With the volatility in TNC price, will people need TNC tokens worth 800$ when starting the node? I may own enough TNC now but maybe not in 2 months. Any fixed amount in TNC?

No, actually as long as the $800 threshold is met when setting up the node it doesn’t ask you to add collateral even if the price falls under $800. In real practice to be a profitable node you need more than $800 and more than just TNC reserve, but to the advantage of biz users, meaning app dev teams, they can set up their own node. For example they can make end users in their geographical proximity to run transactions through their node, while if there are users far away, they leverage the network’s other nodes.

NIFTY has some very important speakers, seems to be great exposure. Any thoughts on the event?

I will be at NIFTY with the WoB team, I have a speech to talk about the blockchain gaming landscape in China and I will try to attract developers. In the coming 6 months we need to see blockchain business that generates real revenue, otherwise the market confidence will not come back — gaming is an easy entry.

Anything you can reveal on the long-term strategy for Trinity?

As we promised, the next step has a lot to do with trading. Trinity is a project we will focus on for at least the next 3–5 years, after that either the tech becomes mature and adopted or obsolete.

Having Trinity on Blockfolio is something we do.

Can trinity protocal act in cooperation with sharding and casper (Ethereum)?

Zilliqa is also doing sharding, we are assessing it but basically any blockchain with a latency will need a 2nd layer channel network, even if the latency is like 1 second. Also EOS and Ontology’s high throughput ability remains doubtful under heavy traffic and complicated network environment, we will have to wait and see.