Welcome to the ninth edition of the Expanse Newsletter for 2017. This publication is a bi-monthly newsletter issued on the 1st and 15th of each month to share happenings within our community. Keep in mind that breaking news can come at any time, but the Expanse Newsletter is a great overview of progress, news, and our current focus.



EXPANSE COLLISION TECH CONFERENCE LIVE PRESENTATION

Expanse was selected as an Alpha Startup for the Collision Tech Conference in New Orleans, May 2-4, and we will be exhibiting on the first day! There are an estimated 20 thousand attendees. The ticket price is around 1000.00 USD each, so this is a very big event and a pivotal moment in the evolution of Expanse. We have attended and sponsored one prior Blockchain Conference, but now is the time for Expanse to truly shine. Co-founder Christopher Franko will demonstrate our real-world dApps, Votelock™ and Borderless, to new and influential people in the world of technology and investing.

There will be lots of as-it-happens news, along with photos and updates, coming from the Expanse exhibit booth at the conference. What can be shared now is that the Expanse Team is meeting with three companies and potential investors during the time at the conference. There will be more information about those meetings forthcoming once more details can be shared publicly. The Collision Tech Conference will have many big time investors, visionaries, business leaders, and thousands of other companies, expanding the value and visibility of Expanse to an audience eager to get involved in our Blockchain Technology.

EXPANSE NEWS INTRO VIDEO





WHY CHOOSE EXPANSE?

Expanse is the first stable alternative public Ethereum chain. There are key differences from Ethereum and unique dApps designed beyond just speculation and targeted at mass adoption and real-world use. For example, Borderless Technology is a decentralized governance system being built on Expanse that can provide Borderless Citizenship ID, Marriage, A Web of Trust, Nation Creation, Public Notary, and Asset Registry. Votelock™ is another Expanse dApp focused on implementing and perfecting blockchain-based voting systems. It can work in tandem with Borderless Tech and in any system where blockchain-based immutable voting and record keeping are greatly needed.

Smart contracts cost 1/50th as much to run as Ethereum, making Expanse practical to use as a dApp platform. The design is highly efficient with less than .05% uncles per 1000 blocks compared to over 8% with Ethereum. The Expanse Bonds System (EBS) is the first to use smart contracts as simulated staking granting rewards for holding Expanse (EXP) – like a time-locked savings account – almost like a Masternode that you do not even have to leave a computer running to gain rewards from. Lastly, Expanse has a dedicated team and advisors, a marketing team in China, and a very low entry price and market cap with great potential to grow as it incentivizes holding with the EBS system.

EXPANSE NOW EXCHANGED DIRECTLY FOR CHINESE YUAN (CNY)

We are thrilled to announce that our Chinese Ambassador, Soopnon, and his marketing team in China have helped to land Expanse on a Chinese exchange! Also of great interest, this exchange allows direct purchases of (EXP) with Chinese Yuan (CNY). So now with China buying Expanse directly with fiat, the potential for growth is something not to dismiss lightly. Soopnon and his team are long-term partners with Expanse and will continue to market Expanse in China and work on getting us on more Chinese Exchanges. This will expand our market cap, and grow our project to a massive new audience. Additionally, he is working directly with James Clayton, the Expanse community manager, and co-founder, to help translate key information that the crypto market of China is likely to find highly attractive.

http://www.coinvc.com/market/trade/exp

LIMITING TOTAL EXPANSE ISSUED IN THE FUTURE WITH VOTELOCK CONSENSUS

One concern many traders and investors have in cryptocurrency is the concept of infinite tokens issued over time, while this is not real unless a crypto lasts for infinity, this is still a very real way that people think about total supply of tokens and coins. Christopher Franko and James Clayton, the original founders, propose that we limit the total supply of Expanse and put a cap on it in 80 years. This will not change inflation or impact utility in the slightest bit, this is not about halving block rewards, simply capping them 80 years from now. The only thing this would change is the monetary policy and create more scarcity for Expanse.

This is a trivial change that we can easily put on Testnet and implement with a safe soft fork. However, this is a change that we feel is important the community vote on, so this will be an ideal way to test out the new Votelock technology of Expanse. The community will vote on this proposal in the future, and if approved, we will implement the soft fork and change the monetary policy to be more limited in the long run, without having any negative impact on utility. Even in 80 years, Expanse is divisible and the ecosystem could work just fine this way.

At block 42,000,000 the EXP block reward will go to 0. (If approved)

That’s about 80 years from now

About 350m EXP total Expanse to exist at block 42,000,000.

MAJOR EXPANSE BOND SYSTEM (EBS) UPDATE

The update to EBS and to the latest ETH protocol is complete. A vastly improved block explorer, to put it mildy, with many options will release shortly, (Gander) and a new much easier to use Expanse Bonds dApp should release today making it easy to get involved with the Expanse Bonds System.





James Clayton wrote an article on his personal crypto website detailing the advantages of the EBS system. Check it out if you are interested:

http://www.cryptocollectorsclub.com/the–ebs–expanse-bonds-advantage.html

All the main nodes to GEXP 1.6.0-beta-1. Everyone should have updated their nodes at block 600,000 because we have upgraded to the latest ETH protocols.

https://github.com/expanse-org/go-expanse/releases/tag/v1.6.0-beta.1









Why did we choose to base Expanse on Ethereum instead of building projects or ICOs on it instead? The main reason is simply that it allows us total creative freedom and the ability to experiment with the amazing open source code from the Ethereum team. Rather than just copying Ethereum like some and “making better decisions,” we wanted to try different experiments with the code, creating something truly unique while having total compatibility for dApps. This allows Ethereum dApps to be ported to Expanse and Expanse dApps to be ported to Ethereum, growing the ecosystem in a respectful, synergistic way.

Gavin Wood of Ethereum built our first version of Parity, and we greatly respect the team and the project they built. Expanse, by the way, is the original first surviving fork of Ethereum. From the start, we created a custom difficulty algorithm and block timing design to have minimal orphans and a more resistant blockchain at lower hash power than Ethereum. Other early forks did not plan ahead and have not survived using Ethereum as their core code. (We were the second fork of Ethereum; the first is now based on Lisk.)

DOWNLOAD THE EXPANSE BOND SYSTEM (EBS)

https://github.com/expanse-org/bond-dapp/releases

UPDATED EXPANSE BOND GUIDE

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CbUuUSwHiSDwbKe0iYHgIDTGw1xHN5a98NvYHcooIX4/pub

HOW TO BUY BONDS USING MIST AND THE BOND DAPP

http://forum.expanse.tech/topic/136/how-to-buy-bonds-using-mist-and-the-bond-dapp

HOW TO BUY EXPANSE BONDS USING PARITY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4IgMSwcum8&feature=share

HOW TO USE THE EBS CONTRACT ON MIST:EXP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4OiZJo4n5o

EXPANSE SLACK

If you have not already joined the Expanse Slack, please do so. Take advantage of the friendly community of over 1900 people. This is the best place for providing feedback on developments like the new EBS. You can also ask the Expanse team and community questions directly.

http://slack.expanse.tech/

LINKEDIN

We have recently launched our Expanse.Tech Linkedin page. Be sure to follow Expanse on Linkedin. Thank you in advance! Additionally, our lead marketing director, Marcia, is now taking lead at expanding and improving our Linkedin presence, as she is the most experienced with fortune 500 companies and Linkedin standards.

https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/16212682/

LIST OF CURRENT PARTNERSHIPS

This is a list of negotiated Expanse.Tech Partnerships. Partnerships are formed when the various companies agree on the term “Partnership,” usually in exchange for promotions and additional visibility in the world of Blockchain, or some type of mutually beneficial relationship.

http://www.hongico.com/portal.php

https://www.ctl.io/blog/post/blockchain-automation-on-clc/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-update-7/

https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/startup/profile.aspx?startup=693057

https://changelly.com/exchange/BTC/EXP/1?ref_id=expanse

http://chankura.com

https://coinomi.com/

INTERLEDGER PROTOCOL OF RIPPLE XRP

Expanse is one of the first Alternative Blockchain projects to join ILP, Interledger protocol of Ripple. There are a few “Internet of Blockchain” projects out there, but this is perhaps the most promising of them all. Expanse is staying ahead of the curve and ready, just in case this works out and is a success. It is an open source project and anyone can join. The Expanse team was one of the first to sign up to be a part of it back in September 2016.





SHOPPING WITH EXPANSE MADE EASY BY COINPAYMENTS

You can shop at many merchants right now using the Coinpayments Platform. We are one of the Alternative Tokens listed on Coinpayments, and they are a reliable trustworthy payment provider that works much like Bitpay does for Bitcoin.

https://www.coinpayments.net/







EXPANSE SLACK

If you have not already joined the Expanse Slack, please do so. Take advantage of the friendly community of over 2300 people. This is the best place for providing feedback on developments like the new EBS. You can also ask the Expanse team and community questions directly.

http://slack.expanse.tech/

LINKEDIN

We have recently launched our Expanse.Tech Linkedin page. Be sure to follow Expanse on Linkedin. Thank you in advance! Additionally, our lead marketing director, Marcia, is now taking lead at expanding and improving our LInkedin presence, as she is the most experienced with fortune 500 companies and Linkedin standards.

https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/16212682/

EXPANSE DISCORD

We recently launched Expanse on Discord, Discord is a communication system much like Slack, but Discord normally has been used by gamers. As it is feature rich a lot of platforms are now offering Discord as well as Slack, so we are also offering it. So you can now join and follow Expanse on Discord instead of, or, as well as on Slack

https://discord.gg/PYGXjmh

EXPANSE TELEGRAM

If you prefer the Telegram platform you can follow and chat about Expanse here.

https://t.me/ExpanseTech

TOKENLAB TELEGRAM

This is the channel for Tokenlab on Telegram

https://t.me/tokenlab

INTERLEDGER PROTOCOL OF RIPPLE XRP

Expanse is one of the first Alternative Blockchain projects to join ILP, Interledger protocol of Ripple. There are a few “Internet of Blockchain” projects out there, but this is perhaps the most promising of them all. Expanse is staying ahead of the curve and ready, just in case this works out and is a success. It is an open source project and anyone can join. The Expanse team was one of the first to sign up to be a part of it back in September 2016.

SHOPPING WITH EXPANSE MADE EASY BY COINPAYMENTS

You can shop at many merchants right now using the Coinpayments Platform. We are one of the Alternative Tokens listed on Coinpayments, and they are a reliable trustworthy payment provider that works much like Bitpay does for Bitcoin.

https://www.coinpayments.net/

DOWNLOAD BORDERLESS TECH ALPHA PREVIEW

Current features include Marriages, Status updates, Web Of Trust, Notary, Citizenship, and many more features on the way soon!

https://github.com/borderlesstech/borderless-dapp/releases/

TOKENLAB WHITE PAPER

http://www.borderlesscorp.com/docs/tokenlab-whitepaper.pdf

EXPANSE WHITE PAPER

http://www.expanse.tech/docs/whitepaper.pdf

BORDERLESS WHITE PAPER

http://www.borderless.tech/docs/BorderlessWhitepaper.pdf

ADDITIONAL EXPANSE LINKS

http://blog.expanse.tech/

http://www.expanse.tech/

http://www.borderless.tech/

http://www.borderlesscorp.com/

http://www.borderlesscharity.org/

http://forum.expanse.tech/

http://slack.expanse.tech/

https://twitter.com/expanseofficial

http://www.exp.life/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpanseOfficial/

https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/16212682/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/expanseofficial/

https://www.facebook.com/ExpanseTech/

VIDEOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dzhbDCXyQM&feature=youtu.be&a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R2EK1Cnink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWPeWQrnYVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyiJOCDUUcY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFzA7w7FScc

POOLS

https://exp.suprnova.cc

http://exp.digger.ws

http://dwarfpool.com/exp

http://clona.ru:8083

http://exp.minandoando.com/

http://exp.hashpower.farm/#/

http://exp.hodlpool.com

http://expanse.ftlpool.com/#/



