Casper (CSPR)

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Basics

  • Created by Casper Labs, a R&D startup vying to be the first to deliver the Casper protocol upgrade.
  • Announced on:
  • Testnet: final testnet in Fall 2020
  • Mainnet release: planned on 22-3-2021, got live on 31-3-2021
  • Based in: Switzerland

History

  • Casper Labs will be an indirect competitor to Ethereum as it endeavors to deliver the much-anticipated Casper protocol upgrade. Some of their press releases hinted on building their own blockchain.

Token

Launch

  • From Figment Weekly Digest (11-3-2021):

"Casper is planning to launch their mainnet on March 22nd and will be hosting a public token sale on Coinlist starting on March 23rd."

Token allocation

  • From their blog (31-3-2021):

"The Casper Association has seeded DEVxDAO with 500 million CSPR tokens as of the Genesis Event and up to another 1.1 billion CSPR tokens over the next 6 years to give grants to developers with ambitious ideas for DApps and decentralized infrastructure solutions."

Utility

Token Details

Stablecoin

Technology

  • Whitepaper can be found [insert here].
  • Code can be viewed [insert here].
  • Built on:

How it works

Staking

Liquidity Mining

Scaling

Different Implementations

Interoperability

Other Details

Privacy Method

Oracle Method

Their Other Projects

Upgrades

Roadmap

  • Can be found [Insert link here].

Usage

Projects that use or built on it

Competition

Pros and Cons

Pros

Cons

Team, Funding, Partners

Team

"Ethereum Foundation developer Vlad Zamfir used to advise the company. But he’d left the project by March 2020, when CasperLabs said it was pivoting away from Ethereum.". Update (21-3-2021): Vlad Zamfir sues over rights to the Casper name."

Funding

"Blockchain startup CasperLabs has banked $14 million from investors who pledged to secure its proof-of-stake Casper network at launch. CasperLabs CEO Mrinal Manohar confirmed the private CSPR token presale to CoinDesk and further revealed that Digital Strategies had led the investment, with headline participation from HashKey Capital and Blockchange Ventures, as well as 52 others. Nearly half of subscribers already held CasperLabs equity, he said."