Contentos - The Decentralized Global Content Ecosystem
The vision of Contentos is to build a "decentralized digital content community that allows content to be freely produced, distributed, rewarded, and traded, while protecting author rights". Contentos strives to incentivize content creation and global diversity and return the rights and value of content to users.
Contentos is a blockchain protocol that aims to form the foundation for a decentralized digital content ecosystem that empowers all members, including creators, consumers, and advertisers, to earn fair compensation for their contributions. Contentos also intends to establish itself as the future Ethereum of digital content, accepting content DApps of all kinds.
Social media offers the opportunity for every user to have a platform dedicated to the promotion of their individual visions of the world at large. The current content ecosystem is run by centralized platforms that depend on advertising for revenue. Content creators are, therefore, pressured to produce content that is approved by advertisers instead of following their creative muses and expressing themselves freely. The constraints inherent to ad-driven content platforms begs the question of just how much freedom of expression is actually allowable. Are these individual influencer world views being traded in for carefully-crafted sponsored content for the masses? Furthermore, when looking at the bottom line, it’s imperative to ask the question, where is the majority of the money going? In the current content system, corporate platforms reap the lion’s share of rewards generated by ad dollars, leaving mere pennies to the influencers whose content the platforms depend on. These tech giants tempt content creators with promises of viable income while exploiting their creations for their own gain. In this model, creators and users lose while the tech platforms flourish at their expense.
At Contentos, we believe all members of the content ecosystem should benefit from their contributions. By utilizing the tokenization enabled by blockchain technology, Contentos aims to bring to life the dream of a more fair and democratic content environment. Content creation, curation, distribution, storage, and verification are all rewarded in COS tokens, the unique cryptocurrency powering the Contentos ecosystem.
Overview
Contentos 2.0 uses a dAPP-based sharding strategy.
More than 99% of Contentos Mainnet 1.0 transactions come from dAPPs, such as COS.TV website, COS.TV app and PhotoGrid app. In practice Contentos Mainnet is not a direct-to-user system, but an infrastructure that provides blockchain service for dAPPs. This is the main business feature of Contentos today and in the future. dAPP is an effective grouping of users and transactions. In most cases, a transaction from a dAPP only affects users of the same dAPP. In a dAPP-based sharding system, each dAPP will be assigned to one and only one shard. Each shard is responsible for processing transactions of one or several dAPPs, and only stores state data related to these dAPPs.
The benefits of dAPP-based sharding are mainly reflected in,
* Well clustered state data.
* Better performance due to the small proportion of cross-shard transactions.
The disadvantage is that a dAPP can only be supported by one shard. The system may still find it difficult to afford super dAPPs which require thousands of TPS.
We believe that it would be really helpful for the prosperity and diversity of Contentos ecosystem if we managed to support hundreds of midsized dAPPs using a horizontal sharding solution. For the limitation of support for super dAPPs, we hope to improve that by vertical sharding in the future.
P2P REVENUE DISTRIBUTION
With a decentralized revenue system, the value of creation is open, transparent, and returns rewards directly to users.
DECENTRALIZED TRAFFIC DISTRIBUTION
When compensated for their work, users are encouraged to share and promote contents to the proper audience.
TRACKABLE COPYRIGHT TRANSACTION
Blockchain technology enables copyright authentication and transaction to be totally trackable.
IMMUTABLE CREDIT SYSTEM
Users are responsible for their credit score, which is calculated based on every single contribution being made.
COS.TV is the first video platform powered by Contentos blockchain
You can watch your favorite videos here, join this community with your friends, share content, and get COS reward.