Question 70: What are SCDO's future development plans or milestones?
Answer: Looking ahead, SCDO plans to implement several key strategies: on the technical side, the team will continue to optimize consensus algorithms and sharding technology, such as introducing more mining algorithms to enhance security or developing more efficient inter-shard communication protocols; at the same time, cross-chain interoperability with mainstream blockchains may be achieved to allow assets and data to flow smoothly. On the ecosystem level, plans include launching more subchains and inviting partners from various industries to deploy dedicated subchains to expand SCDO's ecosystem; promoting iconic DApps to allow ordinary users to experience the actual value of SCDO.
In terms of community, a SCDO foundation may be established to coordinate ecosystem development and increase investment in publicity and resources. Short-term milestones include the release of a new client, improvements in performance metrics, and significant collaborations; medium to long-term goals include achieving TPS in the millions (through more sharding and subchains) and a stable mainnet after all tokens are mined.
The official roadmap will gradually announce the timelines for key milestones. In summary, SCDO will continue to advance in both technical deepening and ecosystem expansion, continuously consolidating its position as the next-generation blockchain infrastructure.
Question 71: Who is the founder of the SCDO project?
Answer: SCDO was founded by Mr. Victor Ionin. Victor graduated from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), majoring in Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering. After graduation, he founded his own IT company and began investing in cryptocurrencies in 2013, accumulating rich industry experience. As the founder and CEO of SCDO, Victor has years of practical experience in blockchain technology and product development.
His passion for the scalability and fairness of blockchain has led to the birth of the SCDO project.
Victor often appears in the community, introducing SCDO's vision to the public through blogs and videos. His leadership sets the tone for technological innovation and open collaboration for the project.
Question 72: Who are the main members of the SCDO team?
Answer: In addition to founder Victor Ionin, the core members of the SCDO team include:
Chief Developer Dr. Alvin Xin, PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University, focusing on algorithm development and blockchain consensus research; Chief Marketing Officer Diana Dai, Master's in International Journalism from the University of Liverpool, with marketing experience in blockchain associations and well-known projects; Core developer Dr. Luke Zeng, PhD in Physics, who conducted quantum research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before engaging in the development of blockchain wallets and sharding technology; and Senior Advisor Dr. Maolin Zheng, PhD in Computer Science, who served as CEO of an open-source blockchain project and has been a decision optimization expert at FICO in the United States. These members have strong backgrounds in mathematics, computer science, finance, etc., providing SCDO with comprehensive support in technical R&D, market expansion, and security consulting. Additionally, the team has gathered engineers and community managers from around the world to jointly promote the project's development.
Question 73: What kind of technical and industry experience does the SCDO team possess?
Answer: The SCDO team members have diverse backgrounds and experiences. Technically, many PhDs (in mathematics, physics, etc.) in the team focus on foundational research in blockchain, excelling in cutting-edge topics like consensus algorithms, sharding technology, and security modeling.
Many members have previously worked in research institutions or top companies, such as quantum physics research and financial risk modeling, integrating interdisciplinary knowledge into blockchain development.
In terms of industry, team members have qualifications in traditional finance (such as top funds and risk control modeling), and some members have been active in the blockchain community for many years, participating in or leading the development and marketing work of other chain projects. This combination allows the SCDO team to understand both technology and market.
They are familiar with the development context of the blockchain industry, understanding the strengths and weaknesses of PoW and PoS projects, and have learned lessons from those in SCDO.
Overall, the SCDO team possesses strong technical R&D capabilities and practical project experience, providing a solid talent guarantee for the project's innovation.
Question 74: In which countries or regions is the SCDO team distributed?
Answer: The SCDO team is an international distributed team. Founder Victor currently resides in Silicon Valley, USA, responsible for project coordination and external cooperation.
Core development members are distributed in North America, with some also in China and other Asian countries—for example, Alvin Xin previously worked at a fund in Shanghai, and Diana Dai is active in the Chinese and British blockchain circles.
Additionally, advisor Dr. Zheng has many years of professional experience in the United States. It can be said that the SCDO team spans across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, with members in China, the United States, and other regions.
This geographical distribution helps SCDO maintain global development operations 24 hours a day, and facilitates the expansion of markets and communities in different regions. Meanwhile, the team maintains efficient communication through online collaborative development using tools like GitHub and Slack.
The international background brings diverse perspectives, enabling SCDO to better integrate into the global blockchain ecosystem.
Question 75: Does SCDO have official company or foundation support?
Answer: SCDO was initially driven by the founding team and did not immediately establish a formal foundation. As the project progresses, it is expected to register a non-profit foundation or company to undertake legal operations.
This entity may be established in a blockchain-friendly jurisdiction to manage the project's trademarks, domain names, and external cooperation contracts.
Currently, there is little public information available, but it can be speculated that the team has started building legal frameworks to ensure compliance and sustainable development for the project. Regardless of whether there is a foundation, SCDO itself is a community-driven open-source project, with development carried out by global members.
The official company or foundation mainly plays a role in administrative support and resource coordination, such as raising funds, connecting with investors, and organizing events.
Importantly, it will not interfere with on-chain governance or token issuance (as the tokens rely entirely on mining). Therefore, SCDO may establish a foundation to support the ecosystem in the future, but it will not become centralized due to a corporate background—the operation of the blockchain network will still be ensured by code and the community.
Question 76: How does the team ensure project transparency and credibility?
Answer: The SCDO team has taken various measures to maintain transparency and build credibility. First, the project is completely open-source, with all code updates and technical decisions publicly recorded on GitHub, allowing anyone to view each submission and change, ensuring the transparency of the development process.
Secondly, the team regularly publishes project progress reports or technical blogs to introduce recent development achievements, network data (hash rate, number of nodes), and next steps, allowing the community to understand the project's current status.
Again, the identities and backgrounds of core members are public, with founders and key developers genuinely participating in activities and responding to community inquiries, demonstrating a responsible attitude towards the project.
In addition, any major decisions (such as upgrades or forks) will be preceded by soliciting community opinions through official channels, aiming to execute only after achieving community consensus. Regarding the team's funding usage, since there was no ICO, the funding source is mainly self-raised or early small-scale financing, with expenditures concentrated on technical development, and there is no issue of misappropriating raised funds. Even so, the team still tries to disclose operational information.
Through these initiatives, the SCDO team has established an image of openness and honesty. In the crypto field, transparency equals trust, and the team is deeply aware of this and continues to practice it, thereby continuously enhancing the community's confidence in the project.
Question 77: Have SCDO team members previously participated in any blockchain projects?
Answer: Yes, many members of the team had blockchain industry experience before joining SCDO. For example, Senior Advisor Dr. Maolin Zheng served as CEO of an open-source blockchain project, accumulating experience in public chain architecture and community governance. Chief Developer Alvin Xin has served as a blockchain researcher since 2018, participating in research and development in consensus algorithms and scalability.
Dr. Luke Zeng led the development of digital wallets before joining SCDO and conducted in-depth research on sharding and subchain solutions. Market director Diana Dai has also carried out marketing planning for several well-known blockchain projects.
It can be said that the SCDO team did not start from scratch, but rather brought together experienced individuals who have accumulated experience in other projects. These experiences help the team avoid detours, such as learning from past projects' lessons on consensus or economic models and applying them to SCDO's design.
It is precisely because of the experience from previous projects that the SCDO team understands better how to tackle technical challenges and community needs, which has been a significant reason for SCDO's smooth progress since its inception.
Question 78: Is the development progress of the SCDO project proceeding as planned?
Answer: Overall, SCDO's development progress meets expectations and is slightly ahead of schedule. The milestones originally planned in the white paper—such as the mainnet launch in early 2021 and the implementation of basic sharding and subchain functions—have all been completed as scheduled.
Subsequently, the team has gradually launched official wallets, browsers, etc., and the ecosystem tools have been continuously improved. Although the project's popularity has fluctuated during bull and bear market cycles, development work has been ongoing without signs of interruption.
The GitHub repository shows that SCDO has active monthly submissions, with ongoing bug fixes and new feature development. Some extended features on the roadmap (such as more subchain consensus support and cross-chain bridging) are also in research and testing. The team mentioned in an AMA that they delivered on certain goals even earlier than originally planned, such as the mobile wallet launch being a few months ahead of schedule.
Of course, small delays or adjustments are inevitable, but there have been no long-term stagnations or significant missed functionalities. The community has a relatively positive evaluation of SCDO's delivery capability, as the stable operation of the mainnet for several years has effectively proven the team's execution ability. As the ecosystem grows, development demands will increase, and it is believed that the team will also expand its workforce accordingly to ensure progress as planned.
Question 79: Does SCDO have global community ambassadors or similar plans?
Answer: SCDO places great importance on building a global community. Although it is not explicitly called an 'ambassador program' yet, it actually encourages enthusiasts from different regions to voluntarily act as project promoters.
Currently, in regions like China and Southeast Asia, community leaders are translating articles and organizing offline meetups, serving as ambassadors. The project team is pleased to see such grassroots efforts and will provide support (such as offering promotional materials).
In the future, the formal launch of a community ambassador program is not ruled out, recruiting representatives from various languages and countries to be responsible for local online and offline promotion, and offering token or reputation rewards. This will help SCDO expand its global market.
Even without an official title, anyone passionate about SCDO can become an evangelist, introducing the project to more users and developers.
The openness of the SCDO community naturally leads to the existence of ambassador roles—those who actively contribute and spread the project’s values are, in fact, the image ambassadors of SCDO.
The project party will further improve in this area in the future, such as establishing an ambassador application mechanism, providing training and resources, allowing the global community to work together to promote SCDO to a wider audience.
Question 70: What are SCDO's future development plans or milestones?
Answer: Ordinary users can contact the SCDO team and obtain the latest information through various official channels. First, the official website (such as scdo.org) provides team contact information and social media links, with the latest announcements and materials on the site, as well as a dynamic post about the SCDO Chinese community on Binance Square.
Additionally, the SCDO team occasionally publishes technical articles on Medium or engages with developers in GitHub's discussion area. Community discussions can join the Telegram group or Discord server to communicate in real-time with team members and other enthusiasts.
For specific questions, team members can also be directly contacted via email or by submitting issues on GitHub, as developers frequently check and respond. In summary, SCDO maintains a high level of information transparency, with multiple platforms updating project progress simultaneously. Ordinary individuals need only choose the platform they are accustomed to, to follow SCDO's dynamics and leave messages for questions, interacting with the team.
Question 81: What are the main sources of SCDO's value?
Answer: SCDO's value comes from its technological innovation and ecosystem potential. On one hand, SCDO significantly enhances blockchain performance and fairness through ZPoW consensus and sharding + subchain architecture, which is a breakthrough for industry challenges.
This technical advantage lays a unique value foundation for SCDO. On the other hand, as a public chain, the value of SCDO's token depends on the prosperity of the ecosystem—the more DApps and users that use it, the greater the demand for SCDO tokens and the stronger the value support. Additionally, SCDO emphasizes decentralization and fair distribution, with no pre-mining, and this purely community-driven model has won the trust of investors and made the token distribution healthier.
The scarce fixed supply (300 million tokens) also offers a scarcity value similar to digital gold. If SCDO becomes a mainstream application platform, its tokens will appreciate due to network effects. Thus, the value of SCDO can be expressed as: innovative technology (secure, high performance) + actual ecosystem usage + scarcity + community trust. These elements together constitute the intrinsic logic for investors to be optimistic about SCDO.
Question 82: Why do some believe SCDO has long-term investment value?
Answer: Individuals who are optimistic about SCDO's long-term value typically base their views on the following logic: first, technology drives long-term value: SCDO has a revolutionary ZPoW consensus and sharding/subchain architecture that addresses the efficiency bottleneck of traditional blockchains, laying the foundation for it to secure a place in the future blockchain landscape.
Technical advantages often translate into favor from users and developers, thereby enhancing the value of the token. Secondly, a firm decentralization philosophy: SCDO insists on PoW fair mining with no pre-mining, which attracts a group of loyal supporters willing to support the project long-term.
This community consensus is a form of soft power that helps resist the impact of short-term speculation. Additionally, the scarce economic model: fixed total supply + periodic reduction in production means that supply gradually tightens, and over time, when demand rises and supply is limited, there is upward price momentum. Lastly, application prospects: SCDO continues to expand its ecosystem and may become the next public chain supporting the prosperity of DeFi and NFTs. Once the ecosystem matures, its tokens will have strong intrinsic demand like Ethereum.
Based on these factors, long-term investors believe that SCDO has potential high growth and resilience against downturns. Of course, the premise is that the team's execution and market expansion proceed as expected, so they will continue to track project progress, but overall confidence stems from the aforementioned long-term value pillars.
Question 83: How does SCDO's investment logic differ from that of Bitcoin and Ethereum?
Answer: Compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum, SCDO's investment logic shares similarities and differences. The commonality lies in that all three emphasize the underlying value of blockchain: Bitcoin promotes itself as digital gold and an anti-inflation asset, Ethereum supports itself with smart contract platforms and ecosystems, while SCDO focuses on high-performance decentralized infrastructure.
As public chains, their value comes from network effects and trust. The difference lies in that Bitcoin primarily serves as a store of value, lacking smart contract functionality, making the investment logic purely focus on scarcity and consensus; Ethereum has shifted to PoS, with investment logic including staking rewards and deflation from fee burning, its ecosystem is large but also faces congestion and high fee issues.
As an emerging PoW smart contract chain, SCDO's investment logic leans towards 'technology empowerment + growth potential': it is still in its early stages, has a relatively low market cap, and possesses the potential for a technological leap.
If one believes that its technology will attract a large number of applications, then investing now is equivalent to a low-value period, with considerable growth potential. At the same time, due to PoW mining, SCDO does not have staking rewards, but also avoids the risks of staking centralization seen in Ethereum. In short, investing in Bitcoin looks at 'the safest scarce asset', investing in Ethereum looks at 'the largest existing ecosystem and returns', while investing in SCDO looks at 'future potential technology leaders'.
Certainly, Bitcoin and Ethereum are more mature and robust, while SCDO is more uncertain and elastic, and investors need to weigh assets with different logic based on their own risk preferences.
Question 84: How will the scarcity of SCDO affect its market value?
Answer: SCDO's scarcity (fixed upper limit of 300 million tokens, no additional issuance) has a significant positive impact on its market value. Scarcity means that when market demand increases, supply cannot be expanded indefinitely, so prices tend to rise.
Specifically, every few years the block reward decreases, and the inflation rate drops. If demand remains or increases, supply will become insufficient, which will push prices up (similar to the market conditions after each halving of Bitcoin).
Additionally, while the absolute number of 300 million is relatively large, considering that a certain proportion of tokens may be permanently unusable due to lost private keys and other reasons, the actual circulating supply may be lower. Scarcity also brings about a psychological expectation.
