TOP Network is committed to building a distributed communication network to support many distributed communication services such as messaging, voice, proxy, streaming media, CDN and IoT data sharing and storage. Based on P2P communication and storage technology, it breaks the traditional client/central server model, allowing every node in the network with idle bandwidth/hard disk to act as a server to serve users. TOP Network is also a high-performance public chain platform, which can not only provide accounting and settlement services for distributed communication services, but also provide services for any Dapp.

Project Introduction

TOP Network is a blockchain ecosystem consisting of an original public chain based on the 4th generation blockchain technology, decentralized applications and various supporting facilities.
Among them, the TOP chain is a full-state sharding public chain, and it is also a high-performance public chain platform that is truly built for massive business on-chain. TOP Chain's unique three-layer architecture of main chain, business chain, and trusted off-chain ledger can support business on-chain of any magnitude. Based on the DAG data structure, the TOP chain innovatively applies technologies such as double-layer lattice, double-layer sharding, and parallel PBFT. The single-chain processing capacity exceeds 100,000 TPS. The extremely high TPS (transaction throughput) and security of the TOP chain, coupled with the fast transaction confirmation speed on the chain and zero transaction fees, are especially suitable for communication, games, social networking, big data, artificial intelligence, IoT, etc. Frequency services are uploaded to the chain.

The vision of TOP Network is to build a public blockchain infrastructure specially designed for DApp. Hundreds of top developers in the TOP team are working tirelessly for this goal. Up to now, the TOP team has developed the decentralized wallet HiWallet, and is developing a number of large-scale DApps including blockchain games.
In addition, applications with more than 80 million overseas users such as Dingtone, CoverMe and Proxy will also be gradually migrated to the TOP chain in stages, bringing massive business and users to the TOP Network ecology, making it a A truly thriving blockchain ecosystem.

TOP Network originated from Silicon Valley and took root in China. It was established by Steve Wei in 2017. Steve is a successful serial entrepreneur and one of the earliest employees of the legendary Silicon Valley company WebEx, contributing the main code. After leaving WebEx, Steve founded Shengwei New Century, a video conferencing software company, which was acquired by Huawei in 2010. In 2012, Steve founded Tengzhan Technology, which owns a series of mobile Internet communication apps and has more than 80 million overseas users.

Project Vision

TOP is a distributed communication network based on the 4th generation blockchain technology, providing secure, high-quality, low-cost communication cloud services, including messaging, voice calls, video calls, VoIP, VPN, CDN, live broadcast, IoT data interaction, etc.

The TOP chain is also a high-performance public chain platform, which is truly built for massive business on-chain. TOP's unique three-layer architecture of main chain, business chain, and trusted off-chain ledger can handle any magnitude of business on-chain. Based on the DAG data structure, the TOP chain innovatively applies technologies such as double-layer lattice, double-layer sharding, and parallel PBFT. The single-chain processing capacity exceeds 300,000 TPS. TOP's transaction processing capabilities, security, and degree of decentralization far exceed DAG-based chains such as IOTA, Byteball, and Nano.

The vision of TOP Network is to build a public blockchain infrastructure specially designed for Dapp. Our top-tier team of over 100 developers is working tirelessly to make this happen.

Project Highlights

TOP Network has accumulated in the field of decentralized communication networks for a long time. Currently, there are three decentralized applications with a total of more than 50,000,000 users, which can be seamlessly transferred to the TOP Network blockchain platform, which is enough to activate the related industries of the project ecology.

In the communication industry, transaction data is often extremely large. Taking SkyVPN as an example, its data reaches 512KB per second. TOP Network aims to achieve a million-level TPS. To this end, the system architecture of TOP Network has been specially optimized, with the characteristics of multi-chain architecture, horizontal expansion and hierarchical structure, as follows:

Among them, the layered architecture means: the main chain is responsible for payment and settlement, the service chain is responsible for the service transaction order book, and the detailed service logs are stored in the off-chain storage network; the multi-chain architecture means: the main chain is responsible for system security and clean computing, the service chain mainly provides support for TOP services; horizontal scalability refers to the horizontal expansion of blockchain platform performance on the chain by partitioning and sharding each chain, combined with DAG technology and double-layer Fragmentation technology improves the overall horizontal scalability of the blockchain to millions of TPS. In the horizontal expansion scheme, the project pioneered the application of double-layer lattice, double-layer sharding, parallel PBFT and other technologies, and the single-chain processing capacity exceeds 300,000 TPS.

TOP Network has a very excellent project team, has successfully started businesses many times, and has excellent technology development capabilities and business development capabilities. The project party has already established a mature business with stable cash flow, which can continue to support project development, community operation and marketing investment. The management is rich in experience. The founder and CEO Steve was an early core employee of WebEx. He returned to China in 2014 to create Shengwei, which was later acquired by Huawei. In 2012, he founded Dingtone and SkyVPN. CMO Noah, graduated from Yale Business School, worked in Management positions at finance and insurance group Starr, ICBC and PwC. In addition, the project’s advisory team includes Zoom’s CEO Eric Yuan, FICO’s CEO Mark Greene, NGC’s Roger Lim, and BlockVC’s Kevin Hsu, covering the communication industry, financial technology, blockchain investment institutions, digital asset management, etc. Industry, can obtain all-round consultation and support.

From the perspective of investment institutions, the project has won the favor of the world's top investment funds including BlockVC, Fenbushi Capital, Danhua Capital, NGC, etc., which will help the project leverage industry resources and build a business ecosystem. As far as the development progress of the project is concerned, the testnet is currently online, the mainnet wallet and block browser have also been tested online, and community code bug bounty activities are underway.

Application Scenario

Privacy Breach

At present, there is an urgent need for secure, reliable, and full-featured communication services in the market. Big companies unscrupulously monitor and steal user data, ignoring user privacy, causing the public's trust in communication products to plummet.

Sadly, the most popular apps are often the ones that do the most when it comes to snooping on user data. Although Facebook Messenger has repeatedly denied violating user privacy, the app has long since lost favor with users. According to Forbes contributor Kalev Leetaru, as long as it is authorized by the government, any organization can view the chat history of Facebook Messenger, and the app itself is also collecting user data to seek commercial benefits.
 
Kalev Leetaru在报道中提到：“尽管数据隐私专家们尚未彻底搞明白Facebook是如何追踪私人数据，又是如何跟政府和其他公司串通起来监控用户的，但Facebook依然应当承受谴责——它至少应该更清楚地告知用户Facebook拿他们的数据干了什么。”
 
在隐私和安全问题上，微信也饱受抨击。 As one of the most popular social apps in the world, WeChat failed to protect its 980 million user base, making it easy for third parties to obtain data on the platform. According to the "South China Morning Post" report, considering security risks, Australia prohibits military personnel from using WeChat on official mobile phones.
 
出于对Facebook Messenger、微信等app的不满，许多用户将目光转向了Telegram、WhatsApp等采用了加密技术的通信产品。 But these alternatives don't offer peace of mind, either. Telegram's group chat function still has security risks. WhatsApp was acquired by the "big brother" Facebook, causing public concern. More importantly, as a software that centrally stores user data, WhatsApp has the inherent flaws of all centralized apps.

Product Innovation

Steve Wei and TOP Network proposed a new idea to solve user privacy issues. Steve once developed CoverMe, the world's first encrypted communication application. This year, he and the TOP Network team will release TOP Messenger, an instant messaging software that supports complete anonymity. TOP Network's products adhere to the core values ​​of "decentralization, low cost, security, privacy protection and interconnection".
 
TOP Network（Telos Protocol）打造了一个基于区块链的通信网络，通过实现数据的去中心化传输和存储保证用户信息不被第三方窃取。 According to the description in the project white paper, in addition to the decentralized instant messaging app, TOP Network will also develop "IP-based voice transmission (VoIP), video, live broadcast, content distribution network (CDN), Internet of Things" on its own public chain. (IoT) data exchange, storage, etc." a series of decentralized communication cloud services.
 
Steve在通信领域有二十多年的创业经验，开发了包括CoverMe在内的多款通信app。 Rich experience allows Steve to be keenly aware of the shortcomings of existing centralized communication apps, so he is determined to use the blockchain to improve his previously developed products.
 
去中心化是项目的关键。 CoverMe currently still relies on a centralized database, which is vulnerable to attacks. TOP Network achieves decentralization and can better protect user data.
 
Steve解释道，在CoverMe上，用户发送的消息经过端到端加密，无法被第三方窃取，已经比Facebook Messenger安全了很多。 For example, if the FBI issues a subpoena asking for access to the messages on CoverMe, the company cannot provide them because the end-to-end encryption technology only allows the user to access the decrypted messages. But centralized CoverMe did not achieve the desired level of privacy, as data such as IP addresses and login information could still be obtained by third parties. The decentralized TOP Network eliminates all access rights to user information and provides a unique and valuable new generation of communication methods.
 
Steve表示，去中心化也能改善VPN服务。 Steve's team has developed a centralized SkyVPN. As a decentralized communication network, the number of servers of TOP Network will greatly exceed that of SkyVPN. The more servers there are, the harder it is for a VPN's IP address to be blocked; conversely, if all activity is handled by a centralized server, a VPN can be easily identified, blocked, and ultimately ruin the user experience.

Open Source Wins

After working hard and accumulating in the communication industry for many years, Steve realized the importance of open source. He believes that the reason why Telegram is more popular than CoverMe is that the former is open source and the latter is not.
 
Steve告诉福布斯，在改善用户体验、利用奖励计划（Bounty Program）提高通信网络性能等方面，“开源是真正的关键”。

Online soon

TOP Network will launch a public chain and a decentralized communication cloud network this year. At that time, the three apps developed by the TOP team - CoverMe, SkyVPN and Dingtone - and the 50 million users of these apps will be seamlessly migrated to the public chain developed by the TOP team. According to Steve, the vast majority of users will not notice any changes, and the user experience will not be affected at all.
 
公链主网一经上线，用户可以马上开始挖矿赚取代币(Token)，“任何用户都可以通过向TOP Network贡献设备和宽带来获得相应的代币奖励”。 Mobile phone signal operators, wifi centers, satellite operators, etc. can provide communication relay equipment and services for TOP Network.
 
根据白皮书介绍，TOP Network提供丰富、全面的通信服务。 In addition to instant messaging, TOP Messenger built on TOP Network can also provide users with a series of functions, including social networking, community, communication, digital asset management (wallet), electronic currency payment and decentralized cryptocurrency transactions.
 
去中心化的TOP Messenger将成为Facebook Messenger的靠谱替代品。 Although many users will have to continue to use Facebook Messenger for convenience and ease of use, convenience and ease of use should not come at the expense of privacy and freedom of speech. TOP Network captures the dual needs of the public for convenience and privacy, and is expected to achieve successful release and promotion.
 
一切出于保护隐私、安全和自由而作出的努力都是高尚而有价值的。 TOP Network adheres to its core values ​​and is making steady progress on the road of subverting the communication industry. The years of successful experience of Steve and his team in the communication field have also laid a solid foundation for the prospects of TOP Network. After a few months, users will find that, in addition to the existing communication apps, there are new, safer and more reliable options in front of them.

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