## What is Iagon? 
Iagon is an AI-driven shared storage and compute economy, bridging decentralization with compliance. 

Iagon’s autonomous, innovative cloud service marketplace provides privacy, security and operational sovereignty for both enterprise & retail consumers while enabling compliant solutions at the click of a button. 

Pioneering the next generation of cloud services, Iagon is built on the core tenets of decentralization, giving data ownership back to the users and removing any central point of control. Through data sharding, encryption and a global network of server nodes, Iagon mitigates the security and privacy risks of traditional centralized cloud services, eliminating the possibility of data leaks, surveillance and single points of failure.

With Iagon cloud storage, computing and web hosting, businesses and individuals can leverage a network of resource providers to facilitate their needs, while remaining compliant with their region of operation. Complete operational sovereignty enables each user to set parameters for how and where their data is stored, with active transparent insights and monitoring available at all times. Through Iagon, consumers can store, use, test and deploy in a traditional manner, while benefiting from the advantages of a secure, decentralized and compliant network.

Iagon ushers in a new era of data ownership, putting the keys to your data back in your hands with the tools to leverage it as you see fit. Your data, your control, your future.

## Key Benefits / Capabilities of Iagon? 

* **Decentralized server network** | Diversified data storage and compute locations to mitigate single-point failures and safeguard users from malicious attacks. 

* **Sharded and Encrypted Data** | Store files with any desired degree of redundancy and security, keeping users’ data private and safe.

* **Compliance in a box** | One-click compliance empowers users to choose where their data is stored and how it is transferred or accessed. 

* **Operational Sovereignty** | Manage your data with complete control, choosing by who, when and where your data is accessible. 

* **Big Data Capabilities** | Leverage the network as your supercomputer, enabling AI and big data computation. 

* **Interoperability** | Easily integrated with third-party dapps and protocols, enabling them to leverage decentralized storage and computing in their operations. 

## Who are the founders of Iagon?
Iagon was founded by a group of PhDs who identified the fundamental issues associated with how data is stored and used in the healthcare industry.  In 2017, they began on a solution to create a secure way for individuals to hold, and thereby own their health data, and to interact more effectively with health services. Over time it became clear that data security and ownership were a prevalent issue across many industries and thus, Iagon expanded its scope in pursuit of revolutionizing how data is stored, used and owned. 

**Dr. Navjit Dhaliwal** 
A serial entrepreneur with a keen interest in business and technology. He is leading the Iagon team to be at the forefront of the decentralised cloud services industry.

**Dr. Elad Harison**
An AI and Machine Learning Expert, Economist and Industrial Engineer. His everyday work integrates the technical, scientific, business and economic aspects of the organisational processes at Iagon. He is responsible for fostering a success-oriented, accountable environment within the company

**Dr. Rohit Gupta** 
Currently, Dr. Gupta is the Technology Director with the Expedia Group and had previously worked with Amazon and Ames Research Laboratories before founding HealthGini. In addition to his remarkable background in innovation, Rohit has a proven track record for establishing a culture of customer focus, operational excellence, and continuous improvement in a range of domains, including travel, e-commerce, healthcare, telecommunications, fraud and cloud computing. Always up for new challenges, Gupta is a valued member of the IAGON advisory board as the Cloud Computing Research Advisor.

**Dr. Claudio Lima**
A seasoned executive, global CTO, VP of innovation and thought leader in advanced energy and telecom/IT working with emerging technologies, new businesses and digital transformation. At Iagon, he identifies new technology, landscapes, developments and opportunities and creates plans to implement them for Iagon and its clients.

*Learn more [about the team](https://iagon.com/about.html).*

## What Makes Iagon Unique?
Iagon is taking a user-centric approach to the solution of decentralised data storage. We are firm believers in data privacy rights and are building Iagon around data protection regulation.

**Security**
The traditional cloud service market has a track record of data breaches, monitoring and outtages which have proven to be costly for many enterprises. Iagon provides a solution that leverages data encryption and sharding techniques to ensure that businesses and individuals data remains confidential while using a distributed storage network to mitigate single-point vulnerabilities, increasing data redundancy and ensuring that customer’s always have access to their data. Unlike with traditional solutions, Iagon empowers user centered data ownership, giving customers the tools they need to be selective with how their data is stored and accessed, while providing them with the peace of mind to know their data is safe and secure. 

**Compliance**
An aspect that is unique to Iagon is our focus on bridging decentralization and compliance. We understand the need that remains for companies to choose cloud services and data solutions that allow them to maintain compliance with their regional standards. As a result, Iagon has been built to proactively support compliance, giving users full control over where their data is stored and how it is accessed or transferred while providing real-time insights that can be easily exported and shared with compliance regulating entities. 

**Cardano**
Another unique aspect and advantage of Iagon is the choice we made to choose the Cardano blockchain as the Iagon access layer. While we aim to be chain agnostic and grow support for multiple ecosystems, given the current state of the blockchain landscape, we opted to move our initial infrastructure away from Ethereum in favour of a blockchain that was built on similar principles of decentralization and security, while providing a much stronger track record regarding vulnerabilities and exploits. A protocol is only as resilient as the infrastructure it is built upon, and for that reason, Cardano became the clear choice.

As the project evolves, our differentiation will as well. We will share aspects of these product advancements as they near and approach release. 

*Follow our [socials](https://linktr.ee/iagon) to keep updated.*

## What is the Iagon Token Utility? 

The $IAG token serves as the backbone of the Iagon ecosystem and is integrated throughout the usage of the protocol. 

As of now, Iagon provides the following utility:

* **Provide resources to the network:** Resource providers must stake a balance of IAG proportionate to the amount of resources they wish to provide. By providing storage they will earn a portion of the protocol fees.

* **Delegate to a resource provider:** Token holders who do not wish to provide their own resources to the network can delegate their tokens to a resource provider to earn subscription fees.

* **Subscription Boosts:** By holding IAG token, holders can receive a boost to the amount of storage (or compute) they receive from each tier of the subscription. 

* **Platform Payments & Rewards:** The token is designed to be used specifically on the Iagon cloud platform, facilitating payment for storage services. These services are priced against fiat currencies (e.g., USD or EUR), with an established exchange rate for IAG tokens, ensuring a stable utility value. The payment in IAG will be facilitated at a later time.

* **Voting Power:** Holding IAG tokens will give holders voting power in votes pertaining to protocol decision-making. Total voting power will be based on a number of different metrics, with the amount of tokens and how long they have been held having the largest impact.  


## Useful Iagon Ecosystem Links
**General:**
* Website: https://iagon.com/ 
* Application: https://app.iagon.com/ 
* Blog: https://blog.iagon.com/ 
* Github: https://github.com/Iagonorg/ 
* Documentation: https://docs.iagon.com/docs/documentation/introduction 
* Tokenomics: https://docs.iagon.com/docs/whitepaper/tokenomics 

**Socials:**
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/IagonOfficial  
* Telegram: https://t.me/Iagon_official 
* Discord: https://discord.gg/TCS23VWuWm 
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IagonOfficial/ 
* Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iagon/ 

IAGON

Daedalus

Lace

Trust Wallet

MetaMask

A Cloud Computing Platform offering access to a decentralized $IAG-powered Shared Storage & Compute Economy on Cardano.

Cardano

Snek

Minswap

Book.io

Indigo Protocol

Hosky Token

KubeCoin

AdaSwap

COTI is a fast and light confidentiality layer on Ethereum. Powered by the breakthrough cryptographic protocol Garbled Circuits and secured by Ethereum, COTI introduces the most advanced and compliant solution for data protection on the public blockchain. Paving the way for the next wave of Web3 innovation and adoption, COTI unlocks a whole new world of use cases, including confidential transactions, Artificial Intelligence, DeFi, decentralized identification, and more.

COTI

SingularityNET is a blockchain-powered platform that allows anybody to easily "create, share, and monetize" AI services, thanks to its globally-accessible AI marketplace.

Through the SingularityNET marketplace, users can browse, test and purchase a huge variety of AI services using the platform’s native utility token — AGIX. Moreover, the marketplace represents an outlet AI developers can use to publish and sell their AI tools, and easily track their performance.

With the benefits of LLMs and generative AI are increasingly exciting, their limitations are also becoming increasingly apparent. The convergence of structured knowledge with neural networks is emerging as the key to overcoming their shortcomings.

Uniquely positioned at the heart of this convergence, SingularityNET will prioritize the integration of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and comprehensive Neural Symbolic tools for LLMs, with the goal of empowering developers to create the next generation of AI systems on the SingularityNET Platform.

SingularityNET is strategically positioned to become the Knowledge Layer of the Internet, leading the evolution of the emerging AI landscape while also laying the foundations for the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) of tomorrow.

The team behind SingularityNET pioneered the development of an AI known as Sophia, which is described as the "world's most expressive robot". SingularityNET’s goal is to enable Sophia to be able to fully understand human language, and continue developing “OpenCog” — an AI framework that is hoped to eventually achieve a state known as “advanced general intelligence,” i.e. human-level artificial intelligence (or beyond).

The platform was first announced in 2017 and completed an initial coin offering (ICO) in December the same year, raising $36 million in just one minute.

SingularityNET

SingularityDAO

Akash Network

AIOZ Network

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.

Aleph.im

Nakamoto Games

Metis is an Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solution aiming to solve the blockchain trilemma: that blockchains cannot be decentralized, secure, and scalable simultaneously. It also strives to solve Ethereum's biggest challenges: speed, cost and scalability.

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.

Metis

Arweave is a decentralized storage network that seeks to offer a platform for the indefinite storage of data. Describing itself as "a collectively owned hard drive that never forgets," the network primarily hosts "the permaweb" — a permanent, decentralized web with a number of community-driven applications and platforms.

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.

The project was first announced as Archain in August 2017, later rebranding to Arweave in February 2018 and officially launching in June 2018.

Arweave

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.

OriginTrail

Verasity is an open-ledger ecosystem designed to fight advertising fraud, provide open access to infrastructure for publishers and advertisers, and reward users for watching video content. Verasity also provides payment solutions and a rewarding staking ecosystem with 15% yields guaranteed through to April 2024.

Powered by a mix of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cutting-edge blockchain technologies, Verasity is building the most powerful advertising ecosystem in the world through VeraViews; developing an open-access payments platform through VeraWallet, the VeraCard, and VeraPay; and enhancing the attention economy through its patented Rewarded Video module.

Verasity

Smart contracts often struggle to access dependable data, but application programming interfaces (APIs) have been touted as a solution to this problem.

API3’s stated goal is to allow decentralized versions of APIs to be built, managed and monetized at scales. As blockchain technology plays an ever bigger role in the economy — from decentralized finance to supply chain management — the team behind this project says it has never been more important for smart contracts to provide “timely, reliable real-world data.”

The whitepaper for API3 was unveiled in September 2020 and set out the main problem that’s associated with APIs at present: connectivity. At present, there’s no way for smart contracts to establish a direct connection with APIs for the latest data — and this has led to an explosion in the popularity of oracles.

Although this has helped solve the problem to some extent, the industry has since been grappling with the “Blockchain Oracle Problem.” Oracles are a form of middleware that sit in between APIs and smart contracts — increasing costs and centralization. API3 intends to get around this problem by enabling API providers to operate their very own nodes.

API3’s token went live at the start of December following on from a token sale that generated tens of millions of dollars.

API3

Phala Network is the Execution Layer for Web3 AI. By enabling AI to understand and interact with blockchains, it unlocks the barrier for the first billion users to join Web3.

Phala Network's multi-proof system is the answer to the AI execution problem. On top of the Phala Network, you can easily build tamper-proof and unstoppable AI Agents that are closely integrated with on-chain smart contracts by AI-Agent Contract

Agentize smart contracts: Create AI Agents for smart contracts using natural and programming languages.

Connect to the internet of multi-agents: Make your agents accessible by other cross-chain AI Agents.

Launch AI Agents and get incentivized: Own your agents and build a profitable token economy.

Phala Network

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.

Ultra

Wanchain is a distributed ledger that allows for cross-chain transactions and the interoperability of multiple chains. Although Wanchain facilitates transactions between blockchains, it is also a stand-alone blockchain that runs autonomously. The protocol acts as a distributed ledger that processes and maintains records of cross-chain transactions.

Transactions on Wanchain do not only occur between different public blockchains but between private chains as well. As an Ethereum (ETH) fork, Wanchain enjoys some of the properties of the Ethereum blockchain. The protocol securely and autonomously processes applications via smart contracts.  The use cases for Wanchain include decentralized exchanges (DEXs), lending and borrowing platforms, stablecoins, crowdfunding, multi-currency payments and settlements.

The platform is totally decentralized and requires no custodian party to manage or confirm transactions. Unlike other cross-chain systems, Wanchain does not rely on a third-party platform to authenticate transactions. The locked account mechanism is used to secure and manage accounts on the network, eliminating third-party interferences.

Wanchain

Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain on Polkadot. Moonbeam makes it easy to use popular Ethereum developer tools to build or redeploy Solidity projects in a Substrate-based environment.

Moonbeam is much more than just an EVM implementation: it’s a highly specialized parachain that mirrors Ethereum’s Web3 RPC, accounts, keys, subscriptions, logs, and more. The Moonbeam platform extends the base Ethereum feature set with additional features such as on-chain governance, staking, and cross-chain integrations.

Moonbeam’s Ethereum compatibility is unmatched:

Minimal Changes: developers can use existing Solidity smart contracts right away, with no need to rewrite or reconfigure

Use Existing Developer Tools: connect popular tools like MetaMask, Hardhat, Waffle, Remix, and Truffle via a complete set of Web3 RPC endpoints. Use well-known Javascript libraries such as Web3.Js or Ethers.Js.

Unified Accounts, Addresses, and Signatures: use your existing Ethereum H160 accounts & ECDSA signatures to interact with Moonbeam

Tap into the Most Integrations on Polkadot: use existing oracles, bridges, wallets, and other tools that are already building on Moonbeam

Moonbeam provides integration and connectivity between Polkadot Parachains as well as with other chains such as Ethereum and Bitcoin via bridges. Moonbeam was started in 2019 by Derek Yoo of Pure Stake.

Moonbeam

Radix is a layer 1 smart contract platform built to create a Web3 future for everyone, not just the innovators here today. A future where our friends, family and colleagues can confidently participate.
After 10 years of research, testing and development, Radix has built a highly optimized stack of custom technologies that tightly integrates wallet, programming language, execution environment, and consensus algorithm.
Users, with the Radix Wallet, can confidently use Web3 and DeFi with human-readable transactions, transaction guarantees, native assets, and more.
Developers, with Radix's Scrypto programming language, can build secure, production-ready dApps in a fraction of the time.

Radix

Covalent leverages big-data technologies to create meaning from hundreds of billions of data points, delivering actionable insights to investors and allowing developers to allocate resources to higher-utility goals within their organization.

Instead of painstakingly sourcing data from a small handful of chains, Covalent aggregates information from across dozens of sources including nodes, chains and data feeds. The Covalent API then sources end-users with individualized data by wallet, including current and historical investment performance across all types of digital assets. Most importantly, Covalent returns this data in a rapid and consistent manner, incorporating all relevant data within one API interface.

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.

Covalent

SuperVerse

Secret (SCRT) is a privacy-oriented blockchain built on Cosmos. Its smart contracts are called Secret Contracts and allow DApps to use private data on Secret, similar to how smart contracts operate on other blockchains. However, Secret Contracts transfer encrypted inputs into encrypted outputs without exposing data. This is made possible thanks to the encrypted contract states during the execution.

Data privacy is guaranteed by combining encryption protocols and key management within a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). This allows Secret Contracts to compete for several privacy-related use cases that traditional blockchains have found difficult to accommodate. For instance, private voting mechanisms or credit scoring applications become possible since they do not expose sensitive user data on-chain with Secret.