In the Introducing Atomflow Infrastructure article, we covered how Atomflow approaches decentralization starting with the network model and network stack. In this article we show what Atomflow’s approaches brings to everyday life.

Atomflow’s approach to decentralization differs from other approaches in that it brings 1) a decentralization infrastructure, 2) a decentralized network and 3) AI capabilities to virtually every on in the world interested to use it. The decentralization infrastructure allows not only other applications, services and platforms to be built on top of Atomflow but also networks as well. These networks can be of different specifications and characteristics. Atomflow decentralized network is where Atomflow Ely and Atum, the cryptocurrencies of Atomflow, primarily live together with other tokens and protocols. In a way, the network is a materialization of networks built on the underlying decentralized infrastructure. An important distinction from being simply a network in the decentralized infrastructure is that the Atomflow Network interacts with the Atomflow Infrastructure to provide the cryptocurrencies and tokens the infrastructure and other applications, services, platforms and networks built on top of it use and unifies these applications, services, platforms and networks into a decentralized whole rather than being segregated isles.

Decentralization Perspective

The description above also serves as a pointer into Atomflow’s wider perspective into decentralization. For Atomflow decentralization is not a local thing like a decentralized cryptocurrency or application but a decentralized network of networks that is global in scale and suitable for different tasks, needs, usages and businesses. In other words, Atomflow makes the Internet decentralized together with the infrastructure behind it and the applications and services running on it. In the Introducing Atomflow Infrastructure article, we showed that Atomflow extends the network model by providing a new Money Layer and two protocol suites: the 1) platform protocol suite and 2) processing protocol suite. Next, we show they changes they bring.

The Money Layer

The money layer is responsible for creating and managing decentralized money, tokens, financial instruments and transactions involving them. The money layer provides the protocols, network and resources to make these transactions and circulate money and assets. These transactions can be from a person to another, from a person to a business, from a business to an individual or from a business to another. An important aspect of Atomflow is the understanding that no size fits all. So while standardized simple interfaces are a point of strength to a decentralized network, so are the richness of capabilities it gives the users, the varieties of the things the users can achieve in simple ways, the suitability of the network to different needs and its reliability. These are cornerstones in the design and mindset of Atomflow.

The money layer also provides financial and transactional capabilities to the processing and platform protocols. As a result, infrastructure integrated with Atomflow and platforms, networks, services and applications built on or integrated with Atomflow have immediate access to the network’s currencies, assets, financial instruments and transactional capabilities.

The overall result is a combination of financial and technological decentralization.

The Processing Protocols

The processing protocols are focused on hardware and low-level software. They allow individuals and entities to avail their resources on the network for others to make use of and develop and deploy using these resources. Platform, networks, services and application developers make use of the processing protocols to connect their higher-level services to hardware and low-level software that actually runs the code.

In brief, Atomflow avails a global decentralized hardware and low-level software infrastructure through its processing protocols.

The Platform Protocols

The platform protocols allow platforms, networks and services to be built on top of Atomflow directly. They allow any individual or entity (the developer) to develop and deploy a generic platform with varying characteristics, including decentralized capabilities and features. The developer does not need to contend with the hardware required to run the platform or the underlying software pieces needed to make things happen. The developer simply specifies the functionalities they need to make available and deploy the platform on the network for their target users, audience or customers to use it.

In this way, Atomflow brings about plug-and-play software development to developers and less technical users on a global scale at reduced cost and with high reliability and fine controls. Atomflow also allows developers to interact directly (if they prefer) with users without intermediaries in a well-governed way the developers specify and can manage easily. The result is that 1) developers completely control and own their services and have direct access to their users and 2) users have unhindered access to varieties of services an applications and the freedom to use and support the services and applications they prefer.

Incremental Approach

Atomflow goals and offerings are ambitious and not exactly the simplest. A lot of innovation takes place in almost every piece of Atomflow across software, currencies and protocols design and implementation. For this, we take an incremental approach starting with the Atomflow Network, Ely and Atum and ending with releasing the complete Atomflow Infrastructure.

Goals and Bigger Picture

Our goal is create a future in which

1. individuals have uninterrupted access to economic opportunity, representative equity in income and wealth generating assets and processes together with freedom of choice and the ability to make that choice, and
2. businesses, regardless of their size, to have the ability, access and resilience to conduct business, reach and serve their users and customers reliably and efficiently.

You can participate in realizing this goal and make gains by participating in Atomflow via acquiring Ely and Atum coins in the ongoing distribution. See Get Coins for more information.