Epicenter Core Values

How we approach our work

With the ongoing growth of the ecosystem around the Epic Blockchain protocol, we created this guide as a reference so people know what to expect from us. We believe in “I hear what you say, but I see what you do,” so don’t take our word for it, notice the design choices embedded in the architecture of our networks:

Our Values

We build systems with the following design goals:

• Antifragility / Resilience

• Censorship Resistance

• Confiscation Resistance

• Centralization Resistance

• Fractional Reserve Resistance

• Immutability

• Permissionlessness

• Scarcity

• Trustlessness

Our Priorities

We build our technology this way because we believe these properties are important:

• Liberty

• Property

• Privacy

• Security

• Reliability

Practices & Protocols

We ensure these outcomes by the application of proven methods and first-principles thinking:

• Bitcoin Standard Emission

  • 21 million coins, quadrennial halvings - protects value of already-existing coins through enforced future scarcity

• Community Governance

• Fair Launch

• High Assurance Engineering

  • Appropriate Languages

    • F#

    • Haskell

    • Rust

  • Automated Test Coverage - Cucumber

  • Documentation

  • Open Source

  • Peer Review

  • Safety Orientation

  • Simplicity

• Iterative Development

• Liftoff

• Nakamoto Consensus

• Open Forums

• Regulatory Compatibility - design for compatibility with present & future securities law

• Test in Production (on a chaosnet)