Cyber Republic Weekly Update 14

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CYBER REPUBLIC Weekly Update/Issue 14 

galvanizing the community. 

As a guiding light since the inception of the 

Elastos project, much of the community will 

miss her. However, as stated in the Elastos 

Weekly Update,“Ms. Li will continue to 

maintain close ties to the Elastos Foundation 

and complete special projects on the 

Foundation’s behalf.” The Elastos Foundation 

had these kind words about Ms. Li:“We thank 

Ms. Li for the enormous contribution she has 

made during this period of Elastos’ growth 

and wish her success in her future endeavors. 

At this time, the Elastos Foundation is not 

looking to fill the CMO position, and the 

responsibilities affiliated with it have been 

appropriately redistributed amongst team 

members.” 

Feng Zhang, 

New CR Interim Council Member 

We at the Cyber Republic echo this positive 

sentiment about Fay. She has always fought 

for the community and her ability to engage 

and connect will benefit Elastos and the 

Cyber Republic for years to come. 

Thank you for your hard work and dedication. 

Once again, we’ve a massive Weekly Update 

packed with new information that 

deserves discourse across all community 

channels. Be sure to read carefully and 

share your opinions as the impact of these 

updates are significant. 

On February 22nd, the Elastos Foundation 

released news regarding Fay Li, Elastos 

Chief Marketing Officer and member of 

the CR Interim Council. She has stepped 

down from her role with the Elastos 

Foundation for personal reasons. Ms. Li was 

critical in forming the Elastos team in the 

West.The only reason there was a public 

sale for the West was because of Fay, and 

she was crucial in building, educating, and 

Taking Fay Li's place in the CR Interim 

Council is Mr. Feng Zhang.As stated in the 

Elastos Weekly Report:“Nominated by the 

Elastos Foundation, Mr. Feng Zhang will serve 

as an Interim Member of the Cyber Republic 

Council in Ms. Li’s place. Mr. Zhang, an early 

member of the community, is a senior lawyer 

who is also experienced in blockchain. We 

look forward to Mr. Zhang’s contributions to 

the Elastos community.” The Cyber Republic 

is looking forward to getting to know Mr. 

Zhang better, and we’ve included an interview 

with Mr. Zhang in this Weekly Update. 

On the development side, we'd like to discuss 

a couple of projects being built to support 

the Elastos Framework.These two 

undertakings are crucial building blocks that 

will help onboard developers to Elastos and 

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the Cyber Republic.They are the React 

Native Project and Trinity Project.The 

React Native Project is based on 

Javascript and allows developers to 

build mobile dapps on top of Elastos. 

Trinity is an Elastos browser that's based 

on Elastos Runtime/Ionic framework. 

February 20th marked a special day for 

the Cyber Republic. React Native 

became the first project to be funded 

through the new CR Consensus. For a 

number of weeks, the React Native 

Suggestion, featured by our Weekly 

Newsletter, was voted on by the 

community and achieved more votes 

than any others.This led to the Interim 

Council to review the suggestion for 

funding and approve it. Kevin Zhang, the 

Elastos Global Technical Community 

Advisor, will meet with the original React 

Native team in order to develop a 

budgeting proposal for the project.The 

proposal will include a payment 

schedule, milestones, roadmap, and 

other details, and it will be returned to 

the community with full and complete 

transparency for a final veto or pass as 

determined by community votes. 

While there remains that final step, we 

are extremely excited for the 

continuation of the team to expand on 

the React Native framework as it acts as 

another way to attract more and more 

developers who code in Javascript. 

This is a huge milestone for the Cyber 

Republic Consensus; it is proof that a 

community suggestion can turn into a 

funded project, and it demonstrates 

how the voice of the community is 

powerful. If you have the skills, 

dedication, and plan for a project to 

develop on top of the Elastos platform 

in the Cyber Republic ecosystem, 

create a suggestion here: 

https://www.cyberrepublic.org/suggestion 

Thanks to both React Native and Trinity 

teams for their hard work and dedication. 

Both are building the very roads 

developers walk in the Cyber Republic 

Ecosystem. We look forward to seeing 

more talented developers and teams post 

their suggestions, and we plan on featuring 

more suggestions in our Weekly Updates in 

the near future. 

We’ve also included in this update a 

motivational letter from Chris Mac, an 

additional term added to our growing 

Glossary, a contribution on Elastos scaling, 

and finally, an important update on an 

initiative from the International 

community on forming a voting alliance 

for DPoS. What are your thoughts and 

concerns about such an alliance and other 

DPoS alliances that are being made across 

various communities? 

Finally, as a follow up to last week’s Weekly 

Update, the Cyber Republic has recently 

posted a demo video of the Trinity beta: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouRiQy 

DuYJI&feature=youtu.be 

In this video, Kiran Pachhai reviews all the 

neat features of the Trinity Browser. He 

breaks down Runtime,Toolchain, Browser, 

and the dapp lifecycle of the Trinity 

framework. 

-By Jeremy G. 

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Table of Contents 

2 Intro 

5 Analytics 

6 Letter to the Community 

8 Summary 

9 Shout out 

10 Elastos is Scalable 

13 International Community: DpoS 

Alliance 

16 CR Terminology 

17 Interview: Feng Zhang 

20 CR Forum 

24 Glossary 

25 Credits

CR Website Analytics: Feb 17 - Feb 23 

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Letter to the Community 

By Chris Mac 

Science fiction is fast becoming science fact. The quality of life for the majority of the 

world’s population has improved miraculously over the past hundred years. It might be 

hard to imagine, but qualitatively, this is true. 

Although a larger number still live in poverty with poor access to education, health care, 

and social mobility, the reality is that a greater global proportion are wealthier, healthier, 

happier and better educated than ever before. Despite global pollution, corruption, 

conflict, and failing political and banking systems, there is much to rejoice in this world; 

perception depends on the lens used. 

What was only dreamed of a century ago is now not only possible, but accessible to many: 

clean water, electricity, radio, healthy food, healthcare, banking, intercontinental air travel, 

human rights, voting equality and social mobility—a cashless, electronic, and immediate 

value transfer. Admittedly, the advances in science and technology have not all been used 

for good especially when men (usually men) seek power through financial conflict or 

physical, destructive, aggression. What we can be sure of, however, is that what was once 

fiction is now fact. 

Achieving these amazing advances has taken determination, persistence, nose-to-thegrindstone 

hard work, trial-and-error, collective effort and above all, resilience. Those 

expecting overnight transformations, whether technological, social, commercial or 

economic, are often disappointed. There will always be set-backs. Revolutionary change 

takes time - and it’s best not to claim victory too early. 

Bitcoin is only ten years old. 

Although conceived nearly two decades ago, Elastos, using the Bitcoin blockchain to 

provide digital identity, is only one year old. In that short time, so much has happened: 

Elastos developers have produced an SPV Wallet SDK, Elastos merged mining, Elastos 

Decentralised ID sidechain service, Elastos Carrier (deployed in a million internet enabled 

devices) and Elastos Dittobox. This is all alive today. Following soon are: Elastos PoW + 

DPoS consensus, both Token and Smart Contract Sidechain Services, an Elastos storage 

system (Hive) and ElaPay for both commercial and individual use. The future for Elastos 

and a safer internet appears bright indeed if you look through the lens of technological 

accomplishment. 

For those who look through the lens of current price (rather than value) or the lens of 

advertising effort (rather than prioritized marketing outcomes), or the lens of 

centralization (rather than distributed networks), the future may look less certain. Worse 

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even, if this bleak lens is shaded with fear and darkness. For those suffering, complaining 

about those working hardest to achieve tomorrow’s future is not only ineffective, but 

darkens the view for everyone involved. Instead, shining a light on the way ahead will 

motivate intrepid explorers, scientists, and all others. It is the clap and yell of a runner’s 

name during their marathon that provides renewed energy. It is the warmth of a kind word 

that gives strength to a community. Rather than energize the negative, focus on what has 

been achieved and what is being built today.This lens of progress brings useful context to 

the bear market. 

As a talented but youthful Cyber Republic, we have much to learn. There is opportunity for 

all to contribute to the success of Elastos by generating real-world products and real 

clients. In what is becoming a diverse and inclusive Cyber Republic, we hold the future with 

our hearts and hands; our will is shaped by our collective actions to build. 

Onwards! 

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Summary 

Here is the latest Elastos Weekly Update: 

https://news.elastos.org/elastos-weekly-updates-22-february-2019/ 

Reminder: take a look and share feedback on these two particularly important topics: 

Elastos DPoS Proposal 

https://news.elastos.org/elastos-dpos-consensus-mechanism-supernodes-and-election/ 

CR constitution 

https://www.cyberrepublic.org/constitution/1 

Project Updates 

Cyber Republic Website 

Main Project Repo: https://github.com/cyber-republic/CyberRepublic 

Git Activity and Updates 

Please refer to the timeline described on this article for more info: 

https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2018/12/27/important-cyber-republic-announcement 

If you are a developer interested in working with the CR or Elastos, here’s a form you can fill out: 

https://goo.gl/forms/pvzDYMsVEs10s6U72 

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Community 

Shout Out! 

Once again, Jimmy is at the helm, creating a doorbell security cam app to contest 

with Ring, a popular home security system. 

https://twitter.com/jimmyhacksstuff/status/1099358843732135936?s=19 

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Elastos is Scalable, 

So Shut the FUD Up 

ByJeremy G. 

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In the world of blockchain and Internet 3.0 projects, communities and pundits alike 

debate about who will gain mass adoption. One nagging theme remains a thorn in 

everyone's foot: scalability. Blockchain is too slow, blockchain isn't efficient, 

blockchain won't be able to process enough transactions per second (TPS) in order 

to reach mass adoption. 

Recently there have been rumblings that Elastos is not scalable and, ultimately, too 

reliant upon the blockchain to reach high TPS.There have also been 

misunderstandings about the side chain structure.The purpose of this article is to 

set the story straight and answer concerns about the Elastos infrastructure and its 

ability to fully scale for the masses. It's the sum of all parts that makes Elastos a truly 

scalable solution. 

One must absorb all the moving parts in Elastos’ well-oiled machine to understand 

fully how Elastos is designed perfectly to scale.The two main areas of focus in this 

piece will be the Elastos Blockchain element and the Elastos Carrier.These are two 

different networks with two totally different sets of functions. Both working in 

tandem creates the fluidity, speed, and efficiency of the Elastos framework. 

First, the Elastos Blockchain network. Kiran Pachhai (KP), the Elastos' Software 

Development Relations Manager, provides great insight regarding the Side 

Chain/Main Chain of the infrastructure:“As for Elastos blockchain, Elastos solves 

scalability issues that most other blockchain projects have by having a sidechain 

architecture. Each sidechain only does one thing and one thing only. You can think of 

public blockchain projects like Ethereum as one single world computer.Though a 

powerful world computer, the more smart contract dapps run on Ethereum, the 

more scalability issues arise. No matter what, a single computer cannot handle an 

infinite number of dapps. It'll reach a theoretical limit, and this will happen to most 

public blockchain projects, too.” In terms of the Elastos main chain, it serves one 

and only one function: to process ELA payments.This is independent of the side 

chains that will all be run on different nodes and computers and not bog down the 

network.“The philosophy of Elastos blockchain technology is not of one world 

computer but rather distributed world computers.This by itself is enough to solve 

any kind of future scalability issue Elastos will encounter.This solution is only 

possible because of the unique architecture Elastos offers. Elastos approaches the 

scalability issue very differently compared to most projects and it's this ingenuity 

that distinguishes itself from other projects”.The side chain doesn't slow the main

chain and the main chain does not slow the side chain; all chains work together yet are also 

independent of one another. 

The second element that makes Elastos truly scalable is its peer-to-peer network: the Elastos 

Carrier. KP explains that blockchain alone is not the final solution in building the smart web. 

The Carrier is a crucial cog in this budding environment devised and built by Rong Chen. 

“Blockchain cannot be used to solve all the problems the internet faces. You need a new 

internet infrastructure or a modern internet infrastructure that improves upon the old, 

outdated infrastructure. Elastos is the latter. You still need the internet but Elastos Carrier is 

built on top of the existing internet to provide more security for applications and users. 

Blockchain is used for trust and authentication and for running smart contracts. Thus, 

Elastos uses blockchain technology for just that and nothing more. Blockchain cannot store 

people's movies or games or music. It's far too slow to store something like that, and it's far 

too slow to transmit this kind of data and information. Because of this, Elastos Carrier is 

needed. 

Elastos Carrier just does the job of the traditional internet but takes it one step further by 

not relying on any central servers to relay information.This means apps built using Elastos 

Carrier, like Hyper, are decentralized because the messages and files you send are not being 

stored on any centralized servers like traditional instant messenger apps.Though this is just 

instant messenger, anything can be built on top of Elastos Carrier. We're talking about 

securing billions upon billions of IoT smart devices that are in people's homes. Elastos 

Carrier is very optimized...” 

Elastos Carrier is optimized to secure and process billions upon billions of smart devices. 

The majority of the time, these devices do not need to go through the Elastos Blockchain, 

which means it won’t bog down the network. Instead, the Carrier will be supported by the 

extensive nodes in the network. Storing movies, data, music will solely be taken care of by 

Elastos Hive, which is based on IPFS, a distributed storage system that apps can utilize to 

store files, messages in a p2p chat, videos, music, and more.This is still in development and 

looks to achieve beta sometime in 2019. Between the Carrier, Hive, and other services 

provided by Elastos--all will operate completely separate from the Blockchain network. It's 

the Carrier that helps in the massive scalability potential of the Elastos ecosystem. 

The combination of the main chain and side chain setup, and its own peer-to-peer Carrier 

network, creates the truly scalable and safe infrastructure that is Elastos. Even concerns 

about maintenance in terms of the upkeep needed for the various side chains will not 

present an issue.As KP states:“There won’t be a lot of maintenance at all since the same 

DPoS node will run all the sidechain nodes on the same machine”. How about the need for 

global consensus, does this make Elastos inefficient and limit overall TPS? “Not at all,” KP 

explains.“If you want a high TPS and you’re not satisfied with Ethereum Sidechain TPS which 

is around 1500 TPS, then you can port existing fast consensus Blockchain platforms as a 

sidechain to Elastos. Elastos is really very agnostic.The only reason there is even a limit to 

ETH sidechain on Elastos is because that’s the limit of the ETH network. If there’s a more 

robust network than ETH, and it’s popular, it’s easy to port it to Elastos.Then you can have all 

the insane TPS you want.” 

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KP repeats the point that Blockchain transactions are only used from time to time and 

thus it does not hinder the performance of the overall network:“Why would apps need 

to talk to the blockchain all the time? You only need to use the blockchain when you 

need to. Instead, you use Elastos Carrier, Hive, and many other upcoming components 

of Elastos to perform those transactions. The speed of Carrier is dependent upon the 

user's internet bandwidth as well as how fast the p2p network is itself.The Carrier has 

not yet been tested with full-on dapps and millions of users utilizing the network, 

however, with the number of Carrier nodes already on the network, it should be very 

fast and efficient.” 

Every project picks its infrastructure, and each has its pros and cons. Elastos believes 

the security of the blockchain is truly what allows for top-notch trust and 

authentication.“Whenever the app uses DID sidechain to store data,” KP says,“you 

wait until the block is confirmed in DID sidechain. Whenever you run ETH smart 

contracts, you have to wait until the block is confirmed in ETH sidechain.” 

The integrity of digital assets for movies and music are handled via a special digital 

assets sidechain.The integrity of dapps are handled via dapp sidechain.Again, there 

will be dedicated sidechain for each specific task and responsibilities. All sidechains 

will use ELA as the base currency, but it's up to dapps if they want their users paying 

through fiat. At the end of the day, however, the purchasing and trading of these digital 

assets via digital assets sidechain is done with ELA. 

That is the core function of the "Elastos digital capsule" that is in active development. 

A typical use-case scenario of how the data and information flow moves within the 

Elastos ecosystem is this: once the act of purchasing a digital asset is completed, the 

end user will rely on Carrier Network and Hive Network and other services to perform 

common tasks such as retrieving the movie and playing it on a screen. Whenever the 

user needs to sell this movie to another person, the digital assets sidechain is utilized 

again which then transfers the ownership to another person attached to another 

user's DID. It's at this point then that this new user has access to that unique movie 

which is in fact stored on Elastos Hive. 

The speed and efficiency of the Elastos sidechains may be considered a better 

solution than what's available to the masses now, and also compared to other 

upcoming projects. 

So, is Elastos scalable for the masses? Yes, Shut the FUD up. 

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International Community 

Activities 

By Joel 

Summary 

Most have heard by now of Elastos DMA which is an intermediate layer enabling developers to 

build decentralized marketing and commerce applications easily. In case you haven’t heard of 

it, you can get the basics and read the whitepaper on their website . 

http://www.elastosdma.org/ 

Recently, DMA has launched an Early Access Program (EAP) which will pick 3-5 projects and 

provide strong technical support to the teams.The application deadline of the program is the 

end of Feb 2019 and you can apply by sending an email to EarlyAccess@elastosDMA.org.The 

program also welcomes people to run a DMA Chinese community. 

Elastos DPoS Node Rights Alliance 

On Feb 20th, the ELA node was upgraded to support registration of DPoS supernode 

candidates. Voting for candidates and the DPoS Election will soon begin. There is a community 

initiative called the “Elastos DPoS Node Rights Alliance” (“ 亦来云 DPoS 节点权益联盟 ”) that has 

been set up,“to allow more token holders to participate and benefit from the Election.” 

There are two kinds of members within this Alliance, namely Node Committee Member (NCM) 

and Voting Member (VM).The Alliance is composed of 36 NCMs and unlimited VMs. NCMs will 

lock-in 5,000 ELA to participate in the Election and use the rest of their ELA to vote. VMs are 

required to place their votes toward all 36 NCMs. 

If any NCM is elected, their profit as a DPoS node, after subtracting the running costs, is treated 

as profit for the Alliance and will be distributed among all members. Each locked-in ELA 

represents a weight of 2 and each voting ELA represents weight of 1. 

For a VM, the return comes from voting (RVM): 

RVM=Voting ELAVotes obtained by the Alliance + 36 locked-in ELA2Profit of the Alliance 

For a NCM, besides the return from voting (using the rest of their ELA besides locked-in ones to 

vote), she can get the return from being a node (RNCM): 

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RNCM=RVM+locked-in ELA2Votes obtained by the Alliance + 36 locked-in ELA2Profit of the 

Alliance 

For example, assume that the total votes gained by the Alliance is 2.64 million and the net 

profit of the Alliance is 30K ELA. If a NCM holds 20K ELA, her profit will be: 

RNCM=(15,0002,640,000 + 36 5,0002+5,00022,640,000 + 36 5,0002)30,000=250ELA 

In the above formulas, the percentages of RNCM will decreases with the increase in total 

votes obtained by the Alliance.This will encourage members to vote. Meanwhile, the 

absolute profit of the NCMs will still increase with votes obtained as the total profit of the 

Alliance increases. 

As the Alliance states, the purpose of running nodes is not for profit but for the following 

reasons: 

Provide a way for token holders to benefit from DPoS Node Election; 

Encourage members to vote; and 

Prevent to collusion of “whales”. 

What are your thoughts? Is this a way to counter the power of whales as it’s an open invite to 

the international community, or will it increase power even further for a small group of 

individuals as in many other DPoS blockchain projects? 

The Alliance is recruiting members, and in particular, Node Committee Members. Interested 

parties can obtain more information by joining the WeChat group (ID: League_of_Elastos). 

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CHINESE COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES 

The way of how ioeX and Elastos cooperate 

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YmPZv_Z-XlR1tLPLz0IBXQ 

HOLD Digest: Elastos Weekly 

https://ihold.com/detail.html?id=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.e 

yJhcnRpY2xlX2lkIjoiNjYzMjYifQ.ARKzoP50i3lvk0wIfi6CX9bgSSleTQwBqnFWj 

e9qwYc 

Elastos: You own your own data 

https://www.7234.cn/elastoss/87596 

Having fun with guessing the lantern riddles and getting the red packets in 

Lantern Festival 

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BSvAVpGu29S3PyC1kKMusQ 

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CR Terminology 

By Kenneth K. 

As there are many terms to such a large project like Elastos and the Cyber Republic, we’ve 

decided to build a growing glossary of terms that can help the less technical understand better 

what the tech means and the impact it could have. This week we’re focusing on React Native, 

which was featured in this weekly update: 

https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2019/02/05/weekly-report-february-4-2019/ 

Term: Elastos React Native 

“Javascript React Native framework runs natively on android and ios devices.As such, the React 

Native framework needs to be customized so that it disables applications from directly 

accessing the internet.The http/https need to be disabled in the framework layer and all 

communications needs to be done using Elastos Carrier instead. 

There is a need to support various other Elastos services such as interacting with the Elastos 

wallet core services such as payment functions, DID(Decentralized ID) services, token sidechain 

services, etc, and as such, appropriate javascript C++ bridges need to be built to support 

React Native applications accessing those services.” 

https://github.com/cyber-republic/elastos-ReactNativeframework/blob/master/doc/whitepaper.md 

Layman’s definition: 

Like Trinity Project, React Native is another way to develop dApps, but like everything, there are 

pros and cons.Trinity and React Native dapps are both written in JavaScript though with 

different frameworks: Ionic vs React Native.Trinity apps are web apps, and React Native apps are 

native apps. 

This means that Elastos React Native apps would be much faster, but Trinity allows for the same 

code to be used for all platforms run within the Trinity browser. React Native, however, can only 

work in Android and iOS while Trinity is able to run on anything that supports the browser from 

Windows to iOS and Android, etc. Both are needed to attract developers to build as developers 

love options. 

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Interview: Feng Zhang (New CR Interim Council 

Member) 

By Joel 

Could you introduce yourself and your background? 

My name is Feng Zhang and my work is primarily in three areas: 

First, I am a lawyer of JT&N Law Firm (Shanghai Branch).There, I’ve been serving as a notary 

for quite some time. I have more than 10 years of experience in legal services and I’ve been 

a legal consultant for central government enterprises, multinational corporations, and 

private fund managers. 

Second, I’m involved in the blockchain community. I am a co-founder and legal advisor of a 

blockchain learning institute called Bit University. I also created the Digital Times 

Blockchain Service Alliance which consists of lawyers and accountants. 

Third, I’m involved in law and blockchain-related research and training. I am a guest 

lecturer at the Golden Academy and DACA Blockchain Open Class, a guest editor of the 

Shanghai Notary, a guest professor and part-time master's tutor at the Center for 

Environmental Resources and Energy Law at the Shanghai University of Political Science 

and Law. I have published more than 10 articles discussing the theories and practices of 

when “Internet Finance Encounters Asset Securitization" in legal and finance magazines 

including Modern Bankers, China Venture Capital, Research of Finance and Education, and 

China Notary. I’ve frequently been interviewed by the media including Southern Weekly, 

Financial Magazine, Faren Magazine (subsidiary of Legal Daily), China Financial Herald, 

China Times, Financial Weekly, and China Business Journal. I am now writing a book titled, 

"Blockchain Regulations and Governance" in my spare time. 

How did you learn about Elastos and why were you invited to join the Interim Council? 

I met Feng Han in a meeting for columnists at the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua 

University near the end of 2015. I started learning about blockchain by reading Han’s 

blockchain articles and have deepened my understanding through several years. 

In September 2016, I started a business project on blockchain certification with some 

partners.Though we closed the project three months later, my interest in the 

development and application of blockchain technology has continued to grow and I 

became even more involved in the field. 

In June or July, 2017, when Feng Han and Rong Chen initiated the Elastos project, Han 

introduced the project to me. 

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I believe that I was invited to join the Interim 

Council because I’ve been involved in Elastos 

since the beginning and my understanding of 

its potential is great. I often discuss with 

Rong, Han, Kevin Zhang, Fay Li, Heng Li, etc. 

about the technical and development issues 

of Elastos, and I have also participated in 

many activities and talked to many members 

of the community, so I am very familiar with 

the Foundation. 

In a new industry like blockchain, regulations 

usually tighten as the industry grows. How will 

these regulations shape the blockchain 

industry and what in your opinion will be its 

impact to Elastos and the Cyber Republic? 

Due to its decentralized, traceable, and nontamperable 

trustless ledger, as well as 

credible certificates of value, blockchain 

technology has become increasingly 

widespread and its applications will exert 

profound impact on the existing legal 

systems. 

However, objectively speaking, establishing 

specific regulatory laws and policies is a 

process of continuous adjustment and 

improvement. I have written articles that have 

refuted the view that decentralized 

applications are, by nature, against regulation. 

Eventually a legal system that is suitable for 

the development of blockchain technology 

applications will be formed. 

Based on my understanding, Elastos has 

embraced regulations from day one. 

Therefore, from a macro perspective, the 

gradual implementation of regulatory 

measures is not contradictory to the longterm 

development of Elastos. Regulation may 

actually be a good thing for Elastos. However, 

microscopically, blockchain regulations are 

still in the process of adjustment. The scope, 

scale, timing and specifications of the 

regulatory measures in different countries 

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may vary, and this may impose good or bad 

effects on different blockchain projects, 

including Elastos. I believe that the team and 

the community will find ways to constantly 

adapt to the changes. 

With your legal background, what is the role 

you’re filling in Elastos and the Cyber 

Republic Interim Council? 

Currently, there is no well-established 

standard of governance for blockchain 

communities. The governance systems of 

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and EOS each have their 

own characteristics, but all of them are 

different from Elastos’ system. 

However, there should be some common 

rules that are applicable to all. 

Blockchain itself is an emerging technology 

that is cross-industry, cross-profession, and 

cross-cultural.Therefore, it may be narrowminded 

to see blockchain from only a few 

angles, and that is why all community 

members, including the members of the 

Interim Committee, must work together to 

establish a community governance system 

that is fair and successful. 

Personally, my legal background and 

experience sheds light on compliance, 

establishment of rules, enforcement of rules, 

as well as perfecting legal structures. 

What are the keys to success for the CR? 

What are the most immediate actions we 

must take? 

Compared with general public blockchain 

projects, Elastos is a very ambitious and

complicated project. It uses blockchain to 

empower the smart web, to realize authenticity 

of the exchange of digital assets, and creates 

scarcity in digital assets. CR supports the 

development of Elastos through building 

consensus within the community so that more 

developers and teams can create various 

applications for daily life on this credible, safe, 

and scarce platform provided by Elastos.The 

real success of CR is achieved only if these 

technological goals are accomplished. 

Regarding immediate action: from the 

perspective of the CR, by deliberating and then 

formulating specific principles and rules, more 

and more developers, believers, and users will 

be attracted to participate.This allows Elastos to 

gain greater influence and the CR will act as fuel 

to push the adoption of the Elastos ecosystem 

and its applications. 

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CR Forum Analytics: 

Feb16 - Feb 23 

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CR Forum Highlights 

By YY 

For those who are too busy to visit our CR forum regularly, 

we’ve summarized some of the popular topics for this week: 

Got a dApp idea you’d like to build on DMA? Join the ‘Early Access Program’ 

For those who are following our CR Weekly Reports closely, this is not 

something new. Elastos DMA is a completely open and decentralised digital 

marketing and community development platform. With the launch of DMA 1.0 

beta, the team decided to launch the Early Access Program (“EAP”) to pick 3 to 5 

community projects and provide strong technical support. DMA 1.0 focuses on 

digital asset management and DMA team can help validate any dApp ideas by 

sending them an email at EarlyAccess@elastosDMA.org. 

Please be informed that the deadline for the first EAP application is the end of 

February 2019. If you are interested in joining EAP, please take a look at the 

following link: 

https://medium.com/@elastosdma/early-access-program-7699b03c0a67 

Guardian Circle Clone for Trinity 

This topic was created by one of our community members, Jean-Michel 

Saulnier, who sparked the possibility of operating a Guardian Circle app (a 

global decentralised emergency response network) on Elastos Trinity instead of 

NEO blockchain.This could be a feature in Hyper app or a different app as chat 

function can be interconnected via Elastos carrier network. Jean is ready to 

inform the Guardian Circle team about his idea and is gathering our support for 

his interesting suggestion. Please cast your vote at the following link: 

https://www.cyberrepublic.org/suggestion/5c6e57d579263c00949ee5b2 

Elastos can enable a new type of economy around printing of items 

It’s heartening to see more and more innovative dapp ideas being discussed in 

our CR forum. With the presence of CR forum, a community member known as 

“Michael” is able to revive his dapp idea which was removed by Reddit a long 

time ago. Michael has created an interactive prototype that allows creators of 

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3D models to get paid each time their model is printed while not allowing the models to 

be pirated. He envisions that such application prototypes can be built on Elastos which 

focuses on digital assets management. If you are interested in this topic, please check out 

the following link: 

My dapp Suggestions For Start 

There is another community member known as ‘Kirby’ who has suggested a dapp idea on 

Elastos for a VR painting tool similar to Tilt Brush created by Google. He has also shared a 

video demonstrating how painting can be done in 3D with virtual reality! You will 

definitely be amazed by how wonderful it is to create your own imaginative work of arts 

with the help of modern technology. Have a glance of this topic if you are interested: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/my-dapp-suggestions-for-start/600 

Kirby has also posted two ideas in Suggestion section and you may vote via the following 

links: 

https://www.cyberrepublic.org/suggestion/5c6ad767d8090900942b0d5c 

https://www.cyberrepublic.org/suggestion/5c6ada24d8090900942b0d5d 

Spotlight Series - Elastos Browser (Trinity) 

As announced previously, Elastos community has started to introduce a series of articles 

aimed at focusing on a different component of our ecosystem, the first in the series 

begins with Trinity browser.A topic was created for this article to promote discussion 

among community members, especially developers who are keen on understanding the 

unique features of Trinity browser and its dapp lifecycle. If you would like to know more 

about the comprehensive technical overview of this project, including its rough timeline, 

please take a look at the following article: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/elastos-can-enable-a-new-type-of-economy-aroundprinting-of-items/606 

https://news.elastos.org/spotlight-series-1-elastos-runtime-aka-trinity-aka-elastosbrowser/ 

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Check out these hot topics to see if there is anything that you can contribute to, or simply 

express your thoughts to help make the forum a truly vibrant community. 

Top New Topics 

NEO Dev Con and NEO 3.0, are we “wasting” our time? 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/neo-dev-con-and-neo-3-0-are-we-wasting-our-time/615 

Marketing & Awareness of Elastos & The Cyber Republic 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/marketing-awareness-of-elastos-the-cyber-republic/102/27 

Spotlight Series - Elastos Browser (Trinity) 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/spotlight-series-elastos-browser-trinity/622 

Got a dApp idea you’d like to build on DMA? Join the “Early Access Program” 

Elastos can enable a new type of economy around printing of items 

Guardian Circle clone for Trinity 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/guardian-circle-clone-for-trinity/633/3 

Getting EOS/TELOS/WORBLI to partner and use Elastos Carrier to secure their dPOS network 

as side-chains 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/got-a-dapp-idea-youd-like-to-build-on-dma-join-the-earlyaccess-program/621/3 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/elastos-can-enable-a-new-type-of-economy-around-printingof-items/606/5 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/getting-eos-telos-worbli-to-partner-and-use-elastos-carrierto-secure-their-dpos-network-as-side-chains/644 

Most Active Topics (in terms of number of views and replies) 

Hyper.im - Peer-to-Peer Instant Messenger 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/hyper-im-peer-to-peer-instant-messenger/289 

Marketing & awareness of Elastos & The Cyber Republic 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/marketing-awareness-of-elastos-the-cyber-republic/102/8 

Bi-weekly livestream with Rong Chen 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/bi-weekly-livestream-with-rong-chen/107/7 

Elastos Killer Dapps (1m+ active users / devices in first year) 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/elastos-killer-dapps-1m-active-users-devices-in-first-year/165 

What is your new EOY prediction? 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/what-is-your-new-eoy-prediction/190/3 

Hyper.im - Beta now available 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/hyper-im-beta-now-available/348/14 

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Glossary 

A growing list of Terms and their definitions 

Elastos Hive Cluster: 

a decentralized File Storage Service that based on IPFS cluster. For more 

information: 


Elastos React Native: 

a Javascript framework for developing dapps, similar to Trinity’s Ionic 

framework, but native to Android and iOS. For more information: 


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