Obyte Achieves Full Decentralization by Adding University of Nicosia as an Independent Order Provider
By Luke Angell
Voting has closed in the landmark 7th poll to choose a default Order Provider and make Obyte the first DAG to become fully decentralized! The results are in and the Institute For the Future (IFF) of the University of Nicosia has been selected by the community to assume this important role.
The IFF joins CryptoShare, Bind Creative, PolloPollo, Bosch Connectory Stuttgart, Fabien Marino and Rogier Eijkelhof to create a majority of Independent Order Providers on the Obyte public network, thus ensuring that the network is now truly decentralized and can no longer be manipulated by any one bad actor. This is truly an massive milestone for Obyte, and we are very proud and excited to have such a respected institution in the world of DLT/crypto to be the Order Provider that brings us to decentralization.
7th Order provider Poll Results:
This step not only strengthens the legitimacy of the Obyte network, it is a big step toward future collaboration between Obyte and the IFF and University of Nicosia (UNIC). In its position as an Order Provider the IFF will plan and execute research into the Obyte consensus protocol, resilience of the network and apply its first hand learning to other DLT models to see which real world problems DLT can have the best chance of solving. Of course Obyte will support this research, and will be pleased to share the independent findings of such a world renowned organization about its protocol and network.
Now that the 7th independent default Order Provider (witness) has been selected the next step is to add the IFF´s witness address to the default hub and push it out to all the active wallets. So you will see a notification to update your Witness list when you open up your Obyte wallet. Please accept it if you wish to add the Institute For the Future of the University of Nicosia as one of your Order Providers. If you agree your wallet will be automatically updated with the new Order Provider list.
If you run a non-GUI node (headless-obyte, obyte-hub, obyte-relay etc), you should update your witness lists as well by changing the UENJPVZ7HVHM6QGVGT6MWOJGGRTUTJXQ to UE25S4GRWZOLNXZKY4VWFHNJZWUSYCQC. If your node code has been updated after June 3rd, you could also run this simple command in your node code folder:`curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/byteball/ocore/master/tools/replace_ops.js | node`
Now although selecting the 7th Order Provider is a milestone, we will not stop here and will continue to decentralize all of the Order Provider nodes until all 12 are in separate hands.
So if you are interested in submitting your name as a candidate, please contact us at [email protected].
Thank you to all of the community members who took part in the poll, and of course to all of the candidates as well. Happy Decentralization Day everyone!
