Topic: [ANN] pEOS (PEOS) [BLOCKCHAIN EOS] (Read 337 times)

Then how are you going to distribute tokens?

Announcing the pEOS Privacy Fund for enabling privacy technologies on EOS

We started out to create pEOS, because we strongly believe in privacy being a fundamental human right. For us, the pEOS token and the technology behind it, are the starting point for embarking on a much bigger journey that will lead us to technology able to provide to people the next level of privacy.
Regardless of the latest general indifference towards privacy by many organizations, we strongly believe that most of the people still value privacy, and understand the implications of living in a future where technology strips the population of this fundamental right instead of empowering it. How many of history’s fallen totalitarian regimes would have survived, had they been given the power to know every book that anybody would ever buy and read? Stop and think about that for a moment.
How many of history’s fallen totalitarian regimes would have survived, had they been given the power to know every book that anybody would ever buy and read?
We live in times where freedom of ideas is at the same time exploding through the Information Age, but also stands more fragile than ever. In an age of AI, massive processing power and big data we are one corner away from this power ending up into the wrong hands. Preaching, protecting and enabling privacy is more important than ever and it has become a crucial imperative to ensure future generations’ freedom.
If we achieve to accelerate and empower the development of technologies and products that promote privacy, our goal will be met. The pEOS token, given its performance and censorship resistance is the first step towards that goal. However there is much more we can do.
Announcing the pEOS Privacy Fund
The pEOS team currently holds as an incentive a fund of 200 million PEOS tokens which after the token burn of unclaimed PEOS tokens ended up amounting to 26% of the total supply. Having our position inflated was only a byproduct and never our original intention. So given the fact that much less than that amount was already enough to incentivize us, we were constantly looking for ways to better utilize these funds.
After a lot of thinking, we are proud to announce that we are going to create the pEOS Privacy Fund. We are going to allocate 50 million of the tokens reserved for the team, in order to create a fund with the mission to support third-party privacy oriented projects; projects that take advantage of the pEOS technology and the PEOS token.
As a result, our incentive fund will be reduced to 150 million PEOS (19% of total supply). The 50 million PEOS of the pEOS Privacy Fund will be allocated to teams that will qualify; under terms that will be tailored to each project.
Apply for the fund
We are already aware of several existing projects that want to integrate privacy features but can’t cover the additional cost that that implies. Additionally, we are certain there are also teams and individuals out there that have privacy products in their heads, talented people with great ideas, that can’t find a way to realize their goals. We know this because we have been in that position ourselves. We are now in a position to help!
If you are a team with an existing or new product related to privacy or you think that the pEOS technology can help your product become privacy aware, please contact us here:
peos.dev at yandex.com
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
We are going to provide more information as we move forward, so stay “tuned”.
Website: https://peos.one Telegram: https://t.me/pEOSone Telegram China: https://t.me/pEOS_china Twitter: https://twitter.com/peos_one

Coins will be credited only to our official wallet.

to which wallet are you distrbuting 1:1? and are you going to be doing it lso on exchanges like binance? i'm interested to know as i  have some EOS there.
50M is going to be used for marketing the project, this means bounty campaign is it? when is it going to happen, i wanna join.

I saw this token in eos airgrab, but why can't I claim it there? is there a way to do it? because I am very curious about this token and want to have some

pEOS Wallet
Last week we put out an article describing the design decisions behind our wallet implementation.

Earlier this week we sent out a video of the wallet in action to Rob from Cypherglass, who was kind enough to present it in the video below:
Learn more about the pEOS project and get in touch with the community by following the links below:
Website: https://peos.one
Telegram: https://t.me/pEOSone
Telegram China: https://t.me/pEOS_china
Twitter: https://twitter.com/peos_one

Where can I buy your coin?

Please read our whitepaper

It has come to our attention that several non-technical people find it hard to follow the pEOS whitepaper and thus are having a hard time understanding how PEOS tokens will work. To avoid further misconceptions, we decided to write this post and try to give an ELI5 explanation on how PEOS tokens can be transferred among shadow addresses and eosio accounts and what this all means in terms of privacy.

To keep it simple, I will start with what we already have. At this time, PEOS does not yet support private transactions and can only be transported between EOS main-net accounts, like any other eosio token.

After pEOS privacy features get enabled…

Some wallets will support pEOS privacy features

These wallets will generate keys for the user, which will be used for the privacy features. These keys will be specific to pEOS and should be backed up properly as they will be used to secure that wallet’s anonymized PEOS tokens. These keys will be used to generate and validate private transactions.

To do this:

EOS wallets that support pEOS privacy features, will most probably use one of the EOS main-net accounts already setup in the wallet to transmit the PEOS transaction.
Dedicated pEOS wallets, will have to connect with Scatter, BlockOne’s wallet or some other similar solution to transmit the PEOS transaction through the EOS network.
PEOS transaction relays. A third option could be PEOS transaction relays, that will be able to relay PEOS transactions for a fee in PEOS. This third option will allow a user to send PEOS without even owning any EOS accounts.


Some EOS wallets may choose to not support pEOS privacy features. These wallets will still be able to see PEOS tokens owned by EOS main-net accounts and send them to other EOS main-net accounts without privacy, like any other regular token.

pEOS dedicated wallet announcement to be developed by the pEOS team

We are also planning to launch our own version of dedicated pEOS wallet. Since we already have enough resources to support such a feat, we decided to build our own in-house wallet. This way we can make sure that there is proper pEOS wallet support at launch and we can also control the UX according to our vision. More information regarding the in-house pEOS wallet will come in a future post specifically about it.

Website: https://peos.one

Designing the pEOS wallet
Introduction
They say that an interface that needs explaining is like a bad joke. We put together this article, to communicate with the community our design thinking and showcase our work thus far. Hopefully, the final users will think that it’s just another wallet that looks good and that’s about it. Technology should be transparent.

Through this post we are going to present our design step by step, discuss the design challenges we identified and subsequently the important choices, we had to make to deliver the best possible user experience to pEOS users.

Design Challenges

pEOS transaction complexity vs Regular tokens
As we already discussed about in the ELI5 post, pEOS has its own address system built over eosio. PEOS tokens can be moved between eosio Accounts and PEOS addresses with privacy considerations depending on the account type of the sender (eosio Account vs pEOS address). Since users in their vast majority don’t like tutorials and manuals, the UI must be self explanatory and the UX should be fluid and protect the users from performing actions without considering the outcomes. During our design research, we spotted the following challenges as the ones we should really try to address:

pEOS works over the eos network; this requires an eosio account and adequate resources (CPU,Network, RAM) in order to relay pEOS transactions.
Users should understand that pEOS addresses are detached from eosio accounts, eosio accounts are only being used to relay the transactions through the eos network.
The wallet should enable the user to send private transactions from and towards both pEOS addresses and eosio accounts, while also informing her regarding the privacy considerations of each type of transactions.
pEOS requires eos RAM to be used as transaction fees; this is a new concept for eosio users and should be communicated and handled.
pEOS is a privacy focused project; we should make sure that privacy of information is protected along the app during its use and that the user is protected from prying eyes.
Keep all of the above as simple and as user friendly as possible.
User must have a clear idea of his balance and his transaction history.
The pEOS wallet Design
Onboarding


Onboarding is usually a very important part of an App, as it is responsible for the first touch point of the concept with the user. It is also good for it to be informative while remaining simple. For pEOS, we tried to keep it as short as we could and it only has 4 steps as you can see above.

Handling the EOS layer with scatter

As we see in the last step of onboarding, the user is urged to connect with Scatter. We believe that scatter does a good job of handling eos accounts and resources and also has a big user base that is familiar with it. As soon as the user connects her eos account, the thin blue line at the top of the screen expands, to reveal information about and allow the user to manage the EOS account and the PEOS stored there when needed. We call it the eosio bar and it is always there where the eos account will live throughout the UI from now on.

The wallet home screen
pEOS wallet home screen
Our goal here is to provide an at-a-glance view of the pEOS balance and a visual representation of its recent history so far. The main actions are Send and Copy address, and in the case that a PEOS balance exists in the connected eosio account, we made sure that the Anonymize button is prominent. The transaction list sits at the bottom as with many other wallet designs, so a user can investigate further her transaction history. Transactions themselves are clickable but do not display Sender information as it is private.

Privacy by default
We designed “pEOS wallet” to have privacy enabled by default. This essentially means that we “disabled” PEOS transactions among eosio accounts that do not use the pEOS privacy functionality. To allow users to use the PEOS tokens stored in their connected eosio account, we introduced the Anonymize button in the eosio bar.



Flow — Anonymize your public balance
The Anonymize button sends the PEOS tokens of the connected eosio account to the wallet’s pEOS address and makes them available to be used with high levels of privacy as intended.

This way we improve privacy and simplify the UI in general as we completely remove scenarios of transactions having weak privacy.

Sending PEOS
Sending PEOS is now pretty simple; the UI supports sending to pEOS addresses as well as eosio accounts and the only challenging part left is handling RAM as fees.

Ram as Fees / Not enough RAM
As mentioned earlier, handling eosio RAM as fees is a new concept for users and it is our job to inform and help them navigate through the struggles it may bring. To solve that, we designed the flow above that appears when the user tries to send a transaction but there is not enough RAM available (estimated). As you can see, we explain the issue and provide two solutions, to either buy ram or switch to another account with sufficient RAM (hopefully). RAM usage is kept minimal and usually sums up to a few bytes.

Final thoughts
We believe that we ended up with a solid design that most crypto familiar users will be able to use to complete private PEOS transactions with confidence and ease.

Even though we are confident that we have a solid basic design, we are far from finished as we are already considering various additions like:

in-wallet PEOS/EOS, EOS/PEOS trading pairs
leverage PEOS relays with fees in PEOS instead of eosio accounts connected through scatter or other wallets
add support for Block.one wallet
mobile version
Bonus: Prototype video incoming
Keep your heads up for third party videos as we have also released a video of the alpha version of the wallet as described above to certain influencers.

(Edit: The wallet video is out. Have a look at the wallet in action here: https://medium.com/@pEOS_one/peos-wallet-preview-4476320736e3)

We posted this article primarily to communicate to the people that follow us in our journey to deliver pEOS from a whitepaper to a full blown product, building block by block put in place. Thanks for your support so far, we wouldn’t come this far without you, we hope that you enjoyed it! That’s all for now, looking forward to your feedback and thoughts!

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