What is Band Protocol? (BAND)

The Beginner’s Guide

Band Protocol is a software designed to incentivize a network of users to provide real-world data to decentralized applications (dapps) running on blockchains.

For example, if a dapp developer wants to enable his or her users to enter wagers on the future price of gold, it would need to be able to determine its price at the desired later date.

To ensure its smart contracts execute correctly, Band Protocol provides such a service through a software that incentivizes a special class of its users, known as validators, to provide and verify external data.

In this way, Band Protocol is often described as a “decentralized oracle” system, a description given to blockchains like Chainlink, which, like Band, incentivize users to provide verifiable data.

Originally running on the Ethereum blockchain, Band protocol eventually built its own blockchain using Cosmos technology to relay data across different blockchains, including those built on Cosmos.

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Who created Band Protocol?

Band Protocol是由一家位于泰国的同名创业公司开发的。它有三位创始人：担任首席执行官的 Soravis Srinawakoon、首席技术官Sorawit Suriyakarn和担任首席产品官的Paul Nattapatsiri 。

在2019年，Band Protocol从风险投资公司筹集了300万美元，包括印度著名的投资商Sequoia Capital （红杉资本）。同年，它通过首次交易所发行 (IEO)再筹集了585万美元。

该协议的初始供应量为1亿个BAND代币，其中的12.37%代币在其代币销售期间售出。Band也曾通过进行私人代币销售方式筹集了200万美元。

总共超过27%的 BAND代币供应已出售给早期投资者。另外25% 的 BAND代币预留给Band Protocol生态系统， 22% 的代币则预留给开发团队和监督开发的基金会。

How Does Band Protocol Work?

Band Protocol acts as an intermediary between legacy Internet data sources and blockchains.

The software handles requests for data from decentralized applications and relays information using data feeds from the rest of the internet. It does so by using its own blockchain, which allows all of its transactions to be publicly checked and validated.

The Band team argues this helps ensure the data its users supply isn’t manipulated, inaccurate, or otherwise corrupted.

Validators

Validators are responsible for checking that transactions on the Band Protocol are accurate, and for adding new transactions to the Band Protocol blockchain.

A validator on Band Protocol must be in control of a certain amount of BAND tokens, which they can either buy or themselves or be delegated by another user.

The top 100 candidates with the most BAND tokens are selected by the network to become validators. Validators must abide by certain rules, such as making sure they don’t go offline, responding to network events and confirming transactions accurately.

If they do not, the network may confiscate some of the BAND tokens they hold.

Why does BAND have value?

值得注意的是，Band Protocol对其BAND加密货币应用了通货膨胀计划，这意味着随着时间的推移，每个BAND代币的价值将会被降低。

其原因是为了鼓励用户将其硬币存入验证器。当用户将硬币存入验证器时，他们会获得代币以抵消通货膨胀率。

Band的通货膨胀率从7% 到20%不等，通货膨胀率的浮动取决于存入验证器BAND的总量。其目标金额是存放在验证器里的所有BAND代币的三分之二或66%。

向验证器存入硬币也被称为质押，质押BAND的用户既能从协议中获得新铸的代币，也能从使用其服务的应用程序中获得费用。

此外，质押其资金的BAND持有者可以从奖励早期用户的生态系统基金中获得奖励代币。该基金第一年会提供316 万个奖励代币，第四年则将会降至31.5万个代币。

这些机制意味着Band Protocol会奖励对其参与维护系统并确保其向用户提供准确外部数据的BAND持有者。

Why Should I Use BAND?

BAND may be of interest if you believe decentralized applications will continue to proliferate, and that these softwares will require data to be validated by other blockchains.

You may want to use BAND if you wish to participate in the design of this system, as holding BAND means you can vote on proposals that affect the system’s rules.

As demand for the system grows, such proposals could affect how much you earn with your tokens from staking BAND.

However, Band Protocol is not the only decentralized oracle system that runs on a blockchain. Competitors like Chainlink are also popular and may put pressure on the price of BAND.

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