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Numbers Protocol -- Building Visual China for Web 3.0

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This year's hot NFT market solved the ownership problem of digital assets, but that was not enough.

Numbers Protocol is Building a Visual China with Web 3.0

Original author: Old Yuppie

On August 21, 2019, "PrayforAmazon" -- #PrayforAmazonas became the world's top trending hashtag on Twitter; On the same night, the topic of "Amazon fire" began to be discussed on Weibo and wechat moments in China, and further intensified the next day. However, the photos that flooded Twitter turned out to be from two different incidents, as many of the images shared on social media were mostly from past Amazon fires, with people urging: "Stop Posting fake pictures!" But the panic soon spread to the economic and political spheres. The authenticity of these photos is highly questionable, whether intentionally or not, and in an age of misinformation, the inadvertent use of unverified photos and information can have a huge ripple effect.

Environmental protection is something we should be concerned about, but the facts are the facts. We cannot spread unverified information, which can easily cause unnecessary panic. Overexposure of false information can also affect the credibility of the source and the public's perception of the issue. Disinformation like this should not be used to manipulate mass media or promote political agendas.

Trust in digital images is at an all-time low in this era; There is an urgent need for more integrity and authenticity, for pure data and real reality to communicate and debate; However, algorithms and photo manipulation have led to a future in which subjective opinions are more influential than objective facts. To create a more authentic and democratic Internet, Web 3.0 needs to provide people with the "big picture" and emphasize the importance of critical thinking.

Pictures in Web2 world have problems of untraceable, unverifiable, easy infringement, content centralization review, malicious tampering and so on. About 2.5 million pictures in the world are infringed every day.

This year's hot NFT market solved the ownership problem of digital assets, but that was not enough. Because of the nature of the ERC-721 protocol, each NFT is truly unique, but we often find that even if you don't have the NFT, you can still download the NFT image and use it as your avatar or collector's item, or even make another NFT from the "fake" to sell. Who are the real creators? Can I query the background information of digital assets? How to track and verify? We need an environment that can guarantee the authenticity, integrity and copyright of digital images. Numbers Protocol is designed to address this pain point.

What is the Numbers Protocol?

Numbers Protocol is a user-governed decentralized image network that validates digital assets through its innovative capture, storage and traceability processes, enabling every uploaded image or video in the World of Web 3.0 to carry the creator's signature, proof of ownership, temporal and spatial information, complete transaction records. Make pictures or videos traceable, verifiable, and protect the copyright of creators, so as to establish a verifiable platform for authenticity, so that Web3 digital image assets become possible to monetize.

Dapp based on Numbers Protocol

The Numbers protocol redefines digital visual media as assets and is the backbone of a suite of tools for registering and retrieving images and video within the Numbers network. These include:

Capture APP: The world's first blockchain NFT camera app, which allows users to easily register photos and use Web 3.0 applications, is the main networking tool for the Numbers protocol's decentralized photo network.

· Seal API: Developers and businesses can implement the Numbers API to register photos and access their Web3.0 addresses and certificates. Easy to use Numbers for advanced users

· Protocol Creates, registers, and retrieves assets in a network. It has a rich set of apis and a friendly interface for developers to create ecosystem applications

· Trace: is a website for reading photo injection and chain history. It provides a basic historical view of the photo so that the reader can easily access the original information about the photo, such as the person who created it and when it was created. Trace Site also helps users claim copyright for photos they create for images and videos with the appropriate creator signature.

· CaptureClub Market: Local NFT market with a rich collection of digital art and photos. Creators can easily upload photos or videos from Capture App. Buyers can pay for works with digital currency or credit cards, lowering the entry barrier for non-crypto enthusiasts and broadening the target audience.

· NFT Search engine: The first Web 3.0 NFT search engine to help users verify NFT history and prevent potential NFT fraud.

Number Protocol technology storage

As NFT explodes, the data behind NFT will become extremely important, not only for on-chain records, but also for the physical storage behind NFT files. In addition to increasing data coverage and extending the search engine to other networks, such as Binance Smart Chain, the search engine will also guarantee the searchability of NFT files.

Number is built using Web3.0 storage and ledger technology. All authoring is automatically stored to IPFS (IPFS/Filecoin for content and metadata storage. Retrieve Content files and metadata files from here) and register with a unique Content ID (CID). Each photo is unique because it has its own Web3.0 identity and can only be registered once. Photos registered on the network have associated integrity records that capture context, ownership, and creator signatures. The created record, including any modifications and changes of ownership, will be attached to the existing integrity record to ensure the traceability and verifiability of the source of the content as well as all photos in the network.

The Numbers protocol addresses four core issues:

Ownership: Who owns the digital content?

Creators: Who are the creators of digital content?

Origin markers: History of digital content (history of ownership creation and change)?

Ecosystems: How do owners share digital content across networks?

By establishing and perfecting the above four elements, digital content can be capitalized and become a true "digital asset".

In order to improve the digital content as the four basic elements of digital asset, Numbers Protocol is to establish a community centered decentralized image network, including establishing reasonable data formats, making data format tool, and while retaining ownership/creator/source tag share digital content and trading platform, A complete decentralized image network with communications, social media and commercial applications.

Deflation is the Token of Economy

与 Web 2.0 图像不同，每张注册到 Numbers 图像网络的照片或视频都是一种数字资产，因此具有可量化的价值，这些资产产生的价值将被用来回购和销毁 NUM Token。销毁的 Token 数量将取决于图像网络的进口状态和该季度的收入。

常数 R 代表图片网络中产生的每个新注册资产的价值，与季度采用率、市场价值和 NUM 价格相关。团队将使用网络价值的 20% 来回购 NUM，并将其烧毁，直到回购 NUM 总量的 50%。第一个 NUM Token 销毁计划将在 2022 年 3 月进行。

被销毁的 Token 将被从流通供应中移除。

Since the growth curve of assets in the current video network is similar to the growth of monthly active users of Instagram in that year, we can use the growth curve of Instagram to estimate the future growth of registered assets in Numbers network since Numbers and Instagram have similar corresponding demands.

In the graph above, the gray lines represent Instagram's monthly active user growth from its founding in October 2010 through April 2017. The blue curve represents the number of digital assets registered in the network since the launch of the Numbers service, with a similar degree of overlap. The dotted blue line represents the expected future growth of the number of digital assets in the Numbers network.

Taken together, Numbers points to the fact that the problems of the existing Web 2.0 image Web are well known and seem to be taken for granted. Numbers advocates the purity of digital media, enabling people to think more critically about how our images interact with the world around us. However, no one has verified the compliance or even the moral rationality of these images for the time being. Who will set up rules for the compliance of images in the future (DAO/ verification node/founding team?) It becomes a question of centralization and decentralization. Fortunately, we have already seen the efforts of the team in this direction and expect Number to make digital media more pure.

Reference Sources

https://medium.com/numbers-protocol/numbers-protocol-asset-deflationary-token-economy-aeb0336e3711

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https://www.geekmeta.com/article/4137343.html

https://medium.com/numbers-protocol