The main issue with IP addresses is that that there is not an easy way to share or rent them, although there is unlimited need to do so. Unlocking this possibility could benefit both businesses and individuals in multiple ways.

IPSX, a distributed network layer of the web 3.0, was designed for this specific need.

Blockchain specific benefits used by IPSX are:

transparency / auditability — provide a clear image on the way the revenues are split between platform’s users

— provide a clear image on the way the revenues are split between platform’s users immutability — covers the liability on IP usage

— covers the liability on IP usage reputation — helps creating a market with trustworthy partners

— helps creating a market with trustworthy partners maintenance cost — financial settlement is done in a cost effective manner

— financial settlement is done in a cost effective manner security — all these data being managed in a high security environment

IPSX makes it possible for users to share their device’s IP address or as a Data Center to share a full range of unused IP addresses in order to win real-time IPSX tokens in a safe way. Most importantly, it will create a framework and an IP addresses marketplace. This will allow any business and service provider to build custom made applications that require large volume of IP addresses based on our SDKs and APIs, and which have specific IP address needs (uptime, usage time, geolocations and so on).

Data Mining Enterprise level clients

Currently, there are thousand of companies doing Data Mining on Big Data.

The core activity of those companies is Data Acquisition and part of the process is being done via Web Scraping.

There’s no wonder why data is said to be the new resource of our times, as the data mining is a process used especially by companies in order to convert raw data into powerful insights about consumers and consumer behaviour.

Two main advantages of Data Mining are increased revenues and reduced overall operational costs, by uncovering hidden patterns and connections in large data sets that will be used to make predictions that impact businesses.

At the backbone of Data Acquisition process, there are needed large volumes of IP addresses used by the actors involved in the mining process to be able to scrape the data from different sources.

Let’s take a look at HiQ Labs, a data science company, informed by public data sources, applied to human capital. What it does, is that it curates and leverages this public data to drive employee-positive actions. The company aims to improve HR services through data science and public data acquisition, which is not the property of any online platform on which they are enlisted and can not be legally withheld from any third party.

HiQ Labs managed to win a process last year against Microsoft owned company Linkedin, because their webscrappers were banned on crawling public data.

There are similar platforms which rely on Data Mining for image analysis.

The industry name is called image intelligence with a high potential, targeting clients platforms as Tumblr or Pinterest.

The image acquisition process done via web scraping is facing the same issue.

There are plenty of other examples in the industry. It is also the case with SEO Platforms, especially the Search Engines Rank Trackers Tools.

One of the most important KPI for the companies buying Search Engine Optimization services is Google ranking benchmarking.

The demand for this type of service is high and there are thousands of platforms serving this specific need.

The main issue here is that Google blocks their IP address when they are trying to retrieve public data.

These problems can be solved by renting more IP addresses which is not an easy process for now because there are not enough reliable IP address providers on the market.

IP addresses usage needs are very specific and include:

IP addresses from different geolocation;

Different IP address classes / host names;

IP addresses with a specific speed;

Different usage time for IP addresses (from 5 seconds, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week , 1 month, 1 year);

Accessing IP addresses via different protocols ( Socks, Http );

Competitive pricing on IP address sharing based on all the above filters;

Therefore, a larger number of IP addresses only fixes half of the problem.

The solution for companies like HiQ Labs and thousand others like it are large number of IP addresses and in the meantime, plenty of usage options for them. This leaves us with an enormous need for IP addresses, and a very small offer and an empty void ready to be filled with an IP addresses market.

By creating an IP addresses market, substantially establishing a transparent price depending on the demand and offer of IP addresses, solving the IP addresses accessibility and availability problems, IPSX platform is aiming to become a key building ecosystem for all the fields that require larger or smaller volumes of IP addresses and allowing complex applications from Data Mining to become more accessible and cost effective.

VPN providers

Plenty of websites and televisions impose country restrictions and limit their audience locally due to rights issue. I think everybody experienced the message that some content and video is blocked when they traveled abroad: “This content is not available in your country/location.”

For instance, if someone from another country wanted to watch such targeted programs online or access geo-targeted websites, well, they couldn’t. That’s because the providers use geolocation based on the IP addresses of users devices.

First of all, let’s see how they operate and what improvement could IPSX bring.

What is a VPN

Mainly, a Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) is a service that allows users to connect using their servers.

VPNs allows you to change your physical location, as the user’s IP Address is replaced by the IP Address of the VPN provider, in order to overcome content restrictions. So, you may be in a vacation in exotic islands, but appear to be in Europe or US. This retransmission help users overcome access restrictions imposed by websites, such as location restriction.

The market size right now is around 70 Bln USD and is growing fast with almost 16% every year.

What problems do VPN providers encounter and what’s the solution

Although it sounds perfect, there are some problems that VPN providers are facing. Here is a specific example:

Problem

There are only limited number of IP addresses from GeoLocations where the demand is high, thus making it impossible for some users to access different services (too many users use the same IP address, which results in it being banned, restricted or experience speed loading issues).

This situation is especially happening during sport games. Thousands of people are trying to access a specific video stream for 1–2 hours, but the VPN has only 100 or 200 IP addresses from that specific GeoLocation. This will result in only 200 people being able to see the game while several thousands more VPN clients will be blocked to access the media content.

Solution

The VPN provider should rent for only 2 hours, during the game time, several thousands IP addresses using the API from IPSX. In this way they will be able to provide a high level of service to their clients and will pay only for 2 hours of usage instead of the whole month.

Bassically IPSX will solve the next problems:

Identifying the IP address providers

Establishing the contractual agreement between the IP addresses providers and the client ( VPN service in this case )

Settle the payment acting as an escrow account to guarantee that the IP addresses will be available during whole period of 2 hours

Offer the option to the client to provide feedback on the IP address provider

There is a huge need of remote IP address usage and the success of a project which aims to fix this issue is already proven by the TOR project among end users, which currently has over 2.5 M daily users. However, the main problems of TOR and other similar projects are:

The liabilities , which means you might have a problem when sharing your IP. It is not the case with IPSX , because it will keep record of all the transaction in the blockchain, meaning that you can know which IP address connected to yours, therefore if it is misused, you won’t suffer the consequences.

, which means you might have a problem when sharing your IP. It is not the case with IPSX because it in the blockchain, meaning that you can know which IP address connected to yours, therefore if it is misused, you won’t suffer the consequences. The lack of revenue involved in the IP address sharing / IP address renting processes, which leads to the next problem bandwidth and Speed Quality. And, unlike IPSX, TOR can’t be used by business and service providers.

Why IPSX could benefit all VPN providers

As a VPN provider, by using IPSX platform you would be able to integrate your system with IPSX’s SDK to let your clients choose, in real time, from millions of IP addresses from all around the world.

Also, IPSX makes it possible for all VPN providers to access IP Addresses in a matter of seconds, even for short periods of time and they will pay only for that specific usage time.

Some of the main benefits are easy access and cost efficiency, as you can rent IP Addresses for only as long as you need.

By bringing these significant changes at such a large scale, IPSX platform will help define and revolutionize the IP addresses market and will most certainly stand at the core of the next phase of the web.

For more information and media contact, please use:

IPSX website: https://ip.sx

IPSX Whitepaper: https://ip.sx/dist/Whitepaper-IPSX-05.pdf

Telegram Channel: https://t.me/IPExchange

Contact email: contact@ip.sx

Company info: Geralka Project AG, Bahnhofstrasse 4, 6052, Hergiswil NW, Switzerland. Registration number CHE-103.114.066