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# **The ThreeFold’s 3.x Decentralization Model**
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## Fully Decentralized Farming - TF Nodes
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Today more than 500 farmers host the nodes which make up the TF Grid Network.
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None of the ThreeFold Companies or its team has the ability to break this model, its our aim to have the farmers independant completely from Threefold.
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## Grid Enhancement Proposals (GEP's)
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The decisions that shape the technology and standards of ThreeFold are driven by the community through the Grid Enhancement Proposal (GEP) program. These proposals are reviewed and approved farmers, technical steering committee as well as the cooperative, ensuring that the best ideas rise to the top.
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The GEPS are proposed by ThreeFold Dubai and published on Forum and registerd on TFChain.
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The GEPS need to be voted for by the farming community.
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GEPS deal with
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- approve changes in protocol or anything which has impact on fundamental working of the TGGrid
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- upgrades of the TFGrid with new software
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- approve functionality & roadmap when needed (priorities)
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## TF Validator Stacks
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- The TFChain is our blockchain component in 3.x to provide identity, billing, capacity tracking, utilization tracking, pricing, ...
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- TFGrid Validators are the control plane of the TFGrid and allows us to Interact with the TFGrid.
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- A TFGrid Validator is combination of TFChain (blockchain node), Monitoring Nodes, TF Explorer, TF Hub, all Web Interfaces
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- TFGrid Validators are run by TF Guardians
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- The TF guardians get a monthly fixed fee for running the Validators (in TFT and/or INCA).
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- ThreeFold Dubai is helping the guardians to do it right and gives support.
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- Token minting (TFGrid 3) is executed by code and validated by the guardians to make sure there are no mistakes.
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- Each TFGrid validator stack has a name as follows: $location.grid.tf the the dashboard would e.g. be dashboard.ghent.grid.tf, a global loadbalancer makes sure that normal users of the solution don't have to understand this naming convention
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- Code & Protocol Changes need to be voted for by a DAO on the TFChain (our blockchain)
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## The main players in the ecosystem
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- +500 Farmers (people or companies hosting the nodes of the TF Grid)
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- ThreeFold Dubai (DMCC) for all the grid management, promotion and token related activities. This is our main company from which we run the Opensource TFGrid project.
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- ThreeFold BVI for specific token related activities
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- TF9, the tech company who develops the opensource code, all code is available for ThreeFold Dubai as well as any other opensource enthousiast, TF9 will commercialize the tech for commercial usecases. TF9 has nothing to do with the tokens TFT and/or INCA.
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- ThreeFold CH (Switzerland), not used right now
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