Billions of people surf the Internet in their everyday activities. In the light of the rapid development digital technologies are widely spread and accessible for the majority of the population. They are implemented in all spheres of modern society. Nowadays most users are concerned about personal data safety. Due to the fact that the key principle of blockchain is decentralization, it can easily cope with this task.
https://www.cygnusnetwork.org/
Cygnus is a web browser application powered by the blockchain technology. Cygnus will be built on Chromium. Chromium is an open-source web browser project started by Google. One of the target purposes of the platform is to offer its end-users the in-app payment solutions such as money rewards and purchases between users within the decentralized ecosystem.
Advantages of the Cygnus web browser
The solution by Cygnus is targeting the following key aspects:
1. Safe browsing protection
This function protects users from persuasive advertising, unsuitable content, abusive websites, etc. It is created to take care of customer’s privacy. It should be noticed that this function is implemented and successfully used by other popular browsers.
2. Malvare
This feature is to protect users against visiting those websites, which may steal their personal data by installing a harmful software on user’s computer. Once user has uploaded a malicious file, Cygnus would block it.
3. Download protection
The software is less sensitive to the downloads rather than to page loads, because they are of different nature of downloads. Thus, system of download protection operates in a different way. If a download is considered to be malicious by the system, it will be replaced with a warning. Otherwise, system may cancel it.
4. Pop-up blocking
It depends on customer’s choice whether to use this opportunity or not. The dialog window with a list of pop-up’s URL is provided, so users can decide if the pop-up should be displayed.
5. Private browsing
This function allows users not to leave any traces in the browsing history. The browsing history and cookies on user’s computer are deleted when the last incognito window is closed. It is of great importance to mention that this function doesn’t provide user with an ability to stay incognito on the Internet, because there are websites that may record user’s visits.
6. Tabbed browsing
Multiple tabs or pages on one window can be opened by users thanks to this feature. The so-called tab overflow solution keeps user’s tabs easily accessible.
7. Bookmarks
User adds the bookmark using the system’s sign star. All stars are kept in bookmarks bar. In order to avoid the creation of multiple separate stars, the system reduces the number of bookmarks by categorizing them. User can control this option as well.
8. Session restore
When the system is crashed the last user’s session would be restored without data loss. The open windows, documents and progress downloads will be automatically restored.
9. Network predictions
This prediction service helps you load pages quicker. This feature uses a navigation history to predict which resources and pages are likely to be needed next. User can switch off this function.
10. Plugins
Such most common plugins as Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader and Java are useful because they add new capabilities to a web browser. Thus, Cygnus also supports those in process plugins.
Key principle of the platform
The Cygnus platform offers the blockchain featured web browser. The proposal made by the system is the following: Every user is able to create an in-browser app and sell it to other users for CYG tokens. It is announced by Cygnus that the web application will be reviewed by Cygnus team right before it’s release in order to avoid hacker attacks.
https://www.cygnusnetwork.org/
It is announced that the reward program will start when the price of the CYG token reaches 0.01 $ per token. The benefits system will be the following: Every hour spent by user with Cygnus Browser will be rewarded with 1000 CYG. It is clear that the more people will join the reward system, the less will be the reward.
Token Sale Plan
The idea of developing a Blockchain-powered browser sounds good. But there are still a few questions that are remained unclear. There is only one person, who represents the team. According to their website, where the information about the ICO is presented, Michael Ferrari is the project founder and one of the main developers. So, perhaps the rest of the developers decided to leave in the shadow. Another question is about the web application, which still hasn't been presented. Yet it is announced on the website that softcap is already reached and 550.000$ are raised.
Links:
Website: https://www.cygnusnetwork.org/
WhitePaper: https://bit.ly/2NtkU8T
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/HdJRMA9f5eBAtjr-l3CSVA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cygnus_Network
Medium: https://medium.com/@Cygnus_Network
ANN: https://bit.ly/2KP9XwB
Author: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=980049
Disclaimer
This review by Bonanza Kreep is all opinion and analysis, not investment advice.