The Weekly Airdrop #10

6 min readSep 17, 2018

At EOS Detroit, we keep our finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the EOS ecosystem. To keep the community up to speed on the latest breaking news and updates we produce The Weekly Airdrop, an EOS focused research report.

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New Releases

EOSIO 1.2.5
EOSIO 1.2.5 provided a bug fix to a memory leak in unapplied transactions where relayed transactions were never making it into signed blocks. This release also removed mlock because it was preventing chainbase from achieving its goal of pinning to the state database in memory. Node operators can still achieve the performance benefits of mlock by explicitly locating the state directory on a ram disk.

EOS News

Block.One Adds New Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
Block.One announced in a press release that former managing director and Asia-Pacific head of Corporate Communications for Credit Suisse, Sheel Kohli, will join the company as Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer in the coming weeks. Based in Hong Kong, Kohli will serve as a member of the company’s Executive Committee and report to Block.one Group President Rob Jesudason. In his role, he will oversee the company’s global communications and marketing activities.

EOS Alliance Updates
Check out the most recent updates published by EOS Alliance:

EOS Livestreams

EOS Detroit has been livestreaming the EOS Alliance calls on EOS Detroit’s Youtube channel and will continue to do so in the future. The underlying importance of information transparency being easily available is key to the health and well-being of the EOS network. The livestreams allow anyone to follow along in the evolution of EOS as governance, protocol mechanics, and other top-of-mind concerns are discussed in open forums. View Week 5 call schedule.

Catch the livestreams of this week’s EOS Alliance calls presented by EOS Detroit and EOS NodeOne:

Stats

Price of EOS: $5.14
EOS Voter Turnout: 25.14%
Market Cap: $4,662,604,405
Price of RAM: 0.09689069 EOS per KiB

Note: The numbers above are accurate as of 11:00 am EST on 09/17/2018.

EOS Detroit News

EOS Tribe and shEOS Visit Detroit in September
On Saturday September 15th, Jessica Houlgrave from shEOS flew into Detroit just in time for a “Blockchain Babes Who Brunch” meetup in the afternoon with our EOS Detroit Chief Community Officer Ingrid LaFleur and other women visionaries in Detroit (pictured below). In the evening, EOS Detroit and shEOS co-hosted an event at Grand Circus in Detroit. Jess Houlgrave from shEOS gave a wonderful presentation and answered lots of questions from the audience. Watch Jess Houlgrave’s presentation here.

On September 18th, Steve Floyd from EOS Tribe will be presenting “The State of Blockchain Usability” to Detroiters at Red Door Digital community center which will also be live-streamed here.

EOS Detroit in Washington D.C.
EOS Detroit’s Chief Community Officer Ingrid LaFleur also visited Washington DC and attended the Black Blockchain Summit. Below is a picture of Ingrid LaFleur with State Senator Ian Conyers, who represents the 4th Senate District of Michigan.

EOS Hackathon — London
Rob Konsdorf, Adam Zientarski, and Brandon Lovejoy from EOS Detroit will be in attendance at the EOS Hackathon in London and are looking forward to seeing other members of the community at this event! Additionally, EOS Detroit plans to attend Blockchain Live and other block producer meetups happening in London. We hope to see you there!

Featured Airdrop of the Week

Airdrops are additional tokens that are distributed to EOS token holders. New projects can bootstrap a user base for their DApp while avoiding the complexity of selling tokens via the traditional ICO method. Projects may withhold founder tokens that can provide a runway for the development team. Market participants then decides the fair market value of airdropped tokens for themselves.

Patreos
Patreos is a platform on the EOS blockchain that provides a censorship-resistant ecosystem for content distribution. Patreos smart contracts allow content sharing, subscriptions, funding, and campaigns for incentivizing further community growth. Patreos is sort of like the decentralized version of Patreon.

How Patreos Differs from Patreon
Patreon takes 10% off the top from creators to cover commission and transaction fees. Whereas Patreos pays 100% of pledges to creators. No more middle man. Patreos wants to reward content producers, and let fans pledge support with recurring payments via their Patreos token. Supporters also get rewards via referral campaigns, giveaways, and more. Supporters stay up to date, and 100% of their pledges go to the content creators.. Their monetary policy and token feedback mechanism keeps active members rewarded.

Subscribers, Publishers, & Pledges
Patreos has a typical Subscriber/Publisher model, where accounts can follow each other and receive notifications of newly shared content. This naturally creates two categories: the content creators and content consumers, though there are virtually no differences between the two accounts. The additional mechanism is the pledge. Pledging allows a user to enter into an token agreement with another account. The pledger enters a subscription agreement to contribute to another account a chosen amount of PTR every subscription cycle (7 days, 30 days, etc.). Pledges are managed by the token contract, and are an opt-in feature.

An Airdrop Based on Block Producer Voter Participation
Patreos is airdropping to voters on October 8th, 2018. A snapshot of the voter table will be taken on October 1st, 2018. On October 8th, Patreos will begin dropping their tokens (PTR) to all accounts that were in the voter table at the time of snapshot. For more information, join their telegram to chat with the Patreos team or visit them at patreos.com.

Patreos (PTR token) is doing a unique airdrop to EOS token holders. If you aren’t voting for any block producers on October 1st, you will not receive any PTR airdrop. Also, the more block producers you are voting for, the more generous your airdrop distribution will be. Ideally, you should be voting for 30 block producers. And voting for 30 is the only way to get the maximum distribution on your PTR airdrop.