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URnetwork

💫 About

What is URnetwork Crypto?

URnetwork is building a new type of private, secure, and available network infrastructure to meet the evolving needs of consumers, AI, and communications. By focusing on ease of participation (every app is a node) and safety, we have a low user to participant ratio (as low as 5:1). Our auction protocol gives users faster and more reliable connections distributed across many participants, as the number of participants increase. The protocol delivers hard privacy (IP and traffic profile anonymity) and high quality/available connections. The p2p nature keeps operating costs low which allows a generous freemium experience familiar to most users. We are the best VPN today by availability and privacy, and we are positioned to get better as the participant count grows into the millions.

The URnetwork foundation will manage the protocol/token, and sets a fiat to GiB rate for each network operator and user type. The network operators (e.g. the for-profit C-corp) build value partnerships across industry use cases. These include embedded VPNs in browsers and communication tools, expanding audience reach for content owners, and telcos with branded VPNs. The basic theses are that URnetwork is higher quality for less cost, and can add a revenue stream; and URnetwork can expand the TAM of products/content by making them more available to the global audience.

URnetwork believes that the current generation of client–server VPN architectures will be unable to scale beyond this decade due to overarching trends in liability and service availability, and is therefore focused on developing a new, legitimate (i.e., free of illegal activity), high-privacy, high-availability network.

How can I get rewards with URnetwork?

There are two main ways to participate:

Install the app and enable the “provide while disconnected” option. The provider node runs all the time in the background on iOS, Android, macOS (and coming soon Windows and Linux Desktop). A seamless background provider on smartphones has been our focus since founding and we optimize this use case.
Use the dedicated provider node binary. It can be deployed as a docker container (which can set CPU and network limits), or a raw binary which is pre-compiled for several platforms: RPi, routers, servers, desktops, etc.

The auction marketplace and protocol matches users with providers based on performance. The fastest and most reliable providers win the most traffic. The marketplace matches providers to users to optimize diversity of IPs and cities, so that multiple providers with the same IP subnet or city do not have more relative weight. The marketplace also ranks providers based on passive and active statistics which influence distribution.

We are following an earnings roadmap towards token launch. Today there is a UDC airdrop plus points for three contribution categories:

Provided capacity to the network. When users use your network, you earn proportionally. A voting mechanism is in place where paid users have the most votes on how earnings are allocated to providers and their vote weight is proportional to how much they have paid.
Referrals. Both the referrers and referred get a bonus of their earnings. Referred networks share plus 25% of the referrer network’s earnings. Referrers get plus 25% of the referred networks’e earnings, plus 12.5% of their referred networks’, etc.
Reliability. Just being connected and available as a provider earns a baseline amount. The amount is boosted if the number of providers in a country is fewer than 30. The earning is per IP, so if there are more than one client per IP, the reliability earning is divided amongst them proportional to provider activity.

Solana Phone Partnership

UR Seeker

Solana Mobile users get a 2× earnings boost on UR Seeker when using Saga devices—doubling rewards, enhancing performance, and accelerating UDC airdrops. Learn more at https://ur.io/seeker.

Any geographical URnetwork restrictions?

URnetwork supports providers and users in every country, granting the first thirty providers in each market a reliability earnings boost.

How can I optimize my URnetwork mining rewards?

URnetwork recommends that providers remain online 24×7. The team strives to make the URnetwork app on Android and iOS as competitive as dedicated hardware solutions—such as Raspberry Pi devices, routers, or servers—but acknowledges that purpose-built, always-on hardware often offers the simplest maintenance for sustained uptime.

How can I use the URnetwork network?

Users simply install the URnetwork app and connect. URnetwork targets the entire consumer VPN market—over one billion users—and requires no cryptocurrency expertise to use.

Who governs the URnetwork network?

Currently BringYour, Inc., a US C-Corp, runs the network. The founding team (Brien Colwell and Stuart Kuentzel) made the admin decisions. It is moving to a Swiss foundation run by an independent board. BringYour, Inc. will continue to develop the open source technology, but the protocol/token will be controlled by the foundation.