is an EOS decentralized application (dApp). At the heart of Boid is the desire to make the benefits of blockchain technology accessible to all people. Boid acts as a gateway, lowering the barrier to entry for non-technical users to directly participate in blockchains and distributed computing projects. Boid is a website and software platform that provides a social gateway for individuals to contribute their computing power towards big ideas and get rewarded for it. The Boid platform makes it easy for users to participate in distributed computing projects. Boid also incorporates the latest blockchain protocols, providing monetary incentives for the sharing of spare computing resources. ^[1]

Boid is short for bird-oid.

A computer simulation of birds in a flock.

Each “boid” follows simple rules of interaction with nearbyboids.

Manyboidsinteracting results in emergent meta patterns.

Likewise, the Boid Platform relies on computing resources from a large number of individual contributors.

These small contributions cumulate into massive real-world impact.

Boid is for anyone who wants to be part of something huge.

We designed Boid from the ground up to be as accessible as technologically possible.

Anyone with a computer (or compatible smartphone) andinternetconnection can use Boid.

Security is a top priority for Boid.

We only work with the most reputable distributed science projects, and we architected the Boid app such that applications have limited permissions.

It’s worth noting that BOINC (the tech behind Boid) has been commonly used since the late 90s with a perfect security track record due to a robust security architecture.

We continue to roll out updates to make Boid even more secure and hacker-proof.

To increase your BoidPower, you need to install the simple Boid application on your device.

The Boid application runs in the background, transparently taking advantage of unused computing power.

The Boid application connects to your Boidaccount, and can tap into your CPU, GPU, and HDD space automatically, to maximize your Boid Power rating.

You can install the Boid app on as many of your devices as you like.

Desktop computers with dedicated GPUs tend to perform the best, but laptops can also work as well.

You can even rent a specialised service in the cloud with BOID Power to mine BOID.^[27]

Your Boid Power can be used to mine for various cryptos.

Get paid out daily however you like.

Stake your BOID tokens, look for Bounties and earn rewards.

Create a team, become and ambassador or validator.

It's only a beginning.

Q1 - Initial Research - Studying blockchain protocols and implementations

Q2 - Early Whitepaper - Distributing research for early feedback.

Q3 - Intial Prototype - Backend code and simple client application to prove Meta-Platform functionality.

Q4 - Web App - Social functions and Boid Power prototyped.

Q1 - Private Alpha - Early adopters run Boid Web and provide feedback.

Q2 - Native Applications - Native applications developed and tested on various hardware.

Q3 - Public Alpha - Public Alpha with Web and Native applications available to general public.

Q4 - Alpha tokenization - Alpha with improved compatibility, profitibality, and tokenization.

Q1 - Boid on EOS Testnet - Boid backend functions begin migration to smart contracts.

Q2 - Boid Protocol expansion - More Blockchain computing protocols will be implemented into the Boid application.

Q3 - Boid Swarm service - Boid Swarm is "distributed computing as a service" powered by the Boid network.

Q4 - Boid Dapp on EOS Mainnet - The Boid network will function as a decentralized application on EOS with robust tokenization implemented.

Q1 - Boid DAC launched - The Boid Decentralized Autonomous Community gives tokenholders the ability to control the direction of the platform.

Q2 - Boid Network launch - Initial testing for the operation of Boid as a standalone network.

Q3 - Boid Protocol expansion - More Blockchain computing protocols will be implemented into the Boid application

Q4 - Boid Network official launch - Boid will function as an autonomous network.

On May 31st 2019 Chintai Team has announced a strategic partnership with Boid.

It will allow BOID token to be leased on the Chintax Exchange.

Article link: ^[28]

On September 14th 2019 Ankr has announced partnership with Boid.

Boid will host their application on Ankr Cloud.

Article Link: ^[27]

First go to @https://app.boid.com or use a refferal link given to you by one of the Boid users.

Click on "Join Us" icon and type your email and type a password that you will use to access the portal in the future.

Then click on "Register" and voila you can start using Boid.

On the Home screen look for an option in "My Devices" field called "Add more devices" ^[11]

In there you can add a new device by installing a Desktop App.

There is a Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Linux version available. Only 64-bit computing operating systems are supported. ^[6]

This table shows what the user can see depends from the location on the menu.

Details about:

Power Tier Level – Power Tier is a ranking assigned to your account based on your Boid power in comparison to all other network participants.

The power tiers separate Boid users based on their rate of production into 6 Tier levels.

Each level has a Tier Bonus that increases your profitability (except tier 0).

Tier 0 is the bottom 5% of users, tiers 1-4 are ~22% each while tier 5 is the top 5%.

Device power is a score given to each attached device in your account.

It is calculated based on the rate at which that device has completed work units in the Boid app over the most recent 3 weeks.

This window shows how many users registered on boid and used an invite link generated by the user in question.

When someone joins Boid using your referral link, you will get a bonus that is equal to 5% of their Boid Power.

(The referred user must achieve a minimum Boid Power score of 1,000 before you are eligible for this bonus.)

Get Invite Link – generates an invitation link that will allow the user to share it with potential boid network users.

Shows your profile name, tagline and avatar image.

There is also an option to “Update your profile” and a wrench icon that allows a user to update details like changing account email address, account password and linked EOS account for BOID pay-outs.

In here you can see list of your added devices with Boid Power for each device.

You can add new devices here.

Shows name of user’s team and an option to change it.

In the wallet area you can view your accounts pending and paid balances of any tokens you've earned using the Boid app.

The Pending Balance represents Boid tokens that have been earned but not yet paid to you.

Tokens are paid out every 24-48 hours to users with a pending balance of over 100 Boid Tokens.

Paid Out represents the total number of tokens that have been transferred to your EOS account. This does NOT reflect your EOS account’s Boid Balance, only the sum of historical transfers.

You can also change you EOS Payout Account here.

Information about Boid network.

Total Boid Network Power.

Active Users on Boid.

Avarage Power per user.

Users that gained most Boid Power in a short amount of time since they powered up in the last 48 hours.

In here you can see a list of recently added promotions on existing teams.

You can click on any of them and see the details of that particular promotion.

This allows you to decide if you want to change your team and maybe get more benefits by joining another.

In this window you can see latest chat entry's in the global boid telegram channel.

By clicking on "Join the chat" button you will be redirected to Telegram Program and straight into Boid.com official channel.

https://t.me/Boidcom_official

Top 20 users for Power Tier Levels from 0 to 4 and top 5% on Power Tier Level 5

List of Teams available to join with their existing Boid power levels.

Shows a graph of last 2 weeks data - number of active users and Boid power generated.

Shows information about the leader of this particular team.

Name and power level.

Total Boid power of all active users on the team.

Number of active users on the team.

Bonus in % added to your Boid power.

BOID staked by the leader for the team.

Top 20 users on the team measured by their power level.

Live & Upcoming or Ended promotions on the team.

There can be - physical rewards, coin reward or Boid NFT Collectables.

In this window you can see latest chat entry's in the team's telegram channel.

By clicking on "Join the chat" button you will be redirected to Telegram Program and straight into team's official channel.

Shows a graph of last 2 weeks data - number of Boid power generated by the user.

Shows your current power level.

Power Tier is a ranking assigned to your account based on your Boid power in comparison to all other network participants.

The power tiers separate Boid users based on their rate of production into 6 Tier levels.

Each level has a Tier Bonus that increases your profitability (except tier 0).

Tier 0 is the bottom 5% of users, tiers 1-4 are ~22% each while tier 5 is the top 5%.

Number of invited users that accepted the invite link and registered on boid portal.

Boid Bonus Power generated by your invited users.

Number of devices with installed Desktop App Software and registered with this account.

If you don't have an EOS account already there are many ways to get it. On the portal when you click on EOS Accounts option on the top menu you will be able to choose one of the three following options:

Wombat gives you a free EOS account with some limitations.

You can pay to upgrade your Wombat account to a pro account later.

The wombat mobile app is compatible with Boid and other Scatter based EOS Dapps.

EOS Name Service allows you to purchase custom and premium EOS account names using many different payment methods.

If you don't have an account already connected to app.boid.com eventually you should be able to gather right amount of BOID tokens to create an EOS account.

Top of the menu there is a Vote option.

You can vote for boid proxy here.

The Boid voter proxy grades other proxies on a scale from 1-3.

We generate a list of block producers weighted by the grade of votes received from our rated proxies.

The boidcomproxy then votes for the top 30 BPs in this weighted list.

Read more about our grading technique here: https://medium.com/@boidcom/boid-eos-proxy-voting-review-march-2019-81661dd1224

Staking BOIDs increases your profitability when you generate Boid Power using the Boid app.

Staked tokens are locked in your wallet until they are unstaked.

You can manually stake and unstake instantly during a season break period.

During a Boid Season, you can’t stake or unstake tokens.

All tokens staked when the season break ends will remain staked for the entire season.

The minimum amount of BOIDs you can stake is 100k

Ok so you managed to install your Boid Desktop App and you are ready to get BOID tokens!

Look on the app look and functionality.

On the top we can see the name of the application and the version number.

Make sure that you are on the latest version of the software by looking here: @@https://github.com/Boid-John/BoidDesktop

There is a home icon on the top blue part that leads you to the web portal on @https://app.boid.com

Next to it you should be able to see your user name and a possibility to Logout from existing session and login as a different user. In addition, “My Profile” option that leads you to your user status page on @https://app.boid.com

Below that we have your editable device name.

Next to it a hex nut looking icon takes you to Global Settings where you can setup following options:

• Start on System Boot - enable to launch Boid when the device is started

• Start Minimized - when enabled Boid will not display the main window on startup. You will need to access Boid by clicking on the icon in the system tray

• Stay Awake - when enabled Boid will attempt to keep the device from entering sleep mode. This will ensure that Boid is able to run in the background for long periods of time.

Control over your CPU work.

Shows your Boid Power Rating for that hardware and what kind of work it is doing now (World Community Grid – working to help scientists with Cancer Research).

1.1 You can turn off and on the process by using the small green slider.

1.2 Hex nut icon takes you to settings where:

1.2.1 You can setup how many % of your CPU will be used to process the work.

Boid app automatically runs at a low priority and pauses when other applications are used (>30% CPU)

1.2.2 You can “Start on Launch” – to toggle on CPU automatically when Boid app is launched.

1.2..3 "Pause on Battery Power” – Extend battery life by pausing Boid when disconnected from a power source. Boid will resume when power is restored.

1.2.4 “Pause on user activity” – (Resume after x minutes of inactivity) If enabled, Boid app will pause computing while mouse/keyboard is being used. Will resume after a set number of minutes of inactivity.

1.2.5 “Advanced”

1.2.5.1 “Open BOINC Directory” – You can manually edit config files for BOINC.

1.2.5.2 “Reset” – Removes all Boid CPU files and restarts BOID app. Files will be reinstalled on startup. You will lose progress on any Work-Units currently being worked on.

1.3 Green circle icon with white letter “i” in the middle – “Details” – takes you to a separate details tab with:

1.3.1 “Active” – work units – status of the work done now. Work units require 6-12 hours to complete before Boid Power is credited. Progress is only updated in the interface hourly. You can recognise that it’s active with a blue line bar with a blue play icon (when active) or pause icon (when not active)

1.3.2 “Pending” – this is a record of work finished by your CPU but not yet validated. Each work unit will detail:

1.3.2.1 Name of work for ex.

MCM1_0153773_5241_0 and ID number

1.3.2.2 Date, time when downloaded

1.3.2.3 How many CPU Hours Spent on it.

1.3.2.4 Date, time when Results were sent

1.3.2.5 Credit - After work units are validated by the BOINC server they are assigned a credit number, which is an internal points system of BOINC, and can be calibrated on a per project basis. BOINC Credit is important because BoidPower for that WU is derived from the Credit.

1.3.2.6 Weight - Each Work Unit is assigned a normalized float from 0 - 1 called the Weight based on the relative time that work unit was verified. For example, a Work unit which was recently completed would be assigned a weight of.9999 while a work unit that was completed three weeks ago, or near the end of the global falloff period would have a Weight near.001. Each time BoidPower needs to be calculated, the Weight is also recalculated until it reaches 0.

1.3.2.7 Power - BoidPower for a work-unit is calculated as Credit x Weight / BOINCDIFFICULTY. Since Weight is time-relative, each time BoidPower is calculated, the result will be slightly different (lower over time). For a device to maintain or increase BoidPower, it should be completing Work Units regularly. If a device stops all contributions, it will maintain residual BoidPower for the falloff period as it trails to zero.

1.3.3 “Validated” - this is a record of work finished by your CPU and validated. Each work unit will detail:

See 1.3.2.1-1.3.2.7

1.3.4 “Logs” – logs about what happened in the Boid app regarding CPU work units.

Control over your GPU work.

Shows you Boid Power Rating for that hardware and what kind of work it is doing now (RVN.BOID.COM

– we’re mining Ravecoin @https://rvn.boid.com now)

2.1 You can turn off and on the process by using the small green slider.

You can setup GPU work intensity next to it and it also shows with current GPU speed (in MH/s).

2.2 Hex nut icon takes you to settings where:

2.2.1 “Start on Launch” – Start GPU automatically when Boid is launched.

2.2.2 “Advanced”

2.2.2.1**“Open GPU Directory”** – You can manually edit config files for GPU Miner apps. look for config.json files in the /trex or /wildrig folder.

2.2.2.2 “Reset” – Removes all BOID GPU Files and restarts Boid. Files will be reinstalled on startup.

2.3 Green circle icon with white letter “i” in the middle – “Details” – takes you to a separate details tab with:

2.3.1 “Logs” - logs about what happened in the Boid app regarding GPU work units

2.3.2 “Details” – shows details of your config file for GPU work

2.3.3 “Copy Logs” – copy existing logs into clipboard

under development.

Each Boid team has a team bonus built in.

This bonus requires no investment from the team leader, and is designed to provide a slight advantage to lower-performing teams.

The team bonus is expressed as a simple earnings multiplier with a natural range between.1% (The team at the top of the leaderboard) to 1.5% (the team at the bottom of the leaderboard).

When new users join Boid and needs to decide what team to join, the join team dialogue presents teams to them in the order of highest team bonus to lowest.

Optionally, team leaders can opt to stake additional BOID tokens.

These tokens act as a multiplier on top of the team bonus.

FinalTeamBonus = TeamStake / 10,000,000 * TeamBonus + TeamBonus

FinalTeamBonus is capped at 3%.

So for example.

If your team is at the top of the Boid Leaderboard and has a TeamBonus of.1% a stake of 10,000,000 BOIDs would increase your team bonus to.2%.

Likewise if your team is at the bottom of the leaderboard with a 1.5% TeamBonus a stake of 10,000,000 BOIDs would increase the team bonus to 3%.

If you wanted your team to have a 3% bonus while also remaining at the top of the leaderboard you would need a stake of 290,000,000 BOIDs.

Staking additional tokens does not increase the team bonus beyond 5%.

Every team gets a dynamic built-in bonus for each user on that team.

If you want to increase your team bonus, you can stake more BOID tokens.

Boid Team Rewards is an optional (but highly recommended) system for team leaders to offer additional unique incentives to their team participants.

Team Rewards are the primary way for a team leader to customize their team and get creative.

Team leaders can issue new team rewards at the start of each season and during the season as well.

What do users need to achieve in order to be eligible for this reward?

Ex. achieve a certain rank on the Team Boid Power leaderboard.

The specified criteria needs to be achieved by a user account that has been on the team for a specified amount of time.

Users can change teams during the season (every two days), so to reward faithful users, you can disqualify team members that have not been on your team long enough.

Common timeframe specifications might be one week or maybe even two months (the entire season).

You could also make short term prizes that are exclusive for new users (to encourage users to change teams, or when onboarding new users directly from outside of Boid).

All Boid user accounts are sorted into five tiers based on a global assessment of their relative contribution to the network.

The bottom 5% of accounts are sorted into Tier 0.

Many of these accounts are either very new users or spam accounts with very low amounts of power.

Tier 1 - 4 includes the majority of average participants, and Tier 5 is the top 10% of network contributors.

You can define rewards that are targeted at specific user tiers, For example, you could target tiers 1 - 4 only, to attract normal active users who might have 1-3 computers linked to Boid.

Or make an exclusive prize only for the Tier 5 users (server farms and mining operations).

Users who reach this criteria get some predefined reward.

Currently the Boid platform supports three different types of rewards, and we are open to more ideas from team leaders.

The digital rewards are distributed automatically by the Boid system based on the criteria defined by the team leader.

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