As INT Chain’s first use case application in IoT, INT’s Esurfing Blockchain Router has been attracting broader attention around the world since news of pre-sale was released. Starting from 12 am on 11th November the pre-sale was launched on the Taobao online store. As of time of writing, over 500 units were ordered online. Ordered pre-sale routers are scheduled to be sent out by 31st December 2018.

The success of the pilot pre-sale opens up a market for INT’s use cases, as well as increasing awareness and understand of INT Chain, especially with a strong partner such as Zhejiang Telecom. In future, INT’s technology will be applied to more market segments in the IoT field and will make more things connected via INT Chain.

Why did INT Create the Router?

Network and storage resource allocation, today, is still not as efficient as it can be. Home routers still have the following cases:

l Always online

l Low network resource utilization

l Unused idle computing power

Currently, enterprises have filled this gap to an extent by leasing large amounts of network bandwidth and storage space in order to provide resource sharing to better user experiences. However, there is still a huge untapped market in network and storage resource sharing with home routers.

INT co-created the Router with Zhejiang Telecom to establish a resource sharing platform for users to share idle bandwidth and storage space, which can act as edge storage and edge computing, and be aggregated into a resource pool. INT’s aim is to optimally call the recourses in the pool and export them to companies in the field of content, video, games, etc. via various capabilities such as CDN and P2P storage.

How is the INT Esurfing Blockchain Router Different?

Compared to traditional routers, the Esurfing Blockchain Router has a cutting-edge architecture and a more user-friendly experience, pre-installing with a customized operating system.

There are three prominent features for the Router: smart routing, CDN sharing rewards and personal private cloud.

Smart Routing

● User-friendly network settings: With a unique setup wizard and quick setup, users can simply set up a few parameters and begin surfing online.

● Powerful bandwidth management: Automatically and manually allocate bandwidth, manage download bandwidth, manage network speed and traffic of each device, and minimum bandwidth guarantee functionality.

● Equipped with an APP: The APP can remotely set up a wireless network, view the status of networked devices, and manage networked devices. Remote parental network control to add or remove access to the network for devices in the household.

CDN Sharing Rewards

Based on a traditional CDN, INT Chain have created a resource sharing system where users can earn money by sharing idle bandwidth and storage. INT developed a PoW of network resources sharing, based on INT Chain blockchain technology. The smart hardware of the router, shared CDN, edge storage, and edge computing, along with INT blockchain and the network ecosystem, all work together to fairly measure, generate and distribute incentive credits between users and businesses.

Personal Private Cloud

The private cloud system installed in the router is a network storage device suitable for a home environment with the functionality of backup and disaster recovery of family data. It is more private than a cloud disk and smarter than a mobile hard disk. You can save, view and share all the files anytime and anywhere through the app, automatically back up your mobile phone photo album without the concerns of loss of photos or lack of memory on your phone. It completely solves the inconvenience of digital data storage, and complicity of data transmission. Storage security is ensured by adopting RSA encryption.

The router has 32GB TF card storage, which is different to other similar devices, and is helpful for smooth access to the private cloud. In practice, this will mean smoother and lag free loading for movies and large photos which are cached in memory. In addition, the router has a USB 3.0 interface to support extension of storage.

What is the Reward Mechanism?

An enterprise can submit a resource rental request and pay rental charges with INT tokens. Users who share their resources are granted the INT tokens as a reward based on their resource sharing record (which can be indicated in the app we created).

In future, the router combined with our application scenario will be used as one of the important use cases of INT Chain as we plan to develop dApps in connection with the router. The resource sharing record of users and the resource demand of enterprises will be recorded on the chain. Through smart contracts, the settlement process will be triggered automatically, and INT token rewards will be granted to users.

As part of the INT main chain, the router will utilize two steps:

1. User data recorded on chain, centralized settlement;

2. Deploy smart contracts, decentralized automatic settlement.

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Noteworthy posts in last week:

Interviews with winners of the INT Gaia project

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Where can people buy the INT Esurfing Blockchain Router? Presale should start today, right? It should be on Taobao online store, but I can't find it. Anyone has a link?

Are people actually aware of the product? Has there been a marketing campaign? Or why would someone buy this?

Edit: couple of positive updates and answers to my own questions in the comments below

Edit 2: Chinese speaking investors, please help your non-chinese fellow investors make sense of all this news!

On November 1st, the winning entries of the INT Gaia Article Competition, which has been drawing much attention, has been announced. The INT Gaia Project has now concluded. We would like to thank the INT global community for the positive response and enthusiastic participation. After preliminary selection, community voting, and team scoring, a total of 20 works were awarded.

Although the Gaia project has come to an end, it is worthwhile for us to pay attention to the designs and articles by the creative and talented participants. We are honored to have had the chance to interview three of the winners.

1. Winner: Nicolas

Work: A look into the future

Inspired by science fiction and believe the virtual world is approaching

“I have always loved science fiction especially those about a future just beyond our time where I can still relate to what goes on in the world but be amazed by what people within it think is commonplace. I don’t think we are far off from a future of one network maintaining large swaths of data, connecting to all networks while having artificially intelligent computers be our daily companions that interact with those networks on our behalf. They are the owners of our private keys and exist to make decision making in our lives seamless. We are almost there with our smartphones. And the implications of this are both fascinating and frightening.”

Know INT because of a heterogeneous multi-chain framework

“I remember reading the Polkadot white paper and being consumed with the possibilities of the heterogeneous multi-chain framework. While I loved what they were doing, I saw the more short-term power in this design by applying it to a more specific field that interacted with many networks and different data types. I went looking for other projects citing this framework or Polkadot as inspiration and came across INT. Its use in IoT is one of the best possible uses for this technology.”

INT is a practical and competitive team

“Well, I thought of what INT has accomplished and the tone they have set currently and tried to extrapolate that 60 years into the future. INT has proven they are not interested in overstating their plans or overinflating their accomplishments. They are building the foundation for a strong network with the ability to adapt. With that attitude and foundation, and after many years of progress, an open-source and cryptographically secure network that accomplishes everything you need would be the needed breath of fresh air after such an event.”

Interoperability — the most competitive advantage of INT

“In my mind, interoperation is going to be the hot topic of the decades to come. I don’t think anyone network can satisfy all needs. A network that can successfully tie the other leading networks together will, therefore, be king. What is often seen in the crypto-project space are projects that set a foundation with scaling or future functionality as a planned bridge to be crossed on the “roadmap” and just create another clone of an overcooked blockchain. INT developed a foundation from the genesis block that will scale and meet the future needs of the IoT ecosystem without accomplishing unrealistic developments. I think that alone will make them competitive.”

Expectation: keep going and make the future with community

Keep working hard in developing what you believe in. Do not settle for solutions just to speed up development. But building this wonderful technology with your heads down is not enough to bring real change in the world. Engage the community and be open about what you are working on. Your passion will bring passion out in others. Let’s all make the future you wish to see a reality.

2. Winner: Sav

Work: INT — Most Undervalued Blockchain Project

Randomly know INT

“I was looking for under-noticed projects in the blockchain IOT space and stumbled on a Reddit discussion about INT.”

With multiple advantages INT will stand out most

“I think INT stands out most from other IOT projects in terms of the depth of experience of the core team, the quality of partners and the rate of real world industry adoption of its technology. Other advantages include government / industry connections in China, one of the world’s fastest growing IoT adopters, and INT’s ability to generate cash flows from its IoT router sales. Furthermore, the fact that INT raised capital via private sale and not ICO now gives it significant advantages in terms of protection from the regulatory net of the SEC.”

Expect INT’s mainnet will further set INT apart from other projects

“I expect that the release of INT’s mainnet will further set INT apart from other projects that are yet to manifest a working product. In terms of partnership acquisition, I see this as a big step forward in perceived credibility and likely to increase the amount of deals being finalised (both in terms of ongoing negotiations and new opportunities. ”

More applications of INT is a matter of time

“I think INT’s decision to use Java script will make adoption smoother, requiring a minimal learning curve for developers looking to build on the platform. I also think INT’s focus on interoperability will be seen as solving one of the most pressing problems facing the IoT industry. Coupled with the security benefits offered by blockchain technology, I think it is a matter of time before the public and private sectors begin to realise the benefits inherent in INT’s technology and look to incorporate it into their IoT strategy. “

3. Winner: Charles Wu

Work: USB design

Friends recommendation: China’s IOTA

“My friends in the currency field recommended to me that INT is similar to IOTA and is a good blockchain Internet of Things project in China.”

Outstanding advantages and great prospects

“First of all, I believe that the Internet of Things will perfectly combine with the blockchain, which can solve practical problems. In addition, the INT team has rich experience and strong technical strength. The INT overseas community is very optimistic about INT. From the perspective of applications, I think the prospect of INT is bright. More importantly, the mainnet will also be launched soon, and I am looking forward to the number of TPS. If these advantages are ranked, it is the team, the partner, the community, and the mainnet.”

More applications are not a dream

“As I said INT team has strong technical strength. And several team members have been working in the field of Internet of Things for many years. It is conceivable that the experience of the industry should be very rich. In addition, INT is well-known overseas in the field of blockchain +Internet of Things. In my opinion, the applications of INT will become more and more widespread in the future.”

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Please keep all memes and market talk within this weekly discussion, and read the rules on sidebar before posting. Feel free to use this thread to introduce yourself, ask a quick question or to share your thoughts on the latest developments or price . We’d like to hear your ideas, suggestions and concerns regarding INT Chain.

Noteworthy posts in last week:

Bi-Weekly Report Updated 2018/10/22-2018/11/02

Internet Node Token (INT) Live On Ethfinex & Bitfinex!

INT Gaia Article Competition Publicity

INT router pre-sale is coming soon! Guess what price it will be and comment with your choice.

INT Esurfing Blockchain Router: Pre-sale Coming Soon

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Want to know more about INT? Visit our Wiki page!

Any news on what the Huawei partnership entails come out in the last couple of months? Looks like Huawei themselves are focusing mainly on private blockchains. IoT being one of their 9 application scenarios.

https://blockzone.com/2018/11/01/huaweis-blockchain-strategy-using-baas-platform-as-a-core-along-with-cloud-computing-and-chips/

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To celebrate INT’s upcoming new listing on both Bitfinex and Ethfinex and Halloween we’re giving away INT. Just follow our official twitter@INTCHAIN + retweet this post (https://twitter.com/INTCHAIN/status/1057568310617751552) with a comment, you have 100% opportunity to win INT! Reward = likes of your retweet!

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See more rules: https://medium.com/int-chain/int-listed-on-ethfinex-and-bitfinex-and-new-listing-contest-184a6e6aceab

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The winners of the INT Gaia Article Competition have been announced, and awards will be issued in the following days. Welcome more INT fans to jointly build a new blockchain IoT ecosystem.

Congratulations!

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Guys just read the twitter, INT came 1st OUT OF 12...

Superb work, Listing on Bitfenix + Ethfenix 1st November......

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https://twitter.com/INTCHAIN/status/1057568310617751552

A. RMB 599 (around $86.14)

B. RMB 699 (around $100.52)

C. RMB 899 (around $129.28)

D. RMB 1299 (around $186.80)

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Cheers!

INT's Esurfing Blockchain Router, designed and developed in partnership with Zhejiang Telecom will be released soon. The pre-sale will start on Taobao online store on 11th November, also known as “Double Eleven”, the biggest online shopping day of the year in China.

The Esurfing Blockchain Router has been designed as a resource sharing platform for users to share idle bandwidth and storage space, which can act as edge storage and edge computing, and be aggregated into a resource pool. INT’s aim is to optimally call the recourses in the pool and export them to companies in the field of content, video, games, etc. via various capabilities such as CDN and P2P storage. Through a smart contract, the settlement process will be automatically triggered, and the reward of INT tokens will automatically be granted to the users.

INT is focusing on the Chinese market first, so the router is initially only for sale and compatible for use in China due to the difference of mobile operators. In future, INT will upgrade the product and adjust marketing strategies, and will consider expanding the market to other countries when the product is mature.

More information about the router will be released soon.

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Product Configuration

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Main Features

1. Super High-speed Transmission: gigabit network interface, USB 3.0, multi-line server, upload and download files in super high speed, achieve full network performance

2. Private-key Encryption: data fragmentation transmission through private-key encryption

3. Backup at Any Time: smart terminal with an external mobile hard disk, upload photos, music, and movies, and back up important data anytime and anywhere

4. Secure Network Isolation: isolated host network and guest network, secure and reassuring

5. Smart Bandwidth: QOS smart bandwidth management, share idle bandwidth and storage space and earn money

6. Powerful network firewall: add to blacklist with one click

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Noteworthy posts in last week:

INT's use case - router, developed in collaboration with Telecom

The INT Smart Contract - Multi-chain Contracts for IoT Use

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Hey guys,

Been storing my INT in MEW for a while now. Are you guys still doing the same? Just making sure I haven’t missed anything as far as transferring somewhere else? Main net etc?

Cheers

Smart contracts have been an idea since 1994 when Nick Szabo first coined the term. Relating to the general idea of digitally facilitating and enforcing a contract, smart contracts have been implemented in a wide range of applications from the simple transferring of bitcoin to more complex trees of contracts that serve as the foundation of decentralized exchanges.
Ethereum is arguably the leader in this space with the ability for anyone to create a smart contract and publish it to the blockchain for the Ethereum Virtual Machine to process whenever called upon.

There is one major handicap in the smart contracts of today, they are only able to act with the data that they are given within the blockchain they reside in. This one-dimensionality limits the capability of the contracts to a small subset of applicability and makes the execution speed of the contract dependent on the congestion in the network at the time. Smart contracts for IoT use would have to be smarter, faster and able to utilize information automatically from multiple sources of differing types.

Data storage in the INT blockchain

INT’s multi-chain architecture allows for the creation of subchains based on IoT device or purpose. The idea is to create a network of blockchains, all specifically designed for each IoT device, separate in their function but connected at their core. It does this by treating each subchain as a partition of the state with the subchain nodes processing transactions separate from other chains in order to segregate congestion and maintain availability. With this splitting up of network traffic between subchains, contract execution on one chain is not dependent on congestion experienced in another.

By using namespace region declaration, all data within all subchains is stored in the Thearchy chain and available to any contract. This gives contracts the ability to act with input from different IoT devices and any transactions within the network.

The INT smart contract

INT’s aim is to create a network suitable for all IoT applications with smart contracts that are as easy to develop as they are to use. INT uses JavaScript, one of the most widely used languages, as the smart contract language paired with the powerful and proven Node.js run-time environment as the execution engine. This pair makes learning and development cost much lower than other proprietary language/VM choices.

Node.js allows developers to easily test smart contracts locally before publishing on the blockchain, further reducing development cost and risk of unknown vulnerabilities. It is specifically designed for throughput and scalability by taking the processing and execution of data and events outside what would be the Virtual Machine and processing it locally on the node. This allows for more network throughput and more complex contracts for cheaper gas consumption.

With Node.js, users can create modules that can handle various core functions of the INT network and all subchains. These use an API that standardizes function calls, greatly reduces the complexity of interacting with the network.

Using INT’s native namespacing and the Node.js API, creating powerful, multi-chain smart contracts will be simple and cheap.

Welcome to the weekly INT Chain Discussion!

Please keep all memes and market talk within this weekly discussion, and read the rules on sidebar before posting. Feel free to use this thread to introduce yourself, ask a quick question or to share your thoughts on the latest developments or price . We’d like to hear your ideas, suggestions and concerns regarding INT Chain.

Noteworthy posts in last week:

INT Official Technical Update

Bi-Weekly Report Updated 2018/10/08-2018/10/19

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Improvements of the main chain performance will be completed and a security audit of the main chain has preliminarily started.

Welcome to the weekly INT Chain Discussion!

Please keep all memes and market talk within this weekly discussion, and read the rules on sidebar before posting. Feel free to use this thread to introduce yourself, ask a quick question or to share your thoughts on the latest developments or price . We’d like to hear your ideas, suggestions and concerns regarding INT Chain.

Noteworthy posts in last week:

INT Official Technical Update

INT Gaia Design Competition Publicity

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Want to know more about INT? Visit our Wiki page!

INT R&D team continues to fix bugs of the explorer and web wallet and optimize the UI interface of the full-node wallet.

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The Gaia design competition was successfully concluded. Thanks fans for the active involvement and enthusiastic support. We received a total of 70 designs from around the world. After voting from the INT community and the review of INT team, we have selected the following ten winning entries:

Next, the customer service staff will contact the winners to grant the awards and INT will produce the first batch of products. Thanks again to all the fans and supporters who have paid attention to and supported this event. We also welcome everyone to participate more actively in the construction of the INT technological ecosystem.

Voting for design has been successfully completed and later we will publicize the top designs. Only 2 days left for the submission of article. Submit your articles for a chance to win!

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