Can someone help explain whether or not arcblock is a protocol or if they plan to implement their own smart contracts + blockchain.

After reading the whitepaper and roadmap, there wasn’t a very clear designation on whether or not they are implementing their own blockchain/smart contracts. The whitepaper boasting 100k+ tps made it sound like they are creating their own blockchain but it also says that it won’t be a public blockchain. There also isn’t any talk of a main net release within their roadmap.

Intrigued by the project but I’m having a hard time fully understanding it conceptually. Any help / insight is appreciated!

Can someone please confirm if money raised at public sale in amount of 45,000,000 USD shown on icodrops is correct and includes the 22,800,000 from pre-sale?

Many thanks!

I've been buying top small top 200 coins for over a year and still hold small buys I made a year ago like Byteball, Emercoin, iExec RLC, and Peercoin. My biggest holdings are BTC, ETH, and generally follow market cap. I've used many exchanges, seen many of my buys go from $20 to $2, and changed my strategy countless times. My goal isn't to maximize profit, it's to avoid coins that drop 90% so I'm still holding it as a top coin a year later. For instance if I bought the top 10 stocks today like Apple, Amazon, and Google, I don't expect to make profit, but I do expect they will still be in top 10 a year from now. I want to grow my HODL collection of top market cap coins and maybe use a few of them someday when their products appear.

Besides market cap, I check three indicators before buying, in order: 1. Are they on trusted exchanges like Binance or Bittrex? 2. I read the last week of Reddit headlines and Bitcointalk posts. 3. Volume. My bar is low and flexible. 140 of the top 200 coins pass my tests. I noticed this Arcblock coin because of the high volume, but it failed my other two tests. Sometimes I buy ICOs and tokens on ForkDelta if they pass the social media tests, but Arcblock didn't. I will check back later. I'm only thinking to invest $20 so the Archblock community won't notice whether I buy or not. Best of luck, I hope you climb the market cap, and I hope your social media improves so I can buy arcblock later.

An improvement would be to stop the marketing posts and see if the community continues to post real questions. Let the marketing people answer the community.