Argonaut Toolkit

Box of modular components to help empower decentralized governance using the holacratic process.

Technology — Solidity, Qtum, Angular, Typescript

The toolkit consists of a series of modular systems with the goal that they

can be deployed by anyone in any selection they see fit.



First, Argonaut tackles the problem of on-chain governance transactions by bundling them off-chain using QtumX. Argonaut hosts a PoA governance chain restricted to deployment of governance contracts. Because the actions of these contracts are limited in scope, Argonaut doesn’t to need to charge per computation but instead can focus on alternative pricing models.



Second, Argonaut will “anchor” the QtumX chain to the mainnet chain using a transfer gateway. This gateway allows for any arbitrary token to be tethered on Qtum’s mainnet and transferred to the sidechain as necessary. This allows increased safety in securing funds on Qtum mainnet while using them as needed on the sidechain. Should the sidechain fork, be under attack, etc the record of your tokens will remain secured by the mainnet. To facilitate the transfer between these two chains there’s a system of “Money Exchanger” nodejs services anyone can run on their machine to provide liquidity between the two chains by running both of them simultaneously and watching for events.



Third, Argonaut will build off the amazing work the ENS team has been doing in distributed name services by deploying a namehash resolver for user identity. By taking advantage of a self deployed ENS system, Argonaut can use their own TLD (‘.arg’) and create resolver libraries for all our chapters to use. All members can be referenced using the role.chaptername.organization.arg pattern (and/or member.chaptername.arg if they don’t hold a position of power in their chapter), and any chapter can be referenced using the chaptername.organization.arg pattern. This allows members to move in/out of roles and for chapters to evolve their governance models and migrate contracts while still allowing for dynamic referencing for identity management.

Fourth, Argonaut provides a set of standard Holacratic chapter contracts that help define example structures for organizations. For example, a organization contract may contain a registry of roles, which may in turn be assigned to a list of user identities. Having templates for these kinds of basic contracts will help organizations quickly adjust and deploy their own holacratic organization while defining and understanding what it means to be a holacratic organization.

Fifth, Argonaut introduces the idea of a “Taxable Token” which is pegged in price to the native token. For example, if 1 Qtum equals 100 Tokens, then 1 token would always be redeemable for 0.01 Qtum. What sets this apart from a traditional wrapper token is that a tax rate is usually in effect during minting, and X% of the tokens created from the buyer’s Qtum are actually sent to that community’s administrative fund. This creates very interesting economics models that are out of scope of this business plan but will be explored later.

L2QQ

L2 is the multichain exchange based on layer 2 technology of both the QTUM and Ethereum blockchains.

Technology — layer 2 state channels, oracles, solidity, js/ts, web3.js, qweb3.js, node.js, react, swift

L2 exchange is an exchange based on the layer2 technology with cross chain support across ETH and QTUM.

This solves the liquidity and trading problems of DEXs while keeping traders with maximum security.

L2 exchange guarantees the safety of deposits for traders and keeps the best from centralized exchanges:

Support of multiple blockchains(QTUM&QRC20 and ETH&ERC20)

Trustless deposits in each blockchain

Massive TPs, and speed of order placement and execution

Latency(< 50ms)

Low cost (technically possible cost = 0)

Easy implement derivative instruments

User-friendly UX (after pairing wallets the workflow is the same as binance)

Binance comparable API(can use existing trading bots with minimal improvements)

Accessibility(USDT stable coin integration)

Complete detailed description of the project can be found here: https://goo.gl/EdY36d

Blocksynx

Exchange Data and Photo with Tokens

Technology —

Qtum — Solidity (ERC20 contract, SimpleGetSet contract for IPFS

registration and reward), truffle, solar, qtum daemon. node.js — qtumjs, ethereumjs-abi, base58check, express, ipfs-api Docker — running ipfs node and a customized qtum images IPFS backend integration via ipfs client — storing photos and data iOS — MVVMC (Architecture), CoreBitcoin (Bitcoin toolkit for Objective-C), AFNetworking (RESTFul HTTP APIs), MTBBarcodeScanner (QR-Code/Barcode scanner), SVProgressHUD (Custom Loader)

Blocksynx enables users to share and exchange photos without a middleman or 3rd party via Qtum smart contracts and QRC20 token. QRC20 tokens are conveyed as an instrument in a sales transaction (utility token) for exchanging Photos.

User A upload a photo and will gain some reward by sharing this photo User B would like to access a photo from a user (e.g. User A) and User B will pay tokens to access User’s photo (e.g. pay token to User A).

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