An In-Depth Analysis of Elastos :The most important project in crypto ecosystem of 2018

chinese edition：程豪
english edition：@慢慢行走的玄子 （this part）

Let’s see the blockchain’s timeline, you can figure out that it’s still in its infancy. As we all know, blockchain’s projects are springing up everywhere. Investors should give a comprehensive account of every factor which include technology maturity, project scarcity, ecological integrity, team composition and community cohesion in order to pick the real outstanding ones up.

This article tends to take a In-depth analysis of Elastos — the most potential decentralized Dapp ecosystem platform in 2018.

I. Positioning, history and vision of Elastos :

1. Elastos is oriented in building a decentralized Smart-web.

Project Background:

Centralized Internet has gone against the original intention of the Internet.

a. From a “decentralized” to a “centralized” Internet

The Internet was born in 1969 and the founders set the “decentralization principle” as early as half a century ago to make it free for every node to join into its ecosystem without approval of any centrial authority. With the help of this principle of decentralization , the Internet could develop in full bloom. With the advent of browsers in the operating system in 1995,internet has evolved from a technology research project to an integral part of the world’s economic life to this days.

Fifteen years ago, in that era of Internet fundamentalism, you were surfing internet seeking various experiences, when surfing the internet was called “surfing”，which means a little bit of a wilderness adventure. At that time, there were competing products in every field, with unlimited possibilities in each direction, with each website owning its own rival. Today, do not say that BAT in China, the United States is also Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon‘s world, the pace of the world seems to be consistent. Internet services used by people have become more and more “centralized”, especially after migrating from the PC Internet to the mobile Internet, this trend was still accelerated.

The closure and monopoly of the Internet economy in just 20 years has far exceeded the concentration of resources in the real economy over a hundred years or even centuries. The Internet has gone from a centralized to a centralized one. From the connection to the closure, this is a general trend of the Internet.Bill Gates’s central service has been scared, and Steve Jobs’s central service has been enthusiastic support by Internet users, the step of centralization will only be faster, is it not be even more scared. Many people do not realize that they were captivity of animals in private barriers by Internet giants , also like ants in small nest .

b. Does the young with “centralized Internet “ still have the ability to reflect？

As early generation of Internet, we have seen the Internet’s barbaric times, knew the most original shape of the Internet.But if in fifty more years, those Internet super-companies have been omnipotent,its influence together with country and religion,will be a three — cornered fight .

If you have a grandchildren, he maybe use Apple as the mobile settings, living in an Apple App architecture scene, eating, barber, go to school, medical, car, buy a house, beat his wife, engaging in extra-marital affairs … … This is a world that meets all his needs. The only thing he did not know was that he lived in an App scene built by an Internet company with internet beyond the LAN. They will be born in Apples and die in Apples, which will be human graves.

There are chances for reflection of our generation, but by the next generation they may even not have the chance to reflect on it because they were born immersed in the “brain of a giant” in an Internet giant. It now appears that those of which on the earth glad to make a centralized internet are welcoming centralization. The more developed to the back, the idea of entertainment to death will penetrate the marrow. As the developed to the back，the idea of entertainment to death will penetrate the marrow. But even if there is a free world in the future that tells you the truth about your own world, when you face the choices of red and blue pills, will you choose to continue your lifetime of entertainment in the matrix or convert to the pristine state that has struggled with the Internet? Even if these internet companies can format you at any time, you are still willing to obey them. This is a human tragedy, and mankind is making its own cage.

The Internet has been completely centralized, and we think the Internet will give everyone freedom. It is only now that the Internet deprives us of our thinking. The centralization of the Internet in the past two decades is monopolization. In the end, our destiny will be controlled by several individuals.

You are surfing in a fake internet

What is the real Internet?

It should have been a place to let human ‘s mind fly, but now it let everyone feel lost in search engines.

What does Internet should be?

The Internet wants everyone to have independent thinking, but more to see irrational comments.

If we return to the essence of the Internet to think about this issue, then we will find ourselves on a fake Internet.

The Internet should make everyone have ability of independent thinking, but more we see are irrational comments.

If we return to the essence of the Internet to think about this issue, then we will find we are surfing in a fake Internet.

2．History of the project :

Etizens can not help but exclaim: Can we see a real internet in the rest of their life ?

Decentralized Smart-Web coming soon!

Elastos — decentralized Smart-Web

The history of Elastos also starts with the founder, Chen Rong. Chen Rong entered the Microsoft of United States to work in 1992.In the winter of 1998, Chen Rong’s Windows operating system research team began to conceive the design of a new generation of operating system architecture named “. Net”.

Net” program is plan to be available in 2002 and is used in the Vista system which was introduced by Microsoft in 2005. The goal of “. Net” is to design to make Software as a Service (SaaS) and realize the ideal of “network is computer” first proposed by the Java language author in 1992. Its basic principle is to hide the network as a “computer internal bus” and prohibit the application Direct access to services within the enterprise LAN, thereby reducing the possibility of virus transmission, cyber attacks, privacy leaks. However, the “Common Language Runtime” (CLR) technology used by Microsoft at that time was actually not suitable for stand-alone bearer. The performance of Vista was repeatedly criticized and eventually failed.

In 1999, Microsoft management denied the core COM team where Chen Rong and several people who at the time proposed a technology route of implementing “.Net” in parallel with CLR in C / C ++ native language (COM is an acronym for Component Object Model) was in，resulting in the group dissolved. Chen Rong left the United States in 2000，returned for startup, continue to pursue the ideal of using native code to achieve “the network is the computer”.

Coincidentally, after Vista, Microsoft started Windows 10 program of which basic technical idea is to use native code to achieve “. Net.” Its two iconic technologies are: (1) Universal Application Technology (UWP), which means the same application is suitable for all kinds of terminals, whether x86 or ARM hardware; (2) Eternal Operating System Technology, there is no longer Windows 11 behind Windows 10, operating system no longer with fragmented release, the system call API collection applies to all computers. It is not hard to imagine that the network operating system, as a supporter of the Internet ecosystem, can not compel the upgrading of peripherals and services. Therefore, these two technologies are major Internet infrastructure changes in Internet of Things, edge computing and cloud computing.

It’s easy to see that the network operating system, as a supporter of the Internet ecosystem, can not compel the upgrading of peripherals and services. Therefore, these two technologies are major Internet infrastructure changes of IOT, edge computing and cloud computing.

From 2000 to 2007, Chen Rong’ s team was supported by R & D funds such as Tsinghua Science Park, China TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance and so on, and achieved complete operation from the operating system kernel, graphics system, file system, hardware driver, smart phone man-machine interface, management, almost 100% self-designed operating system. The system also laid the foundation for today’s cloud native code virtual machine (C ++ VM) technology. Which is incredible is that, for 17 years, in the world,there are still few technical teams involved in the native code virtual machine technology field .

In 2012, Chen Rong’s team saw the essence of Windows 10 is to use C / C ++ to rewrite the “.Net” opportunities, with the support of Foxconn Group, they launched the project of “industrial Internet of Things operating system” , the essence is to use C / C ++ to rewrite Android, and the original concept of this two were from “Net , which hurried curtain ten years ago. The identity information (ID) used on the Internet of Things is actually an IP address, which was highly vulnerable to tampering or forgery, and the security of Industrial Internet of Things is far more prominent than ten years ago. Elastos as the “Internet of Things operating system,” has an open source of tens of millions of lines of source code, including completely open source of peer-to-peer (P2P) network code, and more than four million lines of original source code.Using C / C ++ to achieve complete similar Java language library and android loose coupling programming framework.

However, no matter native code virtual machine technology or the Internet of Things operating system technology, have also been trapped in the predicament of product positioning in the impetuous atmosphere where money is supreme and traffic is the king. Can not give full play of the potential commercial value.

After endless mountains and rivers that leave doubt whether there is a path out, suddenly one encounters the shade of a willow, bright flowers and a lovely village. Just at this time, blockchain technology which was led by the bitcoin boom sprung up everywhere in 2015 and 2016 .

The essence of the blockchain is a special-purpose computer that is not controlled by any individual or business.

Compare with industrial IoT of which many IoT devices are controlled by an enterprise cloud,if replace the corporate cloud part with Elastos blockchain,as a result, the IoT is no longer subject to a certain company.Consumer’s cell phone, home devices are no longer suffering from threats of privacy leaks and cyber attacks.

When Internet identity information (ID) encountered blockchain, the problem of decentralized trust in the Internet can be readily solved.

Then, decentralized smart-web requires a revolutionary decentralized Internet operating system so that a large number of decentralized applications (DApp) can be safely settled on. There is a huge gap between blockchain technology and rich user experie. It is lack of entrance from blockchain technology to ordinary people. The appearance of Elastos will change this situation, so that a variety of applications can services life.

More than a decade ago, Chen Rong‘s team’s “Network Operating System” met blockchain was a great moment for each other. On one hand, if identity information is generated by using blockchain technology, since it is composed entirely of computer code and follows the principles of mathematics,it can be released through a decentralized system and the identity information will be absolutely unique and extremely hard to tampere. Hold this ID and then surf the Internet, the security risks of network information can be reduced to a minimum. This will change the issue of trust between the Internet and the decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P). On the other hand, it creates an bottom chain of ID authenticated “network operating system” based on blockchain technology. Above this foundation chain, joining a variety of trusted side chains which were certified by the underlying “Internet Operating System” ID will greatly reduce network congestion. Change the block chain’s network traffic congestion may also deeply affect the future of the Internet and the Internet of Things industry. Blockchain technology combined with the “Internet operating system to solve ID certification,” arrive the real achievement of Elastos of which blockchain technology-driven smart-web era!

The traditional Internet emphasizes the physical link, and the social network at the software application level is already a link between people, things and things, people and things.It is easy to see clues from Weibo, WeChat and other social network’s design. However, there is a clear drawback to build human‘s digital living space with a centralized social network. Consumers are not willing to see the digital world of “warlordism.” WeChat and other social networks strongly push the “weapp”, showing that the intention of turning digital into assets gradually become clear. We know that either Ethereum or WeChat，they were both using scripting language programming, are not possible to achieve deep-learning engine, game engine or the like requires a lot of CPU resources calculation program. Decentralize social networks,and return to the original idea of the Internet creators 40 years ago, the Internet was the basic vehicle for human’s communication and should not be controlled by a central authority.

With an accumulation of more than 10 years，elastos operating system will be easy to achieve deep integration of the bottom operating system and the bottom Internet integration, and then to solve the problem of mutual trust through blockchain. Elastos also positions blockchain technology as multiple decentralized anchors such as the TrustZone (for ID authentication) and its auxiliary sidechains (ID chains, digital asset chains, etc.) (0 dimension) like smartphone.It also uses the side-chain shards of Elastos，and after ID authentication it will not affect each other between different side chains ,will not affect the operation of the main chain,forming a plurality of decentralized trusted computing links on the Internet (1D),based on which the SmartWeb Internet OS platform are expanded (2D) .On the SmartWeb OS platform, the Elastos Runtime (C ++ VM) Virtual Machine Sandbox is running on, which is the third dimension (3-D); decentralized application (DApp) in the fourth dimension of time,dynamically runs in the fully enclosed native code (C ++ VM) virtual machine sandbox(4D) .Elastos really reach the goal of “online does not compute, compute does not online” which completely solve the problem of network congestion.

Elastos Runtime runs on a customer’s OS device with no constraints of cost, power, or performance . Elastos DApp can be developed using traditional programming models and programming languages, and even existing software can be ported directly. The environment in which the program runs on not only has a scripting language, but also the ultimate environment must support the operation of CPU instructions.

With the mutual isolation between sandbox and OS native environment, the digital content can be ensure will not leak. Then through the P2P network which have link to blockchain services, making the user’s license is still valid on the OS,and to protect digital content continuely .All of this will run on the decentralized Smart-Web project — the Elastos operating system. In the meantime, ELA, which will be issued as tokens, will run decentralizely in the same way as bitcoin. The ELA will be the only passport in this decentralized operating environment, enabling a closed-loop ecosystem. Changing digital into wealth of which you can accumulate and you can trade. Digital assets can be like played media, or can be self-playing games . Just like functional Phone are phones used for SMS and calling, smartphones are the ones that run Apps on. The traditional Internet is the Internet for information sharing. The Internet in the future is the Internet for DApp sharing, that is, the Smart-Web.

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