Decentralized News Network
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 Decentralized News Network ICO Review | |
| Decentralized News Network ICO | |
| Ticker: | DNN |
| ICO start: | 2018-07-25 00:00:00 |
| ICO end: | 2018-08-22 00:00:00 |
| Price: | 1 ETH = 3000 DNN |
| Bonus: | 1 |
| Tokens: | 500000000 |
| Tokentype: | ERC20 |
| Hardcap: | 35,000 ETH |
| Raised: | 0 |
| Platform: | Ethereum |
| Distributed: | 50% |
| Minimum: | 0.001 ETH |
| Accepting: | ETH |
DNN, or Decentralized News Network, is a news platform, combining news creation with decentralized networks to deliver factual content, curated by the community.
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Description
Decentralized News Network AbstractA decentralized news network backed by incentives for individuals to create, review, and consume news. The primary innovation of blockchains is a verifiable and cryptographically secured global ledger that can lead to new types of incentive structures. Developers can take advantage of the Ethereum blockchain to build applications that are not only architecturally and politically decentralized, but are underpinned by tokens of value. propose a network in which writers produce news content that is reviewed by fact-checkers before being published on the network without the risk of being taken down. All parties involved in publishing a factual article will be rewarded with tokens in a self-sustaining environment that thrives on tangible activity and accuracy of content rather than on advertising revenue and corporate interests.
Why is a need for DNN?
- Heavy corporate consolidation in media & public lack of trust
- Fake News
- Growing Censorship
How does DNN address Fake News?
- DNN sees itself as an additional transparent layer to vet the reputation and underlying agenda of sources- which is severely lacking in today’s media. The rationale behind DNN is to leverage selfish gains by structuring the review system in a way to incentivize fact-seeking and disincentive biases.
- DNN relies on consensus amongst content reviewers, rather than a central authority, to determine what should be published.
- An extensive review process allows for fact-checkers to validate writer-submitted content for overall accuracy and legitimacy.
- DNN’s guidelines and content policies direct reviewers on how to approve articles before they get published to the network.
- DNN is not tethered to any special interests or political agendas, nor is it vying for a substantial chunk of ad revenue, which puts it in a category separate from most publications that are tied down to a bigger entity.
How does DNN address Censorship?
- Content published to DNN is stored on the Ethereum blockchain, ensuring immunity from any efforts to suppress writer content.
- DNN’s content is persisted across community-managed servers, so that each retains copies of everything published to the network.
- Since the blockchain contains data in time-stamped blocks that chain together, being continuously added and archived, it becomes nearly impossible for outsiders to manipulate existing data or information within the distributed ledger.
- Each new user that contributes to a blockchain by hosting a miner or a node, helps to secure the data within it by making the amount of resources needed hack it extremely high. This makes it infeasible for any individual or organization to censor any content(s) within.
- In DNN’s case, publishers can run nodes that host and deliver the news content which users access in a peer-to-peer environment. Even if a government manages to shut down all nodes in its jurisdiction, those users can simply access DNN by switching to nodes elsewhere.
Why DNN will work?
- If news distribution were to function without any central authority, less importance would reside on media titans and there would exist a higher degree of autonomy and independence from the bottom-up, starting with journalists and ending at readers. This is what DNN is enabling.
- Readers crave one simple thing that DNN is providing: transparency. Transparency in news can make way for a more democratic and freer thinking press, which is sorely needed in these current times.
What are the Benefits?
- News Readers
Readers get access to more accurate and transparent news content that mainstream media won’t give them.
They also earn a reward for flagging articles for further inaccuracies and suggesting topics for writers to cover. - Journalists/Content Creators
Journalists get to be in full control of what they write about, not being tethered any overlying political agendas. They have full freedom for their voices to be heard and never suppressed by a bigger entity.
Writing about warzones is a good example of a sensitive topic that risks being removed or tampered with by other networks. But since DNN isn’t architecturally or politically centralized, this content will always be seen and preserved on the network.
They can earn reward for getting articles successfully published. - General Public
In general, everyone would access to more factual information, but even more importantly, they’ll all be exposed to a higher degree of media literacy in an environment that encourages an open dialogue on important issues.
The general public can also choose to directly take part in DNN whenever they choose. There is nothing stopping anyone from contributing positively to the network and taking ownership of it with all the other participants. - Media Outlets
Fact-checking external articles through DNN can potentially reduce internal costs, since an organization can simply offload the task to DNN without relying on additional staff or other organizations. A 2015 experimental study found that fact-checking can encourage politicians to not spread misinformation. The study found that it might help improve political discourse by increasing the reputational costs or risks of spreading misinformation for political elites. This would only serve to aid bigger organizations in their efforts to distribute honest news and reduce operational costs.
How does the system work?
- Simply put, writers produce and submit content, which is inspected for accuracy by a randomized set of reviewers on the network. Articles deemed acceptable enough (as per DNN’s guidelines) will be published to the network and made available to readers. These parties, in turn, can all earn token rewards for their respective efforts on the platform.
- Writers earn tokens for getting article published according to DNN’s editorial guidelines.
- Reviewers must stake tokens to be approved to review articles. They review articles anonymously and keep DNN’s editorial guidelines in mind while doing so. Reviewers can earn or lose tokens depending on the collective publishing outcome.
- Publishers earn tokens for storing published articles and hosting the DNN platform. They vote on the token pricing of all DNN actions (e.g. writer fee for submitting articles, minimum reviewer stake, token reward rate etc).
Readers can earn tokens for pointing out inaccuracies or violations of DNN’s editorial guidelines. They can also suggest topics to writers as bounties to earn tokens. Readers play a pivotal role in ensuring that the DNN article feed remains factual. - In DNN’s case, tokens serve two purposes: they are used as a reward for various actions (e.g. getting an article accepted, reviewing an article etc.) and to carry out actions that write new data to the chain. For example, writers use DNN tokens to pay for the Writer Fee associated with submitting their article to the network. Once an article has been accepted, writers can earn DNN tokens through the engagement generated by their article. Reviewers use DNN tokens to to be considered by the network as a reviewer of a submitted article. Lastly, readers use DNN tokens to interact with articles in the form of viewing, commenting, and tipping writers.When it comes to holding tokens, people hold them for a variety of reasons: some do it to sell them later, while some will hold in order gain more reputation or a higher standing within a decentralized platform.
- In DNN’s case, holding tokens is something we incentivize publishers to do- they are the equivalent of miners that hold the contents of published articles. The more tokens a DNN publisher holds, the more they are entitled to DNN tokens when they become available through the collective actions of the platform. In the case of other users, the more tokens they hold in the long run, the higher the value can appreciate based on network activity increasing over time.
Why buy DNN tokens?
- DNN already has a working alpha and a clear roadmap/vision to get the product to Mainnet. Once that happens, the tokens (which have legally already been deemed a utility), will have an actual use case. This will serve to drive up the platform’s overall valuation, thus making the tokens more valuable.
- Buying tokens will give early access to DNN’s beta platform, which will begin development post-sale.
- Buying tokens during the public sale will enable contributors to also receive fairly substantial bonuses, as outlined below.
Get in Early Token Sale Structure with cumulative bonuses for everyone
The following are the bonus ranges based on percentage of funds raised that reward contributors for purchasing DNN tokens early on and throughout the duration of the public sale.
Range 1: 0% raised <–> 25% raised —> Everyone gets a 20% Bonus
Range 2: 26% raised <–> 50% raised —> Everyone gets a 30% Bonus
Range 3: 51% raised <–> 75% raised —> Everyone gets a 40% Bonus
Range 4: 76% raised <–> 100% raised —> Everyone gets a 50% Bonus
Those that contribute in ranges 1 to range 3 will be entitled to a trickle down bonus, if a subsequent funding range has been reached. Here are a few examples to demonstrate the trickle down bonuses:
Example 1:
Assuming that a user put in 1 ETH at range 1 and the total funding of the project reached 100% of the goal; the contributing user would be entitled to 20% + 30% + 40% + 50% bonus. In other words, a 140% bonus of DNN tokens will be issued to them.
Example 2:
Assuming that a user put in 1 ETH at range 1 and the total funding of the project reached 30% of the goal; the contributing user would be entitled to 20% + 30% bonus. In other words, 50% bonus of DNN tokens will be issued to them.
Example 3:
Assuming that a user put in 1 ETH at range 2 and the total funding of the project reached 80% of the goal; the contributing user would be entitled to 30% + 40% + 50% bonus. In other words, 120% bonus of DNN tokens will be issued to them.
Review
| “ | November 2016: Conceptualisation. December 2016: Technical&Market Research. January 2017: Initial development of Alpha. February 2017: Team building & White paper drafting. May 2017: White Paper published. July 2017: Alpha testnet release. Q4 2017: Bug bounty program & product refinement. Pre-Sale and Crowd-Sale. Q1 2018: Hiring. Q4 2018: Beta mainnet release. Q12019: Production mainnet release. Q2 2019: Community building (writers, readers, reviewers, publishers). Q3 2019: Regional/localised news on DNN.[1] | ” |
Team
| name: | title: | links: | group: | photo: | iss: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Festa | Chief Digital Officer @ LittleThings | https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-festa-686b0188/ | Advisors |  | 4.1 |
| Matt Chwierut | Research Director @ Smith + Crown | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattchwierut/ | Advisors |  | 6.1 |
| Rebecca Rachmany | CEO @ Gangly Sister LLC | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccarachmany/ | Advisors |  | 4.1 |
| Pietro Speroni di Fenizio | Mathematician & Researcher | Advisors |  | 4.1 | |
| Dario D’Aprile | Founder @ Human and Machine | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariodaprile/ | Advisors |  | 4.1 |
| Richard Mills | Social Scientist @ University of Cambridge | https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-mills-4a3b4aa2/ | Advisors |  | 4.1 |
| Aly Madhavji | Advisor | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alymadhavji/ | Advisors |  | 36.2 |
| Ian Scarffe | Blockchain ICO Consultant / Advisor. Founder at Crypto Consulting and Investments LTD. | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianscarffe;https://twitter.com/ianscarffe | Advisors | 230.63 | |
| Mossy Wittenberg | Editor @ KYC360 Global Technologies | https://www.linkedin.com/in/amos-wittenberg-88838b40 | Advisors |  | 4.1 |
| Mayank Banerjee | Co-Founder and CEO @ Compass News | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayank-banerjee-b081507b | Advisors |  | 4.1 |
| Greg D’Alba | CEO and Co-Founder @ VIDL NEWS CORP. | https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-d-alba-005a43b/ | Advisors |  | 4.1 |
| Charles Theiss | COO and Co-Founder @ VIDL NEWS CORP. | https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-theiss-5530334/ | Advisors |  | 4.1 |
| Samit Singh | Co-Founder & CEO Product & Design | https://www.linkedin.com/in/singhsamit/ | Product Team |  | 4.1 |
| Dondrey Taylor | Co-Founder & CTO Tech & Development | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dondreytaylor/ | Product Team |  | 4.1 |
| Mališa Pušonja | Project Manager R&D engineer @ Devana Labs | https://www.linkedin.com/in/malisapusonja/ | Product Team |  | 3.1 |
| Andrej Cvoro | Solidity Developer Software developer @ Devana Labs | https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrejcvoro/ | Product Team |  | 4.1 |
| Uros Radovanovic | Solidity Developer Software developer @ Devana Labs | https://www.linkedin.com/in/uros-radovanovic-51647584/ | Product Team |  | 4.1 |
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