1.Executive Summary

- Sharder Protocol is the distributed storage protocol developed by Sharder Foundation, which was established in Singapore.

- Sharder Protocol realized the optimization or innovation in cross-chain deployment, multiple-chain architecture, sharing storage economy, contribution proof, data privacy, data credential, and mining.

- Sharder Public Chain is the first Sharder-Pool that deploys Sharder Protocol. It has all the characteristics of Sharder Protocol and works as the anchoring network in Sharder multiple-chain ecosystem. There are 4 applications operating on Sharder Public Chain — Bean Cloud, Sharder Matrix, Sharder Brain, and One Fair.

- Sharder will make the global blockchain storage service provider without owing any hard disc, and establish the future blockchain ecosystem that comprises of data generation, data storage, data valuation and data circulation. The ownership of data will be guaranteed, the value of data will be discovered, and the data will no longer lie idle.

2. Development Progress

- Multiple languages English business white paper and English website are available, and English technical white paper is being translated.

- Official website The Sharder official website is under continuous iteration to prepare for the crowdsale.

- Sharder Chain Sharder Public Chain has been refactor based on Conchchain and will work as the fundamental public chain for Bean Cloud. It is expected that the Sharder block browser will be available in the Beta of April.

- Bean Cloud Bean Cloud operates on Sharder Public Chain, stores data on the distributed network that deploys Sharder Protocol, and provides data proof and security service. The R&D of Bean Cloud v1.0 has completed and Alpha will be in late February.

- Github sharder-chain, sharder.org, sharder-watcher, kad-network has been public on Github

3. Sharder Community

- China team 2 specialists joined the China team and take charge of the maintenance of social media. Our team is recruiting blockchain engineer and product manager.

- Global community Blockchain expert, founder and CEO of NGO-Xchang, Cameron Nelson joined our global community. Galaxy eSolutions is in partenrship with Sharder and will help establish and maintain the Hong Kong and Australia communities.

- Live broadcast Sharder team gave live broadcast on yizhibo.com at 9:00 p.m. Jan. 29, and the CEO/CTO of Sharder — Ben explained the Sharder protocol and ecosystem to the audience. There will be more live broadcasts in the future to update you with the program.

- Official community The community on Sharder official website is built on RocketChat and for the non-instant communication about Sharder.

- Telegram group As of 12:00 UTC Feb. 3, 2018, the members of our telegram group reached 873, from only dozens on Jan. 28. Most of the members are from the U.S., Europe and Russia. We therefore added a specialist for telegram maintenance. The FAQ are about cross-chain and multiple-chain architecture, prover role, credential mechanism, and Sharder miners, etc.

4. Marketing and Partnership

- NGO-Xchange is the first blockchain platform solving the biggest financial and operational problems faced by the nonprofit community, and will be launched in May. Sharder will closely cooperate and consult with NGO-Xchange. http://www.ngoxchange.com/

- Galaxy eSolutions (GES) is a global eCommerce ecosystem with fast growth and real traction, reaching near 20M USD sales within its first year of operation. Its vision is to fully integrate blockchain and evolve into a hybrid ecosystem with marketplace platform, so as to resolve the several pain points in the multi-billion preowned and refurbished electronics industry. The Co-founder and CEO of GES, Mr. Yuen Wong visited Sharder China office and communicated with the team in February. https://galaxy-esolutions.com/

- Taiyun Tech is one of the earliest practitioners and enterprise-class solution provider in blockchain technology. The CTO of Taiyun Tech, Mr. Chao Cheng visited Sharder China office and communicated with the team in February.

- Global blockchain capital many global investors, including venture capitals from counties such as the U.S., Canada, UK, Israel, South Korea are interested in Sharder and have been talking with our team.

5. Token Sale

- Presale started from 0:00 UTC Jan. 29, 2018 and reached the hard cap on Jan. 30, 2018. Thanks to the global investors for your support and trust.

- Token return As the minimum contribution is 1 ETH, the 21 contributions that were less than 1 ETH have been returned to the investors.

- Crowdsale starts 0:00 UTC Feb. 23, 2018 and lasts until 0:00 UTC Mar. 23, 2018.

Follow us

Official Website https://sharder.org

Sharder Community https://community.sharder.org

Telegram https://t.me/sharder_talk

Twitter @SharderChain

Github https://github.com/Sharders