Cyber Republic Weekly Update 15

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CYBER REPUBLIC Weekly Update/Issue 15 

Jimmy Lipham @jimmyhacksstuff of PeerJet needs to add more servers 

to keep up with the demand of a growing number of Elastos Carrier 

Nodes. 

Hello, fellow Cyber Republicans. On the 

last day of February, the Elastos Foundation 

published the 2018 Financial Report 

covering July 2018 to December 2018. 

https://news.elastos.org/wp- 

content/uploads/2019/02/Elastos-Financial- 

Report-English.pdf 

We will be delving into some details from 

the report and we’ll share some 

clarifications Elastos’ leader, Rong Chen, 

answered for the community.There's also 

some hot discourse in the community 

regarding Supernode pools along with a 

deep dive into DPoS written by yours truly. 

There is a stunningly active community in 

the Philippines that, through the voice of 

Krisha, we’ll be showing their significant 

activities. And lastly, the Cyber Republic is 

piling up suggestions on the Cyber 

Republic website. Vote for the projects you 

feel are most important.This is our 

ecosystem and we control our own destiny. 

Moving into the financial report, it includes 

expenditure information in the following 

areas: Research and Development, Public 

Relations and Marketing, Operations and 

Management, Fixed Assets and Ecosystem 

Collaboration.The audit was done by Beijing 

Shuangdou Accounting Firm. 

Elastos Foundation explains:“Beijing 

Shuangdou Accounting Firm was engaged by 

the Elastos Foundation to audit the expenses 

in fiat and digital currency and assets made 

between July 2018 and December 2018.The 

information included in this Report follows 

pertinent regulations in Auditing Standards 

for CPAs of China.” 

As community members dove into the 

Financial Report, some questions were raised 

and Rong Chen personally answered several 

of these questions in the Telegram chatroom. 

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There's a post on the Cyber Republic 

Forum that overviews everything Mr. 

Chen had to say about the Financial 

Report. 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/unoffi 

cial-telegram-q-a-with-rong-chen/694 

The Elastos Foundation doesn't have the 

responsibility or legal ability to disclose 

all information. When this was pointed 

out by a community member, Rong 

explained,“Thanks for pointing out that 

EF is not CR. We are not going to expose 

full financial details, nor BTC addresses, 

partially due to legal matters. However, I 

do invite [the] Elastos community to 

select one or two people with CPA 

license to come to come to Beijing at 

[the] foundation’s cost, sign an NDA, sit 

down with the auditing firm and Elastos 

accountants to find out whether Elastos 

foundation is true to its words.” 

A big question from the community was 

getting into the specifics of what 

“Ecosystem Collaboration” really 

means. Rong was able to explain in full 

detail:“DMA, HIVE, SPV wallet, ETH 

Sidechains,Trinity Browser, etc. are 

partially or completely outsourced. We 

are likely to sign contract or to pay for 

bonuses at the end or beginning of a 

financial circle. Please keep in mind that 

Elastos Foundation is not a single 

company. People should read [the] EOY 

report and check against milestones. 

Last night I was talking about 6 months 

average BTC expenditures. We will post 

a “teams” page in a day or two, to explain 

which companies, teams and how many 

people were paid for the last 6 months. 

Comparing two documents side by side, 

you may have a better understanding 

what’s going on. Elastos is an open 

source Smartweb platform. We tried to 

implement it as efficient as possible.” This 

settles the argument that the EF is 

omitting any specific information.There 

are legitimate legal ramifications to 

disclosing certain aspects of the 

Foundation that they must abide by. 

Rong Chen is willing to take suggestions 

for other Financial Audits in the future:“If 

you find a reputable accounting firm, let 

me know. Before you do that please call it 

up and make sure it really does crypto 

accounting, not some crypto projects 

saying they do. Next time we may take the 

accounting firm you select seriously. We 

will not consider any accounting firm that 

charges a quarter million dollars a pop, and 

that don’t do cryptos.” 

Lastly, he reminds the community that 

there are 100 engineers at work. “Here’s 

some simple math: 1400 BTC in six months, 

in terms of average BTC price of each 

month, comes to 4.5 to 5 million USD. 

Reading through weekly reports and the 

EOY report, Elastos Smartweb takes at 

least 100 engineers including outsourcing 

plus supporting staff to build, whether it’s 

really very efficient team or not, you may 

ask Jimmy or anyone with IT management 

that you trust. 5,000,000 divided by 100 

employees, divided by 6 months, comes to 

8333 dollars per month salary, plus office 

rent, travels, BD, PR, legal, social security 

benefits, everything. Is it too high? I hope 

people could see the simple logic behind 

before they FUD. ELA expenditure is for 

bonuses, incentives for partners, etc. How 

many crypto projects are as clean and as 

transparent?” 

Rong clearly wants what's best for Elastos 

and the Cyber Republic. We thank the 

Elastos Foundation and Rong Chen for 

giving us a deeper dive into the 

expenditures and answering so many 

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follow up questions the night the Financial 

Report was released.This shows the 

dedication and the care Elastos Foundation 

has for its community members. 

Moving on to another topic, Supernode 

elections are almost underway. Wallets are 

being tested for Supernode Elections and 

voting and is slated to start next week.The 

requirement is 5,000 ELA along with 

advanced hardware that's suitable to run a 

node. 

https://news.elastos.org/elastos-dpossupernode-election-process/ 

Many members have come together on the 

Cyber Republic Forum and have created 

discord groups and wechat groups in order 

to join together and run multiple 

Supernodes. People are getting excited 

about being part of a Supernode.Thanks to 

Michael S. for creating a post and getting 

people together to join different 

Supernode Pools. 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/supernod 

e-pool-recruitment-and-q-a/648/8 

These Supernodes will be elected by the 

Cyber Republic community, and we hope to 

compile a list of options for the community 

to vote on. We wish everyone luck with their 

pools! 

As Rong Chen says,“Elastos is building a 

BRIGHT WEB...”, we at the Cyber Republic 

certainly see the light at the end of the 

tunnel. 

-By Jeremy G. 

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Table of Contents 

2 Intro 

6 New CR Page: Docs 

7 Analytics 

8 Supernode Elections 

11 Summary 

12 Shout Out 

13 CR Terminology 

14 International Activities: DpoS 

Alliance 

16 Interview: Krisha 

21 CR Forum 

25 Glossary 

27 Credits 

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New CR Page: Docs 

By Kenneth K. 

The Cyber Republic has released a first draft of the new CR documents page. We’d like to 

emphasize that the CR is a completely public and open project. Every aspect of the CR 

must therefore be transparent and submitted to the community for comment, discourse, 

and debate. In that ideal, these alpha documents are being released and it is our hope that 

the community takes the time to look over these materials that act as the laws and 

definitions that we all have agreed to abide by. 

https://www.cyberrepublic.org/docs/#/ 

Here is a summary of the materials currently included in this document: 

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Intro and Cyber Republic Workflow: 

As the CR is only as successful as the community’s involvement in it, this section breaks 

down how any individual with any skillset can get involved in the Cyber Republic in a clear 

and easy-to-understand way. This establishes the fair and public protocols that will move a 

project from discussion to suggestion to proposal to funding to execution. 

User’s Guide: 

This is a growing guide that describes not only what suggestions and proposals are, but 

also what the Cyber Republic Secretariat and Council are. 

Cyber Republic Constitution: 

The Constitution of the Cyber Republic is an exciting document that overviews what the 

Cyber Republic as a whole has agreed to, and what protocols have been put in place to 

protect the community and its vision. From the values and mission, to voting and 

amendments, to conflicts of interest and checks and balances, the CR Constitution is the 

bedrock of our new republic. 

Media Style Guide: 

Branding assets are the unified front of the Cyber Republic. It is important that the world 

can recognize who we are at a glance, and these are the tools to make ourselves seen. 

FAQ: 

There are always questions, and this document will grow and answer the most common 

questions such as funding, definitions, and DPoS consensus mechanisms.

CR Website Analytics: Feb 23 - Mar 1 

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Supernode Elections: 

There’s a Lot at “Stake” 

By Jeremy G. 

We are embarking into a new era of Elastos 

and the Cyber Republic. Delegated Proof 

of Stake (DPoS) Supernode Voting and 

Elections are coming soon to a Wallet near 

you.There's been a lot of chatter in the 

Telegram chat rooms, subreddit and CR 

Forum about Pooling for Supernodes and 

what the process is.As wallets are being 

tested for elections this week, the voting 

looks to start sometime this month. 

The first round of elections will conclude 

in April, in which the Community Nodes 

will begin participating in DPoS 

Consensus.This article is meant to give 

the community a clear, in-depth look on 

important aspects of how DPoS works and 

also to suggest some ideas in which node 

groups can use in order to properly divvy 

out profits to each other and voters.Also, 

in order to protect the sanctity of the 

DPoS Consensus process, any malicious 

activity will result in penalties and 

potential dismissal of Supernode status. 

First let's break down the DPoS structure 

Elastos has devised.There will be 108 total 

nodes. 96 of the nodes will be 

democratically elected by the community, 

and 12 of the nodes will be voted in by the 

CR Consensus. Each of the 96 non-CR 

Supernodes will need to meet the 

requirement of having 5000 ELA locked-up, 

along with various hardware requirements 

needed to run a node. 

Another terms for these non-CR 

Supernodes are “Participant Nodes”. 36 of 

these nodes will be “active”, with the 12 CR 

Nodes always running. The other 72 nodes 

will be “stand-by nodes”.The stand-by nodes 

with the most votes will take the place of 

any inactive Supernodes. 

As CR Community Manager Nicola 

Zimmmerman (AKA Ghandi) eloquently 

explains:“There are 96 nodes which are 

voted in by the community and are getting 

rewards.The 36 Supernodes are called 

active nodes, the 72 stand by nodes become 

active nodes when one of the active nodes 

goes offline or when they get more votes in 

a voting round (every 72 minutes) than the 

active node with the least votes.” 

In other words, 24 of the 36 Supernodes are 

in flux and voted on every 72 minutes.The 

nodes with the most votes in the Top 24 will 

be Active. Ultimately it's those top 24 

Supernodes that will get the most rewards 

because they are the most active and will be 

processing the majority of the transactions 

on the network. 

Speaking of rewards, 25% are distributed to 

the 36 Supernodes; every active node gets 

the same amount. 75% of the rewards are 

distributed to the 96 nodes with the most 

votes--rewards are distributed 

proportionally to the number of votes.The 

12 CR nodes don‘t get any part of the 75% of 

course since they don’t have to be voted in. 

The community will be making decisions on 

which Nodes are active and which will be on 

stand-by through voting. Ultimately, it's up 

to the Cyber Republicans to choose the 

best and most reliable Supernodes.The 

network depends on the reliability of these 

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Supernodes, so it is important to vote 

accordingly. 

To understand what these nodes do, it's 

important to know what happens before 

the DPoS process. Elastos uses a dual 

consensus mechanism: Proof of Work (PoW) 

and DPoS. Elastos uses Merge Mining on the 

Bitcoin blockchain.The PoW miners 

produce the blocks and as stated in the 

Elastos DPoS Supernode Election article: 

https://news.elastos.org/elastos-dpossupernode-election-process/ 

“The 36 active nodes will confirm the 

blocks previously produced by PoW 

miners.” 

Between the miners using PoW and the 

Supernodes using DPoS, this is how Elastos 

reaches full consensus for all transactions 

made in the ecosystem. 

For those interested in running your own 

node on the Elastos network, you’re in for a 

treat.There are several different avenues 

available. Many in the community are 

congregating together to build teams that 

will run Supernodes.There have been a 

number of proposals on how the payouts 

will be properly structured and also ensure 

there isn't any illicit activity between team 

members and voters. 

The first method is the use of the multisignature 

function in the Elastos wallet. 

Teams can set up a multisig wallet which 

requires a certain number of pool 

participants to sign the transaction.There’s 

a maximum of six and minimum of two 

owners to each wallet, and up to four 

required signatures to sign off on 

transactions.This ensures that multiple bad 

actors would be needed to betray the trust 

of a supernode team. 

This may be the easiest method, but it may 

not be the most ideal. Gandhi explains a bit 

more why a multi-sig option may not be the 

best course of action:“A multisig wallet is 

the easiest solution in my opinion but it 

has some deficiencies. For example, if one 

of the pool participants wants to leave the 

pool, you have to make a new multisig 

wallet, transfer the 5k ELA to a new wallet 

and register again for the election.” The 

constant flux of changing team members 

and creating new wallets may cause some 

headaches and become somewhat timeconsuming. 

Votes could be lost in the 

process.This brings us to a potential 

solution to this problem: creating smart 

contracts to streamline the process 

better. 

Smart contracts are the method in terms 

of divvying up ownership of a node and 

distributing rewards to its voters. Gandhi 

continues:“With a smart contract, one 

could find a solution to sell their stake of 

the node without the node having to go 

offline.The smart contract (or a second 

one) could also be used to share the block 

rewards with the voters. For example, you 

create a smart contract and deposit 5k ELA 

in it as a pool. The node owners set how 

much of their block rewards they want to 

share with their voters (ie. 80% for voters, 

15% for pool participants, 5% for running 

and maintaining the hardware).The smart 

contract detects automatically who is 

voting for your node and distributes the 

voting rewards. It doesn‘t make sense to do 

this in every block because this would be 

way too expensive, but let‘s say every 2 

weeks and as a voter you only get 

rewarded when you voted for the node for 

the whole 2 weeks period. The smart 

contract automatically distributes the 

rewards to the pool participants”.The 

Supernode pools can essentially automate 

the process in distributing rewards 

amongst themselves along with their 

community voters through smart 

contract.This would give many interested 

parties peace of mind that everything is 

being controlled by code. 

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So how exactly does one go about creating a 

smart contract in order to compensate 

members of a Supernode pool or CR voters? 

Well, the answer isn't simple yet.There are a 

few details to iron out in the process of 

enabling a fully-functional smart contract that 

distributes ELA funds to multiple parties. 

Software Development Relations Manager, 

Kiran Pachhai (KP) explains the creation of a 

smart contract in this specific Supernode 

context:“You can’t write a smart contract for 

ELA payments. Since that is done via main 

chain and main chain doesn’t run smart 

contracts. One option is maybe through smart 

contracts on Eth or Neo sidechain that keeps 

track of all the votes, rewards, etc. and based 

on certain triggers like a monthly date, it 

triggers another action which will auto 

distribute the ELA into a wallet.The handling 

of ELA payments itself could be done via 

scripting, same as how you would do BTC 

payments via scripting.The voting type 

transactions are different on main chain so 

you could write something based on that.A 

Supernode is just a machine that runs 

arbitrator code. You can’t write a smart 

contract for a supernode. You can only write 

logic onto a smart contract and put it on the 

Blockchain.After a certain event or trigger, it 

can execute the script that then autodistributes 

ELA to people. Then again, you 

could possibly do the entire thing as scripting 

alone.” 

As you can tell, though it would take an 

experienced developer in order to automate 

the process through smart contract and 

scripting, it looks to be the safest and most 

efficient path in order to assign payments to 

Pool members or voters. 

But what about the prevention of bad actors 

in the ecosystem? Elastos Foundation has the 

proper rules and infrastructure in place in 

order to weed out the bad apples.As stated 

earlier in the article, the Participant Nodes 

need to lock up 5000 ELA.This stashed ELA 

acts as collateral in case any sketchy activity 

occurs or rules are broken.This is explained 

in the Elastos DPoS Supernode article when 

Supernodes don't act accordingly:“...if the 

node is found to have violated the rules, the 

appropriate amount will be deducted from 

the ELA on deposit according to the 

situation and the remaining ELA will be 

returned to the wallet address linked to the 

public key that was provided at the time of 

registration.” There isn't a set amount 

determined in terms of how much ELA 

would be deducted to such bad actors, but 

they will certainly be penalized. It's good to 

know that there are certain rules and 

regulations to be followed for all Participant 

nodes without exception. 

There are plenty of other DPoS Consensus 

blockchain projects out there, some like 

ARK which work well and are user-friendly 

with payouts to voters being as simple as 

voting for someone with the best reputation 

and rewards, and receiving those rewards in 

your wallet on a weekly basis. And others 

like Lisk which have a cartel running it which 

does not pay out any rewards to voters 

unless you vote for the entire cartel, and the 

rewards for doing so are generally 

inconsequential. 

As you can tell, there are a lot of nitty-gritty 

details that come with the DPoS 

Supernodes. Most importantly, however, 

these Supernodes will be able to secure and 

confirm transactions to keep the reliability 

of the network fully intact. It's up to the 

community to continue to vote for the 

Supernodes that represent the best 

interests of Elastos and the Cyber Republic 

Ecosystem. 

Cyber Republicans, there's a lot at stake with 

these Supernode Elections and Voting, no 

pun intended. 

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Summary 

Here is the latest Elastos Weekly Update: 

https://news.elastos.org/elastos-weekly-updates-01-march-2019/ 

We have a new Cyber Republic Documentation site with relevant introductory information about the 

Cyber Republic, including the constitution, voting and proposals, and leadership. Check it out here: 

https://www.cyberrepublic.org/docs/#/overview/intro 

Project Updates 

Cyber Republic Website 

Main Project Repo: https://github.com/cyber-republic/CyberRepublic 

Git Activity and Updates 

Please refer to the timeline described on this article for more info: 

https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2018/12/27/important-cyber-republic-announcement 

If you are a developer interested in working with the CR or Elastos, here’s a form you can fill out: 

https://goo.gl/forms/pvzDYMsVEs10s6U72 

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Community 

Shout Out! 

https://todaysgazette.com/world-bank-is-finding-elastos-ela-use-cases-outstanding/ 

Olayode Yusuff dropped an article on Today’s Gazette that discusses a meeting 

between Elastos Co-Founder Sunny Feng Han and CR Interim Council Member 

Kevin Zhang with The World Bank. 

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CR Terminology 

By Kenneth K. 

As there are many terms to such a large project like Elastos and the Cyber Republic, we’ve 

decided to build a growing glossary of terms that can help the less technical understand better 

what the tech means and the impact it could have. This week we’re focusing on the term: 

Sidechain. 

Term: Sidechain 

A sidechain is a discrete sub-blockchain linked to the main chain which enriches the capabilities 

of the main chain. Assets are exchanged between the main chain and sidechain at a 

predetermined rate, but because calculations can be solved on separate chains simultaneously, 

capacity is greatly increased. For instance, in other blockchains utilizing sidechains a user on a 

parent chain sends their tokens to an output address where the tokens are locked. A 

corresponding amount of tokens is released on the sidechain and the user is then able to utilize 

the tokens on the sidechain in several transactions before returning the sidechain tokens back 

to the main chain via the same locking mechanism. Elastos’ mechanism utilizes the same private 

key across mainchain and sidechains, and transfers between them are facilitated through 

arbitrators--the 36 Supernodes which run one node of every single chain: main chain, DID 

sidechain,Token sidechain, and so on so forth. Sidechains are responsible for their own security. 

If there is a problem in the sidechain or mainchain, they do not necessarily impact each other. 

Reference: 

https://cryptodigestnews.com/what-are-sidechains-and-childchains-9c4a944e68f 

Layman’s definition: 

Think of a sidechain as a local road parallel to a highway. Perhaps this local road has several more 

intersections and stop signs and traffic moving in different directions. If these intersections and 

stop signs were put on the highway, things would easily slow down to full-blown traffic jam-- 

maybe even the majority of the time. By adding these local roads parallel to the highway, it allows 

specific traffic to exit and get to particular places at particular times, which keeps the highway 

itself uncongested and freely moving. 

Elastos uses a number of sidechains, each specifically designed for one type of traffic. DID 

sidechain just for issuing decentralized IDs and storing information for each DID. Token 

sidechain which has the sole purpose of issuing fungible and non-fungible tokens. Ethereum 

sidechain to mimic anything that Ethereum can do through smart contract or function. NEO 

sidechain to mimic NEO’s smart contracts and functions. 

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International Community 

Activities 

By Joel 

In last weekly update, we discussed the DPoS alliance initiated by the Chinese community.As 

the alliance states, the purpose of running the nodes is not for profit but for the following 

reasons: 

Provide a way for token holders to benefit from the DPoS node elections; 

Encourage members to vote; and 

Prevent the collusion of “whales”. 

Voter Benefits 

With the current election rules, no rewards are given for voting in the DPoS elections.To 

encourage the community to participate, the alliance will reward its voters. ELA deposited to 

become a node candidate will weigh twice as much as ELA used to vote.This serves to 

compensate those taking the extra risk of depositing ELA, as well as the initial set-up cost of 

hardware. When deciding the weight factor, there were some considerations for the node 

candidates. The rewards cannot be: 

too low: if the reward is too low, node candidates will not be attracted and it may 

cause collusion between the nodes during elections; or, 

too high: it is unfair to voters and it will not attract enough members to join the 

alliance 

This alliance encourage members to vote by maximizing the yield of every ELA they use to vote 

with. Referencing the formula given in the last weekly update, the percentage of the profit 

given to node committee decreases (and rewards given to the voters increases) with an 

increase in voting rate. Here are some figures: 

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Though rewards to voters are increasing, the absolute amount for the nodes will still 

increase as the alliance receive more profit as a whole. In short, this formula increases 

the profit of both voters and the nodes with more gains to the voters the more voters 

there are. 

Preventing the collusion of “whales” 

The circulating ELA is about 14.6 million. If 1 ELA is allowed to cast 1 vote, the number of 

votes required to secure a node is about 14.6M/96=152K. When 1 ELA is allowed to cast 

36 votes, the number of votes to secure a node is about 36*14.6M/96=5.48M (which 

secures all 36 nodes if members of an alliance are forced to vote for candidates of the 

same alliance). If one believes that forming alliances is the best way to secure personal 

benefits, it’s natural that eventually there will be several major alliances competing for 

votes.The alliances receiving the most votes will become the 24 Supernodes and the 12 

nodes ranking from 37 to 48. 

Thus, the bar for securing a node is significantly raised. It’s easier for the rich to 

coordinate an alliance. From the angel wallets, the first 24 angles hold about 4.25M ELA. 

Using the blockchain explorer as reference, the first 24 wallet holders hold around 

3.57M ELA. It should be said clearly that there is no inference that these wallet holders 

will collaborate. What is highlighted is the actual holdings compared to the threshold. 

It should be noted that this alliance is recruiting members from the international 

community, and the goal is to encourage community participation through a proper 

incentive structure and to prevent the potential dominance of the rich via collusion. 

Community members are invited to discuss the possible scenarios and ways that 

benefit the community the most. Here is a forum post discussing it: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/dpos-alliance/669 

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Interview: Krisha 

By Jeremy G. 

Tell us a little about yourself... where did you go to 

school? What was your major? 

At the age of 20, I graduated with a Bachelor’s of 

Science in Computer Science at STI College Global 

City. I started as an intern at Cognizant Technology 

Solutions, a BPO company. I was assigned to a 

Network and Services Systems office where I 

learned how IT operates in the real world. I also 

took a one-year vocational course for Computer 

Systems Servicing NC II at TESDA. 

I often accepted remote jobs online. I was a 

researcher for a US-based cryptocurrency investor. 

He introduced me to blockchain and 

cryptocurrencies. He was the reason why I have my 

position right now in Elastos. What I did then was 

look over the coins on coinmarketcap.com for 

some tokens with good forward prospects. Among 

these was Elastos. 

I recommended Elastos to my employer and he 

followed my recommendation. I met the lead 

evangelist of Elastos, Clarence, at a meetup in San 

Francisco. Elastos had been looking for an 

organizer to manage a meetup in Manila and my 

previous employer suggested me to Clarence. 

When the event was first posted on meetup.com, 

Mr.Alex Timbol was among the first to RSVP, so I 

messaged him and asked if he could help me out. 

I am a Community Organizer and representative of 

Elastos here in the Philippines where my persona is 

the “Elastos Princess”. This persona helps to 

market blockchain to colleges and other young 

developers. I'm helped by my Mom's food and 

catering business, and by a veteran sales and 

marketing professional who advises me and helps 

out in Elastos' Philippines activities. 

Alex has years of experience in corporate 

communications for a food and 

beverage company, and decades of 

experience in Institutional 

Stockbroking around Southeast 

Asia. He has worked in social 

entrepreneurship, community 

organizing, events management, 

PR crisis management, and 

disaster response. 

He is based in Metro Manila, and I 

am in Central Luzon, around 

120km apart, so he can quickly 

attend to requirements in the 

National Capital while I am near 

enough to make a day trip if 

necessary. But, Central Luzon, 

where I am, is among the regional 

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software and blockchain development 

supercenters due to the Clark and Subic 

Freeports. 

I recently started working in Network 

Security Support at a Company in Central 

Luzon. 

What are your hobbies? Any special activities 

you like to do with friends and family? 

Whenever I have free time, I watch American 

TV or Asian anime series. My family and I go to 

the beach and attend concerts together. 

We're a very close family. My mom has a food 

service business, Raemily's, and sometimes I 

help out, gaining valuable practical 

experience, just as Jeff Bezos said he worked 

at McDonald's in his teens. 

Raemily's handled catering and logistics 

during the October 13 event, and I can always 

rely on my Mom and her crew for support. 

You set up an Elastos meetup in the 

Philippines, how did it go? 

On October 9, 2018, Clarence went to Manila 

for two things: First, Elastos purchased a 

booth at Blockchain Fair Asia on October 10- 

11, 2018. I worked with Clarence to set up the 

booth and meet the other local and foreign 

blockchain personalities, including the 

leadership at NEM Philippines, with whom we 

now have a cooperative arrangement. 

On October 13, 2018, I organized the first ever 

meetup of Elastos in the Philippines. Clarence 

Liu was the speaker and it was his first time to 

visit the Philippines.The meetup lasted for 4 

hours.The number of attendees exceeded 

100. It set benchmarks in the local Blockchain 

industry in terms of attendance, relevance of 

audience, and number of newbies to 

blockchain. 

We had over 40 tech students from two 

campuses Cavite State University, the largest 

University system in Southern Luzon. Other 

blockchains and crypto events had as little as 

10 attendees, and there were few with more 

than fifty attendees--usually the same regular 

enthusiasts. With Elastos, we wanted to 

ensure that we had more and that we would 

break records, so we reached out to IT and 

student groups via their social media pages, 

and I personally I invited them with 

persistent PMs and emails.As a result, we had 

over a hundred attendees from different 

communities. Even Star Trek Philippines 

teleported over to learn about the Internet 

of the Future. In the real world, STP members 

are professionals in tech and content 

creation. 

You can watch the event video on youtube 

here: 

https://youtu.be/QiuKCmHHJtM 

Are there going to be any future meetups? 

We have been continually participating in 3-5 

tech events per month that may be roughly 

categorized into into three categories: 

Networking events, brand presence, and 

educational events. It is a continuous 

campaign. 

Despite limited resources, Elastos is 

probably amongst the top five most well 

known blockchain developments in the 

Philippines, along with the well-funded NEM, 

corporate-backed EOS, app wallet enabler 

Stellar, and universally known Ethereum. 

For many of the communities we are 

reaching out to, we are the first to present 

blockchain in general, and Elastos in 

particular. 

Notable networking events we've attended 

have been “Women in Blockchain”, with 

whom I am working with to establish a 

Central Luzon chapter with other female 

blockchain developers based in Pampanga, 

my home province, and nearby Zambales, 

Bataan, and Nueva Ecija; PADCDI (Philippine 

Association of Distributed Computing 

Developers, Inc.) annual meeting, which 

includes key personalities from the 

blockchain focussed CEZA (Cagayan 

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Economic Zone Authority in Northeastern 

Luzon), and the prominent Loyalcoin, headed 

by local celebrity Paolo Bediones, which runs 

loyalty programs built upon the NEM 

blockchain; and Fintech Philippines, which is 

heavy on professionals in the formal financial 

sector, and auditing and consulting firms. 

Alex has also participated in government and 

industry events representing Elastos to build 

links with relevant state offices. Key events 

he's attended are the DICTs Internet 

Governance symposium which connected us 

to leading regional tech players and 

infrastructure providers, and the larger 

DICTs Incubators annual meetup attended 

by tech incubator operators around the 

country.This has enabled us to obtain access 

to key officials and identify state programs 

that sync with Elastos' objectives. 

One example is DICTs Rural Impact Sourcing 

program which trains countryside folk to 

access online paying jobs in software 

development, web development, content 

creation and design. If we can form a 

partnership with them, we could have Elastos 

development and content creation among 

their recommendations list. 

We have brand presence activities by proxy 

with college and university tech groups, and 

moving forward, with several key dev groups. 

We provide them event support in terms of 

snacks and food items, and they place a large 

vertical banner at their venue while 

encouraging members to sign up for Cyber 

Republic. We've done this at the University of 

the Philippines, Polytechnic University in 

Quezon City, Unibersidad de Manila, and 

recently De La Salle University's Computer 

Engineers. It's cost efficient, and doesn't 

require our presence. 

Last Christmas, we participated in two 

blockchain event Christmas parties, where 

we also brought along a group of students 

from universities we've been in touch with. 

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Levelling up, we conduct, on a recurring 

basis, booth presence during school tech 

events, where we have a booth display and 

sign ups for the Cyber Republic. In these 

events, I lead the booth team, sometimes 

with Alex, sometimes with a team of 

students from the host school or an 

organization from another school. We are 

able to collect dozens of sign ups and 

strengthen links with the school 

organizations, as well as other Elastos 

enthusiasts. We've done this at De La Salle 

University and Unibersidad de Manila as 

sponsors of events organized by Coding 

Girls, organizers of school events; and at 

FEU-Tech and Angeles University upon the 

invitation of student groups themselves. We 

have around a dozen more invitations for 

the months ahead. 

So, that's our secret. Rather than organize 

our own events, we support and participate 

in student organization led events if it 

provides the right audience for Elastos. It 

reduces costs per signup, and minimizes 

logistical requirements, and we provide 

value by linking up student groups from 

other schools and signing them up to Cyber 

Republic. 

The highest level of involvement we do is a 

speaking event.Alex spoke at two such 

events sponsored by Elastos. At the College 

of St.Benilde School of Arts and Design, he 

spoke on the basics of blockchain and how 

Elastos provides a secure publishing 

platform to monetize creative works.At La 

Verdad Community College's ICT Week, he 

spoke on SMEs and Startups, in deference to 

the Blockchain talk by our friends at NEM. In 

both cases, Elastos branding was clearly 

presented and the technology welldiscussed 

during the speeches. 

Our involvement with LVCC has even 

greater potential going forward. Located in 

Southern Pampanga, they have the largest 

school campus in that area, with a student 

body known for their skills in mass

communications. We hope that we can work 

with them as they evolve into a technology 

hub in their area, a complementary partner 

to the already established MetroClark ICT 

Council in Northern Pampanga, with whom 

we have also connected. 

How is the interaction with the community in 

the Telegram and Facebook groups that you 

run? 

Our interaction is really good! We always 

make sure to share latest news about Elastos 

especially on Telegram. We encouraged 

students we met to join us to our facebook 

group. We post some videos and resources to 

increase their knowledge of Elastos. 

The Telegram group incorporates the global 

Filipino diaspora, some developers, and 

others are crypto investors of Elastos 

enthusiasts.The Elastos Philippines 

Facebook group is more local in character; 

membership includes students and 

developers seeking updates on Elastos. Much 

work still needs to be done to encourage 

interaction among these members. 

If you were to give the Elastos Foundation 

any constructive criticism , what would it be? 

Elastos Foundation needs to grow beyond 

crypto enthusiasts and developers and craft 

marketing programs for the different 

stakeholders in its ecosystem, from 

consumers to content creators. We've 

identified that developers, independent 

content creators, content publishers, secure 

financial transactions, and consumers are 

key stakeholders of the ecosystem.Another 

would be VCs to fund promising software 

and hardware projects being built using 

Elastos technology. 

I could say that we've already gone ahead of 

Elastos, presenting the technology as a 

secure means for content creators to 

monetize their works.Alex delivered a talk at 

College of Saint Benilde, to its students in 

content creation, and we attended the local 

launch of Huion, meeting animators and 

anime artists, including the Head of the 

Cebu Animators Guild, who is enthusiastic 

to encourage independent animators to 

publish on elastos.At both events, and at 

others, content creators are eager to 

publish on a secure platform where they can 

monetize their works. 

We'd like to see more push in branding as a 

consumer technology, much like “Intel 

Inside.” Widespread awareness sparks 

widespread interest in developing and 

publishing on the platform in a circle that 

could leapfrog Elastos way ahead of similar 

rivals. 

Elastos' advantage is that it has a consumer 

device on the market, according to the CTO 

of another network blockchain Alex spoke 

with. Let's build on this. Soon, there could be 

tens of millions of TV boxes, and Elastos 

enabled Wi-fi (like Fon), Elastos secured 

smart homes and home devices, as Rong 

Chen mentioned on LinkedIn. 

What are your thoughts about the Cyber 

Republic? 

Cyber Republic underwent an overhaul 

shortly after we introduced Elastos to the 

Philippines in October 2018. Such an open 

platform may be prone to abuse, with some 

gaming the tasks system at the expense of 

legitimate projects. I understand it's being 

reworked to be more effective, and we are 

eagerly awaiting a revamped Cyber 

Republic. 

That aside, it's a fantastic idea to have a 

forum for the global community, with the 

caveat that there may be competitors, 

fraudsters, spies and other unsavories 

lurking within its confines. The site needs 

more focus and structure. It should be 

easier to find people and form groups, and 

there should be private workspaces for 

virtual teams. 

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Are you hopeful for the future of this 

ecosystem? Any comments, concerns or 

insight would be greatly appreciated. 

The ecosystem already exists. It's huge.A 

million TV boxes are in consumers' homes 

distributing DRM protected content made 

by thousands in the content creation 

industries. It can be ten million TV boxes, or 

over a billion Elastos enabled devices of 

various types in homes worldwide. 

We've been asking Clarence to encourage 

hardware partners to distribute in the 

Philippines.At the moment, according to the 

node map, there is only one such device in 

the Philippines and it's in my house. With 

over 300,000 Mainland Chinese working here, 

and around five million Filipinos of Chinese 

descent eager for Chinese language 

content, local tech importers are keen to 

bring in the device. 

Have you been in contact with any 

developers or businesses in the Philippines 

area that are in the beginning stages or 

incorporating the Elastos technology? 

currencies. 

So, we've raised awareness and know that we 

need to move onwards to yet another higher 

level, delivering lectures on programming on 

the Elastos blockchain and conducting 

Elastos hackathons. We hope to identify and 

recruit a capable developer into our team so 

we may push forward with this. 

We've been able to build links with dozens of 

school tech organizations, and several 

national tech societies, opening doors for us 

to participate in their events going forward. 

Examples of these are ISSA (Information 

Systems Security Association) and related 

Junior ISSA in colleges, JPCS (Junior 

Philippines Computer Society), and various 

other specialized tech groups providing us 

access to their events schedules from which 

we may select. It will be busy year. 

Our goal is to introduce Elastos to tech 

communities around the country, creating 

Elastos enthusiast cells, who may further 

organize and participate in events in their 

areas. 

We introduced Clarence to developers 

within their own development houses in the 

Philippines during his visit. Most have 

reviewed the technology, provided some 

feedback, mostly about the yet-to-be 

completed tools, but they are eager to work 

on the platform. 

Earlier, I mentioned that we've been 

promoting Elastos technology among young 

student devs. We've reached out to 

thousands, and with school break coming up 

soon, we'll remind them of Elastos and 

encourage them to experiment on the 

platform. 

We're in touch with wallet developers 

coins.ph and TagCash, both popular in 

Southeast Asia and proposing that they 

include ELA among their supported 

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CR Forum Analytics: 

Feb 22 - Mar 1 

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CR Forum Highlights 

By YY 

For those who are too busy to visit our CR forum regularly, 

we’ve summarized some of the popular topics for this week: 

DPoS “Alliance” 

If you read our previous CR weekly, you may have come across the DPoS Node 

Rights Alliance being set up to allow more token holders to participate and 

benefit from the election.“KenNinja” has raised concerns in regards to the 

formation of this alliance, its impact to the general community if manipulation 

is possible through this alliance, as well as the pros and cons of the model being 

proposed. Feel free to leave your comments in the following link: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/dpos-alliance/669 

Unofficial Telegram Q&A with Rong Chen 

As discussed in the intro, following the release of Elastos financial report, Rong 

Chen visited the Elastos telegram group to have an unofficial Q&A session with 

the community members. Some of the questions raised were: 

Lack of detail to the audit and financials 

Nature of substantial BTC expenditure for ecosystem collaboration 

Concern regarding legal issues for Elastos decentralised network 

Misunderstanding of Elastos total expenditure in year 2018 

Any other blockchain projects that are competing with Elastos 

If you would like to find out more about the discussion and read Rong’s 

answers, visit the following topic in the forum: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/unofficial-telegram-q-a-with-rong-chen/694 

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Supernode Pool Recruitment and Q&A 

Following the upcoming DPoS supernodes election, one of the community members, 

Michael Stack (known as “mikestack11”) has started this topic to gather community 

members who are interested in joining or creating supernode pools. He also discusses 

topics surrounding how the multi-signature wallets will operate for these pools.Though 

there are numerous members who have already expressed their interest to join or create 

a pool, some of them are concerned about if there is mechanism to penalise bad actors as 

well as the flexibility of rules and terms, including the implementation of transparent and 

customizable legal smart contracts for each member in the pool. If you are interested in 

this discussion, check out the following link: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/supernode-pool-recruitment-and-q-a/648/6 

Cyber Republic Weekly Update 25 February 2019 

Starting last week, a topic will be created for all future CR weekly reports in the forum so 

that any feedback or comments can be presented and discussed in one place.These 

weekly updates are a source of reliable information about CR and Elastos. If you are a 

regular reader of our CR weekly report, please keep a lookout for the new weekly forum 

topic and drop your comments, questions, and concerns there.The following link is for 

the last week report: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/cyber-republic-weekly-update-25-february-2019/666 

NEO Dev Con and NEO 3.0, are we “wasting” our time? 

“KenNinja” has created another topic about the potential ‘waste’ of time in technical 

development undertaken by Elastos to become compatible with NEO virtual machine as 

the NEO blockchain may change its infrastructure over time. However, Kiran Pachhai, the 

Elastos’ Software Development Relations Manager, provides insight regarding the 

sidechain infrastructure of Elastos and how this ensures that however the new NEO 

blockchain ends up, the NEO sidechain on Elastos will still function as normal.This is the 

difference between NEO public blockchain and NEO virtual machine (which is to be 

ported to the Elastos main chain). Have a glance at this topic if you are interested: 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/neo-dev-con-and-neo-3-0-are-we-wasting-our-time/615 

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Check out these hot topics to see if there is anything that you can contribute to, or simply 

express your thoughts to help make the forum a truly vibrant community. 

Top New Topics 

Supernode Pool Recruitment and Q & A 


Unofficial Telegram Q&A with Rong Chen 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/unofficial-telegram-q-a-with-rong-chen/694 

DPoS “Alliance” 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/dpos-alliance/669/3 

Cyber Republic Weekly Update 25 February 2019 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/cyber-republic-weekly-update-25-february-2019/666 

Spotlight Series - Elastos Browser (Trinity) 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/spotlight-series-elastos-browser-trinity/622 

Most Active Topics (in terms of number of views and replies) 

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Hyper.im - Peer-to-Peer Instant Messenger 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/hyper-im-peer-to-peer-instant-messenger/289 

Marketing & awareness of Elastos & The Cyber Republic 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/marketing-awareness-of-elastos-the-cyber-republic/102/8 

Bi-weekly livestream with Rong Chen 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/bi-weekly-livestream-with-rong-chen/107/7 

Supernode Pool Recruitment and Q & A 


Hyper.im - Beta now available 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/hyper-im-beta-now-available/348/14 

dApp idea thread 

https://forum.cyberrepublic.org/t/dapp-idea-thread/342/12

Glossary 

A growing list of Terms and their definitions 

Elastos Hive Cluster: 

a decentralized File Storage Service that based on IPFS cluster. For more 

information: 

https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2019/02/19/weekly-report-february-18-2019/ 

Elastos React Native: 

a Javascript framework for developing dapps, similar to Trinity’s Ionic 

framework, but native to Android and iOS. For more information: 

https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2019/02/05/weekly-report-february-4-2019/ 

Elastos Sidechain: 

a scaling solution that utilizes parallel blockchains to the main chain in order 

decrease transaction congestion on the main chain. 

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