EOS Van - Block Producer Candidacy

EOS Van - BP Candidate Introduction

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Contents:

1. Brief Preview

2. Public Presence

3. Team

4. Technical Details

5. Community benefit

6. Position on Dividends

1. Preview

Welcome to EOS Van, a block producer candidate with a solid technical team and influential community members in Vancouver - a tech-savvy and crypto-friendly environment for blockchain development and communication. Canada is adjacent to the USA, yet is quite independent. It is one of the most stable places to contribute to the EOS ecosystem and other blockchain related projects.

2. Public Presence

Website: http://eosvan.com
Github: https://github.com/EOSVancouver
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EosVancouver
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/IU0klA5dN1odd1T8J6WBiA

3. Team

Chris Shao - Co-Founder

Chris Shao is the founder of Grand Capital Investment INC. He invested in over 20 projects all over the world with rich experience in blockchain investment and fund management. His areas of expertise include community engagement, communication, and public speaking. He is also the co-founder of Crawfish brother, one of the most popular restaurants for youth in China. Chris Shao strongly believes in EOS blcokchain and will lead the marketing and operation of EOS Van, build the connection between Chinese and North America EOS community, contributing to the development of the whole EOS ecosystem.

Victor Hogrefe - Co-founder

Born in Germany, Victor studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, the University of Washington and Harvard, after which he delved into Bitcoin app development and started a successful cryptocurrency brokerage and mining operation in Vancouver. He has been trading on the derivatives and cryptocurrency markets since 2012, and manages a private investment club in addition to co-founding and running BlockSpace Solutions Inc. and BlockSpace Digital Asset Management. (LinkedIn)

Chen Li - Co-Founder

Chen started programming in high school and won 1st Prize in the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOIP) at the age of 18. Over the past 15 years, he has successfully implemented and deployed various projects ranging from Global Navigation Satellite Reflectometry to Network Monitoring System for large-scaled enterprises. With his experience in development and dev ops, Chen is committed to contributing his technical skills to help the community build a stable and scalable solution for the EOS BP node.(LinkdeIn)

Yonel Yonkov - Technical Advisors

Yonel Yonkov brings a plethora of enterprise experience leading teams at Fortune 500 companies: SAP, Nokia and Samsung. With over 20 years of software delivery experience, he served as technical director, senior software architect, project manager, team lead and R&D developer on a number of software projects. (LinkedIn)

4. Technical Details & Scaling Plan

Within the first three months of launching the MainNet, we will run two node-clusters in two availability zones using AWS (Amazon Web Services) in the region of Central Canada, to maximize uptime and stability. During the launch stage, the cloud-based solution gives us the flexibility to meet the highly changing needs of the EOS network.

Once we have gained a better understanding of the EOS MainNet in terms of traffic throughput during regular hours and rush hours, we plan on moving the block producing nodes to bare-metal servers. We are partnering with MiningSky, a recognized blockchain infrastructure company based in Vancouver, to mitigate our dependence to any cloud-based providers. Moreover, having bare-metal servers running in a Vancouver-based data centre will increase the diversity of geographical locations of EOS Block Producer Candidates, and thus improve the stability of the EOS blockchain overall.

Photos of the data center where the bare metal servers, routers and switches are located (Vancouver, BC, Canada):

Server Specs & Topology Graph

Primary and backup block producer node on AWS within the first three months of MainNet Launch:

• CPU: Intel Xeon E7 8880 v3, 128 vcpu core
• RAM: 2TB (1952 GB) DDR4
• Network: 10 Gbps (up to 25 Gbps)
• Storage: 4096 GB SSD (gp2)

The network topology graph based on AWS's infrastructure is shown below:

Highlights in the topology graph:

1. WAF and AWS Shield Advanced will be used to provide security against any potential attacks, especially DDOS attacks.
2. Elastic Load Balancer will be used as another layer of protection against DDOS attack, and it will be used to direct traffic to the failover VPC if the main VPC/availability zone goes down.
3. CloudWatch is used to monitor block producer node health status and trigger alarms automatically in case of error.

Primary and backup block producer bare metal node:

• CPU: 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon processor, 88 core
• RAM: 1TB DDR4 (up to 4TB)
• Network: 1 Gbps (up to 10 Gbps)
• Storage: 4TB

The bare-metal server specs might change based on what we learn once the MainNet launches. The corresponding topology graph will also be determined by then. The main idea of using failover plans would still be utilized. CDN services such as CloudFlare would be used to mitigate DDoS attacks.

EOS Community Testnet:

EOS Van BP node is launched on the Jungle TestNet:
Organization: EOS Vancouver
Producer name: blackpanther
TestNet Monitor: http://dev.cryptolions.io/
EOS Van Node Info: http://34.212.28.64:8888/v1/chain/get_info

5. Community benefit outline (Block Producer Candidate Roadmap on values, community project timeline, finances, transparency, or any other topic the candidate deems important):

Open source project contribution

We are active, open source developers that have contributed to multiple Github repositories such as serverless framework, CCXT and Deeptrade. Currently, we are contributing to eosjs which is a multipurpose library for the EOS blockchain created by EOSIO.

Dapp development collaboration

One thing we've learned over the years of delivering products is that we should try to focus on what we are good at instead of doing everything on our own. That is why when it comes to Dapp development, we are planning to collaborate with rockstar Dapp development companies in Vancouver and in the EOS community. We are currently discussing the collaboration opportunity with Axiom Zen, the creator of the most successful decentralized game - CryptoKitties. We believe that attracting the best talents and companies in the blockchain community will help the EOS community to further grow and thrive. Here we promise that at least 30% of our inflation rewards will be contributed to other companies and teams to raise awareness of EOS and support Dapp development.

Roadmap

2018 June - August
We have connected with blockchain research cluster @ University of British Columbia. We are planning to create EOS labs in the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Hosting EOS Hackathons and development lectures in the labs.

2018 September - December
We are planning to collaborate with at least 1 recognized Dapp development company to start creating EOS Dapps. We've already started contacting the CryptoKitties team about it. After the MainNet launch for a couple months, we expect EOSIO team would have finished early modifications to their libraries. By September, we wish the Dapp team would start to work on the EOS Dapp. Also, we are planning to create tutorials and/or online courses for EOS Dapp development on platforms such as Udemy or Lynda.

6. Position on Dividends (The sharing of Block Producer inflation rewards with unaffiliated voters, AKA "vote buying.")

EOS Van strongly believes in an eco-system that is driven by the benefit of the entire community instead of certain individuals. We will not buy votes during BP elections AND worker proposals.