Contentos is a blockchain protocol that aims to form the foundation for a decentralized digital content ecosystem that empowers all members, including creators, consumers, and advertisers, to earn fair compensation for their contributions. Contentos also intends to establish itself as the future Ethereum of digital content, accepting content DApps of all kinds. Social media offers the opportunity for every user to have a platform dedicated to the promotion of their individual visions of the world at large. The current content ecosystem is run by centralized platforms that depend on advertising for revenue. Content creators are, therefore, pressured to produce content that is approved by advertisers instead of following their creative muses and expressing themselves freely. The constraints inherent to ad-driven content platforms begs the question of just how much freedom of expression is actually allowable. Are these individual influencer world views being traded in for carefully-crafted sponsored content for the masses? Furthermore, when looking at the bottom line, it’s imperative to ask the question, where is the majority of the money going? In the current content system, corporate platforms reap the lion’s share of rewards generated by ad dollars, leaving mere pennies to the influencers whose content the platforms depend on. These tech giants tempt content creators with promises of viable income while exploiting their creations for their own gain. In this model, creators and users lose while the tech platforms flourish at their expense.
The vision of Contentos is to build a "decentralized digital content community that allows content to be freely produced, distributed, rewarded, and traded, while protecting author rights". Contentos strives to incentivize content creation and global diversity and return the rights and value of content to users.
Architecture
Contentos’ technology architecture comprises three layers: the protocol, business, and application layer
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Design
Contentos supports the distribution of personal digital token assets. Every user may customize their own incentive system to encourage sharing and collaboration.
The Contentos team will design cross-link mechanisms for research and development. Currently, many decentralized content communities maintain ecosystems of their own. The Contentos team is dedicated to converging all ecosystems into one and enabling all content communities to interoperate.
Contentos will operate inter-blockchain technology on a sidechain while maintaining the original mechanism on its main chain.
Currently, the overall blockchain capacity is not suitable for streaming video-related processing and is only capable of simple data storage. Thus, the underlying Contentos blockchain will converge with IPFS-related features to ensure that data is actually stored on the block.
With a decentralized digital content community for individuals, teams, and businesses that utilize the Contentos public blockchain, Contentos will provide developers with open access to app development for the Contentos public chain and partner with them to create a robust three-dimensional ecosystem.
Core feature
Identity authentication: The identity information of every user is recorded in the public chain, and the credibility level of every user is transparent. Identity authentication can span all content communities and products built on the Contentos Public Chain. Even if a community or product is discontinued, authenticated identities will not disappear.
Content copyright: The Contentos Public Chain fully records the generation time and transaction time of each creation. Any community user can query the ownership and complete transaction records of every creation through the Contentos open query interface.