Block.One Will Not Launch Its Social Network on EOS

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One CEO Brendan Blumer speaks at the Voice launch event, June 2019.In June when Block.

One, the company behind the largest initial coin offering in history, announced its Facebook-challenging social network, Voice, it promised the blockchain would run on the EOS mainnet.

The company went silent about Voice for months after the summer announcement but then, in December, it revealed a launch date for Voice of Feb. 14.With this announcement came additional details, such as a frequently asked questions page on the Voice website that revealed the new application would run on a private deployment of EOSIO software.

"While Voice is in beta and a highly iterative state, it will be run on a purpose-made EOSIO blockchain. In time, we would like Voice to leverage the EOS Public Blockchain, and potentially others that can meet the performance and governance demands of Voice."

This ran counter to an unequivocal statement in the June press announcement of Voice: "Block.one will launch the Voice platform on the EOS Public Blockchain." Further showing its commitment to running on EOS, Block.

Sharif Bouktila, CEO of EOS Dublin, which has served as a block producer on EOS and other EOSIO blockchains, told CoinDesk he remains longterm bullish on EOS despite the uncertainty around Block.

In September, CoinDesk reported on doubts about whether the EOS blockchain is run by companies that prioritize technology over speculative profits.

Aaron Cox, of Greymass, which runs a back-up block producer for EOS as well as on other chains, told CoinDesk he's come to support the decision strategically.

Horn launched Telos with a copy of the EOS genesis block, but one that capped token allocations for each account in order to prevent domination by whales.

The language from the FAQ is non-committal, as multiple sources pointed out including EOS Dublin's Bouktila, who noted there's no way for anyone to know what Block.

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