Introducing EOStark - EOS Block Producer Candidate

1. PUBLIC PRESENCE




Website: https://eostark.com Steemit:https://steemit.com/@eostark Twitter: https://twitter.com/stark_eos Telegram: https://t.me/eostark Weibo:http://weibo.com/eostark

2. ID ON STEEMIT
A. Official block producer candidate name
EOStark

B. Location of company headquarters
Shanghai, China

C. Expected location of servers
We expect to deploy servers in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

D. Type of servers (cloud)
For Testnet, we use Aliyun EC2 vCPU 8 GB 50GB Disk ecs.t5-lc1m4.large.
For EOS mainnet, we will use 2 instances with AWS x1.32xlarge(128 vCPUs, 2TB RAM, 4T SSD)

E. Current employee list and pictures

Aaron Huang, Head of Strategy
Aaron is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience in both management and business development. Integrity and justice are the core of his value system and are incorporated into his every venture. Upon discovering Blockchain technology in 2012, Aaron has strongly resonated with its fundamental principles and followed its development with strong interest. With effective utilization, Blockchain technology brings evolution of a decentralized community both online and offline. The opportunity to participate in EOS not only aligns with his own personal values but also provides him with the platform to help the cause.

Darpal Wang，Head of Community
Darpal founded DPRating(大炮评级) in May 2017. To date, the organization has provided objective and transparent rating analysis reports for over 100 Blockchain projects. DPRating guarantees objective neutrality by refusing any forms of payment. With over 200,000 followers across multiple social media channels, it is currently a leading provider of credit ratings and risk analysis in the crypto/blockchain market. Darpal has established himself as a pioneer in the Chinese crypto/blockchain community.

Young Zhou, Head of Operation
Young is a specialist in Blockchain technology implementation, incubation and Cyrptocurrency analysis. He is currently leading a project known as Cryptocurrency CFD Exchange, estimated to be launched in August 2018. Young has also accumulated profound knowledge and understanding in the retail finance market in his previous experience as the China GM for XM.com – a well-known retail forex platform. He is a devoted evangelist in Blockchain technology. Bitswin(币格) – a Crypto Blockchain social media platform founded by Yuchen – now has over 30,000 active followers.

Bonnie Wang, Head of Tech
Graduate from EECS of Peking University, major in Computer Science, has deep understanding about computer operating system, distributed computing, cryptography, etc.
After four years working in Morgan Stanly IT department, Bonnie began to dive into the underlying technology of Bitcoin, Etherum and other cryptocurrencies. He has mastered deep knowledge of PoW, PoS (Casper FFG/GHOST), and DPos. He himself also has designed a new mechanism of making people express honest opinions called RPoS, which combines the computer technology, rational economic behavior,game theory, and law making with self-amendment together.
Currently, Bonnie focuses on developing a high performance exchange of cryptocurrency derivatives, which would be lauched in August 2018.

3. TECH SPECS
Hardware(AWS): annual expenditure US$60,000
Signing Node ( r4.2xlarge)
Load Balancer Node (r4.2xlarge)
Full/Failover Nodes (x1e.2xlarge)
Producing Nodes(x1e.2xlarge)
Data Transfer
Cloudflare(DDoS)

Personnel: annual expenditure US$500,000
two technical FTE, two non-technical FTE

Operation: annual expenditure US$450,000
Meetups
Promotion
Tax Consulting
Legal Counsel
Travel & Expense
Business Management & Misc

4. SCALING PLAN
Typically this is done by placing nginx reverse proxies in the front, but behind load balancers.
Then inter-BP communication is done via VPN.

5. COMMUNITY BENEFIT
Meetups
-Quarterly meetups in Shanghai: provide an environment for active member and new members to share resources, support and network
-Organize “topic of the month” events to promote the latest market intelligence
-Partner with EOS communities in other parts of China with the aim of expanding our meetups to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu

Marketing
-Introduce and translate global Blockchain knowledge and technology to the Chinese market
-Promote Blockchain and EOS awareness through our professional and personal channels
-Launch EOS marketing campaigns on Bitswin & DPRating

DApp Incubation & Advisory
-We will utilize our network influence to provide education, advisory and mentorship to dAPP developers and investors as well as any general Blockchain enthusiasts.

6. TELEGRAM+TESTNET

Telegram: https://t.me/eostark Test-net Node: EOStark particpates in http://eosio.sg

7. Block Producer Candidate Roadmap on values, community project timeline, finances, transparency, or any other topic the candidate deems important.
Finance:
EOStark promises to disclose our regular financial report to the public. We are a fully independent and self-funded team. We will act as a neutral platform to promote the EOS ideology and be the link connecting China to the Global EOSIO communities. It is our aim to be a critical contributor in the evolution of EOSIO.

Roadmap:
-June 2018: daily update EOS news through our current channels(Bitswin & DPRating)
-July 2018: start to host meetups in Shanghai, to promote EOS and to connect DApp developer teams

8. Position on Dividends
We understand and fully stand behind EOS’ policy against buying votes. It is against our values and does not align with our great mission.
We will grant full transparency and encourage the public to monitor.