Block One Announcement — TLDR; “Voice” Crypto Social Network

Today was the huge announcement from Block One about their plans, also celebrating their one year anniversary.

I’ve compiled some highlights for you, a tldr, if you will.

You can watch the entire keynote here: https://block.one/june1/

Big Year Update

EOS is now the most active, most scalable blockchain in history.

EOS comprises 60% of all blockchain transactions in the world.

48% of all daily active blockchain users across the world are coming from the EOS blockchain.

EOS on Coinbase Earn

• an EOS specific education program on Coinbase Earn
• VP engineering Coinbase and creator of AWS Lambda
• Bilaji CTO of Coinbase and creator of Earn.com speech about
• available to over 150,000 users are participating in Earn in over 100 different countries
• coinbase.com/eos/earn

EOS token is available site wide on Coinbase

• Coinbase Pro
• Available for all users as of today
• EOS coming to Coinbase Custody in coming weeks

Coinbase tech and legal team have done endless hours and audits on EOSIO software, tokens and scalability.

eosio 2

• EOSVM is introduced
• web assembly engine for blockchain
• EOSVM WASM execution up to 12x faster, will make executing smart contracts faster

webauthn

An eosio specific Yubico key was introduced.

Allows you to tie a specific account and key to a site or service, much safety.

A story of how we got here by Brendan, leading up to the big reveal.

Voice — a crypto social network on EOS blockchain

• uses EOS blockchain
• Voice Token

“fairest token ever in the world.” — Dan Larimer

“Created by real people, producing real content and liked by real people.”

• multistep authentication process
• designed to prevent abuse
• share content

• upvote and “voice” (promote) your posts to other users

A look at the ui, pretty sexy.

posts include

• images
• video
• web links
• twitter shares (trolling twitter i guess)
• supports long form content (kinda like a blog) or short like a tweet

Likes

• when people get likes they ear Voice Tokens
• more you get liked the more you get shown

Uses of Voice Token

• can promote your content to more people
• can increase the visibility of posts and comments on posts “voice it”
• can move a comment up to the top of the discussion
• increasing visibility of the comment will also increase visibility of the post that was commented on
• reduces need for followers (imagine all the follower spam out there on insta, etc)
• many more plans to use voice tokens in the future

Everybody who signs up for voice will get a free account on EOS.

Voice can be used to login to other crypto sites (think facebook social login), a detail that people likely missed, but should be HUGE.

You can sign up at https://www.voice.com