ASTRA Social Supercomputer

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MOTIVATION Even after 200 years of countless medical breakthroughs, many life-threatening diseases still afflict vast swaths of humanity. Around 8 million people die from numerous types of Cancers worldwide every year.Nearly half-a-billion people suffer from Malaria every year and close to a million innocent children die from mosquito bites but we still don‟t have an efficacious vaccine against it. Heart diseases and strokes take the life of another 15 million people prematurely. And there is an ever present risk of new pandemics, like SARS, Ebola, and Zika, suddenly emerging and ruthlessly cutting short the lives of millions of children, women, and men.

Discovering the causes and cures for the above perennial medical challenges requires our scientists to explore myriad potential paths quickly and then focus on the most promising onesfor further research.In modern medicine, the exploration of various plausi blepaths quickly requires enormous computing power, which unfortunately our scientists do not have. However, all of us have powerful computers with capacity in teraFLOPS(1012)sitting idle at our homes, at work, in our pockets, and in our cars. If we can seamlessly combine our spare computing power for the above noble causes, then we can build the most powerful Supercomputer in the world.

Astra is weaving together billions of devi cesto build one of the most powerful Supercomputer in the world with the processing capacity in exaFLOPs(1018)and storage capacity in zetta FLOPs(1021). This worldwide Supercomputer will be available to researchers around the globe.In addition, Astra is leveraging the latest Trust Machine1 technology to design an innovative Incentive System

Astra –The Social Supercomputer

so that all citizens of the world are inspired to share their spare computing resources for worthy causes. People will be earning both Social Rewards and valuable Digital Currencies for their contributions (including the native currency of Astra ecosystem called STARs).

The scientists in other disciplines, such as, Climate Change, Subatomic Physics, Astronomy, Genomics, Materials Research, Machine Learning, Economics, Linguistics, and Humanities also need endless computing power and storage capacity to solve intractable problems. The Astra Supercomputer will also be used by these scientists for path-breaking discoveries.

In recent years another revolutionary invention has arrived on horizon that has the potential to empower people all over the world to thrive economically, politically, and socially and reach their full potential.It can make our economies superefficient and governance transparent and corruption-free. This revolutionary technology is Trust Machines which enables us to automatically establish and preserve collective social truths.However, the automation of trustre quires keeping numerous copies (thousands) of a piece of information and constant communication among them for verification and synchronization. Thus, the Trust Machines are extreme lycompute, storage, and communication intensive. The Astra Supercomputer will be used for building and maintaining these Social Trust Machines and earning valuable Digital Currencies for the community members (Bitcoin, Ether, ZCash, Dash, Monroe, STARs, etc.).

Decentralizing $500 Billion Monopoly Cloud Computing Market

Building Communities for Decentralized Computing

Targeting Two Virgin Markets First

Distribution of Tokens

2.1 Billion STAR Tokens will be created at Token Generation Event
50% of STAR Tokens are reserved for future computing infrastructure providers and ecosystem development. They will be locked up for 2 years.
15% of STAR Tokens will be offered during Initial Coin Offering.
10% of STAR Tokens will be used for Ecosystem Development in the first 2 years.
25% of STAR Tokens are reserved for Team, Advisors, and Early Backers. Team is allocated tokens with 4 year vesting period.

Allocation of Funds

65% of the funds will be used for R&D and platform development
15% of the funds will be used for Marketing and building World-wide Communities
10% of the funds will be used for Administration and day-to-day smooth running of operations
5% of the funds will be reserved for legal expenses
5% of the funds will be reserved for any contingency

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPATING IN ASTRA TOKEN SALE

A secure online account will be opened for the community members who register for the Astra Token Sale using the Whitelist Link. The community members who complete the online registration will earn 5 Free STAR Tokens.
Only verified or whitelisted community members will be able to participate in the Astra Token Sale. Please register as soon as possible so that we can timely complete the required KYC process.
Astra International’s official Ethereum Address for sending your contributions will be posted only on your personal account page. It will not be posted anywhere else. Please ensure that you are at www.GoAstra.Network website.
Please follow above instructions for sending Ethers and purchasing STAR Tokens.
Astra Tokens will be delivered only to those accounts which pass the KYC process. The ETH contributions of accounts that do not pass the KYC process will be returned.

ASTRA TIMELINE & ROADMAP

2017

CONCEPTUALIZATION

Initial assessment of computing resources required by our scientists for data-driven research and the resources actually available to them. Investigated the causes behind decline in shared computing networks. Conceptualized Astra – The Social Supercomputer project.

CUSTOMER VALIDATION

Astra project validation with research groups. Developed strategies for raising the value of Astra Tokens (STARs). Developed the Astra Whitepaper, technical roadmap, and business plan.

COMMUNITY BUILDING

Presented Astra project at various Meetups in Silicon Valley to gather consumer feedback. Initiated the process for online Astra communities. Built engineering team and early project backers.

PREPARATION FOR TOKEN SALE

Investigated regulatory landscape for fund-raising and compliant token sale in early 2018. Prepared the Marketing Plan and literature for raising awareness of the Astra Project around the world.

2018

UNIFIED ASTRA APP

Unified Astra App: An intuitive interface to the numerous ‘Sharing Networks’, so that consumers don’t have to download, install, and setup a confusing array of individual software programs.

DECISION AUTOMATION

Decision Automation: Optimum selection of a ‘Sharing Network’ that maximizes returns in Digital Currencies. Automatic selection of optimal options for each ‘Sharing Network’ so that consumers don’t have to learn about their intricacies.

ASTRA COMMUNITIES

Astra is transforming passive volunteer communities into vibrant economic communities where members have strong incentives to share computing resources and create valuable content and digital assets. Astra will also offer a suite of tools for building and nurturing action-oriented communities.

COMMUNITY INCENTIVE SYSTEM

The design and testing of an effective monetary policy that fully captures the present and future value of Global Networks and Communities that Astra is building. Community incentives in the form of Community Coins and Virtual Tradable Assets.

2019

APPLICATION LAUNCH SYSTEM

An intuitive platform to build and launch distributed computing projects on Astra Network. The scientists, researchers, and commercial organizations can create their applications in any environment and Astra will be able to launch them on any ‘Sharing Network’.
The Team