## What Is Aleph.im (ALEPH)?

Aleph.im is an open-source crosschain network featuring decentralized database including file storage, computing, and a decentralized identity (DID) framework. Aleph.im’s core mission is to help decentralized apps and protocols strip off the centralized parts of their stack, achieving a fully decentralized architecture. You can think of aleph.im as a decentralized AWS or firebase. Aleph.im is focused on supercharging the DeFi ecosystem.


## Who Is the Founder of Aleph.im?

Aleph.im was created in 2018 by Jonathan Schemoul, aka Moshe Malawach. Moshe is based in France and has been programming since childhood.

Prior to entering the blockchain space, Moshe developed enterprise software across finance, supply chain, and other major industries. He then became a key contributor in the NULS community, building the explorer and the Proof of Credit Mining (POCM) system among other things.

Moshe’s abilities to bring tangible business value using blockchain technology is what has made aleph.im what it is today.


## Where Is The Office Located?

Our company is located in Paris, France. Our team is distributed across the globe.


## What Makes Aleph.im Unique?

Aleph.im is a unique blend of onchain and offchain decentralized technologies. Its decentralized network is offchain but can only be interacted with through blockchain networks. This enables key features such as security and advanced crypto-economics. 

Aleph.im is already compatible with many leading blockchain projects including Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos and BinanceChain. This enables any project building on these platforms to integrate with our decentralized database and file storage..

Finally, aleph.im implements a channel mechanism allowing sharding-- subnetworks with all the aleph.im network features. You can think of shards as dedicated cloud clusters.


## How Are Transactions Managed?

Onchain transaction fees are free for users as long as web dapp teams pay for it, which is a similar business model as web2, where app owners pay cloud providers such as AWS. Onchain transactions are batched, so fees are minimal.

Finally, aleph.im provides delegated transactions. These transactions are managed by the network, so there is no need for users to manually resubmit a transaction or adjust its fee.


## How Is Data Managed?

Data is private and encrypted by default, with the option to make data public.
Data is only stored on the necessary minimum amount of nodes.
Data can be stored on nodes in specific geolocalizations.

Aleph.im is compatible with IPFS, meaning that the data gets replicated on aleph.im nodes and on IPFS.


## What Products Are Already Built on Aleph.im?

* [Staking DApp](https://account.aleph.im/#/)
* [Personal Storage DApp](https://my-beta.aleph.im)
* [Blogging DApp (tech-preview)](https://blogtest.aleph.im)
* The website of aleph.im itself is hosted on Aleph.im network
* [Starname](https://medium.com/aleph-im/starname-partners-with-aleph-im-fbd02ab00d7a), using our decentralized DB to save crypto profile details


## What Tools Does Aleph.im Provide for Buidlers?

* Aleph.im SDK which includes [Javascript](https://github.com/aleph-im/aleph-js)  and [Python](https://github.com/aleph-im/aleph-client)  client libraries.
* Aleph.im network [Explorer](https://explorer.aleph.im/)  
* Aleph.im [Token Swap](https://swap.aleph.im/) to swap your ALEPH tokens between NEO, NULS and Ethereum networks


## What Is The Utility of the ALEPH Token?

* Staking Token - collateral used to secure the network
* Reward Token - for staking and/or running nodes, for providing cloud services
* Payment Token - pay for storage, computings and synchronization services


## How Many ALEPH Coins Are There in Circulation?

As of December 28, 2020,  69.73M ALEPH tokens are in circulation. Aleph.im did not hold an ICO. The initial minting process involved staking NULS tokens in the Proof of Credit Mining (POCM) platform, which rewarded stakers in ALEPH tokens. The total token supply was reduced by half in July 2020. Tokens currently put in circulation are for stakers, node operators, liquidity providers, marketing, and company usage.


## Where Can I Buy ALEPH tokens?

ALEPH is available for trading on a growing number of exchanges.  We recommend using [Uniswap](https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap?inputCurrency=0x27702a26126e0b3702af63ee09ac4d1a084ef628&outputCurrency=ETH) but ALEPH is also available on centralized exchanges.

**AMM**
* [Uniswap](https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap?inputCurrency=0x27702a26126e0b3702af63ee09ac4d1a084ef628&outputCurrency=ETH) (ETH)
* [Balancer](https://balancer.exchange/#/swap) (ETH)
* [1inch](https://1inch.exchange/#/ALEPH/ETH) (ETH)
*[0xProtocol](https://matcha.xyz/markets/ALEPH/WETH?from=ALEPH) (ETH)

**CEX**
* [Beaxy.com](https://exchange.beaxy.com/?pair=ALEPHETH&tid=1609250790015) (ETH)
* [Gate.io](https://www.gate.io/trade/ALEPH_USDT) (USDT) and also [Ethereum](https://www.gate.io/trade/ALEPH_ETH) (ETH)
* [MXC](https://www.mxc.com/trade/easy#ALEPH_USDT) (USDT)
* [Kucoin](https://trade.kucoin.com/ALEPH-USDT) (USDT)
* [Probit](https://www.probit.com/app/exchange/ALEPH-BTC) (BTC) and also [South Korean Won](https://www.probit.com/app/exchange/ALEPH-KRW), [USDT Stablecoin](https://www.probit.com/app/exchange/ALEPH-USDT)

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## Where Can I Learn More About The Project?

Currently our main and most up-to-date communication channels are our [Medium](https://medium.com/aleph-im) blog, [Twitter](https://twitter.com/aleph_im) account and [Telegram](https://t.me/alephim) channel.

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Ultra is a publishing platform and ecosystem for video games and video game content. Ultra’s mission is to do away with the current monopoly held by publishing platforms like Steam and provide new opportunities to game developers, players, and influencers. Ultra promises a solution that is more equitable to players and developers alike. Players can benefit from immediately playable games, earn UOS by using the platform, and access platform-exclusive games. At the same time, developers benefit from access to more effective marketing tools and the potential for 20% higher sales revenue.

Besides content and game publishing, Ultra offers a demand-side and service-side platform for advertisers, the opportunity for players to resell their used games, and a platform-exclusive app.

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OriginTrail is an ecosystem building a trusted knowledge infrastructure for artificial intelligence. It addresses the challenge of misinformation in the AI era by ensuring the origin of information and enabling discoverability of the world's most important knowledge and real world assets (RWAs).

OriginTrail is creating a Verifiable Web for decentralized AI by empowering world class brands and builders. It utilizes its unique Decentralized Knowledge Graph and OriginTrail Parachain to deliver AI-powered search and solutions for enterprises and individuals worldwide.

OriginTrail has gained support and partnerships with world-class organizations such as British Standards Institution, SCAN, Polkadot, Parity, Walmart, World Federation of Hemophilia, Oracle, and the EU Commission's Next Generation Internet. These partnerships contribute to advancing OriginTrail's trusted knowledge foundation and its applicability in trillion-dollar industries, while providing a verifiable web of knowledge important in particular to drive the economies of RWAs.

The best way to see the technology in action is by checking ChatDKG, which is an experimental, question answering bot on X (Twitter) based on trusted Knowledge Assets in OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph. The ChatDKG provides answers based on OriginTrail trusted AI.

The Metcalfe phase of the updated roadmap pursues an ambitious goal of creating the world’s largest verifiable web for AI consisting of 100 billion Knowledge Assets, bringing a 100.000x scalability increase. As the name of the phase suggests, it will seek to produce network effects across the OriginTrail DKG and use novel techniques to pursue autonomous DKG growth based on the genesis knowledge foundation being created by organizations and individuals alike. The genesis part of the Metcalfe’s phase also introduces knowledge mining and knowledge signaling capabilities to drive constant growth of the Verifiable Web.

Following the Genesis stage and the transition to an AI-native V8, further capabilities will become available in the Convergence stage. By leveraging the advancements in AI and the DKG, we will unlock autonomous knowledge mining which in turn leads to an autonomous DKG. At that stage, new knowledge gets added to the DKG with very limited human involvement. Services such as AI agents will be performing knowledge inferencing directly on the DKG to find any “blind spots” in the knowledge they can fill as well as search for new knowledge and bring it to the DKG in accordance with knowledge signaling.

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The Flux ecosystem is devoted to empowering everyone to develop, deploy and use the decentralized Internet of the future: Web3

At this moment the Flux ecosystem consists of: a native, minable POW cryptocurrency ($FLUX), a powerful decentralized computational Flux Network (FluxNodes), a Linux based operating system (FluxOS), the premier digital asset platform (Zelcore) and, finally, the Flux blockchain for on-chain governance, economics and parallel assets to provide interoperability with other blockchains and DeFi access.

Currently (2023/1) Flux has a computational network consisting of around 15,000 decentralized nodes, distributed globally with more than 108,000 CPU cores, 288 terabytes of RAM and 6.7 petabytes of storage. That makes Flux the largest decentralized network in the world!

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To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Arweave.

The Arweave network uses a native cryptocurrency, AR, to pay "miners" to indefinitely store the network's information.

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Metis wants to help developers create and manage existing decentralized applications (dApps), while also supporting developers and entrepreneurs who want to build and launch new dApps. It also integrates the Decentralized Autonomous Company (DAC) framework into its Layer 2 infrastructure to help developers and businesses move from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0.

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PYR  is the native utility token that is used for:

Fees for marketplace settlement

Staking in VulcanVerse land and other assets

Upgrading and sustaining game asset levels

Play-to-earn rewards

Access to our game developers and NFT dapp incubation program

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Having achieved product-market fit, we are now planning to execute the next phase of Covalent, which is a progressive decentralization that will enable the Covalent Network to be owned and operated by its users. Of course, a critical piece to this is CQT.

CQT is the native token of the Covalent Network. It has three primary purposes:

CQT is a governance token, whereby token holders vote on proposals to change the system parameters.

CQT is a staking asset. Validators will earn fees for answering queries.

CQT is a network access token that fulfills data queries for users of the API.

Developer resources include:

Covalent Knowledge Base for extensive guides on how to use the Covalent API. 

Covalent API Documentation.

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