info_tfgrid/collections/tfgrid3/ecosystem.md

Ecosystem

ThreeFold aims to be a decentralized organization.

TF Farmers

• connect computers to our new internet
• means provide GPU, Storage and Compute capacity and make it available over Mycelium to all participants
• more than 1000 farmers today host TF nodes and provide capacity.
• rewards from 3.14+
  • Farmers earn TFT by providing capacity.
  • Farmers can earn 50% on the sold capacity if they register with the marketplace of the TF Cooperative
• farmers will have to do KYC starting Q2 2024
• see farming rewards for more info

Network Bridgers (Provider)

• make bridge between old and new internet
• provide bandwidth to TFGrid
• todo: formalize manual and description how to become a Network Bridger

TF Farming Pools (NEW Q2 2024)

• Help farmers to be more effective
• Training & Support
• Improve uptime and provide authenticity

The aim is to improve the service level and uptime of farming on TFGrid:

• activities
  • deliver a service level to the community
  • support for the TF Nodes (replace nodes, make sure power is ok)
  • bandwidth providing for TF Nodes (connect network nodes to high speed internet networks)
  • manage the pricing in line to uptime, performance, ... of farms
  • optional: sell of TF Nodes
• business model
  • the Farming Pool collects all farming rewards for all the Nodes and redistribute the farming rewards minus a margin for the farming pool.
  • there needs to be a contract (terms and conditions) between the farming pool and the farmers
• service level
  • a service level needs to be defined and exposed to the rest of the world
  • the T&C contracts can be arrange in OurWorld Digital Freezone if applicable.
• TF Dubai is granting the required tooling & information for this service.

TFNode Suppliers

• Build & Sell TFNode's to our participants.
• Minimal service/support needs to be delivered
• Often part of Farming Pools or related to it

TF Cooperative

• our governance layer (DAO tooling can be extended)
• Cooperative we are all part off.
• The Coop directors build an organization to streamline our expansion
• Give everyone a voice and env to operate from

Details:

• TF Coop is a cooperative with as goal to streamline how the ecosystem works together to create their own digital future.
• TF Coop needs 9 directors to get started, see the forum for more info soon.
• TF Coop gets income from utilization and possibly from its members in the future.
• Every user of the TFGrid in the future will have to be a member.

TF Validators + TF Guardians

Guardians:

• Protect the network

• Provide governance

• Keep all relevant services up and running to allow the TFGrid to function

• guardians run a TF Validator which has all components as are required to let the TFGrid decentralized components function

• we need 9 guardians, each guardian has to be technical capable to run this full tech stack

• more info see here

• TF Guardians don't vote they run super important infrastructure and need to validate the soundness of the tech used.

TF Dubai

• TF Dubai is the original company out of which the project got started.
• TF Dubai is now developing commercial services and products on top of the TFGrid.
• TF Dubai is a big sponsor for the TFGrid and will keep on doing so.
• TF Dubai wants to handover the day2day management to the TF Cooperative and the digital tools as have been setup like the forum, websites, manuals, ...

OurWorld Digital FreeZone

• OurWorld Holding owns 100% of TF9 and TF Dubai and is in the process to create a Digital FreeZone in Zanzibar.
• This Digital FreeZone allows us to structure Digital Assets and some of our future digital Projects

TF9

• Was called TFTech before and is a company in Belgium.
• TF9 is developing the tech behind the TFGrid and is 100% committed to keep all this software opensource.
• TF9 will be licensing the software to organizations (governments, countries, enterprises) who need commercial support and customizations.
• See their website on https://tf9.io
• TF9 has been a big sponsor behind the ThreeFold ecosystem.

Expaneded Ecosystem

Service / Solution Providers

• They create & provide solutions and/or services on top of TFGrid
• Customers of these solutions pay in INCA (providing value to our mutual credit currency)
• Each solution has T&C
• Each solution needs to be supported

Technology providers

• create opensource technology as can be used in the TFGrid
• grants might be available to reward Technology Providers
• TFTech (will get new name) is example of Technology Provider

DePIN Partners

• project are looking for a party (company, project, community) who wants to launch us into the DePIN world
• promote our project, explain tokens, integrate with exchanges
• integrate with rest of DePIN ecosystem
• organize community growth
• organize grants towards rest of community
• basically grown value for full ecosystem and let it "FLOW"