Thread by @wauwda

Concerned about your privacy and the increasing control large corporations have over your internet activity? If so, you're not alone. $ATOR (@atorprotocol) is a groundbreaking project that aims to revolutionize the way we think about internet privacy and freedom.

Time for a 🧵👇🏼

1️⃣ The Problem

We're experiencing a loss of privacy and freedom due to the prevalence of data, censorship, and the monetization of internet users' activity. The problem is that privacy and freedom have become a luxury, and relying on protocols administered by large corporations.

2️⃣ Current Solution

Tor is a protocol that encrypts and decrypts internet activity, providing privacy and confidentiality. It sends user requests through multiple servers to obscure their activity, making it impossible to track back to the user.

TOR has millions of users worldwide and is widely adopted as a tool for online privacy and security.

The larger issue is that open privacy protocols running on the existing internet framework cannot provide true privacy or censorship resistance.

3️⃣ Scaling Problem

Although Tor has been successful over the past two decades, its inherently decentralized nature does not provide the incentives necessary to create a network that can support all internet traffic.

With only 6000 live erays on average, a well organized intervention is needed for the already millions of users (2M + Tor users).

4️⃣ What is $ATOR?

@atorprotocol is a project that aims to make the Tor network more accessible to users by addressing two main challenges: adoption and provision. ATOR is building a router, a hardware "hotspot," that acts as a middleman between consumer devices and Tor.

Additionally, ATOR is providing incentives for people to run Tor relays by rewarding them with $ATOR tokens, which can also be used to purchase preconfigured relay hardware. The project aims to increase the number of Tor relays and make Tor more accessible to a wider audience.

5️⃣ Relays

Their aim is to build up Tor, through incentives for existing relays and an influx of new relays powered by their hardware, to the scale and resilience needed for mainstream adoption. Users will be able to acquire ATOR relays themselves to earn $ATOR.

6️⃣ Cryptographic techniques

$ATOR uses cryptographic techniques to ensure:

• Secure and private relay signup & recognition
• The ultimate goal is to create a self-sustaining ecosystem for the long-term growth of the Tor network.

https://twitter.com/fitforcrypto_/status/1643251474481270784?t=Yqps8Nh8F8bTum5TyKlW_A&s=19

7️⃣ Features

ATOR empowers Tor through on-chain incentives, and facilitates wider adoption of secure network relay protocols through their products.

• Building Obscurity
• Proof-of-Uptime
• Complete Privacy
• Secure and Private Relay
• Token Incentives

8️⃣ Tokenomics

Max Supply: 100.000.000 $ATOR

45% Liquidity
25% Contract
10% Team
10% Node Rewards
10% CEX (Locked)

$ATOR is allocated for:
• Governance
• Relay rewards
• Hardware sales
• Utilities

9️⃣ Roadmap

@atorprotocol has dedicated itself to an exciting roadmap for the upcoming 2 years.

• Roadmap 2023:
✅ ATOR Router
⏳ Open Source Code (April)
⏳ ATOR dashboard (Q2)
⏳ Proof-of-Uptime (Q3)
⏳ First release of own router hardware  (Q3)

• Roadmap 2024:
⏳ First release of own relay hardware (Q1)
⏳ Transition to longer term token incentives (Q2)
⏳ LoRa routers (Q2)

Current feasibility studies are in the works for the demand for and technicality of transition of the entire ATOR network over to LoRa, creating a parallel, decentralized internet entirely independent of ISPs.

🔟 Conclusion

In conclusion, @atorprotocol aims to address one of the most pressing issues of our time: the erosion of privacy and freedom on the internet, by developing a decentralized and incentivized protocol that is designed to be both private and censorship-resistant.

$ATOR is taking a bold step towards creating a truly open and free internet.

As more people become aware of the importance of online privacy and the need for a decentralized internet, it is likely that $ATOR will continue to gain momentum and support. #atorisprivacy #atornauts