Block Producer Selections for EOS

Aloha EOS

Aloha EOS is an under-appreciated BP. Their web portal is highly used to track and measure Block Producers’ server quality and speed on many EOS testnets and forks – including the Mainnet. Led by a strong technology team focusing on performance, security, and reliability. Aloha EOS’ primary validating node is located in Honolulu, HI with a secondary server in London. The team is also very vocal in the EOS network, always willing and ready to answer technical questions from the community. In addition, the team is dedicated to providing measurable value back to the EOS community and to the benefit of the citizens of Hawaii, including donating 10% of post-expense operating profits to non-profit organizations.

Team:

• Nate Denning, Co-founder
• Joe Fleck, Co-founder
• Patrick Burns, Co-founder
• John McCoffee, Community Support
• 色拉 (Sarah), Community Support

Aurora EOS

Aurora provides the best EOS newsletter and is actively engaged in explaining EOS to the world plus keeping everyone in the world up to date on the development of EOS as a community and blockchain. The team also puts on a great podcast almost weekly, the EOS Voter Podcast. With focused attention on educating themselves and the public on items such as the EOS Constitution, REX, and EOSIO software features, the team helps the community stay informed on the most important current events. Aurora’s primary BP infrastructure is located in Virginia. We look forward to see them continue to fulfill their objective of ‘[serving] the EOS community with reliability, transparency, and with long-term goals in mind.’

Team:

• Myles Snider, CEO
• Tim Ogilvie, CTO
• Seth Riney, Head of Infrastructure

Block Matrix

For a Block Producer of such high technical ability and community technical contributions to EOS, Block Matrix are disproportionately low in the ranking. They have created and shared projects such as eosnode.tools, a resource site for devs/dapps/bp which gives them backup and snapshots of the mainnet, and an automation repo for automatically setting up a nodeos server. Their free API proxy is utilized by over 200 dApps and has served over 20 billion requests, and they are now offering EOS Infra which includes additional features beyond the free version. Block Matrix’s validating node is located northwest of Richmond, Virginia. With regards to similar data points, like BP ownership and code of conduct they are as transparent as any other BP on EOS. Not only do they strive to ensure integrity and stability of the network, they are also committed to building and sharing tools and resources that that users of all types can participate.

Team:

• Pete Cheyne, Founder
• Josh Edwards, Dev Ops
• Josh Welsh, Distributed Engineering

CryptoLions

As the designers of the Jungle testnet and also many scripts for Block Producers, CryptoLions are one of the most expert technical teams when it comes to running the EOS software. They also built an EOS Network Monitor, innovate great projects like Deru Truth Bonds, and offer reduced account creation costs via zeos.co. The Ukrainian based team run bare metal servers in multiple European data centers, with their primary infrastructure being located in central Germany. CryptoLions team prides themselves in transparency, including publishing quarterly financial reports. Their value system includes integrity, competence, respect, and sophprsyne - an ancient Greek concept of an ideal of excellence of character and soundness of mind.

Team:

• Bohdan Kossack, Founder - IT - Strategy
• Roman Skaksiw, Co-Founder - Strategy - Communications
• Sudip Banerjee, Operations - Business Development
• Alex Tarkovich, Community Manager
• Volodymyr Pikh, IT
• Rostyslav Martynenko, dApp Developer

Cypherglass

Cypherglass’ primary BP infrastructure is located in the heart of the continental United States, in Kansas City, MO, with a secondary site in Minneapolis, MN and a lab in Portland OR. The team provides thoughtful leadership in the community including sponsoring the popular EOS podcast, Everything EOS, which Rob Finch co-hosts. In addition, Rob consistently makes high quality videos to inform the community about import features of EOS, as well as how to interact with new tools and dApps built in the ecosystem. The team heavily invests their time and capital into building dApps and supporting dApp development, including their latest release EOS Name Service. They’ve also developed Glass, Lens, and Windshield to contribute transparency and reliability to the network.

Team:

• Rob Finch, CEO
• Ben Finch, Head of Marketing
• Adrianna Mendez, Community Manager
• James Sutherland, Principal Architect
• Ross Holeman, Head of Technology
• Rick Squitieri, Institutional Advisor
• Jesse Proudman, Technical Advisor

EOS Argentina

EOS Argentina is one of the best technical teams in terms of developers and running the EOS chain, and they have been around since before mainnet launch which they helped launch with their firestarter validation tool. Their primary BP infrastructure is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of their biggest achievements was to propose the unreg contract that allowed people who didn’t claim their EOS to do so with their Ethereum keys. Being located in South America is great for network node diversity, and a is located in a part of the world our proxy strongly believes in supporting. The EOS Argentina team runs an incubator program to help assist entrepreneurs to build on the blockchain. This program helps aide builders to create everything from new dApps to businesses whose focus is social and/or environmental impact on communities. The team also hosts a lot of community activities like meetups, as well as participate in the majority EOS community events. Finally, EOS Argentina provides meaningful transparency as to ownership and code of conduct of the Block Producer team.

Team:

• Matías Romeo, Co-founder
• Jesús Chitty, Co-founder
• Martín Fernández, Co-founder
• Nicolás Tissieres (mini), Co-founder

EOS Asia

EOS Asia is an important Block Producer in the east. Their primary validating node is located in Taiwan and Japan, but their team has representatives in the US, Europe, China, and Korea. EOS Asia comes from a successful technical background founded by a team of network technologists and hackers that were supported by the world class VC firm, Y Combinator. The team has also built apps that have been used over a million users. Part of the EOS Asia mantra is to maintain an healthy EOS ecosystem, maintaining decentralization and preventing privatization of the network. The team is behind great projects like EOSX, EOS Go!, EOS Pixels, and they built the first enterprise grade PaaS on the EOS Mainnet “EOS INFRA”, a service that provides secure, reliable and scalable access to the EOS network. The EOS Asia team is a thoughtful, vocal voice in the community, which is also something we highly appreciate.

Team:

Cofounders: Joseph Fanelli & Dafeng Guo

EOS Authority

Rohan and Roshan have an amazing team with EOS Authority. They are technically very helpful and give lots of assistance to many BPs worldwide as well as build tools for every initiative – from launch through referendum. EOS Authority’s primary BP infrastructure is located in London. Their website is full of extremely useful information that they present in a user-friendly format from tracking mainnet voting on BPs and referendums, to tracking EOS upgrade proposals, and research portals to look into the different trends of EOS on-chain activity. EOS Authority created the popular game Space Invaders for EOS and also offer a wallet solution. A major benefit to the health of the chain is but they identified and worked with Block.one to patch, which saved users from a potential loss of almost one million EOS.

Team:

• Rohan Abraham
• Roshan Abraham
• Alex Saiu

EOS Cafe Block

Once again, this team represents a global initiative, but they are based in Canada. Very good technical team who created bloks.io with HK EOS – the most popular block explorer in EOS. EOS Cafe Blocks main validating node is located in Calgary. The team ownership is transparent on their website along with their code of conduct. EOS Cafe Blocks team does some of the best outreach to educate the EOSIO community, especially with blockchain technicals. They offer advisory services to those interested, as well, for more technical projects like smart contract design. The team’s vision to leverage blockchain technology to increase efficiencies and make the world a better place is evident in their hard work and willingness to help the community learn and grow in a healthy manner.

Team:

• Syed Jafri, CEO
• Swandoyo Hartono, CTO
• Troi Bryan
• Haley Thomson, CFO

EOS Canada

EOS Canada has shown great leadership and transparency in EOS from day one. The team has many technical experts, running their infrastructure in Montreal, Canada, monitored 24/7. The EOS Canada team has been active at identifying bugs and creating and sharing patches. They are a group of serial entrepreneurs with a long history of success, and a great teamwork model that incentivizes innovation through collaboration. EOS Canada has built many great tools for the community, including a streaming API for EOSIO blockchains called dfuse, as well as the much celebrated eosio.forum contract which enables token holders to propose and vote on referenda. They are also behind the great educational tool called ABCs of EOS, a cheat sheet for the ever-expanding EOSIO vocabulary. The team is a strong and vocal leader in the community, tech and governance. Their influence can be seen in every corner.

Team:

Too many great team members to list, check them out here: https://www.eoscanada.com/en/about-us

EOS Cannon

EOS Cannon has helped form one of the largest EOS communities in the world. The team has been active since Mainnet went live in June 2018. EOS Cannon makes great efforts to facilitate the cooperation between Western communities and Chinese communities, such as EOS Cannon Vote proxy and dozens of meetups. They actively facilitate the development of EOS governance, especially WPS, referendum, and rallying community support. Tools built by EOS Cannon have become the most important EOS assets management tools of EOS holders because of its security and user-friendliness in China. To accelerate the development of EOS ecosystem, EOS Cannon setup the company Cannon Capital, and raised the 1st EOS-denominated token fund, Cannon α, in July, 2018. Cannon Capital has served over 50 with both investment and consultancy.

Team:

• Van Kai - Founder
• Ricky Shi - Co-founder
• Franco Chen - Co-founder, CSO
• Larry Ma - Biz Dev
• Bean Peng - Co-founder

eosDAC

eosDAC is leading the way for decentralized company structure and tooling and the proliferation of DACs as we know it. The DAC officially launched after 15% of EOSDAC were used to vote in their first custodian board in February 2019. They are a highly proficient team on the technical front, operating their primary validating node in Bucharest with backups in Seoul and the UK. The community owned BP has its own very thorough Constitution and has set up a third party service provider relationship to experiment with limiting member liability. Projects like this and with the WPS system EOSDAC is pioneering will greatly benefit the future of how we understand the greater blockchain ecosystem. The team is also comprised of several vocal leaders that help contintually shape the evolution of EOSIO.

Team:

Check out the eosDAC elected custodian board here: https://members.eosdac.io/votecustodians

EOS Detroit

EOS Detroit is a great team of technical and social entrepreneurs that work hard to impact their local community, while always keeping a global perspective in mind. The team is active in several EOSIO chains, helping the whole ecosystem learn by trial and error, and sharing their knowledge with the community to educate us from their experiences. Robrigo, the founder and CEO of EOS Detroit, has built a cognitively diverse team that able to inspire the EOSIO community from many different angles, including technical, educational, and social. The team is as transparent as any and they help bring transparency to the community by oftentimes recording and sharing important conference calls where EOSIO is discussed. Further, the team helps to educate the community with things like the Detroit Blockchain Center, which they established, and by hosting events like PitchFest.

Team:

• Rob Konsdorf, CEO
• Charlie Dumont, CTO
• Ingrid LeFleur, Chief Community Officer
• Brian Tutt, CMO
• Adam Zientarski, CFO
• Sam Florida, COO
• Dylan Tull, Creative Director
• Brandon Lovejoy, Director of Communications
• Phil Wiszowaty, EOSIO Community Manager
• Heru House, Community Technology Advisor
• Slava Mikerin, Systems Engineer

EOS Dublin

EOS Dublin is a technically under-recognized, and also very active in the community providing thought leadership in governance. The team has a fantastic ethos based on the traditional sense of karma, ‘trade fair, value your customers, [and] what goes around comes around.’ On the technical side, the team has a strong background in systems architecture and network security. Their Primary and secondary BP infrastructure is located in Dublin, Ireland. EOS Dublin lives by their core values of independence, honesty, integrity, and education, which is evident in the many Medium articles the team publishes to help influence the community. They have also built great educational tools, like EOS Bootcamp. The team is transparent with their ownership and their code of conduct. EOS Dublin is also a BP on Worbli.

Team:

• Sharif Bouktila, CEO
• Sam Noble, CTO
• Isaac Peterson, Design and Marketing
• Jessica Hammerman, PHD, Marketing and Editorial
• Benny Li, Special Advisor
• Jillian Godsil, Executive Board Member

EOS Gravity

The EOS Gravity team is largely responsible for possibly the largest EOS community in the world. The Block Production team is based in Shanghai. The core values of the team include security, collaboration, advancement, and success for the ecosystem and their mission is to contribute as much value they can to the EOSIO Community. EOS Gravity has successfully gained partnership and investment from large investors like INBlockChain and WaterDrip Capital. Part of the community outreach this team has been so successful with has led to the formation of many projects, such as the educational program called EOS Blockchain Kindergarten. EOS Gravity has also developed an EOS digital wallet called AntWallet.

Team:

• Liao Yang Yang, Founder
• Li Wan Cai, Co-Founder
• Peng Hao, Chief of Community Operation
• Chen Cheng, Overseas Operation Manager
• Wang Dan, Overseas Community Operations Director
• And many more

EOS Nairobi

EOS Nairobi is an underdog BP candidate who provides meaningful geographic diversity to this proxy, and has the strength of a robust development team and a bare metal node infrastructure to back it up. The team is dedicated to bridging the community and technology gap that mass Blockchain adoption needs by offering education services to the EOS Community in Africa and beyond. For example, they co-organized and hosted the 2018 EOS Summit. Further, they share and build their knowledge in this space by working with organizations like The Institute for Blockchain Studies and by leading the Africa Blockchain Initiative Kenyan chapter. EOS Nairobi has a strong track record of entrepreneurial success, including emerging technology consultation, data management, network security, and digital assets.

Team:

• Daniel Kimotho, EOS Nairobi Lead, Chief Executive
• Felix Macharia, Head of operations
• Brian Kimotho, Head of Community
• Steve Kiarie, Senior Developer
• Keith Mandela, Head of Research

EOS Nation

EOS Nation is a very strong voice in the EOSIO community. The team is not only technically solid, but they are extremely active in the most important discussions in the ecosystem. Members of the team helped guide a lot of the projects that led to referendum coming to life on the chain. From an outreach perspective, EOS Nation hosts meetups all over the world and even has an Ambassadors Program, which allows its participants to grow their own networks and bring awareness to what they are working on and on EOSIO, in general. The team also has a keen focus on LINKing the East and the West, in an effort to strengthen to global community together - to unite us all more than we ever have before. EOS Nation’s passion for EOSIO in terms of technology and community is incredibly inspiring.

Team:

• Yves La Rose, CEO
• Daniel Keyes, COO
• David Requenez, CMO
• Denis Carriere, CTO
• Lenny Goudreault, CCO
• Stephane Bisson, CDO
• Vincent Grenier, CFO
• Matthew Darwin, CIO
• Nathan Rempel, Partner
• Heinz Martin Breuer, Asia Regional Director
• Jan Langheimer, Full Stack Developer
• Fred Schoell, Full Stack Developer

EOS New York

EOS New York is an independent and self-funded block producer that operates one of the fastest bare metal block production infrastructures on EOS. They have acted as leaders within the community in aspects both technical and governance related. Focusing on simple and scalable solutions, EOS New York has built out a number of tools for both users and developers. Most recently they have released an open-source plugin architecture to easily connect dApps with signature providers, aptly named the Transit API. They are building the first EOS-dedicated hardware wallet, The EOS Metro. With regard to governance, they have proposed a replacement for the interim constitution, the EOS User Agreement. Beyond these projects, this highly capable team continues to reinvest back into the ecosystem in a variety of ways and we look forward to and support their future contributions.

Team:

• Kevin Rose, Co-Founder - Head of Community
• Rick Schlesinger, Co-Founder - Head of Strategy
• William Deck, Co-Founder, Head of Block Production
• Warrick FitzGerald, Lead Blockchain Engineer
• Da Hong, International Community Manager
• Evan Shepard, Community Manager

EOS Rio

EOS Rio is one of the top three technical teams in the world. Based in Brazil, it’s a great location for a block producer because we can do a lot of good down in South America. Their producing nodes are all bare metal machines based in Rio de Janeiro and owned by them, combined with a hybrid cloud infrastructure for API nodes, providing access to developers and users around the world. Holding particular values, like purpose over profit, the team is an incredibly transparent and hard-working collabora