The distributed social media and business platform.

Whitepaper – Feb 2018

Harrison Mclean (harrison@ezira.io)
www.ezira.io

Abstract:
Ezira will enable everyone to share information and value freely. Users
can share any type of content with their friends, peers, and the world by making
posts to the Ezira network. It will be completely free to use, open source, and
will reward users for posting content, voting on content, and contributing
resources to the network. An Ezira account will give users an influential digital
identity that they have complete control over. Users can post as themselves with
their full digital reputation behind them, as an independent persona, or even
completely anonymously. It will offer a comprehensive digital currency wallet
and trading platform, with a decentralized and open market of digital and
physical assets and products.

Ezira will operate on a global distributed node network with no central

point of failure. Censorship of content, transactions, or user accounts will be
impossible by design. All content files are encrypted and can either be stored
permanently and immutably across the entire world if desired, or completely
deleted and inaccessible after a specified time period if desired. Private
messages are encrypted and inaccessible to anyone except their intended
recipient, preventing them from being monitored or intercepted.

Ezira gives a voice to everyone by sorting content and electing leaders

according to user votes. Ezira has an easy to use platform for buying products
and making online businesses, with built-in fast free cryptocurrency payments.
Businesses can raise investment capital by creating digital shares for free. Ezira
offers a borderless and seamless platform for trading, banking, share issuance,
investment, fund raising, payments, and business management. Optional
monthly subscriptions, post promotion, and trading fees earn all network
investors a strong return. Ezira is your all in one platform for the digital world.

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Contents:
1 CONTEXT: ................................................................................................................................. 4
2 INTRODUCTION TO EZIRA: ........................................................................................................ 7
2.1 COMMUNITIES: ........................................................................................................................... 8
2.2 CRYPTOCURRENCIES: .................................................................................................................... 8
2.3 BUSINESSES: ............................................................................................................................... 9
2.4 SOVEREIGNTY:........................................................................................................................... 10
2.5 IDENTITY: ................................................................................................................................. 11
3 KEY FEATURE SET: ................................................................................................................... 13
4 PRIMARY EZIRA BLOCKCHAIN FEATURES: ............................................................................... 14
4.1 EZIRA CRYPTOCURRENCIES: .......................................................................................................... 14
4.2 BLOCK PRODUCTION ALGORITHM: ................................................................................................. 19
4.3 SUPERNODES: ........................................................................................................................... 19
4.4 EZIRACOIN REWARD POOLS: ........................................................................................................ 21
4.5 REVENUE DISTRIBUTION MODEL: ................................................................................................... 26
4.6 SMART CONTRACTS:................................................................................................................... 26
4.7 NETWORK ELECTIONS: ................................................................................................................ 27
5 EZIRA ACCOUNTS:................................................................................................................... 28
5.1 PROFILE ACCOUNTS: .................................................................................................................. 28
5.2 VERIFIED ACCOUNTS: ................................................................................................................. 31
5.3 PERSONA ACCOUNTS:................................................................................................................. 31
5.4 BUSINESS ACCOUNTS: ................................................................................................................ 31
5.5 ACCOUNT MEMBERSHIP: ............................................................................................................. 34
5.6 ANONYMOUS USERS: ................................................................................................................. 36
6 POSTS: .................................................................................................................................... 37
6.1 PREMIUM CONTENT: .................................................................................................................. 37
6.2 SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT: ............................................................................................................ 38
6.3 PROMOTED OBJECTS: ................................................................................................................. 38
6.4 CONTENT REWARDS: .................................................................................................................. 39
7 EZIRA CONTENT: ..................................................................................................................... 41
7.1 BOARDS: .................................................................................................................................. 41
7.2 FEATURED PAGE: ....................................................................................................................... 41
7.3 FEEDS: ..................................................................................................................................... 42
7.4 GROUPS:.................................................................................................................................. 42
7.5 CONTENT MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS:......................................................................................... 42
7.6 EVENTS: ................................................................................................................................... 45
7.7 RECOMMENDED POSTS: .............................................................................................................. 45
7.8 APPLICATIONS: .......................................................................................................................... 46
7.9 SEARCH: .................................................................................................................................. 46
8 THE EZIRA DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE (EZIRADEX): ............................................................... 48
8.1 USER ISSUED ASSETS: ................................................................................................................. 48
8.2 GATEWAY ASSETS: ..................................................................................................................... 48
8.3 MARKET PEGGED ASSETS (SMARTCOINS): ...................................................................................... 49

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 8.4 PEER TO PEER LENDING: .............................................................................................................. 49
8.5 OPTION ASSETS: ........................................................................................................................ 50
8.6 PREDICTIVE SPLIT ASSETS: ........................................................................................................... 50
8.7 WALLET: .................................................................................................................................. 51
8.8 EZIRA INVESTMENT FUND: ........................................................................................................... 51
9 EZIRA MARKETPLACE: ............................................................................................................. 53
9.1 DISPUTE RESOLUTION SYSTEM: ..................................................................................................... 54
10 PROJECT OUTLINE: .............................................................................................................. 61
10.1 PIONEER RELEASE SPECIFICATION (MVP TEST NET):......................................................................... 61
10.2 SILVER RELEASE SPECIFICATION (ALPHA MAIN NET): ........................................................................ 62
10.3 GOLD RELEASE SPECIFICATION (PUBLIC BETA) ................................................................................. 62
10.4 PLATINUM RELEASE SPECIFICATION (OPEN MARKET): ....................................................................... 63
10.5 DIAMOND RELEASE SPECIFICATION (POLISHED ECOSYSTEM): ............................................................. 63
11 CONCLUSION: ..................................................................................................................... 64
12 REFERENCES:....................................................................................................................... 65

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1 Context:
Mainstream established social media websites do a lot of things right.
They enable free access to a global communications network of unprecedented
scale. They allow users to connect with friends, and message them individually,
or to make posts and broadcast to them all collectively. They give businesses a
platform to promote their message to users, and build their brand image. Most
importantly, they offer users the ability to receive value in response to content in
the form of social validation. Social networks have successfully atomized and
digitized the majority of human social interaction, and have built an information
empire on networked relationships.

Social media giants, particularly Facebook, leave a lot of room for

improvement. They hoard vast quantities of private data, and retain all
ownership over it. They utilize an unfathomable array of data to target
advertising, through proprietary opaque black box algorithms. Popular content
aggregators, particularly reddit, also have many drawbacks. While separated
communities offer a sense of identity and culture to groups, they are also prone
to being censored by powerful moderators, with little to no recourse from their
users. Moderator powers to censor undesirable ideas allow operational actors to
promote ulterior agendas, with the compelling appearance of grassroots support.
Censorship only narrows the range of acceptable thought, and concentrates
power over information.

Centralized Digital platforms are vulnerable. They are susceptible to DDOS

attacks, server security breaches, and software backdoors. Their operating
servers are vulnerable to being shut down, or failing and their fiat financial
services can be cut off with no recourse. This enables all manner of state and
corporate pressure to take place, including forced censorship, compliance with
oppressive copyright restrictions in fear of lawsuits, and the provision of the
private data of citizens to intelligence agencies without their knowledge or
consent. They are ultimately subservient to corporate interests, as they sell
advertising services to businesses, while offering little to no financial return in
exchange for the content that attracts user attention. It is from the energy and
effort of billions of users that established social media giants extract value for
their shareholders. Users are not social media customers; they are the product
to be sold.

Fiat currencies are the single most important source of power of

government institutions. By controlling the issuance of money, debt, and
credit, they are able to place populations of citizens under perpetual debt
service, and involuntary taxation. Fractional reserve banking systems operated
throughout most of the developed world require the continual expansion of debt,
to repay the interest incurred on existing debt. Currency purchasing power
becomes degraded by its continual supply increase, and intergenerational public
debt is used to prevent total systemic collapse. Fiat currency is never created; it
is borrowed charging interest that does not yet exist. The value of fiat currency
is backed not by any real assets, but by the faith and credit of the issuing
government. That is, its ability to coercively tax its citizens.

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Fiat currencies are detrimental to building and securing wealth. They are
vulnerable to asset seizure, physical theft, account freezing, inflation, interest
rate manipulation, and outright declarations of legal tender being worthless, as
has been seen in India and Venezuela. They use archaic banking systems with
redundant layers of bureaucracy and transactions can take days to be settled.
International payments are even worse, requiring massive fees to pay for human
operated multi bank transfers. Most importantly, fiat currencies do not allow
citizens to control their money. Banks control fiat money, and follow your
directions for as long as it serves their interests. They engage in speculative
trading with deposited assets, and their defaults are bailed out on a nepotistic
basis with public funds without any regard for citizen approval. All fiat money is
created out of debt from nothing. Public debt supported by bonds against future
tax revenue institutionalize intergenerational theft. Banks only hold a fraction of
their balances in reserves. The truth is only ever a bank run away.

Cryptocurrency offers a revolutionary new basis upon which to build

economies. It allows permissionless transactions of sound money, with rapid
settlements, across any borders. Cryptocurrencies can be designed to follow any
programed consensus rules, and once these rules are in place they produce an
immutable blockchain record of transaction history that is almost impossible to
change or defraud. Blockchain technology allows for so much more than just
cryptocurrency. It allows any information to be securely published and stored
across a decentralized node network. This allows unprecedented peer to peer
structures to emerge, the possibilities of which we are only beginning to glimpse.
Blockchain has the potential to disrupt power structures, and allow massive
populations of people to have real control over their information without relying
on centralized service providers, and gatekeepers. The days of centralized
control over currency issuance, financial services, content hosting, social media,
and internet trading are numbered.

Established cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin1, have room for

improvement. Long block times, expensive transaction fees, high mining
electricity costs, and the centralization of mining in large mining pools all loom
as barriers to usage. Most importantly, many established cryptocurrencies lack a
mechanism for on chain governance. They rely on the allocation of mining power
to decide which consensus rules to enforce. While this lends to a robust and
resilient store of value, it is inflexible and places large amounts of influence in
the hands of entrenched software developers. Proof of work offers the strongest
immutability possible for a blockchain by requiring the expenditure of electricity
to mine blocks, but can be supplemented by other mechanisms to enable on
chain governance. Proof of work alone is not decentralization; it is a tyranny by
the mining majority.

Bitshares2 and Steem3 introduced a delegated proof of stake algorithm.

that allows all value holders to vote on who should produce blocks. This ability to
vote on how blocks are produced does something very important. It brings
decentralized governance to cryptocurrency. It also mitigates mining
centralization, and allows these elected block producers to act as compensated
leaders of the platform, all while being accountable to user votes on a second by
second basis. Bitshares introduced the user issued asset, a crypto token that is
created easily by an account, and can be traded on the blockchain as its own
distinct asset using the decentralized exchange. The market pegged asset, or
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smartcoin, enables the network to have secure collateralized stores of value that
track outside assets. Steem utilized 3 second block times to produce real time
transactions, allowing for fast paced social media interactions to be recorded on
the blockchain. Transactions are rate limited by the amount of value the account
commits to vest, allowing for free transactions. By making transactions fast,
free, and lightweight, they can be used for any user interaction, not just financial
transfers.

Steem offers a revolutionary new model for social media, but has some
gaps in its functionality. In order to make order of magnitude gains over the
centralized social networks, a decentralized social network needs to have
functionality that enables private messaging, and private posting. At the present,
Steem does not yet offer private posts with restricted visibility, or encrypted
messages. Communities need their own space to have discussions separated
from the rest of the site, where they can thrive and grow under moderation from
their founding members. Steem doesn’t have separated communities with post
moderation. Media files such as images, videos and music need to be hosted
directly on the site they are posted, instead of relying on centralized third
parties. On Steem, media files must be hosted on centralized external services,
requiring breakable links for embedded content, and the possibility of censorship
from file hosts. Peer to peer content hosting protocols such as Storj 4, Sia, IPFS,
and others allow for data to be held by a network of peers, while encrypted and
sharded. A social network that intends to be profitable for investors needs to
incorporate marketing systems that can deliver results to business partners and
other avenues of revenue from users. Content purchasing mechanisms, such as
those enabled by Decent5 and Yours.org allow creators to earn directly from their
viewers. Steem’s promotion system does not gain high levels of exposure
because it is separated from the main viewing areas of the site. Steem’s
currency value proposition of higher voting power and access to network
resources through transaction limiting is good for large users, but does not
adequately incentivize regular users to invest in the network. Memberships, built
in marketplace trading, premium content purchases, and post promotion offer
much more value for the holders of Ezira cryptocurrencies and a broad revenue
stream for the network.

Ezira proposes to build on the important advances of Bitshares and

Steem, and offer new features and improvements, and use a more
equitable initial distribution mechanism, while offering more compelling
demand avenues for its network cryptocurrencies.

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2 Introduction to Ezira:
Ezira will synthesize social media with cryptocurrency based finance. It
will enable public vote sorted community board posts, private group posts,
personal identity profiles, follower based post broadcasting feeds, and encrypted
private messaging. It will integrate a decentralized exchange, a multi-currency
circular economy, blockchain based businesses, premium content publishing, and
escrowed marketplace trading to enable a powerful cryptocurrency based
financial system. Ezira’s flagship interface will be the website Ezira.io, which will
allow users to interact with the blockchain network easily. Content creators,
network officers, and resource providers are compensated by the network for
their contributions. Third party developers will be able to freely create
applications that use the public blockchain database structure.

Ezira puts people first. With a variety of content posting options, you in
control of who can read your posts, and who can follow your identity. Advertisers
pay the entire Ezira network to promote their posts, not a privately controlled
and owned company. Integrated blockchain membership offers users additional
features, discounts on network fees, discounts on premium content, and more
influence over the network. Post promotion provides an organic way for creators
to reach more viewers, innovators to promote their ideas and products, and
businesses to reach more people and improve sales volume. Revenue from
memberships and promotion is delivered back to the community through a
network smart contract that reduces the supply of cryptocurrency. Anonymous,
Persona, and Profile accounts allow for separated networks of connections and
distinct identity control for your posts, votes and views. All content uploaded to
the Ezira network cannot be removed or altered without permission, will always
be publicly visible at the protocol level, and will always able to earn rewards from
the network, and from viewers. All Ezira content is uncensorable, unstoppable,
and monetizable.

Ezira brings the cryptocurrency world to the real world. By investing in

blockchain compensated marketing and advocacy services from the community,
Ezira builds a team of public ambassadors to deliver the cryptocurrency message
to all people, of all nations and all levels of technical understanding. Ezira
bridges the gap between the complexities of decentralized software, and the
user experience of mainstream finance and social media. Ezira will use a
minimalistic, elegant, and user-friendly approach to marketing, and will dedicate
resources to assisting with the onboarding process for new entrants to the
cryptocurrency sphere. A vibrant and rich media tutorial base will guide
mainstream users to understand how to use Ezira and cryptocurrencies in
general. Ezira will use a variety of integrated fiat currency gateway services to
enable a frictionless inflow of capital into the ecosystem, and will not require
users to be familiar with bitcoin, exchanges, or blockchains to be able to
purchase and transact with Ezira cryptocurrencies.

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2.1 Communities:
Ezira empowers communities. Community leaders can create and moderate
boards that hold posts. Moderators are able to customize their appearance using
CSS control, and remove posts that violate board rules. Posts can be stuck to the
top at moderator discretion, accounts can be approved to enable posting to a
selective board or delisted to prevent certain accounts from being able to attach
posts to the board in blockchain transactions. Any posts removed from a board
are still visible to other boards, and the rest of the Ezira blockchain network.
Viewers of posts have the most powerful customization tools available to directly
shape the formulas that rank posts, and view the content most relevant to their
interests.

Ezira celebrates creators and curators. Public posts on the network can be
voted on to receive author rewards from the blockchain. Author and curator
reward payouts are made in 75% liquid assets, offering more flexibility than
other blockchain social media platforms. Liquid rewards can be set to
automatically purchase any specified assets from the decentralized exchange,
including value stable smartcoins, fiat currency gateway assets, and EZIRA
equity. Content creators receive author reward payouts over the course of 30
days, allowing a longer timeframe for post discovery than other blockchain social
media platforms. Ezira author rewards scale from a combination of votes and
views, enabling dynamic and equitable distribution. Voting power on Ezira can be
increased without extensive long-term liquidity commitments through ownership
of EZIRA, and optional long-term commitments are rewarded with multipliers on
voting power, and reward pool payouts on vested EziraCoin. Curators are
rewarded according to how early they vote for content, and how much voting
power they contribute.

Ezira provides unprecedented compensation for moderation. Ezira allows

community leaders to earn from building a thriving discussion under their
watchful administration and curation. Each post that earns author rewards from
the Ezira blockchain contributes a small percentage of its reward to the
moderators of the boards that it is listed on. This reward compensates
moderators for the time and effort that they have invested in their community,
and allows large successful communities to have a substantial group budget for
projects of their choice. Our moderator voting features ensure that the leaders of
a community are accountable to those that they oversee, and that communities
have recourse from overzealous post removals, entrenchment of influence, and
censorship.

2.2 Cryptocurrencies:
Ezira puts you in full control of your money. Investment in the Ezira
network is represented by the EZIRA cryptoequity, which is paid a dividend that
scales in value with the profit of the network. Only 10,000,000 units will ever be
issued, and provide voting power to exercise agency over the network. Revenues
and expenses are denominated by the EziraCoin currency, which is produced in
blocks, and consumed by using blockchain level services. Only 10,000,000 units
are minted per year, and are actively consumed by unprecedented avenues of
demand through buy and burn mechanisms. The EziraDollar is a smartcoin that
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is pegged to the US dollar, and maintains a stable value. It is backed by 200% of
its value in EziraCoin collateral. It can be freely transacted to anyone at any
time, and represents the medium of exchange of the network. The Ezira
Decentralized Exchange allows all of your trades and exchange assets to be held
and recorded on-chain, securing them against exchange hacks.

Ezira cryptocurrencies enable high performance, and are distributed

fairly. Using a Delegated proof of stake blockchain, transaction throughput is
highly scalable, energy waste is minimized, and block times are only three
seconds. Core cryptocurrencies EziraCoin and EziraDollars have no transaction
fees, making them highly viable payment methods at the point of sale. A
network of Supernodes is integrated into the system, which are rewarded for
providing consistent processing, storage, bandwidth, transaction relaying, and
hosting resources. Each Supernode holds a balance of EziraCoin, and operates
an active full node. A 10% share of EZIRA equity will be sharedropped on the
widest range of blockchain communities ever, including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash,
Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Steem, Bitshares, Dash, Monero, Litecoin, and
Zcash. There will be no phase of high rate early mining, as the mining rate will
be constant. Ezira will utilize a Dutch auction mechanism to sell units of
cryptoequity.

Ezira is committed to a stable network. Ezira will maintain the fungibility of

all cryptocurrency units and will never, under any circumstances, compromise
the immutability of the blockchain. The Ezira network will never, under any
circumstances, execute a blockchain hardfork to redistribute funds, blacklist or
ban any accounts, censor any transactions, or remove any posts. This includes in
the event of accused theft, contract software malfunctions, government
requests, or corporate pressure. The Ezira blockchain is flexible, and the
maximum size of blocks will be altered by witnesses as needed to scale on-chain.
Transaction signatures are a vital part of the security model of cryptocurrency,
and will always be fully included and secured in the blockchain. The Supply of
EZIRA will never exceed 10,000,000, and the issuance of EziraCoin will always
be 10,000,000 per year. A supermajority of delegated witnesses must agree to
support any protocol level changes to the blockchain functions, parameters, or
features. These witnesses are elected by platform voting power holders, ensuring
that the adoption of changes is always aligned with the collective will of the
users. Consensus breaking upgrades will be planned on a 6-month release cycle.
The Ezira founders stake in the network will be vested, to be released gradually
over 2 years, starting 2 years from the genesis block. The founding team will
lead by example in demonstrating their resolve and confidence in the value of
the platform.

2.3 Businesses:
Ezira allows businesses and contributors to thrive and grow. Multi-sig
cryptocurrency wallets are integrated into business accounts, allowing for the
seamless creation of blockchain based businesses, with linked cryptoassets. Our
advertising and engagement tools provide organizations of any size, from sole
entrepreneurs to multinationals, unique opportunities to build and leverage their
brand, cost effectively improve sales, and engage with their customers and
community. Business operators will be able to permanently and publicly list their

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products as blockchain objects, which can be drawn upon by third party
developers for use, display, and sale on any outside interface. The Ezira network
features blockchain level implementation of escrow transactions, allowing
customers and vendors to trust one another without centralized oversight, and
have a point of recourse with a team of mediators in the event of transaction
issues.

Ezira supports its businesses from start to finish. Ezira offers a full
whitepaper-to-business sponsorship program to guide and promote organic
startup projects from the ground floor to the stratosphere. Our sponsorship
program puts you at the head of the pack, and brings you into the EZIRA
Consortium. The Ezira sponsored business program supports those who strive to
innovate using its technology and network. Users can promote their posts to
receive additional visibility for use in advertising their business or its products.
Promoted posts can be used to gain a greater following for content, and gain a
greater exposure in the Ezira community.

Ezira brings low cost cryptoassets to everyone. Customized user issued

assets are recorded securely on the blockchain. These assets can be used to
represent anything you can imagine. Ezira offers integrated support for creating
assets to represent equity in a business, assets to represent content
subscriptions, and assets to represent event tickets. Any asset can be used as a
basis for profit distribution, allowing anyone to pay dividends to asset holders.
Assets can be created that track the value of an external object, or represent
ownership over another asset for use as a gateway asset on the Ezira
decentralized exchange. Ezira earns revenue by selling cryptoassets that grant
accounts membership on the blockchain. These optional memberships grant an
account additional voting power, a greater relative stake in Ezira’s reward
payouts, the ability to post premium content, and discounts on fees.

2.4 Sovereignty:
Ezira empowers users. Ezira’s post viewing parameterization allows users to
manipulate the ordering of posts by weighting the impact of votes, views,
shares, and comments in relation to the time since they were posted, or the time
that they were last commented on. The way that Ezira posts are sorted is
endlessly customizable, and offers many presets for easy usage. Ezira enables
users to build and host applications that interact with the network, which allow
even further customization and user interface choice. The featured page provides
a regularly updated stream of the highest quality content from our members,
and allows our contributors to gain a valuable platform to expand their audience.
Feeds provide users with up to the second information from the accounts they
follow, and instant access to posts and content releases. Groups allow users to
create private and encrypted areas for discussion amongst selected accounts.
Events allow the creation and co-ordination of gatherings, and have built in
functionality for ticket sales and budgeting. Users are able to share small
amounts of voting power with their friends to help boost their influence. Most
importantly, all Ezira network revenue value is returned to the users and asset
holders. All equity holdings are transparent, executive board powers on Ezira are
limited, and protocol decision making is entirely democratic.

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Ezira Builds Leaders. The executive board of the Ezira network is determined
by annual elections from all voting power holders. Unlike other blockchain
networks that have centralized overseeing foundations or companies, the Ezira
executive board will be an elected body, accountable to the community that they
serve. Powerful incentive structures are utilized to compensate those who stand
out in the community, for their work in development, their marketing endeavors,
their advocacy for Ezira and blockchain technology, and their digital witness of
the blocks that build the network. Delegate voting will elect panels of supported
accounts to the positions of Ezira network officers. Officers are tasked with
responsibilities that promote the Ezira network, and receive a consistent reward
for their efforts. Contributions from developers, witnesses, advocates and
marketers are rewarded proportionately with their support from the community.

Ezira’s executive structure is democratically elected. Holders of EZIRA

equity and EziraPower hold voting power that is used to decide who leads the
guiding committee of Ezira, called the Ezira executive board. Unlike other
cryptocurrencies that have shadowy opaque foundations guiding them or even
executing political changes to transactions, Ezira’s executives will be chosen by
the network users. The roles held by the eight acting members of the Ezira
executive board are clearly defined and their powers are limited. Debt taken on
by the Ezira network to fund executive board budgeting costs is transparently
visible, consistently repaid out of network revenue, and must be approved by
network stakeholders. Ezira operates distinct separations of powers between the
witnesses that create blocks and approve protocol upgrades, developers that
improve the code base, marketers that project Ezira’s image to new users, and
advocates that further public discourse on cryptocurrencies. The executive board
positions provide active compensated leadership of these roles, and overall
leadership and vision for the network. All network officers and executives are
accountable to voters, and provide transparent updates on their progress.

2.5 Identity:
Ezira gives you control over your identity. Posts on the Ezira network can be
published from profile accounts, persona accounts, or anonymously. Profile
accounts allow users to have a fully blockchain enabled digital identity, that can
be accessed by chosen connected accounts, and third party developers for
authentication with your permission. Profile data is encrypted and is completely
owned and controlled by the user. Profile accounts allow the establishment of a
strong base of reputation for producing quality content, selling products in the
marketplace, and creating successful businesses. All public Ezira activities are
compiled into one unified place, from which a compelling personal brand and
social influence can be established. When posts and products are seamlessly
integrated, successful influencers can turn impressed followers into satisfied
customers.

Ezira protects your privacy. Persona accounts allow you to separate your
posts from your main profile account to restrict association with your real
identity, and allow pseudonymous transactions. Persona accounts can have as
little association with your profile account as desired, allowing a strong
separation of identity. Trading between persona accounts allows a high level of
anonymity between customers and vendors, with no need to exchange personal

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information beyond what is necessary. Ezira brings a free and open global
market to mainstream users with no barriers to entry, and provides optional
transaction mediation. All trading transactions are encrypted, and EziraStealth
may be used for additional anonymity. EziraStealth enables users to transact
anonymously and privately. EziraStealth balances and transaction information is
not publicly visible.

Ezira enables true data security and anonymity. Posts can be made
completely anonymously with built in network rerouting to conceal your IP
address. This prevents your identity from being revealed, or your posts from
being associated with each other. All private messaging is just that, private.
Messages are end to end encrypted, and are posted to the blockchain, where it
cannot be determined who read the message, or when, eliminating metadata
analysis. Profile information is shared under a multi-tier permission scheme, and
is stored in encrypted decentralized storage on IPFS. The Ezira executive board
and its employees will not collect any personal data from users, leaving all
private encrypted user data secure in the event of a subpoena, information leak,
or hacking event. Only public data as recorded on the blockchain will be available
for use by advertisers on the network. Private data is encrypted and decrypted
client side, and cannot ever be used for advertising targeting.

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3 Key Feature Set:
• An open source, distributed, and integrated platform for social
networking, filesharing, cryptoeconomic enterprise, cryptoasset
trading, and startup financing.
• Web URL and flagship user interface: www.ezira.io, enables web access to
the Ezira network
• Desktop GUI client enables full access to all blockchain features, including
posting, messaging, file uploading and downloading, trading, sending
transactions from the user’s wallet, running witness nodes, and mining.
• Mobile App enables Ezira network functionality on major app stores.
• Blockchain software based on the open standard Graphene, developed by
Daniel Larimer of Cryptonomex, Steemit and EOS. Ezira will support the
graphene ecosystem with strong integration, cross promotion, and a
significant share drop.
• All Ezira payment transactions have no transaction fees, with 3 second
block confirmation times.
• Equity is denominated in the EZIRA asset, which is offered over a series
of Coin Offerings.
• EziraCoin is issued by the blockchain to network contributors. It will be
issued from blocks at a constant annual rate, and will have no premined
balances.
• Stable value smartcoins can be created by locking in EziraCoin collateral,
and are used to represent external currencies for stable value payments.
• Users hold voting power by having EZIRA or vesting EziraCoin into
EziraPower. EziraPower can then be further vested into EziraBonds that
offer a higher voting influence but are illiquid for a predetermined time.
• Posts are awarded content rewards with newly issued EziraCoin from
blocks, according to the voting power that upvotes and views them.
• Users have the choice of posting using either full identity profile accounts,
pseudonym personas, or anonymously.
• Users are able to obtain decentralized community supported verification
of their account, to secure their identity and reputation.
• User accounts can form connections to decrypt private profile data, and
encrypted posts, using multi-tiered viewing permissions and verification.
• User accounts of close friends can become connected, and share small
amounts of voting power with each other.
• The majority of frontend site data is served via IPFS by Supernodes
hosting media content; backend data is secured on the Ezira Delegated
Proof of Stake and Proof of Work hybrid blockchain.
• User files, images and videos are hosted on the file storage provided by
network compensated Supernodes.
• Files are encrypted before hosting, and sharded with strong redundancy
across multiple Supernodes.
• Posts and files can be optionally posted as premium content, requiring a
payment to decrypt them, enabling peer to peer content sales.
• All post listings can be sorted by many different sorting options, allowing
users to manipulate the parameters of the sorting algorithms that they
use to view content by altering specific weightings to suit their
preferences, or selecting from presets.

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4 Primary Ezira Blockchain features:
4.1 Ezira cryptocurrencies:
EZIRA:
Code – EZIRA

Symbol – 𝔼
Decimal places – 16
Supply – 10,000,000 Fixed

EZIRA is the cryptoequity of the Ezira platform. It represents ownership

of the platform, and gives holders voting power to allocate network
rewards, and to vote in all network elections. A fixed supply of
10,000,000 units exist, with the majority distributed to ICO funders. No
more than 10,000,000 will ever be created under any circumstances. EZIRA
should not be burned, and any revenue that is distributed to EZIRA holders
directly should be done with a buy and drop, which purchases EZIRA from the
exchange, and proportionately sharedrops it to all holders. EZIRA can be issued
as a reward for contributions by setting up an automatic purchase of EZIRA with
the EziraCoin that is earned from reward pools.

The total 10,000,000 units will be distributed as follows:

1,000,000 – Preliminary Initial Coin offering:

Distributed to very early contributors at a fixed price until capital goal is met.
Capital goal will be $500,000, with each unit sold at $0.50. The preliminary
Initial Coin offering will be conducted on Bitshares and will accept bitUSD.

2,000,000 – Main Initial Coin Offering:

Distributed to early contributors using a Reverse Dutch auction mechanism,
whereby the investors bid on cryptoequity at a gradually decreasing price, until
the capital limit is reached, or until all equity is sold. All equity is sold at the
same price, and all investors receive equity at or below the price at which they
bid. If the capital goal is reached, all unsold equity will be transferred to the
annual coin offerings reserve. The capital limit is $30,000,000. The Initial equity
price is $30 each, lowering by 5% per day until all equity is sold, the capital limit
is reached, or 30 days has passed. Dutch auction will continue for a minimum of
3 days selling equity from the annual coin offering pool in the event that the
capital goal is reached early. The Main initial coin offering will be conducted
using Bitshares, and will accept all 10 major cryptocurrencies included in the
sharedrop, in addition to bitUSD. At the conclusion of the Main Initial Coin
offering, all purchased units of EZIRA will be distributed to a nominated
Bitshares account.

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3,500,000 – Annual coin offerings:
Distributed to participants from a smart contract, using a Reverse Dutch Auction
mechanism. Issues a maximum of (25% of remaining units +100,000) each
year, or less if the capital limit is reached first. The capital limit each year is
equal to 10% of the EZIRA market capitalization on each 10,000,000 block
anniversary of the genesis block. Annual offerings continue each year for as long
as equity remains unsold. Initial equity price is equal to the open market price,
and lowers by 5% per day until the capital goal is reached, or all equity is sold.
The annual coin offerings will accept EziraCoin, bitUSD, EziraDollars, and all 10
major cryptocurrencies included in the sharedrop. At the conclusion of each
Annual Coin offering, all purchased units of EZIRA will be distributed to a
nominated Ezira account.

2,000,000 – Founders personal equity:

Distributed between project contributors and vested for 2 years, after which it
will be released gradually over the proceeding 2 years. These EZIRA balances
cannot be used for voting on any network election, or content until they are
divested after 2 years. Only their EziraCoin income can be used for post voting
initially.

250,000 – Executive board reserve:

Held in the account “ezira”. Income is used at the discretion of the executive
board, which is elected by users. The account can be used for voting by the
executive board on any poll, election or content.

250,000 – Community reserve:

Held in the account “community”. Income used to fund community projects at
the discretion of network voters. The account can be used for voting by the
community on any poll, election or content.

1,000,000 – Sharedrop to all addresses holding coins at the snapshot:

Sharedropped EZIRA is redeemed by importing each address into the user’s
Ezira wallet. The Ezira wallet allows users to manage all their cryptocurrencies by
importing balances from many major cryptocurrencies, and interacting with each
blockchain. Each address above dust from 10 major currencies listed will hold a
balance of EZIRA, which can be transferred over to the users EZIRA balance. All
of these currencies will be accepted in the Ezira ICO series. Allocations to
currencies will be as follows:

150,000 – Bitcoin
150,000 – Bitcoin Cash
150,000 – Steem (includes Steem, Steem dollars, and Steem power)
150,000 – Bitshares (Includes Bitshares and bitUSD)
150,000 – Ethereum
50,000 – Ethereum Classic
50,000 – Dash
50,000 – Monero
50,000 – Litecoin
50,000 – Zcash

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 EZIRA Cryptoequity Distribution
Executive Reserve Community Reserve
2.5% 2.5%

Preliminary ICO
10.0%

Annual Coin
Offerings
35.0%
Sharedrop
10.0%

Founders Issuance
20.0%

Initial Coin Offering

20.0%

Executive Reserve Community Reserve

Preliminary ICO Sharedrop
Founders Issuance Initial Coin Offering
Annual Coin Offerings

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EziraCoin:
Code – EZC

Symbol – 𝕖
Decimal places – 16
Supply – 10,000,000 Issued per year

EziraCoin is the liquid blockchain cryptocurrency of the Ezira platform.

10,000,000 units are mined per year, and are issued to the EziraCoin
reward pools. It has no transaction fees, and is in consistent demand
due to buy and burn mechanisms funded by network fee revenue.
EziraCoin can be vested as EziraPower (EZP), which can be withdrawn into
EziraCoin over 10 weeks. Vested EziraPower can optionally be locked into
EziraBonds (EZB), which offer a bonus to their return on investment, but cannot
be powered down until maturity. EziraBonds provide a 50% increase to their rate
of return and voting power per vesting year remaining, up to 10 years. Vesting
time can be added to existing EziraBonds, to keep them at a high multiplier if
they are not planned to be withdrawn in the near future.

EziraPower and EziraBonds give voting power in all Ezira network

elections, and for the allocation of network rewards. The amount of
voting power conferred to EziraPower is determined by the exchange
rate between EZIRA and EziraCoin. EziraPower grants an equal amount
of voting power per unit cost as EZIRA, but is illiquid.

EziraDollars:
Code – EZD

Symbol – Ɛ
Decimal places – 16
Supply – Issued against EziraCoin Collateral

The EziraDollar is the default stable smartcoin of the Ezira network. All
Ezira sponsored businesses accept EZD for their products, and all premium
content accepts EZD for decryption. It is pegged by witness feeds to be
redeemable for exactly $1.00 USD worth of EziraCoin, has no transaction fees.
EziraDollars are created by locking at least 200% of the value of the
smartcoin in EZC collateral. They are borrowed against the collateral
locked in, and the account creates them from this process. They can then
be sold on the EziraDEX, with their outstanding settlement value acting as a debt
against the collateral locked in to create them.

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At any time, owners of EziraDollars can settle the smartcoins, and receive $1.00
USD worth of EziraCoin. The least collateralized position is liquidated to claim the
EZC collateral at the witness feed settlement value, which tracks the USD. The
settlement process uses the average settlement value over 24 hours from
witness feeds. If any EziraDollar borrower’s position goes below 175%
collateralization, it is automatically settled by purchasing the asset back
from the exchange and closing the position. Accounts display large
warnings when a position is at risk of being force settled.

EziraStealth:
Code – EZS

Symbol – ꞩ
Decimal places – 16
Supply – Issued on conversion from EziraCoin

EziraStealth is the private cryptocurrency of the Ezira network, and is

equal to the value of 1 EziraCoin. All transactions in EziraStealth are fully
encrypted and untraceable on the blockchain, and account balances are not
visible unless they are optionally revealed by providing a stealth viewkey.
EziraStealth units are created at an address by converting EziraCoin to
EziraStealth. EziraStealth can be converted back into EziraCoin at any time. The
conversion of EziraStealth back into EziraCoin is visible publicly as a blockchain
transaction.

EziraCredit:
Code – EZX

Symbol – 𝕩
Decimal places – 16
Supply – Issued by Ezira executive board, with approval of voting majority

EziraCredit is a fiat cryptoasset with a standard value of 1 EZD. It is

created at the discretion of the Ezira network, and the Ezira board of
executives. All creations and distributions of EziraCredit must be
confirmed by 51% of Ezira voting power, the Ezira CEO, and CFO.
EziraCredit is used to pay executive board member salaries, and borrow funds
from network investors for community or executive use in approved publicly
visible reimbursements. Executive salaries are capped by witness parameters.
The value of EziraCredit is based on the automatic repurchase of the asset for
EziraDollars by the network out of revenue. As they are a fiat asset and a debt
instrument they have a degree of risk exposure. Network witnesses publish
an interest rate at which all balances of EziraCredit earn interest in
return for lending value to the executive board of Ezira.

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4.2 Block production algorithm:
Ezira will use a Delegated proof of stake and proof of work hybrid
blockchain algorithm, based closely on the mining and witness algorithm
of Steem. Elected witnesses and proof of work miners will take turns producing
blocks approximately every 3 seconds. There are exactly 10,000,000 blocks
mined per year, resulting in an average block time of 3.1536 seconds. Ezira’s
model of the year uses 525600 minutes per year. This creates around 27,397
blocks per day on average. Each block issues exactly 1 new EziraCoin, creating a
new supply of 10,000,000 EziraCoin per year. All holders of EZIRA, EZP, and EZB
can vote for up to 50 witnesses, which they delegate the ability to produce and
sign blocks for the blockchain once per round. In blocks, witnesses and miners
create distributions to the reward pools, and earn a block reward for themselves.
Accounts can optionally nominate a proxy account, and mirror their votes.

55 Witnesses and 5 miners take turns producing a block approximately

once every 3 seconds. The top 50 witnesses, collectively called the Ezira
Witness Officers, produce a block every round. 5 additional witnesses are chosen
randomly from the rest of the witness pool, with higher voted witnesses being
more likely to be chosen. 5 Miners are taken from the top of the mining queue,
to produce a block.

Every round consists of 5 sets of the following: 10 witness officers produce one
block each, then a random witness produces a block, then the miner at the top
of the queue produces a block. Blocks include all valid transaction received by
the node since the last block was created, and are signed by the account of the
node that created it. Every Ezira transaction references the hash of the
most recent block that the node recognizes. Therefore, transactions
cannot be included in versions of the chain that do not include this
referenced block. This provides consensus as to the valid chain via
networks transactions.

4.3 Supernodes:
Supernodes are Ezira network servers that are run by members of the
community. Supernodes hold a full copy of the Ezira blockchain and
strengthen the network by propagating transactions and new blocks
from witnesses and miners. The blockchain is used as an immutable ledger to
store public posts, content file IPFS hash references, votes, views, transactions,
marketplace trades, decentralized exchange trades, and network votes.

Supernodes host data and provide computational resources to the

network in exchange for compensation. Supernodes receive a share in the
Supernode reward pool, and receive a portion of the content rewards for the files
that they host. Supernode storage is used to store the media files, and serve
them via the decentralized Bittorrent, Interplanetary File System (IPFS), and
Interplanetary Naming System (IPNS) protocols.

All files from posts, messages, audio, video, images, and applications
are hosted on Supernode servers, and are referenced by the Ezira
blockchain using the IPNS protocol to reference an IPFS file. Data is
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replicated for redundancy, and is served to users. Data is uploaded in an
encrypted state, and can only by accessed by using a decryption key. Public
posts provide this decryption key in the blockchain transaction to view the file.
Premium posts require a payment to be made for a group of Supernodes to send
the decryption key for the encrypted files. Private posts require connection or
group viewing keys to decrypt files, depending on the level of restriction. Private
post files are only sent to nodes that are included in the visibility list of the file.

Users can restrict the visibility of their posts by encrypting them with
connection keys. These posts require a decryption key be transferred
between accounts when they become connections. Elevation to friend
status transfers another key used to decrypt friend restricted data, and
companion status transfers another decryption key. Supernodes manage
requests for encrypted files, only sending files to accounts that are included in
the visibility list of the post. Files are broken up into several pieces, requiring a
complete set to access the entire file. These pieces are separated over multiple
Supernodes, preventing any one Supernode from being able to send the file to
accounts that are not included on the visibility list, or from censoring particular
files, or from being able to delete files without a valid deletion transaction from
its uploader.

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4.4 EziraCoin Reward pools:
10,000,000 EZC is issued by the blockchain per year in the following
proportions:

Ezira Block Reward Distribution

Advocacy Rewards
Activity Rewards 5%
5% Content Rewards
20%
Development Rewards
5%

Marketing Rewards
5%

Miner Rewards
5%

Witness Rewards
5%
EZIRA Dividend
20%

Vesting EziraPower
Dividend
15%

Supernode Rewards
15%

Content Rewards EZIRA Dividend

Supernode Rewards Vesting EziraPower Dividend
Witness Rewards Miner Rewards
Marketing Rewards Development Rewards
Activity Rewards Advocacy Rewards

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Content Reward Pool:
All posts are paid a reward distribution according to the votes and views
that they accumulate over 30 days. Voting power scales with EZIRA,
EziraPower, and EziraBond balance. Payout scales with stake and time weighted
votes and views to the power of 1.5. Approximately 5,479 EziraCoin is
distributed to all content creators per day, with 75% being liquid, and 25% being
vested into EziraPower. Content contributors are effectively paid 20% of the
income of the Ezira network.

Ezira Dividend Pool:

All holders of EZIRA cryptoequity receive a dividend of EziraCoin, paid
out each week. This dividend provides 20% of the revenue of the Ezira
network to the equity investors that hold EZIRA. Approximately 38,356
EziraCoin is distributed in dividends per week to EZIRA holders. This is equal to a
dividend of 0.0038356 EziraCoin per EZIRA per week, or 0.2 EziraCoin per EZIRA
per year. EZIRA dividend payments are made in liquid EziraCoin. Users can
optionally set up automatic purchases to buy any nominated cryptoasset with
the received dividend payments, such as reinvesting into EZIRA, or purchasing
EziraDollars for spending in the marketplace.

EziraPower vesting Pool:

All holders of EziraPower, and EziraBonds receive EziraCoin interest as a
return on investment. EziraPower takes 10 weeks to divest back into EziraCoin
in 10 equal weekly payments, and EziraBonds cannot be powered down while
they are vested. Both cannot be transferred to other accounts, or used for
transactions. EziraBonds receive a greater return on investment, equivalent to
an increase of 50% per year that they are vested for. The total vesting reward
pool is divided proportionately between EziraPower and EziraBond holders.

Supernode Reward Pool:

Accounts can become Supernodes by completing the following requirements:

• Downloading a consensus supported EZIRA node software client

• Running the node actively in Supernode mode, with a full blockchain, and
propagating transactions.
• Holding an account balance of at least 5 EZC, 5 EZP, and 5 EZIRA
• Providing at least 5 GB of encrypted storage to the network
• Providing at least 1GB of RAM for data processing to the network
• Maintaining an average bandwidth (data uploaded plus downloaded from
nodes) of at least 1 MBits/sec
• Having an active connection to at least 10 other Ezira nodes

Supernodes must remain in the Supernode pool for 24 continuous hours and not
fail a validity test to enter the Supernode Reward pool. Supernode rewards are
distributed based on signed view transactions from account holders, and on
anonymous view transactions created by groups of Supernodes and witnesses.

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The size of each file is multiplied by the amount of views it received from
accounts that nominated the node as a distributor. Supernodes are
incentivized to host files that are in demand, and are likely to earn a
high amount of stake weighted views. Supernodes are also incentivized
to host files that are hosted by few other Supernodes, as they will be
more likely to serve a higher amount of file views if there are less other
Supernodes also hosting the same file.

Witness Pool:
Accounts can become witnesses by completing the following requirements:

• Downloading a consensus supported Ezira node software client

• Running the node actively in Witness mode, with a full blockchain, and
propagating transactions.
• When the witness is chosen, up to once every 60 block round, the witness
produces a block containing the latest transactions of the network.
• Witnesses are chosen in a random order each round, which is determined
from the hash of the previous mining block
• Producing a continuous and regularly updated feed of witness parameters
• Witnesses should have optimal uptime, and should not miss blocks
• Witnesses are allocated the voting power of any accounts that support
them and do not vote in network elections.
• Witnesses should always vote in every network election
• Witnesses earn 0.054545 EziraCoin per block created from the witness
reward pool

Network elections determine the issuance of EziraCredit against network

revenue, and the election of the Ezira executive board. For this reason, all
witnesses should ensure that they always vote in every Ezira network election to
best exercise the voting power of their supporters, and earn a split in the
network election reward.

Mining Reward:
Accounts can become miners by completing the following requirements:

• Downloading a consensus supported Ezira node software client

• Running the node actively, with a full blockchain to propagate
transactions.
• Running the node software in mining mode, causing the node to begin
producing proof of work transactions
• The miner joins the mining queue by publishing a valid proof of work
transaction, with a difficulty that scales with the amount of miners
currently in the queue
• When a miner reaches the top of the queue, they produce the next miner
block
• Miners cannot produce additional proofs of work until they produce a
block and leave the queue
• The mining reward is created in the mining block as newly minted
EziraCoin in the miner’s account
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 • Miners earn 0.6 EziraCoin per block mined

Activity Rewards:
All profile accounts that are active earn a share in the activity reward pool. To
claim this daily reward, they need to publicly:

• View at least one post,

• Vote on at least one post, and
• Make at least one qualifying post or one qualifying comment

The pool is distributed equally to all activity reward pool shares each day.
Members and verified profile accounts gain bonuses to their activity reward pool
shares. Qualifying posts and comments must receive at least 10 views, and have
a weighted upvote/downvote ratio exceeding 0.5. This reward pool
distributes value to all of the network’s active users, and incentivizes
daily activity.

Development Pool:
Developers should produce new features, and fix bugs for Ezira and
Ezira.io, or produce new applications that run on the Ezira network
blockchain. They should complete code testing, and ensure that it complies
with a high assurance security specification. They should construct and publish
proofs that the Ezira codebase is secure. They should use a model of continuous
deployment and aim for a monthly user experience update cycle. They should
plan specifications for Ezira hard fork upgrades on 6-monthly update cycle. The
best developers are voted highly by the community, and receive ongoing
rewards for their efforts, and funds to support their projects.

Members are voted to positions in the Development pool, according to the

development work done, as seen by the community. The top 50 members of the
pool receive an equal split of 50% of the reward pool, and are the elected
Development officers. These development officers are provided full
administrative access to the Ezira code repository. All other accounts in the
development pool earn a proportional share of the remaining 50% of the reward
pool, according to their voting support. The split percentage between officers
and the remaining members is an adjustable witness parameter.

Marketing Pool:
Marketers should produce graphical assets, videos, or music to attract
new users, investors, and content creators. They should actively engage
with the community to help new users familiarize themselves with the website,
and produce rich media for promotion in external communities. They should
actively promote Ezira in other communities and act as ambassadors to promote
new memberships. The best marketers are voted highly by the community, and
receive ongoing rewards for their efforts, and funds to support their projects.
Members are voted to positions in the Marketing pool, according to the
marketing work done, as seen by the community. The top 50 members of the

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pool receive an equal split of 50% of the reward pool, and are the elected
Marketing officers. These marketing officers are tasked with managing the Ezira
Social media channels on other platforms. All other accounts in the marketing
pool earn a proportional share of the remaining 50% of the reward pool,
according to their voting support. The split percentage between officers and the
remaining members is an adjustable witness parameter.

Advocacy Pool:
Advocates should engage with the wider community, companies, and
the branches of governments to obtain favourable legal recognition and
favourable regulatory conditions for the Ezira network. They should work
to promote and positively influence public discourse on cryptocurrencies,
Blockchain networks, and Decentralized Applications. They should represent
Ezira in discourse with other cryptocurrency businesses, and establish positive
relationships with other members of the cryptosphere. They should promote the
adoption of Ezira network cryptocurrencies with wallet providers, and exchanges.

Advocates should work with entrepreneurs to promote Ezira based

businesses to new customers and clients, publicize Ezira business use
cases, and help to protect Ezira sponsored businesses from liabilities in
legal proceedings where possible and warranted. Advocates should
additionally interact with regulatory agencies to promote positive legislation that
assists the cryptocurrency community as a whole. They should publicly speak in
favour of these emerging technologies, and should establish Ezira as a pioneer of
the cryptocurrency communities’ public image. Advocates should be individuals
of high public standing, public profile, and of good character. They should ideally
have backgrounds in public office, legal firms, political action organizations, or
research organizations.

Members are voted to positions in the Advocacy pool, according to the advocacy
work done, as seen by the community. The top 50 members of the pool receive
an equal split of 50% of the reward pool, and are the elected Advocacy officers.
These advocacy officers are tasked with administrative access over any formal
lines of communication with business partners, Ezira businesses, and
government agencies. All other accounts in the marketing pool earn a
proportional share of the remaining 50% of the reward pool, according to their
voting support. The split percentage between officers and the remaining
members is an adjustable witness parameter.

All Pools:
All votes for members of the Witness, Development, Marketing, and
Advocate pools expire after 12 months, except referral votes. This
ensures that consistent visible efforts are rewarded by receiving votes
from the community regularly, while inactive pool members’ votes
expire over time. Accounts can give new users links that create an account
that votes for their own account in the officer reward pools. This acts as a
referral link, and rewards new member referrals. This vote will scale over time
with the accumulated voting power of the users that they introduce to Ezira,
rewarding officers that assist their referred users to positively contribute to the
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network and gain voting power. Witnesses, Developers, Marketers, and
Advocates that do not hold a minimum balance of at least 5 EZC, 5 EZP, and 5
EZIRA have their vote support divided by 10, placing a soft requirement to hold
this minimum balance, or they will be easily outvoted. The top 25 officers from
the Witness, Development, Marketing, and Advocacy pool cannot vote for each
other.

Overall, the total supply of EziraCoin is increased by approximately 27,397 units

per day, by the creation of 1 unit per block. The supply of EziraCoin contracts
whenever it is burned by the Ezira revenue distribution model.

4.5 Revenue distribution model:

All site functions that take a fee are used to buy and burn EziraCoin to
transfer revenue to the network. Revenues are sourced from 3 main sources,
Account memberships, Promotions, and transaction and trading fees. Revenue is
used to buy the following other assets under certain conditions:

• Priority 1: If the value of EziraDollar is below $1.00 USD, buy and

settle EziraDollars, and burn the EziraCoin obtained
• Priority 2: If the value of EziraCredit is below $1.00 USD, buy and
burn EziraCredit
• Priority 3: Standard Operating Order – Buy and burn EziraCoin

These buy and burn mechanisms provide stability and value to network
cryptoassets, and provide value to the holders and recipients of EziraCoin, and
by extension, the equity holders of EZIRA, which receive an EziraCoin dividend.
Revenues are earned from several sources:

• Account memberships (Paid monthly using membership asset market)

• Post Promotions (Boosts the visibility of a post for 14 days)
• Premium content purchases: 1%
• Marketplace escrowed purchases: 1%
• EziraDEX taker orders: 0.25%, maker orders have no fee
• EziraDEX taker lending orders: 5% of interest, maker orders have no fee

4.6 Smart Contracts:

Ezira smart contracts can be deployed onto the network, and interacted
with by any account to send and receive cryptocurrency or information.
Ezira will utilize a Turing complete smart contract language and allow any code
to be deployed to the blockchain for any application purpose. Ezira smart
contracts do not require a cost per operation to interact with. They are rate
limited by the network according to the EziraPower vested in the contract
address by its users and developers.

All smart contracts on Ezira can interact with files via the Supernode network.
This can allow smart contracts to pull any desired files for use in its operation, or
create and upload new files to the network. They can natively access all public
information on the Ezira blockchain, and with the permission of the account
owner, they can access user data and decrypt profile information. They can
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natively create and transact blockchain assets, create and interact with other
smart contracts, and charge subscription fees to a user’s wallet balance in
exchange for services. Smart contracts on Ezira can make posts, pages, new
addresses, and vote for content according to predefined rules. They can accept
incoming assets and redirect them to an arbitrary set of accounts, in any
arbitrary currency or asset by purchasing them from the DEX. They can be
programmed to execute DEX trades according to any predefined rules, and
respond to market prices. Essentially all functions available on Ezira can be
completed by a smart contract.

4.7 Network elections:

All EZIRA, EziraPower, and EziraBond holders are able to vote in
network elections. All formal Ezira elections are announced with a buy and
drop of EZIRA worth 50 EZD. Elections last 7 days, and all EZIRA holders that
vote in the election receive a split of another 50 EZD worth of EZIRA upon
completion after 7 days. Voting power holders that do not vote have their voting
power split equally between their selected witnesses, who vote as a proxy for
their supporters.

Binary network elections allow users to select to “Support” or “Oppose” the

motion. In order to be successful, must have 51% of voting power in favour of
the Support option. Binary elections are used to:

• Approve Ezira sponsored businesses

• Approve executive issuance of EziraCredit
• Approve hard fork changes to the Ezira network protocol

Weighted transferable vote elections allow users to select multiple options, in

order of support from 1 to 10. The winning option is chosen by a process
whereby all voting power in support of each option as number 1 is first allocated.
The option with the least voting support is eliminated, and the voting power that
supported it is reassigned to its number 2 option. The option with the least
support is eliminated, and voting power is redistributed until an option has at
least 51% of support in favour of it. This option is selected as victorious.
Weighted transferable elections are used to:

• Elect executive board members

• Choose the location of the Ezira Festival
• Choose the Ezira member of the year winner

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5 Ezira Accounts:
Accounts represent the users of the Ezira network, and are used to
interact with the blockchain by signing transactions using the private
keys of the account. Accounts are used to make posts to the blockchain, hold
cryptoassets, and interact with other user’s posts.

Accounts can be created on the blockchain by paying an EziraCoin account

creation fee, which is vested, and added to the EziraPower balance of the new
account. The account creation fee is a witness parameter. The vesting value that
is required for creating an account will be equal to $0.05 EZD in EziraCoin. The
account creation fee increases by 50% for every 1000 accounts created in the
preceding 24 hours (28800 blocks) to prevent account creation spam. Account
names cost a higher fee when they have shorter names. If an account has no
numbers, full stops, or hyphens, the account fee triples for every removed
character below 10 characters. Therefore a 3-character name would require
$109.35 EZD in EZC to be vested. The EziraPower used to create an account
cannot be divested into EziraCoin for 1 year (10,000,000 blocks).

50% of initial issuances of content or activity rewards to newly created

accounts will be repaid to the account registrar, up to a limit of 3 times
the account creation fee paid. The account creator and an optional
nominated account referrer will each earn a 10% share of all fees, post
promotions, and memberships paid to the network by the account for
the duration of its use. If there is no nominated referrer, the registrar receives
both shares. This will incentivize users to refer new users to the platform to
create Ezira accounts. It also makes it potentially profitable for account
registrars to create new accounts for users by paying the registration fee, as
long as the accounts are actually used.

The Ezira main account “ezira” will pay the fee to register new accounts on
Ezira.io and the Ezira mobile application out of its EZIRA dividend revenue,
network officer rewards, and if required, EziraCredit issuance. Other applications
are free to register new accounts, and may use their own antispam features at
their discretion. Accounts can also be created by mining block rewards onto an
account keypair set. Accounts created at the beginning of the blockchain for ICO
contributors will not require the account creation fee. Accounts hold decryption
keys for content that is visible to them. They have many different key pairs that
are used for the following functions:

5.1 Profile Accounts:

Profiles accounts are fully featured and customizable representations of
the identities of Ezira users. They are used to upload posts and comments,
vote for and view posts, hold cryptoassets, create profile pages, create boards,
and upload personal information. Profile accounts use the standard:
FirstName.LastName#000001. Full name pairs are iterated, and the name can
easily be shortened by removing the numbers in the interface. All private
account information is encrypted on the Supernode network. Users should ideally
make one profile account each. All posts are added to the user’s Profile Feed
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with variable visibility. Visibility is controlled by encrypting content on the
blockchain, accessed by decrypting with various keys, to control information
visibility to specific intended recipients. Posts can be visible to specific sets of
people, with increasing exclusivity. Accounts can link themselves into 4 levels of
association.

Followers:
Profiles can be followed without permission and all Followers are visible to the account
owner. Posts to boards, profiles, and pages are included in user’s feeds. Follower visibility is
the default posting option.

Connections:
Profiles can become Connections with a Connection request, which is confirmed
by the receiving account owner. Accounts can have an unlimited amount of
Connections. Connected accounts can send encrypted private direct messages,
images, videos, audio recordings, live video chat or make voice calls, using a
mutually agreed Supernode. All private messaging content has an optional
deletion after a specified time, or after being viewed. Accounts that send each
other at least 1 message or image within each discrete 25 hour (28538 blocks)
period have a day counter displayed that shows how long they have
consecutively stayed in contact. At milestones of days, a new icon displays.
These icons can be customized by users to any other emojis if they choose.

7 days – Smiley Face

14 Days – Glasses Smiley Face
21 Days - Silver Smiley Face
30 Days – Silver Glasses Smiley Face
60 Days – Gold Smiley Face
90 Day – Gold Glasses Smiley Face
120 Days – Platinum Smiley Face
150 Days - Platinum Glasses Smiley Face
180 Days – Diamond Smiley Face
365 Days - Diamond Glasses Smiley Face
Multiples of 365 days – Additional Diamond Glasses Smiley Faces, up to 5

Friends:
Profiles can become Friends after being Connections for 1 week. Friend requests
require the sender and receiver to vest $1 EZD worth of EziraCoin into
EziraPower. If the request is not accepted within 7 days, the sender’s EZC is
returned. Accounts that are friends can both use the combined $2 worth of EZP
to vote with. In the event that conflicting votes are sent with the same shared
voting power, the voting power is used to vote for both choices equally. The
voting power drains normally, as it is used to vote on posts. The Friendship
connection can be ended at any time by either account to return the vested
EziraCoin. Posts made by friends generate a notification, and posts that are
made by friends, or upvoted by friends using the shared voting power are ranked
higher in the Home Feed.

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Companions:
Profiles can become companions after being Friends for 1 week. Companion
requests require the sender and receiver to vest $10.00 EZD worth of EziraCoin
into EziraPower. If the request is not accepted within 7 days, the sender’s EZC is
returned. Companions can create joint wallets, which can spend cryptocurrencies
with multisig permission functionality. Joint funds are sent back to their
depositor if the accounts expire their Companionship. Companions automatically
upvote all public posts that are made by each other with maximum available
voting power. Accounts that are companions can both use the combined $20
worth of EZP to vote with. In the event that conflicting votes are sent with the
same shared voting power, the voting power is used to vote for both choices
equally. The Companion connection can be ended at any time by either account
to return the vested EziraCoin. The Voting power drains normally, as it is used to
vote on posts. Posts made by or upvoted by companions using shared voting
power always appear first in the Home feed.

Profile Accounts can choose to include relevant information, which is

visible by default to certain levels. Most are adjustable to other privacy
levels.

• Full name (Must be public)

• Gender (Public)
• Biography: up to 500 characters (Public)
• Profile Picture (Must be Public)
• List of all Public posts to boards, profiles, and events (Public)
• Profile cover photo (Must be Public)
• Wallet transactions (exchange transfers, author rewards, curation
rewards, cryptoasset trades on EziraDEX) (Public, can be changed on
Ezira.io, but publicly visible on blockchain)
• Balance of Ezira network public cryptoassets (does not include
EziraStealth balance, which is private) (Public)
• Account links for other websites (Public)
• Profile gallery: up to 10 profile pictures (Connections)
• Cover photo gallery: up to 10 cover photos (Connections)
• Profile Video: up to 60 seconds long (Connections)
• Relationship Status and preferences (Connections)
• Interests and Hobbies (Connections)
• Followed pages for interests, movies, music, books, websites, places,
hobbies, and games. (Connections)
• Date of birth (Connections)
• Email address (Connections)
• Public and mutual event attendance history (Connections)
• Education (Connections)
• Occupation (Connections)
• Public Group memberships (Connections)
• Address (Friends)
• Phone number (Friends)
• Relationship history (Friends)
• Political alignment (Friends)
• Subscribed boards (Friends)

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 • Followed Accounts (Friends)
• Saved post list (Friends)
• Notification when nearby (Companions)
• Current location (Companions, on mobile device)

5.2 Verified Accounts:

Verified accounts are profile accounts that are accurate representations
of a unique human person, that have profile information that is true, and
have provided sufficient evidence of genuine personhood, and have
sufficient activity and stake on Ezira. Verified accounts must be unique, and
once a person has one verified profile account, any other profile accounts should
be discontinued. Accounts that wish to hold high positions of public esteem,
status, and influence should verify their accounts to prove their identity. This
process is optional, and is not required for the fully featured use of profile
accounts.

5.3 Persona Accounts:

Personas are accounts made to represent entities that are not publicly
identifiable individual unique persons. Persona accounts do not require an
information link to the account owner. Personas have the same posting and
profile features as profile accounts, and can have followers, connections, friends,
and companions. They can be used to post without friends seeing posts, or to
create a posting identity separate from your own for use on boards, or private
transactions. Persona accounts can be used to make pages for inanimate
objects, and concepts and can be followed. Followed persona accounts from
specific categories are listed on profile pages under their respective category.

5.4 Business Accounts:

Entrepreneurs and business owners can create a business account to
register their business on the blockchain. Business accounts are able to
conduct all their transactions and accounting using Ezira, including sending
invoices to customers, creating signed transactions of sale on the blockchain to
act as an immutable receipt, paying employees on fixed schedules, and raising
capital by creating business equity cryptoassets. Businesses with existing equity
structures can import their shares into Ezira by creating gateway assets for users
to purchase shares, and redeem them from issuing equities exchanges. A
business would limit their dependence on government based registry systems
and established financial systems, and have a very low barrier to market entry.
Business accounts receive integrated access to low cost data storage, a business
accounting platform, integrated marketing tools to promote their posts and
products, and a business profile to streamline product purchasing and the
coordination of customer service. Businesses can create constitutions, and
secure them into the blockchain.

Business cryptoequities are used to represent ownership of an Ezira business,

and all accounts that own cryptoassets in a business can vote in all business
elections. Cryptoequities are traded on the EziraDEX, and by default issue

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a dividend of 5% of all revenue earned by the account from product
sales, network rewards, tips, premium content sales, and asset trading
fees to holders every week. The dividend rate of 5% is variable, but 5% is
considered standard. Business accounts can choose to disable automatic revenue
dividend distributions, and manually issue dividend distributions. This allows
owners to determine how much profit to distribute in dividends each week. Once
the cryptoequity is created, the revenue distribution rate cannot be changed.

Accounts that are elected to hold business leadership positions are able
to access the business account, and conduct executive functions.
Cryptoequities are backed by the assets in the wallet accounts of their
businesses, which are publicly transparent. Additional assets owned by the
business can be recorded on the blockchain, and all accounting records can be
uploaded to the Supernode network, and secured on the blockchain.
Cryptoequity holders in Ezira businesses receive quarterly reports on the
accounting activities of their investments. Businesses can also source capital by
borrowing money from investors using Cryptocredits, which are recorded on the
blockchain as debts, and are paid back automatically from the business account’s
wallet funds over time, and from sales. Companies that default can be placed
into administration by the popular vote of their shareholders, and all the
business assets are distributed to shareholders proportionally.

Ezira sponsored businesses – The Ezira Consortium:

Business accounts can become officially sponsored by Ezira to join the
Ezira consortium, and receive the following benefits:

• Inclusion of businesses cryptoequity and cryptocredits in the Ezira

investment fund portfolio
• The ability to issue Ezira backed cryptoequity to raise equity
• The ability to issue Ezira backed cryptocredits to raise debt
• Direct line of contact with the Ezira Executive board, core development
team, and network officers
• Complimentary lifetime Platinum membership for the business account
• Incorporation on the blockchain as an “Ezira Endorsed Business (EEB)” on
initiation, and as an “Ezira Consortium Member (ECM)” after confirmation.
• Full support of the Ezira executive board’s legal team, and the Ezira
Advocacy Officers in cases of legal liability.
• A prominent badge next to the business name everywhere it appears on
Ezira.io and in all Ezira marketing material as an “Ezira Endorsed
Business” during preliminary membership, and an “Ezira Consortium
Member” after confirmation.
• The ability to advertise in the daily activity reward pool distribution
transaction message
• Invitations to Ezira network meetings and presentations during the Ezira
Festival

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Business sponsorship process:
Business accounts can join the Ezira Consortium by applying to the Ezira
Executive Board for an admittance election. Applying business accounts
must fulfil the following criteria for consideration by the network.

• The business produces or administrates a working marketable product or

application that utilizes the Ezira network for infrastructure and sales.
• The business has publicly known executives and developers, that all have
Ezira verified profile accounts.
• The business has issued a cryptoasset or cryptocredit on the Ezira
decentralized exchange that returns a minimum of 5% of the business
account’s revenue to investors or creditors.
• The business has strong transparency regarding all expenditures of funds
from its public wallets on all cryptocurrency blockchains, whereby it
discloses all addresses and funds controlled, and adequately explains all
expenditures over 0.25% of their net funds with a public memo recorded
on the Ezira blockchain.
• The business discloses the source code and uses open source licensing for
the majority of any software produced.
• The business conducts a sharedrop of their Cryptoequity onto the EZIRA
asset of at least 1% of their total issuance.

If 25% of the Ezira network voting power supports their admittance, they can
join as a preliminary member. After 1 year of business activities, community
engagement, positive involvement in the cryptocurrency space, and
transparency of their business operations, a confirmation election is conducted.
If 51% of the Ezira network voting power supports the sponsorship of
the business, they are admitted as full members.

Ezira sponsorship default mechanism:

In any instance where an Ezira Endorsed business declares a default, it
has the opportunity to be backed up by the Ezira network to make its
investors whole. All EZIRA holders can vote to reimburse the default of an
Ezira endorsed business. Upon consensus by the network, the entity in default
will be supported by the liquidation of all outstanding cryptoequities at ICO price
and cryptocredits at face value for an equivalent amount of EziraCredits. Each
EziraCredit is worth 1 EziraDollar in revenue from the Ezira network. They are
repaid through being rebought by the Ezira revenue distribution system when
their market value falls below 1 EZD, until no more remain on exchanges being
sold at or under 1 EziraDollar each. They maintain value by earning interest at a
rate determined by the Witness Officers. This effectively pays back defaulted
investors out of the revenue of the Ezira network.

This allows any potential catastrophic defaults to be repaid out to investors

without needing any intervention in the immutability of the blockchain with
redistribution hardforks. This also acts to collectivize the cost of entrepreneurial
risk when warranted and publicly supported, without needing a government to
intervene to legally protect defaulters from investors. This protection for
businesses and investors allows for a degree of confidence and assurance to
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promote growth, and stability. The decision to reimburse a sponsored
businesses stakeholders is executed by a vote of the network when the
business has made a sufficiently extensive effort to repay debts, but are
visibly and provably unable to, due to events outside the control of the
business and not the result of negligence or incompetence.

5.5 Account membership:

Account Membership can be purchased from the network by buying
membership denominating cryptoassets from the Ezira Decentralized
Exchange. There are four levels of Ezira blockchain membership: Diamond –
Aimed toward network power users and business owners, Platinum – Aimed
towards high end content creators, Gold – aimed toward active site users and
premium content viewers, and Silver – Aimed toward casual users. A smart
contract generates a certain amount of each cryptoasset every month, and sells
it on the exchange for EZC to buyers at a minimum price. This price fluctuates
with the value of EziraCoin, increasing when the price is low, and decreasing
when the price is high, so that the price is constant in the value of EziraDollars.
The assets can then be activated on an account, denominating membership for
that account. The membership asset balances of all member accounts decrease
by 1 per month by automatically burning 1 unit to reactivate membership. EZC
received for the sale of membership assets used to buy and burn assets
from the DEX, using the revenue distribution model. All membership
benefits are inherited to higher membership levels. Percentage bonuses do not
stack with higher membership levels.

Diamond:
[Monthly Supply: 10,000. Minimum Price: 100 EZD in EziraCoin]

• Voting power weight per unit EZIRA, EZP, and EZB is boosted by 50%
• Unit stake weight in the EZIRA dividend pool, EziraPower vesting pool,
and Supernode reward pool is boosted by 50%
• Diamond membership icon next to name, along with consecutive months
of membership
• Activity pool reward share boosted by 100%
• 50% discount to the cost of marketplace fees, trading fees
• 50% boost to all promotion expenditure values
• Post reward pool received voting weight boosted by 20%, increasing
author and curator rewards
• Ability to view and download the premium content of Ezira Premium
Partners for free up to an unlimited value
• Received vote weight in the Witness, Marketing, Advocate and
Development reward pools boosted by 20%
• All posts are automatically promoted, with a bonus value of 20 EZD each
(optional, can be disabled on posts)
• Complimentary entry to all Ezira Festival Events when membership is
consecutive for 12 months’ prior. Includes the Ezira Ball.

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Platinum:
[Monthly Supply: 100,000. Minimum Price: 50 EZD in EziraCoin]

• Voting power weight per unit EZIRA, EZP, and EZB is boosted by 30%
• Unit stake weight in the EZIRA dividend pool, EziraPower vesting pool,
and Supernode reward pool is boosted by 30%
• Platinum membership icon next to name, along with consecutive months
of membership
• Activity pool reward share boosted by 75%
• 30% discount to the cost of marketplace fees, trading fees
• 30% boost to all promotion expenditure values
• Post reward pool received voting weight boosted by 10%, increasing
author and curator rewards
• Ability to view and download the premium content of Ezira Premium
Partners for free up to a value of $500EZD a month
• Received vote weight in the Witness, Marketing, Advocate and
Development reward pools boosted by 10%
• All posts are automatically promoted, with a bonus value of 10 EZD each
(optional, can be disabled on posts)
• 50% off tickets to all Ezira Festival Events when membership is
consecutive for 12 months’ prior. Does not include the Ezira Ball. (Tickets
are separate, and cannot be arbitraged with regular ticket purchases)

Gold:
[Monthly Supply: 10,000,000. Minimum Price: 25 EZD in EziraCoin]

• Voting power weight per unit EZIRA, EZP, and EZB is boosted by 20%
• Unit stake weight in the EZIRA dividend pool, EziraPower vesting pool,
and Supernode reward pool is boosted by 20%
• Gold membership icon next to name, along with consecutive months of
membership
• Activity pool reward share boosted by 50%
• 10% discount to the cost of marketplace fees, trading fees
• 10% boost to all promotion expenditure values
• All Posts eligible for featured posts page on Ezira.io
• Ability to view and download the premium content of Ezira Premium
Partners for free up to a value of $150EZD a month
• 25% off tickets to all Ezira Festival Events when membership is
consecutive for 12 months’ prior. Does not include the Ezira Ball. (Tickets
are separate, and cannot be arbitraged with regular ticket purchases)

Silver:
[Monthly Supply: 1,000,000,000. Minimum Price: 10 EZD in EziraCoin]

• Voting power weight per unit EZIRA, EZP, and EZB is boosted by 10%
• Unit stake weight in the EZIRA dividend pool, EZIRApower vesting pool,
and Supernode reward pool is boosted by 10%

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 • Silver membership icon next to name, along with consecutive months of
membership
• Ability to view and download the premium content of Ezira Premium
Partners for free, up to a value of $50EZD a month
• Ability to join the Developer, Advocate and Marketing pools
• Activity pool reward share boosted by 25%
• Ability to access new features in development version of Ezira.io and Ezira
mobile apps before release
• Ability to disable promoted post placement on all Ezira interfaces

5.6 Anonymous Users:

Posts can be made to Ezira anonymously, without any connection to an
identity, or account. Posts that are made anonymously must include a proof of
work proportional to their data size to be included in a block, to rate-limit them.
Anonymous posts are made using a ring signature and a stealth address system,
so that the address used to make and sign the post can also be used to delete it,
when signed. The stealth address is used to make the post is mixed in a ring
signature with other stealth addresses from previous anonymous posts, so the
author of each post cannot be determined publicly. This address additionally
earns EziraStealth in content rewards. The proof of work requirement to
make anonymous posts increases exponentially with the amount of anonymous
posts in the last hour, causing any anonymous network spam posts to become
computationally expensive very quickly.

Anonymous posting mode on Ezira.io routs connections through TOR by default.

Tags and boards are the main ways that anonymous posts are seen, as they are
not visible on a profile, and cannot be connected to a person, unless the poster
chooses to identify themselves. This would require verification from their main
account to be credible.

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6 Posts:
Posts are the main units of content on Ezira. Public posts can be listed in up
to 5 boards (plus the >All board), and use an unlimited number of tags. Public
posts include the >All board by default, but this can be removed. They are also
listed on the user’s profile, and in feeds that include the post creator. Private
posts have limited visibility, are made to user’s profile pages, and can use an
unlimited number of tags. Private posts are typically viewed in feeds by accounts
that are connected to the posting account. There are many different types of
posts for all content that is saved on the Ezira Supernode network. These act as
links to the files on the Supernode network.

All posts can be commented on with any other type of post, and are
voted on exactly like posts themselves. Each post can contain an
unlimited amount of comments, with any comment depth. Each
comment pays out 20% of its content rewards back to the post or
comment on it was made on. All posts and comments can optionally set a
price in EZD that must be paid to comment on them, which is paid to its creator.
Boards can also set a posting price, which is paid to the moderation team
according to voting support. This can act as a spam filter, and reduce the
amount of low quality comments that are made to a post, if desired. Anonymous
users can pay this fee using EziraStealth.

6.1 Premium content:

Posts on the Ezira blockchain can be monetized in several ways. Any
post can optionally be made into premium content. These posts require
the viewer to purchase them, using EziraDollars or EziraCoin before
being able to decrypt and view them. Users are able to easily purchase
content with only 2 clicks, creating a frictionless way to monetize high production
value media. Premium content sales can be used for large production teams to
earn revenue for music, movies, TV shows, games, software, or any other digital
media. After it is bought by the viewer, it is decrypted and viewable to their
account. The content is hosted in the Supernode network, and can be viewed, or
downloaded as desired.

Fiat currencies can be used to purchase EZD, which are then relayed to the
content producer at point of sale using payment gateways. Premium content is
sorted using the same formulas as board posts, but would replace stake
weighted views with net purchase revenue. Premium content can be voted on for
author rewards just the same as free content, so premium authors will need to
balance the price of their content to ensure that a large enough segment of
users are able to afford to purchase it, and vote on it. Initial parts of the content
can be released publicly, so that there is a leading element to describe and give
a sample to prospective purchasers.

The EZIRA network includes a 1% fee on the revenue from purchasing

Premium content. 50% of the fee is network revenue used to buy and
burn EZC and other assets. 50% of the fee is distributed between the
Supernodes that distribute the file content, and decryption keys.
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Premium content creators can optionally choose to make their account into an
Ezira Premium Partner by enabling all Ezira blockchain Gold members to access
their premium and subscription content for free, and silver members at a 50%
discount. In exchange, Premium partners receive a split of the revenue earned
from Ezira membership sales according to the stake weighted upvotes and views
of Ezira members, and the total sales volume to non-members and silver
members. This revenue split percentage is a witness parameter, and starts at
20%.

6.2 Subscription Content:

Content producers are able to earn revenue from account subscription
payments. Content creators can receive monthly subscription fees from viewers
for any amount chosen. Posts can optionally require a minimum monthly
subscription fee to view. Different tiers of membership fee contribution can be
offered with arbitrary levels of access and rewards. A subscription payment is
made each month, and the viewer choses the amount to pay. Subscription
payments are set to repeat automatically every month until deactivated.

Accounts can create and offer their own membership assets, which can be
bought to grant access to all levels of subscription content released in the past,
and for the next year. These assets are burned to null to activate membership.
Premium creators can offer store discounts to their account membership holders.

Accounts can link their premium content, subscription, and membership revenue
to any cryptoasset, and have a percentage of their revenue earned used to issue
dividends to their user issued asset. This can be used to finance high production
value content, and reward their supporters. User issued asset dividends are paid
weekly by default.

6.3 Promoted objects:

Objects can be added to the promotion queue by paying EziraCoin or
EziraDollars for promotion boosts. Funds paid for promotion are paid to
the network revenue distribution mechanism and are used to buy and
burn EziraCoin or other assets. The more is paid to promote an object, the
more likely it is to appear to viewers. Promotion funding lasts for 14 days before
expiring. Promoted objects can also allocate funds to compensate any external
referrers.

At the top of every Ezira.io board, feed, tag, and search result page, the
first post is selected from the promotion queue. When recommended posts
are displayed beside a post in a tab, the first recommended post is selected from
the promotion queue. The chance of a post being selected is weighted by the
total amount of EZC spent by the post, divided by the total amount spent by all
promoted objects in the queue. Promotion can be targeted to specific boards,
tags, or search terms, which increases the likelihood of the post being promoted
in those site areas. Each target added to a promoted post incurs a 2% fee that is
added to the promotion cost. Up to 50 targets can be added.

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Engaging, popular, and entertaining promoted content has the
possibility to earn more author rewards than the cost spent to promote
it, and gains free additional exposure from the author rewards that it
earns. Downvoting a post will cause that promoted post to not be shown to that
user again, the post is hidden, and a new promoted post will be selected on the
next page refresh. Promoted posts are treated as regular posts for all intents and
purposes when determining page sorting, and can be discovered and upvoted
organically, as well as being positioned at the top of pages.

Users can promote the following blockchain objects:

• Standard posts, with all regular buttons and features.

• Premium posts, with their price, and a purchase button.
• Boards with their name and graphic, and a subscribe button.
• Accounts, with their name and public profile picture, and a follow button.
• Store pages, with their name and graphic, follow button, and a featured
product purchase button.
• Products, with their name and graphic, add to wish list button, and a
purchase button.
• Cryptoassets, with their name and graphic, price history, and an EziraDEX
exchange button.

Promotion can be targeted to specific boards, tags, or search terms,

which increases the likelihood of the post being promoted in those
network areas. Each target added to a promoted post incurs a 2% fee that is
added to the promotion cost. Up to 50 targets can be added. The effective
promotion value of an object is increased by a factor of 100 whenever the user
is:

• Browsing a specified board, feed, asset exchange pair, store, or tag

• Browsing a post made by a specified account
• Browsing the profile of a specified account
• Searching for a specified term
• Following or connected to a specified account
• Subscribed to a specified board or group
• Holding a balance of a specified public cryptoasset

6.4 Content rewards:

All posts are eligible to receive a distribution from the content reward
pool. 20% of all EziraCoin created is awarded to content creators and
the accounts that interact with content to provide information to the
blockchain. By default, 75% of the payout is earned by the author over 30
days, with the remaining 25% being split between curators, viewers, view
referrers, and Supernode hosts. The amount of EziraCoin that is received as
content rewards by posts is added to each accounts “Lifetime content rewards”
value. Profiles display the lifetime content rewards that the account has earned,
as a measure of overall contribution and reputation.

In addition to receiving content rewards from the blockchain reward pool,

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denominations (0.1, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10 EZD) can be sent in EZD directly to the
creator’s account in two clicks. Viewers that tip the post creators are featured
below the post, in order of the amount donated. Users that tip funds to a post
also have any comments they make on the post highlighted, and pinned to the
top of the thread in order of tip amount. A gold “Super Upvote” button can be
pressed to simultaneously upvote the post with 100 charges, share it on the
account’s profile to all followers, and tip the content creator 10 EZD. Especially
impressed viewers can optionally press a button to donate membership to the
posting account, which purchases a membership asset from the EziraDEX at
market price, and immediately activates it on the account.

Curators are rewarded for voting on posts by receiving a curation

reward payout according to the amount of voting power they have
contributed to the post, and how early they voted for the post. Viewers
are rewarded for publishing view transactions that include their voting power for
stake weighted view calculations, which Supernodes contributed data for loading
the content files of the post, and whether or not they were referred by a referral
link to view the post. Supernodes are rewarded for providing the resources to
store and serve the post file content via a peer to peer transfer. Moderators are
rewarded for their effort in removing posts that violate the board’s rules, and for
building a high quality community. This also ensures that moderators are
compensated for their time and effort, that there is competition between
moderators to earn the support of their communities, and that there is demand
to replace moderators that act against their community’s interests, or
overzealously censor posts. Posts that are removed from a board do not pay out
rewards to the moderators.

Content reward breakdown: (minimum/default/maximum):

The reward payouts from the Ezira blockchain for content rewards are split
between the following divisions:

• Author rewards: (0/75/90%) All paid to the author of the post.

• Curation rewards: (5/15/50%) All paid to the curators of a post,
according to their stake weight and the amount of voting charges used.
• Hosting rewards: (2/4/20%) 80% is paid to the Supernode file hosts
according to the recorded account holding viewer data nominations, and
the anonymous viewer data nominations. 20% is paid to the Supernodes
selected to count views, according to their accuracy with the average of
the other Supernodes.
• Viewer rewards: (1.5/3/15%) All paid to declared account holding viewers
according to their stake weight
• Moderator Rewards: (1.5/3/15%) All paid to the moderators of the
board(s) that the post was listed in, according to each moderator’s voting
support from the board subscribers.

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7 Ezira Content:
7.1 Boards:
Accounts can create public boards, which any other accounts can post
to, and can be made for specific topics, groups of users, or communities.
They are made with any custom name, up to a limit of 50 characters, with no
spaces. Board names should use capital case for clarity, but this is not required.
Posting rules can be customized by moderators. User accounts can subscribe to
boards, and all content posted to the board is added to their subscribed board
feed.

When a new board is published, its creator becomes a moderator of the

board, and can invite others to become moderators. Moderators can
change the settings of the board, such as what should be posted, the
background, and the layout. They are tasked with removing content that
breaches their rules, and are able to move a post to the deleted section of their
board, which is not visible from the main page of the board, but can still be
accessed as normal if desired by users.

Posts can also be moved to different boards if they do not belong in the
board they were posted in. Posts cannot be permanently deleted from the
site, as they are stored on the blockchain. This reduces the ability for
moderators to conduct censorship. Each subscriber can vote for up to 10
moderators that they support. Moderators are ranked according to time adjusted
vote weight (voting weight multiplied by the number of years of subscription to
the board) from the board’s subscribers, and have hierarchical authority over
which posts are removed from the board, or permitted, and what the board’s
settings and rules are. Moderator votes expire after 12 months and must
be reapplied afterwards.

7.2 Featured page:

High quality content posted by platinum and diamond members can be selected
to be added to the featured page, which is the default front page of the Ezira.io
website for logged out viewers. All posts made by platinum and diamond
members within a 24-hour period are included in the featured calculation. Every
hour, the highest rated post by the featured ranking parameter preset is
added to the top of the featured page. Posts leave the featured queue after
24 hours. The featured page retains a permanent link to all the past featured
posts. The same account cannot be chosen to have a post added to the featured
page twice in a row. Every 24 hours, a board is chosen to be listed as the
featured board. The featured board is calculated according to its New
subscriber’s weighted vote power since last featured. The weighted vote power
of each subscriber is added to a board’s feature value. When a board is featured,
its feature value is reset to zero. As new subscribers join, the value increases.
The highest value board by this metric each day is listed as featured.

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7.3 Feeds:
Network feed show particular selections of content from specific people
or communities. Account Feeds show all content from selected accounts sorted
by the same formula set as Boards, with Hot(Default) as the default sorting
option. Feeds are the main way that users view private posts, that have visibility
restricted to specified groups of people, such as connections or friends. Users
can view posts from subscribed boards or followed accounts, sorted however
they choose. The User’s Home feed contains posts from all followed
accounts, groups, events, connections, and board subscriptions.

7.4 Groups:
Users can create groups for accounts to join and post, which act as
private boards for specific groups of people. Group moderators can setup
options to determine which accounts can view the group, join the group, and
make posts to the group. Moderators can require that accounts must request
access to a publicly visible group, or can only be invited to a closed group. Group
moderators control who is able to confirm requests, and send invites. Group
members, and their posts can be delisted by moderators, and placed in a deleted
section, in the same way as boards. Group content is encrypted and stored on
Supernodes and the blockchain. It can only be decrypted with the group
decryption key given to group members.

Groups can optionally create membership assets, which are expended to

pay for membership costs. Assets are sold by the group creator for any
desired price on the EziraDEX, and can be bought directly from the group page.
This acts as a way to finance the group’s collaborative expenses. Group
members are removed after a predetermined time has elapsed since their
membership expired. Group membership lists can be easily used to populate
event invitation lists, and can be used as a prerequisite to owning any specified
cryptoasset.

7.5 Content management mechanisms:

Ezira user accounts cannot be banned, and the Ezira executive board
cannot enforce any content rules on the publicly accessible blockchain,
or encrypted Supernode storage. Posts cannot be removed from the
blockchain once published, by design. It would be unfeasible also to forcefully
remove content from the Supernode network once uploaded, as it is encrypted,
split up, and held on an international network of hard drives, over which neither
Ezira, or its executive board, have any control. This too, is by design. Only the
file uploader can issue a signed deletion transaction on their own
content, which directs SuperNodes to delete the encrypted file pieces. It
also tags the post as deleted, which filters it from all Ezira Applications until it is
fully deleted. If Supernodes are found to provide a file that has a deletion order
from its uploader, they are dropped by other SuperNodes and are removed from
the Supernode reward pool. This does not however stop them from hosting the
files, it only prevents them from being rewarded. No mechanism exists to force
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Users have the option to post files permanently, by revoking their ability
to delete the content. Content should not be uploaded to Ezira permanently if
the user does not want it to remain publicly, and immutably accessible for all
time, even long after they are dead. Users can also post content
temporarily, where content is automatically deleted after a specified
period of time, by default 24 hours. Files on the Supernode network can be
updated by changing the file referenced using IPNS, but the original file is still
available.

User controlled content filtering:

To customize their viewing experience, users can use settings to control
the content that they see. All posts to Ezira must include a two letter ISO
639-1 language tag, such as #en, #zh, #hi, #ar, #ko, #es, #ru, #de, or #fr.
Users can switch to display posts from a chosen language, or multiple languages.

Users can choose to filter, hide the thumbnail, or grey out posts that list
any specified tags, are posted to specific boards, are posted by specific
users, or have a title containing specific keywords. For posts that are not
made with tags that describe their content honestly, tags can be added by
viewers. To limit the proliferation of certain content, users can add reporting
tags to posts that they believe fit into certain categories.

Users who post content that others find to be offensive, distasteful, threatening,
or abusive can have their posts tagged with categories that may cause them to
be filtered by other users that have adjusted their settings. Posts are marked
with a tag when the tag is supported by a net voting power greater than that of
10 average accounts, from at least 10 different accounts, with at least 2
accounts being moderators of the board that the post is in. Posts made to
profiles do not require moderator support, as there are no moderators on
profiles.

Incorrectly applied tags can be opposed with voting power, and can bring the
tag’s net voting power to below the marking threshold of 10 average users. This
will cause the marked tag to be removed. Default tags are set automatically on
all boards, groups, and posts. They can be manually adjusted, or deactivated
according to user preferences.

All non-default filtering requires the user to opt in, giving users the
exclusive power to decide what they do and don’t want to see. Most
default filtering can be deactivated, or changed to different display options.
There are hardline tags that are used for content that is considered to be illegal
in most countries, and these filters cannot be altered using the Ezira.io interface.
Other third party interfaces to the blockchain may act to work around these
filters. Ezira developers will not endorse any applications that offer functionalities
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Default network tag settings are applied to all Ezira boards and feeds.
They can be disabled if the user opts out. It is up to the community to
decide which other tags they create and enforce. They include:

• #nsfw – Content that is considered to be of an erotic, illicit, or explicit

nature, thumbnails are hidden by default.
• #nsfl – Content that includes graphic gore, injuries, death, or particularly
disgusting or unhygienic visuals. Thumbnails are hidden by default.
• #spam - Content that is low quality, aimed to waste time and network
resources, or that excessively begs for upvotes, or tips. Posts are greyed
out by default.
• #false - Content that is objectively factually incorrect and intended to
mislead users. Thumbnails have a warning sign and question mark by
default.
• #shill - Content that is misleading, and overly supportive of a particular
agenda to the extent of suspecting that it was made by a compensated
political or corporate agent. Posts have a warning sign and a speech
bubble with a dollar sign by default.
• #bot – Content that was created by an automatic program for viewing on
Ezira. Bot developers should include this tag to notify users that the
content is a bot. Posts have a robot icon by default.
• #spoiler – Content that contains information that reveals the plot points
of a popular creative work that was released in the previous 6 months.
Thumbnails are hidden by default, and text is blacked out until hovered
over.
• #repost – Content that has been plagiarized or copied from another
source without attribution. Posts have a warning sign and recycle icon by
default.

Hardline content tags cause automatic filtering on the Ezira.io website,

and all Ezira supported applications. Third party developers are advised to
include default hardcoded filtering of these tags, without the ability to disable
them. They are:

• #nsfwunderage - Nsfw content that violates international age of consent

laws, posts are filtered by default.
• #nsfwnonconsent - Nsfw content featuring participants that clearly have
not consented to the media being publicly posted, posts are filtered by
default.
• #terrorism - Content that supports or promotes acts of violence by
militant organizations, posts are filtered by default.
• #doxxing - Content containing the non-consensual release of private
personal information, filtered from boards by default.
• #incitement – Content that makes direct and actionable threats of
violence, death or encourages suicide against a person or group. Posts
that offer services pertaining to acts of violence or homicide.

If a user believes that their post has been marked incorrectly with these tags,
the post should be reconsidered, or re uploaded. Users that have high amounts
of posts that become filtered with hardline tags will quickly find themselves
delisted from most boards. Users will also heavily downvote such posts to
prevent their visibility.
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Moderator controlled content filtering:
Moderators can delist a post from a board when two moderators concur
that a post should be delisted for violating the board’s rules, and either
placed in the deleted section of the board, or moved to a different board.
Two higher ranked moderators are required in order to restore the post from the
deleted section. Board moderators can automatically delist posts from their
board that become marked with specified tags. Users can be temporarily delisted
from a board for up to 1 year with the approval of at least 3 moderators, which
can be overruled by the approval of 3 higher ranked moderators. Moderators
have sole discretion in the matter of which posts are and are not allowed on their
boards. If the members of a board do not agree with the actions of specific
moderators, they are able to vote for different moderators to have a greater
rank and advocate for change in the board’s post acceptance and delisting
policies.

7.6 Events:
Users can create event pages, which record the invitations and event
details on the blockchain. All event details are encrypted unless the account
has been invited. Posts to event pages can only be made or viewed by invitees.
Event operators can optionally make the event open budget, whereby the event
creator and authorized guests are able to spend funds from deposits made by
attendants to fund the event. Costs are then split proportionately between
attendee’s deposits, and excess deposits are refunded. Event creators are able to
specify a minimum deposit amount per guest to cover expenses as they occur.
All expenses are publicly visible to all attendants, and costs can be selectively
divided between different participants, directed to one account, or split between
all attendants.

Users can create ticket assets for their public event, allowing any
account with a ticket entry. Tickets are sold on the EziraDEX, and can be
purchased directly from the events page. Tickets can be easily tracked for
ownership, and auctioned to high bidders if limited tickets are issued. Entry staff
confirm the possession of a ticket by authenticating the user’s account on phone
contact, instead of having to use a physical ticket, or scan a code. The Event
operator confirms that the account holds a unit of the cryptoticket, and requests
a transfer, which the user approves for entry. This publishes a blockchain
transaction whereby the ticket asset is expended at the conclusion of the event.
The cryptoticket system prevents issues arising from lost, stolen, damaged and
counterfeit physical tickets. They can be created for free, and are traded
securely, with very low fees paid to the Ezira network when the user issued asset
tickets are traded on the EziraDEX.

7.7 Recommended posts:

Recommended posts select relevant content that the user has not yet
viewed, which are displayed beside the current post. When a user opens a
post in a full tab, they view the posts main page. On each page, the boards,
tags, and author account from the content being viewed are used to find

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relevant posts to see next that are recently released, and highly voted. The
recommended post display beside posts can be toggled off if desired. This
delivers high quality relevant content to the user, and helps them to find new
interesting posts, and guides them to new boards and tags that they do not yet
know about.

Users can optionally access the recommended post generator, by clicking a link
from each recommended post bar. This utilizes an unlimited amount of input
boards, tags, and accounts to generate recommendations of recent highly voted
posts, that are relevant to the inputs. Users can quickly add all boards that they
subscribe to, all accounts that they follow, and all tags that they follow to
generate recommended posts easily.

7.8 Applications:
Users and developers create and upload decentralized applications that
are hosted on the Ezira Supernode network. Applications are completely
free to create, have full use of Turing complete Ezira smart contracts, can access
all public Ezira blockchain information, and decrypt profile information with
permission. The Supernode network hosts applications across its distributed
network, making them impossible to censor, or take down. They can be accessed
using a web browser, an Ezira node client, or the Ezira mobile application. They
can natively create and transact blockchain assets, create and interact with
smart contracts, and charge subscription fees to the user’s wallet balance.
Applications could include the following:

• Games that can interact with blockchain objects and data

• Alternative front end interfaces for viewing Ezira posts and the blockchain
• Text document editor with full built in Ezira posting functionality
• Spreadsheet editor with full built in Ezira posting functionality
• Image editor with full built in Ezira posting functionality
• Sound editor with full built in Ezira posting functionality
• Presentation editor with full built in Ezira posting functionality
• Templated image generator (for making memes) with full built in Ezira
posting functionality

7.9 Search:
Users can search the entire blockchain and public file database of the
Supernode network for content with Ezira’s search feature. Sorted by
popularity, as determined by relevant upvotes, and views. By default, search
terms and run through all search types, and the most relevant results are
displayed first.

Search types:

• Post search – searches for content in the public posts of the Ezira
blockchain
• Image search – searches for images on the Supernode network
• Video Search – searches for videos on the Supernode network

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• Audio Search - searches for audio tracks on the Supernode network
• Product Search - searches for products for sale on the blockchain
• Reverse image search – an image is searched for, and any similar images
can be found, or the source and information about the image can be
found if it has been uploaded to the Supernode network
• Reverse audio search – audio is searched for, and any similar audio
tracks can be found, or the source and information about the audio can
be found if it has been uploaded to the Supernode network
• Reverse video search – videos are searched for, and any similar videos
can be found, or the source and information about the video can be found
if it has been uploaded to the Supernode network
• File search – searches for files that can be downloaded on the Supernode
network

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8 The Ezira Decentralized Exchange
(EziraDEX):
All Ezira cryptocurrencies can be traded on the blockchain using the Ezira
Decentralized Exchange, or EziraDEX. The Decentralized Exchange has a 0.25%
taker-side trading fee charged as network revenue, and is used to buy and burn
EziraCoin and other assets. No fees are charged for maker orders. This is to
incentivize traders to provide liquidity to the exchange, and create limit orders to
aid price discovery. Trade orders are broadcast to the network, and settled on
the blockchain, ensuring that all assets used are held on chain, under the control
of the account owner. All assets are listed in a table, sorted by trading volume in
the last 24 hours. The Ezira trollbox is accessible from all trading interfaces. All
assets are exchangeable for any other directly, however volume would likely be
focused around the Ezira cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin currency pairs. Other
exchanges would be free to access the public orderbook of the EziraDEX and
replicate orders to their own exchanges and automatically execute them on the
Ezira blockchain for added volume and liquidity.

8.1 User Issued Assets:

User issued assets can be created for free by any account. They can
represent any desired assets or measure of value. This could include
currencies, shares, equities, derivatives, debt, credit, bonds, tickets,
memberships, voting rights, or anything that can be conceptualized and
quantified. They can be traded on the blockchain between accounts using
exchange orders, or transacted between accounts directly for payments. Assets
can include an optional creator transaction and trading fee paid to the creator of
the asset. User issued assets can be created with functionality to distribute
dividends to holders or buy and burn assets using the proceeds of defined
income sources.

8.2 Gateway Assets:

Ezira backed gateway assets are issued to accounts in exchange for
deposits of other cryptocurrencies for trading on the EziraDEX. These
Ezira backed gateway assets are named with the prefix “EZIRA.”, such as
EZIRA.BCH, EZIRA.BTC, EZIRA.AUD, or EZIRA.ETH. The Ezira executive board
holds a reserve of other cryptocurrencies that are used to back Ezira’s Gateway
exchange assets. The balance of these currencies is publicly available on their
respective blockchains, and security is independently audited a minimum of once
every three months. These reserves allow for high liquidity when entering and
leaving the Ezira economy via the Decentralized Exchange. Developers can
produce third party gateway assets and administrate issuance and redemption
where demand exists. Gateway assets should be named with the prefix of their
backing entity. User issued assets with a prefix can only be created by the
account that created the asset named by the prefix. For example, if an account
creates the asset “COIN”, then they could create the asset “COIN.BTC”.

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8.3 Market Pegged Assets (Smartcoins):
Smartcoins that are backed by EziraCoin collateral, and are valued according to
witness feed valuations. The EziraDollar is the default medium of exchange on
Ezira, and is pegged to a settlement price in EziraCoin. They are named with the
prefix (EZ), such as EZD = USD, EZBTC = BTC, EZAUD = AUD or EZETH = ETH.

Network witness officers provide feeds of the settlement prices of these

assets in EziraCoin, which track the price of their external asset
counterparts. Smartcoins can be created to represent any desired external
asset, and can be pegged to a settlement price defined by any nominated
account, or witness. They can also be pegged to functions of the price of other
assets to create index assets, or derivatives. Assets can be created that are
priced by the inverse of another asset, allowing an asset to represent a short
position on another asset.

8.4 Peer to peer lending:

Traders can use peer to peer lending to borrow funds and execute
leveraged margin trades, or open short positions. Funds are lent at interest
from asset holders wishing to save and earn interest. Any asset can be lent to
margin traders, with offers to lend and borrow for specified time limits made on
the blockchain. Margin traders must have a collateral margin ratio of 20%, and
are force liquidated if their position’s margin drops below the maintenance ratio
of 10%.

Margin traders consume lending limit orders at the lowest interest rate
first, and re-borrow at the lowest interest rate when the loan time has
expired. Margin limit orders set a specified interest rate and price, which can be
filled by market lenders and traders. Limit lenders place lending orders at a
specified interest rate, which is consumed by market margin traders. This can
optionally be set to automatically update every hour if it does not fill. Asset
holders that use the savings account functionality in the wallet lend their funds
automatically to margin traders with limit lending orders updated hourly. Lending
can be disabled to hold savings balances normally. Through this mechanism,
savers on the Ezira network can earn a market interest rate on any asset that
they wish to lend out to traders. In the unlikely event that a margin trader’s
short position cannot be force liquidated rapidly enough to prevent a negative
margin position, the lender may be covered for default losses by the Ezira
executive board by reimbursing lost funds in EziraCredit.

Peer to peer lending is available between users that wish to lend directly
for spending. Debtors sign authorization transactions for future dated
payments to the creditor, in exchange for lending a principle amount in full up
front. Borrowers prove creditworthiness to lenders and can provide some form of
collateral to secure a loan at a lower interest rate. Creditors are advised to
diversify their loan portfolio and change interest that is sufficient to cover
expected defaults. Due diligence would be essential for lenders to minimize the
risk of default. Lenders best able to choose legitimate borrowers will earn the
most interest, and suffer the least defaults.

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8.5 Option Assets:
Asset holders can create option assets, by locking in balances of funds
for a fixed period of time. Those locked assets are able to be exchanged
for a fixed strike price in another nominated asset for any holders of the
options. The options can then be sold for a market premium on the Ezira
DEX. Ezira enables options to be dated for expiry on the first of each month. Call
and put option assets can be created for any asset pair. EziraCoin will be the
primary base pair in the option chain sheet for every cryptoasset, to enable the
consolidation of volume for option asset strike prices, and expiry dates Options
trading incurs the standard 0.25% fee on the taker side of the trade.

8.6 Predictive Split Assets:

Assets can be created by depositing EziraCoin into a predictive split
asset pool. Predictive split assets can be generated to create a
prediction market on any possible future event with a public
deterministic outcome. Each unit of EziraCoin deposited will return 1 unit
relating to each possible option in a predictive scenario outlined by the asset
creator. All assets can additionally be deposited back into the predictive split
pool to return the associated EziraCoin.

Each asset will trade at the price corresponding to the market consensus
of the probability of that event occurring. At the conclusion of the predictive
split asset, the asset corresponding to the realized outcome can be selected by
the asset creator. Holders of the correct outcome asset are able to exchange
their units of predictive assets for the EziraCoin in the asset pool after 7
uncontested days. The asset creator earns trading fees on all exchange trades of
their Predictive Split Asset.

Asset creators are able to post an asset bond to guarantee that they will
select the correct outcome. If the asset creator does not select the correct
outcome, a challenge bond can be posted to start a poll as to the correct
outcome for the asset. All users can then privately vote in a quadratic
expenditure election for the correct outcome. Users post voting bonds in
EziraCoin, and receive voting power for that election equal to their voting bond
squared. After 7 days, the option with the majority of voting support is selected
for the predictive asset outcome, and all funds that voted in support of opposing
options are distributed to the majority voters according to funds posted in their
voting bonds squared. If the creator of the predictive asset chose an incorrect
outcome, their asset bond is forfeited, and distributed between voters and the
challenge bond poster. If the same outcome is selected by the asset creator and
the voters, the challenge bond is forfeited to the asset creator and the correct
voters. Users should ensure that they invest funds in assets with creators
that post large asset bonds for assurance of legitimacy.

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8.7 Wallet:
Users can access their balances of cryptoassets, and make transfers.
Transaction history, EziraCoin reward history, and membership assets can be
inspected. Users can interact between their balances, settle EziraDollars for
EziraCoin, vest EziraCoin into EziraPower, divest EziraPower into EziraCoin, vest
EziraPower into EziraBonds, or transfer any liquid balances to their respective
savings accounts. Savings accounts can be used for Ezira network
currencies, by placing the funds into a separate balance that requires a
3 day time delay to withdraw funds. While funds are placed in savings
accounts, they are automatically lent at interest to margin traders. This
can be disabled upon user choice.

Each Ezira account has a Hierarchically Deterministic wallet passphrase

associated with it, giving every account a usable address and fully featured light
wallet for many major cryptocurrencies. This passphrase can be used to restore
the account. This interface enables transfers between the account’s wallet, and
the EziraDEX by purchasing gateway assets. These assets would be able to be
redeemed by transferring to the user’s wallet, or an external address at any
time. Third party developers would be free to produce code to
incorporate their own cryptocurrencies into the Ezira wallet, and request
the creation of an Ezira backed gateway asset for use on the
decentralized exchange.

8.8 Ezira Investment Fund:

The Ezira investment fund is a smart contract that holds a pool of
cryptoassets that is used to invest in the Ezira business ecosystem. It
acts as a passive index fund that holds a portfolio in all Ezira sponsored
businesses, Ezira network currencies, and selected external
cryptocurrencies. Ownership is represented by the cryptoasset or (Smart
Token) EZIRAFUND, which corresponds to an ownership claim on the
cryptocredit and cryptoequity of Ezira’s sponsored businesses, with liquidity
connections to all Ezira supported cryptocurrencies. All assets included in the
fund will utilize a continuous liquidity exchange system, that enables any
included asset to be traded for EZIRAFUND automatically, without requiring a
counterparty on the DEX. It holds a reserve balance of each asset, and enables
trades between the assets.

The Ezira Investment Fund will use the Bancor formula set to price the
issuance of new EZIRAFUND units when assets are exchanged into the
contract. EZIRAFUND will be presented prominently in the decentralized
exchange and is the asset officially recommended, endorsed, and promoted by
the Executive board of Ezira for long term investment in the growth of both Ezira
and the global cryptocurrency economy. The Ezira investment fund will utilize an
array token contract with the following connection weights. All currencies will
have continuous asynchronous and zero-spread liquidity to the EZIRAFUND
Smart Token asset, and by extension, all other included assets.

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Ezira Cryptocurrencies (30%):

7.5% - EZIRA
7.5% - EziraCoin
7.5% - EziraDollar
7.5% - EziraCredit

Ezira Supported Gateway assets (30%):

5.0% - EZIRA.BNT – Bancor Network Token

2.5% - EZIRA.BTC – Bitcoin Core
2.5% - EZIRA.BCH – Bitcoin Cash
2.5% - EZIRA.BTS - Bitshares
2.5% - EZIRA.STEEM - Steem
2.5% - EZIRA.ETH - Ethereum
2.5% - EZIRA.ETC – Ethereum Classic
2.5% - EZIRA.XMR - Monero
2.5% - EZIRA.DASH - Dash
2.5% - EZIRA.LTC - Litecoin
2.5% - EZIRA.ZEC – Zcash

Ezira Sponsored Business Cryptoequities (40%):

Divided according to market capitalization between the Cryptoequities and
Cryptocredits (3:1) of all Sponsored businesses that are included in the Ezira
Consortium.

For example:
7.5% - EziraPay
2.5% - EziraPayCredit
7.5% - EChainLab
2.5% - EChainLabCredit
7.5% - SatoshiCorp
2.5% - SatoshiCorpCredit
7.5% - LarimerInc
2.5% - LarimerIncCredit

EZIRAFUND regularly pays out its returns from interest and dividends in
EziraCoin to its holders. Units of the fund can be created by sending any
component assets to the smart contract. The reverse occurs when units of
EZIRAFUND are sent back the smart contract. They are destroyed, and then their
component assets are sent to the seller. The amount of EZIRAFUND issued
varies with the relative supplies of each unit.

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9 Ezira Marketplace:
9.1 Stores:
Store pages list all the products and services that businesses or users
have for sale. Store pages can either list the products sold by a particular
account, or they can be open to products from multiple users. Sales of products
can optionally return a percentage of the sale price to the creator of the store
page they are bought from. Products listed on Ezira can also optionally return a
percentage of their revenue to all tags that link to the product, according to their
content rewards earned. Stores can use a variety of pricing method to sell
products, including:

• Fixed price sales – Seller chooses one price and sells products only at that
price.
• Auctions – Seller chooses a reserve price, and a duration. Bids are made
publicly in increasing order until the auction is finished, and the product is
sold to the highest bidder.
• Reverse Auctions – Seller chooses a starting price, which reduces linearly
to a minimum price over a set duration until it is purchased.
• Secret Auctions – Seller lists a product, and accepts bids for a set
duration. Bids are made secretly. The highest bidder pays the price
offered by the second highest bidder.

Goods and services can be bought and sold for any Ezira network
cryptocurrency. The Marketplace section displays popular products from all
store pages, and allows products to be searched. These product listings are
recorded on the blockchain, and can be publicly linked to by anyone, and used
by external applications using the Ezira API. Product sales are also recorded in
the blockchain, and signed by the buyer, seller, and the mediators optionally
chosen by the accounts or randomly assigned from the mediator pool.

Buyers, sellers, and mediators are reviewed by customers in every

interaction and have an approval score out of 100. A fee of 2% of the price
of the sale is charged as a fee from the seller if a transaction using the mediator
system. 1% is awarded to the mediators that verify the transaction as valid,
confirm delivery of the product being sold, and broadcast it. The other 1% is
allocated to the revenue distribution model of the Ezira network, which is used to
buy and burn EziraCoin and other cryptoassets. Merchants with products and
services for sale on the Ezira blockchain can use an API to create simple
payment buttons on their own applications.

9.2 Recurring Payments:

Businesses that sell ongoing services can setup regular transactions
with customers to pay a fixed amount periodically. This transaction
references a valid payment authorization transaction from the payer, which
allows an amount to be spent from an address to another defined address once
per a predetermined number of blocks. If the amount is greater than the

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authorized limit, or a payment has used the authorization more frequently than
allowed, the transaction is invalid and will not be propagated by the nodes.

This allows buyers to opt in to a direct debt style transaction mechanism

for recurring expenses without having to directly authorize each one.
Delivery of goods can be purchased from integrated delivery businesses, multiple
payment options can be accepted using integrated currency exchanging services,
which purchase EziraDollars with the currency used, and then relay the payment
to the seller.

9.3 Marketplace Credit:

Users are able to establish a line of credit with a lender on the
decentralized exchange, which can be extended at the point of sale to
pay for purchases. A credit authorization transaction enables another account
to access peer to peer lending instantly for Ezira marketplace transactions, up to
a specified credit limit value, at a specified interest rate, and with a specified
payment schedule. When the loan is issued, a recurring repayment schedule is
authorized to repay funds over a specified time period. Creditors should ensure
that they conduct due diligence on borrowers to ensure an acceptable level of
default risk. Peer to peer lenders are advised to diversify their loan portfolios,
charge adequate interest rates to cover expected defaults, and ensure that credit
limits are set to acceptable risk levels.

9.4 Dispute resolution system:

Marketplace customers and vendors can either choose to use single
mediator that they both agree on, or a multi-party mediation team for
additional security when they cannot agree on a mediator. The multi-party
mediation team consists of seven mediators, one chosen by the buyer, one
chosen by the seller, and five chosen at random.

Delivery of goods and services is moderated by an escrow system. An

address is created that requires multi signature verification to spend
funds. They buyer sends funds into the escrow account to initiate the purchase.
After confirming the buyer’s payment, the seller ships the goods, or provides the
service. The seller then notifies mediators that they have shipped the product or
provided the service, with evidence. Mediators then create a transaction
spending the escrowed funds to their account, and pay network and mediator
fees. The buyer then confirms that the product has been delivered or the service
completed to the mediators. Once the buyer and seller are satisfied, they both
sign one of the mediator’s transactions to spend the funds. When published by a
mediator, the transaction is completed, and the payment is released to the
seller. Depending on which mediators created and signed the transaction to
transfer funds, the buyer and seller sign an additional transaction to pay specific
or all mediators their portion of fees. Bonds posted by the buyer, seller and
mediators are all refunded.

The buyer, the seller, and each of the mediators post a security bond of
10% of the transaction value to create the multi-signature address. If
the transaction process occurs normally and is signed by both the buyer and the
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seller, this bond is refunded. If one does not sign, and a dispute occurs, the
security bonds of the party at fault, and their supporting mediators is split
between the winners of the dispute, and the mediators in support of the winner.
All the mediators that vote on the side that is successful divide the fees amongst
themselves, whereas accounts that vote against the consensus and risk losing
their transaction bond and mediation fees. This drives mediators to reach a
consensus on the truth of what happened, and to avoid colluding with other
mediators to defraud customers. Mediators do not want to be involved in
disputed transactions, due to the time and effort required to resolve them, and
the negative public image.

Fraudulent traders and mediators will lose their security bond, are likely
to be rated negatively by the other accounts involved, and are recorded
on the blockchain as having been the guilty party to a disputed
transaction conflict. This may cause customers and mediators to distrust them
in the future, and result in a loss of future sales and an inability to find a
representing mediator due to the potential for fraud. Verified accounts are
especially motivated to act honestly, due to the difficulty taken to obtain
verification. Mediators always have more to lose from fraud than they have to
gain, due to the potential loss of income and security bond when brought to a
mediator trial.

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10 Ezira Governance Structure:
10.1 Ezira Officers:
The top 50 voted accounts of the Witness, Marketing, Development, and
Advocate pools, and the 8 members of the executive board make up a
208 person elected body, collectively called the Ezira Officers. Votes can
be instantly and freely changed at any time, enabling user accountability on a
minute by minute basis. Significant checks and balances are imposed to ensure
competent and valuable leadership.

The Ezira officers are the public face of Ezira, and are required to uphold
the following transparency commitments and codes of conduct. Voters
should consider a failure to uphold these points to be grounds for re-evaluating
their voting choices, devoting officers, and voting for new officers to replace
them. Any executive board members that fail to uphold these commitments
should be dismissed for re-election by the Chief Executive Officer.

• Regular Reports on their activities in their role. (At least monthly, ideally
weekly)
• Semi-regular public Interview threads, in which they answer any user
questions about themselves and their officer activities. (At least annually,
ideally monthly)
• Semi-regular Videos outlining their main contributions, activities, and
projects. (At least annually, ideally monthly)
• Attendance at the Ezira Festival’s Annual General Meeting
• All official posts should decline author reward payouts
• Officers should remain in good standing with their local communities, and
should not bring the Ezira network into disrepute.
• Officers should adhere to the Non-Aggression Principle, and should not at
any time initiate force, fraud or coercion against any person.
• Officers should remain neutral and secular in official posts, and should not
endorse or promote political candidates, coercive political ideologies, or
religious organizations while in their roles.
• Officers should not abuse their power for personal profit, succumb to
corruption, or commit acts against the best interests of the Ezira network.
• Officers should not work for companies that pose a conflict of interest
with their position in Ezira.
• Officers should not trade significant quantities of EZIRA or EziraCoin with
material non-public information. All learned information pertinent to the
price of Ezira cryptoassets should be immediately disclosed in a public
post.
• Officers should not trade significant quantities of Ezira cryptoassets on
external exchanges, and should use the publicly accountable
Decentralized Exchange for trading.

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10.2 Ezira Executive Board:
The Ezira executive board is elected by the holders of Ezira voting
power, according to stake weight. All positions are elected by a network wide
series of weighted transferable vote instances for each position. Applicants for
each of the executive positions must be announced at the Ezira Festival’s Annual
General Meeting. Any voting power holder that does not vote has their voting
weight added to the votes of their supported witnesses who vote on their behalf.
The executive elections take place over the Ezira festival. Voting opens at the
completion of the Annual General Meeting, and closes at the commencement of
the Ball.

Executive board roles are full time positions, and are compensated with
a salary from the Ezira network, paid in EziraCredit. All Ezira executive
board positions are represented by their position as a signatory to the “ezira”
main account. It gives them the ability to propose and accept transactions from
the Ezira main account, which must be accepted by 5 of 8 members, including
the CEO and CFO. All elected Ezira executives are awarded complimentary
diamond blockchain membership while they hold their position. Executive
salaries are determined by witness parameters. All witness feeds are averaged to
calculate the salary. The total value of executive board salaries is capped to a
specified value worth of EziraCoin (starting at 500,000 EZC), and this cap
requires a network vote with 51% voting power support to alter. This ensures
that Executive board members have a direct financial incentive to
increase the value of EziraCoin.

If the value of EziraCredit or EziraDollar falls below $0.90 USD, all

members of the executive board are ineligible for reelection. If the value
of EziraCredit falls below $0.80, creation of EziraCredit is frozen by the
network, and executive salaries are suspended. Executives are paid in
EziraCredits to ensure that they do not issue excessive amounts of debt against
the Ezira network revenue, as any devaluation in EziraCredit will reduce the
value of their own salaries. Additionally, EziraCredit only has value when the
creditworthiness of Ezira is high, and the network earns consistent revenue to
repurchase them from the Decentralized Exchange.

Chief Executive Officer:

• The public face of the Ezira network. Holds overall responsibility
for the success of Ezira.
• Approves all creations and expenditures of EziraCredit.
• Can dismiss and call for the reelection of any of the other executive
officers.
• Provides general direction to the network, and oversees the workflow of
all other executives to co-ordinate their activities.
• Highest ranking member of the Ezira executive board.
• Account has the ability to post network wide messages that appear as
banners across all Ezira node software, Ezira.io, and all Ezira network
applications, in the event of a critical emergency requiring immediate
action from all nodes.

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Chief Operating Officer:
• Works at the discretion of the CEO to ensure the consistent
operation of all executive functions
• Manages communications between other board members, and formal
executive records to the blockchain.
• Fronts media interviews and speaks on behalf of the CEO in day to day
matters.
• Second highest ranking member of the Ezira executive board, and heir
apparent to the CEO.
• Role is flexible, and expands to cover any necessary operational tasks
required by the CEO

Chief Development Officer:

• Works with developers to produce code improvements and
maintenance for the Ezira blockchain, and Ezira.io.
• Works with the Chief technology officer to prevent software issues and
bugs.
• Co-ordinates the blockchain development officers to produce high quality
code for use by the Ezira network node infrastructure.
• In charge of Ezira code repositories, and administrates pull requests,
software version control, and software testing. Official Node software
version updates must pass inspection by the Chief technology officer
before launch.
• Works with external application developers to ensure consistent
integration and high performance when interacting with the Ezira
network.

Chief Technology Officer:

• Works with the development team to ensure 100% uptime of all
Ezira.io computational infrastructure, and full operational order of
the Ezira blockchain.
• Hires software engineers to provide a workforce to keep Ezira.io and all
related infrastructure operational.
• Provides operational threat analyses, determines possible new attack
vectors against the network, and works to prevent them.
• Reviews all new official node software versions for software flaws, repairs
programming bugs, and certifies that a new software version is free from
faults before release to nodes.

Chief Financial Officer:

• Oversees the creation and distribution of EziraCredit to pay for
executive infrastructure and expenses, such as Ezira Headquarters,
business transport, developer salaries, and executive salaries with the
approval of the CEO.
• Facilitates any necessary interaction between Ezira and the fiat financial
system.

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 • Oversees the foreign exchange public reserves of the network to allow
liquidity and exchange between Ezira network currencies external
cryptocurrencies, and fiat currencies.
• Overall responsibility for the stability and liquidity of the Ezira financial
system, and the consistent growth in value of the EZIRA cryptoequity.
• Produces quarterly reports detailing all Ezira public cryptocurrency flows,
revenues paid to the network, and executive board expenditures. Details
all issuances of EziraCredit, with an associated justification, and reports
on the amounts of EziraCoin, and EziraCredit burned by revenue.

Chief Design Officer:

• Works to manage and improve the general design of all Ezira
products, interfaces, and blockchain systems.
• Produces concept art for improvement proposals, and standardized
graphical assets for use by the Ezira Marketing officers.
• Overall responsibility for the Ezira brand image.

Chief Marketing Officer:

• Works with the Chief Design officer, Marketing officers, and
Advocacy officers to gain brand exposure, create positive brand
impressions, acquire new site users, and subscribing network
members.
• Co-ordinates the efforts of the blockchain Marketing Officers to promote
high end content producers, and the Ezira user experience to a global
audience.
• Promotes the sale of blockchain memberships, by marketing them to
users.
• Ensures the high performance of the Ezira promoted post system, its
ability to earn user’s positive exposure, and promotes its use.
• Promotes the use of the Ezira marketplace, and works with Ezira
Sponsored businesses to improve sales and brand imaging.

Chief Advocacy Officer:

• Manages legal proceedings and any necessary regulatory
compliance on behalf of the Ezira Executive Board.
• Works with the blockchain advocacy officers to establish and maintain
positive relationships between Ezira and other companies, cryptocurrency
communities, and governments.
• Speaks on behalf of the blockchain community to build positive legislation
and favourable economic and legal conditions to enable the growth of
cryptocurrency in general, and Ezira specifically.
• Co-ordinates the efforts of the blockchain Advocacy Officers to promote
cryptocurrency, decentralized applications, and the Ezira network to
global legislators, and established businesses.
• Works to advocate for the acceptance of Ezira network currencies with
Exchanges, Wallets, and businesses.
• Works to advocate for the usage of the Ezira blockchain and Supernode
network as infrastructure for applications.
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11 Project Outline:
1. Public whitepaper release to consider feedback and improve proposal
design.
2. Website release to explain the Ezira proposal in an engaging way and to
generate community interest.
3. Establishment of dedicated core development team, and the release of an
open source repository for community input and oversight.
4. Preliminary Initial Coin Offering: Bitshares UIA angel funding campaign,
raise $500,000 to build MVP website with Ezira test net and IPFS network
for file hosting.
5. Appointment of 8 initial Executive board positions.
6. [Pioneer Release] Functional Ezira blockchain test net software and web
app.
7. Initial Coin Offering: conducted with Bitshares UIA, raise up to
$30,000,000 to launch fully operational public blockchain, website, and
mobile app.
8. [Silver Release] Ezira blockchain main net and node software. Exclusive
Alpha release of Ezira.io to ICO supporters, and selected new
participants.
9. [Gold Release] Open Public beta of all Ezira.io, Ezira Desktop Client, and
Ezira mobile app. Create base of multimedia content to educate new
users about site functionality. Reach out to exchanges for listing EZIRA
and EziraCoin.
10. First annual coin offering of new equity to new investors one year after
the initial coin offering.
11. [Platinum Release] Synchronized and marketed release of Ezira.io, Ezira
desktop client, and Ezira mobile app to a global audience.
12. [Diamond Release] Final Polished Mainstream release, containing all high
end economic features. Establish strong partnerships with existing
cryptocurrency development teams for integration into the Ezira Wallet
and Decentralized exchange, develop partnerships with existing and new
businesses to operate on the Ezira network. Achieve a strong base of
expertise in the marketing, development advocacy and witness reward
pools to act as network officers. Work with sponsored businesses to
promote key products and apps to the mainstream.
13. First annual executive board election at the inaugural Ezira Festival in
Melbourne, Australia.

11.1 Pioneer Release Specification (MVP Test net):

• Ezira blockchain testnet
• Delegated proof of stake block production
• Create persona accounts
• Access testEZIRA wallet
• Create user issued assets
• Decentralized exchange (No fees)
• Create text, blog, and link posts
• Vote on posts (Without content rewards)
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 • Send testEZIRA Transactions
• Sort posts by main preset options (Hot, Top (pure votes), New, Active,
Random (Pure))

11.2 Silver Release Specification (Alpha Main net):

• Full node core software
• Genesis block with EZIRA allocations to all ICO supporters
• Ezira.io Alpha web interface (access for ICO contributors, with waitlist for
new users)
• Sharedrop to existing cryptocurrency addresses
• Content Reward distribution
• Decentralized Exchange between all assets (No fees for Silver release)
• Elected witness block production
• EziraCoin mining
• EziraStealth creation and transactions
• Profile account creation
• Account connections
• Creation of private posts for connections
• Private messaging
• Board post sorting customization with all preset options
• Post Feeds
• Creation of all initial boards and reserved account and asset names
• Posting of text, link, blog, image, video, audio and vote posts on boards,
and profiles.
• Content reward beneficiary specification
• Supernode network active and can be joined by any computer to host
files
• Create smartcoins with EziraCoin collateral
• Blockchain explorer
• Group creation

11.3 Gold Release Specification (Public Beta)

• Ezira.io web interface opened to public, interface refined and user
experience upgraded
• Business account creation with integrated cryptoassets, cryptocredits and
cryptoequities.
• Decentralized exchange interface upgraded, trading fees commence
• Membership asset sales commence
• Premium content creation
• Network revenue distribution system
• Post promotion
• Event creation
• Marketplace trading, with mediation system
• Featured page
• Anonymous posting with EziraStealth content rewards
• Witness, marketing, advocacy, and development reward pools
• Content management systems enabled for users and moderators.
• Issuance and redemption of deposits of cryptocurrencies for trading Ezira
backed gateway assets
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 • Campaign for listing of Ezira network cryptoassets on external exchanges

11.4 Platinum Release Specification (Open market):

• Ezira Mobile App Alpha release (Access for existing accounts, waitlist for
new users)
• Full API functionality for integration by third party developers
• Board post sorting by direct customization of ranking parameters
• Supernode hosted livestream posts enabled.
• All post types operational and hosted on decentralized architecture.
• Account verification
• Peer to peer lending
• Marketplace credit lines
• Margin trading
• Option assets
• Predictive Split Assets
• Recurring Payments

11.5 Diamond Release Specification (Polished

Ecosystem):
• Ezira Mobile App open to public
• Ezira Investment Fund, with DEX integration
• Automated trading software
• Smart contract deployment
• All types of EziraDEX orders enabled
• EziraCredit issuance
• Ezira sponsored business program commences
• Commencement of gateway assets for fiat, backed by Ezira payment
providers

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12 Conclusion:
Ezira presents a comprehensive platform for a cryptocurrency based economy.
Ezira provides strong advancements over Bitcoin as a currency, over Bitshares
as a decentralized exchange, and over Steem as a social media platform. It
beats Bitcoin by providing free transactions, and democratic governance over
network direction. The Delegated proof of stake and proof of work hybrid
consensus algorithm allows the network to scale massively, as has been
demonstrated on Bitshares and Steem, with maximum transaction throughput
tested at over 100,000 transactions per second. It beats Bitshares as a
decentralized exchange by providing free user issued assets, option assets,
integrated Turing complete smart contracts, automatic asset dividend issuance,
and peer to peer lending for margin trading. It enables voting by cryptoequity
holders to determine enforceable business outcomes and administrative
elections. It beats Steem as a social network by compensating views as well as
votes which is critical to correctly valuing a post’s importance to promoters, by
offering variable time options for vesting EziraPower, and by enabling the
creation of distinct and independent moderated communities.

Ezira takes unprecedented measures to reward community developers,

marketers, advocates, and community moderators for their efforts. Ezira’s
guiding executive board is fully elected by voting power holders. Ezira
compensates its data hosting nodes, and allows all network data storage to be
encrypted and distributed by design. By enabling users to earn EziraCoin for
their work, rather than requiring them to purchase some from an exchange,
Ezira reduces the barrier to entry to the cryptocurrency world to zero. By
combining all necessary elements of a digital economy, such as governance,
media distribution, data hosting, marketplace trading, and community formation
into a single platform, Ezira offers significant benefits to its users, and a
compelling case for mainstream viability.

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13 References:
Acknowledgements:
Ezira is a largely a comprehensive fusion of existing ideas. It uses the best
features of the best networks and products available to enable everyone to share
information and value freely. Like most open source software projects, Ezira
stands on the shoulders of giants. The author would like to acknowledge all the
following prior works that have directly inspired Ezira’s feature set. These should
be read and understood to gain a thorough insight into the context and
background of this whitepaper.

[1] S. Nakamoto “Bitcoin: A peer to peer electronic cash system”,

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, 2008.

[2] F. Schuh, D. Larimer, “Bitshares 2.0: Financial smart contract platform,

http://docs.bitshares.eu/_downloads/bitshares-financial-platform.pdf, 2015

[3] D. Larimer, N. Scott, et.al “Steem: An incentivized, blockchain-based social

media platform”, https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf, 2016.

[4] J. Benet “IPFS – Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System”,

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmR7GSQM93Cx5eAg6a6yRzNde1FQv7uL6X1o4k7zrJa3LX/ipf
s.draft3.pdf,

[5] V. Buterin “Ethereum Whitepaper: A Next Generation Smart Contract and

Decentralized Application Platform”, http://www.the-
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vitalik-buterin.pdf, 2014.

[6] N. V. Saberhagen, “Cryptonote 2.0”, https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf,

2013.

[7] Eyal Hertzog, Guy Benartzi et. al. “Bancor Protocol: Continuous Liquidity for
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[8] S. Wilkinson et. Al. “Storj: A peer to peer cloud storage network”,
https://storj.io/storj.pdf, 2016.

[9] M. Michalko, J. Sevcik, “Decent Whitepaper”, http://www.the-

blockchain.com/docs/Decentralized%20Open-
Source%20Content%20Distribution%20(DECENT)%20whitepaper.pdf, 2015.

This whitepaper is a concise version of the Ezira Technical manual. For

developers and enthusiasts that wish to gain a better insight into the inner
workings of the Ezira protocol, as well as descriptions of the Ezira executive
board structure, mediator system, post sorting algorithms, and planned network
events, reading the Ezira technical manual is recommended.
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