Cryptoworld: Lamden-The Blockchain Development Tools Ecosystem

Abstract

Blockchain application development is unnecessarily hard, partially because of how new the technology is, but also because of certain imposed limitations on the current status quo of how blockchains are used today. In this paper, we discuss the problems with current blockchain implementations and a solution to these problems.

We introduce Lamden: a software package of development tools that includes a blockchain generator, community collaboration tools, and independent chain-to-chain communication to create vast networks of blockchain applications that can transfer any asset across them.

What is Lamden

Lamden is a suite of developer tools that speed up the process of creating new and custom blockchains and apps. The Lamden Tau token connects these new projects together and with mainchain cryptocurrencies.

Motivation

In the past several years, we have seen an influx of blockchain technologies hit- ting the market. These technologies are touted as a means to an end of the centralized banking and financial systems. However, these blockchains rely on flawed systems that do not take into account the application of said technologies into the current infrastructure space. As a result, blockchain technology is seg- regated from the mainstream financial systems, and thus is ironically hindered by achieving its end goal.

The Lamden Project is an effort to create software development tools that increase the mass adoption of blockchain technology so infrastructure can revo- lutionize the market systems and cause realistic innovation within the markets.Laid out in this white paper is our critiques of the current state of the markets, and how we plan on improving this space.

The Product Ecosystem

Each tool in the Lamden suite addresses one problem with crypto development today.

Lamden Tau, an agnostic digital asset

hile payment channels across private chains will help facilitate app-to-app communication, there should also be away for users who are involved in the Lamden Project apart from a chain host or developer to easily participate and use the blockchain applications on Flora. Thus, we propose an agnostic utility asset known as ’Lamden Tau’. Tau are a digital asset that serve the universal asset of the platform itself, available for trade by users of the system who want to use a currency that use all private chains.

Communication with the Tau chain comes out of the box for Lamden developers, so they do not have to form independent relationships with other private chains to start transferring assets to one another. In this fashion, developers can start to integrate a digital currency market and trade into their blockchain applications immediately. By offering a native digital currency out of the box to all Lamden users, Tau increase the adoption rate of private chains, as more individuals are able to participate with the application coming from the Lamden community.

TAU Token Details

We seek to raise a capped total of $10M, having already brought in $150,000 from a seed capital group and are looking at bonus models identical to more traditional funding rounds in the startup up…

Presale: “Round A” Bonus of 22%: $2,350,000

Token Sale: “Round B” Bonus of 0%: $7,500,000

Total: $10M raise total cap goal.

The total number of TAU tokens to be generated is 500,000,000. Any TAU tokens left at end of sale will be burned.

Token Sale (Token Scattering Event)

The Lamden Project will be funded by a Token Distribution Event (Token Scattering) of the Lamden Tau. These Lamden Tau will be available for pur- chase on the Ethereum main chain in the form of an ERC20 token. Said Lamden Tau will then be available for swapping onto the Lamden chain during a cer- emonious process which signifies the milestone achievement of chain-to-chain communication on Clove. Further detailing on the Token Scattering Event is included in organizational documents.

Token Sale Details:

Token Pre-sale

The Token Pre-sale has begun on October 27th and will conclude once $2.5M is raised at a predetermined USD price of ETH announced already at $294.

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Conclusion

The goal of the Lamden Project is to provide a suite of tools that makes the rapid development and deployment of blockchains easy for the general population of developers. By modelling our tools based on the most popular tools used by developers today, we can capture a large and enthusiastic base of developers who want to get involved in blockchain but are unable to get over the initial hurdles.

Furthermore, by providing a centralized community, innovation can prosper and build upon itself, leading to newer and greater technologies and accelerating the industry as a whole. Lastly, through Clove, we are able to connect all of these projects together on a single routing system that facilitates swap transactions so that private chains can retain the benefits of selfmanagement and still take advantage of a larger ecosystem of great applications.

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