EOS Token Review: Why This ICO Promises to Be Big
It’s time to have another look at EOS token perspectives as its price comes closer to $2 after a two-month-long period of staying around $0.5. Looks like EOS token is on its way to new heights with its market capitalisation now about $1 billion. What is even more interesting, EOS price calculated in bitcoin almost didn’t change for three months in a row, so we can suppose that the market believes in EOS as strongly as in Bitcoin (the orange line below).
Source: coinmarketcap.com
If you didn’t yet decide for yourself whether this token is worth your closer attention, here are some of my observations.
1. The White Paper
The EOS White Paper offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the platform.
Long speech short, EOS blockchain will be capable of supporting millions of users with lightning fast fee-free transactions while creating a comfortable environment for businesses building decentralized apps.
You can read my EOS White Paper Digest where I summarized its main points.
2. The Team
The team of block.one, the company behind EOS, includes true blockchain veterans.
CTO Dan Larimer has already successfully launched two functioning blockchains: BitShares and Steem. He is credited with inventing the delegated proof-of-stake (DPOS) consensus algorithm and the concept of Decentralized Autonomous Corporations (DAC).
CEO Brendan Blumer is a serial entrepreneur in the technology space since the age of fifteen. He has been involved in the blockchain industry since 2014 and is an active speaker at various blockchain conferences.
The team’s Head of Strategy is Brock Pierce, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who pioneered the market for digital currency in games. He is the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, founding board member of Mastercoin (inventor of the ICO), and an advisor to Bancor.
Advisor Ian Grigg is a financial cryptographer with over twenty years experience, the inventor of the Ricardian Contract and co-inventor of Triple-Entry Accounting.
3. Roadmap, Codebase and Beta Preview
EOS.IO codebase is open source with the preview version code and documentation available at GitHub.
The software roadmap is clear and we can see the progress made. Currently it’s already possible for developers to launch a private testnet to run a node, execute transactions, develop and run smart contracts. The next release planned for early December will bring forth a public testnet and developers will be able to test their work in the public environment. It’s highly probable that the token price will moon after this event.
4. The Token Value
EOS is meant to be a business-oriented blockchain operating system, so its token value is tied to supply and demand of resources such as bandwidth, log storage, CPU, and RAM. With a growing market for blockchain-based decentralized apps we can expect a significant demand for native EOS tokens.
Useful links
- EOS ICO website:
eos.io - EOS Documentation
- EOSscan (not run by block.one) is service that helps purchase EOS tokens at the most reasonable price. It calculates the current price of EOS tokens by analyzing transactions of EOS token purchases on the Ethereum blockchain.
- EOS Telegram Channel
- EOSTalk.io: EOS related forums
- EOSTalk.io Telegram Channel
- EOS Traders Group Telegram Channel
Related posts
- EOS White Paper Digest
- How to buy EOS tokens the official way using MetaMask browser extension
- How to buy and claim EOS tokens: a step by step tutorial
Notes
- Disclosure: The author owns EOS tokens.
- All opinions in this post are the author’s alone. You should be aware of the risk of loss before trading or holding any digital asset.
- This post is not an endorsement by EOS.IO or block.one.
Credits
- Big thanks to @lenadr from Minnow Support Project for proofreading.
- Cover image photo by Kukuh Himawan Samudro on Unsplash
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I enjoy watching it grow on value in my wallet :)
Thank you, this was helpful.
Thanks For Your Good Info of ICO @vitkolesnik
Please explain me how is it possible that 20 mniutes before each period ends the amount of sent ethereum grows by 80-100% and the end price is always the same as the current price on the exchange :)
Also EOS will not be a token after all
I think you can ask about that in the traders group (see links in the end).
EOS is a name for blockchain platform, erc20 token, and native token in future.
One perspective:
Few may want to send to the contract prior to the final moments of a period, because it’s uncertain what the EOS price for that period is - thus there is risk and uncertainty of paying more than they wanted. Near the end of a period, it becomes clearer what they’ll be paying - and easier to compare price possibilities against current exchange price.
Would be about the same as exchange, because of the balancing dynamic. No one is going to want to pay more via the direct contract than market price. And the serious traders are probably using software to monitor real-time fluctuations, such that they’ll be willing to buy direct via contract so long as it doesn’t exceed what they can buy for on exchange - thus perhaps even using a bot to send to contract certain amounts at a price differential, until a complete cutoff once contract price in the last moments of a period exchange rate.
Nice post
The market cap for EOS has already been well over $1 billion for a few weeks now. The current cap is $1,193,820,000
Don't believe everything you read on coinmarketcap.com =)
Coincap.io says the same :) at any rate, there are more than half billion tokens issued and one costs about $1.8 now so it's around $1 billion.
Nice write up. I am looking forward to this project. It's going to be exciting.