The arms race between crypto-incentivized file-sharing platforms Upfiring and Tron‘s Project Atlas is heating up. For months the organizations have been battling it out to be first to market with seed-incentivized torrenting and file-sharing services based on decentralized technology. In recent news, Upfiring’s Founder, Tyler Fallon announced that he was “99.9% sure” Upfiring’s dApp will launch before Project Atlas does.

The statement was made via telegram in the Upfiring Community group in which Fallon is a moderator.

The statement read:

I am 99.9% sure Upfiring will be released before Tron’s Project Atlas….I expect that we will be pretty well known both inside and outside of the cryptocurrency space by the middle to end of 2019.

The bullish news has excited the Upfiring community, prompting talk of an impending launch date announcement. Upfiring (Ticker: UFR) recently made a large push towards community development with the creation of an officially-endorsed forum, UFR Chat. This week, UFR was also added to crypto portfolio tracking services Blockfolio Signal Beta and Delta Direct.

Upfiring is now live on Delta Direct! Looking forward to working with @get_delta to provide direct updates to Delta users directly from our development team. Be sure to watch $UFR and turn on “Notify me for each new UFR Direct”. pic.twitter.com/Y42oPSLBcP — Upfiring (@UpfiringHQ) November 29, 2018

Tron (TRX) joined the file-sharing market when it acquired BitTorrent this past Summer. The two teams began sparring soon after when Project Atlas appeared to have copied Upfiring’s marketing materials and tokenomic model. Tron Founder, Justin Sun, has faced several cases of plagiarism in the past including notoriously copying the whitepaper of several other teams.

Skeptics of the Upfiring project point to the team’s small market cap as compared to that of Tron, voicing concerns of the challenges the team will face to outpace a more established team.

Justin Sun touched upon the general overview of Project Atlas during a live stream event back in October:

Both projects will allow the downloading party to re-seed the file to earn additional cryptocurrency. This model hopes to increase download speeds drastically by developing a more extensive network of seeders.

Regardless of the outcome of this heated rivalry, we look forward to a future where files can be shared in a more decentralized and seed-incentivized manner.