ah, FLO is used to pay for content listings to power the back end, and a meta token will supply the equity so that you can create a nice GUI front end.
Makes sense.
You might want to check out the state of the art in UIA (based on speed, scalability, and features). It's a significant tech leap from the NXT/ETH toy blockchain options as when you delayed Alexandria by dumping TOR for IPFS. Why? because it's a real time decentralized smartchain with integrated DEX. You wouldn't go back to TOR after experiencing the real time streaming experience of IPFS would you?
https://bitshares.org/technology/user-issued-assets/And what about FILECOINS (to incentivise people to store the content) for IPFS? Is that system up and running or getting close yet? Or are all the Alexandria files just stored on your personal server currently?
The way I would put it is that FLO is used to store and secure the library index itself, and the meta token supplies the equity and voting mechanism to guide future development (of the nice GUI front end and the back end).
I'll check out UIA - please dm me your email address so I can invite you to our Slack team, i'd very much like to chat with you about this if you're interested.
Filecoin is not up and running yet - all of the files published in alexandria *are* pinned by our web servers, yes, but not *just* by our webservers - a number of alpha testers and other IPFS users have pinned them as well, so if our servers went offline, the files would still be available. But we are still planning to use Filecoin to create the permissionless incentive structure necessary for a user to treat the network similarly to a CDN, in which they submit a file and some money and can actually count on guaranteed uptime for the file in exchange.