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Herorats Dapp developer IOST QED talks on Herorat game and how it helps fund charity. He also talked extensively on IOST Blockchain and what makes it the best Chain to develop a Decentralized Application. Here is a full detail of the interview.

Q: First, can we have an introduction and a brief history of IOST Q.E.D? How did the nickname IOST Q.E.D come about? What was the reason you became a programmer?

A: Q.E.D. stands for Question Every Deduction, which means, “Let’s approach everything that happens in blockchain with even the least obvious.”

Q: You launched Herorats a couple of weeks ago, can you give us an update?

A: Herorats is being updated almost every day. We use data analytics tools such as mixpanel and google analytics to update based on data gathered, and we’ve recently improved UX to make it easier for users to enjoy games.

In addition, we are working on tokenizing the featured mice in the Herorats game. It’s similar to Ethereum’s CryptoKitties that are generally known to a lot. In addition, we are using IRC721 Standard to prepare an NFT market for easy exchange and sale of these NFTs within the IOST ecosystem.

Finally, there will be a new play mode called “The Rivally.” It’s kind of like a Guild War, and the teaser image will be released soon.

Q: Your game, Herorats, tell us about hero rats in real life? What role do they serve?

A: The name Herorats is actually what they call the rat they are raising at the APOPO Foundation, which is working with us. The rat’s official name is African Pouched Rat, whose unique characteristic is to hide food deep in the ground and come and eat it whenever they are hungry later. The APOPO Foundation used these rats traits to train them to find landmines buried under the ground, and the results were successful. In fact, nine countries — Mozambique, Tanzania, Cambodia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Colombia, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand — are using Herorats to remove landmines. With this method, Mozambique removed 200,000 landmines from 21 million square meters and Cambodia from 15 million square meters to 45,000 square meters. Moreover, the most attractive thing here is that rats do not explode when they climb onto landmines because of their lightweight.

Q: The game is played with IOST only, is part of that donated to the charity?

A: There is an account called ‘apopo’ in IOST. And there is a code within the game’s contract that automatically sends a certain amount of donation to this account when playing the game. You may be the first to integrate IOST or any blockchain game with PayPal, can you talk about that process? As many people agree, there are far more users in the world who don’t know Crypto than Crypto users. After recommending games to acquaintances, the feedback that usually comes back was that the payment was too complicated. Because of this, we created a system that received Fiat payments, which was familiar to ordinary users, and that was how Paypal was linked.

The process eventually began by asking, “Should we only support Crypto payments just because it’s a DApp?”.

Q: Who created the artwork and music that is used in the game?

A: The person who made Artwork is the designer of our team. The designer has a high understanding of blockchain technology because he majored in engineering together. He is also a blockchain UX expert who has studied convincing general users of the blockchain’s unfamiliar UI, having made many blockchain-related products such as cryptocurrency exchanges, IDE and wallets since 2017. The person who produced the music, surprisingly, is a developer working for a major game company in South Korea. His hobby is making music, and while he’s actually eating, he makes music with his iPad, and all the music that he has created is great. He is a genius.

Q: What is the reception of the game players?

A: Game players are divided into “Practice Mode” players and “Prize Mode” players. The “Prize Mode” player pays the IOST for each play, which is then buried on the map. As players play more and more, entrance fees accumulate, and IOST builds up on the map. When a user clears the map, he or she can earn a portion of the map as prize money, part of it will be donated to the APOPO Foundation, and the rest will be redistributed to the map for the next round. In other words, players can expect more revenue with a basic admission fee. “Practice Mode” players can also earn prize money, with a certain portion donated, but the amount is much smaller than the “Prize Mode”.

Q: Can you give us a brief overview of the gameplay?

A: It’s just like the minesweeper game we played on Windows once when we were kids.

Click all areas of the map to clear them, avoiding the minefield. For users who have not tried Minesweeper, detailed tutorials are available on the game site.

Q: What are some of the best features of developing on the IOST blockchain?

A: The most attractive thing is that it is able to develop Smart Contracts through JavaScript.

Other than that, short block time, resource costs can be predictable.

Q: What are the biggest challenges of developing on the IOST blockchain?

A: In addition to IOST, I have also developed smart contracts on a blockchain platform such as Ethereum and TRON. In Ethereum’s case, too slow block time, always consumed gas fee was the most inconvenient.

TRON was better than Ethereum, but the fact that block time was three seconds was also slightly inconvenient. Also, the language of Solidity is still uncomfortable. However, the above difficulties have never been experienced while developing a smart contract on the IOST platform.

Q: Do you have companies backing up the project with funds?

A: We set up a company called “Second Impact” to make blockchain products in more earnest, and since it has not been established for less than a month, we are not yet sponsored by the company.

Q: If you were to predict the future, what will the next wave of dApps be?

A: A game that emphasizes the nature of blockchain is likely to draw attention. While many people in the blockchain industry talk about “Transparency” and “Value Transfer”, I don’t think any product has yet presented the properties in a proper way to show the value of blockchain to the public.

Q: What other things do you want the IOST community to know about?

A: Many IOST investors, mostly in telegrams, seem to be skeptical about when prices go up and whether IOST is really a good platform. I can’t give a definite answer to this because I can’t predict the future, but what I can say as a blockchain developer is the easiest and most convenient of all existing blockchain platforms to create.

Mainly IOST is compared to Ethereum, EOS, and TRON, so to speak of the inconvenience with each platform, Ethereum, as everyone knows, must pay a very small fee, even if the activity is a very trivial activity in the blockchain.

In a nutshell, suppose Twitter is on the Ethereum platform, and every time you press the “Tweet” button on Twitter, you have to pay an inexpensive but intrusive fee when you press the “Like” button.

Also, to develop Ethereum’s Smart Contract, it must be developed in the language of “Solidity,” which is not only inconvenient to develop, but there are not so many developers familiar with the language.

EOS develops Smart Contract in the language “C++”. Nor is this commonly used language among developers.

TRON also develops Smart Contracts in the language of “Solidity.” The same language as Ethereum and the better part is that Ethereum has a block time of 15 seconds, whereas TRON is only 3 seconds. What this means is that after I press the “Like” button, “Like” is recorded three seconds later, no matter how fast. (Ethereum is 15 seconds later at the earliest.)

IOST develops Smart Contract in the language of “Javascript.” Developers who use Javascript language are more than 50% of all developers and are constantly developing, and are most comfortable to use. Also, IOST’s block time is about 0.5 seconds. To continue with the example of the “Like” button, you can understand that as soon as you click it, “Like” is recorded.

Also, unlike Ethereum, IOST is not an architecture that pays a small fee for any action. In the case of IOST, users do not have to pay separately because staking a certain amount of IOST continues to provide fees for transactions, such as the game’s Mana Point. As it is now, I think IOST is the platform that is more likely to attract developers in the future.

Q: Your projection of IOST in this Q3?

A: I heard in Q3 that IOST is going to launch a developer Bounty program.

In Q1, there was also a developer bounty program, which made many products not long after launching the main net and provided a development ecosystem.

IOST-Q.E.D. also participated in Q1’s developer bounty program to create IOST’s Chrome-Extension wallet, iWallet.

Q3’s Bounty program is also likely to involve many developers to create a development ecosystem, many DApp.

You can play Herorats on https://herorats.io/

ICAC is the core governance community of IOST, which is initiated by Node Pacific (IOST Pacific). In order to make the majority of the community better understand the IOST nodes, the ICAC community formally launched the IOST node partners’ interview.

On August 28, 2019, the ICAC community invited IOST World-Danny to share their node’s story.

1. How did you get involved with IOST? Why do you choose to be an IOST node?

100&100 Venture Capital has invested in 30 to 40 well-known projects since 2017 and has recorded high returns from more than 90% of the investment portfolio. While many of the popular crypto funds suffered in this historic bear market, we reported more than 1,000% ROI. Some of our investment projects include ICON, Wanchain, Gifto, Zilliqa, Cindicator, Airbloc, Phantasma, Nucleus Vision, Contents Box, and Contents Protocol.

In 2019, the first choice for 100&100 Venture Capital was to invest in the value of IOST. Rather than just acting as a Servi node, it’s about having a broader perspective and helping you reach the goals of the IOST team and the management team more effectively. That’s because we thought we’d make 100&100 Venture Capital even more valuable, and we’d be able to achieve another revenue-generating goal.

2. What does IOST World mainly do? Can you introduce it to community users?

Before the introduction of the IOST election system, 100&100 has invested heavily in IOST with huge capital. As a result, IOST World became the foundation of Korea’s largest node among IOST nodes, and furthermore, it served as a reliable node operation promise for many voters.

In the early days of the election, when many voters were struggling because they did not know how to participate in the IOST vote, to provide quality information, we operated Kakao Talk and Telegram channels.

Also, voters didn’t know much about concepts such as Staking and Unstaking, what is Proof of Believability(PoB), etc. For this reason, we run a community and blog for IOST nodes and voters, informing IOST easily and simply from the voter’s point of view, and conveying information about IOST.

In Korea, IOST World’s voting method and OTP setting method, etc. are used like textbooks. In the first quarter, we focused on gathering a large number of voters, and from the second quarter, we were able to recruit voters and providing IOST information clearly and quickly so that there’s no harm to the voters.

3. In the second quarter of 2019, IOST World won the Tier 2 reward. Can you briefly tell us what you have done?

IOST World has been active in three different activities in the second quarter of this year.

First, IOST was introduced through internal and external activities. Typically, when meeting with other projects or investment companies, IOST introductions and information were shared externally to raise awareness that IOST is a good project.

Second, we continued to share information about elections and IOSTs on our blog. Voters who are voting for the first time are not familiar with voting and IOST information. We have made it easy for IOST holders to gain easy access to the election, including a brief and easy way to vote for IOST holders and prospective voters, and a way to create IWallet, and we have continuously made IOST’s new announcements known.

Third, we run SNS(KakaoTalk, Telegram) 24 hours to conduct Q&A with voters or answer questions related to voting and IOST in real time. We helped you participate in the event by continuously announcing the events(Jimmy AMA, Terry AMA) that are taking place at IOST. In addition, we run 1:1 conversation together to directly solve various issues such as IOST deposits, Redeem issues, OTP issues, and gave voters faith and trust.

4. What contribution will be made to the whole IOST ecology? If you have a preliminary plan or idea, could you share it with the IOST fans?

Korea is one of the largest markets in Crypto and IOST World is the largest IOST node in Korea. Preliminary voters who own IOST in Korea can refer to IOST World blog posts for easy and simple voting. The IOST World blog provides easy-to-understand resources on voting methods, OTP settings, and other IOST elections.

We are also trying to get new information first for members of the IOST World community, and we are promoting IOST in my external activities to create more voters. In the future, IOST World will be able to provide quality information for all prospective voters in the IOST ecosystem as well as for Korean IOST holders.

5. What expectations or suggestions do you have for IOST?

We’ve been watching the various growths of IOST since early this year, including election systems, nodes, mainnet, and partnerships with DAPPs. Recently, as EMOGI Network(LOL), an incubator directly from IOST, was chosen as the fifth project for Huobi Prime, IOST has made a lot of effort and great progress.

In addition, we announced an airdrop plan for nodes and voters who participated in the IOST voting to demonstrate their win-win relationship with partners and holders. IOST, always showing a new look, expects to have the potential to grow even bigger than now.

6. What platforms can we get the latest development and situation of IOST World?

We’re updating our current status using our homepages, blogs, and SNS(Kakao, Telegram).

Please refer to the link below.

100&100 Venture Capital Homepage:

http://100and100capital.com

IOST World Homepage: http://iostworld.com/

Blog: http://blog.iostworld.com/

Kakao Talk: http://kakao.iostworld.com/

Telegram: http://telegram.iostworld.com/

7. Finally, you can promote IOST World. Why should the community members vote for you, and what will they get if they vote for you?

Operating at 100&100, IOST World promises more stable node operation than other nodes with massive funding and delivers information as quickly and accurately as it. Not only that, we are working in many ways to give positive energy to the entire IOST ecosystem. Since we are also holders of IOST, IOST World’s goal is to do our best to represent the interests of all voters.

In addition, the SNS channel and blog operation takes a lot of manpower but operates to provide a lot of benefits to both voters and holders. IOST World played various roles both internally and externally to create synergy effects on the IOST ecosystem and was selected as Tier 1 in both the first and second quarters as a reward.

We will continue to provide quick and accurate information to prevent confusion among voters, and for those who need detailed answers, we are supporting a 1:1 communication channel. If you’re curious about IOST World, we’re ready to communicate through Telegram and Kakao Talk channels at any time, so please participate.

What is ICAC?

ICAC is an IOST Core governance Community initiated by IOST Pacific. Its full name is IOST Core Arbitration Community. It is a fair and open third-party IOST Community organization, which does not represent the official, foundation or any node.

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