***What is ScPrime?***

ScPrime is a cryptocurrency project targeting public cloud services with a blockchain based ecosystem to pay individuals to store data around the globe using smart contracts and cryptographic proofs to ensure accuracy, security and redundancy.

* ScPrime is a layer 1 blockchain based on Proof of Work ASIC mining and state channel smart contract scripts tying Storage Providers together. The network is based on the original Sia renter-host protocol and uses 256-bit encryption and erasure codes to create a highly durable and secure public distributed cloud service. Anyone may participate as a storage node and be paid in the utility coin known as SCP. Open-source software allows users to build generic configurations while commercial implementations like the XaMiner deliver a plug & play experience.
* A layer 2 reference implementation brings real world access to the network with a core client software called a Relayer, which can be configured as an on-premise or in-cloud instance to access the network with full compatibility with widely used cloud protocols like AWS S3. Customers using this client pay with traditional methods and have a wide array of features allowing for a drop-in replacement of their current cloud uses.

***Evolution, Then Revolution***

This is a core manifesto about transitioning to Web3 while maintaining real-world compatibility. As blockchain, public key cryptography and utility currencies gain acceptance, SCP software will evolve to meet the need, growing a competitive global network and advancing anti-fragile decentralization over time. Radical cost benefits are a natural result.

At the genesis block on October 31, 2018, a premine rewarded the Sia community and developers as well as covering expenses for community participants to operate mining pools and initial exchange listing costs. A large cold wallet balance was also created for network development. Details of the genesis block are available at https://scpri.me/project-specifications

***Securing the Network***

The ScPrime blockchain is Proof-of-Work - Blake2B consensus algorithm with 10 minute blocktimes and an aggressive difficulty adjustment algorithm. The Genesis reward was 300 SCP declining by 0.001 SCP per block with a 10 SCP floor approximately five years from Genesis. A declining project fee was included in the first two years for developer funding. After block 105,000, 10% of each block reward is sent to an unspendable address to reduce inflation/supply for the duration of the project. 

Sybil and other data disruption attacks are mitigated with a system of collateral put up by Storage Providers equal to the other side of any given contract. Collateral is locked and unavailable while the contract is active. When successfully completed, it is returned to the Provider. If for any reason, the Provider fails a contract, the Collateral is sent to a burn address to prevent an attack vector built to steal the collateral.

For durability and taking advantage of the unique nature of a widely distributed network, datasets are chunked into shards via standard Erasure Coding (Reed Solomon).Data/Parity ratios are determined by the customer inside the Relayer client based on desired durability, geolocation of data, latency and other network performance indicators. The use of EC creates extreme redundancy as only a fraction of uploaded data nodes need be available to retrieve the whole dataset.

ScPrime

Deeper Network is backed by Parity, AU21, Digital Renaissance, Master Ventures, Brilliance Ventures, Loopring, SevenX Ventures, UVA, YOUBI Capital, GOBI Partners, CANDAQ, Blocksync Ventures, Republic, ChinaPolka, Titan Ventures, Consensus Lab, Spark Digital Capital and BMW Capital.

Deeper Network also has partnerships with Polkadot, Best Buy, Amazon, Indiegogo, PAID Ignition, Duckstarter, Poolz and Flybit.

Deeper Network

Mysterium Network is an open-source ecosystem of protocols, tools, and Web3 infrastructure making the internet borderless and accessible for all. The network gives both users and builders the tools they need to safeguard their online anonymity and equal access to information. Mysterium held a token sale through which it raised $14 million CHF.

Mysterium is powered by its permissionless, peer-to-peer network. Anyone can turn their device into a node and rent their spare internet resources, such as bandwidth or IP address, in exchange for cryptocurrency. The network is tamper-proof, anonymous, and encrypted like Tor, but with superior usability, stability and speed.

Mysterium’s B2B Network-as-a-Service lays the groundwork for all kinds of enterprise-level services to be built, including the project's flagship product, the Mysterium VPN, available for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux (iOS in 2022). Developers and entrepreneurs can build private, censorship-resistant tools, and businesses can make their products globally accessible and secure. The technology is fully compatible with both Web2 and Web3 platforms and can be integrated with VPNs, proxy services, DeFi wallets, browsers, search engines, data scraping solutions, and streaming apps, building censorship-resistance into the apps we already use.

Mysterium

EOSDT

ClubCoin

Graviocoin

Ycash

DIMO

Flux is the cryptocurrency that powers the Flux ecosystem. It has a number of uses including purchasing resources, collateralizing nodes and fuelling transactions on FluxOS, as well as rewarding both miners and FluxNode operators for providing computational resources.

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!

Flux

Humaniq

Pascal

Tachyon Protocol

WaykiChain

BitKan

0xBitcoin

Moonchain

Edge

QuadrantProtocol

Helium (HNT) is a decentralized blockchain-powered network for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Launched in July 2019, the Helium mainnet allows low-powered wireless devices to communicate with each other and send data across its network of nodes.

Nodes come in the form of so-called Hotspots, which are a combination of a wireless gateway and a blockchain mining device. Users who operate nodes thus mine and earn rewards in Helium’s native cryptocurrency token, HNT.

Helium’s goal is to prepare IoT communication for the future, identifying inadequacies in current infrastructure from its birth in 2013.

Helium

Vertcoin

Peercoin, also known as PPC or Peer-to-Peer Coin, was created by Sunny King and his team and launched in August 2012. It is the first blockchain to implement Proof-of-Stake consensus.

The primary inspiration behind the creation of Peercoin was to address a number of perceived shortcomings of Bitcoin, including energy efficiency, security and sustainability, decentralization and long-term viability.

Essentially it was designed as an enhanced replacement for Bitcoin. As such, it was originally forked from Bitcoin and uses the same UTXO style blockchain. However, Peercoin's code was modified to introduce Proof-of-Stake as its primary consensus protocol. The next section explains how this makes for a better blockchain.

Given that Peercoin uses most of the same code, it can easily port new features from Bitcoin and utilize any of the supporting infrastructure, including tech advancements like Taproot or Lightning Network. Peercoin is the only Proof-of-Stake blockchain that uses modern Bitcoin code, making it the perfect drop-in replacement.

Peercoin also has a dedicated community, is actively developed, fairly distributed, has low barriers of participation, can do everything that Bitcoin does, minus the 13 TWh of energy usage, and it's not a scam.