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hey everyone my name is Marcus I'm
building uh
ethos um so the first question is what
is eos so three years ago we um fored
Androids more specifically graphos and
basically we started building uh
ethereum putting ethereum into the OS
layer because we think that basically
current os's see eum as more you know as
an app but we want to really leverage to
protocol so what the first thing that we
did was basically put a light note on it
and
um yeah and um so for example we have uh
on the uh on EOS we have a system wallet
or Os level wallet so we took basically
a signer put it into the OS and any app
can basically connect to it and make
signature requests to the user and the
uh upgrade for the users they don't have
to switch apps or anything and it just
works there's also basically uh upgrades
to privacy and security and um basically
the reason is uh it doesn't do any
outbound internet transactions so you
also don't need any internet to uh sign
anything also yeah as I mentioned before
we put uh right now on ethos we have two
light client proxy
so um when we first started we uh wanted
to put a the first thing that we wanted
to was put a light note on it and at the
time we didn't have much to choose from
uh so we took the GE light node put it
into into the OS as a system server and
basically what happened was it uh really
turned the phone into a pocket warmer uh
the battery really really uh drained
pretty quickly but it did work when you
uh had a stable internet connection it
would connect to peers and then you
would have a local RPC
with which you can send transactions uh
get blockchain data and also any app
could connect to this
RPC yeah as I mentioned right now we
have Helios and the Nimbus verified
proxy they're both currently light
client proxies not full light clients
because of the merch the um uh ge light
node stopped working because the beacon
chain uh was added to ethereum and so
right now basically you still need an
centralized RPC but it does verify some
pieces of data that it gets from this
RPC so this is pretty cool and also like
for the ux for the user we wanted to
make it so that it's like as simple as
turning on and off Bluetooth or Wi-Fi
you can turn on your light client and
just like have a local RPC on your
phone and so uh this brings me like to
the first issue that we have basically
There is almost no mobile native dabs
currently so um basically I'm a big fan
of like like native dabs um currently
the uh like all of the dabs are like web
dabs and then there are some that are
progressive web apps but they still face
the platform risk of you know Apple and
Google can shut you down if you are a
pwa and so basically what we created
last week actually is like a um
basically an app wrapper that is a
native it looks and feels like a native
lab and but it actually opens up a web
view that auto injects the OS level
wallet into the webt so for a user it's
just like you know opening AA and uh the
wallet is connected and you can start
like um basically uh you know doing
transactions and so um this uh brings me
to basically our announcement from last
month we uh uh announc our first
Hardware so basically what we uh first
did when we first started was basically
bring your own device we have a we have
still have a web installer where you can
basically buy a pixel by yourself at a
local store it has to be bootload or
unlocked you connect your phone and it
just installs ethos on it for you but
like people ran into some issues so
basically you know because you had to
get a specific pixel and it had to be
bootload or unlocked and some carriers
actually lie about it being bootload or
unlocked and so basically we then
started like uh selling pixel pixel 7 a
uh running EOS but then we we also came
into a roadblock and basically the the
roadblock there was that uh it's very
hard to reliably get pixels and so we
were just like hey let's do some
hardware and so we started talking with
some phone manufacturers and they sent
us like some phones that they did in the
past but they all really looked bad and
we were just thinking okay nobody's
going to replace their like iPhone with
you know uh random crypto phone and so
we thought to ourselves hey let's first
make a really cool fun an exciting
secondary device that you know because
it's a secondary device it doesn't have
to be boring and basically it's called
the D one because it's our very first
device and it's our first device on our
journey that we want to like like our
big mission is like self soverign
Hardware um and basically what is self-
soverign Hardware I'm glad you asked um
so basically I wrote a blog post about
it last year and for me self-or and
Hardware is where basically not only the
uh OS that runs on top of it is open
source which we have currently ethos is
fully open source but also the hardware
is open and inspectable like literally
from the uh CPU instruction all the way
to the app it's a big mission but I
think it's very important because
currently with like um if you look at
the current Hardware wallet landscape
for example if you take a ledger you
really rely on security for obscurity
and that's very very bad especially if
you're storing a large amounts of crypto
on it and basically
um not only that but also basically uh
last year uh there was like this big
controversy if you remember the Ledger
they uh announced like this Ledger
recovery program where they basically
said like yeah uh with a firmware update
we can extract our private keys and it
was like oh my God uh okay so basically
if a ledger uh can a firmware update can
extract your private key what stops a
malicious actor from pushing a a
malicious firmware update it's basically
the uh Ledger firmware signing key now I
assume and I hope that they hold it very
dearly and very secure but this is like
a huge trust assumption for like every
ledger to be secured by basically one uh
Ledger firway signing key so this is
like very bad and so for uh self
Hardware it's like a natural use case
for crypto because you don't have to
trust there's no trusted modules
everything is open and like that's the
one of the like big big things with like
the current phone landscape like the
iPhones is like the worst because it's
like okay closed OS and closed Hardware
you can inspect it on any level but with
Android it's a little better you can
inspect the OS but you there's still
like proprietary Blobs of code like for
example like Play services and like uh
device drivers for Hardware which they
don't allow you to open source just like
um Ledger they can't like open source
like uh some things on the like low
level
stuff and so this is like you know very
bad as as as soon as you have crypto uh
in it as well because you're like okay I
have this phone it's has uh you know uh
this OS and it's open source but there's
still like some trusted like Blobs of
code uh that are closed source and you
can't you don't know what they
do and so basically yeah that's like our
uh big mission and yeah the DJ one is
like our first step towards admission