KUALA LUMPUR / SINGAPORE — 2 APRIL 2020 — Learnitude Technologies, a leading software development company in Malaysia, and ProximaX are jointly developing a Coronavirus (COVID-19) tracing application solution as a voluntary contribution. This cutting-edge app will be a decentralized solution powered by the ProximaX infrastructure and development platform.

In view of the seriousness of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Learnitude Technologies and ProximaX decided to develop the application for use by governments to implement crucial activities such as identifying cases and dispensing medication to patients afflicted with the virus.

Learnitude Technologies, a ProximaX systems integrator has been developing efficient software applications in the healthcare domain. In addition, Learnitude has also developed preventive healthcare solutions aimed at assisting people to implement preventive healthcare measures.

According to the World Health Organization (“WHO”) Situation Report 72 dated 1st April 2020, there were 823 626 confirmed reported cases worldwide with 40 598 deaths. It is estimated that the virus has spread to at least 197 countries.

Governments have been scrambling to contain the spread of this contagious virus and at the same time provide medical assistance to infected people. Many countries have implemented movement control and social distancing measures and some have gone so far as to have complete nationwide lockdowns to contain the spread. In Malaysia, a total of 142 new cases were reported bringing the total cases to 2,908 as of 1st April 2020. The death toll currently stands at 45, more than double from just a week ago.

The crippling effects of COVID-19 in Malaysia has spurred Learnitude Technologies and ProximaX to jointly collaborate to develop an effective and cost-efficient tool utilizing cutting-edge decentralized technology to assist the Malaysian government stem the spread of this deadly virus. Given the urgency of the situation, both companies are working at breakneck speed to complete the solution. It is also hoped that this solution can be used globally.

About Learnitude Technologies

Headquartered in India, the “Innovation Renovated” company also has a presence in Singapore and Malaysia. The company is made up of a group of technical experts, consultants, and front-facing business development professionals that are well assimilated into the industry with niche and impressive verticals as part of its client-base. Learnitude aims to build efficient business solutions and marketable products while often seeking collaboration opportunities as a platform for business expansion. For more information, go to https://learntechx.com or email info@learntechx.com.

About ProximaX

ProximaX is a blockchain-based infrastructure and development platform project that combines blockchain technology with distributed service layers. It integrates blockchain with distributed and decentralized storage, streaming, database, and Supercontract (enhanced smart contract) service layers to create an all-in-one, easy-to-use platform. ProximaX is built for scalability and can include more services in the future without compromising on performance. It is a unique enterprise-grade platform developed on proven technologies and is available in a private, public, and hybrid network configuration.

ProximaX’s extensive utility and flexibility can be used for a wide range of use cases that include, but are not limited to, digital identity, KYC, video streaming and chat, IoT and robotics, big data and AI, records and reporting, business continuity, legal and notary services, medical records, land registry, capital markets, e-payments and core banking, and supply chain management.

Media Contact: Sue Ng, sue.ng@proximax.ltd | Website: https://www.proximax.ltd

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KUALA LUMPUR — Abundent has signed up with ProximaX as a systems integrator. From developing applications and solutions for clients to automating business processes including the use of artificial intelligence, this official collaboration will witness Abundent using ProximaX Sirius to store data derived from its Machine Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning applications.

Founded in 2016, Abundent is a tech company headquartered in Kuala Lumpur headed by Tarun Sukhani, a prominent tech entrepreneur in the start-up community in the region. Under his leadership, Abundent has become an industry leader in a number of 4IR areas such as Cloud/Devops/IoT, Data Science/Big Data, AI/Machine Learning/Deep Reinforcement Learning, Fintech/Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Robotic Process Automation.

On being a part of ProximaX’s systems integrators, Tarun said, “We are especially enthused with this new step forward with a next-generation blockchain project like ProximaX. More than anything, we can expand our tech influence to our stable of more than 100 customers located in more than 50 countries worldwide.

“Even more exciting is that we will be utilizing ProximaX Sirius to roll out our machine learning and deep reinforcement learning models. Our team anticipates a positive trajectory working alongside ProximaX.”

Alvin Reyes, Co-Founder and CTO of ProximaX, also warmly welcomes Abundent, “We have seen what they can do and we are especially impressed with their undaunted spirit to take on new technologies. We are convinced this is a company that can carry their vision through and is a partner we can trust in promoting ProximaX.”

In terms of industry experience, Abundent has exceeded expectations in verticals such as BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance), healthcare, manufacturing, education, property, telecommunications, government, energy and transportation. Especially important is its foray into future-proof technologies like AI where the company is well equipped to meet industry demands with knowledge in technology such as TensorFlow, Pytorch, Spark, as well as being fully acquainted with cloud operating platforms such as OpenStack, GCP, and AWS.

About ProximaX

ProximaX is a next-generation Integrated and Distributed Ledger Technology (“IaDLT”) infrastructure development platform powered by blockchain technology. Known as ProximaX Sirius, this platform is comprised of off-chain, peer-to-peer storage, streaming, database, and blockchain layers in an all-in-one, easy-to-use development platform. Users of this platform may elect to use the various layers of the ProximaX Sirius development platform in a private, public, or hybrid environment. The immense flexibility and breadth of use cases of the ProximaX Sirius development platform include, but are not limited to, KYC and identity, video streaming and chat, IoT and robotics, big data and AI, records and reporting, business continuity, legal and notary services, medical records, land registry, trade finance, and supply chain management.

Media Contact: Sue Ng | sue.ng@proximax.io Website: www.ProximaX.io

About Abundent

Abundent is a Digital Transformation and Big Data Analytics company with expertise in helping established enterprises, as well as startups, improve their product and service delivery by modernizing their IT infrastructure and development practices. Abundent takes pride in its ability to provide affordable and robust data-driven decision-making products and services to the market by deploying modern and agile enterprise software development practices usually available only to the larger companies of the world.

Media Contact: info@abundent.com Website: abundent.com

Originally published at https://blog.proximax.io on November 28, 2019.

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The month of October has gotten a lot more interesting in terms of our technology. Many of the applications that we are building are now in the final stage of testing.

Tech/Developer Meetup

We had our first developer meetup in early October where Lon and I discussed the benefits of the ProximaX platform and how it can make an enormous impact on business processes. Lon outlined the several critical components of the ProximaX platform offering, and I did a high-level component overview of ProximaX, the development status as well as upcoming updates.

Presentation slides in PDF:

• ProximaX Overview
• ProximaX Technology Stack Overview

Core Development Updates

ProximaX Sirius Blockchain

I’m proud to announce that we are well on our way to provisioning our TESTNET Blockchain network. The entire team has been pushing the core changes, and we are on the final stretch of patching Catapult’s core. Our plan encompasses provisioning five blockchain TESTNET nodes which will be open to the public along with other tools. The blockchain TESTNET nodes will be our staging grounds for testing catapult changes. We will incrementally increase the number of nodes as we finalize these changes. We will create another announcement specifically for our Testnet. Every release we do moving forward will be documented and announced for transparency.

With NEM’s Catapult, we can create a separation of our changes to theirs, and with the plugin mechanism, we can extend new transaction types specific to ProximaX which will be crucial to the overall system.

Acceptor to PDP/PoREP

We have put our efforts into building the acceptor, Proof of Data Possession (PDP) and Proof of Replication (PoREP) implementation and this is now under testing. The Acceptor is the main component that catches upload requests that are in turn fed into the node. The selected node then goes through the process of verification and an on-going challenging mechanism to make a proof of data possession.

A Proof of Data Possession scheme allows a client that has stored data at an untrusted server to verify that the server possesses the original data without retrieving it or storing a copy himself. It accomplishes this by generating probabilistic proofs using an interactive protocol with the remote server.

When the server answers the challenge/proofs, it is a mandatory process and failure to do so represents a data loss, this will affect the host’s reputation and be given a lower chance of accommodating the request from the clients. Despite these though, the server can still trick the system by convincing the verifier that it still possesses the file. The server’s motivation for misbehavior can be diverse and includes reclaiming storage by discarding data that has not been or is rarely accessed (for monetary reasons), or hiding a data loss incident (due to management errors, hardware failure, compromise by outside or inside attacks, etc).

The goal of a PDP scheme that achieves probabilistic proof of data possession is to detect server misbehavior when the server has deleted a fraction of the file. There are several approaches we’re doing as to how we are handling such misbehavior which we will have extensive coverage in one of our technical paper that we will publish soon.

“Proof of Replication” is mostly the same but the challenge will consist of a prover defending a publicly verifiable claim that it is dedicating unique resources to storing one or more retrievable replicas of a data file. Viewing it from a birdseye view, when the client wants to have a file replicated, by initiating a replication request (which is enabled by default), it chooses a host and a set of verifiers (% of network within the vicinity), the verifiers are the ones who challenge the replicators (provers) if they hold the file using a challenge set that needs to be solved in a given time frame. There are several attributes here that actually is similar to PDP but the difference is PoRep is a combination of Proof of Retrievability and a Proof of Space. These 2 proofs need to be satisfied for a node to prove that it does have the file.

These two concepts are just one of the consensus algorithm we are building on the storage layer of ProximaX as a way to manage proofs between host and replicators, verified by the system verifiers (which are other nodes as well). A more extensive write up of this will be available on our consensus technical white paper.

Key Concept: Storage Lifecycle

We’ve finalized and completed the initial implementation of our storage onboarding, and we have defined the following to understand the lifecycle of a storage node. There will be extensive coverage of this in another blog post and on our technical whitepaper but below is a summary of the process.

Start: Storage Node Onboarding
When a user wants to participate by contributing disk space, the user first needs to participate in the network. Several steps need to happen before successful participation is achieved.

A storage contributor needs to run a CLI that will then evaluate the storage and disk space. Information will be collected and sent to the network for verification. The closest verifier then challenges the node to prove that it has the amount of space. The protocol is based on a puzzle over hard-to-pebble graphs. Once verified, the node can use a storage mosaic asset which will be registered on the POCA-Market selection.

• Node allocates some space on disk to be used as storage and submits to the network request for verification.
• Verifier runs interactive protocol, which requires a node to prove the ability to use such amount of space. A protocol is based on the puzzle over hard-to-pebble graphs.
• If storage passes this protocol, a node can use a storage mosaic asset in POCA-Market for storage.

Working: Processing Client Requests
After a storage node is onboarded, it can now then process client requests. The node then publishes its price per GB or agrees on system-wide pricing set by ProximaX. After the revenue model is set, it will be included as part of the participant list that is part of the market selection process. When the node becomes a participant, it will have a reputation that can change depending on numerous factors, such as stakes, available storage, bandwidth, competitive pricing, and reported verifier stats.

• Node publishes their price per Gb or agrees on system-wide pricing set by ProximaX.
• After this, it can participate in a market and be selected as a storage provider or verifier of other nodes, according to storage contract, which will be described in the next chapter.
• During such work, storage node can receive and lose reputation, which is used as a parameter to determinate a priority of suppliers.

End: Ending of the Node Lifecycle
When a node goes offline, it can pass its duties to other nodes. Nodes can then pass a current contract to another node which can continue the work of the off-boarded node.

• A node can just stop announcing itself as a storage provider and pass duties in a current contract to another node.

Reputation: PoCA Market/Selection

The entire node ecosystem of ProximaX runs on different networks but all actors within it have a reputation. After months of design and discussions, we’re now ready to build this system. Reputation is used by a selection mechanism: an agent with lower reputation stands a lower chance of being selected. Reputation with vesting gives us a mechanism, which makes it optimal for users to have an identity and care not to be excluded from group consensus.

When a specific client requests a service (storage), the node starting point runs a decentralized auction on market by detecting the next best node to accommodate the request.

Each node maintains a market-table for each type of service where it has:

• account address, and an associated node
• node endpoint that provides a service
• amount of service provided (GB for file storage, verification of space check, content auction and auditing etc)
• Price Marks
• Location
• Reputation (previous statistics if any)
• Node Stake — we will have more details on staking soon.

These are all run in a complex algorithm of handshakes and reconciliation between a specific buyer (service consumer) and a seller (service provider).

Blockchain SDKs

We have reported to the public that we are contributing to Catapult by building the SDKs for specific platforms. We’ve since published this and we intend to continue with it. In October we released “Go” and “Swift” SDK. We are also building Python and possibly looking at building Ruby and Rust SDKs.

Python SDK is still under development and we are collaborating with NEM Foundation to build it.

White/Technical Paper and Roadmap Updates

We now have a few technical papers lined up, which are now being reviewed and proofread. These papers will have the technical details of each of the components. We will release this to the public as soon as it’s done.

Given the changes we’ve had, we have decided to update our roadmap. Of course, we owe it to the public to show our high-level path to success. The roadmap will be shown along with the new updates to the site which will come soon. We are now in the process of our website revamp.

Application Development Updates

ProxiBox, Notes and Keepass

ProxiBox, Notes, and Vault are now in its final stage of development/testing. ProxiBox will be renamed ProximaX File It! and Keepass will be known as ProximaX Vault. We are currently building the revenue and licensing model that will, in turn, be used to commercialize the products. The internal team is now doing all the necessary tests to ensure that all core functions are working. File it!, Notes, and Vault will be compatible with Windows, MacOS and Linux-based System.

Next update:

• To build marketing campaigns.
• To incorporate the licensing mechanism we are building and introduce the revenue model.

ProximaX Suite

Our office suite is based on NextCloud/OnlyOffice. ProximaX Suite is a complete end-to-end office application that sits on top of the cloud, backed by our secured infrastructure service of Catapult and DFMS.

You can now register and experience ProximaX Suite at:

https://suite.proximax.io

This version only allows for 20 concurrent users at a time.

Next update:

• Launch playground site for ProximaX Suite.
• Marketing campaign to spread the word about the application.
• Explore opportunities of commercialization.
• Inclusion of our commercial offering.

Notable updates and what’s on the pipe

Here are some of the notable updates we have on application development branch.

• ProximaX Desktop Wallet with Apostille, File Manager and Voting Modules
• ProximaX Blockchain Explorer
• ProximaX Apostille (ProxiNotary)
• ProximaX ERP -expect a long development cycle

These are just some of the applications we are working on and our team will give an update on these soon.

Technology Partnership and IoT Project

We’ve been working with 482 solutions to build the core and we intend to build a strong relationship with them. Aside from them helping us to build the platform, we’ve also been having preliminary discussions on building an IoT project. We will share details of this as soon as we get some traction on it but in a nutshell, the idea is a smart door lock system that’s based on ProximaX Sirius blockchain.

Developing Solutions. Providing Support.

Our excellent team is providing solutions and support for the following customers:

CashCart

CashCart availed our ProximaX Sirius Private Blockchain Instance and they are now using it on their Enterprise online shopping platform that has its own trustless and decentralized rewards system. We have built a solid relationship with them by signing an MoA that gives us a solid footing of ProximaX awareness and adoption in the Philippines.

With CashCart’s cooperation, we will be able to spread more awareness of ProximaX Technology in the Philippines. They’ll be conducting ProximaX technical training via their extensive coaching academy to help people learn the technology behind ProximaX and build communities to expand our brand across the Philippines.

Omniaz

Omniaz, like CashCart, will be availing our ProximaX Sirius blockchain instance to handle millions of SKUs. We have built a highly customized instance for them to ensure that it can handle the number of entries and transactions they need to accommodate the millions of SKUs they’re putting into the system.

In Summary

In October, we are pleased that much of the core development has been progressing well. We have started to build the code to support the storage mechanism, PoS Blockchain changes and Proof of Bandwidth approach for live streaming.

Below is a summary of what we’ve done for October:

• Catapult SDKs Go and Swift
• PDP, PoRep and Storage Components Implementation
• Storage Lifecycle
• ProximaX Sirius PoS Peer Review and blockchain TESTNET launch preparation
• Developing Solutions for Customers
• Start of exploring potential IoT project opportunities

Originally published at blog.proximax.io on November 9, 2018.

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Lon Wong and Lukasz Piotrowski during the signing of the agreement

Omniaz is developing the first decentralized platform for the global alcoholic beverage supply-chain based on the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain Technology and has selected our powerful Sirius platform to power their project. Founder and CEO of Omniaz, Lukasz Piotrowski and our Founder and CEO, Lon Wong signed the agreement yesterday at the NEM Blockchain Centre in Kuala Lumpur.

This marks the 2nd commercial deployment of ProximaX Sirius. Earlier this month, ProximaX had already deployed its first project utilizing the ProximaX Sirius platform with CashCart.io. Based on Catapult — the core NEM blockchain technology, ProximaX Sirius is a next-generation, Integrated and Distributed Ledger Technology (IaDLT). This IaDLT is an agglomeration of proven technologies which include distributed database system, distributed file management system, and blockchain. The end result in using the ProximaX solution is a substantial reduction in total cost of ownership, including time to market, and with a superior approach in application design and development.

We look forward to brining you more news on the utilization of our platform, as we continue to champion true utility of blockchain technology to enterprises globally.

Originally published at blog.proximax.io on October 24, 2018.

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Once again, we are proud sponsors of Sportsfix’s Digital Stadium, this time providing FREE game day passes for the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 DANISA Denmark Open that takes place from October 18th to 21st. Joined by NEM and PundiX, we have together formed a digital stadium “takeover” for this exciting badminton tournament.

Sportsfix, an innovative next-generation live streaming sports OTT platform is in discussion with our team to use the ProximaX KYC and private blockchain solution to assist in their ICO and power their project respectively. More news about this soon!

Full press release:

NEM family blockchain to sponsor Game Day Passes of SportsFix Digital StadiumTM

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — SportsFix, a leading OTT platform in Asia announced new partnerships with NEM, Pundi X, and ProximaX to sponsor Game Day Passes for the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 DANISA Denmark Open from Oct. 18 to 21 in SportsFix Digital StadiumTM.

After ProximaX’s successful implementation of Game Day Passes during the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament Victor Korea Open last weekend, additional blockchain companies of the NEM family, including NEM itself, are joining in as exclusive sponsors of SportsFix’ Digital StadiumTM.

SportsFix CEO Carl Kirchhoff welcomes the partnership: “We are excited about this new partnership and the opportunity to grow our existing fan base by extending our live streaming of premium sports content to the largest crypto community in South East Asia. Having NEM, Pundi X and ProximaX joining as partners is another testament of the quality of our amazing team delivering our SportsFix beta platform to the highest standards and in record time.”

The DANISA Denmark Open is part of Badminton World Federation (BWF) presenting some of Indonesia’s best players including Asian Games champion Jonatan Christie, Top 10 Men’s Singles player Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, and World Tour №1 Tommy Sugiarto.

NEM is a smart contract-ready platform. One of the world’s largest blockchains with more than 20 projects on its network today NEM provides a unique consensus algorithm for their users, making smaller wallets to have a significant influence on NEM blockchain than their larger counterparts.

Lance Cheang, NEM Southeast Asia Project Director stated, “We’re delighted to be able to sponsor the DANISA Denmark Open 2018 on Sportsfix’s platform. With this partnership, we are looking to increase our exposure in the region to learn more about NEM and its projects.”

Built by key Executives of the NEM project, ProximaX is a consensus algorithm-based platform, enabling an all-in-one platform of secured decentralized storage and distribution of content for multi-industry applications. ProximaX will work closely with SportsFix to advance Digital Stadium features utilizing their existing technology and services.

Lon Wong, Founder and CEO of ProximaX stated, “SportsFix’s approach of bringing live sports into a digital stadium is unprecedented, what more it is blockchain powered. I must say for the first time, blockchain should see hypergrowth visibility. ProximaX is proud to be in the thick of this journey together with SportsFix.”

While NEM and ProximaX work behind the scenes on the underlying technology, Pundi X bridges cryptocurrency to physical stores through their POS solution, creating accessibility for a mass adoption of underbanked customers in developing countries.

“In addition to trading and investment, we found that most cryptocurrency owners would like to use their cryptocurrencies to purchase daily goods and services,” says Peko Wan, Vice President of Pundi X. “SportsFix’ Digital Stadium Economy provides a variety of sports content for users to choose from. Pundi X is excited to collaborate with NEM and its family members to invite our users to experience this innovative fan-powered digital platform.”

The Digital StadiumTM partnerships include the following:

• The partnerships are initiated by SportsFix to deliver Game Day Passes of HSBC BWF World Tour Super 750 DANISA Denmark Open 2018.
• Using a Game Day Pass, a fan can enjoy a whole day access for free on the beta platform of Digital StadiumTM, SportsFix TV.
• The partnership is part of SportsFix Sponsorship Model, a decentralized sponsorship scheme, as opposed to the centralized model used by traditional TV broadcasters, that marshals social media influence of sports fans to create a viral growth loop for the Digital StadiumTM, allowing brands to have one on one engagement with fans and own 100% share of voice.

About SportsFix

SportsFix is owned by SF Media Holdings Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Total Sports Asia (TSA), Asia’s global leader in sports content. SportsFix is an OTT platform to live stream leagues and matches based in Kuala Lumpur. SportsFix has been delivering has been delivering some of Southeast Asia’s most popular sports content in football from Italy’s Serie A, Chinese Super League, Indonesia’s Liga 1, to Basketball Leagues from China and the Philippines, Cricket, GLORY Kickboxing, to the prestigious BWF Badminton World Tour. For further information, visit sportsfix.tv and indonesia.sportsfix.tv

Originally published at blog.proximax.io on October 17, 2018.

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Proud to announce the release of our Swift SDK

Swift is a powerful and intuitive programming language for macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS. Writing Swift code is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and Swift includes modern features developers love. Swift code is safe by design, yet also produces software that runs lightning-fast.

Developers will now be able to build ProximaX Catapult applications in one of the more powerful and secure operating system globally.

Notable Apps built in Swift

With Apple’s programming language, you can now create the most secure and intuitive applications. Here are some awesome apps built in swift.

https://github.com/vsouza/awesome-ios

Repository

Access and clone the repo here: https://github.com/proximax-storage/nem2-sdk-swift

Notable Contributors of nem2-sdk-swift

• @ryuta
• @brambear

Originally published at blog.proximax.io on October 15, 2018.

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We’ve recently released the stable version of Catapult SDK for the Golang platform. Here are the following features available:

• Generates a new KeyPair/Address
• Creates an account from Private Key
• Gets Account Information
• Gets Transactions Information
• Gets Mosaic Information
• Gets Namespace Information
• Gets Blockchain Information
• Gets Network information
• Transaction Signing and Announcement
• Transfer Transaction
• Register Namespace Transaction
• Mosaic Definition Transaction
• Mosaic Supply Change Transaction
• Modify Multisig Account Transaction
• Aggregate Complete Transaction
• Aggregate Bonded Transaction
• Signing Announced Aggreagate Bonded Transaction
• Websockets

Golang developers will now be able to use their favorite language to interact with Catapult Blockchain and build their awesome applications.

Go is an open source programming language developed by Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is a statically typed language with syntax loosely derived from that of C, adding garbage collection, type safety, some dynamic-typing capabilities, additional built-in types such as variable-length arrays & key-value maps, and a large standard library. It’s a general purpose programming language with advanced features and a clean syntax. Because of its wide availability on a variety of platforms, robust well-documented common library, and focus on good software engineering principles, it has been the defacto platform for learning programming.

Combination of Great Technologies

Golang, although recognized as a server side platform, has been used by recent innovation on decentralized technologies. Some notable technology stacks that use Go is Ethereum, which has an official Go Implementation, IPFS reference implementation was also developed using Go, Libp2p, Grpc, and Protobuf also has support and implementation using Golang.

Awesome Applications written in Golang here: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go

Repository and Wiki

Access the Repository Here: https://github.com/proximax-storage/nem2-sdk-go
Github Wiki: https://github.com/proximax-storage/nem2-sdk-go/wiki/

Notable Contributors of nem2-go-sdk

• @carlocayos
• @brambear
• @ruslanBik4
• @Wondertan
• @slackve

Further Contribution

We’d love to get more people involved in the project. We have a few pending tasks and we believe there is always room for improvement. Please feel free to raise any issues or PR and we’ll review your contribution. If it looks good, we might throw some bounty on it (no promises!)

Enjoy!

Originally published at blog.proximax.io on October 11, 2018.

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The month of September had all of us focused on finalizing most of our applications as well as our core platform research. Most of our applications are either in UAT or Pre-Production Stage. Our core platform research has been ongoing, parallel with the development of its respective modules.

In this post update, I’ll be giving some brief updates on what we’ve been doing during the month of September and some key updates on the platform and apps.

Core Platform — Development Status

Our research has mostly focused on solidifying the approach, including the set of actors, modules, data flow, the token, and consensus. The scope of these all is just too big to fit into a single blog post so I will dedicate an entire post to share the high-level design, consensus schematics and a white paper on a separate update hopefully within the month of October.

ProximaX Platform — Sirius

The codename for this platform that we are rolling out is called Sirius. Sirius is taken from the top ten brightest stars in our galaxy which clearly represents what we want to achieve; the initial rollout of what will define ProximaX that will shine the brightest of them all.

The ecosystem of ProximaX revolves around the network actors we have. These actors are the nodes that work together to achieve the platform services that it’ll offer.

Below is a description of each of the actors in the network ecosystem actors.

Blockchain nodes

With Catapult, we have a powerful blockchain. Catapult is currently a private version and its consensus mechanism is not optimised for public deployment. Consequently, we are implementing a consensus mechanism that references to NXT’s implementation. The blockchain nodes will be primarily used as a recording ledger of all transactions across the ecosystem. It includes node information, statistics, configuration, and functional data, incentives, transaction, and contracts. Our ecosystem data flow rests entirely on the blockchain nodes. NEM’s Catapult Technology suits this best.

With NEM’s Catapult, we’ll be able to take advantage of its pre-defined/built-in smart business rules and logic, and plugin mechanism. We’re going to use it to store proof statistics and reputation inputs, and our very own Proof of Conflation Aggregate Selection and Market. In September, we built the design on how each Catapult feature can be used to support our ecosystem of storage and streaming nodes.

The Sirius initial rollout will only be the Catapult nodes since this will be our main ledger technology that powers all succeeding nodes and services. Hence, a testnet will be rolled out shortly. We will need some public participation and we are hopeful that the community will watch out for this announcement and contribute to testing the network.

Storage nodes — Host, Verifiers, Replicators

Storage contributors will be different from blockchain nodes. These nodes will primarily be the focal point of our vision for decentralized storage. These nodes will have an onboarding mechanism that will enable them to participate in the network and set their revenue model according to their preference. Once on board, they will be included in the marketplace on their storage availablilty which will then be exposed to different consumers.

Storage nodes will be verified, tested and challenged. Each storage node will have its own reputation based on the collection of Proof we get from them. We use several mechanisms for this including Proof of Data Possession, Space/Time, Replication, and Bandwidth to ensure the consistency of reputable nodes on the network.

Verifiers and replicators are storage nodes too. Once a storage node is in the network, it will periodically be challenged by a set of verifiers. The output from these verifiers will then be fed into the reputation system we’re building which will form the basis of the selection process. Replicators, on the other hand, are a set of randomly selected nodes that agree to be a replicator of files. Like storage nodes, these will be challenged and verified, too, but not with the same frequency as the actual host of the files.

Streaming nodes

All streaming nodes are organized into a loosely connected mesh network where some of the nodes are connected with neighboring nodes. Nodes are designed to maintain internode connections when required and drop unused connections and re-establish when required again. Some streaming nodes will be publicly accessible for ProximaX DApps via one or several public network interfaces, where some streaming nodes will serve as internal nodes only, and will be used for interim hops in the system.

The team is mostly working on finalizing the onion-routed piece of the protocol which is primarily the client presence announcement, that entities within the streaming ecosystem will use to look up and secure private messaging. Development of nodes and Client/SDK is in progress, and work has started on the building of the audio/video streaming piece. Similar to storage, we’ve also started to build the blockchain integration which we will continue until the month of October.

Executor Nodes — Super Contracts

The fourth actor shall be the executor nodes that can also be a storage node. Towards the end of September, the team started some preliminary discussions and research on how to extend and implement a Smart Contract solution that is entirely different in approach from current Smart Contract solutions, which are somewhat prohibitive to be implemented in a practical manner. We shall term this augmented and amended version of the Smart Contract, “Super Contract” so as to differentiate ourselves from existing Smart Contract projects. This will likely not go into the first version of ProximaX and will likely be part of the next iteration.

Once this is implemented, it will open a huge opportunity for application developers to use the platform for their decentralized solutions application solutions. We will be introducing container managed technologies as well as potentially build our own scripting language to allow developers to build distributed executable codes, using a Distributed File Management System (“DFMS”) that are executed by the executor nodes.

It is still very early but we have compelling research papers and our experts have experience in building such technology stacks. We will do our best to give more information on this in the upcoming months once we are settled with our core offerings.

Proof of Conflation Aggregate Selection and Market

One new concept we are introducing is the PoCA Market Selection. It’s basically an auction system that will be used by the network to determine the best nodes that can accommodate the given request. It incorporates all statistics including reputation score based on Proof of X, Market Pricing, location etc, all of which are used to determine the best nodes available for a given job.

We have finalized the design and parameters that are needed for PoCA and have started to build some of the components needed for this module. We aim to give a more technical, in-depth document by the end of the month.

Token Economic Fit on Storage and Simulation

We are fortunate to have researchers that are thorough in analyzing our requirements and incorporating the vision we have in using the token as part of the ProximaX ecosystem. As mentioned in last month’s update, we were looking to use a stable token that will represent the “power” for ProximaX.

For every client request, tokens are needed. When the user demands a service, the client application shall accept tokens for service and assign to winners of the auction as locked tokens. If the service was implemented properly the token shall be unlocked and distributed between verifiers and storage nodes according to an agreement.

If an issue arises during the course of servicing, thereby nullifying the service with the first provider, a verifier shall award the locked token to another storage node. It provides for a new auction and assigns the locked tokens (or part of it) to another storage node. This method of reassignment provides for continuity of a paid service. A set of criteria shall be used to determine whether or not a storage node can fulfil its obligation. This model will need to be well defined and sound so that we do not end up with the problem of wrongfully penalising a node for non-performance.

Upstream, the auction to win the provisioning of the service must also be designed against any malicious behaviour. To that end, verifiers will carry out tests to ensure that a consensus is reached whereby storage nodes does not cheat or appear to be able to provide the service when they cannot.

We have an initial simulation of this distribution of tokens to actors given a business use case and we hope to give more information on that in the upcoming months.

Application Development

Most of the applications we’ve been developing are functionally done but almost all of them are being transitioned from NIS1 version to Catapult. Below, are some of the following key updates we have.

ProxiDocs to ProxiSuite

ProxiSuite is an office application based on NextCloud, OnlyOffice, and integrated with ProximaX technology. The office suite is fully capable of supporting real-time document management based on Microsoft / Open Office document files. The OnlyOffice extension backed by Proximax technology allows users to create and manage their documents using the decentralized storage and blockchain encryption mechanism. We may decide to rename ProxiSuite at a later date via a competition once there is clarity on the functions of the application.

We’ll launch a public version of this soon.

ProxiBox UI enhancements and Testing

We’ve been working to improve the UI and migrate the library over to Catapult. We’re now working to establish the revenue model. Eventually, this will be folded into the ProxiSuite

Dark ProxiBox Theme

Light ProxiBox Theme

From Pad to ProxiNote

ProxiNote is another utility tool we’re building. This will allow users to fully encrypt and secure their notes.

The long term plan is to build a Web UI for this, and again, may be absorbed into ProxySuite. This is a simpler version of Evernote but with a powerful blockchain level encryption.

ProxiForms — Framework and Middleware

ProxiForm is an application development and business tool framework to allow its users to build form-based applications backed by blockchain. This is a huge project to build a form-based framework backed by decentralized technologies such as Catapult and BigChainDB. The end result is, once implemented, it will provide us with a tool to build some simple forms like survey forms to complex and complicated workflow processes, utilising the Catapult multi-aggregate signatures.

As it stands, we are in the middle of evaluating the technology stack for this framework. The most compelling feature of proxiform is the middleware stack

Ongoing Contribution Projects

ProximaX, as a company, is also contributing to the Catapult/NEM project. Below are some of the projects we are building as a contribution to NEM.

Catapult Desktop Wallet

We’re building a ProximaX Catapult desktop wallet that can be used to manage our coins, in particular, the XPX coins. This is now ongoing and we have a few screens to show its progress.

Once done, we will contribute this to the public, so that everyone can use our powerful desktop wallet and extend its functionalities for their own use.

The desktop wallet is not your typical wallet. We are building a framework and SDK service on top of it so that anyone can extend and use it for their own set of applications. Anyone can develop using our plugin framework on typescript/javascript and customize the wallet.

Catapult SDKs

We’re building 3 Catapult SDKs as our contribution to NEM Foundation technology, written in Golang, Python and Swift 4.

This essentially means that once this is released, platform developers will be able to use the SDK to build their powerful applications on top of the Catapult blockchain.

We’ll be opening these SDKs to the public soon.

https://github.com/proximax-storage/nem2-sdk-swift
https://github.com/proximax-storage/nem2-sdk-python
https://github.com/proximax-storage/nem2-sdk-go

Wrapping up September

In September, we are extremely happy that much of the core development has been progressing well. We have started building some design components pertinent to the overall ProximaX platform, as we have almost firmed up the development architecture.

Below is a summary of what we’ve done for September:

• Storage SDK Java, Typescript/Javascript is 90% complete. Most of our applications right now are migrating from the use of NIS1 SDK to the new Storage SDK.
• PoC of Consensus Algorithms.
• Node Onboarding Process
• Building of Reputation System for Storage Nodes
• Continue building the Storage Layer Components
• Continue building the Streaming Layer Components

Originally published at blog.proximax.io on October 9, 2018.

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Game Changers! We are thrilled to have ProximaX sponsoring our Game Day Pass for SportsFix Digital Stadium.

Whilst we’ve been busy managing our partnership with one of Indonesia’s largest telecom service provider XL Axiata, we’ve also been working hard behind the scenes on a new exciting partnership with ProximaX to sponsor Game Day Passes for Badminton World Federation (BWF) Victor Korea Open 2018 in Indonesia.

Scheduled from Sept. 25 to 30 in Seoul, the Victor Korea Open brings some of Indonesia’s best badminton players, including but not limited to Asian Games Champion Jonatan Christie, Top 10 Men’s Singles player Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, and World Tour’s #1 Tommy Sugiarto.

This partnership is initiated by SportsFix to deliver Game Day Passes to stream the tournament’s matches on Sept. 28. Using a Game Day Pass, a fan can enjoy a whole day access to stream matches on SportsFix TV site, indonesia.sportsfix.tv.

SportsFix CEO Carl Kirchhoff welcomes ProximaX. “Having ProximaX sponsor our Game Day Passes is a strong indicator that our Digital Stadium ecosystem and Sponsorship Model are attractive not only to the mainstream tech industry, but also for the blockchain industry.”

He continues. “We look forward to announce more of those partnerships with other large crypto players in the space soon to support our goals of using sports as a vehicle for mass adoption of cryptocurrency. No other company has this potential and both our team and investors are working diligently behind the scenes to make a major impact to the entire blockchain/ crypto community.”

The Sponsorship Model is a decentralised sponsorship scheme, as opposed to the centralised model used by traditional TV broadcasters. SportsFix’ sponsorship model will marshall social media influence of sports fans to create a viral growth loop for the Digital Stadium, allowing sponsors and brands to have 1 on 1 engagement with fans and own 100% share of voice.

ProximaX will be the first blockchain technology company that takes part in our Sponsorship Model of the Digital Stadium ecosystem. Developed by key people behind the NEM blockchain platform, ProximaX is a consensus algorithm-based platform that combines blockchain, storage, and streaming to enable an all-in-one platform for multi-industry application and decentralized app development.

Founder and CEO of ProximaX, Lon Wong is excited with the onboarding of ProximaX. “SportsFix is a traditional business that demonstrates the use of a consensus mechanism from its members to get the right to view a video play. It is novel indeed, what more, the very concept of it syncs with the blockchain design method.”

Besides sponsoring our Game Day Passes, ProximaX will further work closely with SportsFix to advance Digital Stadium features utilizing their existing technology and services.

Wong elaborates. “We, at ProximaX, are indeed happy to support the use of our platform to make this possible from the storage, voting, and management of member accounts perspective.”

Home for badminton in Indonesia, SportsFix is an OTT platform to live stream leagues and matches based in Kuala Lumpur. In 2017, SportsFix launched its OTT platform and has been delivering some of Southeast Asia’s most popular sports content from Liga 1 Gojek, Serie A, MMA GLORY, to world’s most prestigious badminton tournament, the all-year BWF tournaments.

IT’S GAME TIME! And we’re changing the way YOU watch sports!

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The month of August is where we began our challenging feat of building the blocks of ProximaX as we envisioned it. This includes the formal verification of our design of the consensus mechanism, token economics as well as the architecture of the functional components needed to implement the storage and streaming platforms. This design is the basis and framework for the ProximaX platform.

Key updates this month include core development activities, application development and cloud infrastructure offerings. We also increased our staffing substantially and brought in industry experts to boost up and achieve our goals.

Core Development

ProximaX Platform Storage — Version 1 (NIS1)

We uploaded the Docker Compose — a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications — for the ProximaX storage platform that includes our fork of IPFS and a REST Web Service built in Java. This will allow anyone to start their own storage contributor node, participate on the global IPFS network and directly host any application via the NIS1 compatible SDKs.

A quick diagram below shows how we extend NEM’s Transaction by putting the decentralized storage node hash as part of the message payload.

Diagram 1.0 — Data is rooted to the NEM Transaction. Side by side integration of two decentralized technologies.

NIS1 Docker Storage Contributor Node

We have open sourced the docker container that can be run by anyone who wants to start their own storage contributor node.

• ProximaX Platform NIS1 Docker Compose 0.1.0-beta

NIS1 SDKs

We have open sourced both the Java SDK and Typescript/Angular SDK for developers to build and power their apps using the ProximaX storage platform. The Docker Compose for the storage platform for NIS1 is also available to people who want to launch their own storage platform.

In the recent months, several companies have tested the platform and given good feedback about it. However, most of them want to use the Catapult version and our team has hence shifted focus to this.

• Java SDK 0.1.0-beta
• Typescript/Angular 0.1.0-beta

ProximaX Platform Storage — Version 2 (Catapult)

The team has been working hard for the past couple of months and has been developing and designing the core ProximaX Platform Storage version 2.

We have four core compenents: storage, streaming, consensus and the blockchain layer. In the entire ecosystem and platform of ProximaX, we will be using multiple consensus mechanisms that’s implemented on all node actors. We decided to use Proof of Stake (PoS) using NXT as a reference implementation for the blockchain nodes and a new approach called Proof of Conflation Aggregate — PoCa that takes the weight of Stakes, Storage and Bandwidth for both Storage and Streaming layers.

On the Storage Layer

The core components are almost complete and we’re now building the API pieces. These components will be the main handles that will build up the storage contributor node in the ProximaX system. A storage contributor is a critical host, replicator, and verifier of the storage ecosystem. The proof of conflation aggregate — PoCa — applies to participating nodes. The storage and bandwidth carry more weight as opposed to stakes in the PoCa .

Diagram 3.0 — Storage Platform Components Design

We are finalizing the token economic model that will support the economic model of the platform. In ProximaX, there are a few actors: users, Dapp service providers and storage / streaming resources. Users are the primary consumers of either the Dapp service provider or storage resource while the Dapp service providers are the users of the storage resource that provides services to consumers.

The XPX token can be extremely volatile since it is an utility token. Our research and design approach is to use a stable coin that is pegged to a fiat value. The stable currency will be naturally controlled by a special mechanism.

The Storage SDK is progressing well. By the end of the month, we would be releasing the initial versions of the Storage SDK in Java, C# and Javascript/Typescript. These will allow clients to build applications that can communicate with Private Catapult and Storage API.

On the Streaming Layer

The functional design of the core and routing mechanism is being developed. PeerStream protocol (PSP) is a distributed decentralized streaming protocol that is designed to provide high quality decentralized streaming services for ProximaX Dapps engaged with privacy and security features. PSP is a privacy real-time stream routing protocol that is capable of encapsulating different kinds of namespaced Dapp protocols. PSP is designed to provide ProximaX Dapps with high privacy and security features including and not limited to end-to-end encryption, user-to-user authentication and meta-data termination.

Diagram 3.0 — Streaming Platform High Level Flow

The majority of the APIs are now in place, and we are evaluating how to formulate the consensus mechanism for streaming. It will run thru PoCA with bandwidth as its most apparent weight.

We will be publishing technical specifications of our high-level design soon.

Application Development

On the application development side, there are several applications that we are building in-house on top of our platform.

ProxiForms

ProxiForms is a one-stop shop for building static forms that is backed by ProximaX storage. We are finalizing the high-level technical design for ProxiForms and are refining it by analysing its practical application in the real world. Our goal is to create a fully functional form builder with a middleware of services that can be connected to different backend systems via adapters.

ProxiBox

ProxiBox is a client-based file sharing app the uses the NIS1 SDK and IPFS as a deamon. This will primarily be used to store and share files across multiple customers and clients. The application has been in development for 2 months now. It is currently being tested and this will continue until we are satsified with its performance. The next phase will involve transitioning the application to use SDK version 2, creating marketing materials as well as seting up the revenue model for this app.

ProxiDocs

ProxiDocs is a complete office suite using nextcloud/onlyoffice plugin integrated with ProximaX NIS1. We are now in the final stage of functional testing. Our internal team is now using a production-ready instance connected to our testnet and will be moving to mijinnet/private soon.

ProxiKYC

ProxiKYC has been in development since January and the target release date for the first production-ready version is September 10, 2018. This will include a suite of fully functional Onboarding Team tools such as a form builder, screening tool and decentralized technology integration using ProximaX services.

ProxiKeepass

The development for a keepass plugin with ProximaX storage integration has been completed and we are now tying this with an open keepass function.The development of the plugin is already done and we are now in process of organizing the testing strategy.

Cloud Infrastructure Services and Offerings

We have ramped up our infrastructure services and have come up with multiple infra/cloud privatized and permissioned offerings.

One of these offerings is the ProximaX Catapult Permissioned access where companies can request to have us provision their own blockchain using our modified version of the NEM Catapult. They can either request for us to build out a privatised chain using their own token as the main chain or just a blockchain instance to record highly confidential information.

We can also tie this up with our Decentralized File Management System using our IPFS fork — Storage API — which companies can use to store large amount of data tied to the permissioned blockchain. Companies can use these two technologies using our SDK that will be available by early September. The SDK will allow any developer to upload, download, search, lookup data on both blockchain and the Decentralized File Management System.

In addition, we are also offering a decentralized database that companies can use. The decentralized database will have blockchain properties but is backed by Tendermint base consensus mechanism and Mongodb for fast index searching. This will allow companies to store their data on a tech that has blockchain properties with document based index searching and querying.

We also have added an Elasticsearch integration. We have come up with an offering where companies can tie up their provisioned DFMS with an Elasticsearch engine.

Wrapping up August

Towards the end of August the team worked to solidfy the design of the core platform by establishing the storage, streaming and supporting consensus mechanisms and tokenomics. We have established these parameters and we are now working to build the code from it.

Summary of what we’ve done for the month.

• Open sourced NIS1 artifacts
• Started to design the consensus mechanism and token econonmics.
• Started to build the components of the ProximaX Storage and Streaming Platform
• Started building and testing Decentralized Applications using the NIS1 SDKs
• Started to build infrastructure and cloud offerings.

Originally published at blog.proximax.io on September 7, 2018.

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