Do you still believe BM to create a social network?

Just two months after working as CTO of Block. One, Daniel Larimer(BM) exposed his next project Clarion OS on Twitter, saying that he wanted to create a social network without manipulation and third-party dependence.

Clarion OS is still in the design stage, and the bad voice is the first to flock to BM, which once created three blockchain networks. From the messages on social networks, people's resentment is still concentrated on BM individuals, questioning his original intention of promoting new ideas as "making a fortune with crypto world". Others hope that this new project will save EOS's currency price.

BM also responded quickly. This project is neither built on EOS nor make a token, but EOS can be used for DNS (Domain Name System) name registration and promotion. This related information affects the price of EOS. Within 2 hours, EOS rose from $3.68 to $3.96, an increase of 7.6%.

Regardless of make a token or not, Clarion OS's direction is to decentralize social networks, and "social" is an area that BM has tried many times. Steem and Voice, a media product based on EOS.IO network, have social attributes.

At this time, the outside world throws another status quo to BM: the direction you want to do is already being done by others. Chinese netizens listed Superhero.com, a decentralized social reward platform in AE chain, and international netizens pointed out ceramic.net, a content-bearing network that resists censorship.

The decentralized social field cut by content is no longer a virgin land. The advantages of Clarion OS may be BM's IP effect and its technical ability, and the potential disadvantages are precisely these, because no one can predict whether BM can finish from start to finish.

• BM creating new projects was rosted

"If you are interested in my next project Clarion OS, which is a logically centralized communication platform that can replace centralized services (email, twitter, Facebook, YouTube, medium), then please join the discussion on GitHub."
At that time, the price of EOS hovered around $3.68. Stimulated by news, EOS climbed to $3.96 within 2 hours, an increase of 7.6%.

This asset is the underlying Token of EOS.IO, a blockchain network launched by BM in June 2017. The highlight of the price belongs to April 2018, and EOS is worth $21.54, which is regarded as the rival of Ethereum. In the next 34 months, EOS spent 21 months between $2 and $5. In 2021, its best performance is $5.25, while ETH is $1,979.87.

In the past 34 months, EOS has experienced 340 days of private placement, EOS.IO main online line, super node campaign, constant adjustment of network resource allocation, gaming DApp breaking out and disappearing on EOS, launching Voice products, and missing the DeFi craze, until the founder BM announced his resignation as CTO of EOS.IO parent company Block.One at the end of 2020.

EOS has developed for three and a half years and experienced bubble, prosperity and decline. However, BM chose to resign when EOS was half dead, which was criticized by the community and EOS holders. Now, when he started a new project, vigilance and distrust also appeared on social networks-"You can lie to me, but pay attention to the times. "This is probably trapped by EOS. "EOS has to follow the path of bts. This is to understand two generations of BM series products. "BM: I came to P to cheat money. "This is questioning the original intention of BM. "Continue to rush, he cut out the feelings, and I want to be cut by him when he sends out the project. This is a humorous interpretation of Stockholm syndrome with BM series.

BM told that the new project don't have any Token

Some people questioned that BM had to earn crypto world money again, and others asked where the new project quota was obtained. However, BM has made it clear on Twitter that this project will not make a token.

• What are the chances of re-entering the social sphere?

No matter how the outside world surmised BM's motive of launching Clarion OS, he still showed a prepared posture. Before announcing the new product on Twitter, he had set up a discussion group for the new network on Github, describing the attributes needed by Clarion IO, including programming language, data standard format and so on.

From the current information, Clarion OS is not a specific application product, but aims to provide a "logically centralized communication network" to maintain the freedom and independence of information. It allows friends and friends to disseminate information under encrypted identities, and allows developers to build different types of applications on the network, including tokens and smart contracts.

Someone asked BM, will BM,Clarion OS be built on EOS.IO?

A rhetorical question from BM is surprising, "How do you build a logically decentralized system based on a logically centralized system (all blockchains are logically centralized)? This question not only answers that the new network will not be built on EOS, but also reveals the founder's evaluation that the current EOS.IO is not purely decentralized.

BM describes an ideal state of decentralized socialization-with the help of the community, Clarion OS "can liberate friends and family from the tyranny of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, Apple and Google, and create a social network free from manipulation and third-party dependence".

Nowadays, the tyranny of social networks is mainly reflected in examining users' identities, mastering users' privacy and disposing users' data at will. On the track of decentralized socialization, many networks and applications have entered the R&D one after another, with the direction of encrypting identity and resisting censorship, joining the network without permission, and using incentive mechanism to encourage users to contribute content and dispose of data generated by themselves.

After BM launched Clarion OS, some netizens at home and abroad listed such projects, such as ONO, a conceptual network launched in 2018 (which never landed), Superhero.com, a decentralized social reward platform that has been launched on AE network, and ceramic.net, which combines DID and IPFS technologies (which has entered the test network stage).

Even BM itself has created Steem, and people write blogs "earn money" on Steemt, a decentralized content network product. A little closer, there is the high-profile social media Voice launched by EOS.IO

Some people suggested on Twitter that BM should not "build a car behind closed doors", but should study existing projects and establish cooperation with them, so that it is easier for BM to realize its dream. In this regard, BM also said that he would seriously investigate, "I don't want to reinvent the wheel. 」

Compared with the hottest decentralized financial DeFi field, decentralized social communication is not a popular track, and there is no blockchain social product that can really fight Facebook and Twitter.

On the one hand, people's awareness of privacy protection and data rights varies, and on the other hand, it is the technical feasibility of product landing. Low-cost high-frequency transaction is still a problem that needs to be solved in current blockchain network, not to mention the social networking scene with higher frequency than transaction.

Clarion OS without make a token entered the early design stage with the ideal of bone feeling, not to mention defeating Facebook and Twitter, but looking at the centralized social track, its only advantage at present is BM IP and his past experience in blockchain research and development, which may build a good open source community for it. And the uncertainty of this new project is probably BM. I hope he will not end up dead.