Cyber Republic Weekly Update 18

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CYBER REPUBLIC Weekly Update/Issue 18 

...By the early 1980s, several 

different protocols competed... 

...The dark horse contender was 

the Internet, defined only by a 

self-governing community 

dependent on volunteers. 

The Internet community was 

nimble--able to develop in 

months what took the OSI 

committee-based process 

years--but it scared off some 

potential adopters because 

nobody seemed “in charge.” 

From the Computer History Museum 

in Mountain View, CA 

Supernode pools are brewing and 

community members eagerly anticipate a 

community Supernode script.There's a 

brand new suggestion that's creating a lot 

of buzz, and in this issue we’ve finally 

decided to formally introduce ourselves 

to our readers.There’s a lot of fantastic 

content in this Update, including an 

exclusive in-depth look at Elastos’ partner, 

Titan, a translated interview with Kevin 

Zhang and Anypeer, updates from the 

Philippines community, and an interview 

with a community member from Down 

Under. 

First and foremost, we are continuing our 

coverage of Supernode Candidates. We 

have a whopping 8 new Supernode 

Candidates in this piece. Several Elastos 

Ecosystem partners have come forward to 

share their Supernode candidacy. We know 

the community will enjoy some of their 

unique (and frankly, entertaining) Supernode 

structures. 

Also related to Supernodes, several pools 

have been discussing the need for a 

Community open source script that can 

divvy up rewards amongst team members 

and voters. Peter Strauss of Hyper.IM and the 

recently funded Hyper Connect project had 

created a post on the Cyber Republic Forum 

to determine if community members needed 

this script. 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/voterreward-payout-script-for-dpos-nodes/753/8 

There was overwhelming exuberance and he 

has obliged to create it. Peter Strauss and 

Elastos’ very own, KP, have been diligently 

working on this script. Please follow Peter 

and KP's progress on their Github page. 

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For collecting statistics about 

supernode and votes/voters: 

For handling the payout of supernode 

rewards to voters: 

https://github.com/cyberrepublic/supernode-statistics 

https://github.com/cyberrepublic/supernode-payout 

As you have seen this past month, the 

top two suggestions have successfully 

been funded on the Cyber Republic. 

Elastos Orchard is the third most liked, 

and it looks to be one of the next 

projects to turn into a proposal which 

could lead to future funding. 

There's another suggestion that has 

been creating some excitement. It was 

posted on March 21st and in 24 hours it 

has shot up to fifth place.The name of 

the suggestion is called the,“How to 

read Blockchain Code” Video Series.The 

objective is to properly educate 

community members through a video 

series in order to help them become 

more knowledgeable investors.The 

suggestion states that crypto education 

is great PR for Elastos and CR as well, 

and these videos could be a part of a 

potential marketing campaign to bring 

in more community members. 

The video series, however, will be 

hosted on Udemy which is a for-profit 

video education platform. The 

suggestion states that the videos will 

not be for free, but it makes no mention 

of where the profits will go. 

videos. In other words, the CR would prepay 

for 100 members to sign up to this 

particular video creator’s lessons who may 

or may not be given by someone qualified 

and experienced enough to create these 

videos. Though they state testimonials 

could come from the 100 CR members to 

fuel a marketing campaign that could 

spread to the rest of the cryptocurrency 

community, who benefits from the 

testimonials--the content creator? 

We highly recommend that community 

members ask the hard questions and read 

suggestions critically. If you are interested 

in this suggestion or would like to learn 

more about it, please see their suggestion 

here: 

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

5c944c58c174e60094ce5552 

Finally, the CR News and Social Media team 

really enjoys the work done to keep the 

community informed about everything 

Elastos and CR. We put in an accumulated 

80 hours or more every week toward each 

Weekly Update and we’ve received around 

1,000 reads per recent issue. By “putting a 

face to the name”, we hope the community 

with bond with our team a bit better. All 

our hard work and dedication is done for 

the community and we hope that you 

enjoy learning about us. 

-By Jeremy G. 

What is mentioned is that the money 

invested by the CR will go to paying for 

100 CR members to gain access to the 

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Meet the Team 

Kenneth K.is a near full-time world traveler with a diverse 

background--a professional in many fields such as 

writing, medicine, photography, dance and athletics. He 

became involved with blockchain in 2016. 

He founded the CR News and Social Media team along 

with KP, and he has been blessed with a committed team 

that matches his own ambitious vision. He hopes to lead 

this fast-growing team into becoming the most 

professional source of news and information on the new 

internet, believing that by giving the Cyber Republic a 

strong voice,the team can drastically increase the power 

and reach of the Elastos ecosystem. Article by article, 

video by video, building a knowledgeable and passionate 

community is key to the Cyber Republic’s success. 

Kenneth K. Team Lead and 

Senior Editor 

Kiran Pachhai (KP), was born in Nepal and moved to the 

United States at the age of 14. He graduated with a 

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the 

University of Colorado at Boulder in 2014. He has 

worked in industries from telecommunications to 

cyber security and now, blockchain. Kiran is the bridge 

between the CR News and Social Media team and the 

Elastos Foundation and Cyber Republic Committee. 

He is most involved with the CR News team as a 

technical advisor and project manager who reports 

directly to the Secretariat of the Cyber Republic. 

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He strongly believes in the potential of CR News and 

Social Media team because, just over the last couple of 

months, the team has expanded quickly from the CR 

Weekly Update Team to the CR News and Social Media 

team and has helped the vision of Elastos and Cyber 

Republic spread further than ever before. He believes 

the team could very well be one of the most important 

community-led organizations as it could grow even 

further, not only focusing on the Elastos project, but 

also the entire ecosystem with thousands of potential 

KP, Project Manager and 

Technical Advisor 

dapps and projects built on 

Elastos. By increasing 

community awareness and 

support, it will help the CR 

grow organically.

Alex Shipp has been active in the crypto-space as an investor, 

writer, and strategist since 2017. Presently, Alex is a contributor to 

both Cyber Republic and the Elastos Foundation as a writer and 

editor and provides revision services for the CR News team. As a 

strong believer in decentralized system architecture and 

individual asset ownership, Alex is convinced that development of 

the Elastos ecosystem and the propagation of its community 

stand at the forefront of preserving individual liberties in the 

digital age. 

Alex Shipp, Editor 

Jeremy G. was born and raised in 

Connecticut, U.S.A. He went to 

school at the University of 

Massachusetts. His hobbies are 

playing basketball, writing, and 

being with friends and family. 

Jeremy G., Senior Writer 

He is a senior writer for the CR 

News team with a focus on projects 

building on Elastos. He’s excited to 

help the team become the onestop 

shop for all Cyber Republic 

related topics and news. He's 

humbled to be part of such a 

motivated and professional staff 

that is tasked with leading the CR’s 

brand and image into the new 

frontier. 

Joel, Chinese Community Reporter and Translator 

Joel is on the CR News team and is tasked with finding and editing news from the Chinese 

community as well as translating materials between English and Chinese. He is passionate about 

Elastos’ vision, and would like to see it change the very values of human society (yes, the scope 

is that grand). The CR Weekly Update is the quickest portal to seeing the CR’s activity, and he is 

very happy to work with his teammates, always amazed by their talents in delivering high-quality 

piece after piece. 

He reminds the community that Elastos and the CR cannot succeed without the participation of 

its community members, and he encourages everyone go to the CR Forum to contribute to the 

latest discussions with their opinions, talents, and skills. Joel can be found on the CR Forum as 

“iloveonsen” (so keep calm and take a bath). 

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YY, Writer and Translator 

YY’s interest in technology brought him to blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He discovered 

Elastos during a local meetup hosted by Clarence Liu and Kevin Zhang, and he joined the CR 

News team to contribute writing and translation skills to the growing ecosystem. 

He is amazed to see how team members from different backgrounds and countries can work 

together remotely, seamlessly, and effectively, producing quality weekly reports for the past 18 

weeks. He hopes the team will grow stronger in terms of numbers and diversified skill sets in 

order to take on more roles for the best interests of CR and Elastos ecosystem. 

Amos Thomas was born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago. He migrated to the US at a young age. 

He obtained degrees from Springfield Technical Community College and Western New England 

University in IT, and with a constant drive to learn about new technologies (especially those so 

relevant to every industry) he became involved in cryptocurrency August, 2017. 

Amos Thomas, Social Media Strategist 

Amos is on the CR Social Media team, utilizing 

his platforms and skills to increase awareness, 

refine social media workflow, and he is currently 

building a website for the CR News team. He sees 

the CR News and Social Media team evolving into 

a true collective voice of CR Citizens along with 

the already massive task of keeping the 

community informed of CR activity. As CR News 

and Social media is frequently the first 

impression for the curious, professionalism and 

clear branding of the CR News and Social Media 

team is paramount. 

MikeDave, Lead Social Media Manager 

Mikedave became involved in cryptocurrency 

late 2017. He’s been an active community 

member of Elastos since the beginning and was 

honored to be invited to the Anniversary event in 

Chiang Mai during the unveiling of the Cyber 

Republic. He has served the Cyber Republic as 

the CR Admin, and is now part of the CR Social 

Media team as the Lead Social Media Manager. 

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He believes the team will grow quickly as he sees 

the team evolving into a full-time news website

and voice for the CR community, CR 

partners, and Elastos Ecosystem, effectively 

encouraging community activity and 

contributions. 

Faby, German Fish of Social Media 

Faby was born in a small town in Germany.She 

is a passionate and energetic individual, who 

cares deeply and loves to share. She 

identifies as a German fish who has to 

frequently jump into the ocean, preferably 

with a surfboard, whenever a beach is in sight. 

Martin, Branding and Graphics 

Consultant 

Martin is a multidisciplinary designer with 

experience in retail clothing management 

and freelance graphical communications. 

He lives in the English countryside, working 

on anything creative and riding mountain 

bikes in his downtime. His main focus is 

working on design assets for Elastos, so his 

involvement with the CR News & Social 

Media team is primarily in graphics and 

branding consultation. 

The Cyber Republic’s vision is an interesting 

one as it’s community-based with no 

centralised management. It's bold for an 

organisation to run fully community-driven, 

but Martin hopes it succeeds and believes 

the CR News & Social Media team is very 

important in making it happen. The team is 

the communication pathway to businesses, 

users, developers, and everyone else that 

hasn't heard of a new, safer, smarter 

internet. 

She’s been part of the CR since its inception 

last August, and she is extremely proud of the 

dedicated community that will be 

celebrating its 1st anniversary soon! She 

truly believes in Elastos’ potential to make 

the digital world a better and safer place. 

With her extensive background, working in 

B2C marketing, sales, and product 

management in the Tourism industry, she 

holds a Masters of Business Science and 

Language and Culture from Denmark, and a 

Bachelors of Marketing Communications 

from Germany. She is applying her skills and 

experience to the CR Social Media Team as an 

advisor, focusing on spreading the word 

about the CR and Elastos’ technology in a 

less-technical, widely-understood way. 

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Table of Contents 

2 Intro 

4 Meet the Team 

9 TITAN 

11 SUPERNODES 

20 Summary 

21 CR Terminology: DPoS 

22 International: Kevin Zhang,AnyPeer, 

and Elastos Philippines 

30 Community Shout Out 

31 Interview: Yuuki 

33 Analytics 

35 CR Forum Updates 

39 Glossary 

41 Credits

TITAN 

By Jeremy G.. 

Many are infatuated with the technology Elastos has to offer.The community is excited about 

the future of the Cyber Republic and its aspirations of becoming an autonomous, borderless 

society, run democratically by its citizens.There is more to be excited about, however.The 

dApps being built on top of Elastos will form the foundation of the Cyber Republic. One of 

these major pillars in the ecosystem is called,“Titan”. 

As stated in the End of Year Report: 

https://news.elastos.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Elastos-EOY-Report-2018.pdf 

“The project offers a decentralized storage and transport network designed to support a 

wide range of decentralized ecosystems.” The CR News team was fortunate enough to speak 

with the Titan CEO. He shared the benefits of Titan product and services, its vision for the 

future and its challenges, the team and how Titan will interact with the Cyber Republic and 

Elastos. 

“Titan is a decentralized CDN (Content Distribution Network).A CDN is a group of servers 

distributed throughout regions which expedite transfers of assets needed for loading 

content on the internet such as images, video, and HTML pages.Titan's CDN gives the same 

service as a traditional one however it's only 20-25% the cost.Also, IPFS (InterPlanetary File 

System) is one of the leaders in peer-to-peer file storage.Titan's proprietary peer-to-peer 

algorithm is 100 times faster than IPFS, and it’s compatible with a large number of storage 

devices including mobile phones,TV's, routers, and more.Titan will be compatible with 

Elastos Hive, which will only enhance storage capabilities of the Elastos network.” 

There are some challenges in improving the performance of CDN and making sure the user 

experience stays the same, if not better, in the process.Titan’s CEO further explains,“The 

biggest challenge for Titan is how to balance the user experience and cost and between 

efficiency and decentralization. As a traditional technology, P2P has been tagged with low 

cost but low quality.Titan has a lot of innovation that includes encoding/decoding, distributed 

storage, and multiple streaming protocols. With all these innovations,Titan can provide its 

customers with same performance as CDN, and with much better fluency.” Titan's technology 

clearly sets them apart from the other P2P services around the globe and provides them with 

a significant competitive advantage, while maintaining decentralization and boasting 

discounted rates compared to others in the CDN field. 

We are almost on the verge of a 5G network era where there will be even more bandwidth 

costs to transfer files and store data.The Titan CEO is well aware of this transformation and 

realizes that normal CDN will not be able to keep up. He explains further,“On the cloud side, 

data volume is increasing dramatically and on terminal side, access bandwidth will increase 

10~100 times in 5G era. I don’t think traditional CDN is the best option on both a technical and 

economical front.Titan aims to provide a much better solution by using P2P technology to 

leverage edge devices everywhere.” The edge devices he speaks of are any devices that 

provide an entry point into a service provider’s core network, such as a router.Titan will 

provide the Cyber Republic top notch decentralized file distribution for the future! 

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What's Titan doing right now, and how and when will it incorporate its technology into the 

Elastos infrastructure? Titan already has a healthy amount of clients with more on the way. 

The CEO explains its current operations along with future prospects,“Titan has released a 

commercial version, and several serious customers have deployed our technology. We also 

have one potential customer that is testing our technology to support more than 0.6 billion 

end-users.” Yes, you heard that correctly, a potential 600 million users could be supported 

using the Titan technology. 

And what about Elastos integration? The commercial version of Titan does not have the 

Elastos technology integrated, however in the next version of Titan, Elastos infrastructure 

will be implemented.This latest version is set to come out in one month's time.Titan does 

have current integration with the Shiju TV Elastos box, a big hit in China with over one 

million boxes sold. 

Titan’s CEO excitedly explains more about the relationship between them and Elastos,“We 

plan to work closely with Elastos after next version of Titan is released. I believe Elastos 

technology (like DID and Carrier) and community are a good plus for Titan. Elastos can 

integrate Titan project and provide an enriched service to Elastos community and 

customers.” The Titan Network serves both the blockchain and traditional communities. 

How about the team? Titan has an experienced core team that comes from some of the 

biggest companies in the world such as Alibaba, Huawei, and Intel.The CEO invested in Titan 

as an angel investor. He became such a big believer in the technology and the team that he 

joined Titan as CEO full-time. He shares his education and work experience,“I graduated 

from Tsinghua University in 2000. I’d worked in a big Smart card company as a core 

developer of Card Operating System. During that time, I immigrated and implemented 

several encryption algorithms. I founded a software service company to provide onsite and 

offshore services for big companies. It was then that I went to Tsinghua University to earn 

my MBA.After graduation, I founded another company to provide sourcing and 

procurement consulting service, which was acquired after 4 years, and I worked as COO for 

a big state owned internet company for 2 years. From 2018, I started to invest in blockchain 

and I migrated to the Titan team”. In the past 18 years, the Titan CEO has accomplished so 

many things, and he is eager to do more for Titan--and in turn, the Elastos and Cyber 

Republic community. 

Ultimately, big companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix rely on CDN's to serve its web 

traffic.Titan has game-changing technology that has and will revolutionize file distribution 

and storage as we know it. With Elastos and Cyber Republic being partners of Titan, it will 

boost the ecosystem by epic proportions.The community of the CR will reap the benefits of 

being able to send content peer-to-peer in a quick, easy, and affordable fashion, with all the 

security of Elastos blockchain technology.All the building blocks are being formed in order 

to create an infrastructure for the new Smart Web.Titan is just one of the crucial ecosystem 

partners of Elastos that will bring the CR into the next frontier of the new internet. 

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SUPERNODES 

By Jeremy G. 

Black Wolf Tyro Lee)) and Twitter (@elastos_news (Just a Fan of Elastos)).Tyro plans to 

host the node on the Huawei Cloud.Tyro is still figuring out the rewards for voters. 

Regarding his logo, it represents a wolf that is “shouting to the sky of Elastos”.Tyro views 

this as a sign that we as a community are invincible and successful. Here's an excerpt of 

what Tyro says to the community on his website,“I joined the Elastos community since 

August 2017, and I've been through so much with this project, I believe in Elastos and I will 

Continuously support it. I hope you can vote my Elastos super node “TYROLEE” ,Thanks 

for your vote!” 

Noderators *New* 

Tyro Lee *New* 

Tyro Lee, the creator of the Elastos English and Chinese Telegram 

groups, will be running his own Supernode.Tyro has been an active 

community member from day 1. He's already created a website to 

promote his Supernode. 

http://www.elastos.today/ 

He will also be promoting his SN on Wechat (breathinsmog (Little 

The great Elastos Telegram moderators have formed a Supernode group for the Elastos 

Ecosystem.They will be creating a dedicated website to promote their Supernode and 

have plans to create a separate Telegram group as well.The two Supernodes will be 

hosted on the cloud. Here is a statement from the group about their plans.“We are the 

Elastos Noderators! We are a diverse group consisting of Elastos moderators and team 

members, and with your help, we plan to run at least one supernode. Our team members 

include: Gandhi,T.I., C00mbsie, Pmhee555,Austrader, Murph, Multastoy, and of course KP. 

We are spread all around the world in countries such as Finland, South Africa, USA, 

Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Indonesia. If you have been active in the 

community, you likely know and have interacted with all of us in many instances.As many 

of you know, we are some of the biggest Elastos fans out there, and have been extremely 

devoted to this community for a long time. We absolutely love interacting with this 

amazing community each and every day. Whether it be with problems, concerns, or just 

dreaming of a new internet, we are committed to servicing this community in any way 

possible. We feel that our strong belief and long term devoutness to the Elastos project, 

along with our dedication to the Cyber Republic, is enough to guarantee that we have the 

Elastos community’s best interests in mind when it comes to running a supernode.The 

Noderators will uphold a pledge to run our supernodes with decentralization, fairness, 

and the betterment of the Smart-Web in mind. By supporting us, you also support various 

initiatives funded by the rewards that will directly benefit the Elastos ecosystem.A more 

detailed plan and website will be revealed at a later date. We hope to run one supernode in 

Europe/Africa and another supernode in North America.” 

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ELA Chat *New* 

The team behind the peer-to-peer chat dApp,“ELA Chat” has formed their own Supernode 

group. Here is their statement,“The infrastructure of ElaChat was powered by Elastos, and 

therefore we would like to have greater contribution to the development of Elastos. We hope 

to become one of the 36 nodes and contribute to the long-term development of Elastos. 

There are currently 4 members in the team and we want to recruit more members for ElaChat 

R&D. ElaChat is an open-source project and everyone can contribute to its development via 

GitHub.At present, ElaChat has integrated the DID, Carrier and SPV functions, allow 

authorization of necessary information for the use of third-party applications.Third-party 

application can be embedded in the ElaChat, just like mini programs of WeChat public 

accounts. We want a node to support the projects built on ElaChat ecosystem, provide node 

DID service and smart contract service. We are considering to reward the members who have 

voted for us and more details will be released in the coming future.There are always obstacles 

and hardship in a development of new technology, and Elastos is of no exception.At present, 

Elastos has been exploring its own way to realize its own value, and we believe that there will 

be more breakthroughs in the near future.” 

Bitett *New* 

Bitett is a Chinese media outlet for blockchain. Here is a written statement by the team,“As 

one of the earliest partners of Elastos, Bitett believes in the vision of Elastos and the 

community governance model it introduces. In this DPoS node election, we hope to be 

elected as one of the 36 active nodes, to contribute ourselves in maintaining the fairness of 

network security and consensus mechanisms, as well as steady growth of Elastos in the longrun. 

Currently there are 4 major members in Bitett node, including operation and 

development. In the later stage of the DPoS node election, we will recruit community 

operating members when needed. We have considered rewarding the members who have 

voted for us and more details will be released in the coming future.The vision of Elastos has 

gradually been recognized by an increasing number of people. If you are a fan of Elastos, and if 

you want to contribute to the development of Elastos, join us and vote for us, so that we can 

together witness the great moment.” 

Bit.Game *New* 

“BIT.GAME is an important entrance to the blockchain game field for the Elastos.Through 

participating in this DPoS election, BIT.GAME hopes that more community members can 

recognize the benefits that blockchain games bring to the Elastos ecosystem. If we are 

elected, the node rewards will mainly be used to provide various ELA blockchain games with 

liquidity through the Higgs network, and the rest is allocated to voting supporters.The 

members of the BIT.GAME node are composed of the core teams of BIT.GAME, including: Ding 

Wang, Co-founder of BIT.GAME, current CEO of GAEX.com and Co-founder of Higgs Network; 

Yundong Sun, Co-founder of BIT.GAME, now CEO of a game distribution platform 

(haowanba.com); Sally Gong, Former Business Partner of Ontology (USA), currently cofounder 

of Higgs Network.The BIT.GAME node revenue will be distributed by holding the BGX 

(ELASTOS) tokens on the Elastos token sidechain. BGX is currently an ERC20 token on 

Ethereum, with a total volume of 5 billion. We plan to gradually destroy 500 million ERC20 

tokens by June 2019 and issue 500 million new BGX (ELASTOS) tokens on the Elastos token

sidechain.These BGXs will serve as credentials for the distribution of node revenue.The 

500 million BGX (ELASTOS) will be distributed as follows: 

100 million BGX(ELASTOS), held by the BIT.GAME Foundation; 

200 million BGX(ELASTOS) for user-held BGX (ERC20) for redemption, the conversion 

ratio is 1:1; 

200 million BGX(ELASTOS) for voting rewards. 

Thanks to the community members for their support of BIT.GAME. In the past year, 

GAEX.com, the world's first blockchain game asset-trading platform, has successfully 

launched and achieved a steady development with some in-depth cooperation with a 

number of excellent blockchain games, which are in turn brought onto the Elastos 

ecosystem. I hope that everyone can pay more attention to these game projects, both in 

terms of investment potential and game content, as their qualities are of leading position 

in the field.” 

FishChain *New* 

“Elastos community should not be unfamiliar with ELAfish, or FishChain, as it is one of the 

very first blockchain games that enables ELA mining. Many of the community members 

has enjoyed the fun of the game itself and graphics, as well as the appreciation of ELA 

when having done successful trades of their assets. In order to join the never-ending 

ELAfish mining game, many players of the ELAfish community proposed to participate in 

the Elastos DPoS node election and return all the proceeds to enhance ELAfish's 

computing power.That said, the reasons for participating in the DPoS election, on the one 

hand, stems from the strong demands of ELA community members; on the other hand, it 

shows ELAfish’s deep recognition to the technological development direction of Elastos.” 

“Different from other node candidates, ELAfish’s lock-in 5000 ELA for DPoS election will be 

raised from the ELAfish players. ELAfish will launch 25 gold ELA node fish with ultra high 

computing power and high collection value in the game, 200 ELA each as the initial price 

for an auction.The user who took the signature node fish will receive the ELAfish Node 

Partner Certificate and will be named in the Fishchain Hall of Fame.All proceeds 

exceeding the initial price of the auction will be used for the mining pool. If an ELAfish 

node decides to quit later, the owner of the virtual asset will receive a return of 200 ELA as 

in the beginning of the auction. Once the ELAfish node is elected as an DPoS node, all gains 

from the node will be allocated to ELAfish's game pool. 

Auction time: March 28, 2019, 11:00 

Starting price: 200 ELA 

Auction form: auction a fish every 30 minutes. It enters the “seckill” period starting from 

the 14th minute. If no one raises the price within 1 minute, the auction will end 

immediately; if someone raises the price, the timer will be restored and the previous rule 

applies.The auction was forced to end when 30th minute has passed, and the final bidder 

will get the fish. 

A node fish is a perfect suit with specially-customized and golden gene, which not only has 

ultra computing power, but also captures most of the ELA mining pool in the game to 

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produce ELA. Its appearance is designed by artists from Qinghua Academy, which gives it a 

high collection value.The benefits of becoming a node partner includes: a certain percentage 

of ongoing dividend for ELAfish's independent operations after auction, reproduction, and 

transaction. 

ELAfish mining pool: 

The ELAfish mining pool consists of several parts: the initial pool provided by the Elastos 

Foundation (first sponsored by BIT.GAME), 70% of the ELA Genesis Fish auction, 70% if the ELA 

Aquarium (mining machine) auction, 70% of ELA fishing fees, 70% of ELA fish breeding fees, 

the proceeds of this Node Fish auction (net the initial 200 ELA), and a steady stream of node 

rewards after becoming an Elastos DPoS node. 

Team: 

“Eye worm”: Product partner, graduated from Peking University Life Science Academy, the 

proposer of the “Pipeline Model” of the General Economics, the major planner of “Bubble 

Fish”, senior game system and numerical planning. 

“Bear Crow”:Art Partner, graduated from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and French MJM Art 

and Design Institute, the artistic director of “Bubble Fish”, good at grasping the aesthetic 

sense of game products. 

“Butterfly”:Technical Partner, obtained Master Degree from the Department of Mathematics, 

Peking University, Senior Architect, proficient in blockchain technology and traditional 

Internet technology. 

Jacky Cheung: Executive Director,“Bubble Fish” Business and Public Relations Officer, years 

of experience in gaming product operations. 

Light: Director of Operations, responsible for the operation of “Bubble Fish”, and many years 

of experience in media operations. 

Hong16:Art Director, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, the 

creator of “Bubble Fish”. 

“Whitehead Scholar”:Technical Director, Server and Blockchain, with many years of 

experience in large-scale online game development and artificial intelligence development. 

Jelly: Product Director, chief programmer of client side, with many years of experience in web 

mobile game and securities trading software client development.” 

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ioEx *New* 

Recently the Elastos ecosystem partner, ioeX, has announced they will be running a 

Supernode as a part of the Elastos DPoS Consensus. In the next week the CR Weekly 

Newsletter will provide more details about the specifics of the Supernode ioeX will provide.

Wefilmchain *New* 

Wefilmchain is an ecosystem partner of Elastos who seeks to provide a decentralized media 

production and distribution channel for small producers.Their plan is to host the SN via a cloud 

service like AWS or GCP per Elastos Supernode specs recommendation.They are still in 

discussions about hosting two nodes, one in the U.S.A and one in Canada.The following is a 

statement made by the team: "Wefilmchain, a developer within the Elastos Community, intends 

to support a supernode with their qualified development team. Rewards will be shareable with 

contributors on a regular basis.The team plans on utilizing and contributing toward an open 

source solution that the whole community can use so contributors are properly incentivized 

and can view data in a simple way. Future enhancements might include rewards for participants 

hosting music or video files for the Dapp that we are creating. We value transparency, creativity, 

and education. We have strong ties to entertainment and content creation communities and look 

forward to educating and reaching out to those groups to spread the word about the Elastos 

Ecosystem and the profound value and potential that it holds for ever-growing global market." 

Hyper Supernode 

The creators of Hyper.IM and Hyper Connect will be running their own supernode. It will be 

hosted on AWS cloud servers in Germany.As far as divvying up rewards, the Hyper team looks to 

align with the average of other nodes and also,“As CR tasks have been paused, we plan to bring 

them back by sharing rewards with contributors and keeping voters updated about 

achievements by community members. By sharing rewards with voters as well as to contributors 

to the Elastos ecosystem, we hope to grow with the community. The rest will be invested toward 

marketing Hyper Messenger.” They will market their supernode through a dedicated website and 

their various social media outlets. 

Peter Strauss of Hyper has also decided to help create a script for all Supernodes in order to 

automate the distribution of rewards to voters and team members. Read more about his work 

here: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/voter-reward-payout-script-for-dpos-nodes/753/ 

Elastos Scandinavia 

This group is from the Scandinavian region.A group member has provided a mission statement: 

“We are looking to provide Elastos with increased stability, diversity, and speed by operating the 

supernode with highly skilled people, physically located in a country with stable infrastructure 

with our own servers in Sweden. We have an experienced sysadmin hopefully joining our team 

shortly. Elastos Scandinavia plans to hold our cost as low as possible without any loss of quality. In 

this way we can stay solvent longer, keeping the SN alive and giving back higher rewards to the 

community. First, the reward will go to paying for the cost of running the SN. Next, to prove our 

quality, we plan to give most--if not all of our rewards--to the community in the beginning. In this 

way, we are giving away our labor until the Elastos community has built up trust and belief in 

Elastos Scandinavia as a quality SN.” 

The team is mainly composed of developers and a member with a background in Electronics, 

Embedded Systems, and Measurement/Controlling Systems.They will create their own website, 

twitter account, and Telegram channel to market the Supernode. 

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Enter Elastos 

Enter Elastos is a supernode group created by dedicated members of the Cyber Republic like 

Michael S., Chris Mac, Chinicci, Dexter, Max,Adem, KenNinja, and Jeremy G who are well-known 

throughout the community. What started as five members quickly grew into twelve because, 

“With a few more heads put together, we found that we could build something really great.” 

Their mission is to run three Supernodes (SN) with a very fair reward and highly competitive 

distribution that’s primary purpose is to contribute to the ecosystem in a sustainable way.The 

three SN’s will be named Callisto, Ganymede, and Titan, after the biggest moons in the Solar 

System, and each node would be run in a different continent as the team is composed of 

members from several countries: U.S.A., Morocco, New Zealand, England, Germany, and Belgium. 

This will ensure diverse distribution of the Supernodes. In terms of developing a script to 

streamline the payouts, there are experienced coders and programmers in the pool that will 

take care of this code and ensure that it’s 100% conducted through smart contracts and scripts. 

They are also considering using the open-sourced script by Strauss after its development. Also, 

prominent CR member Michael S. has a personal Supernode he’s hoping to run from his 

hometown in Houston,Texas, and he looks forward to contributing to the DPoS Consensus. 

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They have a devoted telegram: https://t.me/EnterElastos 

DPoS Node Rights Alliance 

This ambitious Supernode pool has been covered extensively in previous issues of the CR 

Weekly Newsletter. 

https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2019/02/25/weekly-report-february-25-2019/ 

https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2019/03/05/weekly-report-march-3-2019/ 

Their Alliance communicates and plans their strategies in the Wechat group called 

“League_of_Elastos”.They are recruiting 36 node candidates and others as voters. If any of the 

candidates are elected as active nodes, the profit shared among each member will be 

significantly increase. There are two types of members in this Alliance: Node Committee 

Members (NCMs) and Voting Members (VMs).There are 36 NCMs that will lock up 5,000 to 

participate in the Elections. VMs place their votes toward the 36 NCMs. If any NCM is elected, 

the profit minus the running costs is distributed to members at a weight of 2 for NCMs and 1 for 

VMs.This Alliance is a not for profit organization with the philosophy to benefit token holders 

directly and prevent the collusion of whales.Their ultimate goal is to distribute as much profit 

as possible to voters.The Alliance looks to be one of the leading Supernodes in the East as a part 

of the entire Elastos DPoS Supernode ecosystem.

Elastos Italy 

A team of 10 Elastos enthusiasts are looking to run a Supernode based out of Italy.The Supernode 

will be run by one of the team member's in-house servers.Team member Damiano explains how 

the team plans to divvying up rewards to voters:“Our pool has 10 participants, all with different 

quotas.Therefore, every decision will be divided according to the percentage of entry. Our 

strategy will vary a lot.The focal point will always be to reward voters in the most appropriate way 

possible.” 

The team plans on utilizing an open source solution that the whole community can use when it 

becomes available. Damiano is very active on social media as he manages several groups with 

around 20k members; he is the admin of Elastos Italia. With his active channels and social outreach, 

the team feels very confident that they will promote their supernode effectively.This group 

prioritizes transparency and communication with the community and looks to act in the best 

interests of the Cyber Republic ecosystem. 

The Wild Strawberries Node 

This is a diversified group of 15 members who are looking to run three nodes in the U.S.A. Their 

other members are from France, Netherlands, the United Kingdom,Australia, and Canada. 

The team states,“We intend to set up cloud servers. Our incentives will be at start 60% for voters 

and will follow an inflationary model like Elastos. After some growth, we will cut our dpos share to 

creating a CR Task Fund.” 

The team will be creating a website along with various social media outlets to spread the word 

about their pool.This is their mission statement: 

“The “Wild Strawberries” Nodes have the objective to develop and connect the Elastos Ecosystem 

through various means. Like wild strawberries, we intend to grow and develop everywhere, 

technical or social, because we consider the two elements necessary for a working elastic & 

evolving network. We would like to share our vision of the future for The Cyber Republic. Our vision 

is wild, like us. Our vision is the Cyber Republic to receive the fruit of our labor: the wild 

strawberries, the most tasty fruit for the largest borderless community. We are ready to make 

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speeches, educate, participate, code, build ideas, help existing businesses and make new ones; 

we will give everyone a taste of success with our core values.” 

Their values in 5 words: Empathy (genuine human interaction), Grit (results come from 

mistakes) , Patience (because fast and good don’t coexist in perfection), Wild Actions (actions 

are better than words), and Fun (life is a game). 

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TI’s ELA News Supernode 

The community’s very own Telegram administrator “T.I.” will be running his own Supernode. It 

will be run on a cloud service system like AWS.T.I. is the sole contributor to the ELA News 

website and is very passionate about dedicating his time to the community. 

T.I. says this about rewards:“ELA News has been run and maintained solely by myself without 

any funding. I wish to expand ELA News with more content through funding from the supernode 

rewards as I do not have so much time on my hands. However, I hope to distribute rewards 

according to market expenses, or perhaps slightly under that to cover running the node and 

expanding ELA News at the same time. ELA News has a dedicated readership, and I hope readers 

will support my vision”. 

T.I will be looking for an open source script that all community members can use for 

distributing rewards to voters. He will have a dedicated page on ELA News for DPoS, and his 

Supernode will be marketed through the ELA News Twitter account. 

T.I. has these final words,“I hope for ELA News to be the best resource for the community to be 

kept abreast of everything Elastos. Make sure to follow us on our Twitter page : 

twitter.com/elanewsnet and continue reading elanews.net. Sincerely,T.I.” 

DMA’s Supernode 

Another prominent community member looking to run a Participant Supernode is Brian from 

the DMA project. He shares his thought process in hosting a node and what their prerogative 

will be for the community:“As the Supernode election is nearing, myself and the team were 

thinking about whether or not we needed to participate, and how we would go about doing this. 

This is clearly a very important step for the Elastos infrastructure and community, so we 

decided to have an internal discussion of the qualifications needed to run an elected 

Supernode. 

“We feel it is very important to have the technical background or have very strong tech support. 

It looks like the hardware requirement isn’t too complicated, but the quality of service is very 

important to keep the node up and running at a good level. My team members feel they are 

more than capable of doing it because they are working on our cloud services anyway, and are 

able to quickly monitor and fix problems in a timely manner.This convinced me that maybe we 

could, in fact, run one with confidence. 

“We don’t want to just run the elected node and profit by ourselves. It must be shareable. So the 

plan is simple and direct: Share the earnings with all contributors on a regular basis.To make 

the sharing completely fair, we can write the script to put the incentive plan in the code, and 

have people put their trust in the code, not the human.

“We also need to create some tools to let each contributor view the data easily.The incentive 

model can be designed based on multiple factors. Since we are the team that built DMA, we 

have a very strong technical background to build such a script and run it in a fair way. 

Otherwise, we will not only lose the node, but also lose the reputation of one of the important 

ecosystem contributors. 

“Last but not least, the node service should be expandable. We can put more add-value 

services on to the servers behind the node. For example, there might be a personal cloud disk 

service, DMA-powered extended business-stub service, etc. It can be continuously working 

along the basic node service the team can offer.All these services can be hosted by any 

elected node if they want.The earnings can be combined with the basic node service income. 

Thus, the earning of running such value-added services will be the additional share to the node 

supporters and contributors. 

“Of course, the profit share program will be placed in the code.This is the way to bring in more 

services around the node and let the ecosystem application grow, letting every supporter 

benefit from such economic growth. I’d like share these thoughts with community. I believe 

this can also be points for other participants to consider.” 

The team is reaching out to the community through all relevant social media outlets and is 

considering the creation of a website for the group’s candidacy. If interested, they invite 

community members to join their node. You can reach the team at 

supernode@elastosdma.org. 

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Summary 

Here is the latest Elastos Weekly Update: 

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

We have a new Cyber Republic Documentation site with relevant introductory information 

about the Cyber Republic, including the constitution, voting and proposals, and leadership. 

Check it out here: 

https://www.cyberrepublic.org/docs/#/overview/intro 

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 

Announcement 

The CR Weekly Writing team has expanded! 

We are now the “CR News and Social Media” team. 

If you have any content you’d like to submit to our writing (or social media) team, please email 

us at our new contact email: 

press@cyberrepublic.org 

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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 technically acquainted 

understand better what the tech means and the impact it could have. This week we’re focusing 

on DPoS. 

Term: Delegated Proof of Stake 

“In a Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism, which is a variation of PoS, coin 

holders can use their balances to elect a list of nodes to be possibly allowed to add new blocks of 

transactions to the blockchain. Coin holders can also vote on changing the network parameter. 

While PoS can be likened to winning a lottery, DPoS gives all coin holders more influence and 

ownership in the network. Proof of Work (PoW) can be likened to a true democracy, Proof of 

Stake (PoS) to an oligarchy, and Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) to a democratic republic.” 

-KP 

Elastos is not a strict DPoS; it is a hybrid model that is not only merged-mined with Bitcoin, but its 

DPoS consensus mechanism enforces community proposals that may include changes (even like 

different consensus mechanisms) such as new sidechains or architectural changes to the main 

code. PoW miners who fail to update won’t have their blocks signed by the Delegates, which 

means that they won’t create forks since their blocks are considered invalid. 

Layman’s definition: 

All public blockchains need a way of determining consensus (machine agreement that certain 

data--like a funds transfer--is in-fact, real). Delegated Proof of Stake is a method of finding 

consensus in which specific machines (delegates) are trusted; therefore, what they verify a true 

is also trusted. These machines are voted on by the community, and if they do anything 

malicious or fail to do their job well, they can be voted out by the community as well, thus losing 

their trusted status as well as some (or all) of their staked 5000 ELA. DPoS is much more energyefficient 

and faster than PoW. Since Elastos is a hybrid consensus model using DPoS and mergedmining 

and community consensus, it takes the strengths of each and bundles them together into 

a blockchain that can’t be forked, is highly efficient, and is very safe. 

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International Community 

Activities 

By Joel 

ELA Talk: Meeting with Kevin, CR Preparatory Committee member 

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Wndn7Pj_lZd0_e2wh_oZGg 

ELA Talk: Elastos community governance and ecosystem development 

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0MzZOzOPiNgMuZ-pO9tp9A 

A letter to Elastos commuinty regarding the DPoS node election 

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/vKEdzA6_P9vX_YpYQHtq6A 

What are the advantages of IM application on Elastos 

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/lynrmSp8qlUC-O2GeV0ccg 

Facebook sees crisis, Elastos sees hope 

https://www.7234.cn/elastoss/88810?from=groupmessage 

AnyPeer was recently made open source and has seen significant progress.They frequently 

provide updates on the CR Forum. We have interviewed their representative this week to learn 

more. 

1. Can you briefly introduce your team? What are their specialties and roles? 

We have four members in our team: one for graphics design, one programmer, one responsible 

for project management, and I myself works on both coding and project management.As we 

are all working part-time on AnyPeer, we usually brainstorm and discuss progress evenings 

after work. 

2. We’ve seen several progress updates in the CR Forum. Can you explain them in more detail? 

We made the basic version of the code public in Feb 2019 (https://github.com/anyxxx/AnyPeer), 

and we welcome anyone to test it out and fork it. In this version, one can send texts, emojis, 

pictures, videos, and ELA (via testnet). 

We spend our downtime integrating group chat functions into the App, and we are now testing 

and optimizing the user experience. In the last version, for the sake of UX optimization, we’ve 

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included some extra data (to confirm receipt of messages) after sending messages, which 

has led to improper communications with other apps based on the same Elastos Carrier. We 

plan to release an optimized version that solves this issue in the coming week. In short, the 

updates include group chat and compatibility with other chat apps. 

3. Besides chat apps, do you have any other projects in development? 

Besides the basic chat functions, we are considering integrating the Red Packet function into 

AnyPeer. We also want to make some built-in games, depending on the technical difficulties. 

4.As developers, do you encounter any difficulties when building dapps? What future 

Elastos updates would you like to see that would help with the development process? 

Regarding the Carrier and SPV functions, there haven’t been many obstacles as the codes in 

the libraries for testing or demo can showcase the basic functions, and we found them as 

good references. We are eager to see the release of offline messaging functions (Elastos 

Hive) that better the user experience. 

5. How do see the coming DPoS election? Will your team compete for a node? 

Hmm… We will mostly likely vote only. 

6. Is there anything you want to say to the community? 

Every member of Elastos should contribute so that we can make better and faster progress. 

We invite the community to try AnyPeer when the next version is released and give 

comments and suggestions so that we can make improvements. 

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Elastos Talk: Meetup with CR Interim 

Council Member Kevin Zhang 

By Rachel Critelli 

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On March 1st, Kevin Zhang was the guest on “Elastos Talk” to present his thoughts 

on CR.The sharing of this week is performed in questions and answers. Here is 

the transcript of what Kevin shared. 

1. Would you please briefly introduce the future business model of Elastos? 

As a public chain, Elastos is much like a database or an infrastructure. Its business model 

depends mostly on the DApps running on it.As a public chain, we can run a variety of 

games, business applications, communication tools, etc. Once Elastos becomes a platform 

that supports DApps, ELA will be used to pay the service provider, and then ELA will have a 

circulation value. 

2. What is the daily work of the CR preparatory committee? What progress has been 

made? 

I am honored to be a member of the CR preparatory Committee. Since last August, we 

have been preparing for the CR election which is going to happen in August this year, 

including the establishment of the entire CR charter and the current daily work. 

Our daily work includes the weekly meetings among the three committee members and 

the general secretary Rebecca. In the weekly meetings, we select the highest-rated 

suggestions that we think are valuable from the CR website.Then we will have an in-depth 

discussion and vote on this suggestion. If the suggestion gets two or more votes, it is 

approved.After a transition period of 72 hours, the proposal will be implemented. 

Let’s take an example of a proposal that we have passed. I proposed a project named React 

Native Funding. It is actually a technology platform for community developers and it was 

suggested by the community last year.There are many application developers using this 

platform and they might also develop applications for Elastos. Now they need funds to 

continue development of this platform. Because Elastos will not provide any funds for the 

community in the future, the suggestion regarding this project was submitted to the CR. 

This suggestion ranks the highest amongst all suggestions in the community, so I made the 

proposal. I explained to the other two members why we need this project. I convinced 

them and they signed it.Then the suggestion became a formal proposal. If there is no 

objection, this project will become officially established. 

For the next step, the team leader must propose a budget. If the budget is approved, they 

will build a team to develop it.

3. How will CR promote community and ecological development after CR officially goes 

alive? 

What I mentioned above is an example how CR promotes community and ecological 

development.The decentralized organization, the CR, will have all the power.This is very 

different from traditional companies or organizations where the power is controlled by the 

top-level people. Members of the CR Council will be democratically elected with DPoS 

Consensus in August this year.The elected members perform their duties as stated and will 

listen to the opinions of the community regarding what the community agrees on or opposes. 

The power of the CR is given to Council members elected by the community, but they can 

also be impeached. If a member does not do his/her duty, then they can be impeached 

(through a mobile app).Then, other members who represent the best interests of community 

will be elected.This is the basics of how the CR works. 

Simply speaking, CR Council is like the US congress. Its mission is to determine a direction 

that represents the community’s interests and that the community agrees on. CR Council 

must make several decisions, such as whether to participate in various ecological 

constructions, whether to support a project, whether to cooperate or stop cooperation on a 

project, and so on.After the EF (Elastos Foundation) tokens are used up for development, the 

EF will gloriously withdraw from the stage and community development is carried out by the 

CR council which will be the highest, and only, authority in the future. 

4. What strength does Elastos have over other blockchain projects? 

The technology of Elastos main chain is a relatively mature technology that combines PoW 

and DPoS to provide a platform more easily adopted for most developers. But I want to say 

more than just the main chain, because Elastos is not just a blockchain project. In fact, Elastos 

can be considered a platform for the Smart Web and the public chain should be regarded as a 

database that cannot be tampered with.The traditional Internet has some components, such 

as communication protocols, security, and execution nodes. Comparatively, Elastos is a 

relatively-complete Smart Web infrastructure including a public blockchain, peer-to-peer 

communication network Carrier, Runtime, and a variety of operating environments, 

development kits, and Elastos Hive, DMA, etc.All these components form the ecosystem, 

together. 

It is not appropriate to create the dapps directly on the blockchain. Elastos makes the most of 

decentralized trust which is the strength of the blockchain, but massive amounts of 

calculations cannot be performed effectively on the blockchain itself. Instead of trying to 

make all kinds of applications run on-chain, Elastos is committed to building a safe, 

trustworthy, and decentralized computing environment. On the first layer, we provide a 

decentralized trust that is fundamentally credible and unchangeable. So how then do we run 

the calculations? 

Our infrastructure has a second layer [sidechains] including P2P networks and computing 

nodes. 

The various apps on the second layer are actually responsible for calculations.The dapps can 

be run perfectly by combining the computing power from the second layer with the trust and 

decentralization of the first layer.Therefore, I firmly believe that a large number of apps 

should not be run on the main chain.This is not realistic and will not meet expectations. 

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5.Are proposals voted by the CR Council or community members? 

We adopted a DPoS consensus model, but proposals are voted on by council members who are 

elected by the community.All information is managed with code to avoid human tampering or 

dictatorship. Information such as voting and impeachment for Council members are coded 

and written onto the blockchain. If a person is elected, his private key gains access to CR funds. 

If he/she does not perform his/her duties and obligations, the community can impeach him/her. 

As long as the number of impeachment votes exceeds a set standard, then the Council 

Member’s signature will automatically lose the right to spend CR funds. 

6. What special projects does Elastos have compared to other blockchain projects? 

Actually, projects will be built on our ecosystem partners [sidechains]. Elastos will not have a 

lot of applications directly on its infrastructure. We are building the infrastructure such as DID 

chain, identity verification, DMA decentralized market, basic services, communication 

networks, etc. We will support developers to build various commercial apps on our 

infrastructure. 

As a public blockchain, we need to make these infrastructures very user-friendly. Software 

developers can have several choices such as Ethereum, NEO, or Elastos. If our infrastructure is 

convenient for developers, then we will attract more developers to use Elastos infrastructure. 

Please keep your eye on the CR website. People post new suggestions on CR every day. Read 

the comments of the members on these suggestions. In this way you can understand whether 

opinions are consistent with your own thoughts. Every token holder is an important member 

of the community, and your voice can affect the development of the entire community. If your 

voice is adopted by the CR Council, it will affect the development of Elastos which I believe 

relies on the joint efforts of everyone. 

7. What are the CR and Elastos Foundation responsible for, respectively? 

The CR and Foundation are two completely separate entities.The foundation's mission is to 

make the Elastos product, and CR's work is to organize the community. We have so many 

members in our community and we must have a democratic mechanism to determine the 

direction of where Elastos is going. Many important decisions are from the CR.The CR's 

decision is from the CR Council members who are elected by the members of the CR. 

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Elastos Philippines 

by Krisha Anne Amada 

LVCC 2nd ICT Week Celebration 2019 

https://free.facebook.com/events/543484206061769 

Elastos Philippines participated in the La Verdad Community College 2nd ICT Week that ran from 

February 14th to the 16th with the theme, "Computing professionals of tomorrow; promoting 

social good and spreading positivity to our society.” 

LVCC is a private non-stock, non-sectarian educational institute in Apalit, Pampanga, the 

southernmost town in the province adjacent to the booming Bulacan province, and nearest 

Pampanga town to Metro Manila. It is among the largest campuses in the area and is affiliated 

with a Christian group that operates broadcast stations known for excellence in broadcast 

communications. 

Attending the event were Senior High School students under the STEM track (Science, 

Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and College students taking ICT subjects. Featured were 

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tech industry speakers, a student hackathon, computing workshops, and quiz bees on ICT 

subjects. 

Mr.Alex Timbol was invited to speak by Mr. Romack Natividad, LVCC ICT department head due 

to his postings in the Pamapanga Startup FB group. 

To accomodate Elastos alongside the designated blockchain technology speaker, Mr.Timbol 

prepared a talk on Techpreneurships, startups, and SMEs. His talk was sponsored by Elastos 

and Raemily’s Food Service of the Amadas, based in Pampanga.This ensured that Elastos’ logo 

was placed on slides and banners at the venue throughout the event. 

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Other speakers included: 

Mr.Theo Salvado on Web Vulnerabilities and Hidden Wordpress Features. 

Mr. Jospeh Perdon on BizTalk. 

Mr. Kennedy Rodriguez on Computer Networking. 

Mr.Jeffret Cabrer on Android Development Backend Architecture. 

Mr. Rolando Cruz on different views about Web Security. 

Mr.Alex Timbol on Techpreneursip, with lessons on SMEs and Startups. 

Mr. Julius Fresco of NEM Philippines on blockchain. 

Mr. Nelson Ibunma on social applications of blockchain, and the GST token project. 

I had lunch with NEM and the school’s ICT instructors to discuss future partnerships 

with LVCC and the possibility of participating in future events, including seminars and 

talks. 

LVCC is strategic for the Southern Pampanga and Northern Bulacan area because of 

its large conference facilities and complementary leadership position in 

Communications, SMEs, and Agri-technology vis-a-vis the outward facing (export 

oriented) Metro Clark ICT council which encompasses Clark Freeport and Angeles 

City. 

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Community 

Shout Out! 

Nice to see Chico’s positive presence in the community! 

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Interview: Yuuki 

By Jeremy G. 

Would you mind telling the community a 

bit about yourself? 

I'm originally from Tokyo, Japan. I came to 

Australia with my family at a young age and 

have been living in Brisbane ever since. I did 

most of my studies in Brisbane. I'm currently 

working for the Residential Tenancies 

Authority which is a state government body. 

I'm also working on a business outside those 

hours to promote technology that can 

create value for businesses and government 

and, ultimately, consumers.All the 

technologies we are working with are 

produced by Japanese companies. So, 

basically, I do the groundwork for overseas 

tech companies via marketing, business dev, 

and pilot programs. 

With your business connections in these 

industries, do you plan on pushing Elastos 

technology for adoption in their current 

business infrastructures? Do you have any 

insight on connecting businesses with 

Elastos and the Cyber Republic? 

Yes, I definitely plan on doing this. I have an 

ongoing relationship with companies 

specifically in electronics. I'm also working 

with an REIT company as I want to make way 

into that industry as well. I've seen projects 

that use blockchain solutions for real estate 

investments, so perhaps that could be 

interesting. I'm yet to make any moves, 

however. I hope to get a bit of guidance on 

this and I’m watching to see how things 

progress from Alpha to Beta. 

How did you first learn about blockchain, 

and how did you run across Elastos and the 

Cyber Republic? What role do you play in 

the Cyber Republic right now, and what 

roles do you hope to fill? 

I first learned about blockchain mid to late 

2016 when I was doing some research for my 

business. I started off with the notion that 

blockchain is good and cryptos are bad. I 

believe the first time I heard about it was in 

Deloitte paper that covered briefs on 

technologies with a lot of potential. One of 

the technologies we are promoting is an 

indoor farming tech and I saw blockchain's 

application in the supply chain. Less than a 

year later, a friend of mine was trading 

cryptos and I started to look into it deeper. I 

first came across Elastos via Youtube. I was a 

fan of NEO when I first got into 

cryptocurrencies and this interest in NEO 

led me to Youtubers such as Chico Crypto 

and Blockchain Brad.They both covered 

Elastos which drove me to look into the 

project further.This led me to the Cyber 

Republic and Elastos was the first project I 

really got excited about. I wanted to join. 

I was part of the Marketing CRcle and I 

organized monthly Meetups in my city and 

participated in other Meetups to promote 

Elastos. I have stopped the monthly Meetups 

now due to the restructuring, but I plan to 

resume them ASAP now that Suggestions 

are open. I also participate in blockchain and 

crypto conventions in my local region. I'm in 

the midst of writing my first article on 

Elastos which I hope I can finish by early 

April. I plan to continue doing tasks for the 

CR. My aim though is to get more involved in 

the Business Development side as that is 

what I enjoy the most, and I think I've picked 

up some skills and experience that I can use 

for the project. 

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Can you speak of your contributions for 

Elastos and the CR in the past? 

I have done a couple of meetups in Brisbane 

starting from November, 2018. I did a 

presentation at the Sunshine Coast again for a 

local Hackathon community in January, 2019. I 

met the organiser at the Crypto Coast 

convention, and I will be attending their next 

hackathon which is next month. 

Apart from that, I have been reaching out to 

participants at BTC meetups in my area as I 

see this as a good bridge for our community. 

I'm also part of crypto Facebook groups along 

with AusTrader (Aaron) to put in a few msgs 

here and there on Elastos. 

What do you like to do for fun? Any hobbies 

or activities that you like to engage in with 

friends and family? 

I like to play soccer and futsal. I enjoy going 

to the beach and I try to go camping 

whenever possible at a place called 

Stradbroke Island (2nd largest sand island in 

the world - Queenslanders are lucky in that 

we have the world's 3 largest sand islands off 

our coast). Learning about economics has 

become a hobby of mine recently, and I also 

enjoy chilling with friends and listening to 

music. I used to play the drums frequently. I 

occasionally still play but music is something 

I'm very passionate about. 

I have been catching up with two devs who 

have shown interest in Elastos. One is working 

on a harvesting technology for vineyards, and 

he is looking at Elastos' possibilities though 

nothing concrete has been promised.The 

other put his hand up late last year but due to 

the recent state of the CR, it was turned down 

until things are clearer. 

What future meetups do you have planned? 

And how do you plan on engaging the 

Australian community even more? 

I plan to do a Meetup in May even if I don't get 

reimbursed, but that may be the only Meetup 

I organise out of pocket until I can get funding. 

I plan to attend more Meetups by other 

groups - mainly hackathons and BTC and ETH 

community Meetups. I will be attending a BTC 

meetup next Thursday to make more 

connections. I'm also part of some Australian 

business networks. One network spans across 

the following states and one country: 

Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and 

South Australia with New Zealand being a 

recent addition. I am an alumni of one of their 

series. I plan to spread Elastos via this 

network. I may write an article on Elastos 

quarterly, depending on how things go. 

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CR Website Analytics: Mar 17 - Mar 23 

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CR Forum Analytics: 

Mar 17 - Mar 24 

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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: 

Weekly CR Update Team 

Our CR News and Social Media team has been expanding steadily and they are currently 

seeking a Chinese Social Media team member who can be very active about promoting the 

CR (not the same as Elastos, though there is crossover) across various Chinese community 

based social channels such as Weibo and Wechat. If you are interested in this role, please 

reach out to KenNinja via Telegram at @kenpole or visit the following topic in CR forum: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/weekly-cr-update-team/162/3 

Put the Elastos block browser on top 

As you may be aware, Elastos mainent was launched in December 2017 with the genesis 

block mined on 1 January 2018. You can view the blocks mined by Elastos team and BTC.com 

mining pool at https://blockchain.elastos.org. One of the CR forum community members 

known as “1114” has created a topic to suggest that the Elastos block explorer website be 

put on top of the Elastos official website.This will make it easier for users to locate and 

access the official blockchain explorer. If you find this suggestion is important to you as well, 

please like this topic to show your support: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/put-the-elastos-block-browser-on-top/852 

Assumption of Elastos Eco-Fund Scheme 

William Zhang (aka “summer98”) has created an interesting topic this week with regards to 

an ecological fund which could further enrich Elastos ecosystem. Some of the criteria 

mentioned by William for such a fund includes participation of CR in professional 

investment funds as a limited partner (or other forms) in the capacity of financial investor, 

reasonable returns on investment, rights and obligations between agreed parties, and unit 

of valuation for income settlement. If you are interested in this topic or have other 

comments to add on, please visit the following link: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/assumption-of-elastos-eco-fund-scheme/850 

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Elastos Needs Top-Level Design on Both Technical and Economic Models 

One of the CR Chinese community member “Hero J” has created a topic with the aim to 

raise his concerns about Elastos technical development and its inflationary economic 

models. He agrees with the idea proposed by Sunny Feng Han that Elastos wallet should be 

used as an ecological entrance for development rather than several dApps created by 

different teams with different objectives, which may lead to confusion among community 

members. In this respect, he proposes that the Elephant wallet should be further enhanced 

and integrated with other important functions such as messaging, voting, and even the 

forum to consolidate Elastos’ technical capabilities. 

Hero has came up with an idea of deflationary mechanism to protect the value of ELA 

token from investors’ perspective in the long run. If you would like to find out more about 

the above discussions, please read the entire topic by visiting the following link: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/topic/883 

Blockchain-Powered Internet of Things 

There is another Chinese community member known as “Rivers Kong” who started a topic 

discussing the problems faced by current business enterprises that are implementing 

Internet of Things transformations but are yet to turn their investments into substantial 

returns. Some of the issues faced by enterprises at this stage are the lack of persuasive 

business use-cases, security issues, limited analytical capabilities, and uncertain IoT 

standards and protocols.The aim of this topic is to encourage community members to 

share their knowledge, ideas, or experience in IoT field. If you are interested in this topic, 

please feel free to leave your comment at the following link: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/chinese-english-blockchain-powered-internet-ofthings/843 

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Topic highlights 

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 

“Moments with KP” Excerpt from our March 11 Weekly Update 

“Suggestion Highlight - Elastos Orchard” excerpt from our March 11 Weekly Update 

Blockchain Powered Internet of Things 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/moments-with-kp-excerpt-from-our-march-11-weeklyupdate/845 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/suggestion-highlight-elastos-orchard-excerpt-from-ourmarch-11-weekly-update/846 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/chinese-english-blockchain-powered-internet-ofthings/843/2 

Put the Elastos block browser on top 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/put-the-elastos-block-browser-on-top/852/3 

Assumption of Elastos Eco-fund Scheme 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/assumption-of-elastos-eco-fund-scheme/850/5 

Elastos Needs Top-Level Design on Both Technical and Economic Models 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/topic/883/3 

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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 

Bi-weekly livestream with Rong Chen 

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

Supernode Pool Recruitment and Q & A 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/supernode-pool-recruitment-and-q-a/648/25 

Hyber.im – Beta now available 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/hyper-im-beta-now-available/348/15 

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dApp idea thread 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/dapp-idea-thread/342/12 

Voter Reward Payout Script for DPoS Nodes 

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

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/voter-reward-payout-script-for-dposnodes/753/13 

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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: 

https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2019/02/19/weekly-report-february-18-2019/ 

Elastos React Native: 

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

to Android and iOS. For more information: 

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

Elastos Sidechain: 

a scaling solution that utilizes parallel blockchains to the main chain in order decrease 

transaction congestion on the main chain. 

https://news.elastos.org/spotlight-series-2-elastos-sidechains-and-scalability/ 

Elastos Runtime: 

the environment that code can run on, like an encyclopedia or a library about a new world in 

which digital assets are run under the blockchain. 

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

Elastos Private Net: 

a private developer environment for local testing of apps on the Elastos Blockchain and 

Sidechains. 

https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2019/03/11/weekly-report-march-11-2019/ 

DPoS: Delegate Proof of Stake is a method of finding blockchain consensus in which specific 

machines (delegates) are trusted and given the power to verify transactions. These delegates 

are voted in by the community. 

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Writers: 

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Social Media: 

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Admin: 

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