Cyberattacks, data hackings, and identity theft are making headlines every day and with the coming of the Internet of Things, they will gradually become the norm. Cases of data breaches and theft have been seriously threatening the data safety of millions of users, jeopardizing the reliability and security of centralized systems, no matter how big and important they were considered.

This lack of trust and safety may endanger the storage of sensible data and might pose a limitation to the coming era of IoT, exposing millions of devices to data breaches and exploitations.

Several online transactions require that individuals disclose personal information before they can proceed to access any kind of services. For example, before financial transactions can be carried out on platforms such as Amazon and Google Wallet, among others, users are required to input their personal information. Thus, every time an individual discloses them, they get stored on numerous internet databases. As such, digital clones of the same individual spread across different platforms, exposing them to a lot of security issues. Hence, as shown by the Equifax hack, getting access to an important database exposes all the personal information of users and exemplifies the high vulnerability of the current centralized system.

The Bottos Solution to Enhance Data Security

Bottos takes this problem seriously and thanks to its decentralized blockchain nodes and its smart storage solutions, is actively working to provide maximum data safety to the users of its platform.

In the Bottos AI ecosystem, users data is stored on decentralized blockchain nodes, which makes it almost impossible to alter or to take possession without the right credentials. Moreover, data is analyzed without having to access the original sources through a distributed smart storage system, which can not only protect and safeguard the data privacy, but also make it safely shared with scientific research institutes and health professionals worldwide. Also, it can allow individuals the freedom to then create encrypted digital identities that will eventually replace traditional login systems while giving more security features that might save users valuable time and resources.

Additionally, the Bottos public chain will be upgraded with security technologies such as the “prudent identity system”, the “lots-drawing DPOS consensus-based algorithm” and the “intelligent portion storage”, which will be amply described in the upcoming technical white paper.

The Bottos Node Structure Makes it Work

Blockchain nodes are fundamental in order to keep the chain functioning. There are usually three types of nodes: called nodes, full nodes, and master nodes.

Basic Service Node: It provides the basic services to the entire Bottos blockchain system. In addition to supporting the core functions of the blockchain such as transaction consensus, contract deployment and block production, it also supports the main functions provided by the Bottos service layer, such as the unified identity system, storage management service, credit service, Token management and contract management to provide the most important production services for the overall Bottos network.

Application Node: Application nodes mainly serve different DApp deployments in the ecosystem. Application nodes can be deployed on their own or deployed on the basic nodes. The application node supports specific applications, handles complex logic, and deploys contracts to process the corresponding core data in the consensus layer.

The application node construction can choose to allow basic token pledge, and its core contract service is provided by the basic layer. Only the pledged application nodes have the opportunity to obtain the corresponding profits from the contract implementation in the ecosystem, the distribution revenue of tokens in the future, and at the same time the opportunity to gain the profits of airdrops, while unpledged nodes only have the opportunity to gain the profits of airdrops. Application nodes can release their own services and obtain corresponding service fees according to actual needs, which should be regulated and agreed upon through smart contracts.

Lightweight Node: Lightweight nodes are mainly used as data verification nodes of Bottos.

Ultra-lightweight Node: The ultra-light nodes mainly handle block header verification and synchronize key HASH data.

The Bottos AI ecosystem provides its users’ with trust and safety, unlike centralized systems where all the data is amassed in one single location and relatively easy to breach. As people shift gears towards in-cloud storage solutions and towards shared data marketplaces, security and safety concerns are now the top priorities. Indeed, alongside this demanding transition, decentralized blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) make a great pair in contributing to the development of smart data storage and analysis technologies.