Crypto markets have seen a huge spike in both value and interest recently. It would seem that the technology behind this preserves its ability to spark new ideas, possibilities, and ultimately shift our understanding of how we can communicate on the world wide web.

FLO is no exception to this. Having slowly accumulated the interest of corporations as well as hobbyists with an itch to create something new, FLO has provided an opportunity to capitalize on creativity.

FLO specializes in providing a layer of data on top of the transaction known as floData, where anyone is able to post something as simple as a message, or an entire suite of programs.

However there is a problem, how does one keep track of anything they post onto the chain? There would need to be some standardized set of protocols that allow you to find information in a decentralized database. Fortunately, this problem has been solved…

Welcome: Open Index Protocol. OIP is a standard set of rules that allow information being posted to the blockchain to be organized through templates. These templates define the kind of object or content in such a way that allows you to easily scan the blockchain for what you are looking for.

All of the unique projects listed in this article are using these technologies as the backbone of their operations.

Alexandria — ( https://www.alexandria.io)

Albeit a bit of a tough year, Alexandria is still pushing forward, steady and strong. More than a few projects are being developed, but the spotlight goes to Trinity. An arbitrage bot that identifies the mining opportunities as a result of ever changing market conditions. The incentive for FLO is to tap into the vast hash-power market of mining rentals such as “Nicehash” and “Mining Rig Rentals” which provides an immeasurable pool of network stability when needed.

Let’s also not forget the incredible work being done on DDX (Distributed Database of X). The many implementations of this concept range from maintaining a public database of scientific information, historically significant public figures, as well as electronic devices and the documentation needed to understand them. The underlying technology OIP (Open Index Protocol) provides the backbone to index and maintain this information within a public space.

Make sure to tune into the Alexandria podcast “ What Kind of Internet Do You Want? “ to stay up to date with developments!

Streambed — ( https://streambedmedia.com)

Streambed is now live and in beta. The consumer application allows users to keep track of their activity on social media and earn money from their favorite brands. The app posts content to social platforms on your behalf and analytically visualizes the impact of your activity.

The Streambed team is currently building an enterprise application (Streambed Magnify) to interact with the growing consumer app, which will allow brands to directly interact with their customers. What is a proud customer if not the best tool to advertise your brand? It offers an alternative to traditional advertising, whereby the user can be rewarded for their efforts. And of course, everything publishes to the FLO blockchain and is indexed using OIP.

Medici Land Governance — ( https://mediciland.com)

MLG as many know them, has passed some significant milestones as well, having been approved to store all the land records of yet another county in Wyoming! Such records provide important information and historical evidence of both residential and commercial properties. These records are then posted and referenced to on the FLO blockchain using OIP.

Ranchi Mall — ( https://ranchimall.net)

Our friends over in India have silently been developing some rather unique tools to interact with FLO/OIP. One of the most notable projects, in my opinion, is FLO messenger. This tool provides a rather unique concept whereby crypto keys can be used to create a FLOid. This text based communication runs within the user’s browser and works without the need to register with a centralized authority. The ability to tokenize real world objects/information is also functional.

Al Bawaba — ( https://www.albawaba.com)

The self proclaimed “Largest independent producer and distributor of content in the Middle East”, is still experimenting with posting articles on the blockchain. Last year they were able to integrate wallet functionality into their front end, whereby pages are paid for per viewership. This allows a relatively efficient way of paying article creators for their content directly. Especially within the past couple years, the interest in blockchain related technologies has skyrocketed in the Middle East and so has the news associated with it.

- Deep in the Bunker: w/ Joseph Fiscella and Chris Chrysostom ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvwM8iKzAD4)

- Deep in the Bunker: w/ Joseph Fiscella ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xdI0H0STCU)

- 2021 Update, OIP/Trinity, Ren Integration ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU2dn_LSFm4)

- Latest blogpost: DD Devices ( https://dev.to/ddx/introducing-dd-devices-3399)

- Teton County, Wyoming and Medici Land Governance for recording land title registry data ( https://www.coindesk.com/wyoming-county-moves-to-put-land-records-on-blockchain)

- Carbon County, Wyoming and Medici Land Governance add more property records to FLO ( https://mediciland.com/medici-land-governance-to-develop-blockchain-based-land-records-and-information-platform-in-carbon-county-wyoming/)

1. As our cousins over at Ravencoin have already done, FLO will be submitting an application to be listed on Coinbase.
2. Update our website
3. Update our WikiPedia Page
4. Integrate FLO/OIP into chainlink
5. Marketing campaigns and rebrand
6. Migrate FLO onto Polkadot and Ethereum in the form of wFLO to add liquidity and enable web3 functionality.

My personal donation addresses:
BTC: 3EWMWMnmmNJbXzcXK2ex5tcVFdR4ixPqdZ
ETH: 0xAF0E983b905A53b5Fd1DCd1d031B990B9BFad398
FLO: FK1QhgVFQDHffAziPCPoHfDavU1ZFBjPXh

Originally published at https://martin-adams.medium.com on March 5, 2021.

Dr. Davi Ortega (PHD in physics), author of the Electron Tomogram Database at Caltech, has taken the time to provide an update on his work anchoring scientific records into the FLO Blockchain using the Open Index Protocol. In his update Davi tells us:

Since January The Jensen Lab at Caltech and Alexandria have been working on the next scientific database anchored in the FLO blockchain using OIP: the Distributed Database of Electron Micrographs (DDEM).

In 2018 we learned a lot during the design, building, and implementation of the ETDB. In particular, we understood that each ETDB “research.tomogram” OIP record would be much richer if certain fields of the record were filled with identifiers of other OIP records.

This seems easy to explain by example. In the OIP research.tomogram record “d9f5fc” (https://etdb.caltech.edu/tomogram/d9f5fc), the microscope used to take the tomogram is listed as “Caltech Polara”. This is not a very informative field, in particular to people that are not familiar with microscopy. Ideally, we would like to have a lot of information about this microscope. We would like for people to know that this tomogram was taken with a FEI G2 300 keV field emission gun microscope with a Gatan imaging fliers and K2 summit counting electron detector camera — this is the Caltech Polara. Obviously, we should not include all this info, repeatedly, over and over, in each of the OIP “research.tomogram” record.

Instead, we would like to have an OIP “research.microscope” record that lists the Caltech Polara specifications, far more detailed as the description above. When publishing the OIP record, we would receive the unique FLO txid identifier and then use that identifier to fill the field “microscope” in the “research.tomograms” records. This is true for many other fields: Microscopist, Aquisition software, processing software and etc… We recognize that this is something universal to any database using OIP and living in the FLO blockchain.

When we started to build the DDEM, we noticed that there are many types of OIP records that we would like to have: sample, protocol, equipment, scientist, laboratory, university and etc. However, OIP records are defined and hardcoded in the oipd: the official OIP daemon written in GoLang and maintained by the OIP working group — OIPwg.

In the current version of OIP, each project would need to fork the repository and implement the record types in the code. This would generate an ecosystem with multiple versions of OIP mostly incompatible.

The Power of Decentralization

This is what we have been up to in Q1. In the past few months, we have revamped the OIP logic to implement dynamic record types. Instead of having the record type definition hardcoded in the OIPd, we only have one record type hardcoded, the type “template”.

In the new OIP version, with a predicted release date for Q3 of 2019, projects will use the “template” to publish on the FLO blockchain the definition of the record type they want to use. Anyone can use any published record type.

As usual, this solution creates more complicated, fun problems to approach.

Relationships Between OIP Records

One of the fun problems we have been actively discussing is how to build a web of relationships between record types. For example, let’s suppose that Alice just graduated with a bachelor in science with a major in mathemagics from ACME University.

Alice has an OIP FLO profile and so does the ACME University.

We are working on the logic behind how ACME University would let the world know that Alice has this degree.

Fun, right!?

Right… the problem is that the logic behind the relationships between OIP records must be flexible enough to let ACME University tell the world Alice has a degree in Mathemagics, and to let Alice tell the world that she is in a band “Alice and the FLOers”, that the “Alice and the FLOers” just signed a contract with “Bob’s bar” to play a concert next Thursday. It has to be flexible enough to let the world know that the Jensen Lab is a laboratory at Caltech, that has sponsorship from NIH and HHMI, is in collaboration with Alexandria to build the next version of OIP and a team of postdocs and graduate students taking electron tomograms and micrographs of bacteria and environmental samples, and that each of these postdocs and graduate students received their degree from XYZ universities and … phew…

As you can see, we have big plans for OIP and FLO… and we are designing and building the tech and logic needed to make FLO the index cabinet of the world’s library.

This summer I will be heading to The Netherlands to expand the ETDB with a second university, Leiden University, the oldest university in the country and one of the most prestigious in Europe.

Our Next Scientific Database in Collaboration with Caltech: The Distributed Database of Electron… was originally published in FLO Blockchain on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Next week from the 25th — 29th of March, The 2019 Land and Poverty Conference will take place in Washington D.C., where Chris Chrysostom of Medici Land Governance (MLG) will be showcasing the progress that MLG has made in land title registry on the Open Index Protocol. Now titling property in places that include Zambia, Rwanda, Mexico, and Wyoming, Medici Land Governance is using blockchain and other technologies to build next-generation land administration systems in the developing world.

Hosted by The World Bank, The Land and Poverty Conference presents the latest research and innovations in policies and good practice on land governance. This conference has become one of the largest international events on this issue, attracting over 1,500 participants from governments, academics, civil society, and the private sector.

“I’m excited to show the conference how any government or organization can build their own blockchain property register using the open technologies Open Index Protocol and FLO Blockchain,” said Chrysostom, who is a senior software developer at Medici Land Governance. “This is a great opportunity to promote our work with the World Bank securing land rights in developing countries.”

Themes of this year’s conference will include:

1. Economic research and impact evaluation
2. Land policy and political economy
3. Land markets and structural transformation
4. Land and human rights, gender, indigenous peoples
5. Commons and natural resource management
6. Large scale land acquisition: Agriculture, extractives, infrastructure
7. Urban expansion, land use, land value capture, and housing
8. Use of remote sensing and land use policy
9. Data integration & interoperability for public service provision
10. Institutional innovation and private sector participation,
11. New ways of land data capture & analysis (incl. machine learning)
12. Global frameworks; indicators; progress monitoring, LGAF

About Medici Land Governance

Medici Land Governance is a portfolio company of Medici Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Overstock.com. Since 2014, Medici Ventures has been investing in and building a portfolio of companies that plan to decentralize the internet, disintermediate finance, and dynamically change the world by advancing blockchain technology.

About the Open Index Protocol

Built upon the FLO blockchain, the Open Index Protocol (OIP) is a specification for decentralized publishing, distribution and payments of any digital media. OIP uses the FLO blockchain for the meta-data index and interoperable transport protocols for file storage/distribution and payments. Current implementation supports IPFS for file storage/distribution and Bitcoin, Litecoin and FLO tokens for payments.

Medici Land Governance to be Showcased at The Land and Poverty Conference with The World Bank was originally published in FLO Blockchain on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We are considering how to prevent funds getting stuck in an initiative for so long that they become obsolete. For that reason we will keep an initiative open for 3 months. After that, we thought about moving the funds to the most well funded initiative, but the community raised the concern that this might not be fair.

Thus, we thought long and hard and decided that we will keep a permanent fund to update the core code of FLO. The funds from expired initiatives will be moved to fund updates to FLO core.

We think this is the most logical solution and it is in line with the FLO foundation’s mission of keeping the FLO blockchain secure.

Cheers and #GoWithTheFLO

Sincerely, The FLO Foundation

We are excited to announce that the FLO Foundation has been established as a limited company in Hong Kong, for the purposes of non-profit fundraising for development of community sponsored software and applications on the FLO blockchain. Since FLO’s inception in 2013, our core team of developers has been maintaining the blockchain and building decentralized, open-source software with the goal of providing free virtual public spaces for all the world to enjoy. Although we are volunteers with no funding or ICO money to support our efforts, we have been building diligently, and 2019 is the year we expect to see the fruits of our efforts.

Thanks to Devon and Amy James and their work on the Open Index Protocol (OIP), the FLO blockchain is now being utilized by publicly listed companies, major universities, and is being piloted by a US county in Wyoming for land records.

The FLO Foundation can be found online at FLO.foundation, where we will share our progress and new information related to our efforts, and where our supporters and community members can suggest and help fund software projects that will bring value and utility to FLO. Each individual project will have its own deposit address to which donations can be sent, and once a funding target is reached, we will allocate those funds towards the completion of the project. To begin, we have chosen several projects that we feel will best improve the utility of FLO:

1. Mobile Wallet
2. Trezor Support
3. FLO Blockchain Twitter Bot
4. Buy Joey a Big Mac

If you’d like to suggest a new project for funding, please make a suggestion on telegram (t.me/floblockchain) or twitter (twitter.com/floblockchain). We welcome new ideas and development.

We are grateful for your support, and we hope to continue building and delivering exciting new decentralized applications for the world.

Sincerely,
Joseph Fiscella and the FLO team

Announcing The FLO Foundation was originally published in FLO Blockchain on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Although we have been quiet lately, rest assured we’re working hard on things behind the scenes. And if it seems that not much progress has been made on the FLO blockchain, we’re here to tell you Stay Tuned for an exciting 2019. It’s because we are a volunteer team of developers, with no ICO funds to support us, that we prefer to announce new developments as they come online.

That said, we have spent this entire year on intensive back-end development, with significant resources going toward the Open Index Protocol (OIP). As an index of decentralized data, OIP allows you to monetize digital content on the blockchain. And while building, we have been presenting our vision for a decentralized web all around the world. In 2018 we introduced OIP at conferences and events in San Francisco, Texas, Wyoming, and Shanghai, and the responses have been positive. Our efforts are now seen in different use cases being tested with Tzero for Digital Locate Receipts; in Zambia and Rwanda for land title registry by Medici Land Governance; at California Institute of Technology for storing and sharing scientific data; in India for dapps as simple as creating digital business cards; in Flotorizer for timestamping and notorizing digital data; and we will soon go live with the FLO Foundation that has been established in Hong Kong.

While 2018 has been difficult for many blockchain projects, this was the year that FLO and OIP have found a global reach.

One of the most exciting projects built on FLO and OIP, is of course Alexandria, an OIP browser that will connect content creators directly to users, without the need for intermediaries (think Youtube, Itunes, Spotify). Alexandria allows creators to upload their work, set a price for it, and get paid immediately in Bitcoin and other currencies.

You can view new demos of Alexandria’s Album Play and Video Play here:

https://alexandria.io/demo/

Finally, as our platform grows, and our resources and community grow along with it, we are planning to update the FLO community on a more regular basis. So stay tuned!

Cheers,
Joseph Fiscella and the FLO team

Looking FLOward to 2019 was originally published in FLO Blockchain on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Although we have been quiet lately, rest assured we’re working hard on things behind the scenes. And if it seems that not much progress has been made on the FLO blockchain, we’re here to tell you Stay Tuned for an exciting 2019. It’s because we are a volunteer team of developers, with no ICO funds to support us, that we prefer to announce new developments as they come online.

That said, we have spent this entire year on intensive back-end development, with significant resources going toward the Open Index Protocol (OIP). As an index of decentralized data, OIP allows you to monetize digital content on the blockchain. And while building, we have been presenting our vision for a decentralized web all around the world. In 2018 we introduced OIP at conferences and events in San Francisco, Texas, Wyoming, and Shanghai, and the responses have been positive. Our efforts are now seen in different use cases being tested with Tzero for Digital Locate Receipts; in Zambia and Rwanda for land title registry by Medici Land Governance; at California Institute of Technology for storing and sharing scientific data; in India for dapps as simple as creating digital business cards; in Flotorizer for timestamping and notorizing digital data; and we will soon go live with the FLO Foundation that has been established in Hong Kong.

While 2018 has been difficult for many blockchain projects, this was the year that FLO and OIP have found a global reach.

One of the most exciting projects built on FLO and OIP, is of course Alexandria, an OIP browser that will connect content creators directly to users, without the need for intermediaries (think Youtube, Itunes, Spotify). Alexandria allows creators to upload their work, set a price for it, and get paid immediately in Bitcoin and other currencies.

You can view new demos of Alexandria’s Album Play and Video Play here:

https://alexandria.io/demo/

Finally, as our platform grows, and our resources and community grow along with it, we are planning to update the FLO community on a more regular basis. So stay tuned!

Cheers,
Joseph Fiscella and the FLO team

2018–12–13 update: FLO has been upgraded to version 0.15.1.1 with a maximum reorg depth update, similar to Ravencoin’s solution. The original plan outlined below was abandoned and no central node was implemented into the core code. Instead, the more applicable max reorg depth consensus rules were added to FLO.

51% attack and the proposed solution

TL;DR

• On Sept 8th 2018, Bittrex suffered a double-spend attack on the FLO network.
• As a precaution, Bittrex disabled the wallet and contacted the FLO team.
• All coins are safe as far as we know.
• The FLO team agreed to implement Sunny King’s advanced checkpointing system as a short-term solution to mitigate 51% attacks.
• The upgrade should be completed within 4 to 6 weeks.
• Wallets on Bittrex will be disabled for deposit and withdrawals until the upgrade is complete.
• The FLO team will repay the approximate 700,000 FLO stolen from Bittrex in honor of our long lasting relationship with them.
• We urge the community to contribute with this effort by donating to the following addresses:
• FLO: F7LP3ABRSathxFCWVeVaygWKSQcHBvwzKZ
• BTC: 1CYRfTv9EL7yc4d9aLRqkgp49aBsGaFCgN
• ETH: 0x0a92567249d6aEE28ED201d2125BE1b550bDa56D
• Surplus of donations will serve to speed up development of the advanced checkpointing upgrade.
• The FLO team is commited to finding a more decentralized long-term solution to secure the FLO network.

Overview

On September 8th, 2018 we were informed by Bittrex that the FLO network was subject to a large reorg of blocks (precisely 443) which resulted in a deposit of 680,000 FLO to be invalidated, along with several smaller deposits summing up to approximately 20,000 FLO. As a result, Bittrex’s FLO wallet was closed for deposits and withdrawals, although trading is still enabled on the exchange. Depositing and withdrawing will remain unavailable until a technical solution is found.

FLO has supported Bittrex with software updates and technical matters since Bittrex listed our coin on its exchange since March 2015. The FLO team would like to take responsibility for paying back the 700,000 FLO that Bittrex lost. We’re currently implementing a technical solution to prevent 51% attacks on our chain in the future.

Why did this happen to FLO? Weren’t the devs aware of the vulnerability?

Approximately 2 years ago, the FLO team got together and discussed changing the consensus algorithm on FLO to something other than proof of work. The Alexandria devs were adamant about sticking with proof of work because they felt that it had more potential to stay decentralized and secure over the long term. As a precautionary measure, we asked Bittrex to increase its required confirmation time to 300 confirms, greatly increasing their security against a 51% attack.

If we had ignored the Alexandria devs and switched away from proof of work at that time, the other three apps on our chain would not have selected FLO for their blockchain solution. Had we switched consensus mechanisms, it is likely that the Jensen Lab at Caltech, Medici Ventures, and tZERO would not have been interested in building on FLO.

To summarize the above, the FLO devs made the decision to stick with proof-of-work based on the wishes of:

• Alexandria
• The Jensen Lab at Caltech
• Medici Ventures
• tZERO

In other words, many important apps on top of our chain would be forced to consider another blockchain to build on if FLO switched away from proof-of-work.

What is the proposed solution?

Our solution is to implement Sunny King’s advanced checkpointing system. This system was originally deployed in Peercoin, Quark, and Primecoin, and is also currently in use in the Feathercoin core codebase.

What is advanced checkpointing?

Sunny King’s advanced checkpointing system can be used to enforce a rule disallowing block reorganizations back past the most recent checkpointed block.

Current plan to implement checkpointing

Forking Feathercoin 0.16.1 is our current plan because of the similarity between FLO and FTC. Feathercoin implements Sunny King’s checkpoint system and is listed on Bittrex. https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/releases

Technical details

Checkpoints disallow block reorganizations back past the most recently checkpointed block. One node is responsible for checkpointing blocks on the network. This node authenticates checkpoint data using an asymmetric key owned by the coin developer. All other nodes enforce checkpoints by default, but there is an enforcecheckpoint option to toggle checkpoint enforcement on and off within the client.

Advantage: 51% attacks are much more difficult to execute because the attacker’s secretly-mined blocks will not be checkpointed and an attempt to reorganize checkpointed blocks won’t be valid.

Disadvantage: This solution is currently centralized around a single developer’s key and node.

Potential threat: DDOS attacks can interrupt the connection between the developer’s checkpoint node and other nodes on the network.

Overall, PoW with advanced checkpointing is far more secure than PoW without it, and it is a good solution for the time being.

Timetable

In the last 5 and a half years FLO has existed, in general, it has taken 1–2 months to make an upgrade to the protocol code. This is the expected timetable for another similar upgrade.

Long term solution

In the end we want to move away from a centralized checkpoint server operated by developers. Here are the following considerations we have for more secure PoW consensus mechanisms.

Currently the only solutions for PoW chains are:

1. Become the supermajority leader in your hardware profile for the algorithm you’re using for consensus (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc)
2. Use a hybrid PoW/PoS system
3. Use decentralized checkpointing and notary (KMD, Veriblock)
4. Layer-2 or sidechain with Bitcoin
5. Collaborative-defense by stake-holders in projects built on FLO (theoretical only, in development by Alexandria)

Who controls the funds collected for the FLO upgrade?

The addresses are owned by the FLO dev team and will be managed by the team.

Who will manage the checkpoint node?

The checkpoint node will be managed by the FLO developers as well as the Alexandria team.

What can I do to help?

The team is launching a community effort to re-pay the lost FLO to Bittrex in honor of our relationship with them. If you would like to contribute, please donate to one of the addresses below:

FLO: F7LP3ABRSathxFCWVeVaygWKSQcHBvwzKZ
BTC: 1CYRfTv9EL7yc4d9aLRqkgp49aBsGaFCgN
ETH: 0x0a92567249d6aEE28ED201d2125BE1b550bDa56D

Any surplus donations will be used to accelerate development work on the advanced checkpointing upgrade for FLO.

2018–12–13 update: FLO has been upgraded to version 0.15.1.1 with a maximum reorg depth update, similar to Ravencoin’s solution. The original plan outlined below was abandoned and no central node was implemented into the core code. Instead, the more applicable max reorg depth consensus rules were added to FLO.

FLO Team Response to 51% attack was originally published in FLO Blockchain on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Recientemente Poloniex escribió un tweet y un mail con sus planes para delistar FLO de su exchange y ya hemos contactado con ellos para ver qué puede hacerse al respecto. Por otro lado, pese a que no existe una fuente de validación central particular para criptoproyectos, parece justo afirmar que la comunidad recurre a los exchanges para obtener información. El objetivo de los exchanges es permitir a la gente intercambiar sus monedas de un diverso grupo de criptoproyectos, y en ese nicho, proporcionan un servicio valioso y necesario a la criptocomunidad.

El equipo de FLO lamenta la decisión adoptada por Poloniex, a la vez que entonamos el mea culpa por el hecho de no haber mantenido suficientemente actualizada a la comunidad de FLO. Esto ha sido así puesto que la mayoría de nuestra comunidad está formada por desarrolladores y la mayor parte de nuestra actividad se hace visible en Github, así como en el Rocket Chat de desarrolladores, no a través de Telegram ni Twitter.

Del mismo modo, cabe mencionar que FLO ha estado muy activa por parte de los desarrolladores durante los últimos cinco años, con actualizaciones diarias en Github. Del mismo modo, es importante tener en cuenta que en el lanzamiento de FLO no hubo ICO ni preminado de algún tipo, así como que el código que escribimos ha sido software completamente libre.

Actualización de Alexandria

El equipo de Alexandria, con cuatro desarrolladores a tiempo completo, ha progresado a gran velocidad en su OIP — Open Index Protocol — durante el último año. Del mismo modo, también han contribuido significativamente al código de FLO y a su infraestructura. El equipo de Alexandria ha constituido un factor muy relevante en la realización de la actualización del segwit en FLO, así como en la actualización de FLO a nuestro explorador de bloques más reciente https://flocha.in.

En julio, el equipo de Alexandria y colaboradores del OIP se encontraron en la oficina de Alexandria, en San Diego. Las fotos y videos del evento pueden encontrarse en

FLO on Twitter

Photos from the FLO summit 2018 at the @alexandria office in San Diego! #gowiththeflo #blockchaindev #flosummit https://t.co/X8TXvC3y1Y

FLO on Twitter

The FLO / @alexandria livestream from yesterday is now in VOD format! https://t.co/UJlfb7BYP9

Deseamos seguir trabajando en FLO dentro de nuestra propia comunidad, así como en colaboración externa con la comunidad de colaboradores que están construyendo dapps en nuestra blockchain. Aunque el delistado por parte de un exchange puede ser visto como un gran revés, también puede verse como una llamada de atención a nuestro grupo para que informemos más y mejor a todos los usuarios sobre qué hacemos y por qué es increíble.

Las últimas noticias de FLO

A continuación se muestra una lista de las asociaciones que FLO tiene en la actualidad con proyectos que emplean a FLO como blockchain backend en producción, así como alguna información general para los recién llegados a FLO.

Te invitamos a visitarnos en:
www.flo.cash

Te invitamos a chatear con nosotros en:
Telegram: https://t.me/FLOblockchain
Forum: https://forum.flo.cash/
RocketChat: https://chat.alexandria.io

Síguenos en:
https://twitter.com/FLOblockchain
https://www.facebook.com/floblockchain
https://www.reddit.com/r/floblockchain/
https://medium.com/flo-cash
https://instagram.com/flo.blockchain
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDAELSdJelys5VkE1FuXo2A

Lista de organizaciones de Github donde puedes seguir el desarrollo de FLO
https://github.com/floblockchain
https://github.com/oipwg
https://github.com/dloa
https://github.com/RanchiMall

Asociaciones y colaboraciones más relevantes:
California Institute of Technology- https://etdb.caltech.edu/
Overstock’s tZERO — https://www.tzero.com/
Open Index Protocol Working Group- https://github.com/oipwg / http://oip.wiki/
Medici Ventures- www.mediciventures.com
YBF Ventures- https://ybfventures.com
RanchiMall- https://medium.com/ranchimall/ranchi-mall-and-flo-blockchain-eco-system-748250b63709

Lista de Dapps corriendo en la FLO blockchain:
https://flo.cash/dapps.html
Alexandria — https://alexandria.io/browser/
California Institute of Technology — https://etdb.caltech.edu/browse
Overstock’s tZERO — https://www.tzero.com/
Medici Ventures — https://www.mediciventures.com/
Shared Secret — http://www.sharedsecret.net/
Notarize with Flotorizer — http://flotorizer.net/
World Mood — http://worldmood.io/
Aterna Love — https://github.com/metacoin/aternalove
Xcertify — https://github.com/akhil2015/Xcertify

Y mucho más está siendo desarrollado en la actualidad mientras escribimos este texto.

Lista de exchanges donde puede tradearse FLO
https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-FLO
https://novaexchange.com/market/BTC_FLO/
https://openbazaar.org/
https://indacoin.com/
https://trade.thecoin.pw
http://changenow.io
https://www.blocknet.co/block-dx/

Poloniex recently tweeted and emailed out their plans to de-list FLO from their exchange. We are currently contacting their team to see what can be done. While there is no particular central source of validation for crypto projects, it may be fair to say that the community turns to exchanges for guidance. The goal exchanges have is to allow people to trade coins from a diverse group of crypto projects, and in that niche, they provide a valuable and necessary service to the crypto community.

We regret to hear about their decision, but at the same time, we don’t count out the possibility that we were also at fault for failing to keep the crypto community up-to-date with FLO. The majority of our community is dev-focused, and most of our activity is on our Github pages and within the developer Rocket Chat; not within Telegram or Twitter.

FLO has been very dev-active in this space for the past 5 years, with updates being pushed up to Github almost on a daily basis. There was no ICO nor was there a premine of FLO at its launch. All of the code we’ve written has been free software.

Alexandria update

The Alexandria team, with 4 full time developers, has made fast progress in their OIP — Open Index Protocol — over the past year. They’ve also contributed a significant amount to the FLO core codebase and its infrastructure. The Alexandria team was a major factor in delivering the segwit upgrade to FLO as well as upgrading FLO to our most recent block explorer https://flocha.in.

In July, the Alexandria team and OIP collaborators met at the Alexandria office in San Diego. Photos and videos of the event can be found on twitter:

FLO on Twitter

Photos from the FLO summit 2018 at the @alexandria office in San Diego! #gowiththeflo #blockchaindev #flosummit https://t.co/X8TXvC3y1Y

FLO on Twitter

The FLO / @alexandria livestream from yesterday is now in VOD format! https://t.co/UJlfb7BYP9

We look forward to the future working on FLO within our own community and externally collaborating with the community of contributors building dapps on top of our blockchain. Although an exchange de-listing can be seen as a major setback, it is also a wake-up call to our close-knit group to better inform the entire crypto userbase what we’re doing and why it’s awesome.

The latest FLO news

Here is a list of the current partnerships FLO has with actively maintained projects running FLO as a blockchain backend in production, and some general info on FLO for newcomers.

We would like you to visit us at:
www.flo.cash

We invite you to chat with us at:
Telegram: https://t.me/FLOblockchain
Forum: https://forum.flo.cash/
RocketChat: https://chat.alexandria.io

Follow us at:
https://twitter.com/FLOblockchain
https://www.facebook.com/floblockchain
https://www.reddit.com/r/floblockchain/
https://medium.com/flo-cash
https://instagram.com/flo.blockchain
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDAELSdJelys5VkE1FuXo2A

List of Github organizations where you can track the development of FLO
https://github.com/floblockchain
https://github.com/oipwg
https://github.com/dloa
https://github.com/RanchiMall

Notable Partnerships:
California Institute of Technology- https://etdb.caltech.edu/
Overstock’s tZERO — https://www.tzero.com/
Open Index Protocol Working Group- https://github.com/oipwg / http://oip.wiki/
Medici Ventures- www.mediciventures.com
YBF Ventures- https://ybfventures.com
RanchiMall- https://medium.com/ranchimall/ranchi-mall-and-flo-blockchain-eco-system-748250b63709

List of Dapps that are running on top of the FLO blockchain:
https://flo.cash/dapps.html
Alexandria — https://alexandria.io/browser/
California Institute of Technology — https://etdb.caltech.edu/browse
Overstock’s tZERO — https://www.tzero.com/
Medici Ventures — https://www.mediciventures.com/
Shared Secret — http://www.sharedsecret.net/
Notarize with Flotorizer — http://flotorizer.net/
World Mood — http://worldmood.io/
Aterna Love — https://github.com/metacoin/aternalove
Xcertify — https://github.com/akhil2015/Xcertify

And many more are being developed as we speak.

List of exchanges where you can trade FLO
https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-FLO
https://novaexchange.com/market/BTC_FLO/
https://coinswitch.co/
https://indacoin.com/
https://trade.thecoin.pw
http://changenow.io
https://www.blocknet.co/block-dx/

Statement Regarding Poloniex’s Decision to De-list FLO was originally published in FLO Blockchain on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.