ATN | Connecting AI to Blockchain | Ecency

AI Technology Network

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What is ATN?

ATN is a decentralized, open, and permissionless AI platform, which integrates AIaaS (Artificial Intelligence as a Service) and uses smart contracts to allow for users to interact with AI service providers on an API marketplace. ATN is building an AI marketplace which will allow developers, tech suppliers, and buyers come to together to access the newest and most innovative forms of AI on the market!

The Team

There are a few individuals on the ATN team that I will be sharing with you: Adel Shahin, Hope Fan, Song Li, and one of their investors.

Adel Shahin

Mr. Shahin is the standing Founder of ATN and is a part of their "Foundation Council". This definitely isn't Mr. Shahin's first "rodeo" leading an organization. For the last couple years, Adel has worked for various organizations as a Marketing Manager- most recently for Novatti Group in Melbourne, Australia. Before working for Novatti Group, he was employed for a subsidiary of Novatti where he helped to build China Payments. If you don't know what this organization is, it functions as a payment service between China and Australia. Some of the organizations that it was affiliated with were AliPay, WeChat Pay, JD Pay, and Baidu Wallet. Those are some big names in massive corporations!! He founded Food Lookout, Parrot Analytics, and IP Safe Ltd. This man has some amazing work experience and connections.

Hope Fan

Mr. Fan is the Director at ATN where he is the head of their marketing team. Not only does he bring a solid history in marketing for different organizations, but something even better. He brings his history from China to Canada where he is originally from, and created numerous connections. Having this previous connection to Canada will allow ATN (primarily a Chinese based organization) to grow into the mainland of North America. Mr. Fan has also been around blockchain organizations before. He was in charge of Marketing and Business Development at BTCC.

Song Li

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Mr. Li is one of the advisors for ATN, and he brings a unique aspect to the ATN team. He has co-founded an organization which is based out of Seattle, WA called NewSky Security Inc. Having this connection to the USA will be key to bringing in new investors and organizations to take part of the ATN platform. In addition to all of this, he was just recently brought onto the Forbes Technology Council! Hopefully having this "inside man" will allow ATN to get big announcements posted on the Forbes website- that would bring a ton of attention to their project.

Qtum Foundation

I don't think there is much to say here, other than the fact that the Qtum Foundation has been an early investor in this project. That is a big deal. Having a successful platform backing them will really help them in the long run.

The Platform

The main goal for ATN is to bring together the benefits of blockchain and allow anyone to benefit from AI through ATN's marketplace API. This is how their platform looks from the ground-up.

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On the front-end, we only are able to see their AI Marketplace, which is currently in Alpha stage, found here: https://demo.atn.io/. You are able to access all the different services provided on the ATN marketplace by using the ATN token. The developers are able to build browsers, develop DBots, and provide services through AI on their marketplace. When selling their AI services, it will be accessible to everyone around the world because of the way ATN's API is set up. It is completely open for anyone to access and take advantage of the products that are shared. When a consumer is looking to purchase a product on their marketplace it is stored in escrow and then the reward is processed once the API is used on the network.

The second side of their platform is their DBot that they are building into their platform as essentially an aggregator.

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ATN is integrating a DBot as the intermediary to allow for the best reliability possible on their network. For many organizations we see that individuals have to stake their tokens as the source of being the "deciding factor" for a consensus on their platform. in contrast, having a DBot allows for the best governance solution as the Dapp will ensure the best economical reward mechanisms. With the DBot you don't have to worry about a third party. The Smart contract is brought from the blockchain and is then integrated into the AI service. Once completed, it is then brought back onto the blockchain to be executed.

The Roadmap

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There are two things I am most excited for ATN going forward. The first is their official release of the DBot onto the marketplace API. I think that this will make their platform extremely attractive for not only investors, but for AI services to promote their product on their market. The other is the mainnet launch will is scheduled for the second quarter of 2019. This will be a huge date for ATN. They ended not deciding not to do a public sale this past year for their token when they had their ICO and just did a private sale. However, when they launch their mainnet in 2019, they are going to open up their token for sale to the public and this will surely bring a ton of attention to them as they have been ramping up their marketing team recently. The team has definitely been building up their platform, and if you want to check out their marketplace, which is already live (in Alpha stage), it can be found here: https://demo.atn.io/#/. You are already able to see a few different organizations selling their AI services on the marketplace, including some very well known ones!

The Token

AI Technology Network is built off of their ERC-20 token built on the Ethereum blockchain which has the ticker, ATN. Out of their total supply of 210,000,000 ATN, there is a circulating supply of 21,505,324 ATN. When the mainnet launches in 2019, all holders of ATN will be able to exchange the token for the token that will be on its own blockchain!