ESSENTIA: GIVING A DECENTRALIZED SERVICE FOR THE PROTECTION OF DIGITAL DATA

Presently, in our world today, we are constantly presented with new developments in terms of technology and social life, and the choice of adopting these developments are most often to the detriment of user’s data usage, security, and privacy, as these developments often involve third parties and intermediaries which are not so secure. Users are not even informed on how their data is being used and whom it is being disclosed to. These issues are prevalent possibly because the current systems are centralized leading to insecure data management, thereby exposing user’s digital life including locations, habits, financial details, etc. In essence, there isn’t any user data freedom and privacy under current technological systems. The implementation of blockchain based technologies can solve these issues but first, users should be well able to interact with them. With these issues in mind, Essentia’s decentralized service has been developed to provide a gateway to resources as well internet services, thereby totally regulating or controlling the identity, data and digital life of users. Essentia has a user-friendly framework that gives users both total and partial control, thereby enabling them to choose between anonymous, semi-anonymous and public states, and users hold the decision of partly or fully sharing their data as well as how and when their data is shared. Essentia’s software can run on all operating systems and hardware, enabling users to use current and future technologies without fear of their digital life being exposed.

DIRECT ESSENTIA SYSTEM PROPERTIES
• It is trust-less, trustable and secure
• It is private i.e only the user has full ownership and control
• It is decentralized and always available
• It is designed to enable cross-chain, multi-chain and multi-protocol
• It is flexible and scalable
• It is privacy-focused, has anti-censorship, persistent, and not-corruptible
• All data and communications are anonymous and encrypted by default
• It is agent agnostic, headless and automatable/orchestrable
• It is open-source and open-hardware/software and hardware
• It is language and host agnostic
• It offers a fault-proof
• It offers future-proof solutions

BENEFITS OF ESSENTIA
• Users can instantly and securely access and interact with off-chain and on-chain third party services on whether to share their data or information with them or not
• Users data can be encrypted and maintained on decentralized storage, and not publicly connect with their identity
• Users data are not managed by centralized services
• Users can lock and use their personal data as well dispose it off with ease
Essentia has a design that is scalable and can be configured to fit both expert and rookie users. Its framework can be virtualized, thereby exploiting distributed computing. Essentia’s decentralized framework implements hybrid solutions that incorporates smart contracts as well as other on-chain components which work as bridges and modules to execute on and off-chain operations and events. Essentia’s core (ESS-ID) can be controlled and used through a set aside wallet (hardware key) that offers a higher-level security to all user operations and interactions, and user data which is maintained on decentralized storage can be backed up on local storage for offline use.

OVERVIEW OF SOME OF ESSENTIA’S FRAMEWORK
• The ESS-ID has inimitable properties that are totally in proprietary ownership and control of a user
• The seed that completely recovers and restores the ESS-ID can be exported as a mnemonic list of words and can be backed up on paper. It can also be restored and deployed on the ESS-ID, the ESS-Keyware and other hardware and software that are compatible, in the future.
• Users can now use their decentralized ESS-ID to access connected services and/or to link, access and use their data
• Users can privately and securely manage their data, ID’s and connected software environs and configurations from the ESS-Home or on the ESS-OS
• ESS-Home/OS data is available on decentralized storage which can be downloaded and used from anywhere

MAIN PROPERTIES OF ESSENTIA FRAMEWORK
• Mining modules (can be external units too)
• HID modules (screens, touch, keyboards etc.)
• Miscellaneous modules
• Shell and fan/dissipater modules
• Location modules (gps, antennas etc.)
• Movement modules (gyroscope, accelerometer, compass etc.)
• Network modules (mips hw, lan (ev), bees, antennas, etc.)
• Ambient sensors modules (temp, pressure, light, humidity etc.)
• Energy modules (solar-panel units, battery packs, etc.)

SOME USE CASES AND APPLICATIONS OF ESSENTIA
• Users can login to services, use and configure them without revealing their private details and data
• Users can connect to the Internet while their system is booting, through decentralized or custom VPN services or through the TOR network
• Users can register/access their accounts instantly and seamlessly on every integrated trust-less service
• A good can be rented and used without revealing data, provided no problem occurs with its use or payment
• Users can always make use of a trusted, secure, powerful, custom, ready-to-use and user-friendly framework

OVERVIEW OF ESSENTIA’S MAIN COMPONENTS

• ESS-ID
This is the identity core of the Essentia framework, and it works like the HD wallet (Hierarchical Deterministic wallet). It can also be created or managed through a software or set-aside hardware devices, and has optional multi-signature capabilities and features. Logically, it is made up of a Root-ID which is a HD cryptographic master key that has the ability to create and manage its Sub-ID’s and their connected operations and authorization levels. Root-ID’s also create and manage individual as well as groups of Sub-ID’s. The ESS-ID base operations are to destroy/create/backup/restore the root-ID, to verify/sign/decrypt/encrypt data and to generate and manage its Sub-ID’s with exactly same properties.
• ESS-HOME AND ESS-OS
These are the decentralized Essentia Data Environment and Operating System. They are a blockchain gateway and interface, and also offer a trustable and secure user operating environment as well as a native context for the Modules of the Essentia Platform/Framework to be operated and deployed. The ESS-Home is the main pivot of the Essentia Framework in which the ESS-Modules connects with each-other and the user’s interaction can fully occur.

MAIN MODULES THAT MAKE UP THE ESSENTIA FRAMEWORK
• ESS-CORE
• ESS-BASE
• ESS-Auth/Groups
• ESS-HOME
• ESS-PAY
• ESS-META
• ESS-FUEL
• ESS-PingPong
• ESS-Talk/Docs/Stamp
• ESS-BRIDGES(s)
• ESS-DNS
• ESS-CONFIG
• ESS-DATA
• ESS-SYNC
• ESS-TOOLS
• ESS-ORACLE(s)
• ESS-AUTOMATE
• ESS-INIT
• ESS-DEL
• ESS-PROC
• ESS-KEYRING
• ESS-CLOCK
• ESS-REPO
• ESS-OS-Config
• ESS-dGPS
• ESS-OS-DATA
• ESS-NET
• ESS-MAKE/SMITH
• ESS-CRYPTO

ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS
• ESS-KEYWARE (a thumb-size device which allows full control and interaction with the ESS-ID)
• ESS-EGGS (an open-hardware machine designed and used for running the ESS-OS and its hardware/software modules)
• ESS-SENSE (hardware modules that include peripherals and external devices which have the ability to expand the logical/software level of the Essentia Operating System, or of the ESS-Eggs devices, to the inputs/outputs of the external real-physical-world)

ESSENTIA TOKEN (ESS)
The ESS token is managed by the ESS-Fuel module, and is an Ethereum based token on the ERC20 protocol. Additional ESS token will not be created after the end of the ICO. The token is used to pay for extra internal resources as well as paying for renting added decentralized third-party resources that are connected to Essentia. After fully developing Essentia’s Framework, it will include provisions like masternodes, which require staking ESS tokens, as a way of decentralizing the network.

ROADMAP
Q1 2018

Q2 2018

Q3 2018

Q4 2018

Q1/2 2019

Q3/4 2019

TEAM
Mirco Mongiardino - Product Lead
Matteo Gianpietro Zago - Project Lead
Vladimir Holubovych - Operations Lead
Privacy Conscious - Blockchain and Architecture Lead
Artur Petrovych - CTO
Stefan Djokic - Technical Team Lead
Bedros Awanesian - Head of Business Development
Alex Grek - Senior Developer
Vlad Pushkar - Head of Marketing
Valentine Panasiuk - UI/UX designer
Olga Trykush - Community Manager
Nikolay Hryshchenkov - Cryptographer
Anna Kunytska - Community Manager
Kateryna Ponurkevych - Content Manager
Aleksejs Petenko - Senior Project Manager
Roman Boyko - Blockchain developer
Alex Pikuta - Frontend Developer
Alexander Jer - Blockchain expert
Oksana Zaharchuk - Blockchain, JS, Nodejs developer
Sergey Zaharov - Backend Developer
Anatoliy Kurotych - Backend Developer
Dmytro Horbach - Social Media Manager
Roman Loboda - Backend Developer
Alina Volynets - Community Manager (Korean language)

ADVISORS
Yann Marston
Erik van der Staak
Francesco Fusetti

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Published by: charleyles
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