Its a pity Andrey Voronkov is not the lead of SONM anymore. He seemed to be a reasonable person.
We know nothing about Ponomarev at all

Andrey is still the SONM co-founder and adviser.Sergey is the SONM platform lead developer and the creator of its architecture, code, etc.
He will give interviews to the crypto media websites before the start of the preICO, to provide the complex info about the SONM system implementation and roadmap.
Currently we are discussing the details with Cointelegraph, Coininterview and some ICO lists.
Does that actually mean there will be zero connection of SONM to the DrugDiscovery@Home project starting from now?
SONM is compatible with any BOINC or grid applications, so DrugDiscovery@Home or any BOINC application can be run on the SONM platform.
And furthermore, as we mentioned in the press release, SONM will support:
- SaaS (Software as a service),
- Widespread, modern and standard programming languages
- Isolated, safe and standard containers (Docker)
Absence of these essential features is the main disadvantage of BOINC.
That's the reason why we moved from BOINC to Cocaine (yeah) as the core of the SONM P2P technology.
https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-corehttps://tech.yandex.com/cocaine/Cocaine is awesome!;)
It's an open-source PaaS system for creating cloud hosting for apps, and it's being used, for example, as the backend in several
Yandex services.One of the Cocaine platform creators, developer Anton Tiurin (
https://github.com/noxiouz) joined the SONM team with a bunch of other cool devops.
So, in fact, we have ready to use P2P solution for the SONM network, modern and free from BOINC limitations, but, at the same time, compatible with BOINC and grid apps.
As I mentioned before, currently we are updating the SONM whitepaper, we'll announce it in a few days.
We received very valuable feedback on the previous SONM whitepaper edition from the cryptocommunity and from crypto\blockchain\grid experts.
Due to this feedback, we decided to split the WP into 2 parts: Technical Whitepaper & Financial Whitepaper.
- Technical whitepaper contains the essential info about the SONM architecture, API and code examples, technical roadmap, system modules implementation roadmap, timeline, etc. Pure tech.
- Financial roadmap contains the financial and marketing model of the SONM platform, monetization model, SNM token details and market prognosis, PreICO and ICO details, crowdfunding funds allocation structure, detailed costs plan, market analysis, etc
Stay tuned.