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<blockquote data-quote="Brownslave688" data-source="post: 4849791" data-attributes="member: 34439"><p>Furthermore, one of the most important aspects of the entire OriginTrail ecosystem is the nOS, which stands for Network Operating System. What nOS does is allow companies to spend credits purchased with company fiat to directly purchase TRAC via Uniswap or any other exchange. TRAC is only utilized in the background, is directly purchased when needed, and used in nodes immediately (see [this writeup](https://medium.com/origintrail/the-network-operating-system-liquidity-provisioning-system-part-1-uniswap-integration-b38e7ae75e76) for details). As cryptocurrency never touches the company’s accounting books, it **solves the problem of mainstream companies needing to purchase and hold cryptocurrency to use the protocol**. </p><p></p><p>&#x200B;</p><p></p><p>**SBB CFF FFS** (Swiss Federal Railways)</p><p></p><p>Also during the Liftoff event, Dominik Halbeisen from SBB was present to explain the importance of utilization of ODN and why they partnered up with OriginTrail. During [this presentation,](https://youtu.be/Rzk-Z9lFaG0) if you watch this entire presentation, you'll remember my example I explained above with "*If company A runs system X, company B system Y, and company C system Z etc.".*</p><p></p><p>Just recently Brana Rakic, who is the CTO of OriginTrail, was at the GS1 Global Forum showcasing how 9 European Railways are utilizing OriginTrail. These are just [two images](https://postimg.cc/ppsFDMyn) posted by the OriginTrail team announcing this presentation. </p><p></p><p>&#x200B;</p><p></p><p>**OneAgrix**</p><p></p><p>OneAgrix is another partnership with OT that isn't getting the PR it deserves and is always sort of forgotten among BSI, GS1, Oracle, and Swiss Railways. OneAgrix and OriginTrail [partnered up back in early 2019](https://medium.com/origintrail/trace-labs-and-oneagrix-partner-up-to-enable-halal-product-traceability-on-the-blockchain-cde5dcb0efd1) with the goal to ensure and tackle the trust deficit in the halal goods marketplace, enabling food safety and transparency. This brings tangible benefits to businesses and consumers in the USD 2.5 trillion global halal markets. </p><p></p><p>[Here you can read](https://www.foodnavigator-asia.com/Article/2021/04/29/Tech-ambition-OneAgrix-has-dreams-of-being-the-first-halal-unicorn) about the CEO of OneAgrix Diana Sabrain, who in 2015 established OneAgrix. I would recommend you to read the article because Diana explains WHY and HOW this is made possible by the application of OriginTrail solutions. </p><p></p><p>Note that John G. Keogh is also OneAgrix strategic advisor! It's all about complying with global standards. If you do not comply with global standards you can forget about involving your business in global enterprise solutions. There is no other way around this! OriginTrail ticks all of the boxes here. It's been built from the ground up to do just this.</p><p></p><p>&#x200B;</p><p></p><p>According to the team, there are many more entities involved with OriginTrail but these are still yet to be announced. </p><p></p><p>&#x200B;</p><p></p><p>**Scientific and Academic Research**</p><p></p><p>Due to John G. Keogh's involvement with OriginTrail since the OTs ICO launch, he has been actively involved with the solution that the TraceLabs and OriginTrail are developing. As mentioned, John Keogh is an advisor and heavy promoter of OriginTrail's solution. </p><p></p><p>Just recently, an assembly of scholars and academics have joined a scientific group in the Trace Alliance data interoperability. You can read more about this [here](https://medium.com/origintrail/meet-the-academics-and-research-institutes-taking-part-in-the-trace-alliance-data-interoperability-e0780ba2cc6b), who these individuals are and which establishments they are representing! If you do not have the time to read through the article, in short:</p><p></p><p>**Professor Samuel Fosso-Wamba,** Toulouse Business School, France </p><p></p><p>**Professor Steve Simske**, Colorado State University, USA. </p><p></p><p>**Associate Professor Wayne Martindale**, University of Lincoln, UK </p><p></p><p>**Dr. Edward Smart**, a senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth, UK </p><p></p><p>**Professor John Breslin** (7,800 citations), Data Science Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway, previously DERI, a Semantic Web research institute established in 2003 </p><p></p><p>**Ph.D. candidate Abderahman Rejeb**, author of numerous papers on the blockchain, IoT, AI, and Augmented Reality </p><p></p><p>The research team will be jointly coordinated by **Professors of Practice Horia Bradau** and **John G. Keogh**, McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics, and includes a department research associate </p><p></p><p>Also, as linked and mentioned earlier, FoodOn has also joined Trace Alliance for this exact purpose. Solving Data Interoperability and Semantic Web.</p><p></p><p>&#x200B;</p><p></p><p>**TraceAlliance**</p><p></p><p>The [Trace Alliance](https://alliance.origintrail.io/) is a global network of 100+ business enterprises, service providers, developers, and research institutions that share knowledge gained using the OriginTrail protocol. They have direct access to OriginTrail knowledge resources, use cases, and the latest technology releases/solutions. </p><p></p><p>Few of the partners may already be familiar to you;</p><p></p><p>\- Deloitte </p><p></p><p>\- [Margento R&D](https://www.margento.com/)</p><p></p><p>\- Parity Tech, the team behind Polkadot</p><p></p><p>\- Emurgo, the team behind Cardano</p><p></p><p>&#x200B;</p><p></p><p>**The Tokenomics Model**</p><p></p><p>OriginTrail token is a non-inflationary token. 500 Million tokens have been minted and all are in circulation. If you look at [coingecko](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/origintrail) you may notice that it says that the current circulating supply is 361Mn/500Mn. This is due to the fact that 139Mn tokens are tagged for the dev. pool and future development and maintenance of the ODN protocol.</p><p></p><p>On top of this, additional 10+ Million tokens are currently locked up in nodes and jobs.</p><p></p><p>Additional 100 Million tokens have been locked up on the new StarFleet Chain that is being launched this month and will be locked up at least until Q3 until the bridge between ETH and SFC is completed.</p><p></p><p>Meaning that currently 50% of the entire supply is completely locked and unavailable.</p><p></p><p>OriginTrail token is the life and blood of the entire system. Without it, nothing works. It is what allows the set up of nodes, it is what allows enterprises, organizations, companies, even individuals, to upload whatever data they want to share with the world. </p><p></p><p>***How it all works***:</p><p></p><p>If you are a company and you want to upload the data on the ODN you must provide TRAC in order to do so. (*Remember nOS? Companies will acquire TRAC via nOS in fiat value and will not be interacting with crypto at all. nOS will automatically acquire fiat-equivalent of TRAC for them in order to allow for the upload of data on the ODN to be stored on running nodes.*)</p><p></p><p>A minimum of 3 nodes are required to hold a "dataset", or a "job". The length and data size will determine the cost to upload the specific datasets. This will of course depend on the area of business the company is operating within. Food traceability may not need the same length of storage as say train parts. Currently, datasets that are being uploaded to the ODN are mostly between 90 days and 5 years. You can see the live activity on the network [here](https://v5.othub.info/dashboard).</p><p></p><p>As an example, this is what happens when "jobs" are uploaded. I will ignore price mechanics for now as it is too technical to explain, so please disregard this part for now:</p><p></p><p>1. Data Creator creates a job for a specific size and duration. It's a 1-year job of 500kb.</p><p>2. The cost of uploading this job is 30 TRAC.</p><p>3. All active nodes on the network will attempt to bid to hold this job, only 3 will win it.</p><p>4. Once 3 nodes have "won" the auction, each node will provide 10 TRAC each, 30 in total, the equivalent of what the Data Creator offered. This job alone will lock 60 TRAC in total for the duration of 1 year.</p><p>5. If for whatever reason one of the nodes fail litigation, meaning the node is unavailable for a longer period of time, say several days, that node may lose the job. This will lead to loss of provided collateral (10 TRAC) and the remainder of the job will be auctioned to another node.</p><p>6. If you won a 5-year job, you don't have to wait 5 years for the job to mature in order to "payout" your earnings. But in order to get paid the full amount, you'll have to wait for the completion of the job!</p><p></p><p>As you can see, nodes are providing real utility and are not a wallet that you just put your tokens in and somehow they make you money. This is quite technical, but if you'd like to run OT nodes we have very well-written [guides](https://otnode.com/) to do so. Do mind that it may take you some time to set up your first node!</p><p></p><p>After ODN launched on xDAI, jobs or dataset uploads have increased substantially. In less than month, 2000 datasets have been uploaded to the ODN network. Before this, while still on ETH, 8000 datasets were uploaded over a period of 1,5 years! Meaning, the acceleration of data being uploaded and utilized is increasing by the day!</p><p></p><p>&#x200B;</p><p></p><p>**Social Media Channels**</p><p></p><p>If you found this information valuable and would like to follow OriginTrail and their development more closely I recommend that you at least subscribe to their Twitter account "OriginTrail", as they are very active there and post updates often.</p><p></p><p>You should also follow OTs CEO Ziga Drev, who is extremely active on Twitter! </p><p></p><p>&#x200B;</p><p></p><p>**Investors and recognition**</p><p></p><p>A couple of months ago it was revealed that a crypto investment fund Alpha Sigma Capital had invested in OriginTrail. You can see their portfolio [here](https://alphasigma.fund/portfolio). As you can see, they don't have that many projects in there, but they seem to be holding quite a few interesting projects; AAVE, DOT, ADA, CEL, Quant, Solana, AGI, etc. </p><p></p><p>They also released what could be interpreted as a "simple" report on OriginTrail. You can find this report [here](https://docsend.com/view/vcav3pzz9etmndqw).</p><p></p><p>World Economic Forum has been actively posting via Twitter their adoration for the OriginTrail solution since OriginTrail is part of the WEF Uplink group. Many of you may have seen this already, if not, just search Google by typing in "WEF Using blockchain to source high-quality, vital PPE." As I mentioned earlier, posts have been deleted due to Twitter links.</p><p></p><p>We also found out that Greg Kidd, an early investor of Twitter, Coinbase, Filecoin, and Square. Again, just use your search skills to locate the Twitter that Greg Kidd himself posted. </p><p></p><p>&#x200B;</p><p></p><p>**Conclusion**</p><p></p><p>I think this should suffice for now. I've tried to highlight what most may find most interesting. OriginTrail is a complex project and requires time and effort to really understand. The team has been around since 2011, which means they didn't start with these solutions suddenly during the crypto hype of 2017. Blockchain became a door-opener for a whole new world of possibilities to what they were creating. You can see their entire interactive progress map [here](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_klDu5PI=/). </p><p></p><p></p><p>If you like to dip your toes more and do more research, you can navigate to [origintrailexplained](https://origintrailexplained.info/) page and dig in yourself.</p><p></p><p>Yes, I do hold TRAC myself. This post was more for educational purposes for those who may be interested in the solutions which OriginTrail is bringing to the table.</p><p></p><p>Good Luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brownslave688, post: 4849791, member: 34439"] Furthermore, one of the most important aspects of the entire OriginTrail ecosystem is the nOS, which stands for Network Operating System. What nOS does is allow companies to spend credits purchased with company fiat to directly purchase TRAC via Uniswap or any other exchange. TRAC is only utilized in the background, is directly purchased when needed, and used in nodes immediately (see [this writeup](https://medium.com/origintrail/the-network-operating-system-liquidity-provisioning-system-part-1-uniswap-integration-b38e7ae75e76) for details). As cryptocurrency never touches the company’s accounting books, it **solves the problem of mainstream companies needing to purchase and hold cryptocurrency to use the protocol**. ​ **SBB CFF FFS** (Swiss Federal Railways) Also during the Liftoff event, Dominik Halbeisen from SBB was present to explain the importance of utilization of ODN and why they partnered up with OriginTrail. During [this presentation,](https://youtu.be/Rzk-Z9lFaG0) if you watch this entire presentation, you'll remember my example I explained above with "*If company A runs system X, company B system Y, and company C system Z etc.".* Just recently Brana Rakic, who is the CTO of OriginTrail, was at the GS1 Global Forum showcasing how 9 European Railways are utilizing OriginTrail. These are just [two images](https://postimg.cc/ppsFDMyn) posted by the OriginTrail team announcing this presentation. ​ **OneAgrix** OneAgrix is another partnership with OT that isn't getting the PR it deserves and is always sort of forgotten among BSI, GS1, Oracle, and Swiss Railways. OneAgrix and OriginTrail [partnered up back in early 2019](https://medium.com/origintrail/trace-labs-and-oneagrix-partner-up-to-enable-halal-product-traceability-on-the-blockchain-cde5dcb0efd1) with the goal to ensure and tackle the trust deficit in the halal goods marketplace, enabling food safety and transparency. This brings tangible benefits to businesses and consumers in the USD 2.5 trillion global halal markets. [Here you can read](https://www.foodnavigator-asia.com/Article/2021/04/29/Tech-ambition-OneAgrix-has-dreams-of-being-the-first-halal-unicorn) about the CEO of OneAgrix Diana Sabrain, who in 2015 established OneAgrix. I would recommend you to read the article because Diana explains WHY and HOW this is made possible by the application of OriginTrail solutions. Note that John G. Keogh is also OneAgrix strategic advisor! It's all about complying with global standards. If you do not comply with global standards you can forget about involving your business in global enterprise solutions. There is no other way around this! OriginTrail ticks all of the boxes here. It's been built from the ground up to do just this. ​ According to the team, there are many more entities involved with OriginTrail but these are still yet to be announced. ​ **Scientific and Academic Research** Due to John G. Keogh's involvement with OriginTrail since the OTs ICO launch, he has been actively involved with the solution that the TraceLabs and OriginTrail are developing. As mentioned, John Keogh is an advisor and heavy promoter of OriginTrail's solution. Just recently, an assembly of scholars and academics have joined a scientific group in the Trace Alliance data interoperability. You can read more about this [here](https://medium.com/origintrail/meet-the-academics-and-research-institutes-taking-part-in-the-trace-alliance-data-interoperability-e0780ba2cc6b), who these individuals are and which establishments they are representing! If you do not have the time to read through the article, in short: **Professor Samuel Fosso-Wamba,** Toulouse Business School, France **Professor Steve Simske**, Colorado State University, USA. **Associate Professor Wayne Martindale**, University of Lincoln, UK **Dr. Edward Smart**, a senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth, UK **Professor John Breslin** (7,800 citations), Data Science Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway, previously DERI, a Semantic Web research institute established in 2003 **Ph.D. candidate Abderahman Rejeb**, author of numerous papers on the blockchain, IoT, AI, and Augmented Reality The research team will be jointly coordinated by **Professors of Practice Horia Bradau** and **John G. Keogh**, McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics, and includes a department research associate Also, as linked and mentioned earlier, FoodOn has also joined Trace Alliance for this exact purpose. Solving Data Interoperability and Semantic Web. ​ **TraceAlliance** The [Trace Alliance](https://alliance.origintrail.io/) is a global network of 100+ business enterprises, service providers, developers, and research institutions that share knowledge gained using the OriginTrail protocol. They have direct access to OriginTrail knowledge resources, use cases, and the latest technology releases/solutions. Few of the partners may already be familiar to you; \- Deloitte \- [Margento R&D](https://www.margento.com/) \- Parity Tech, the team behind Polkadot \- Emurgo, the team behind Cardano ​ **The Tokenomics Model** OriginTrail token is a non-inflationary token. 500 Million tokens have been minted and all are in circulation. If you look at [coingecko](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/origintrail) you may notice that it says that the current circulating supply is 361Mn/500Mn. This is due to the fact that 139Mn tokens are tagged for the dev. pool and future development and maintenance of the ODN protocol. On top of this, additional 10+ Million tokens are currently locked up in nodes and jobs. Additional 100 Million tokens have been locked up on the new StarFleet Chain that is being launched this month and will be locked up at least until Q3 until the bridge between ETH and SFC is completed. Meaning that currently 50% of the entire supply is completely locked and unavailable. OriginTrail token is the life and blood of the entire system. Without it, nothing works. It is what allows the set up of nodes, it is what allows enterprises, organizations, companies, even individuals, to upload whatever data they want to share with the world. ***How it all works***: If you are a company and you want to upload the data on the ODN you must provide TRAC in order to do so. (*Remember nOS? Companies will acquire TRAC via nOS in fiat value and will not be interacting with crypto at all. nOS will automatically acquire fiat-equivalent of TRAC for them in order to allow for the upload of data on the ODN to be stored on running nodes.*) A minimum of 3 nodes are required to hold a "dataset", or a "job". The length and data size will determine the cost to upload the specific datasets. This will of course depend on the area of business the company is operating within. Food traceability may not need the same length of storage as say train parts. Currently, datasets that are being uploaded to the ODN are mostly between 90 days and 5 years. You can see the live activity on the network [here](https://v5.othub.info/dashboard). As an example, this is what happens when "jobs" are uploaded. I will ignore price mechanics for now as it is too technical to explain, so please disregard this part for now: 1. Data Creator creates a job for a specific size and duration. It's a 1-year job of 500kb. 2. The cost of uploading this job is 30 TRAC. 3. All active nodes on the network will attempt to bid to hold this job, only 3 will win it. 4. Once 3 nodes have "won" the auction, each node will provide 10 TRAC each, 30 in total, the equivalent of what the Data Creator offered. This job alone will lock 60 TRAC in total for the duration of 1 year. 5. If for whatever reason one of the nodes fail litigation, meaning the node is unavailable for a longer period of time, say several days, that node may lose the job. This will lead to loss of provided collateral (10 TRAC) and the remainder of the job will be auctioned to another node. 6. If you won a 5-year job, you don't have to wait 5 years for the job to mature in order to "payout" your earnings. But in order to get paid the full amount, you'll have to wait for the completion of the job! As you can see, nodes are providing real utility and are not a wallet that you just put your tokens in and somehow they make you money. This is quite technical, but if you'd like to run OT nodes we have very well-written [guides](https://otnode.com/) to do so. Do mind that it may take you some time to set up your first node! After ODN launched on xDAI, jobs or dataset uploads have increased substantially. In less than month, 2000 datasets have been uploaded to the ODN network. Before this, while still on ETH, 8000 datasets were uploaded over a period of 1,5 years! Meaning, the acceleration of data being uploaded and utilized is increasing by the day! ​ **Social Media Channels** If you found this information valuable and would like to follow OriginTrail and their development more closely I recommend that you at least subscribe to their Twitter account "OriginTrail", as they are very active there and post updates often. You should also follow OTs CEO Ziga Drev, who is extremely active on Twitter! ​ **Investors and recognition** A couple of months ago it was revealed that a crypto investment fund Alpha Sigma Capital had invested in OriginTrail. You can see their portfolio [here](https://alphasigma.fund/portfolio). As you can see, they don't have that many projects in there, but they seem to be holding quite a few interesting projects; AAVE, DOT, ADA, CEL, Quant, Solana, AGI, etc. They also released what could be interpreted as a "simple" report on OriginTrail. You can find this report [here](https://docsend.com/view/vcav3pzz9etmndqw). World Economic Forum has been actively posting via Twitter their adoration for the OriginTrail solution since OriginTrail is part of the WEF Uplink group. Many of you may have seen this already, if not, just search Google by typing in "WEF Using blockchain to source high-quality, vital PPE." As I mentioned earlier, posts have been deleted due to Twitter links. We also found out that Greg Kidd, an early investor of Twitter, Coinbase, Filecoin, and Square. Again, just use your search skills to locate the Twitter that Greg Kidd himself posted. ​ **Conclusion** I think this should suffice for now. I've tried to highlight what most may find most interesting. OriginTrail is a complex project and requires time and effort to really understand. The team has been around since 2011, which means they didn't start with these solutions suddenly during the crypto hype of 2017. Blockchain became a door-opener for a whole new world of possibilities to what they were creating. You can see their entire interactive progress map [here](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_klDu5PI=/). If you like to dip your toes more and do more research, you can navigate to [origintrailexplained](https://origintrailexplained.info/) page and dig in yourself. Yes, I do hold TRAC myself. This post was more for educational purposes for those who may be interested in the solutions which OriginTrail is bringing to the table. Good Luck! [/QUOTE]
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