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The Raiden ICO joins a alternation of acknowledged tokens that serve as a platform, with a focus durably on enabling the scalability of the Ethereum arrangement and abbreviation its brand clogs.
One of the best arresting bodies to acquaint the apple that Ethereum scalability isn’t abundant was Vitalik Buterin himself, who can be quoted as saying it “sucks.” This is important back establishing that there is a botheration to be apparent through a ascent solution. The band-aid we appraise today is the Raiden ICO (token: RDN), and it’s one of the hottest things out there at the moment.
At the accomplished level, what Raiden represents is a Lightning Network-style access to Ethereum scaling, authoritative use of “off-chain” affairs with on-chain settlement.
The Raiden Network will accommodate a acquittal arrangement based on acquittal approach technology that scales with the cardinal of its users. This agency that the bigger the Raiden Network becomes, the college its best throughput will be, with about no high absolute in sight.
Several account underly the advised architecture of the Raiden network. They intend to lower transaction fees and access the acceleration of transactions; and the beyond the arrangement grows, the added it can handle. This is the ideal bearings for a decentralized network, but in the case of abounding absolute attempts, what we’ve apparent is absorption at assorted asphyxiate credibility aural anniversary alone blockchain.
Many ascent solutions are bigger than one, abnormally if there is no solid acumen they cannot all co-exist. Vitalik Buterin may accompanying be against to the angle of ascent solutions garnering allotment through the ICO model as he is wont to use the articles that are built-in out of ascent efforts.
In accession to the aloft proclaimed allowances of the Raiden Network, the affairs will be private. Only the sender, receiver, and the nodes who absolutely broadcast the affairs will accept any befalling to apperceive who the parties are. This is a added complete architecture in arch because it helps to absolute the abeyant of several types of blackmail adjoin an boilerplate crypto holder who may be acute abundant to booty advantage of the application.
In accession to all of this, afore we altercate the token’s properties, there is a “lite” adaptation of the Raiden arrangement alleged μRaiden which:
“…shares some backdrop with the Raiden Network. It can accommodate trustless, burning and chargeless transfers amid two parties. It is advised for many-to-one acquittal setups, like users interacting with a Dapp. However, it is not acceptable for many-to-many acquittal setups as it requires users to lock up tokens upfront for every abeyant payee.” (Source: whitepaper.)
Payment Channels, the affection of Raiden, are not a new abstraction in cryptocurrency scaling. One of the best arresting ascent solutions presented to break the blocksize crisis faced in Bitcoin is the Lightning Network.
It functions by accepting accustomed acquittal routes already in abode for which affairs can be affirmed to bright after on. The way Raiden describes a acquittal approach is like a affirmed check, one area you can verify the funds are there and are already in concrete control of them.
Once you accept a Raiden analysis from someone, you can be actually assertive that this analysis is absolute and that you are now richer than you were moments ago. But neither you nor your payer had to angle in band at the coffer or delay for the agent to accomplish a wire transfer. You can adjudge to banknote this analysis at the coffer at any time, potentially with hundreds and bags of added checks simultaneously, and you alone charge to pay fees already back axis all of these checks in.
Checks are beneath secure because they can be accounting by anyone with admission to the checkbooks, and they do not accept to be honored. But payments fabricated in acquittal channels are affirmed in the aforementioned way that approved affairs on the Ethereum arrangement are – the abounding adjustment artlessly takes abode later. Likewise, it makes faculty that tokens aural the Raiden arrangement can again be acclimated elsewhere.
The abstraction is to actualize ancillary channels for bodies to conduct business back the capital arrangement is busy. One absorbing use of acquittal channels, for example: Raiden ability be in ICO funding. By aperture a affirmed acquittal channel, abounding of the issues with allotment ICOs will be eliminated. Raiden can facilitate the alteration of any badge on the Ethereum blockchain, including Ethereum itself, although this is a bit added circuitous and is addressed in their documentation.
“While ETH currently does not authorize as an ERC20 token, simple adhesive affairs abide that acquiesce ETH to be advised aloof like an ERC20 token.”
The Raiden ICO requires its own badge and arrangement to action because tokens are bound up for the lifetime of a accessible acquittal channel, in adjustment to agreement the payments. This is like an allowance policy, in a sense, on the funds actuality transferred. For a acquittal approach to exist, an on-chain drop has been made. The alignment acclimated to accomplish payments is alleged a “balance proof.”
These transfers can be performed anon and after any captivation of the absolute blockchain itself, except for an antecedent ancient on-chain conception and an closing closing of the channel.
Each acquittal approach is bound by the bulk of money it can absolutely transmit, according to the bulk that was deposited to accessible it, and on the face this may assume inefficient – bodies accept to accessible alone acquittal channels, why not aloof accelerate the funds directly? The acknowledgment is in the way the Raiden arrangement agreement handles requests. If a avenue already exists for a payment, again the arrangement will use the absolute avenue instead of aperture a new path. Since affairs are acclimatized off-chain already, it doesn’t amount too abundant how continued it absolutely takes the funds to ultimately settle.
The authors may not absolutely accept acquittal channels, about we feel able to accomplish some real-world predictions of how this badge and its arrangement ability be used.
A potentially agitative aspect of the Raiden alms is the actuality of a alive cryptocurrency barter congenital on its technology – potentially agitative because this barter is not yet working, nor is a examination adaptation accessible for accessible view. When we run into things like this, we ask: why the bustle on the badge sale, then?
The account of the Raiden ICO badge is to accessible acquittal channels on the Raiden arrangement in adjustment to bound transact in ERC20 tokens as able-bodied as Ethereum itself. Other currencies can be represented potentially in the arrangement if third-party casework accomplish it so. Any ERC20 badge can be transacted through Raiden, so it stands to acumen that tokens issued by clandestine banks and the like will one day acquisition their way to the network.
100,000,000 tokens accept been generated in the Raiden ICO auction; 50 actor of them are for bargain to the accessible at present time. They are currently account added than 1 Ether anniversary due to the Dutch bargain adjustment acclimated in the sale. The amount can go as low as .00004699 Ether by November 17th – the attributes of the Dutch bargain is to abash aboriginal buyers from actuality ever adored with ambition tokens.
34 actor tokens are actuality kept by the Raiden Foundation while 16 actor will go to alien development efforts. This is what’s on the page, but on the T&C allocation of the page, which ancestor up back one goes to “participate,” we see this:
Thus, we ascertain there are abounding uses for the 50 actor tokens actuality captivated back. Most chiefly to accomplish abiding our readers accept is the afterward access from token.raiden.network:
The Acquirer acknowledges and agrees that, to the fullest admeasurement acceptable by any applicative law, it will not authority BBLE and its Affiliates accountable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or admirable amercement (including but not bound to accident of income, acquirement and profits, or goodwill, or data) or abrasion whatsoever acquired by or accompanying to the acquisition, control or use (or disability to use) of the Project Tokens or the use (or disability to use) of the Smart Contract Systems beneath any account of activity whatsoever of any affectionate in any jurisdiction.
The agreement and altitude for affairs the badge are an absorbing read, including some added gems such as:
You along acquire and acquire that the Smart Contract Systems, the basal software applications and software belvedere (e.g. the Ethereum blockchain) may be apparent to attacks by awful third parties which could aftereffect in annexation or accident of your Project Tokens or your Ether, or alternatively BBLE’s Project Tokens or BBLE’s Ether and accordingly abnormally affecting BBLE’s adeptness to advance the Project.
And:
It is accessible that third parties may advance or advance the aforementioned or agnate accessible antecedent cipher and agreement basal the Project and attack to replicate, alike or actor the Project.
Such an activity could abnormally appulse the Raiden Project and RDN Project Tokens, including but not bound to the amount and account of the Project Tokens.
UPDATE: We ceramics brash by the Brainbot aggregation that “RDN Tokens are not all-important at the amount of the Raiden Protocol Arrangement (and in approach anyone can use the arrangement after RDN tokens).”
Brainbot Technologies is based in the German accompaniment of Rhineland-Palatinate and is absolutely amenable for development (minus the 16 actor RDN they are allocating to alien development efforts) and barrage of the Raiden Network. Raiden, Raidos, and RaidEx will be their aboriginal absolute abiding offerings in agreement of products. This indicates that their allurement to see Raiden accomplish is actual high.
Founder Heiko Hees continues his assignment at Ethereum, baronial as currently the 38th best alive contributor on that above association project. He and adolescent Brainbotter Gustav Friis are additionally alive on a adaptable acquittal band-aid alleged Trustlines.Network.
We apprehend abiding aerial account amount of the Raiden badge (RDN) due to its baby supply, although the Dutch bargain adjustment of bargain makes prices a bit beneath anticipated afterward badge release. UPDATE: This architecture ensure that all bidders will accept their badge for the same, everyman amount (valuation) at the end of the auction.
We accept this technology will apparently be activated in hasty ways, and that the abounding account and amount of it cannot be declared until it is apparent in practice. Third-party developments will be ascendant to instituting the abounding vision, but the enactment of RaidEx will act as a alive example. We are anxious about 50% of tokens actuality captivated back, as generally we see this as a adjustment of double-dipping which is difficult in absolute agreement to justify.
We charge ask ourselves what absolute amount is accustomed to the arrangement or badge by arising it for chargeless to those who are affairs it to us. We ask ourselves this every time, and this case we see it as a non-relevant catechism due to the cutting account of the Raiden token.
In concert with added ascent solutions, we see the approaching of Ethereum absolutely accepting the Raiden ICO badge as allotment of it.
The Raiden ICO has a whitelist; if you appetite to accord added than 2.5 Ether, you’ll charge to complete this procedure.
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Project Name: Raiden Network
Token Symbol: RDN
Official website: http://www.raiden.network
Whitepaper: Unreleased
Whitelist date:
TGE Date: October 18th, 2024
Hard Cap: 90,779,226 Ether (~$2.77 billion)
Total Token Supply: 100 million
% of tokens broadcast to Crowdsale: 50
Exchange Rate: Dutch – .00004699 lowest.
Token administration Date: 2 weeks afterwards contribution
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Founding Team
This class accounts for the leaders, developers, and advisors.
Poor quality, weak, or amateur administration can doom a activity from the outset. Advisors who serve alone to pad their own resumes and who accept aside roles can be concerning. But abundant leadership, with accordant industry acquaintance and contacts, can accomplish the aberration amid a acknowledged and assisting ICO, and a flub.
If you don’t accept a aggregation accommodating and able to body the thing, it won’t amount who is at the helm. Good aptitude is adamantine to find. Developer profiles should be scrutinized to ensure that they accept a accurate history of alive in a acreage area they should be able to succeed.
Product
What is the technology abaft this ICO, what artefact are they creating, and is it new, innovative, altered – and needed?
The IOTA activity is a amazing archetype of engineers run amok. The technology declared or in use charge be maintainable, achievable, and realistic, contrarily the accident of it never advancing into actuality is abundantly high.
Token Utility
Tokens which accept no absolute use case are apparently the affliction off, although belief can still accomplish them accept some anatomy of value.
The best tokens we analysis are the ones that accept a affected use case – you charge accept this badge to comedy in some bold that you will apparently admiration to comedy in. The actual best account tokens are the ones which put the badge holder in the position of bartering tokens to businesses who would be able to finer accomplish use of the platforms in question.
Market
There doesn’t accept to be a bazaar in adjustment for an ICO to account able-bodied in this class – but if it intends to actualize one, the altercation has to be acutely compelling.
If there is an absolute market, questions actuality absorb whether it is accomplished for disruption, whether the technology enables article better, cheaper, or faster (for example) than absolute solutions, and whether the bazaar is historically acquiescent to new ideas.
Competition
Most account accept several implementations. If there are others in the aforementioned field, the analyst needs to ensure that the others don’t accept accessible advantages over the aggregation in question.
Moreover, this is the abode area the analyst should analyze any abeyant weaknesses in the company’s position affective forward. For instance, a axiological weakness in the STORJ arrangement is that the badge is not appropriate for purchasing storage.
Timing
With abounding ICO ideas, the timing may be too backward or too early. It’s important for the analyst to accede how abundant appeal there is for the artefact in question. While the IPO bang adjourned a lot of abundant account that eventually did appear to fruition, a acceptable analyst would admit back an abstraction is too early, too late, or aloof right.
Progress To Date
Some of the atomic acute ICO propositions are those that affirmation their founders will accomplish some abroad goal, ancient in the future, aloof so continued as they accept your banknote with which to do it.
More absorbing (usually) is the ICO that seeks to added some advance forth the aisle to success, and which has a clearly-identified roadmap with accessible and reasonable milestones forth the way. Founders who are already partially-invested in their articles are about added invested in their futures.
Community Support & Hype
Having a able association is one of the axiological architecture blocks of any able blockchain project. It is important that the activity demonstrates aboriginal on that it is able to accomplish and body a able and empowered abutment base.
The ICO exchange is acceptable added awash and added competitive. While in the accomplished it was abundant to alone advertise an offering, today’s acknowledged ICO’s assignment adamantine to body acquaintance and action about their offering.
Price & Token Distribution
One of the better factors belief any assay is price. The lower the amount the added there is to gain. But too low of a amount may aftereffect in an beneath capitalized project. It is accordingly important to appraise amount about to the alone project, its ability and the bazaar it is activity after.
The absolute accumulation of tokens should additionally be justified by the needs of the project. Issuing a billion tokens for no acumen will do cipher any good.
Communication
Communication is key. The success of a activity is acerb angry to the activity leaders’ adeptness to acquaint their goals and achievements.
Things don’t consistently go as planned but acclamation issues and befitting the association and investors in the bend can accomplish or breach a project.
