The Story of Telos Blockchain and why it’s one of the undervalued coins.

Eugene Luzgin
2 min readSep 8, 2020

Almost everyone who is active in cryptocurrency World have heard about EOS Blockchain, which promised to become Ethereum killer but later came under criticism for its centralization, corruption and vote buying.

I helped to launch EOS Blockchain as a founder of EOS Tribe block producer candidate back in 2017 and later watched it evolve in ways most didn’t anticipate. I have written my reflection on it in a now dated post: https://steemit.com/eos/@eostribe/my-reflection-on-eos-history-and-current-state. Many of my observations and predictions in the above article are self evident today creating a down pressure on EOS coin price.

This post however is about much less known Telos Blockchain, which was launched by many original technical BP teams who have left EOS after it’s de-facto takeover (details in my previous post).

Telos is a fork of the same EOSIO code with many problems discovered in EOS fixed in Telos version. You can think of Telos as an upgraded version of EOS Blockchain with more equitable distribution of tokens and better Governance model and zero inflation on total supply of tokens to top it off.

And this why I think Telos has more potential for grows and token appreciation vs current EOS coin. Here are my arguments for Telos:

  1. Telos has a diverse technical community and technical talent which keeps innovating and bringing more real World use cases;
  2. Telos is now testing and soon deploying Ethereum virtual machine, which will allow for many currently suffering Ethereum dApps running on congested Ethereum network a clear path of migration to faster network;
  3. Telos is a tight run ship without large marketing budget, which prefers on building rather than creating hype;
  4. Total supply of TLOS is at 355M coins at a price of $0.024 per coin with zero percent inflation vs over 1.022 Billion EOS coins at a price of $2.75 initially growing at 5% (inflation was later reduced);
  5. Another shortcoming of EOS as a smart contract platform is its relative centralization of validating nodes in China, which makes many Western projects and businesses hesitant to even consider it;
  6. Telos on another hand is very well distributed across International teams supporting the chain and dedicating their full time attention to success of the chain and building new solutions on it;

Given Telos limited supply and speed of innovation — I see dramatic potential for Token appreciation in coming months.

You can learn more about Telos on it’s main website: https://www.telos.net/

If you are developer — you can win some TLOS by participating in latest Hackathon to build Governance apps on Telos blockchain: https://taikai.network/telos-foundation/challenges/telosdecidehackathon

Disclaimer: I am founder of Crypto Tribe — Validator on Telos and other POS chains: http://cryptotribe.io/ and developer for TRIBE Wallet supporting TLOS and other major coins: https://www.tribewallet.io/

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Eugene Luzgin

Software technology leader and problem solver with diverse track record in software industry roles ranging from individual contributor to a startup founder.