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区块链世纪伊始就非常关注社区。社区参与不单单是字面意义上的去中心化自治组织（DAO），区块链及其相关所有技术服务背后都有一个热情的社区。
不管是经济贡献还是社区主导的活动，区块链的世界和其背后的社区是密不可分的。这个媒介背后的社交结构属性决定了很多加密货币项目会把社区活动和支持作为自己企业的核心功能，只要可以，这些企业就会回馈社区、给社区支持。
但也因为过分关注社区，很多新的加密货币和区块链就把社区当作了卖点，而不是他们真正的资产。尽管区块链项目曾经都只在意为社区提供优秀和连续的交流，但现在社区却已经沦为敛财的幌子了。
渐渐地，因为企业或公众人物新主导的加密项目一开始就获得良好的资金基础，他们迎合社区精神的操作就显得不真诚、不合适了。区块链的市场总值到了2026年预计会达到674亿美元，其利润空间已经吸引了越来越多想赚快钱的中心化机构，这种情况下，这种趋势就更明显了。
本文我们将在区块链和web3的框架下讨论社区的概念，展示它是如何成为成功的要素，企业又是怎么滥用该要素，最后，我们还会讨论哪些公司还努力高举社区区块链项目的火炬。
让我们一一道来。
难道不是整个加密圈都在做社区和去中心化吗？
人们刚知道区块链的时候，“去中心化”这个词就经常被甩出来，但很多人可能并不是真的了解它的工作机制。虽然大量的区块链项目说自己完全去中心化，但很多时候并非如此，原因有两个。很多区块链公司会佯装自己依靠社区、参与社区活动；同样，说自己去中心化也就是公关的一个方法而已。
不管这么多公司嘴上怎么说的，很多区块链项目并没有去中心化，原因有两个：
- 所有权—现代区块链项目很喜欢摆出社区主导的样子，但并没有社区结构做出一丁点贡献。背后有金融机构，甚至政府，支持的大型项目更是如此。他们本来就有一个中心化的董事会员工，他们直接代表中心化的组织工作。尽管看上去和中心化机构是分割的，但如果和这些控制方做事，这些去中心化的公司就不可能去中心了。我们对一个区块链抽丝剥茧，看其中的投资人、董事会成员、CEO是谁，我们就可以深入了解这个问题了。
- 去中心化的中心化节点—如果一个区块链项目以在交易中利用单个节点验证为傲，那这一般就被当成是去中心化过程。但是，节点的实际所有人却是人们经常忽略的。一般来说，区块链公司从给某个具体公司购买节点，利用其广阔的网络给人们留下去中心化的印象。但问题是他们的节点实际上是中心化的，它们实际上是利用另一个公司直接工作，而另外这个公司还要对更大的司法部门进行反馈。一旦有了一些地理和经济限制，问题就出现了，一些发展中国家如果遇到美国或者其它大国的制裁，这里的客户就不能获得自己的资金或者完全不能登录去中心化平台。如果政府控制了这些节点，它们就会间接控制了加密行业或区块链项目，这样就可能导致整个国家都不能接入“去中心化”网络。
不是说区块链项目自称自己100%社区主导和去中心化就意味着它们真的如此。加密货币和区块链整体市场价值在提高的同时，越来越多的中心化企业把Web3视为市场价值。
把中心化资本投入这个本来应该去中心化的领域，这本身就违背了区块链代表的价值。
社区主导的EOS是怎么做的呢？
和其它很多区块链机构的虚假宣传不同， EOS确实关注了创造社区主导的体验，把区块链的潜力发挥到最大。最近它们把协议从EOSIO升级到Antelope了，这个发展阶段关注的是社区参与度以及在这方面的投入。
EOS把社区融入到其基础中。它们最近的管理和执行结构是通过DAO进行的。这意味着构成EOS（通过拥有和使用其加密货币）的每一个人在业务运营上都有一定的话语权。从选择业务怎么发展扩大、社区怎么发展、未来是否需要做成会员制等，这都来自社区的意见。
但除了DAO结构以外，关注社区还让它们创造了一个完全不同的去中心化选择流程。每0.5秒，平台会调查EOS进行了多少交易，一般来说都会有十亿以上的个人交易。从这些数据中再挑选出收益最高的21个区块生产者。这21个生产者会不断变化，但等它们定下来之后，这21个人中的15个必须同意是否要做网络升级或变化，这样EOS的发展就直接和社区相关，并由社区控制。
哪怕是区块链的应用端也关注如何提高社区参与度，并尽量让用户能接入社区。EOS完全开源，这个开源的区块链发展意味着开发者可以执行自己的想法，帮助平台发展。很简单的是，哪怕是构建了EOS的基础区块都是完全社区主导的，这也代表着该公司在这方面走的多远。
但Block.one到底怎么了？
EOS迈开步伐往前走了，这个消息可能对一些人来说很突然，也很有趣。在区块链社区待一阵子的人几年前应该就听过这个名字。2018年，Block.one在EOS的ICO中筹集40亿美元。那时，这个新闻在业界引起轩然大波，因为这是到目前最值最大的一笔单笔ICO。
Block.one此举的主要目的是用EOS创造一个数字网络，当时它聘请了区块链行业很多响当当的人物支持业务。几年过去了，Block.one几乎没有什么进步。尽管理论上这个区块链网络是一个高效系统，但实际上这个项目几乎没有关注发展和创新。
没有未来发展的良好策略，这个项目很快哑火了，很多资金要么被冻结了要么就消失了。尽管开发者多年来一直想让项目变得社区主导，但现在该项目的发展走向一个完全不同的方向。
先前这个版本已经因为企业的贪婪扑街了，但我们现在这个迭代关注社区，它是用户主导的，也为用户服务。ENF社区现在重申，它们将利用集体的力量把EOS带回原来的轨道，成为一流的区块链系统。
除了对社区的关注，这个版本和2018年版本最大的区别是它们有对未来的统一、有序的规划。目前，它们正在向Antelope引入智能合约，因为它每秒可以处理10,000个交易、性能高、完全的运行时间维护。
有了基础架构后，EOS就充当了dApp和DeFi部署的跳板。其杰出的工具、优秀的TPS系统、社区支持，这些都让该区块链更有成功的潜质。
ENF和Block.one及其资金滥用渐行渐远，它现在已经找了法律公司，要求获得42亿美元的资金。有了这个公开的行为，这个社区主导的区块链系统似乎已经具备了真正把社区中心观念融入生态的项目的所有特点。
最后的一点想法
社区对区块链世界一直都很重要，社区是项目成败的关键，但是，因为诈骗、项目失败、启动失败等问题长期存在，所以组织社区比以前难得多。
EOS已经有了一个DAO成员组成的国际社区，他们都在努力保证该区块链网络的光明未来，因此EOS认为自己能打破这样的困境。区块链生态中的每个决策都是社区决定的，我们已经有每一步动作规划的共识机制，这就是我们赋予社区项目生命的方法。
进一步远离Block.one之后，EOS好像有了十分美好的未来。这个项目吸引的人越来越多，我们也在会议为什么区块链一开始能获得这样的社区支持。2022年以及未来的日子里，社区优先—是真的为此努力而不是嘴上说说而已—的企业才能真正取得成功。
原文/Original：
Since its inception, the world of blockchain has been incredibly community-focused. Going beyond community participation in the literal sense in the form of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), blockchain and all of its extensions has always had a fervent community backing it.
From financial contributions to community-driven events, the world of blockchain is inseparable from the community that follows it. With this social structure embedded in the medium, it’s no surprise that many cryptocurrency projects have made community activities and support a core function of their enterprises, giving back to the community and empowering them wherever possible.
However, due to the overwhelming community focus, many new cryptocurrencies and blockchain deployments take this engagement as a salespoint rather than an actual asset. While blockchain projects were once about focusing on delivering quality and continuous streams of communication to their community, this has now slowly shifted into another guise for gaining more money.
With new crypto projects that are engineered by enterprises or public figures already having a significant capital base, their pandering to the community spirit seems ingenuine and out-of-place. This is especially the case in the modern day, with blockchain’s total market value being predicted to reach 67.4 billion by 2026, with this potential for capital gain attracting more centralized organizations looking for a quick opportunity.
In this article, we’ll explore the notion of community within the blockchain and Web3, demonstrate how it became such a focal point for success, how businesses misuse this, and finally, how some companies are still carrying the torch of community-driven blockchain projects.
Let’s get right into it.
Isn’t Community and Decentralization the Case with All Cryptos?
When people first learn about blockchain, the word ‘decentralized’ is often thrown around without a full understanding of how it actually works. While the vast majority of blockchain projects describe themselves as completely decentralized, this often isn’t actually the case for two core reasons. Equally, while more modern blockchain companies put forward a front of being community-driven and involved, this is more so a public facade for positive PR.
Despite what companies may state, a large bulk of blockchain projects aren’t truly decentralized for two main reasons:
- Ownership – Modern blockchain projects love to present an idea of being community-driven but do very little to actually contribute to any form of community structure. This is typically the case in larger-scale projects that have heavy backing from financial institutions or even governments. While being seen as decentralized, they still have a central staff of board members that directly work for or on behalf of centralized organizations. Although seemingly separated from centralized organizations, if the controlling members work with them, these ‘decentralized’ companies are nothing of the sort. Peeling back the layers of who the main investors, board members, and CEO of a blockchain project are can often shed light on this factor immensely.
- Decentralized Centralized Nodes – If a blockchain project prides itself on using individual node verification for transactions, this is typically seen as a decentralized process. However, who actually owns those nodes is something that’s rarely thought about. Typically, blockchain companies buy nodes from a specific company, using their widespread network to give the impression of being totally decentralized. The problem with this is that their nodes are actually centralized, working directly through a company that feeds back into larger legislation. This has caused problems when geographical and financial restrictions are in place, with some developing countries being unable to access their funds or being completely shut out of supposedly decentralized platforms due to sanctions from the US or other major territories. When a government has control over these nodes, they also indirectly have control over the crypto or blockchain project, which has led to entire countries being shut out of ‘decentralized’ networks.
Just because a blockchain project says it’s 100% community focused and decentralized doesn’t mean it is either of those things. As cryptocurrency and blockchain as a whole increase their market caps, more centralized corporations see the Web3 space as a market opportunity.
This injection of centralized capitalism into this supposedly decentralized sphere goes against the fundamental pillars of what blockchain stands for.
How the Community Driven EOS Does Things Differently?
Going against the false promises of many other blockchain institutions, EOS focuses on creating a community-driven experience that pushes the potential of blockchain even further than before. Recently rebranding their protocol from ESIO to Antelope, this stage of development centers upon community engagement and puts this into practice.
EOS has incorporated community into the center of its entire foundation. Their current management and execution structure is conducted through a DAO. This means that everyone that forms a part of EOS (by owning and using their cryptocurrency) has a say in how they conduct business. From choosing how the business grows and scales, how the community develops, and even the future requisites for membership.
But, going beyond just the DAO structure, their community focus allows them to create a completely decentralized election process. Every 0.5 seconds, the platform polls how many transactions are made with EOS, often clocking in with over a billion individual transactions. From there, the top 21 producers on the gain are selected. Once this continually shifting 21 is found, 15 of 21 of those members must agree on the proposed network upgrades or changes, making the development of EOS directly related and controlled by the community.
Even the application development side of the blockchain aims to push community engagement and accessibility forward as much as possible. EOS is completely open-source, with this open blockchain development, meaning that developers can implement their own ideas and help the platform to grow. Quite simply, even the foundational blocks with which EOS is built are completely community-driven, demonstrating the lengths this company has gone to.
But What Happened With Block.one?
While the strides that EOS is taking might be a completely new and exciting bit of information, many of those that have been in the blockchain community for quite some time will recognize this name from a few years ago. In 2018, Block.one raised over $4 billion in their ICO launch, EOS. At that point in time, this news created waves in the community as this was the largest amount that a singular ICO had raised to date.
The main focus of Block.one in this endeavor was to develop a digital network with EOS, employing large names in the blockchain world to head up this project. Fast forward a few years, and Block.one made almost no progress. While, on paper, this blockchain network was an efficient system, the reality was that the project placed very little focus on development and innovation.
Without a strong strategy for future development, the project soon fizzled out, with many of the funds either being frozen or disappearing into the project. The modern-day rerelease of this project goes in a completely different direction, with developers having fought for years to make this project community-driven.
Instead of a project which was run into the ground by corporate greed, this new community-based iteration of the blockchain is truly by the people and for the people. The ENF community is now reinstated, using their collective power to put EOS back on track toward becoming a first-rate blockchain system.
One of the biggest distinguishing features between this release and the 2018 horrorshow, apart from the focus on community, is the fact that they have a coherent and structured plan for future growth. Currently, they’re working on bringing smart contracts onto Antelope, with this entailing over 10,000 transactions per second, high performance, and full runtime maintenance.
With this infrastructure in place, EOS acts as a perfect springboard for dApps and DeFi development, with its phenomenal tools, fantastic TPS, and community-backing leading this blockchain into a poised position for success.
Further distancing itself from Block.one and its mismanagement of funds, ENF is currently working with a legal firm to reclaim the $4.2 billion. With this public movement, the community-driven blockchain system seems to have all the markings of a project that truly puts the core community-centric ideas back into this ecosystem.
Final Thoughts
The community has always been important in the blockchain world, with many projects being made or broken by the support they can secure. Yet, with the history of scams, dud projects, and failed launches, gathering a community is now harder than ever before.
EOS has positioned itself as a mold-breaker in this regard, having established an international community of DAO members that are actively fighting to secure a bright future for this blockchain network. As every decision within this blockchain ecosystem is decided upon by the community, with a unique consensus mechanism for action plans in place, this is truly a community endeavor brought to life.
With the further distancing from its past of Block.one, EOS seems to have an incredible few years lined up. As this project continues to grow in popularity, we are reminded of why blockchain originally garnered such community support. In 2022 and beyond, companies that put community first in this space – in working reality and not just in publicity – seem to be sure shots for success.
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The Best Example of Web 3.0 Community Ownership (cryptonewsz.com)
