Question 1: What are the benefits for the companies to lock their assets onto the Fusion Blockchain? Why are some companies already willing to put assets of over 12 billions US$ worth on Fusion?

For Business automation. Previously ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) tools and other systems helped companies automate their business processes but they were limited by their internal capacities. All companies have their own supply chain, customers and related business partners. These processes all function in silos and as a result cannot benefit from the efficiencies of automation. After asset digitisation, these processes can be programmed in smart contracts to achieve thorough automation, improving efficiency, scalability and reducing costs. Consider that each company or cryptocurrency is like a small lake or little river, they have their own limited ecosystem. Indeed, maybe there is diversity and some are relatively bigger than others. Take a company like Alipay for example, a huge company but theoretically still bound by the limitations of existing as a predominantly isolated ecosystem. Even bitcoin is the same! If you want to send RMB using Alipay to another person, that person needs to have a registered account with Alipay. If they lock-in on fusion, it is just like the lake pours into the ocean, all value in different ecosystems will be inter-connected. FUSION will be the huge ecosystem that enables all of these separate parts to interact together. Value in one ecosystem can exchange with others as long as they are locked-in on the FUSION Blockchain. Complicated financial instruments become feasible on FUSION. In today’s world, even agreements involving 3 different parties often makes costs unacceptably high. However, if all the assets are locked in on fusion, a programmable smart contract involving 10+ parties, handling 20+ different asset types, based on 30+ different conditions, is just some lines of codes. And importantly, code guarantees that it will be executed exactly as it is written.

The companies who have committed to lock-in assets on FUSION see the advantages which could make them unbelievably competitive when they are facing their industry competitors. That’s why they are so excited to lock-in their assets on fusion.

Question 2: Do you see the Fusion platform being used more than Ethereum and if so, how do you plan to gain marketshare?

So far, there are 2 major areas using Ethereum.

One is that Ethereum is serving as a Dapp/Smart Contract platform. Thousands of Dapp/Smart Contract are running on it. Although most of them today are useless, we can see it is as being significant in the future. Once the performance and throughput is significantly increased, we can expect it could be very amazing. Another function is issuing tokens. Fundamentally, people are using Ethereum to help them with their bookkeeping ledger for their tokens. It became very hot during ICO booming period.

Because we added a bunch of very significant functions on fusion, which is really necessary for finance, definitely, FUSION will be used more than any other platform. I can give you 2 very simple examples:

1. No other platform today including Ethereum has realized value over time. (In Ethereum, future token flows can only be expressed as a smart contract which cannot be shown as an assets in a wallet). Fusion however, has a “time lock” feature that can realize factoring, bonds and achieve bank acceptance very easily.

2. Even for ICO issuing token, people will find great advantages to issue token on FUSION compared with Ethereum. We all know Ethereum supports issuing tokens on Ethereum platform. After the project has its own main net, projects need to rely on exchanges or other centralized institution to execute a token swap (exchanges usually only support 3 months for a swap or even less). And once the tokens are swapped, they cannot interact with smart contracts on Ethereum any longer. If a issue token on the FUSION Blockchain when their Mainnet goes live one day, they don’t need to ask exchanges to execute a swap, they can use FUSION’s ‘Easy Swap’ function (Just a simple mapping process). Tokens that are issued on FUSION are just like locked-in token. If a project want to transition to their own native chain, users and holders can easily lock-out their tokens if they want at any time.

There are so many more examples to add to the points above. Just remember one thing: Fusion is targeting the Finance industry which is much much bigger than crypto today.

Question 3: If we have a supreme node do we need to run it in our machine? If so what is the expected hardware spec? Can we keep it actively running in some AWS or Azure space and if so can you give us a sample packages and costs that would satisfy this criteria?

Yes, you will need your own machine. So far any information that relates to how to run supreme nodes has not been released yet. Please stay tuned as we will release a manual for running supreme nodes including suggested hardware spec.

Question 4: Is it theoretically possible to pool together for a Supreme Node while locked-in to FUSION blockchain, or under a Fusion risk-free smart-contract?

Theoretically, it would be very difficult or maybe even impossible to pool together to run a supreme node. But for staking with POS, it will be very easy. The system accepts tokens with time-lock to stake. Which means even if you don’t know how to stake, just set a time-lock on your FSN (like from now to 3 months later) and send it to others who knows how to stake. This is not like lending, the transfer of tokens is more like a sale. The remaining part of the tokens (from 3 months to forever) in your hand will automatically become full functions of FSN 3 months later.