On February 21, MarcoPolo Protocol hosted the second online AMA on MarcoPolo Protocol English Telegram group (https://t.me/MarcoPoloMAP) and they invited MarcoPolo Protocol Core Developer Kenny as our guest to answer questions from the community.
Here are the highlights from the AMA event.
#AMAwithKenny Question 1: Please introduce yourself to everyone, also, could you tell us what is MarcoPolo Protocol?
Hello everybody, I’m Kenny. I got into the field of blockchain at the end of 2016, mainly working on the research and development of public chain consensus protocols. At the moment, I’m a core developer of MarcoPolo Protocol.
MarcoPolo Protocol is an open-source blockchain protocol strategically invested by Softbank. It is a new peer-to-peer electronic cash system infrastructure and aims to achieve shared resources and intelligent inter-chain scheduling and contribute to decentralized applications with better scalability and lower transaction fees among the global blockchain networks.
#AMAwithKenny Question 2: Please describe the progress of your project in the past year.
From the perspective of funding and partnership, Marcopolo protocol was caught sight by Softbank and Truechain last year and got 3.5 million dollars’ investment, followed by being listed on the renowned exchange Kucoin. Its partners range from the global international electronic payment company Ksher, as well as a strategic partnership from Truechain including fundamental developer forces and industrial resources.
According to the first step of the road map, gravity has been implemented. It is a central component, and currently supports the resource sharing of truechain and Ethereum
Based on gravity, DAPP Marcopay and POB community governance DAPP are implemented.
Building a technology community and interacting with developers through online AMA, discord, and riot has attracted many developers' attention to map.
At the beginning of the development of POC-1, the consensus, output block and RPC module of POC-1 are constructed based on the rule language.
In terms of product and applications, MarcoPolo protocol has already implemented a wallet application called MarcoPay, which is used widely in the community. Roughly 50,000 users and community members at the moment. And it's growing rapidly.
We have cooperated with a company named Ksher, a global electronic payment company. At present, payment in some stores has been implemented in Thailand.
We have developed communities of over 70000 people, covering South Korea, Nigeria, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Turkey, Brazil, Australia, Russia. Also，our token has been listed on CoinMarketCap and Coingecko.
#AMAwithKenny Question 3: Compared to Polkadot and Cosmos, what are the distinct and innovative parts of MarcoPolo Protocol? Is it still necessary to develop other public chains?
Polkadot empowers blockchain networks to work together under the protection of shared security; Cosmos is a decentralized network of independent parallel blockchains and powered by BFT consensus algorithms like Tendermint consensus.
Similar to the other two projects, MarcoPolo Protocol could improve the scalability and interoperability of the blockchain network.
The main differences are the properties of shared resources and intelligent inter-chain scheduling. This is MarcoPolo Protocol’s innovation.
After Satoshi Nakamoto proposed the p2p e-cash system, various public chains proposed a variety of solutions in order to accomplish the p2p payment without a third party. With the future popularity of digital encrypted currency payment and exchange, increasing TPS is highly demanded. Relying only on a single chain to process transactions would not significantly improve the processing speed. Therefore, more chains are needed to perform collectively in order to achieve TPS sharing.
MarcoPolo Protocol intends to provide a convenient and economical way of p2p payment while fully utilizing resources from different blockchains.
#AMAwithKenny Question 4: Why do you join MarcoPolo Protocol? What attracts you the most?
MarcoPolo Protocol is an open-source community, which is formed by a large number of blockchain open source technology enthusiasts and professionals. People applied their expertise and innovative ideas in many perspectives such as theoretical research, promotion, coding, system engineering, etc.
MarcoPolo Protocol is committed to creating a new peer-to-peer electronic cash system that truly fulfills the vision of Nakamoto.
#AMAwithKenny Question 5: Can you tell us more about how MarcoPolo Protocol achieves resource sharing among chains? What is the mechanism to accomplish intelligent inter-chain scheduling?
Good questions, let me answer them together.
In terms of sharing resources across chains, in MarcoPolo Protocol, we select the appropriate synerchain as the target isomorphic chain to process transactions and then realize the TPS sharing of synerchains through the MTP protocol;
MarcoPolo Protocol selects a secure, efficient, and low-cost third-party public chain as the target heterogeneous chain, and then uses the computing power of the target chain to deal with transactions. The process requires the related interact-chain to interact with the target chain through BRPC and then moving applications and transactions to the target chain in order to finish the transactions. Therefore, the target chain is considered as Layer 2 and processes the transactions in MarcoPolo Protocol. In this way, the TPS capacity of the whole MarcoPolo Protocol network can be expanded by stacking multiple target chains.
Intelligent scheduling across chains is the core of MarcoPolo Protocol. We wish to build interactions across chains through MTP+BRPC, so as to solve the problem of inter-chain interoperability.
#AMAwithKenny Question 6: As most people know, the ecosystem determines the future of public chains. How does MarcoPolo Protocol think about its ecological construction?
First of all, I highly agree with the significance of the ecosystem for public chains. We believe that there is a natural demand for payment, exchange, and borrowing of digital cryptocurrencies in the future.
MarcoPolo Protocol primarily targets three application scenarios: Dpayment, DEX, and Defi. We are building an E-cash system infrastructure that will serve the whole blockchain ecosystem.
In the electronic cash system, DEX and Defi are two important applications. Currently, DEX and Defi are structured in a single chain or ecosystem. We wish that DAPPs built on MarcoPolo Protocol could share DEX and Defi achievements of other ecosystems.
#AMAwithKenny Question 7: How many people in the MarcoPolo Protocol team?
Now the team has more than 30 people, more than 20 developers, 5 marketing staff, 7 operating staff, and distributed offices in many countries. They come from Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, China, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey, and other countries.
#AMAwithKenny Question 8: What does the technical roadmap look like and what more is coming from MarcoPolo Protocol? At which development stage is it in right now?
MarcoPolo Protocol Road Map:
The First Phase 2019.Q1
Gravity: the interoperability module Gravity has been developed, which realized useable interoperability between third-generation public chain and high consensus digital currency such as BTC and ETH, will share computing power and performance gradually expand to more high-performance public chain through interoperability.
The Second Phase 2019.Q3
Electromagnet: Online retail payment application - MarcoPay POB Community Governance DAPP.
The Third Phase 2020.Q4
Interaction: Independently developed MarcoPolo main Network StandardChain will be launched, achieving APoS, On-chain governance, Architecture design of InteractChain.
The Fourth Phase 2022.Q2
Grand Unification: The realization of heterogeneous cross-chain operability, resource sharing between chains. At present, core team members concentrate on the research and design the protocol. StandardChain is still in its early-stage proof of concept.
Also, during this stage, we launched MarcoPay DAPP. You can download it here and use it:
https://www.marcopolopay.org/download
In addition, we are having an Airdrop activity right now (https://t.me/MarcoPay_Airdrop_Bot), you can join it and win MAPC and swap your MAPC to MAP on MarcoPay APP
#AMAwithKenny Question 9: MarcoPolo Protocol technical community has attracted developers from Bitcoin and Cosmos. Could you please talk about how to participate in the technical community?
MarcoPolo Protocol technical community encourages researchers, technology evangelists, and developers to participate. After the protocol passed through the PoC phase and was able to be implemented in modules, we definitely need more developers to join the community. After sorting out the research topics, we will share with everyone on the Discord and Riot channels in our technical community.
Click the link below to join the community to know the up-to-date progress and take part in the discussion.
Discord: https://discord.gg/KTJ2Qzc
Riot: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#MarcoPolo:matrix.org
#AMAwithKenny Question 10: Developers are essential to the development of the technical community. Could you please tell us what are the incentives of MarcoPolo protocol in this regard?
Regarding the motivation mechanism, as far as I know, MarcoPolo has set up a pool of 9% of MAP for incentives to the technical community. The incentives are mainly used in two aspects: technology and community.
Technology has three parts: research, technical promotion, and development;
Community includes online AMA, Meet-ups, Workshops, etc. MarcoPolo Protocol has been actively exploring ways to motivate great and talented people to get involved in this open-source project through different levels.
#AMAwithKenny Question 11: What’s the advantage of MarcoPolo Protocol’s APoS consensus? What are the advantages and disadvantages compared with PoS? And what problems APoS has solved?
APoS is an Assets Proof of Stake consensus algorithm. There are three advantages:
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It supports multiple digital cryptocurrency staking, more people can participate in the ecosystem
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it can protect assets, people are still keeping their original BTC or ETH, they just staked into APoS system
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It solves the problem of easy centralization in the traditional PoS/DPoS consensus mechanism
#AMAwithKenny Question 12: Are there any new products coming out soon?
Good questions, there is an exciting product coming up soon
We are launching a new build-in product Milione in 5 days.
I can share some of its features:
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You can deposit MAP to earn USDT
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The yield rate is higher than most of the products on the market
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No lock-up, you can withdraw your asset anytime you want
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Profitable referral mechanism, you can invite your friends and earn money with them together.
Besides products, there are many more partnerships coming up, we have reached many other famous companies and exchanges. Please stay tuned, once it is confirmed, we will announce it in this group and our twitter.
#AMAwithKenny Bonus Question 1: Is there anything you want to say on the MAP piece?
Let's wait and see
#AMAwithKenny Bonus Question 2: What payment scenario do you have so far? Where can I use it?
We have launched MacroPay DAPP, you can download it here:
https://www.marcopolopay.org/download
This DAPP can manage digital assets on multiple chains simultaneously, providing a "safe, professional, decentralized" solution for global online and offline product payments. You can use MarcoPay to shop in some stores in Thailand, and more shops will support MarcoPay in Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, Europe, and other countries.
#AMAwithKenny Bonus Question 3: What payment scenario do you have so far? Where can I use it? What is Kenny’s opinion on the future for MacoPolo Protocol Token and what are the most difficult challenges he encountered during the development of MarcoPolo Protocol? What are the plans for mining Map token and when will that be
MAP is planning to open more than 1000 retailer shops to do peer to peer payment transactions in 2020 across Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand. We would like to choose Bithumb as the first exchange partner to do onsite branding. - MAP has a strong technical team including developers and researchers around the world to make sure the project will be delivered in high quality and in time.
#AMAwithKenny Bonus Question 4: What’s the business model of MAP? Is building another public chain? Or you want to charge fees for the applications hosting on the chain? How do you make the business sustainable and profitable in the long run? How much return you expect to be able to get in 2-3 years of time frame?
Marcopolo protocol p2p electronic cash infrastructure will enable Defi, Dpayment, Dex applications. Successful applications will help to boost the on-chain ecosystem under MAP infrastructure. And applications who make profits will feedback to the community in the means of MAP token only. We will make sure the community and application developers win-win together then we can achieve a long term success.
MAP since listed in Kucoin 3 months ago has already gained 4 folds. We are pretty sure the token price will go up further according to the current strategy.
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Recent Activity:
Airdrop, join it on Telegram at https://t.me/MarcoPay_Airdrop_Bot
💰Per Participant: 200 MAPC
💰Each Invite: 50 MAPC
💰You can withdraw MAPC to your wallet instantly and swap MAPC to MAP on MarcoPay
⬇️Start Receiving Airdrops:
https://t.me/MarcoPay\_Airdrop\_Bot
⬇️Download MarcoPay:
https://www.marcopolopay.org/download
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Twitter:
https://twitter.com/marcopologlobal
Telegram:
English: https://t.me/MarcoPoloMAP
Chanel: https://t.me/MAP\_POB\_channel
Indonesia: https://t.me/MarcoPayindonesia
Russia: https://t.me/MarcoPayrussian
Turkey https://t.me/marcopoloturkiye
Vietnam: https://t.me/marcopolovietnam
Bangladesh: https://t.me/MarcoPay\_BD
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