Well firstly you must know, our biggest innovation will be Project Reactor and can be considered our hero product
Here’s a little backstory , I started Tronpower mainly to solve my own problems like some energy markets aren’t giving me enough sell orders. Then I thought of Project Reactor and then planned how can I improve the energy market for all users. Even if no one uses my market but I am able to use it to sell energy just for myself , I am happy. This was basically the story of Andre Cronje , the father of yearn finance/ Defi itself.
Just to be a fraction of what he has done with me innovating with Project Reactor will be awesome.
But as you may see , i think we probably have the best UI for energy markets ( especially for being in alpha).Also in 3 months ( it was closer to 2 months) , Tronpower already launched supporting bandwidth purchases ( other markets existed way longer than us and only just started to implement it).
One long term goal for Tronpower is to be a trusted hub like tronscan.
Most energy markets look sketchy , look poorly made , how do users , especially new ones trust them? ( thats why i didnt sell energy till this energy for all this time , although I wanted to)
At Tronpower, we innovate and build as fast as possible , and I’m the only dev , self-funded but all-in/full time building for the community. The energy market landscape has been stagnant and hasnt see such innovation.
Tronpower is building an ecosystem that benefits all TRON holders.
That’s the difference. I’m building for myself and for TRON holders.
Others are looking for crazy amounts of funding, have bigger dev teams and do not align their goals with the true stakeholders , TRON holders.
So support solo devs !!!
Anyways, as for the energy market , we improve and innovation in:
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Best interface
For buyers - we plan to add tools to streamline purchasing energy for their needs
For seller - we already have very useful features that I want as a user myself wanted, like in certain markets you need to set the max duration in seconds (because you need to submit to the blockchain in seconds) , but you have a very helpful interface to select the timeframe you want and we auto calculate it in seconds.
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Various incentives/mechanisms to encourage long term sells as we see many buyers struggling to fill orders at order markets at times.
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Loyalty/ membership / tiering for give better rates
Still exploring what are the best options , probably an interesting combination , especially with Project Reactor
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Education
I think this is important. Honestly, this is coming from my experience from CEXes , where education was a key pillar. As mentioned above, I didnt sell energy because I was afraid of losing my TRX to sketchy websites , I didnt know where to go , what to do.
With the launch of the alpha site on testnet, I have decided to restructure the project so that it can be a permanent site that will be so useful for new TRONics and even new crypto users to learn how to interact with dapps , especially on TRON.
Again aligning with my ethos and therefore Tronpower’s vision to build for the community and build what the community wants/needs.
I do hope this plan does score brownie points with TronDAO and hope to work with them on onboarding the next 100 million users onto tron , allowing Tronpower alpha site to be the “playground” for new users/devs etc.
P.S
I would also like to point out that even though I’m a solo dev , I have years of experience as a dev and non-dev , I have built systems for governments in highly secure environments , so I don’t take security lightly. That being said , hackers are very smart , but what we can do is minimize as much risk as possible.
I noticed that some energy markets may be at risk of replay attacks by not using a High-entropy and randomly secure nonce for signing messages. In my opinion , they are good enough , but not as safe as Tronpower’s implementation (which is very simple improvement really)
This is the small but important things that we try to do to gain the trust and support from the community.
I also made a proposal to the tron devs to make an improvement to TRON’s permission model to prevent an edge case of misuse of resources , so everyone can see that I’m here to contribute as a 2017 OG , to make TRON great.
