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Kylin Network ($KYL) – Data Infrastructure for DeFi and Web 3.0 Powered by Polkadot

Kylin Network is a Polkadot-based project that aims to be the data infrastructure on Polkadot. The maximum supply is 1 billion $KYL tokens

Kylin Network is a Polkadot-based project that aims to be the data infrastructure on Polka. It is a decentralized oracle provider based on Polkadot’s Substrate framework that will allow any blockchain, parachain, parathread, or dapp to access reliable and valid data, such as price feeds and weather predictions, from a growing variety of on/off-chain data sources.

The cross-chain platform will unlock idle data sets integrating their value into a groundbreaking decentralized data marketplace. The resulting synergy between off-chain and on-chain data will thus give consumers and dapp builders a cost-effective solution they can actually trust over centralized sources. 

As the team behind Kylin says, the project aims to do for data what DeFi did for crypto and build a data infrastructure that meets the growing demands from DeFi and Web 3.0 products. 

Kylin Network Data Economy – Overview 

The platform’s data economy consists of three components:

  • Data Oracle – a decentralized data-feeding protocol powered by Polkadot/Substrate. It uses a network of data providers, arbitration nodes, and oracle nodes, which ensures that data sourcing remains decentralized. It thus offers access to multiple real-time data sources in a manner that is both cost-effective and practical.
  • Data Marketplace – an open platform for data exchange and pricing. Dapps built on Polkadot can thus easily access and efficiently collect on/off-chain data at competitive prices.
  • Data Analytics – a combination of analytic tools designed for warehouses; it ensures a query engine for the public as well as API for developers, third-party applications, and external analytic tools.

Kylin Oracle consists of five entities: 

  • Data Consumer
  • Data Warehouse
  • Oracle Node (Miner)
  • Arbitration Node (Arbitrator) 
  • Blockchain Node (Validator)

Oracle-type projects are essential because blockchains, by the way they were designed, don’t have access to off-chain data (external data), so they are like devices that don’t have access to the internet. 

This is where these projects come in, which are a bridge between blockchains and the outside world. This means that as large ecosystems such as Ethereum, Polka, Elrond, dapps, or any other types of projects that don’t have access to off-chain data increase, demand for oracles will increase as well, and will do so in a directly proportional manner. 

 

The Advantages of Being Built on Substrate and Integrated with Polkadot

Since Kylin is built on Polka, when it activates its own parachain within the ecosystem, it will benefit from the scalability, interoperability, and number of transactions per second offered by Polka. 

This will allow the team behind Kylin to use their knowledge and apply their specializations to build cost-effective solutions that both dapp developers and data consumers will use over centralized sources. 

The network’s oracle nodes will be able to connect to other polkadot parachains using Polkadot’s Relay Chain. Moreover, they will communicate across bridges with other blockchains and cooperate with off-chain workers that are Polkadot-native oracles. 

Furthermore, as Polkadot grows and attracts more users, developers, and greater interest, the projects within the ecosystem, those that have strong and sustainable use-cases to be precise, will also benefit from Polka’s success. 

 

Application Scenarios

Kylin Network is diverse, to say the least, when it comes to application scenarios. A few examples of such applications include the following:

  • Decentralized Insurance Automatic Payment
  • Crypto Asset Lending Platform
  • Stable Coins and Crypto Derivatives
  • Cross-chain DEXs
  • Blockchain Computing Market
  • Decentralized video games and casinos

 

KYL Token Economics and Use Cases 

KYL is the Kylin Network Mainnet token, and it is necessary to power and secure the decentralized data network. The utility and use cases of the KYL token include but are not limited to the following:

  • On-chain Governance – holders of the network’s native token can vote for the network’s upgrades and parameter changes, which ensures that the network remains both decentralized and secure as it develops. 
  • Stake to be Oracle Node and Arbitrator Node – the KYL token is also staked for operating an Oracle Node; the more you stake, the higher the chances of being selected to fulfill data requests. 
  • Rewards for Arbitrators, Validators, and Data Providers – Arbitrators get rewards for verifying the integrity and validity of the data the Oracle nodes provided and validators for participating in the nPOS consensus mechanism of Kylin.
  • Intermediary of Exchange – KYL tokens are also used for payments, query fees, and to access private data APIs.

 

The maximum supply is 1 billion $KYL tokens, with a circulating supply of 74 million. Given that 92.5% of the tokens are about to reach the market, the most important thing is how this happens.

Initially, we have 40% of tokens distributed over 10 years after the mainnet, i.e., 40 million per year. Other allocations shall take place as follows:

  • 10% foundation reserve, distributed over 3 years;
  • 15% in the parachain founding;
  • 9% for the team, 0% unlocked for 12 months, followed by monthly vesting over 24 months;
  • 3% for advisors, 0% unlocked for 4 months, followed by monthly vesting over 18 months.

According to the token distribution schedule, at the end of 2021, we will have just over 200 million in circulation, and at the end of 2022, about 350 million in circulation.

Given what the project promises, the confidence it already generates, and the community behind it, inflation will be a natural one. 

 

Team & Investors

The team behind Kylin Network is public and with extended experience in various fields, such as:

  • Software architecture
  • Marketing
  • Token economics
  • Finance
  • Business development

They come out of top schools, employers, and blockchain projects like TomoChain, Beam, Columbia University, John Hopkins, and JP Morgan, to name a few. 

Investors include MoonRock Capital and Au21 Capital, two companies targeting blockchain projects that also have projects such as Ocean, RamDeFi, PolkaDot, Elrond, and others in their portfolio.

 

Partnerships 

Kylin has announced several exciting and noteworthy partnerships, including MantraDao, Bondly, Injectivem, Paid Network, and, Zero Chains. This can only increase Kylin’s chance of succeeding.

Kylin also entered the world of NFTs a little, through a PolkaPet NFT they created. This PolkaPet is part of a collectible card game (similar to Yu-Gi-Oh for connoisseurs).

Community 

The community is a key factor in the success of any project in the crypto niche. Without it, there is no support to achieve your goals. Kylin, for a project that has a few good months to go until mainnet, has a very active and enthusiastic community on Telegram and Twitter, so it has strong support.

 

To Sum Up 

Kylin Oracle comes to ensure an efficient, trustless, and reliable solution for off-chain data, with the protocol running in a scalable and decentralized fashion. 

Since it is built on Substrate and will thus connect to Polkadot as a parachain, it will benefit from Polkadot’s underlying consensus. Furthermore, the Kylin Network performance and security will be guaranteed by Polkadot and Substrate. 

The competitive advantages of Kylin Oracle and the tiered system of “data affordability” will help create various opportunities for efficiency improvement across a wide array of disciplines and industries. 

Last but not least, the utility model of the Kylin Network’s native token ensures adequate economic incentives to preserve the network’s integrity and encourage accurate and reliable data availability. For example, the tokens of misbehaving or underperforming actors are slashed, which contributes to the network’s security and performance.

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