EchoLink (EKO)

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 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."

History

Token

Launch

Token allocation

Utility

Token Details

Stablecoin

Technology

  • Programming language used:

Transaction Details

How it works

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

Mining

Staking

Liquidity Mining

Layer Two

Different Implementations

Interoperability

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

Other Details

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"

Compliance

Oracle Method being used

"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

"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."

Governance

DAO

Treasury

Upgrades

Roadmap

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

Audits

Bugs/Hacks

Usage

Projects that use or built on it

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."

Coin Distribution

Pros and Cons

Pros

Cons

Team, Funding, Partnerships, etc.

Team

Funding

Partners 

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

NEO, Microsoft Partner and Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College.