FTM

Andre Cronje of YFI & KEEP3R is helping advise the team daily (Go you youtube and seach "Andre Cronje Fantom") and working on building on the Fantom Opera Blockchain

Fantom isn't a dead project, they launched their main net last year and have been building out both their defi suite for retail investors but also connecting business to business and are scoring development partnerships as recently as Dec 2020 that will showcase the power of Fantom as well as help fund a runway for further development

With coming blockchain interoperability and bridges, Fantom is poised to help Ethereum manage some of the transaction load as a layer-2, helping ETH scale and benefiting both projects.

Fantom is downwards-compatible with Ethereum because it supports smart contacts for Ethereum VM (EVM) natively and out of the box. ETH devs can easily switch and deploy their dapps / smart contracts on FTM - there is NO learning curve. Solidity devs can easily code FTM smart contracts. No additional skills or programming languages required. This alone will catapult FTM into the TOP 10, it's fucking revolutionary.

FTM is everything ETH wanted to be, just that it actually scales.

Transaction Finality / TX Confirmation Time:
FANTOM Transactions are confirmed instantly - it only takes 0.7 seconds for a tx to get confirmed. BTC transaction are considered finalized after 30 minutes and ETH transactions after 10 minutes. Fuck that shit. No one is waiting 10 minutes at a retail store to wait for the payment to go through. With FANTOM real-time payments are absolutely no problem. Google "FANTOM PAY" to learn more about Fantom's Payment / Lending service. FANTOM PAY might unironically be the catalyst for mainstream adoption of crypto payments / crypto loans.

2 - The Tokenomics
The tokenomics are amazing, seriously. Total supply is roughly 3.15 billion and a huge part of that will be LOCKED FOR STAKING. This means that the actual circulating supply will be very low. Everyone can stake FTM tokens, staking reward is 15% per year iirc. Try getting that ROI at your local bank kek. If you own about 3.3 million tokens you can run a FTM validator node and even earn more FTM. Everyone who remembers the DASH master node gains, strap the fuck in! This is 10x better, unironically.

3 - The team
The team is extremely talented. A large part of the team holds PhDs in CS from Yonsei University (the Harvard of South Korea), the CEO is an award-winning tech entrepreneur. Not the type of guy that would dump on you just to pay rent.

The developers are writing high-quality, secure code 24/7 - check the GitHub. On top of that, FTM is available in Rust, Java and Go. State-of-the-art coding languages that are supported by all devices imaginable. How much more can you ask for? Most coders on the team have PhD’s in Computer Science from the Harvard of South Korea (Yonsei University) as well and Andre Cronje (Cryptobriefing Chief Code Reviewer) is working full-time on FTMs aBFT concensus model. I have been following Andre Cronje for years and absolutely love his work. He is a code autist / genius coder on the level of Vitalik. He finished his 3-4 year CS degree in 5 months. There are less than a handful people on this planet that know more about Blockchain concensus models than Andre. I personally went all In after I learned that he is working full-time on the project.

GITHUB LINK: https://github.com/Fantom-foundation

4- The partnerships
Oracle
PosBank
Danfoss Inc.
Terra Payments
Sikoba Research
Yonsei University
University of Sidney
Several Government Agencies
-- and many more --

SOURCE: https://fantom.foundation/enterprise-alliance

5 - The Mainnet Launch
FTM mainnet launch is imminent. According to the current estimates the mainnet will launch in 5-7 weeks from today (16th April 19). The whole thing is WAY AHEAD of it’s schedule. The original release was planned for Q4 2019, now it’s in Q2. Talking about operational excellence and project management.

Random FUD:

>muh Andre Cronje doesn’t own any FTM tokens.
That's bullish af, he doesnt hold ANY crypto because he isnt in it for the money grab he is a code autist like Vitalik. his goal as a researcher was to find the best aBFT concensus DAG. hint for the brainlets: its FTM. Andre joined FTM as a researcher because he is genuinely interested in the technology. A real leader who doesn’t care about 1000x gains. In fact, he hates moon boys, like Vitalik. They are on the same level. Just watch the FANTOM AMA with him on YouTube and I promise you will market buy immediately.

>muh it’s a DAG. DAGs are scams
Even Bitcoin and Ethereum are DAGs. In fact, ALL blockchains are DAGs by definition. Let Andre Cronje explain it to you in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INCA7t-oc7w

>muh it’s an ERC-20
Every fucking crypto in history has been an ERC-20 before the mainnet launch. Look at EOS, they received billions of $ worth of ETH to fund the development of the EOS blockchain. How else would you want to fund a project of the scale of EOS or even FTM??? Tokens are either exchanged 1:1 or burned at mainnet launch. Has happened countless times, no big deal. Examples of projects who have leveraged the ETH ERC20 token ecosystem are EOS, NEO, Cardano (ADA), and Holochain (HOT), just to name a few. It's totally legit, go ask your friends on Plebbit. Taking this ERC-20 stuff out of context to FUD really reeks of desperation. Easiest buy signal of the decade. Unironically bought 100k.

>muh it’s a biz pump and dump
>muh thanks for buying my bags biz I was the one who did the pnd and now I am shilling X
imagine being so mentally retarded to believe FTM is only shilled on /biz or some shitcoin pnd flavor of the week. FTM has been the #1 in trade volume for weeks on all exchanges it's listed on. twitter is shilling it 24/7. this feels unironically like ETH. it's pointless to pretend this is a pnd - everyone who doesn't live in the biz echo chamber knows how big FTM is. it's the next big thing and you faggots will not get my bag. Everyone with half a brain bought the bottom below $0.007 anyways. No need to panic. Just hold, don’t be the faggot that sold ETH at $3 for a pathetic 10x. This will unironically reach $0.50+ in the next bull run.

>muh I am not FUDDING I am just here to help you sell
Where's your buy order son? if you really thought FTM was shit, you wouldn't waste your time, writing this low effort FUD, filling out captchas, etc. You are here to buy in cheaper - actions speak louder than words anon you can't hide your intentions. I don't waste my time shitting on EOS even though I think it's garbage - why would I? I couldn't care less about the project and filter everything related to EOS. People only FUD if they are interested. But what you don't realize is that 4chan doesn't affect the price. This isn't a tradeogre shitcoin with zero volume

>muh the team changed, they exit scammed
This is Reddit-tier FUD, just lies, zero proofs. Everything's going fine with the dev team. Re-watch the Andre Cronje AMA on YouTube or check the Telegram Channel. There were several teams working simultaneously on FANTOM. Some expert software engineers were actually hired by Andre Cronje. Overall however, the team is quite large and might have to get downsized in the future, simply because mainnet is almost ready and there is no need for 20+ software engineers anymore. Feel free to post proof that staff members actually exit-scammed, I am waiting....