What is Neblio?

Neblio is a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain platform with a focus on bringing simplicity to their Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) offerings. Neblio offers strong staking rewards to heavily encourage network participation and thus network security. The team behind Neblio intends to provide blockchain solutions to enterprise customers through multi-language RESTful APIs which allow easy integration of both new dapps and legacy applications into the Neblio blockchain.

The Neblio RESTful APIs are offered in eight languages: C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Python, PHP, and Objective C. API development by the team is iterative and ever-expanding with each developer update. In addition to APIs, Neblio also offers Neblio Token Protocol-1, which is a protocol that can be used to create fungible tokens which can be interchangeable or non-fungible tokens like the ERC-721 protocol.

As part of their mission for simplicity, Neblio has focused on improving the non-technical user’s experience. Neblio’s PoS easily allows for low-power computers to generate blocks, which enables users to use Raspberry Pi and like devices. In order to bridge the gap for many users whose first experience with Unix and Linux are with the Raspberry Pi devices, the Neblio team provides single-line command for download, installation, and setup of their staking wallet. To help support data center installations, Neblio developed a Docker container with the staking wallet, which can be rapidly deployed to a multi-node architecture. Additionally, the team provides daily snapshots of the blockchain, called QuickSync, to further enable rapid data center installation of new nodes.

The Neblio team built a web-wallet which they call Orion to help enhance NTP1 functionality. From Orion users are able to generate tokens with two clicks. Contrasting with creating an ERC-20 token on ETH, Neblio offers a much more simple user experience.

Current events

The team recently released a beta update to their Core wallet which integrated NTP1 commands into the staking wallet. This upgrade will allow for greater decentralization of the NTP1 ecosystem and allow for an easier exchange listing process for projects running their dapps on the Neblio blockchain.

Other recent technical developments include the Neblio Tachyon upgrade, which is a modification to the blocksize and blocktime of the Neblio network. Blocksize was increased from 1MB to 8MB while blocktime was shortened from a 2-minute blocktime to 30-seconds. These increases allow for significantly more data to be written into each block, which translates to more metadata that can be stored by applications interfacing with the chain, or to increase transactions per second (TPS). The Neblio Tachyon upgrade ultimately results in a maximum of 4096 bytes able to be included in a single transaction or an upgrade of 119.4-fold increase to TPS. Tachyon marks the first major network upgrade for Neblio since the mainnet inception, which of note, was live prior to the team’s public project launch. The Tachyon upgrade is live on testnet and will go active on the Neblio mainnet in 4Q 2018.

The Neblio Team is also working on Neblio University, a simple and easily understood repository and developer resource. Neblio University offers examples, troubleshooting guides, technical documentation, and even API execution right through the Neblio University webpage.

Conclusion

Despite the overall market downturn, Neblio has pushed development and technical usage of their platform by following their simplicity-focused designs. Neblio has been making small waves with their latest partnerships including Kind Ads and Projectmanager.com, and they are currently working with Ladder marketing agency. The continued improvement of the APIs and NTP1 functionality, the 10% staking rewards, and budding partnerships will further make the platform appealing to developers and investors alike.

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