EchoLink (EKO)

 Basics

• Aka EKO Blockchain Platform
• Started in / Announced on: 2017 ICO times.
• Mainnet release:
• Based in:

• From their FAQ (11-12-2020):

"EKO tackles the education and recruiting sector as its initial use case. The EKO system can be used for a variety of application and industries, such as notary service, finance, banking, and insurance, etc."

Technology

• Docs can be found here (2019).
• Code can be viewed here.
• Built on: Ethereum ERC20 but wants to have its own blockchain.

• Programming language used:

Transaction Details

• Capacity (TPS):
• Latency:

How it works

• From their website (11-12-2020):

"EKO Blockchain Platform is a public blockchain service built on top of Proof of Professional Stake consensus protocol (PoPS)."

Layer Two

• From their website (11-12-2020): "Layer II blockchain transaction acceleration"

Interoperability

• From their website (11-12-2020):

"The EKO Blockchain Platform is fully compatible with EVM based Solidity smart contracts."

Privacy Method being used

• Has their own system. From their website (11-12-2020):

"EKO Confidential: Zero Knowledge Proof Systems for Confidential Smart Contract and Blockchain Data Privacy"

Oracle Method being used

• Has its own oracle. From their website (11-12-2020):

"Bridging blockchain and Internet data sources. EKO Oracle offers trusted and trustless data oracle services. EKO Oracle services enable development of innovative distributed blockchain applications for real world situations."

Their Other Projects

EKO Careers

• From their website (11-12-2020):

"EKO is a blockchain based system that provides verified education, skill, and work experience information.

Taking advantage of blockchain technology’s immutability and time stamp functionality, EKO provides users with trusted information regarding a job candidate’s education, skill, and work experience.

EKO provides savings to recruiters in time and financial resources. The EKO system can also be used for additional industries, such as banking, finance, general notary service. EKO is building high-trust economy through innovations in blockchain technology."

Roadmap

• Can be found here (11-12-2020). But only goes till Q1 of 2019.

Audits

• Bug bounty program can be found [insert here].

Competition

• From their FAQ (11-12-2020):

"What are the advantages of EkoLink compared to existing recruiting and professional networking applications?

Current applications do not provide users verified information regarding education, skill certification, and work history. Users have to spend time and resources to conduct background checks. Based on blockchain technology, EkoLink provides immutable information with time stamps entered by authoritative institutions. EkoLink saves users valuable time and financial resources spent on background checks and other verification processes."

Team, Funding, Partnerships, etc.

Team

• Full team can be found here (11-12-2020). Has 3 devs working on it.
• Steve Chen; founder, from the website: "Co-Lead/Co-founder, Berkeley Blockchain Lab, UC Berkeley, Sun Microsystem Consumer Java Team Tech Lead，Software Developer. College of Engineering Dean’s Council, Silicon Valley, Carnegie Mellon University 2010-2014."
• Jialing Liu; advisor "BitShares committee member"
• Dustin Byington; advisor "WanChain Co-founder, TenderMint"

Partners 

• According to its website it is partners with (11-12-2020):

NEO, Microsoft Partner and Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College.