Introduction

Aergo wants to advance enterprise blockchain, by opening up a new era of mass market usage of blockchain. An era where businesses can easily benefit from both public and private blockchaininnovation, allowing them to focus on building, deploying and managing new services. In short, the Aergo Project aims to provide,

1) advanced, yet friendly and easy to use technology for a very broad range of developers and contractors,

2) a secure and fast public and private blockchain cloud architecture that is built for businesses, and

3) an open ecosystem for third parties, developers and businesses to connect and engage in.

Aergo’s platform will enable enterprises and developers to easily design, build and deploy their own blockchain applications within the cloud. The platform offers the possibility for creators to tailor their blockchain and applications to their needs, by giving them the choice to run across either a public or private network. By being able to leverage and combine the different characteristics, found in public and private blockchains, enterprises and developers have maximum flexibility and choice, when designing innovative applications and services. Hosting everything on a secure distributed cloud network, removes significant cost and other overheads faced by businesses when they typically establish their own physical infrastructure to run blockchain protocols and applications.

Product Roadmap

. Testnet: Q4 2018
. Mainnet: Q1 2019

Core team members

AERGO Team mostly comes from Blocko. Regarding tech team, they currently have 10 core engineers. On the other hand, they have 5 core members working in development and marketing field. Some of the core member is listed below:

Phil Zamani: He is Global Head of Big Data & Cloud Biz Models at Santander, Global VP Sales & Biz Dev. Internet Embedded Linux Appliances for Redhat Inc. He has 20 years with of open source and cloud business experience. He is currently COO of Blocko also.

Hun Young Park: He is an Expert in large scale and high performance software design and has 12 years of experience in Relational DBMS and distributed solutions. In the past, he also has 2 years working expierence as Blocko’s CTO.
Roderik van der Graaf: He is Founder of Lemniscap, an investment and advisory firm in the blockchain space and has 13 years of equity derivatives trading at Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Rabobank, Bear Stearns, LIM Advisors and All Options.

Won Kim: He graduated from Boston Univ. specialized in Computer Science and has 9 years of experience in Relational DBMS, 6 years of research & development of distributed systems.
Their advisors are experts from various field such as Banking, AI technologies, Capital Fund (FBG Capital, GBIC, Deutsche Bank etc.)

Verdict

Aergo is likely to be one of the more exciting projects for the second half of 2018. Its architecture is designed to solve real world problems by adopting Solidity developers and newcomers alike. The ability to provide permissions and privacy throughout its design also bodes well for real world enterprise adoption. Depending on the project’s token metrics, Aergo is likely to be my top selection for ICOs in 2018.

NB: This is not financial advice, please Do Your Own Research before taking any action.