The Gilgamesh Platform — completely new and unique knowledge-sharing social network

First of all you will ask why Gilgamesh? What or who is it? The Gilgamesh platform is named for The Epic of Gilgamesh, conclusively considered the first written story, which dates back to 2000 BC and is written in the Sumerian cuneiform language. This is the oldest written story known to exist and is loosely based on the historical King Gilgamesh who ruled Sumerian Uruk (today it’s Iraq) in 2700 BC. The oldest written version of the poem dates to circa 2000 BC. And cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of writing. In its written form the poem denotes the first marker in the evolution from oral storytelling to the tradition of the written word. So if tis platform would be named for some another i would ask why not Gilgamesh? Agree? I think yes.

So what the Gilgamesh Platform is and what it brings to our lives?

The Gilgamesh platform is a social network that uses the power and authority people gain as social influencers to increase in-depth knowledge through reading books and sharing information. Platform will capitalize on the opportunity to provide the very first interactive social network for potential readers, active readers, critics, and authors to connect with one another, share information, and power the market through popular consensus and social influence.

One of the most important advantages is rewarding of active participants with Gilgamesh Tokens (GIL), based on their level of participation and value on the platform by using smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. The collection of tokens will fuel the Gilgamesh platform organically because they incentivize productive engagements for readers, authors, and critics, and encourage users to read more books and be more active on the application in order to gain more knowledge and earn more tokens.

This platform also has plans to eliminate intermediaries between the author and the reader who recently very often abuse their position. It means that any author can publish a book on the platform where it will be available directly to readers, without the possibility of plagiarism from the side of scammers, and exactly blockchain technology powered by Ethereum network provides these opportunities because it is almost impossible to crack or duplicate anything inside it. Readers could buy books for GIL tokens, which are internal currency of the platform and which they could earn by their activity or simply buy it through cryptocurrency exchanges where GILs are tradeable.

The self-publishing platform will allow for the transfer of GIL between authors and self-publishing service providers and will act as a token earning source for the Gilgamesh platform. Self-publishing service providers include: book designers, copy editors, distributors, book printers, and marketers, who advertise their services on the platform to make valuable connections and earn GIL as income.

I think it’s really great idea that creates true and fair interaction between Readers/Critics, Authors, and Service Providers. And Gilgamesh Platform is the world first platform which will do this on blockchain technology through Ethereum smart-contracts and also IPFS technology. IPFS is peer to peer hypermedia protocol and a cryptographic hash that will be used to store critical information such as book files and user information, IPFS is a great match for blockchain based software, we can store large amount of data with IPFS and insert immutable IPFS link into the blockchain transactions or smart contract, this can secure and timestamp our content without having to put the data on the blockchain.

For better understanding you should look on this scheme: 

By the way, you can see Android, iOS and Desktop apps on this scheme among which Gilgamesh iOS App is already released and you can see how it works on this video: click here to watch.

Interface is really nice and comfortable. You can see examples bottom.

So as you can see much work is already done by Gilgamesh team but even more is waiting ahead. And one the main phases according to the roadmap is approaching GIL ICO about which you can read in details in their whitepaper. There you also can find many other technical information about the platform, blockchain and IPFS technologies implementation, Gilgamesh team and their vision. I can add from myself that this is really a unique and necessary platform for today and I see in it a huge potential and a long way of development. And yes, I will invest in them on pre-ico or ico stage and advise you to think about the same.