We held an AMA with Moonlight(LX) in our public Telegram channel on May 22nd. Moonlight is a decentralized platform, built on the trusted NEO network that will change the way of recruitment and scaling of company’s workforce.

The Moonlight public token sale is expected to start sometime in June. You can check out the Moonlight whitepaper here.

You can also visit the Moonlight Telegram channel for further details.

Here’s what Moonlight Co-founder & Architect (also of City of Zion Co-founder fame) Tyler Adams had to say in the AMA.*

*This AMA has been edited for clarity.

WC (Wolf Crypto Telegram Member)

Welcome Tyler, let’s get the AMA kicked off :)

TA

Party time 💪

WC

Can you please give us the elevator pitch on Moonlight?

TA

Depending on who you are, the pitch can be pretty different. In short, consider three different markets that exist right now: Resource Identification, Resource onboarding and management, and project management. All of these spaces have historically been fragmented because of issues with trust.

You have to trust a resume to onboard them…which requires a painful and resource intensive process and you need to have intimate tribal knowledge about how someone performs on specific types of tasks to successfully manage a project.

Blockchain is the key to allowing us to integrate these three spaces together.

TEAM & TEAM GOALS

WC

Hi Tyler! Being a co-founder of City of Zion, can you give a breakdown on how CoZ was created and where you believe it is headed in the future?

TA

City of Zion was created because a bunch of ethusiasts got together want wanted to understand how Antshares works. Some people started by translating documentation; Others began work on Neon Wallet, and Neo Python. I worked on the new consensus documents. It all stemmed from simply being passionate about working on blockchain as a hobby…and sort of got out of hand…hah :P

City of Zion is ‘sort of’ a DAO…so I don’t speak for the rest of council, but I would like to see it evolve into more of a consortium where projects in the NEO ecosystem sponsor full time developers to represent their interests in the community development initiatives. Moonlight is also another component to this because it attempts to open up the City of Zion model to the larger community.

There is a lot of interest in blockchain right now…and these economies…There are a ton of dApps, but the backbone of an economy is the workforce, so we’re trying to help produce tools for that.

WC

In which regions are you planning to do business?

TA

We’re incorporated in Singapore, but the team is global. We will initially be targeting APAC and Americas and are working with some folks in Europe about what a product for that market would look like.

COMPETITORS

WC

It seems there are a lot of gig economy projects lately. How do you differ from say Effect.ai (also a NEO based project) or the upcoming BlueWhale?

TA

Rather than draw differences between the projects, I’ll explain the project in a little more detail so you can draw your own conclusions. Personally, I imagine a world where all these projects work together and collaborate instead of compete since we are all very small fish.

LinkedIn alone brings in 1b in revenue…so we should be trying to work together instead of in-fighting.

Our platform is really geared towards product development and human resources as a whole. We are not just a freelancing platform; we are a true hiring, onboarding, and project management ecosystem. So imagine a development team at a company who needs someone to either (come on as salary, complete a single task, or work on a product/contract basis).

The goal of our platform is to make this process as easy as possible.

I realize ‘gig’ is a buzz word right now…and we do leverage some of the mechanisms in that space…But I think of us as a resource management tool. A PM may choose to use our platform as an alternative to Jira, or MS Project (for example).

PARTNERSHIPS & EXCHANGES

WC

Regarding your partnership with THOR, how exactly will that work? They will plug into the Moonlight platform?

TA

Its actually sort of the opposite. I’m not sure where you live, but the US has a huge issue regarding benefits like healthcare and retirement. For those using our platform in a full time capacity, we want to be able to provide them with these types of services. So we will provide access to some of the THOR products to our user base.

I’m actually visiting the THOR office this week while I’m in SF to do a Stanford seminar :)

WC

What about the nOS and VDT partnerships?

TA

VDT will be our first customer. The render servers will interface with our API as ‘resolvers’. When a user submits a render ‘task’ into moonlight, the servers will bid on those tasks and pull them. For nOS, they will be seeding development tasks on our platform and we will be developing support for our application in their ecosystem.

WC

Red4Sec, how did the partnership come about and what does it involve?

TA

Red4Sec have worked with CoZ for a very long time now on security audits. They are the most knowledgeable infosec team in the NEO ecosystem. So its only logical for us to reach out to the best team for our audits.

Likewise, they will be providing their services in the Moonlight platform as one of the first organizations available. Their specific field is a perfect example of a use case. An organization may want a security audit prior to launch so they can create a task for this type of work.

Every partnership we make has been vetted and has a specific value-add to the platform…beyond hype. We have turned down a few partnerships which don’t provide a technical value to our product.

WC

Considering you have the NEX co-founder as a advisor, is listing on NEX locked in?

TA

Half of the CoZ founders are NEX and half are Moonlight…NEX is our sister project… NEX is a decentralized exchange…so I would hope we’re able to trade on a platform that is fully decentralized (without a regulating body) ^_^

ROADMAP, BETA & FUTURE GROWTH

WC

Tell us something on the roadmap please. Do you have a demo? When do you plan to have a functional product?

TA

No demo right now, but you can consider the token sale ecosystem a part of our actual product since it will be entirely reused for our account system in the main application. Currently we are doing planning on development on the core application (which will house this account ‘module’). The goal is to have the matchmaking ecosystem ready for ‘select’ users to test in Q3. Realistically, it will most likely be late Q3 due to the impact of onboarding on existing resources. :)

The goal is to release the marketplace platform, then use our own platform to build itself (internally). This makes us the best customers, also, because the platform will be open architecture and open source, we will also be seeding the platform with projects and tasks to build itself.

WC

So its basically a working beta in Q3, and the full product somewhere in Q1?

TA

That is our current development target that we are tracking to. There is a bit of buffer in there to play with regarding the beta (how long it is and whether we open it to CoZ at the same time the internal team begins using it etc…)

WC

Will the complete platform be blockchain based, or will it be more of a hybrid ? Where do you see the advantages of using blockhain compared to already existing companies and users?

TA

I like this question because it hits at the heart of my opinion on blockchain and its role. To me, there are a lot of projects that try to market by adding ‘blockchain’ to everything (sort of like ‘gig’ actually). To me, blockchain should be considered a tool in a product development toolbox which provides value. For us, our platform will be a hybrid because there are some areas where blockchain + client is simply not a good idea. If you read between the lines in the project management components of our whitepaper, we’re sort of an analytics company actually… So we’ll be more of a hybrid platform. We will use blockchain where it makes sense for our products. The major benefit here is that the that is publicly available and accessible for anyone to verify against and build an application from.

Right now in blockchain, “Identity” is a REALLY hot topic. Projects like ontology are successful on this principle….But there is more than just ‘Who’ you are….In many (not all) cases, as an employer, I don’t care who you are…I care what you can do. This is a second type of identity that noone ever talks about…and this issue still hasn’t even been solved in current professional space. This is one of our major targets.

WC

What is the expected user growth once the full version is released? If not already 2018, 2019 should be a make or break year for crypto. So many projects getting their full platforms operational and mainnets coming on. Have you made these calculations?

TA

Do you want the marketing lie that every product has given out in all of history or do you want my ‘realistic’ expectation of what will happen?

WC

We can handle the truth here at Wolf Crypto.

TA

Realistically speaking, I think there will be 3 stages to our project’s growth, once we enter beta (and you can reference our token metrics on this), we have allocated a pretty large amount of funds to seed tasks in the system. Initially, CoZ devs will most likely pull the majority of these task, many of them will not be development focused though, this will grow the user base pretty quickly imho (at least within that community)…lots of CoZ folks have been waiting for this project.

In addition to this, we are working on partnerships (like the nOS one for example) where projects will also begin to seed tasks for their work into the system. the second phase is the expansion of this outside of NEO and into other blockchain spaces, since most NEO devs also know solidity etc. The third is where we start expanding into non-blockchain markets.

Userbase wise, CoZ currently has 40 or so active devs and if you add the projects in the Neo ecosystem, there are probably 200–300 devs there (which doesn’t sound like a lot in terms of headcount, but good luck finding that many blockchain devs and hiring them).

WC

How are CoZ devs being paid by the way? From projects they work on?

TA

Every week, contributors submit something called a ‘gist’, everyone in CoZ council votes on all the gists. A weekly NEO allocation is then distributed proportionally to the contributors based on the points.

We did some early models here. Check at the bottom and disregard the token model, this was when we were evaluating LUX as a stable coin.

TOKEN UTILITY

WC

Regarding the LX token what exactly is the usecase for it? From what i have seen in your whitepaper you pay less fees for transactions? As a follow up regarding the gas airdrops, do you have any ideas on the percentage of total fees airdropped, and does the user need to stake their tokens?

TA

The system collects a fee from the remittance process (in some modes of use). Users who pay/receive payment in LX will pay reduced fees. The fees will not be airdropped and tokens will not need to be staked. There will be an additional utility to be awarded the gas.

An example would be answering a question about a specific feature in the platform etc. We are a product development platform, so you should expect us to have a clever way to collect voice of the customer ^_^

Regarding fees, this is still a hotly debated topic within the group. It is a level to control (which may show up as a survey question[see previous answer]), but the goal is to maintain at least an equivalent generation rate to NEO. Also keep in mind that we are high-supply and divisible…which is unique for gas generation.

WC

How did you come up with the token name LX? I’m curious…

TA

Its all linked. The name of the project is due to the term ‘Moonlighting’…although there is actually a funny story about this that Alan goes into. The token name “LUX” is a unit of luminance; Its also Latin for light. LX is the standard written convention for this unit.

ICO & TOKEN SUPPLY

WC

Will the ICO be held on the NEO network?

TA

The token sale will be conducted on NEO; We will be accepting NEO and GAS (as well as ETH in the presale; but applications have just closed). The public sale has not started yet.

WC

Why have you chosen NEO over ETH or other platforms?

TA

Because the team built (to some extent) the NEO platform & three of the project founders also founded City of Zion.

WC

Have you taken steps to ensure the token isn’t a security? If so, what are the steps you have taken?

TA

We have a REALLY good legal team…who is intimately familiar with MAS and their handling of crypto. We are a true utility; The LX token has a utility in that it provides an incentivized use on the platform. And further more, Gas awarded to users is the result of some effort completed on the platform. I provided an example above where someone can answer questions about the platform. Another (more advanced) example is claiming via something called ‘backlog grooming’ of tasks which they are qualified to audit.

WC

What sort of support does the backing of the NEO Global Capital have to your project besides the recent investment?

TA

NGC is simply the investment arm of NEO (see recent reorg). We receive business and marketing support from the entire team. They are great to work with both for Moonlight and CoZ (City of Zion).

WC

You mentioned your presale has closed. Can you tell us when you envision to run the public sale, what will be the individual caps, and what is your marketcap?

TA

Public sale target is June, but it may slip a week or two depending on whether we encounter anything in the verification and audit process. No comment on the caps, but you can be assured it will be designed to maximize token entropy.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

WC

Awesome, thanks for taking the time out to answer all the questions Tyler. For anyone wanting to check out the project further please head over to — https://telegram.me/Moonlightdotio

TA

^_^ Thanks for everyone’s time. Sorry if I was overly verbose hah!

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