Contentos is dedicated to building a better content ecosystem, enabling decentralized revenue distribution where all prices and values are transparently disclosed, directly benefiting users. By leveraging the power of community rewards and engagement, we incentivize users to share and promote appropriate content. Through blockchain technology, digital content can be authenticated, stored, traded, and distributed. Additionally, we establish an immutable reputation system where the credibility of interactions is reflected in user reputation scores over time.
Project Vision
"Why do I exist?" This question has crossed everyones mind at some point. Throughout history, only a select few have left their mark—emperors, generals, or notorious villains—while countless ordinary souls have faded into oblivion, as if they had never been born or died. The advent of the internet, however, has enabled every individual to leave a digital footprint through creation. Yet centralized storage methods constantly threaten these hard-earned digital footprints. The disappearance of a content storage website or service is not just the end of a company but the erasure of the collective memory built upon it. To ensure that everyone can truly record their life’s digital journey through creation, the Contentos team aims to use blockchain technology to fundamentally preserve every piece of content and its creator’s information. A decentralized architecture ensures that creations will not vanish due to the closure of a single website. Every piece of content should have corresponding value, whether parents sharing their child’s growth or a mega-influencer’s videos with millions of views. On this foundation, we aspire to build a decentralized global digital content ecosystem that enables the free production, authentication, distribution, incentivization, and trading of digital content. This ecosystem fosters content innovation and global diversity, returning value and rights to the hands of users. Contentos also seeks to create the most extensive public chain for digital content globally, becoming the Ethereum of future content public chains—not just a platform for content or advertising value but a chain that records the memories of every person who has ever existed. I create, therefore I have existed.
Core Values of the Project
1. Identity Verification: Record the identity of every creator/user on the public chain to ensure fair, impartial, and transparent recording of ownership for each piece of content and fully document each users reputation level. Identity verification spans all content communities and products built on the Contentos public chain, ensuring that verified identities persist even if a specific community or product ceases to exist.
2. Content Copyright: Every piece of content has its rightful owner, and the Contentos public chain will comprehensively record the creation and transaction times of each piece. Anyone or any community/product can query the ownership and complete transaction records of content through the Contentos public query interface.
3. User Reputation: "Everyone must take responsibility for their actions" is a core design principle of the Contentos public chain. The user reputation system records all evaluation information received by users across the entire Contentos public chain. This information follows the user’s identity and remains permanently and irrevocably on the Contentos public chain. Anyone or any community/product can query the reputation level of any user through the Contentos public query interface.
4. Smart Contracts: The public chain will support smart contracts, which will run on the CVM (Contentos Virtual Machine).
5. Storage Mechanism: In the future, when technically mature, Contentos will selectively offer upper-layer communities/products the ability to store specific formats of content directly after paying COS.
Technical Architecture of the Project
Blockchain Foundation (Protocol Layer)
Contentos proposes a complementary approach, drawing inspiration from STEEM + IPFS + cross-chain integration, while adding sidechain properties to perform cross-chain operations with other public chains. • At the retrieval layer, we integrate with IPFS to fundamentally change the distribution mechanism of network data, ensuring that Contentos public chain content cannot disappear. • In terms of the state layer, content as a blockchain asset cannot freely circulate. For example, content cannot be transferred from STEEM to other content communities. Contentos will use sidechain + cross-chain technology in the value layer to enable digital content to flow between different chains. Building on the STEEM infrastructure, we will refine and develop it, learning from excellent underlying structures in Ethereum, EOS, or other public chains, continuously absorbing the evolving experiences from various public chain projects.
Business Layer
The business layer will adopt a combination of blockchain and artificial intelligence for content review. Beyond AI review, the community rewards users for content moderation. Contentos will provide developers with convenient development interfaces to facilitate the creation of better DApps for the ecosystem.
Application Layer
By calling pre-packaged APIs from the business layer, developers can build content communities based on the Contentos content chain. Contentos will package many components or extend developer-created components to serve the entire community.
