Last Stardust: Friend Unifying Platform

Friend is a powerful platform for developers. It connects arbitrary technologiesand deploys them onto the internet. It reduces development overhead by providing a framework for user, access and file management. Additionally, it offers a graphical user interface with a window manager that works on every platform that has a web browser. Here, developers can tune their environment and manage their cloud resources.

Friend lets developers connect their applications to other apps running on the network to unleash functionality never seen before. Its technology enables creation of distributed systems that allow applications to share data and functionality - code, compute, and storage - dynamically and cooperatively among two, or many, nodes to offer scale, efficiency, and truly best-of-breed features and capabilities across any work domains.

By providing virtual computer templates Friend also lets organisations deploy applications and services with zero deployment cost.

The FRND token holds the economic model of the Friend Network cloud. It aims to introduce a fairer model for trade between individuals and commercial entities. It tries to nurture stronger privacy and personal ownership over own data, property and subscriptions. FRND is also a means for incentivising the organic, user-driven growth of the infrastructure nodes in the network.

The Friend Network Token FRND will be the token for the Blockchain operating system - the Friend Unifying Platform. It will be the only means of direct payment in the Friend Store. In addition it will be a means of reward for infrastructure contributors in the Friend Network.

FRND will be used to pay for applications and services in the Friend Store. Just like a centralised app store, the Friend store will offer a convenient way for users to find applications, games and digital services.

FRND will allow developers offer subscription models. We plan to cooperate with new emerging service providers like license.rocks to offer state of the art functionality and fair revenue sharing for both developers, content creators and other creatives.

FRND will be rewarded to users who run Friend Server servers. The Friend Core will contain functionality to enable microtransactions based on transferred bytes as well as storage and CPU usage on a participants’ systems. End users will be able to choose to connect to the nearest access node or to a further node that might be cheaper.

FRND will also be rewarded to Friend Workspace users who offer legitimate services through the Friend Store served from their Friend client (either in a web browser or Friend app).

The FRND token

The overall goal of the Friend Unifying Platform is to enable easy access to and distribution of both Blockchain based and other internet based solutions. Our token, FRND, can be rewarded to providers of other Blockchain services in the Friend Network like Fluence.ai or Golem.network. We will work with the best of breed token conversion/exchange solutions to make sure everything runs optimally with as little overhead and friction as possible.

Overall the use case scope of the Friend token ranges from microtransactions for providers that help the Friend Network become a global, low latency access platform. It continues with Friend Store applications and services that can both be bought or paid for based on subscription, use or one-time access.

ROADMAP
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Friend is the operating environment that unifies web applications and gives them an ecosystem to thrive in. Friend offers a coherent user interface across all devices.

Friend is a free and open source web based technology that provides interfaces which unify APIs and protocols. The internet is now in your hands!

The Friend Unifying Platform is a ready to use virtual computer. It aims to be a liquid software solution that decouples applications from the underlying hardware thus providing people with a digital environment they can access anywhere.

The new internet is decentralised. Users connect directly to each other and use devices connected at the edge to power their experience. Small micro servers cache and serve data, relay services and application input events. It is a new paradigm, and Friend takes it to a new level by using it to power your Workspace and computer.

We believe the Ethereum blockchain will continue to develop to become the golden standard for a global scalable blockchain. We see current limitations being worked on and removed so that the possibilities on the Ethereum blockchain will not be limited by slow computation, expensive transactions and slow transaction execution.

After having developed Friend as a server platform for commercial use for over three years, we are now turning it into a networked server solution using encryption, decentralisation and blockchain technology. This means that anyone can access their Friend Cloud Computers at any time. It means that people’s computing needs can be decoupled from any specific hardware or software company.