Why do we start this project?



The blockchain represented by Bitcoin and Etherium showed a problem of increase in commission due to transaction saturation as well as delays in transactions due to the small amount of transactions that can be processed due to public interest.

 It is not wrong to say that Bitcoin and Etherium have played an important role in the blockchain, but I think it is difficult for them to play such a role in the future.

In addition to these practical problems, they are overly concentrated in the vested interests despite being a blockchain, and are being dominated by minorities.

 In the blockchain which aims at decentralization, the decentralization does not proceed at all.

 I met DAG while thinking about the future technology to solve the problem of the blockchain that had these problems.

 We are confident that DAG will be the most promising technology that will be used practically in the future.

That's why we started this project.


What is Gravity?


The name gravity comes from the goal that everyone will come into our system, like gravity which is one of the systems we all belong to.

  We have the passion and ability to complete this project, and I think this project will be powerful enough to penetrate the routine of everyone.

  The technology we are going to create is to add anonymity while implementing smart contracts on DAG.

 DAG, just like Blockchain technology aims at anonymity and decentralization. This is the two main things we think as blockchain’s directing point.

Actually, The DAG and the blockchain are different, but the two technologies has same direction to go
 However, on blockchains where all transactions are disclosed, tracking is possible.

 To solve this problem blockchain which could keep privacy like Dash, Monero, or Zcash came out.

 We think that anonymity must be implemented in DAG.

 Decentralization can also be said to be the same as eliminating intermediate agents, which can be effectively implemented through smart contracts.

In light of this, we started this project with the goal of implementing smart contracts and anonymity in DAG.

 We will use the ZK-SNARKs protocol to reflect the anonymity to our DAG and develop smart contracts technology on DAG by ourselves which can implement in our DAG platform.




Who are the developers & why we don't have ICO?



We are made up of two computer developers and CEO of our project.

We met at a one of famous world company and started Gravity project by the CEO of our project.

You may be surprised to have a man who is not a developer, but he has a good understanding of the blockchain and has started this project.

Since we think that the project has a lot to make, the amount we get from the donation will be used to recruit developers and expand the team.


We do not have ICO because of one of the problems of the blockchain mentioned above. We want to realize decentralization, the core value of the blockchain. For a successful ICO, we need to cover unnecessary work for advisory, marketing. Th money used to this work is so big that we saw a lot of cases where the amount of tokens assigned to the dev team was over 30%. Because this is not absolute decentralization, we decided to proceed with the project in the form of a donation rather than an ICO, in order to create a DAG that is not central to the Foundation and is not concentrated in a few people. However, I have decided DEV to have a certain percentage of tokens for the scalability of the project. The token distribution will be further explained in the following questions.




The distribution of token and roadmap


30% of the tokens are assigned to donator, 10% to dev, and the rest to facuet. The target amount raised is $ 1,500,000. It's a lot of money, but I think it's a necessary step to expand the project. Even if this amount is not paid, March 20 is the deadline for donation. The 30% of supply of tokens will be distributed to donator at ratios even if the donation amount is not enough. We are considering distributing it first through the Erc20 token, and the donators list will be updated continuously

When the fundraising ends on March 20, we will open a website,  announce a white paper, marketing for expansion of the community, and expand the dev in April. In addition, we will design a test net with the privacy characteristics that existed as soon as possible before the smart contract was implemented. Until the end of the fund-raising, there are other similar projects going on, so there is no plan to release code. Anyone who has a suspicion of scam can continue. However, when time pass, you will regret.


Donations


We would like to express our gratitude to all donors and will remember them all(When donators do the donation, Donators should recognize this is just donation at first.)

We are going to distribute through Erc20, so we would appreciate if you send the transaction ID together with the Ethereum address(Not Exchange Address, ONLY address that you have the private key and have your own control) by PM in bitcointalk.

You can donate to the following address.

Bitcoin : 1Ks9gtfPqBdVPn52N3kuGnHCR1xCe5pvag
Ethereum :　0x00012659CCEBA7F48a2764fd0ccE096a3c4626c7
Ada : : DdzFFzCqrhsqrYcGMGnxTgunhUtDoUF6Mh78kbGWWPifPqytsqmDZitvTbsWpMzzrhGR6ZUkNdJYxvZ PU9CX1R7QkC69ZURkSpN72vGi
XRB : xrb_1i598jd4zzsx5qiqm1uwdo6a7kz5thahza3rbnadbwis5e6x1gg1thi7d9rb

＊Donator lists* :


To summarise
●  Gravity’s property will be less fee, fast, privacy, decentralization, and smart contract.
● Website & Whitepaper will be released before May
● The donation which aims to raise 1,500,000 will be until March 20
● The money raised will be used to recruit more developers and improve our project.
● The way of Facuet is not been decided but we are considering distributing via telegram.
● Gravity will be distributed as Erc20 at first after the end if donate.


We will update frequently
Thanks for reading

Seems extremely interesting!
I'll follow you on Reddit, Twitter, and bitcointalk.org. I'll read your whitepaper but I have a feeling that I'll like what I'll read

Good luck on the project!

Our work on the privacy protocol is now accomplished, it passed all our testing plan. The two last weeks have been very busy for us but the results worth it. 
It allows very fast transaction, almost as fast as a DAG without privacy and much faster than a simple ZK-SNARKs.

We will now merge it with this representation:

https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/03/7/1516527377-azulikproject.jpg

And let you know each steps of the project, we are very enthusiast with these results.


Here’s what’s next:

• Finishing a proper whitepaper and public release of the Github the 16th of March
• End of donation the 16th of March
• Wallet development
• Testnet open the first week of april
• Official launch in the beginning of May

In the coming month we will hire people for the team especially to help our new team member with the community management, the marketing of Azulik and exchange listing, feel free to PM.

First of all, thank you for all of your messages. They are really documented and very interesting. We will give further details below:


Here are the main results of our simulations. We will try to keep it clear and easy for everyone. Please feel free to ask for further details. The idea here is to test three approaches: ZK-Snarks, recursive-ZK-Snakrs (linearisation), and WPI.

As a benchmark, we used a simple DAG. We then simulated transactions/nodes and calculated the time needed.

https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/03/6/1516471445-finalresultsazulik.jpg

On the left, you can see that (among the three approaches) one allows to have transaction time really close to the simple DAG (without privacy). We can confirm these results with the figure on the right where we plotted the difference against the benchmark.


So, here we are, we have selected the Privacy protocol we will apply. We still have some analysis to do, but we are very confident with this approach.

Azulik will be the first Freemium cryptocurrency.
You’ll be able to realise instant, fee-less transactions, and adding privacy will only requiere a very small fee. Read below because what we have to show you is amazing.

First, we need to understand the issue, Raiblocks uses DPOS (delegated proof of stake), hence having complete privacy would hide users’ balances and break the whole DPOS system. The idea is to have two wallets: one public and one private.
So, you are wondering: If  I have the choice, I could put all my Azulik in the private wallet and the DPOS wouldn’t work anymore .

Yes, you are right and that’s why we need an intencive to make people stay in the public wallet and participate in the DPOS. All the fees collected through private transactions will be sent back to the user depending on their Azulik balance.

It means that keeping your Azulik in your public wallet, even if you don’t do transactions, will return you a percentage of the daily fees spent on the private network. One percent of the transaction fees will be split between the nodes, hence you will get paid to run the node. The other 99% will be redistributed to the network. Assuming that the portfolio weight is distributed like a Gaussian law and that the number of transactions is  equal or higher to the number of  users, we can say that, on average, you’ll get 99% of your fees back. 

So even if the fee is very low (and probably dynamic depending on the number of nodes on the network), you’ll get back a lot of the fees you pay for you private transactions. Remember, it’s  still free and instant to send or receive Azulik with your public wallet.



https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2018/03/7/1516527377-azulikproject.jpg


The main upside is that we will have a natural anti-spam protocol for private transactions, hence we can remove the POW to sending or receiving. It also means that it will make transactions even faster so they can be used in the mobile wallet.

Let’s take an example: You reveive your salary in your public wallet, then you send a part of your salary to your private wallet that you call Shopping Wallet.

Usually with Raiblocks, when you pay for a coffee, the bar can check your balance, where the money came from, and so on. Here, you can use you private wallet to pay and nothing will appear. Your transaction will be shown on the public wallet, but there is no link between the public and private wallet so it’s impossible to know who owns any given public wallet.

We believe this is the most elegant way to apply privacy on a DAG DPOS protocol
Do not hesitate to ask all the questions or concerns you may have, we would be happy to provide further details.


To summarise:

- We have designed and tested our privacy protocol
- Azulik will be more decentralized than Raiblocks
- It will be as fast as raiblocks for both private and public transactions
- Engage loyal users with daily rewards
- Very small fee for private transactions
- On average: private transactions are almost free

What next:

Here, you have everything you need to understand Azulik. We know you want a proper whitepaper and to see some code.

We can say that we will be able to deliver a proper whitepaper in about a month. Regarding the code, we will have to find a secure way to show you. As you know, there are other projects aiming to do the same thing and, in months, they proposed/delivered nothing new besides "We will merge Zk-Snarks and Raiblocks.” We like open source projects but we don't want our hard work to be stolen. So, in a bit of time, I think we will have a clearer picture about these two other projects and we will be able to deliver code. However, on our side, we will start implementing Azulik. To be honest, we can't expect the first test to be done before two or three months.

To be honest given the very small amount of donation we received yet, no need to spend time finding a trustable escrow and pay fees for that. Donation are mainly here to make the project kick out and engage people in the community. The dev wallet will be monitored and nothing will be withdrawn without explaining in details the reason. We already mention what we will do with the donations: Rent an office for weekend work together in peaceful environment, pay for a designer and for a good website and buy some hardware as we can see that our regular computer are very limited for testing our approaches. We would be able to make more simulation and stress-test.

Anyway be ready for the results very soon, i think it will be the first time someone will show you transaction time from a simulated network with three approaches to handle privacy.

We hope to have finish our testing tomorrow or Wednesday.

Stone project argues:
At this stage we confirm that Colin's words were right, it's not possible to apply privacy to XRB as we kown it today ( zkSNARKs).

Adding the privacy feature is harder than it may look, simply applying a ZK-SNARKs protocol (the underlying protocol of Zcash) would make the transaction time increase a lot.

That why we are currently working on two approaches:

  

• Having an optional privacy feature, allowing to have instant transaction or privacy
    
• WPI (witness-indistinguishable proof ) approach which for us would be the best way to have both instant transaction and privacy

We hope to confirm very soon that using WPI would highly decrease the transaction time. We are currently working on simulation right now.

Azulik aims to be Raiblocks with privacy.
We may make some changes to the Raiblocks protocol, but in the end, we want to offer a decentralised, fee-less, anonymous, and instant cryptocurrency.

Who are we ?

We are two colleagues, two engineers working at a famous tech company. One of our friends in the company will join us in the near future to work on the project management, marketing, and exchange listings.

Here’s a little bit about us:

There is nothing really sexy about it. We are rather young guys who graduated from very good universities. The skinny one is better at C++ than he is with girls and the fat one doesn't remember the last time he played a sport.

You won't know more about us than that, though, because our company's compliance rules don't allow outside of business activities. Hence, we wouldn't take the risk of being fired.

We have been in the blockchain and crypto world for years. We followed the development of XRB and we have been fascinated with Colin's work. Especially this epic thread that none of us understand…Don't worry, we are joking!

Why Azulik ?

We like Colin, he is certainly super smart, but we have read somewhere (and they were reported words) that adding privacy to Raiblocks wasn't possible.

When we saw that, we thought: “Challenge accepted!”

We started to work on it. We dug a bit into the problem and we would like to offer a potential solution we found.

Yes, we aim to build a decentralized, fee-less, and instant cryptocurrency.

But, most of all, we believe that privacy is an amazing touch to add to it.

Give us more details !
In a nutshell we show that applying Zero Knowledge proof (ZK-SNARKs) to DAG is something feasible. At this stage we believe that the privacy feature and instant transaction aren't compatible, however we think about making private transaction an option allowing to handle instant transaction or full privacy. But for sure it's a more complex problem than just apply SNARKs to Raiblocks, our next direction is to check the feasability to apply witness-indistinguishable proof.

(wikipedia)

We believe that applying WIP to Raiblocks could be the solution to have both instant and fee-less transaction. Furthermore given to Witness-Indistinguishability Against Quantum Adversaries it would also be possible to make Azulik quantum resistant, which is currently not our priority.

For more details check our whitepaper first draft. We know it's still very light as we have been mainly working on the privacy feature for the moment but expect updates frequently.


Here’s what’s next:

• Finishing a proper whitepaper
• Discussing other potential solutions or improvements with you guys
• In the meantime, working on the coding
• Sharing advancements with you on Github
• Working a bit on the marketing (website, logo, etc.)
• A functional wallet

Distribution:

It's very early to speak about the distribution as we expect months of work ahead, especially because we are busy with our daily work at the office, but we would like to find a very fun, fair, and new way to distribute Azulik. Any ideas?


Can i help ?

Of course you can, we are always interested in people having expertise and wanting to share, do not hesitate to contact us and give us your toughs, concerns, comments or complaints. If you have no expertise in this field hence you can motivate us if you are as excited by the project as we are.  

Donation:

If you guys are excited, liked the small piece of work we offer you today, and want to see more, or if you can't wait for the release of Azulik and you want us to reveal our identity and leave our job to work full-time on it, do not hesitate to donate.

We will update the list (or tell us for remaining anonymous), all donation will be very appreciated and we will remember it when we finally release Azulik! (and we secretly expect to leave our job and work full time on Azulik as it's much more interesting) .

• Bitcoin: 1E6HaTHMwdWsQEPHyMoiNHyxTjKzAXC8sU
• Litecoin: LQcsBj8e9jHHdFyG6cZLCzPpzC5ydnJQKj
• Ethereum: 0x21D0241bf0aB261D52c10767c89Bc9F764472167
• Monero: 44MyZttQH891CTTA8Gg71Cdh68zfUs28WGGynFzcpePiLuE2weVenAVRGfFzjzcusKe2qYUYCGqXk31 mNjG3QqkLKMdm7UU
• Raiblocks: xrb_1dtmp1g9rfkusja6ogpktazgt846kj4ett6afwowpu8xz6wq8kimergzkrug

Thanks for reading.

Azulik Project