceiling. The number of tokens issued will depend not only on the target participation rate but also on the value of bids from the auction. This number will be capped so that the total newly minted tokens are limited to the maximum inflation. The total newly minted tokens can be calculated as the difference between the face value and the highest bid not honored (the Dutch auction price) times the number of tokens issued.\n\n#### Calculation:\n\n>  Let CAP be the maximum number of minted CTSI desired\n>  Let Nmax be the maximum number of staking rights necessary to achieve the target participation rate\n>  Let B(i) be the i-th largest bid from the auction results\n>  Let N be the number of staking rights issued\n>  N will be chosen as the result of the optimization problem:\n>  Maximize N, subject to\n\n\n![1 uqJr4fl8x0n5FPEpDLWpXA.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmR8ZUxfdSoV8DhhmJBByBD93EeYzrhr92WdCfjYH3Xhpb/1%20uqJr4fl8x0n5FPEpDLWpXA.png)\n\n\nMore precisely, suppose that we sort all the bids made during the auction in decreasing order and plot them as in the figure below.\n\n\n![0 xM1_UTY9Zx7GPIJ_.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTg2yeSR7rFUuu8vWkrEon8aEkJRMSUJpqX1TKy3nxgri/0%20xM1_UTY9Zx7GPIJ_.png)\n\n\nThen N staking rights will be issued in order to preserve the maximum number of CTSI issued (CAP). Therefore, we can dynamically choose the minimum value B(N+1) such that the inflation is within our predetermined bounds.\nThis system also allows for deflation, if the value of the auction ends up above 1 CTSI. This would make sense if people are expecting such a high reward from the fees that they are willing to burn a certain amount of tokens in order to participate. This is depicted in the figure below:\n\n\n![0 VXVlPGq8vhKpWJQE.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUFxiKWXoUgfmAdBPVa74Sjo3Ko6pQaRkbLziw9Ysd3xk/0%20VXVlPGq8vhKpWJQE.png)\n\n\nIt is important to note that there is no way around the tradeoff between participation rate and inflation, to control the later there is the need to sacrifice the former. The advantage brought by the system of staking rights auction is that we maximize participation, while limiting the inflation and allowing workers to express their economic preferences.\n\n\n### 3. Staking Roadmap\nIn Q4 2020, the Cartesi team will release CTSI mining on Mainnet Ethereum. Mining becomes possible when the reference node operator software is stable and ready for distribution. The first version of the node operator will be a partial implementation of the Cartesi Side Chain that includes a functional PoS lottery system and the automatic gradual distribution of tokens from the mine reserve.\n\nNotice that the Cartesi Side Chain itself is due only in Q3 2021. The early distribution of node operators in 2021 is intended to bootstrapping Cartesi's network of node operators, allowing the project enough time to achieve a reasonable staking participation rate and a broad adoption of node operators before the Side Chain is Mainnet-ready. With the Q4 2020 mining milestone, users interested in staking CTSI can receive mine rewards by running their own Cartesi node operators or alternatively by using mining pool services that Cartesi will partner with.\n\nThe auction system and the staking rights will be released in 2021 (more precise timeline to be announced later). That means that, in the period starting from the release of the mining on Q4 2020 until the release of the auction and staking rights, staking will be done directly with CTSI token deposits and not with staking rights. Another important aspect to emphasize is that PoS rewards will come strictly from the mine reserve during this period, which implies that there's no minting of new CTSI and therefore, no inflation.\n\nRemember Cartesi's mine reserve holds 25% of CTSI total supply of 1 billion tokens. The mine will release CTSI according to a decaying function. Consequently, the early days of mining will be highly attractive providing the highest possible distribution rate of tokens. Additionally, due to the exponential character of the curve, the distribution of mine tokens persists throughout many years in the future.\n\nMining CTSI is being designed to stimulate high participation rates. A detailed account of the Q4 2020 mining release will be given later, covering aspects of the PoS lottery system, staking periods, rules, and mine reserve distribution rate.\n\n\n---\n\n#### Important Links:\nWebsite: https://cartesi.io\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/cartesiproject\nTelegram: https://t.me/cartesiproject\nDiscord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Pt2NrnS\nGitHub: https://github.com/cartesi",
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Composed of leading scientific minds, thinkers, leaders and veterans, we remain at the forefront of a blockchain inter-connectivity revolution with the plethora of millions of open-source software products on Linux.\n\n#### Foundation Objectives:\n\nThe Cartesi Foundation is an entity that is committed to bringing mainstream scalability and convenience to developers and users of decentralized applications.\n\nDecentralization is the core goal of what we are building at Cartesi and it is put at the forefront of each decision we make in achieving our vision.\n\nThe Cartesi Foundation actively makes decisions required to put our technology at the forefront of blockchain adoption. The foundation is committed to achieving this vision and the continued development of its roadmap. 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We’re actively working with all market-cap sites to reflect the accurate state of CTSI’s circulating supply.\n\nTotal Supply: 1,000,000,000\n\nCurrent Circulating Supply: 170,241,667 CTSI\nCurrent Undiluted Valuation (July 20th, 2020): $7,756,474\n\nTotal Diluted Valuation (July 20th, 2020): $45,353,015\n\nInitial CTSI Public-Sale Price: $0.015\nCurrent CTSI Price (July 20th, 2020): $0.045562\nThe Current CTSI Allocation Consists of:\n\nAs denoted previously, the 9.77% figure has been held by the Cartesi team. Accordingly, the allocation of that 9.77% of the Supply has gone to various endeavours, some of which are listed below.\n\n* Exchanges: 8,078,650.35 CTSI\n* Employment and Community Operations: 541,725 CTSI\n* Legal, Business Operations, and R&D: 5,794,629.30 CTSI\n* Partnerships: 12,500,000 CTSI\n* Marketing: 6,082,749.40 CTSI\n* Market Making: 64,735,578.95 CTSI\n\nTotal: 97,733,333 (9.7733%) CTSI\n\n### July 23rd, 2020 Unlock\n\nIn accordance with information that has been communicated previously, the very first Cartesi Foundation unlock will occur in the amount of 31,900,000 CTSI (3.19%) of the total supply on July 23rd, 2020.\n\nThere remains an exceptional quantity of future endeavors that will vastly shape Cartesi’s economy and development ecosystem as a whole.\n\n#### Where does the funding go?\n\n* Research and development of Cartesi’s Technology\n* Marketing and community-based objectives\n* Legal Expenses\n* Development Grants\n\nInternal governance consensus is reached by the Cartesi Foundation before devoting or expending CTSI to any event. The Cartesi team holds all its funds in crypto, stablecoins, and fiat. Funds are stored with cold storage multi-signature wallets and USD bank accounts. Moving or using funds requires the approval of at least 3 out of the 5 executives of Cartesi.\n\nThe Foundation reserve unlocks are vital for the development of Cartesi’s tech, bootstrapping its ecosystem, and for the operations of the Foundation itself.\n\nNo entity or token holder is more interested in the health of CTSI’s economy than the Foundation itself for its entire existence and longevity. The Foundation liquidates only the amounts deemed necessary, remaining careful not to disturb the secondary markets of CTSI.\n\n### Unlock Forecast for 2020\n\nEach successive Cartesi foundation unlock will occur on a quarterly basis (every 3 months), occurring on the 23rd day of the new quarter. For the remainder of 2020, the Cartesi Foundation will conclude with one other acquisition of tokens in the amount of 31,900,000 CTSI (3.19%) on October 23rd, 2020. This combined with the July 23rd, 2020 unlock will consist of 6.38% of the total CTSI supply for the remainder of 2020.\n\nThese Cartesi Foundation tokens will bring the grand total to 16.15% CTSI supply unlocked for the Cartesi Foundation since the Binance Launchpad sale.\n\nThe token releases remain consistent with our current report valuations and are obtained upon each corresponding internal milestone achieved. The Cartesi Foundation constructed these unlocks to be steady while remaining relatively small and consistent; this is in contrast to the majority of other cryptocurrency and blockchain tokens and preceding Binance Launchpad cryptocurrencies.\n\nIn total, 40.22% of the total CTSI supply is reserved for the Cartesi foundation and will be fully vested by July 23rd, 2023.\n\n\n### Predicted Supply Curve\n\n\n![0 eiZZyxNTRsNcVl_N.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSkrm1JE4YB3KrjLDWib693RMXvP4nmTFb9sd8Jpo6bNA/0%20eiZZyxNTRsNcVl_N.jpg)\n\n\nThe following chart represents the number and breakdown of all CTSI tokens that are to be released into circulation on a monthly basis. Token inflation for staking rewards will be revealed in the future, which is yet to be finalized, and not presented in the following chart. Mining Reserve tokens will continue to be distributed after April 2024.\n\n\nThe current state of the CTSI distribution curve:\n\nBinance Launchpad Sale tokens comprise 10.00% of the total token supply.\n\n* This has been 100% allocated\n\nSeed Sale tokens comprise 2.00% of the total token supply.\n\n* First (0.29%) unlock will occur in April 2021.\n* Unlocks will occur on a quarterly basis thereafter\n\nPrivate Sale tokens comprise 5.00% of the total token supply.\n\n* First (0.56%) unlock will occur in April 2021\n* Fully vested by April 2023\n\nStrategic Sale tokens comprise 0.67% of the total token supply.\n\n* 0.17% has been allocated\n* Second (0.17%) unlock will be allocated in August 2020\n* Third (0.17%) unlock will be allocated in December 2020\n* Final (0.16) unlock will occur in April 2021\n\nTeam tokens comprise 15.00% of the total token supply.\n\n* First (2.14%) unlock will occur in April 2021\n* Unlocks will occur twice a year, in the amount of 2.14%\n\nAdvisors tokens comprise 2.11% of the total token supply.\n\n* First 0.71% Unlock will occur in April 2021\n* Unlocks will occur twice a year, in the amount of 0.71%\n\nFoundation Reserve tokens comprise 40.22% of the total token supply.\n\n* 3.19% unlock quarterly until 2023\n\nMining Reserve tokens comprise 25.00% of the total token supply.\n\n* To be announced\n\n### Upcoming Next\n\nThe Cartesi Foundation, executive team and all employees remain committed to the success and health of Cartesi and business in 20+ strategic regions worldwide. The team’s priority objectives include continual growth and the prospects of being at the forefront of a new technological revolution.\n\nIn the next few weeks, we’ll be presenting information on the highly anticipated macro-economics and how a unique take on Proof of stake (PoS) will be utilized for the Cartesi Network and to further foster tender growth for the stability of CTSI markets.\n\n#### Cartesi’s Ecosystem Links:\n\nWebsite: https://cartesi.io\n\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/cartesiproject\n\nTelegram: https://t.me/cartesiproject\n\nDiscord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Pt2NrnS\n\nGitHub: https://github.com/cartesi",
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      "body": "Cartesi’s Descartes SDK, just launched, is the first software development kit for DApps that exposes Cartesi’s core technology through a programming interface that DApp developers will find easy to use. With Descartes, DApp developers can quickly and easily understand what it means to augment their Ethereum contracts with gas-free, unlimited, unmetered, and Linux-based off-chain functions.\n\nCartesi’s journey, culminating so far in this landmark software release, has been a most interesting one. This article tells a story (from my particular point of view) of how the Descartes SDK came to be, and it also explores some of what lies beyond Descartes. In the future, we will publish articles that go deeper into the technical details of the Descartes architecture.\n\n### Cartesi’s Proof-of-concept: Creepts\n\nIn Q1 2020, Cartesi released Creepts, which was, and still is, one of the most advanced and ambitious DApps ever developed on Ethereum. The Creepts milestone included not only the release of all source code required to build all of Creepts, but also the hosting of several publicly playable versions of decentralized tower defense tournaments.\n\nThe release of Creepts proves that the Cartesi vision is real. Creepts is a complete and complex DApp that was co-evolved with the Cartesi Core, which is the stack of software libraries and engines that implements the mathematical magic at the heart of Cartesi, and that powers the Creepts code. Creepts would be impossible to do as a regular Ethereum DApp without Cartesi, as the gas cost would be astronomical and the Ethereum network would simply be unable to handle even a vanishing fraction of the total load of one game session.\n\nAlthough Creepts worked and proved the real-world benefits for Linux-based off-chain computing in blockchain-based DApps, the entire software stack of Creepts was not easy to document, that is, to explain. The development process of Creepts was the development process of an application using solid base libraries, but no pre-existing middleware that had its own development process, with its own requirements. The intermediary components of the Creepts architecture are not optimized for reducing the cognitive load at the DApp layer, which is an explicit goal you need when developing middleware for mass adoption by the mainstream programmer.\n\nThus, in Q2 2020, as we were documenting the existing Cartesi API for external developers, we were faced with unexpected difficulties in explaining it to external developers. Somehow, the Cartesi SDK’s API works. It is powerful, flexible, customizable, and modular, with a pretty solid internal design that has its own clear evolutionary path. But when we try to put it in written words, into didactic material, then, suddenly, it looks like massive work, and it doesn’t quite click. So we had to stop for a bit and think about what was going on.\n\n### Too much genius\n\nAs a software developer, that is not the first time I have seen this phenomenon. That is a very particular and specific problem that may be quite common at the cutting edge of software engineering.\n\nFor some reason, I have always ended up working with people who are obscenely intelligent and far more capable than me: the professionals at the very edge of our industry. Maybe that is because I am attracted only by the very edge of possibility in software in general, and in distributed systems in particular.\n\nIt is entirely natural that the middleware may be the last component to appear when a stack is developed from scratch. First, you focus on the core, the foundation. Then, you feel the urge to stretch it all the way up, to the application. It is easy to imagine applications, and it is easy to know what the foundation is, but the middle parts are a mystery because there are several ways to tackle them, and the middle parts are where all of the configurations and domain-specific customization and all of the opinionated design decisions are made. Middlewares are generalizations of an application domain — that, in the case of the general domain of DApps, is still in a formative phase.\n\nThe middleware is the fork in the road. That’s where you decide who you are, as an organization, as a distributed systems project. Foundational components are mathematical challenges. Applications are communication challenges. And middleware is a combination of both. It is where the soft and the hard discipline meet, and where you need to perform alchemy, to combine them. A middleware picks and chooses from the array of advanced weaponry that’s made available by foundational components, and builds a battle plan to support a given class of applications and of development organizations: to fight a specific battle.\n\nBut the genuine mistaking of “middleware that works” with “middleware that is wieldable” is an unmissable hallmark of genius. Because, to the true genius, usability problems don’t exist, as everything appears easy to use or, at least, the complexity is sufficiently manageable. So, when a genius finds some software interface slightly inconvenient to use, it is time to wrap it with an “Easy API” or to scrap it, because odds are that regular people will not be able to use it!\n\nIf you think I’m exaggerating with this talk of “genius,” consider for a moment that the Cartesi company was founded by a couple of professors from the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA), which is basically the Brazilian version of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). And just like the MIT, the IMPA is also name-dropped in popular fiction. IMPA is mentioned in the first season of the Netflix series “Reality Z,” as a way to establish that a character is intelligent. So, yes, this is not actually hyperbole. It is an actual condition. And like with every other condition in the world, it is a buff, but also a nerf. A gift, and a curse. 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Dilip has also assisted numerous ICO projects with great success since 2015.\n\n##### [Christian Laurden - Phillippine Ambassador](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-naitsirhc-46536b16a)\n\nChristian is extensively connected and has a broad spectrum of experiences in community management, since 2017. He will be aiding the Cartesi team in expanding presence through south-east asian countries, including inside the Philippines.\n\n[Do you have what it takes? Apply to become a Cartesi ambassador!](http://cartesi.io/ambassadors/)\n\n--\n\n### Growth and Expansion in May\n\nCartesi is now [Listed on the world's largest Indian exchange, WazirX](https://medium.com/cartesi/wazirx-the-worlds-largest-indian-exchange-will-list-ctsi-495698e0b9c3), strategically expanding our international reach with CTSI and it's ease to acquire for users around the world. Accordingly, Cartesi and WazirX initiated together on a small Social Media contest, a Trading contest and a Creepts Tournament.\n\nCartesi is committed to being as transparent as possible with our community, with these efforts, [our CEO, Erick de Moura, provided insight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0McaBu8lU6c&feature=youtu.be) into current problems, solutions, and how Cartesi is defining the future for the development of decentralized applications (DApps), with Linux and Blockchain technologies. As a follow up to this, [Erick also released a Q&A video, answered questions from the community on our social media platforms.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZ8euh4Kdw)\n\n[We've also been full force on development, focusing on our SDK documentation and tutorials. Our development efforts in the last month were released earlier in May.](https://medium.com/cartesi/cartesi-may-development-recap-expansion-194c281ce741)\n\n--\n\n### Ecosystem Updates\n\n* [Cartesi is now supported on Atomic Wallet](https://t.me/CartesiAnnouncements/156)\n* Accepted into the Blockfolio Signals program\n* Onboarded ambassadors from India, Nigeria, Philippines, and Sri Lanka.\n* [Launched a Cartesi India community.](https://t.me/cartesiindia)\n* [Delta Portfolio Application Integration](https://twitter.com/cartesiproject/status/1257385512710606856)\n* Onboarded several content creators, notable social media influencers and expanded Cartesi's reach through various minor affiliations.\n* There's a strong emphasis on Cartesi's core search engine presence, various actions have occurred this month in this regard.\n* Team initiated on long-term strategies that will coincide with future announcements\n* [Erick De Moura answered community questions about various topics.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZ8euh4Kdw)\n* Erick De Moura participated in the Decentralized Gaming Workshop with Blockchain Gaming Alliance.\n* The team on-boarded 2 new additional part-time engineers in addition to the full-time hires last month — Gabriel Coutinho & Marcos Pernambuco.\n\n\n#### Creepts DApp\n* Coinciding with our recent launch on [WazirX, we also partnered to run a new Creepts tournament!](https://medium.com/cartesi/cartesi-wazirx-5-000-ctsi-creepts-gaming-tournament-begins-4e1f385e6b32)\n* [The tournament is ongoing and you can join the fight to win $5000 in CTSI worth of prizes!](https://creepts.cartesi.io/contest/wazirx/)\n* Various improvements have been made to the Creepts game-play and new features that will be implemented in the near future.\n\n\n\n#### Important Media Mentions\n* Erick de Moura (CEO) and Augusto Teixeira (Chief Scientific Officer)[ held an AMA with Cypto Differ](https://medium.com/cartesi/cartesis-ama-recap-with-cryptodiffer-ece737adacd0), going into depth about all questions related to Cartesi and its vision.\n* [Augusto Texieira (Chief Scientific Officer) was featured on Cointelegraph](https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-interoperability-the-holy-grail-for-cross-chain-deployment), going into depth about the interoperability of blockchains.\n\n\n#### Community Content & Articles\nWe've had 100s of user-generated content and articles for Cartesi. We'll highlight some of the biggest and best pieces of material our community has been creating!\n* [Cartesi info-graphic for our mid-monthly report](https://twitter.com/hi_blessings/status/1265475675982630912)\n* [An Excellent overview on Cartesi's DApp capabilities](https://twitter.com/SamuelChidi0048/status/1266370043736031235)\n* [A full Cartesi infographic breakdown](https://twitter.com/hi_blessings/status/1262011806928822272)\n* [Overview on Cartesi's achievements](https://medium.com/@hiboat/introducing-cartesi-the-operating-system-for-dapps-e258f128e435)\n* [Cartesi - On-Chain vs Off-Chain consensus](https://medium.com/@chidi0048/on-chain-versus-off-chain-consensus-6e164534e68e)\n* [Major adoption hurdles for blockchain](https://medium.com/@chidi0048/major-obstacles-to-widespread-adoption-of-blockchain-technology-2ce35a5b23a9)\n* [An Amazing Overview video about Creepts](https://twitter.com/Titanbarry/status/1267382572046331904) \n* [A Complete recap on Cartesi Article](https://www.publish0x.com/helloadaora/cartesi-a-linux-infrastructure-for-scalable-block-chain-xolmovr) \n* And Much more! 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      "body": "![Banner-Cartesi-Ambassadors.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmapunL5SecSFDehVbWdxxzh4eGzHhpu7mm161vwn5zqnZ/Banner-Cartesi-Ambassadors.png)\n\n\nTo complement Cartesi's all-star development team, the marketing team is pleased to announce the launch of Cartesi's Ambassadorial Program. This initiative is the first of many for global marketing, outreach and onboarding more talent into the Cartesi ecosystem. Through our continued exposure, we recognize the desire to be a part of Cartesi's transformative project; which resides with the conceptualization of how DApps and the future of blockchain are being fundamentally handled and merged seamlessly with mainstream adoption.\n\nA robust Cartesi community is vital to the team's worldwide objectives in the DApp space. As we continue to grow our community, we are seeking leaders, ideas and ongoing improvements to our project. To enhance brand awareness and establish a broader influential sphere, we are passionately devoted to bringing top-quality talent on-board in a formalized fashion. We are grateful for the recent massive interest in assisting us to achieve a more substantial digital marketing presence, in the blockchain's ecosystem, traditional business and software organizations.\n\nTo date, we've opened up 5 highly specific communities: Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Turkish and Korea as a result of highly experienced and talented individuals. 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Accordingly, you will have first-hand access to a variety of our strategies, upcoming announcements, early-access to new DApps and bigger planned actions for mass adoption within crypto and around the world.\nThese are some of the many benefits that ambassadors will acquire.\n\n* Early access to official releases, valuable information and strategic outreach through Cartesi's marketing team.\n* Networking opportunities with Cartesi Team members, partners, and other ambassadors.\n* Active participation in other similar programmes through Cartesi's incubation program for start-ups.\n* Official title and recognition on the Cartesi Ambassadors page.\n* Official recognition and the opportunities to attend local meet-ups and conferences with the Cartesi team.\n* CTSI Token awards based on your active involvement, actions and general importance to Cartesi.\n* Other benefits and awards the Cartesi Foundation may grant.\n\n\n\n## How to Sign-up\nApplications are open, with limited availability, for predefined categories and areas of interest. If a particular role is filled, then your application may be immediately rejected. You are allowed to submit as many applications as you desire.\n\nIf you feel you can make any contribution to Cartesi, we welcome you to submit an application. Ambassadors are required to represent Cartesi through social media, telegram and other external communities when possible.\n\n### Apply today at https://cartesi.io/ambassadors\n\n\n\n## The Future with Cartesi\n\nCartesi's primary business objectives are predicated on 5 key elements that will propel the entire ecosystem forward: development, business integration/adoption, marketing, communication and business development.\n\nWith this ambassadorial program, we'll be capable to effectively manage and emphasize further global outreach, international marketing and broaden a heightened awareness around Cartesi. We hope you're as thrilled as we are and encourage all interested parties to submit an application. 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      "body": "![Banner-2-4 AMA.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmfTKgGiQMw8gaPwtWfpbxWUk4tpNy62XAdaEK5Tw1rbWh/Banner-2-4%20AMA.png)\n\n\n5/1/2020 — We’ve recently conducted an AMA in CryptoDiffer‘s Telegram Community. The AMA was held with Erick De Moura (CEO of Cartesi) and Augusto Teixeira (CSO at Cartesi). Some of the text may have been edited for clarity and grammar.\n\nCrypto Differ Admin — We are glad to have here: Erick De Moura (CEO at Cartesi) Augusto Teixeira (Chief Scientific Officer at Cartesi).\n\nErick De Moura — Hi everyone! We are glad to be here. Thanks!\n\nAugusto Teixeira — Glad to be here!\n\n— Let`s start from the first introduction question —\n\n#### Q1: What is Cartesi and what are the advantages of Cartesi over competing blockchains and protocols?\n\nErick — Cartesi is the Operating System for DApps. We finally bring a real operating system (more specifically a Linux runtime environment) for scalable blockchain DApps. 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Cartesi brings all this infrastructure to blockchain applications. Let me put it like this. If someone knows the basics of programming, they can start writing a website or a smartphone app in a short time. But for decentralized applications, it is very complicated! New languages, lack of libraries, no debugging.\n\nCartesi is removing these barriers. Developers of any background will be able to code decentralized applications on the blockchain without special training. Now, why Linux? This is the standard for developing today. Google, Uber, Airbnb… they are all written in Linux. But that does not mean that end users need to use Linux, they can be on any platform: Windows, Mac, you name it.\n\n#### Q3: What is the function of CTSI and what are its uses?\n\nErick — Cartesi is being developed to be a powerful decentralized server. The first step we did was to write the Cartesi Core, which has already been made public. One can think of it as a powerful decentralized computer. In the Cartesi Core, the CTSI will serve as a deposit to guarantee honest execution. But this powerful decentralized computer is still running on a very slow connection (like an old dial-up), because it uses Ethereum for data transfer.\n\nOur next step is to give this computer a broadband connection. This will be done by the Cartesi side-chain, which will be run by a Proof of Stake algorithm, using the CTSI token. More information on the Cartesi Network and CTSI: https://medium.com/cartesi/cartesi-network-and-ctsi-b9a5e206fedf\n\n\n## Segment 2 : Community Questions\n\n####You are often compared to Truebit and Nervos, what are your similarities and key differences, what are the advantages of Cartesi when compared to these projects?\n\nErick — Essentially, Cartesi brings Linux and empowers DApp developers in a way that the other projects cannot, due to their limited runtime environments. At the same time, it allows for massive computations, while preserving the blockchain security guarantees.\n\nOnce CTSI were list on such a great and popular exchange like Binance. How do you feel? How did this affect Cartesi positively? How was the response from your community? How does the community contribute and how does Cartesi plan to involve them in its development? In case of those developers & technical people … How they can be part of your team?\n\nAugusto — Binance’s listing has been a major event for us. The responsibility and the workload have tripled in the last two weeks. But we are very excited, the development is accelerating and we are trying to move faster than our scheduled roadmap.\n\nConcerning the community, we welcome very much developers who want to build on top of Cartesi! There are several ways to do this. Applying to work with us is the most obvious, but we also want to have people program games and other DApps on top of Cartesi. Contact us on Discord!\n\n#### What is Cartesi teams background? and how did you motivated to create Cartesi project?\n\nErick — Cartesi has a very strong team both in academic research terms and in software engineering terms. We were initially motivated to create a decentralized marketplace for machine learning and computation. But soon we realized we were tapping into a much more generic solution that the whole ecosystem is hungry for.\n\n#### Cartesi is an ecosystem that can support many industries such as finance, games, etc. Thus, it may not be clear to your potential clients and partners what your main goal is. Can you tell us what priority products you are aiming for the first time?\n\nAugusto — Our first objective it to lay down the ground for DApp development. Right now, with Cartesi people can write DApps in a much more scalable and easier way. Much closer to how they write centralized applications.\n\nPut it simply, there is no way that major apps, such as Uber or Airbnb would exist today without a bit operating system (like Linux that they chose for their development).\n\nThe same way, there is no way that a major decentralized application can be written without Cartesi, because we are the only project offering this operating system infrastructure.\n\nAt the same time, we are contacting software teams, companies and game studios to invite them to build the next generation of DApps on top of our technology.\n\nSoon we are also delivering our documentation to aid indie developers to do the same.\n\n#### With current strength of token in the ecosystem as larger what do you think it could be the value OF CTSI token project in the future? And what is beneficial factors or guarantee factors for the investors to know your CARTESI project will be of best in the crypto space?\n\nErick — We are fundamentally committed to mitigating the problem of blockchain adoption, by bringing industrial-grade programmability and standards. Cartesi will allow for DApps to be more powerful and easily built by software experts that don’t have deep knowledge of blockchains. We are working hard to promote the education of Cartesi, incentivizing its adoption and developing strategic partnerships with mainstream software institutions and traditional industries. CTSI plays a very important role as a crypto-fuel for the usage of the Cartesi Network.\n\n####How to earn CTSI?\n\nAugusto — Right now, CTSI is available for purchase on Binance. We are also contacting other exchanges for a broader accessibility.\n\nWe are about to launch bounty programs to engage both developers and community at large.\n\nIn our roadmap we will release our Proof of Stake system, where owners of CTSI will be able to stake their tokens and run a Cartesi Node in order to mine tokens. This will not require any special hardware and will be possible in any personal computer\n\n#### What is your strategy for attracting new users to the CARTESI platform with already tough competitors in the market…! Security/Privacy feature should be the top priority for any organization…! How does CARTESI implement various methodologies to validate the participants.?\n\nErick — (1) We are going to employ all the methodologies that are required to create a network effect — bounty programs, community activities, ambassadors, DApp development subsidy and much more. As we are by design created to mitigate the adoption barrier, we are confident when it comes to onboarding new developers by allowing them to use mainstream software stacks to create DApps.\n\n(2) Security is a top priority and the Cartesi Core tech paper goes in great detail about how it’s preserved. Cartesi doesn’t rely on any kind of reputation system, which are often prone to sybil attacks.\n\n#### Gaming in Cartesi is a risky bet, what happens if the game is adopted by millions of people, will the Cartesi network be able to support it? about your focus on DeFi, how will it be different and better than the rest of the projects?\n\nAugusto — Scalability has always been in the center of our attention and our research focus on this question all the time. We are confident that our infrastructure can handle a very large number of players without breaking security.\n\nThat said, if the number of players grows very fast, there is a risk that the Ethereum mainnet becomes slow, like it happened with Crypto Kitties. Although that does not affect security, we are working on a new release of Creepts that will reduce even further the usage of the layer 1, making it more scalable and faster.\n\n#### Adoption is a headache challenge for every blockchain projects, especially at this sensitive period of the whole market when many blockchain projects were dead since no-one uses their blockchain. What are your team’s strategies and visions on this problem to onboard more users for Cartesi platform?\n\nErick — There’s a lot of experimentation going on with protocols and blockchain technologies. Indeed, the most difficult thing is to create a network.\n\nWhat makes us confident is the fact that we are the first project to bring an industry standard to DApp development that already has a huge network.\n\nWe are not coming up with a new instruction set for our VMs and not imposing the programmability restrictions that all other blockchains do. Instead, we are making for the first-time decentralization compliant with Linux and the vast universe that has been built on top of it for decades.\n\n#### How would you rate your IEO, did you expect this good price result initially? Cartesi x Matic is a great partnership, what can you tell us about the advantage of this?\n\nAugusto — We are very excited with the partnership with Matic because the two projects are complementary. We give a high scalability of computation, while they provide fast and scalable financial transactions. This is a perfect combo. This brings us closer to DeFi applications that need both these ingredients, like complex derivatives and many more.\n\n#### Why was Creepts chosen in the Tower Defense genre for the first Cartesi Dapps? What experience have you gained since yesterday’s Creepts tournament?\n\nErick — A tower defense game was a careful choice to show clearly the unique advantage of Cartesi.\n\nIn a TD game, you have only a few actions of the player with the game, that can be stored on the blockchain in a cost-effective way. On the other hand, the amount of computation involved on a TD game like Creepts is really orders of magnitude above what would be conceivable on-chain. A single Creepts gameplay can easily surpass one trillion microprocessor steps/instructions.\n\nYet, we are able to preserve full decentralization. All that processing happens off-chain, with the same security guarantees of Ethereum.\n\n\n#### Why does Cartesi Need Blockchain Technology? What role does blockchain play in Cartesi?\n\nAugusto — If you write an application like Uber (which is completely centralized in their headquarters) you don’t need blockchain for your operations. You decide everything and people follow the rules. For example, they could increase their fees on drivers tomorrow.\n\nBut Cartesi proposes a new approach, where one can follow a very similar development and deployment process, but make the application completely decentralized. Where the creator of the platform cannot change some rules of the game later (like Uber could have a fixed fee that cannot be increased after the adoption increased). To give such guarantees to the users, these rules have to be written on the blockchain. Then everyone knows that the fee is written in stone.\n\n#### How do you plan to attract developers with knowledge of Linux, GRPC and Solidity? Is there a system of encouragement and motivation?\n\nErick — Yes, we will soon deploy key incentive programs to encourage the creation of DApps on Cartesi. We are very excited about it.\n\n\n#### Q1. In your medium article, it says that “The Economist reported that ‘data’ passed oil as our world’s most valuable commodity. So, what will be Cartesi’s views on data and how will you make use of it utilizing your tech? Q2. How can Cartesi platform solve the problem of making data available/accessible to blockchain? What technology will you use in this?\n\nAugusto — Data as a commodity has grown in a rate that no one could keep up with. Regulations are weak, abuse is rampant.\n\nBlockchain offered a little bit of hope in this direction, because the rules of data usage were made public and verifiable on the blockchain. But the problem is that not only the code (“rules of the game”) were public, but so is everyone’s data :( So there has been little gain there.\n\nWith Cartesi, data is not shared with everyone. It is only made available to the parties that have authorization and could be directed influenced by that particular data (think for example: a medical exam, the doctor and the insurance company).\n\nBut with Cartesi, not only the data is protected, but the “rules of the game” and the code processing this data is at the same time public for inspection. So, we believe that there will be finally a proper tool to start dealing with data abuse.\n\n#### As you move forward to achieve your goals, what are your next highest priorities? and the Cartesi team will have the necessary foundations such as (funds, community, etc.) to quickly achieve those next goals? 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Including:\n\n· fast and cheap data transfers between users and the application (games or others)\n\n· having users interact in the application (for example multi-players games or financial transactions between parties).\n\n· improve the experience of users and developers to make it even closer to that of centralized applications\n\n#### Besides these core improvements, we are planning to make another game to showcase all of that!\n\nErick — There are many important actions in the pipeline. Network and community are fundamental to the widespread adoption of Cartesi: listing on more exchanges, deploying the ambassadorial program, bug bounty, DApp development subsidy, and a number of other community events.\n\nIn parallel, we are working to create ties with traditional software industries, corporations, and the most relevant blockchain protocols.\n\n#### While going through different articles relating to Cartesi and other layer- 2 scalability solutions, I discovered that the only project that works most closely related to Cartesi is Truebit. The connection between Cartesi and Truebit emanates from the fact that both technologies move intensive computations off-chain and then, within the blockchain, use a verification game to efficiently settle disputes regarding the results of these computations.\n\nErick — Aside from Truebit, Arbitrum is another great project that has similarities with Cartesi. 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In order to make life simple for users and developers, we had to take all the complexity on our shoulders.\n\nWe also had difficulty in the beginning to explain what Cartesi is, because of its complexity. Now we are much more comfortable writing our software and explaining it to everyone.\n\nThis experience of having a hard time coding on Ethereum has taught us a very important lesson: “this is not normal”\n\nOur long-term goal is that nobody should suffer so much as we did to do something on the blockchain. If every developer has to go through all the problems that we had during the Cartesi development, the ecosystem will not strive.\n\nWe are here to provide a better way.\n\n\n#### What are the ways that Cartesi generates profits to maintain your project? 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That means that not all these thousands of projects are competitors, they are mostly working on their own fields.\n\nThis is a bit what is happening now on blockchains, many projects solving different types of problems.\n\nBut there is still a fight to find out who are going to be the base platforms on top of which the technology will be built. Like Android, IOS, browsers, http… have been for the internet. We plan to be a major piece in the stack of the Web 3.0. Our moto is: “nobody will be able to build a major decentralized application without using Cartesi.”\n\n#### How do you plan to explain such technical topics to a wider audience? How do you plan to show the world that your product is not just another useless blockchain solution to a non-existing problem?\n\nAugusto — We do our best to explain the tech in simple terms. It is difficult. 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This is a very nice piece of tech that has been discovered in the 90’s and we have reformulated it in various ways to fit the blockchain context.\n\n#### What are the advantages of the Linux infrastructure? And why should a Dapp developer use Cartesi instead of any other Operating System?\n\nErick — Linux is eating the world. A few stats: 96.3% of the world’s top 1 million servers run on Linux. 90% of all cloud infrastructure operates on Linux and practically all the best cloud hosts use it.\n\nFinally, Cartesi is a blockchain project. We are based on open-source and open-standards. That’s also a decisive factor for the choice for RISC-V and Linux.\n\n#### There are many cryptocurrency startups were established by talent teams, but they got problem in raising capital via token sales due to many factors as bear market, bankrupt… This leaded their potential startups fail. 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Users can log in and see their rewards via the Distribution History page in the Account Center.\n* Users from the following countries will not be able to participate in this activity: Belarus, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, United States of America and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), Zimbabwe.\n* Each user’s gameplay data will be submitted after each game. Data may be used to check for malicious actors or be used for marketing purposes.\n* The external Creept’s high-score page may not reflect the actual final results, winners or placements and should only be taken as a “score” reference for players. 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Note however that there is a big problem when we clean-up old data and make it unavailable: it becomes much harder for new users to join the network, since they cannot reconstruct the history from genesis. This problem is mitigated by our Data Availability Protocol solution that we will describe in a later article;\n* Embedding — There is no need for the Cartesi Chain to be a blockchain of its own, with all the complexity that this brings to its design. Cartesi is inherently a second layer solution and, as such, it can use the underlying blockchain for the heavy lifting of its protocol. This makes it very easy to solve complicated problems, such as the ordering of packages, timing attacks, randomization, elections, and so on.\n\nThese are the guiding principles that we are using to design and build the Cartesi Side Chain. Its Proof of Stake algorithm will run on Cartesi Tokens (CTSI), giving the system the required security and decentralization guarantees.\n\nSoon we will release an article explaining how we will achieve a high staking rate for our protocol, while at the same time guaranteeing limited inflation on the system as a whole. Stay tuned for more!\n\n## The Cartesi Token\n\nHaving described the main design principles and features of the Cartesi Side Chain, we now turn to its main ingredient: the Cartesi Token.\n\nWe are currently developing a Proof of Stake blockchain running on top of Ethereum and maintained by a network of Node Operators. 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This is being attempted for instance by the Ethereum blockchain through their Sharding effort. We, however, believe that a more tailored approach should give us much better performance and other guarantees that Ethereum’s Sharding alone cannot provide. This is why we will develop the Cartesi Side Chain.\n\nWe will soon publish a whitepaper with a detailed explanation of how the Cartesi Side Chain will work. For now, let us describe its main requirements and on which points its design can be flexible in order to scale it even further:\n\n* Powerful — Just as everyone expects their internet to have a good bandwidth, we need to have a good volume of transactions per second if we expect to see a viable alternative to centralized services;\n* Data Only — Since the Cartsi Core solves the problem of computational scalability on blockchains, we can focus on the problem of Data Availability now. As soon as transactions are available to all interested parties, processing them can be done essentially for free;\n* Local — Just like Etherem’s Sharding proposition, we also believe that not everyone needs to store and transmit all transactions on the network. However, our Locality solution is flexible and decided by the users instead of fixed in the protocol;\n* Cost-effective — Transaction cost cannot hamper the use of decentralized applications. By combining several technologies together, we expect to bring the price down to the point that it no longer impedes adoption;\n* Proof of Stake — We cannot rely on Proof of Work for the security of our transaction solution as this brings major questions about its sustainability and security. Instead, we will implement a Proof of Stake consensus algorithm;\n* Garbage Collection — We don’t need to keep all processed transactions available forever. This would greatly limit the system, without bringing any real benefits. Note however that there is a big problem when we clean-up old data and make it unavailable: it becomes much harder for new users to join the network, since they cannot reconstruct the history from genesis. This problem is mitigated by our Data Availability Protocol solution that we will describe in a later article;\n* Embedding — There is no need for the Cartesi Chain to be a blockchain of its own, with all the complexity that this brings to its design. Cartesi is inherently a second layer solution and, as such, it can use the underlying blockchain for the heavy lifting of its protocol. This makes it very easy to solve complicated problems, such as the ordering of packages, timing attacks, randomization, elections, and so on.\n\nThese are the guiding principles that we are using to design and build the Cartesi Side Chain. Its Proof of Stake algorithm will run on Cartesi Tokens (CTSI), giving the system the required security and decentralization guarantees.\n\nSoon we will release an article explaining how we will achieve a high staking rate for our protocol, while at the same time guaranteeing limited inflation on the system as a whole. Stay tuned for more!\n\n## The Cartesi Token\n\nHaving described the main design principles and features of the Cartesi Side Chain, we now turn to its main ingredient: the Cartesi Token.\n\nWe are currently developing a Proof of Stake blockchain running on top of Ethereum and maintained by a network of Node Operators. The Cartesi Token will be essential for this system to work as it provides:\n\n* Staking — Since block generators will be selected in proportion to their stakes in the economy, there needs to be a way to query and lock everyone’s balance in the system.\n* Election of block producers — The miners will be selected to propose blocks in proportion to their token balance, so that the network is run by a pulverized community of stakeholders.\n* Slashing — Bad behavior is disincentivized by locking and potentially slashing the tokens of dishonest actors.\n* Transaction fees — Although we are designing our Side Chain to be orders of magnitude cheaper than the underlying main chain, users or DApp developers still need to pay for their transactions to be processed, transmitted and temporarily stored by others. These fees will be paid to Node Operators with the Cartesi Token.\n* Challenge computations — The Cartesi Token will also be important in order to challenge computation results posted on the blockchain. This will work as an exit mechanism that guarantees the correct execution of DApps and discourages bad behavior.\n\nAll these aspects of the Cartesi Token will be further explained in our coming articles on the Cartesi Side Chain and Cartesi Roll-ups.\n\n\n### Important Links:\n\nWebsite: https://cartesi.io\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/cartesiproject\nTelegram: https://t.me/cartesiproject\nDiscord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Pt2NrnS\nGitHub: https://github.com/cartesi",
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      "title": "Cartesi Scalability and The CTSI Utility Token",
      "body": "![1 _yasFuI5VrzT6bXIV1R9bA.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVK4p5rMhjNpcfKDJmASQNf7CL9xYJsP9cDcKods5K9Kc/1%20_yasFuI5VrzT6bXIV1R9bA.png)\n\n\nAs blockchain projects mature and our understanding of the technology progresses, it becomes ever more clear what challenges impede its mainstream adoption:\n\n* Convenience — developing and using a blockchain application is still an overwhelming task, involving a very difficult learning curve and consequently significantly reducing general interest in the technology;\n* Scalability — Blockchains need to perform as well as centralized technology in order to be able to compete with it.\n\nCartesi is a project that attacks these two problems at once, by creating an infrastructure that is at the same time scalable and compatible with battle-tested technologies.\n\nIn our article On Linux and Blockchains, we explain in detail how Cartesi will make blockchain infrastructure compatible with the industry standards of software development, onboarding experienced developers into the decentralized world, without the need to learn idiosyncratic processes and programming languages.\n\nLet us explain below how we tackle the second problem, namely the scalability issues faced by blockchains.\n\n## Scalability\n\nPick as an example any important centralized application, such as Uber, Tweeter, Spotify, or Fortnite. They all involve a large number of powerful servers, receiving millions of messages every minute and storing/processing hundreds of terabytes of data. Meanwhile, decentralized solutions such as Augur, Decentraland, or Cryptokitties are limited to very few expensive transactions per minute, dealing with limited computational capabilities and reduced storage. There is no question that blockchain technology cannot compete on equal grounds with their centralized counterparts.\n\nIn order to understand what we propose as a solution to this challenge, we need first to break the problem into smaller pieces, since in fact scalability is composed of many parts:\n\n* Computation — How complex can the logic of a program be? This is analogous to the CPU power of a server;\n* Transactions — How many messages can we send and confirm into the system per unit of time? This is analogous to the bandwidth of the network;\n* Storage — How many terabytes of data can we store in our server?\n\nLooking at current figures, blockchains struggle to keep up with centralized servers. A very good guideline to measure this problem is the “rule of one million”. This essentially says that blockchains have a one-million-fold disadvantage in each of the above items when compared with their centralized analogues. This is obviously not sustainable in a competitive environment, where every little improvement can make the difference between success and failure.\n\nAlthough oftentimes the three issues mentioned above are treated as a single problem, under the umbrella of “scalability”, each requires its own technological solution. To understand this, recall how these problems were tackled in the centralized world at the end of the last century: fast CPUs, broadband modems, and large-capacity disks. In the blockchain world, this could not be different: we need to treat these issues separately because they are of very different natures.\n\nWe have already addressed the computational limitations of blockchains. This is explained in great detail in our piece On Linux and Blockchains. There we give a brief overview of how we put some beautiful theoretical Computer Science to work and give the blockchain the analogous of a super-computer. With the Cartesi Core, instead of being one million times slower than centralized solutions, DApps can now run at lightning speeds, while maintaining all the security and decentralization guarantees of a blockchain. Our computation solution is already available for developers on our public Github repositories and we have already shown how it can be used in practice by developing a fully decentralized and computational intensive game on Ethereum.\n\nHaving solved the limitations of blockchains in terms of computation, our next step is to unleash its power in terms of transactions. This will be done in our upcoming project: the Cartesi Side Chain, which we describe in the remainder of this piece.\n\n\n## Cartesi Side Chain\n\nThe problem of scaling the number of transactions in a distributed ledger has received significant attention from both researchers and enterprises. We have now a very good understanding of the gains provided by each solution and which technologies compromise decentralization in exchange for efficiency.\n\nFrom all the proposed alternatives, we believe that Data Localization is the most promising and uncompromising solution to this problem. This is being attempted for instance by the Ethereum blockchain through their Sharding effort. We, however, believe that a more tailored approach should give us much better performance and other guarantees that Ethereum’s Sharding alone cannot provide. This is why we will develop the Cartesi Side Chain.\n\nWe will soon publish a whitepaper with a detailed explanation of how the Cartesi Side Chain will work. For now, let us describe its main requirements and on which points its design can be flexible in order to scale it even further:\n\n* Powerful — Just as everyone expects their internet to have a good bandwidth, we need to have a good volume of transactions per second if we expect to see a viable alternative to centralized services;\n* Data Only — Since the Cartsi Core solves the problem of computational scalability on blockchains, we can focus on the problem of Data Availability now. As soon as transactions are available to all interested parties, processing them can be done essentially for free;\n* Local — Just like Etherem’s Sharding proposition, we also believe that not everyone needs to store and transmit all transactions on the network. However, our Locality solution is flexible and decided by the users instead of fixed in the protocol;\n* Cost-effective — Transaction cost cannot hamper the use of decentralized applications. By combining several technologies together, we expect to bring the price down to the point that it no longer impedes adoption;\n* Proof of Stake — We cannot rely on Proof of Work for the security of our transaction solution as this brings major questions about its sustainability and security. Instead, we will implement a Proof of Stake consensus algorithm;\n* Garbage Collection — We don’t need to keep all processed transactions available forever. This would greatly limit the system, without bringing any real benefits. Note however that there is a big problem when we clean-up old data and make it unavailable: it becomes much harder for new users to join the network, since they cannot reconstruct the history from genesis. This problem is mitigated by our Data Availability Protocol solution that we will describe in a later article;\n* Embedding — There is no need for the Cartesi Chain to be a blockchain of its own, with all the complexity that this brings to its design. Cartesi is inherently a second layer solution and, as such, it can use the underlying blockchain for the heavy lifting of its protocol. This makes it very easy to solve complicated problems, such as the ordering of packages, timing attacks, randomization, elections, and so on.\n\nThese are the guiding principles that we are using to design and build the Cartesi Side Chain. Its Proof of Stake algorithm will run on Cartesi Tokens (CTSI), giving the system the required security and decentralization guarantees.\n\nSoon we will release an article explaining how we will achieve a high staking rate for our protocol, while at the same time guaranteeing limited inflation on the system as a whole. Stay tuned for more!\n\n## The Cartesi Token\n\nHaving described the main design principles and features of the Cartesi Side Chain, we now turn to its main ingredient: the Cartesi Token.\n\nWe are currently developing a Proof of Stake blockchain running on top of Ethereum and maintained by a network of Node Operators. The Cartesi Token will be essential for this system to work as it provides:\n\n* Staking — Since block generators will be selected in proportion to their stakes in the economy, there needs to be a way to query and lock everyone’s balance in the system.\n* Election of block producers — The miners will be selected to propose blocks in proportion to their token balance, so that the network is run by a pulverized community of stakeholders.\n* Slashing — Bad behavior is disincentivized by locking and potentially slashing the tokens of dishonest actors.\n* Transaction fees — Although we are designing our Side Chain to be orders of magnitude cheaper than the underlying main chain, users or DApp developers still need to pay for their transactions to be processed, transmitted and temporarily stored by others. These fees will be paid to Node Operators with the Cartesi Token.\n* Challenge computations — The Cartesi Token will also be important in order to challenge computation results posted on the blockchain. This will work as an exit mechanism that guarantees the correct execution of DApps and discourages bad behavior.\n\nAll these aspects of the Cartesi Token will be further explained in our coming articles on the Cartesi Side Chain and Cartesi Roll-ups.\n\n\n### Important Links:\n\nWebsite: https://cartesi.io\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/cartesiproject\nTelegram: https://t.me/cartesiproject\nDiscord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Pt2NrnS\nGitHub: https://github.com/cartesi",
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