Support Millions of Users

Competing with businesses such as eBay, Uber, AirBnB, and Facebook, require blockchain technology capable of handling tens of millions of active daily users.
In certain cases, an application may not work unless a critical mass of users is reached and therefore a platform that can handle very large numbers of users is paramount.

Free Usage

Application developers need the flexibility to offer users free services; users should not have to pay in order to use the platform or benefit from its services.
A blockchain platform that is free to use for users will likely gain more widespread adoption.
Developers and businesses can then create effective monetization strategies.

Easy Upgrades and Bug Recovery

Businesses building blockchain based applications need the flexibility to enhance their applications with new features.
The platform must support software and smart contract upgrades.

All non-trivial software is subject to bugs, even with the most rigorous of formal verification.
The platform must be robust enough to fix bugs when they inevitably occur.

Low Latency

A good user experience demands reliable feedback with a delay of no more than a few seconds.
Longer delays frustrate users and make applications built on a blockchain less competitive with existing non-blockchain alternatives.
The platform should support low latency of transactions.

Sequential Performance

There are some applications that just cannot be implemented with parallel algorithms due to sequentially dependent steps.
Applications such as exchanges need enough sequential performance to handle high volumes.
Therefore, the platform should support fast sequential performance.

Parallel Performance

Large scale applications need to divide the workload across multiple CPUs and computers.

Transaction Confirmation

Typical DPOS blockchains have 100% block producer participation.
A transaction can be considered confirmed with 99.9% certainty after an average of 0.25 seconds from time of broadcast.

In addition to DPOS, EOS.IO adds asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (aBFT) for faster achievement of irreversibility.
The aBFT algorithm provides 100% confirmation of irreversibility within 1 second.

Transaction as Proof of Stake (TaPoS)

The EOS.IO software requires every transaction to include part of the hash of a recent block header.
This hash serves two purposes:
1. prevents a replay of a transaction on forks that do not include the referenced block; and
2. signals the network that a particular user and their stake are on a specific fork.

Over time all users end up directly confirming the blockchain which makes it difficult to forge counterfeit chains as the counterfeit would not be able to migrate transactions from the legitimate chain.

Actions & Handlers

Each account can send structured Actions to other accounts and may define scripts to handle Actions when they are received.
The EOS.IO software gives each account its own private database which can only be accessed by its own action handlers.
Action handling scripts can also send Actions to other accounts.
The combination of Actions and automated action handlers is how EOS.IO defines smart contracts.

To support parallel execution, each account can also define any number of scopes within their database.
The block producers will schedule transaction in such a way that there is no conflict over memory access to scopes and therefore they can be executed in parallel.

Role Based Permission Management

Permission management involves determining whether or not an Action is properly authorized.
The simplest form of permission management is checking that a transaction has the required signatures, but this implies that required signatures are already known.
Generally, authority is bound to individuals or groups of individuals and is often compartmentalized.
The EOS.IO software provides a declarative permission management system that gives accounts fine grained and high-level control over who can do what and when.

It is critical that authentication and permission management be standardized and separated from the business logic of the application.
This enables tools to be developed to manage permissions in a general-purpose manner and also provide significant opportunities for performance optimization.

Every account may be controlled by any weighted combination of other accounts and private keys.
This creates a hierarchical authority structure that reflects how permissions are organized in reality and makes multi-user control over accounts easier than ever.
Multi-user control is the single biggest contributor to security, and, when used properly, it can greatly reduce the risk of theft due to hacking.

EOS.IO software allows accounts to define what combination of keys and/or accounts can send a particular Action type to another account.
For example, it is possible to have one key for a user's social media account and another for access to the exchange.
It is even possible to give other accounts permission to act on behalf of a user's account without assigning them keys.

Actions with Mandatory Delay

Time is a critical component of security.
In most cases, it is not possible to know if a private key has been stolen until it has been used.
Time based security is even more critical when people have applications that require keys be kept on computers connected to the internet for daily use.
The EOS.IO software enables application developers to indicate that certain Actions must wait a minimum period of time after being included in a block before they can be applied.
During this time, they can be cancelled.

Users can then receive notice via email or text message when one of these Actions is broadcast.
If they did not authorize it, then they can use the account recovery process to recover their account and retract the Action.

The required delay depends upon how sensitive an operation is.
Paying for a coffee might have no delay and be irreversible in seconds, while buying a house may require a 72 hour clearing period.
Transferring an entire account to new control may take up to 30 days.
The exact delays are chosen by application developers and users.

Recovery from Stolen Keys

The EOS.IO software provides users a way to restore control of their account when keys are stolen.
An account owner can use any owner key that was active in the last 30 days along with approval from their designated account recovery partner to reset the owner key on their account.
The account recovery partner cannot reset control of the account without the help of the owner.

There is nothing for the hacker to gain by attempting to go through the recovery process because they already "control" the account.
Furthermore, if they did go through the process, the recovery partner would likely demand identification and multi-factor authentication (phone and email).
This would likely compromise the hacker or gain the hacker nothing in the process.

This process is also very different from a simple multi-signature arrangement.
With a multi-signature transaction, another entity is made a party to every transaction that is executed.
By contrast, with the recovery process the recovery partner is only a party to the recovery process and has no power over the day-to-day transactions.
This dramatically reduces costs and legal liabilities for everyone involved.

Minimizing Communication Latency

    Block
      Region
        Cycles (sequential)
          Shards (parallel)
            Transactions (sequential)
              Actions (sequential)
                Receiver and Notified Accounts (parallel)
    

Transactions generated in one cycle can be delivered in any subsequent cycle or block.
Block producers will keep adding cycles to a block until the maximum wall clock time has passed or there are no new generated transactions to deliver.

It is possible to use static analysis of a block to verify that within a given cycle no two shards contain transactions that modify the same account.
So long as that invariant is maintained a block can be processed by running all shards in parallel.

Read-Only Action Handlers

Some accounts may be able to process an Action on a pass/fail basis without modifying their internal state.
If this is the case, then these handlers can be executed in parallel so long as only read-only Action handlers for a particular account are included in one or more shards within a particular cycle.

Atomic Transactions with Multiple Accounts

Sometimes it is desirable to ensure that Actions are delivered to and accepted by multiple accounts atomically.
In this case both Actions are placed in one transaction and both accounts will be assigned the same shard and the Actions applied sequentially.

Partial Evaluation of Blockchain State

Scaling blockchain technology necessitates that components are modular.
Everyone should not have to run everything, especially if they only need to use a small subset of the applications.

An exchange application developer runs full nodes for the purpose of displaying the exchange state to its users.
This exchange application has no need for the state associated with social media applications.
EOS.IO software allows any full node to pick any subset of applications to run.
Actions delivered to other applications are safely ignored if your application never depends upon the state of another contract.

Subjective Best Effort Scheduling

The EOS.IO software cannot obligate block producers to deliver any Action to any other account.
Each block producer makes their own subjective measurement of the computational complexity and time required to process a transaction.
This applies whether a transaction is generated by a user or automatically by a smart contract.

On a launched blockchain adopting the EOS.IO software, at a network level all transactions are billed a computational bandwidth cost based on the number of WASM instructions executed.
However, each individual block producer using the software may calculate resource usage using their own algorithm and measurements.
When a block producer concludes that a transaction or account has consumed a disproportionate amount of the computational capacity they simply reject the transaction when producing their own block; however, they will still process the transaction if other block producers consider it valid.

In general, so long as even 1 block producer considers a transaction as valid and under the resource usage limits then all other block producers will also accept it, but it may take up to 1 minute for the transaction to find that producer.

In some cases, a producer may create a block that includes transactions that are an order of magnitude outside of acceptable ranges.
In this case the next block producer may opt to reject the block and the tie will be broken by the third producer.
This is no different than what would happen if a large block caused network propagation delays.
The community would notice a pattern of abuse and eventually remove votes from the rogue producer.

This subjective evaluation of computational cost frees the blockchain from having to precisely and deterministically measure how long something takes to run.
With this design there is no need to precisely count instructions which dramatically increases opportunities for optimization without breaking consensus.

Deferred Transactions

EOS.IO Software supports deferred transactions that are scheduled to execute in the future.
This enables computation to move to different shards and/or the creation of long-running processes that continuously schedule a continuance transaction.

Context Free Actions

A Context Free Action involves computations that depend only on transaction data, but not upon the blockchain state.
Signature verification, for example, is a computation that requires only the transaction data and a signature to determine the public key that signed the transaction.
This is one of the most expensive individual computations a blockchain must perform, but because this computation is context free it can be performed in parallel.

Context Free Actions are like other user Actions, except they lack access to the blockchain state to perform validation.
Not only does this enable EOS.IO to process all Context Free Actions such as signature verification in parallel, but more importantly, this enables generalized signature verification.

With support for Context Free Actions, scalability techniques such as Sharding, Raiden, Plasma, State Channels, and others become much more parallelizable and practical.
This development enables efficient inter-blockchain communication and potentially unlimited scalability.

Objective and Subjective Measurements

As discussed earlier, instrumenting computational usage has a significant impact on performance and optimization; therefore, all resource usage constraints are ultimately subjective, and enforcement is done by block producers according to their individual algorithms and estimates.
These would typically be implemented by a block producer via the writing of a custom plugin.

That said, there are certain things that are trivial to measure objectively.
The number of Actions delivered, and the size of the data stored in the internal database are cheap to measure objectively.
The EOS.IO software enables block producers to apply the same algorithm over these objective measures but may choose to apply stricter subjective algorithms over subjective measurements.

Receiver Pays

Traditionally, it is the business that pays for office space, computational power, and other costs required to run the business.
The customer buys specific products from the business and the revenue from those product sales is used to cover the business costs of operation.
Similarly, no website obligates its visitors to make micropayments for visiting its website to cover hosting costs.
Therefore, decentralized applications should not force its customers to pay the blockchain directly for the use of the blockchain.

A launched blockchain that uses the EOS.IO software does not require its users to pay the blockchain directly for its use and therefore does not constrain or prevent a business from determining its own monetization strategy for its products.

While it is true that the receiver can pay, EOS.IO enables the sender to pay for bandwidth, computation, and storage.
This empowers application developers to pick the method that is best for their application.
In many cases sender-pays significantly reduces complexity for application developers who do not want to implement their own rationing system.
Application developers can delegate bandwidth and computation to their users and then let the “sender pays” model enforce the usage.
From the perspective of the end user it is free, but from the perspective of the blockchain it is sender-pays.

Delegating Capacity

A holder of tokens on a blockchain launched adopting the EOS.IO software who may not have an immediate need to consume all or part of the available bandwidth, can delegate or rent such unconsumed bandwidth to others; the block producers running EOS.IO software on such blockchain will recognize this delegation of capacity and allocate bandwidth accordingly.

Separating Transaction costs from Token Value

One of the major benefits of the EOS.IO software is that the amount of bandwidth available to an application is entirely independent of any token price.
If an application owner holds a relevant number of tokens on a blockchain adopting EOS.IO software, then the application can run indefinitely within a fixed state and bandwidth usage.
In such case, developers and users are unaffected from any price volatility in the token market and therefore not reliant on a price feed.
In other words, a blockchain that adopts the EOS.IO software enables block producers to naturally increase bandwidth, computation, and storage available per token independent of the token's value.

A blockchain using EOS.IO software also awards block producers tokens every time they produce a block.
The value of the tokens will impact the amount of bandwidth, storage, and computation a producer can afford to purchase; this model naturally leverages rising token values to increase network performance.

State Storage Costs

While bandwidth and computation can be delegated, storage of application state will require an application developer to hold tokens until that state is deleted.
If state is never deleted, then the tokens are effectively removed from circulation.

Block Rewards

A blockchain that adopts the EOS.IO software will award new tokens to a block producer every time a block is produced.
In these circumstances, the number of tokens created is determined by the median of the desired pay published by all block producers.
The EOS.IO software may be configured to enforce a cap on producer awards such that the total annual increase in token supply does not exceed 5%.

Worker Proposal System

In addition to electing block producers, pursuant to a blockchain based on the EOS.IO software, token holders can elect a number of Worker Proposals designed to benefit the community.
The winning proposals will receive tokens of up to a configured percent of the token inflation minus those tokens that have been paid to block producers.
These proposals will receive tokens proportional to the votes each application has received from token holders, up to the amount they request for performing their work.
The elected proposals can be replaced by newly elected proposals by token holders.

The system contracts that implement Worker Proposals may not be in place at initial launch in June 2018, but the funding mechanism will.
It will begin to accumulate funds at the same time block producer awards start.
Since the Worker Proposal System will be implemented in WASM it can be added at a later date without a fork.

Freezing Accounts

Sometimes a smart contact behaves in an aberrant or unpredictable manner and fails to perform as intended; other times an application or account may discover an exploit that enables it to consume an unreasonable amount of resources.
When such issues inevitably occur, the block producers have the power to rectify such situations.

The block producers on all blockchains have the power to select which transactions are included in blocks which gives them the ability to freeze accounts.
A blockchain using EOS.IO software formalizes this authority by subjecting the process of freezing an account to a 15/21 vote of active producers.
If the producers abuse the power they can be voted out and an account will be unfrozen.

Changing Account Code

When all else fails and an "unstoppable application" acts in an unpredictable manner, a blockchain using EOS.IO software allows the block producers to replace the account's code without hard forking the entire blockchain.
Similar to the process of freezing an account, this replacement of the code requires a 15/21 vote of elected block producers.

Constitution

The EOS.IO software enables blockchains to establish a peer-to-peer terms of service agreement or a binding contract among those users who sign it, referred to as a "constitution".
The content of this constitution defines obligations among the users which cannot be entirely enforced by code and facilitates dispute resolution by establishing jurisdiction and choice of law along with other mutually accepted rules.
Every transaction broadcast on the network must incorporate the hash of the constitution as part of the signature and thereby explicitly binds the signer to the contract.

The constitution also defines the human-readable intent of the source code protocol.
This intent is used to identify the difference between a bug and a feature when errors occur and guides the community on what fixes are proper or improper.

Upgrading the Protocol & Constitution

By default, configuration of the EOS.IO software, the process of updating the blockchain to add new features takes 2 to 3 months, while updates to fix non-critical bugs that do not require changes to the constitution can take 1 to 2 months.

Schema Defined Actions

All Actions sent between accounts are defined by a schema which is part of the blockchain consensus state.
This schema allows seamless conversion between binary and JSON representation of the Actions.

Schema Defined Database

Database state is also defined using a similar schema.
This ensures that all data stored by all applications is in a format that can be interpreted as human readable JSON but stored and manipulated with the efficiency of binary.

Generic Multi Index Database API

Developing smart contracts requires a defined database schema to track, store, and find data.
Developers commonly need the same data sorted or indexed by multiple fields and to maintain consistency among all the indices.

Separating Authentication from Application

To maximize parallelization opportunities and minimize the computational debt associated with regenerating application state from the transaction log, EOS.IO software separates validation logic into three sections:
1. Validating that an Action is internally consistent;
2. Validating that all preconditions are valid; and
3. Modifying the application state.

Validating the internal consistency of a Action is read-only and requires no access to blockchain state.
This means that it can be performed with maximum parallelism.
Validating preconditions, such as required balance, is read-only and therefore can also benefit from parallelism.
Only modification of application state requires write access and must be processed sequentially for each application.

Authentication is the read-only process of verifying that an Action can be applied.
Application is actually doing the work.
In real time both calculations are required to be performed, however once a transaction is included in the blockchain it is no longer necessary to perform the authentication operations.

Merkle Proofs for Light Client Validation (LCV)

Integrating with other blockchains is much easier if clients do not need to process all transactions.
After all, an exchange only cares about transfers in and out of the exchange and nothing more.
It would also be ideal if the exchange chain could utilize lightweight merkle proofs of deposit rather than having to trust its own block producers entirely.
At the very least a chain's block producers would like to maintain the smallest possible overhead when synchronizing with another blockchain.

The goal of LCV is to enable the generation of relatively light-weight proof of existence that can be validated by anyone tracking a relatively light-weight data set.
In this case the objective is to prove that a particular transaction was included in a particular block and that the block is included in the verified history of a particular blockchain.

Bitcoin supports validation of transactions assuming all nodes have access to the full history of block headers which amounts to 4MB of block headers per year.
At 10 transactions per second, a valid proof requires about 512 bytes.
This works well for a blockchain with a 10 minute block interval, but is no longer "light" for blockchains with a 0.5 second block interval.

The EOS.IO software enables lightweight proofs for anyone who has any irreversible block header after the point in which the transaction was included.
Using the hash-linked structure shown it is possible to prove the existence of any transaction with a proof less than 1024 bytes in size.

Given any block id for a block in the blockchain, and the headers a trusted irreversible block.
It is possible to prove that the block is included in the blockchain.
This proof takes ceil(log2(N)) digests for its path, where N is the number of blocks in the chain.
Given a digest method of SHA256, you can prove the existence of any block in a chain which contains 100 million blocks in 864 bytes.

There is little incremental overhead associated with producing blocks with the proper hash-linking to enable these proofs which means there is no reason not to generate blocks this way.

When it comes time to validate proofs on other chains there are a wide variety of time/ space/ bandwidth optimizations that can be made.
Tracking all block headers (420 MB/year) will keep proof sizes small.
Tracking only recent headers can offer a trade off between minimal long-term storage and proof size.
Alternatively, a blockchain can use a lazy evaluation approach where it remembers intermediate hashes of past proofs.
New proofs only have to include links to the known sparse tree.
The exact approach used will necessarily depend upon the percentage of foreign blocks that include transactions referenced by merkle proof.

After a certain density of interconnectedness, it becomes more efficient to simply have one chain contain the entire block history of another chain and eliminate the need for proofs all together.
For performance reasons, it is ideal to minimize the frequency of inter-chain proofs.

Latency of Interchain Communication

When communicating with another outside blockchain, block producers must wait until there is 100% certainty that a transaction has been irreversibly confirmed by the other blockchain before accepting it as a valid input.
Using an EOS.IO software-based blockchain and DPOS with 0.5 second blocks and the addition of Byzantine Fault Tolerant irreversibility, this takes approximately 0.5 second.
If any chain's block producers do not wait for irreversibility it would be like an exchange crediting a deposit that was later reversed and could impact the validity of the blockchain's consensus.
The EOS.IO Software uses both DPOS and aBFT to provide rapid irreversibility.

Proof of Completeness

When using merkle proofs from outside blockchains, there is a significant difference between knowing that all transactions processed are valid and knowing that no transactions have been skipped or omitted.
While it is impossible to prove that all of the most recent transactions are known, it is possible to prove that there have been no gaps in the transaction history.
The EOS.IO software facilitates this by assigning a sequence number to every Action delivered to every account.
A user can use these sequence numbers to prove that all Actions intended for a particular account have been processed and that they were processed in order.

Segregated Witness

The concept of Segregated Witness (SegWit) is that transaction signatures are not relevant after a transaction is immutably included in the blockchain.
Once it is immutable the signature data can be pruned and everyone else can still derive the current state.
Since signatures represent a large percentage of most transactions, SegWit represents a significant savings in disk usage and syncing time.

This same concept can apply to merkle proofs used for inter-blockchain communication.
Once a proof is accepted and irreversibly logged into the blockchain, the 2KB of sha256 hashes used by the proof are no longer necessary to derive the proper blockchain state.
In the case of inter-blockchain communication, this savings is 32x greater than the savings on normal signatures.

Another example of SegWit would be for Steem blog posts.
Under this model a post would contain only the sha256(blog content) and the blog content would be in the segregated witness data.
The block producer would verify that the content exists and has the given hash, but the blog content would not need to be stored in order to recover the current state from the blockchain log.
This enables proof that the content was once known without having to store said content forever.

voting for block-producer-node

description::
According to the EOS ‘Constitution’ the 21 elected block producers do not keep their position forever.
In fact, EOS voting is a never-ending process, with votes being recalculated every two minutes to ensure that the set of "active" BPs is constantly changing.
So, if BPs want to keep their "job", they need to make sure they are doing a good job; otherwise some of the "standby" BPs could get more votes and take over from them.
You can vote and change your vote as many times you want.
[https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2018/06/eos-is-officially-live-as-15-voting-threshold-is-met/]
===
"If you are not voting on at least 15 BPs, you are leaving the network vulnerable to attacks."
- @bytemaster7
[https://twitter.com/EOSTribe/status/1009082599564873733]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-block-producer-node'voting,
* McsEngl.Deos-voting.block-producer,

number of Eos-block

name::
* McsEngl.Deos'block'number,

timestamp of Eos-block

name::
* McsEngl.Deos'block'timestamp,

producer of Eos-block

name::
* McsEngl.Deos'block'producer,

transaction of Eos-block

name::
* McsEngl.Deos'block'transaction,

block.IRREVERSIBLE

description::
"Once a block is deemed irreversible, it means that it has been verified and signed by at least 15 Block Producers, and can now be fully trusted."
[https://www.eoscanada.com/en/abc-eos]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos'block.irreversible,

action of Eos-transaction

description::
"Every transaction in a block is made up of one or more actions. Each action is an instruction to perform a given task. A transaction can be built up of multiple actions that are linked together."
[https://www.eoscanada.com/en/abc-eos]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-tx'action,

CPU-usage of Eos-transaction

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-tx'CPU-usage,

net-usage of Eos-transaction

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-tx'net-usage,

transaction-per-second-(tps) of Eos-transaction

name::
* McsEngl.Deos'tps,
* McsEngl.Deos-tx'tps,

confirmation of Eos-transaction

description::
Typical DPOS blockchains have 100% block producer participation. A transaction can be considered confirmed with 99.9% certainty after an average of 1.5 seconds from time of broadcast.
There are some extraordinary cases where a software bug, Internet congestion, or a malicious block producer will create two or more forks. For absolute certainty that a transaction is irreversible, a node may choose to wait for confirmation by 15 out of the 21 block producers. Based on a typical configuration of the EOS.IO software, this will take an average of 45 seconds under normal circumstances. By default all nodes will consider a block confirmed by 15 of 21 producers irreversible and will not switch to a fork that excludes such a block regardless of length.
It is possible for a node to warn users that there is a high probability that they are on a minority fork within 9 seconds of the start of a fork. After 2 consecutive missed blocks there is a 95% probability a node is on a minority fork. With 3 consecutive missed blocks there is a 99% certainty of being on a minority fork. It is possible to generate a robust predictive model that will utilize information about which nodes missed, recent participation rates, and other factors to quickly warn operators that something is wrong.
The response to such a warning depends entirely upon the nature of the business transactions, but the simplest response is to wait for 15/21 confirmations until the warning stops.
[https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/TechnicalWhitePaper.md#transaction-confirmation]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-tx'confirmation,
* McsEngl.Deos-transaction'confirmation,

namespace of Eos-account

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-account'namespace,

addressWpg::
* https://www.eoscanada.com/en/everything-you-need-to-know-about-namespace-bidding-about-eos,

permission.CHILD

description::
"Child
Within the permissions structure of an account, owner is the top-level authority, with all other permissions being nested underneath it. Any permission nested under a permission heading is known as a child. By default, an EOS account will come with the active permission as a child to the owner permission."

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-permission.child,

permission.MULTISIGNATURE

description::
"The EOS blockchain has a very powerful permissions system that can help secure your funds and smart contracts. However, these permissions, especially multisignature permissions, are seen as advanced concepts, unattainable by every day users."
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fU9DMktocU]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-permission.multisignature,
* McsEngl.multisignature-Deos-permission,

addressWpg::
* {2019-05-30} Luke-Stokes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fU9DMktocU,

DvEOS.INFLATION

description::
"The mechanism through which new tokens are created on the EOS mainnet. 20% of these are used to pay Block Producers and Standby Producers, with the remainder going into the eosio.saving account. Currently, inflation is set at 5%."
[https://www.eoscanada.com/en/abc-eos]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-inflation,
* McsEngl.DvEOS.inflation,

addressWpg::
* {2019-06-03} https://cointelegraph.com/news/eos-holders-vote-to-reduce-the-annual-inflation-from-5-to-1,
* https://www.eoscanada.com/en/inflation-on-eos-what-do-i-need-to-know,

DvEOS.STAKED

description::
"Tokens on the EOS network can have two states, delegated and undelegated. When a token is delegated, it provides an allocation of network resources for an account. You can delegate resources towards your own account, or to another account, using your tokens. (also known as stake)"
[https://www.eoscanada.com/en/abc-eos]

name::
* McsEngl.DvEOS.delegated,
* McsEngl.DvEOS.staked,
* McsEngl.Deos'staked-token,

DvEOS.STAKED.NO

description::
"Unstaked tokens are free to be moved around, transferred to another user, or used to make another account."
[https://www.eoscanada.com/en/voting-faqs]

name::
* McsEngl.DvEOS.unstaked,
* McsEngl.Deos'unstaked-token,

text of Eos-constitution

This Constitution is a multi-party contract entered into by the Members by virtue of their use of this blockchain.

cost of voting

description::
· nothing

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-voting'cost,

vote-decay of voting

description::
"Vote Decay
To discourage users from casting a vote for Block Producers and then not updating their vote periodically, a decay in the relative vote strength of old votes was introduced. To maintain maximum vote strength, a user should vote at least once per week"
[https://www.eoscanada.com/en/abc-eos]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-voting'decay-of-vote,

number-of-BP-you-can-vote

description::
"users can vote for up to 30 Block Producer Candidates at the same time."
===
"How does the voting work? If I vote for only 5 BPs does all my votes get equally divided between the 5
Your vote weight is the same if you voted for 1 or 30. It is best to vote on 30, it helps secure the network more. You can also use a vote proxy (like lukeeosproxy - Luke Stokes) to ensure your votes are going to the right candidates."
[https://eosdac.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009852212-How-does-the-voting-work-If-I-vote-for-only-5-BPs-does-all-my-votes-get-equally-divided-between-the-5]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-voting'number-of-BP-you-can-vote,

tool for voting

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-voting'tool,

addressWpg::
* https://bloks.io/,
* https://eosc.app/,
* https://eosrio.io/simpleos/,
* https://eosauthority.com/voting_analytics,
* https://eosauthority.com/polls,
* https://github.com/greymass/eos-voter,

time of voting

description::
* "How often votes are counted when voting for blockproducers?
Votes are calculated every 2 minutes and 6 seconds. There is no stop to the voting process in EOS"
[https://eosdac.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010098231-How-often-votes-are-counted-when-voting-for-blockproducers-]
* "How often should I vote for a blockproducer?
You can vote for your favorite block producers as often as you'd like. Once you vote your vote will be valid for as long as you change it or remove it. To keep your support strong it is advisable to vote every week as voting power decays gradually by about 1% every week and diminishes completely over the course of 2 years."
[https://eosdac.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010097931-How-often-should-I-vote-for-a-blockproducer-]
* "When will voting end?
There is no end date on voting. You can vote and change your vote as many times you want. Votes will keep being accepted as long as EOS network is available (forever)."
[https://eosauthority.com/voting]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-voting'time,

info-resource of voting

name::
* McsEngl.Deos'resource.voting,
* McsEngl.Deos-voting'Infrsc,

addressWpg::
* https://www.auroraeos.com/blog/voting-guide/,
* https://coincentral.com/how-to-vote-for-an-eos-block-producer/,
* https://eosauthority.com/voting,
* https://votetracker.io/,
* https://www.eoscanada.com/en/how-is-your-vote-strength-calculated-on-eos,
* {2018-10-02} Ana-Berman, EOS Developer Acknowledges Claims of ‘Collusion’ and ‘Mutual Voting’ Between Nodes, https://cointelegraph.com/news/eos-developer-acknowledges-claims-of-collusion-and-mutual-voting-between-nodes,
* {2018-10-01} https://www.ccn.com/block-one-vows-to-use-its-eos-tokens-to-prevent-voting-cartels/,
* https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/10/01/eos-voter-corruption-huobi/,

voting.SPECIFIC

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-voting.specific,

specific::
* block-producer--voting,
* proxy-voting,
* referendum-voting,

voting.PROXY

description::
"What is Proxy voting?
A proxy is someone who you delegate your voting power and authority to vote on your behalf. Once a user registers as proxy, other users can delegate their voting power to the proxy. You votes then directly go the the candidates your proxy votes for."
[https://eosdac.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010098111-What-is-Proxy-voting-]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-voting.proxy,
* McsEngl.EOS-proxy-voting,

ECAF of Eos-governance

description::
"ECAF - EOS Core Arbitration Forum
EOS Core Arbitration Forum; the default arbitration forum for the EOS Mainnet. It is named in the current Constitution in Article IX. Users and developers are free to name and use other Arbitration Forums, however this is the current default forum."
[https://www.eoscanada.com/en/abc-eos]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-ECAF,
* McsEngl.Deos'ECAF,
* McsEngl.Deos'EOS-Core-Arbitration-Forum,

addressWpg::
* https://eoscorearbitration.io/,

stakeholder of Voice

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-Voice'stakeholder,

Voice-token of Voice

description::
· they will-have value because advertisers will-purchase them to place ads.

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-Voice'Voice-token!⇒DvVOICE,
* McsEngl.DvVOICE,

evaluation of Voice

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-Voice'evaluation,

info-resource of Voice

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-Voice'Infrsc,

addressWpg::
* https://voice.com/,
===
* {2019-06-09} Perry-Shenas, https://www.eoswriter.io/4027_everyone-deserves-a-real-voice.eos,
* {2019-06-07} Tanish, 8 Reasons Why Voice would be the Next Big Thing! https://medium.com/@tanishqyeverma/8-reasons-why-voice-would-be-the-next-big-thing-b8de57c79a33,

Deos-human.VOTER

description::
· voter is an-token-holder with staked-tokens.

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-voter,

Deos-human.WHALE

description::
· Eos-whale is any-human that owns account|s with very large EOS-token quantities.

name::
* McsEngl.Deos-whale,
* McsEngl.Deos'human.whale,

human of Block.one

specific::
* Brendan-Blumer​, CEO,

pro.mobile-use

description::
"The ecosystem that’s been built around mobile use for EOS is far more advanced than most onlookers recognize: you can use a mobile wallet to send tokens, play games, trade on a DEX, and more, signing all transactions with TouchID, on EOS today. The user experiences built on EOS are far and away the best of blockchain-based applications."
[https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2018/12/21/eos-is-a-dao/]

name::
* McsEngl.Deos'evaluation.pro.mobile-use,