Why EOSphere - Q2 2019
EOSphere is an Australian based and registered PTY LTD business headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. Committed to EOSIO technology we aim to serve the entire EOSphere enabling community growth and EOSIO platform adoption through provision of foundational block producer services and initiatives.
Our primary function is to effectively provide the block producer services required to support thousands of commercial scale DApps which requires not only an agile and secure enterprise scale infrastructure solution, but also a mature operational structure to govern, monitor, maintain and manage an EOSIO blockchain.
Our current team of 9 is made up of career professionals; datacentre, networking and security experts and community members. You can read about our latest additions here and here.
Our Data Centre Deployments have been run in AWS in the past however have now successfully been migrated to BareMetal across two geographically separate locations. High speed CPU cores, a large RAM footprint, 10GB Networking, Load balancing, DDoS mitigation, Segmented HA security and Internet feeds.. and our personal favourite NVMe disk arrays to handle the high amount of IOPS necessary to run EOSIO software. You can read about our upgrade project here.
Professional integrity, transparency, commitment, cooperation and independence are all characteristics that the EOSIO community have come to expect from EOSphere since the start of our company launch in January 2018 (Candidacy Announcement). We believe in the concept of a positive feedback loop where block rewards are reinvested back into the EOSIO Ecosystem to grow the community and platform adoption.
Since our business creation we have been completely self-funded and will never accept any external investment or influence from other parties to ensure we are true to our values which further emphasises our independence. Over the last 17 months we have strived to fulfill our commitment to the EOSIO community and have managed to achieve a multitude of initiatives within our funding means:
- Technical article and video on how to build an EOS development environment from source. View Here
- Previously published a regular EOS News Digest. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
- Technical article and video on how to run the EOIO Genesis Snapshot Generator. View Here
- Produced a community video explaining our view of a block producers role in English, Mandarin and Korean.
- Conducted an EOS Meetup Tour across 5 Australian States. View Here
- Monthly EOS meetup sponsorship for the Melbourne Blockchain Centre.
- Participation in 3 community testnets. arrowhead jungle superhero
- Facilitated a Thomas Cox webinar: Putting crypto economic theory into practice: How the skilled hand meets the cultivated mind in the world of blockchains. View Here
- Partnership with the Blockchain Centre for EOS education and Business Incubation. View Here
- Partnership with RMIT for EOS research and online EOS developer courses. View Here
- Sponsorship and support of the Community “Hack Till Dawn” Hackathon. View Here
- Sponsorship of the Chintai Token Leasing Platform. View Here
- Sponsorship and support of the EOSUnion Cup - Business Plan Competition. View Here
- Sponsorship of the first EOS community voting platform. View Here
- Built, Deployed and Open Sourced one of the first secure EOS voting Portals (EOS Voter) . View Article Here and Endorsements Here
- Educated the Community on the RAM Crisis. View Here
- Technical Video on how to use CLEOS. Part1 Part2
- Technical Project Video on how to build an EOS Hardware Wallet. View Here
- Creation of the Good Guys 4 EOS Voting Proxy. View Here
- We provide regular updates on who the Good Guys 4 EOS votes for. History and Digest #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
- We review the Top EOS Wallets regularly. View Here
- We help valuable messages and services get out to the greater community. View Here
- We have Partnered with Emanate the self governing Audio Exchange Protocol. View Here
- We have partnered with WORBLI to run Infrastructure Services and Initiatives on their Financial Services Network. View Here
- We have launched a team on BOID to help with Research. Join the Team Here
- Sponsorship of My EOS Wallet to enable the use of Hardware Wallets on EOS.
- We are contributors to the EOS Bootcamp Initiative.
- We support and sponsor community initiatives for the benefit of the ecosystem. #1 #2 #3
- We support the Woman of EOS. View Here
- We support gender diversity in the EOS ecosystem. View Here
- We are Carbon Neutral. Authority Website Here
- Regularly hold and sponsor EOSIO Meetups across Australia.
- Regularly Attend and Present at Events and Conferences. Full Video Playlist Here
- We are Block Producer Candidates on the Telos network and run Infrastructure, Services and Initiatives for this sisterchain. Including validation of the initial chain boot. View Here
- Built, Deployed and Open Sourced one of the first secure TELOS voting Portals (Telos Voter)
- Creation of the Good Guys 4 TELOS Voting Proxy. View Here
- We provide regular updates on who the Good Guys 4 Telos votes for in these Videos #1 #2
- Released py-demux-eos an implementation of the Demux library for Python. View Here
- Ran a Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Governance event in Melbourne. Video Here
- We have partnered with pixEOS the first art gamification and smart economy on EOS. View Here
- EOSphere 2018 Year in review. Video Here
- We have migrated from cloud to our own Bare Metal Data Centres. View Here
- We are Super Node Candidates on the EOS Force network and run Infrastructure, Services and Initiatives for this sidechain. View Here
- We are Block Producer Candidates on the BOSCore network and run Infrastructure, Services and Initiatives for this sidechain. View Here
- We Support the Best dApps and Services. Detailed Articles Part1 Part2 Part3
- We are Block Producer Candidates on the MEET.ONE network and run Infrastructure, Services and Initiatives for this sidechain. View Here
- We have partnered with SignalX the Trusted Token Offering Platform. View Here.
- We have partnered with and have launched multiple EOSIO sister/sidechains
- Our Founder Ross Dold further strengthened our partnership with Emanate by taking on the role of Emanate CTO View Here
- We are running a Light History Service on EOS Mainnet. View Here
- We became a member of EOS Alliance Korea - EOS 얼라이언스 한국어 그룹 View Here
- We co-hosted an Australian #B1June event in Sydney View Here
- We registered as a DAPP Service Provider (DSP) on the LiquidAppsDAPP Network. View Here
- We partnered with PUML Health and Fitness and introduced them to the EOSIO community View Here
Since EOS-Mainnet launch we have had numerous requests from Businesses and dApp developers for assistance on their EOSIO projects and initiatives. It is therefore a natural evolution that EOSphere responds to the ecosystems request for support. We want to leverage our community standing and expertise to provide exactly this for really great EOSIO projects and so we have launched a Professional Services arm of EOSphere called EOSphere {/dev}.
EOSphere {/dev} aims to assist with EOSIO platform adoption by real world businesses after all it is all about the dApps and if EOSIO is to be successful the dApp ecosystem needs to grow and be utilised by the mainstream. We want to encourage successful services and dApps to be deployed on EOSIO, if you are an established business or you have a great idea, we would love to hear your blockchain story. Complete this form for a free 30min consult with the EOSphere {/dev} team.
EOSphere {/dev} has been busy over the last few months with numerous consulting engagements and discussions with new builders and businesses in the EOSIO space. However the project highlights have been building the vision of Ashe Ore and Zane Whitener and bringing it to life in their TokenYield platform, as well as building the front-end to the Telos Arbitration system.
Recently we have also partnered with StrongBlock to provide development, project management and block producers services.
Ultimately EOSphere can be considered as Good Actors and Excellent Custodians of the EOS-Mainnet and other sister/sidechains existing and soon to be launched. We have the required technical expertise, professionalism and infrastructure; we sponsor and support the best initiatives; we are upstanding members of the global community, highly visible and easily contactable; and we aim to make EOSIO the business friendly platform is was built to be.
A vote for EOSphere is a vote for a positive inclusive future on EOS-Mainnet and the entire EOSIO ecosystem.
EOSphere are a passionate group of EOS enthusiasts and data centre professionals currently Standby Block Producers providing services for the EOS Mainnet and Block Production services across multiple sister chains.
Based in Australia, EOSphere are focussed on supporting the EOS community and serving the entire EOSphere through provision of infrastructure, governance and community benefit initiatives.
I hope a future update includes your membership in the StrongBlock.io Partners Program. I know we're delighted to have you.