Candidate Name: DappPub

For the time being, DappPub ranks No. 26 (elected) in the IOST candidate vote list with 5,712,122 votes.

Candidate introduction:

The DappPub development team is currently working on the construction of DApp eco- related protocols and solutions on blockchains, hoping to make full use of the blockchain technology to achieve the goal of “Unleashing the power of DApps”. The company is currently registered in Singapore and its members are mainly from top-tier IT companies previously. The team has extensive experience in developing DApps on permission-less chains. It has released a number of well-known blockchain-powered eco-protocols and solutions. It also has relevant experience in running EOS & BOS nodes, user communities, and developer communities as well.

Below after is IOST’s interview with DappPub:

Q: What kind of “intimate relationship” is DappPub with IOST? Is there any historical story?

A: The DappPub team is currently engaged in constructing blockchain eco-related protocols and solutions, hoping to use the blockchain technology to “unleash the power of DApps” .

As a well-known development team in the industry, DappPub has launched many DApps on EOS in the year of 2018. We are fully aware that a good permission-less chain is of criti- cal importance for DApp developers. Permission-less chains have gone through fierce competition through 2017 & 2018. IOST is an star project in 2018. We have been close- ly watching the project updates and development progress on Github and other social media channels.

At the same time, we are also the early holders of IOST, and currently hold a consider- able amount of IOST, which makes us one of the 1st batch of elected partners on the first day when the IOST partner election campaign begins

Q: Why did you join the IOST Partner Program?

A: We agree with IOST’s idea of “rewarding people who continue to do good things in the network” and regard it as very good incentives for all participants in the ecology.

Besides, IOST team is a man of action. In 2018 & 2019, many permission-less chain projects get lost from their original roadmaps. During the bear market in 2018, many shiny projects gradually disappeared. But we notice that IOST team has been making progress and advancing steadily, iterating the test networks and carrying out the main network quickly. Project and technology weekly reports are disclosed to the community every one or two week as planned. Plus, the team lock-up plan also gives great confidence to the community.

All of these has built a good foundation of trust, making us choose to join the IOST partner program, and we are willing to seek for more cooperation with IOST to reach a multi-party win-win situation among IOST, DApp developers, community users and other parties in the ecology.

Q: How will you work with IOST later?

A: In the past few months, DappPub has released a number of protocols and solutions (“account registration via transfer protocol”, “bancor-based pratically enhanced utility token protocol”, “open-sourced random number solution”, “predictive market protocol”, “CPU rental protocol” , “iBank financial management protocol”, etc.)

We have been running our own EOS and BOS nodes as well and will consider connect- ing and amplifying the value among different blockchain networks from our perspective. Although the consensus mechanism and economic model of different chains are different, there are some similarities among them.

For example, we’ve noticed that the IOST network also has some similar concepts such as accounts and resource staking. We have developed an account registration protocol before, which implements the “account registration via transfer” solution and encapsulates a large number of technical details by supporting multiple token and Paypal transfer to create accounts automatically. It has accumulated a large number of seed users and helped establishing the corresponding user community in the early stage. With the development experience accumulated in the industry, DappPub will continue to dig into the blockchain technology, encapsulate technical details, and migrate past experience into the IOST blockchain network to lower the entry barrier for ordinary users.

In summary, DappPub can cooperate with IOST in various aspects such as DApp development, user community & developer community building, and user education, etc.

Q: How to leverage your advantage and get more votes?

A: As a DApp development team, the biggest advantage is in the tech experience. According to the IOST incentive system, it is foreseeable that DApp development teams will play a vital role in the entire ecology. We believe that in the process of “voting with their feet”, users will spontaneously vote for these “high contribution” partners who can bring more benefits to them.

Being a KOL, DappPub will also keep promoting in our user community and developer community to get more support for ourselves. For instance, we’ve developed an EOS financial product (iBank) which has helped our users earn money by staking EOS for CPU resource borrowers. In the same way, we will also help give our supporters extra incentives to achieve a win-win situation.

Q: Is there an incentive plan or tdividends for IOST voters’ benefits ?

A: Yes, we have been working on designing an incentive plan and extra dividends for our voters. We are working on how to reward our supporters with extra incentives to achieve a win-win situation.

Being one of the first elected partners, we’ve carefully studied IOST’s current partner program plan and rules and have kept good communication with the IOST team. For all involved voters and node partners, the final reward may be related with the staked coin * day, the IOST foundation evaluation method and cycle, and other details like unstaking process and corresponding interests. At present, we are also waiting for IOST team to release more relevant details of the “contribution reward” rules to help us calculate our operating costs precisely so as to bring more efficient benefits to our supporters.

As for our previous product “iBank”, we have brought promising benefits to our users through accurate calculations and efficient resource scheduling model. We are confident to build products such as “iBank” and “resource leasing” on IOST to provide better services and benefits for our users.

Q: After the election, what is your roadmap and marketing plan?

A: As a DApp team, first of all, we will choose to run an IOST node server ourselves.

From our previous experience, we will encounter various problems running a node server ourselves. In the process of solving these problems, we will have a deeper understanding of smart contract development and user behavior and requirement.

We are currently reading the IOST developer documentation. There is no doubt that our marketing plan will also be deeply integrated with DappPub’s DApps. We have noticed that being an IOST partner, in addition to the “Partner Reward”, there is a corresponding “User Invitation Reward”, which can obtain 10%-30% of the user’s network usage fee. Our “account registration via transfer” protocol on EOS has a similar design and implementation. Our marketing plan will also consider it as an entry point and the specific implementation plan will be refined after the official rules are determined.

Q: DappPub has released several DApps on the EOS blockchain, such as iBank, iGuess, FairDice, etc. Can you share some successful experiences with us?

A: DappPub team also established its own developer community during the development process. During the process of crossing the river, we shared a lot of development experience and open-sourced smart contract code with the community developers, and gathered a group of excellent developers ever since.

As for the DApp development, you can’t be too prudent to pay attention to your code in terms of the contract security and risk control. A small leak will sink a great ship. We have also done some sharing before on our social media. Whoever is interested in this part can take a deeper look at our Medium and Bihu posts.

Q: DappPub’s successful DApp development experience is worth learning. Can you offer education to the IOST community in the future?

A: Yes, we have had good communication with our user community and developer community in the past 2018. We have also been invited to several offline Meetup, sharing session and salon events. We’ve shared multiple open-sourced contract protocols and solutions on Github and other social media such as Bihu and Medium, which attracted many users and developers in our community.

For example, “FairDice” is the first open-sourced, rig-resistant and verifiably fair random number solution on EOS (Github Star:191, Fork:101). It is referenced by many mainstream EOS games and used as the underlying smart contracts in many well-known Dice projects, leading to the 2018 game mining boom after that.

We believe that we can also offer education and share our experience with users and developers online and offline after the IOST main net is released. DappPub will also work with community developers to migrate previous experience onto the IOST network to continue contributing safe and high quality DApps for the ecology.

Q: Is there a plan to develop DApps on IOST?

A: Yes, we are currently learning the IOST developer documentation.

DappPub has launched a number of well-known protocols and solutions in the past 2018(“account registration via transfer protocol”, “bancor-based pratically enhanced utility token protocol”, “open-sourced random number solution”, “predictive market protocol”, “CPU rental protocol” , “iBank financial management protocol”, etc). These protocols and solutions will also be the first batch of DApps that we consider implementing on IOST.

For example, “iBank” is the pioneer of the CPU resource leasing business in the EOS ecosystem. It brings long-term token holders and short-term resource leasing users together and provide the most secure and fast lending service for between them. With the rich development experience and user communities formed earlier, DappPub team is confident to build the IOST version of “iBank” and achieve multi-part win-win cooperation in the DApp ecosystem.

Q: What do you want to say to the token holders?

A: Our partner declaration is “Unleashing the power of DApps”, which is highly compatible with IOST’s philosophy — “Unleashing the power of blockchain”.

We are fully engaged in the blockchain and believe in the power of the economic cycle, believe in making friends with time, and believe that DappPub team will play a very important role in the IOST ecosystem in the future.