The large-scale Asian Blockchain Summit 2024 (ABS2024) will be held at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center from August 6 to August 8. The theme of the summit is "Prospering in the Plural World of AI and Web3". The conference brings together leaders and developers in the fields of blockchain and AI from around the world to discuss the most forward-looking technologies and the future of decentralized governance.
Roam (formerly MetaBlox, hereinafter referred to as Roam), an important partner of this conference and the world's leading decentralized wireless network (DeWi) ecosystem builder, will bring its latest generation of hardware products and future project plans to the summit to show attendees its huge potential and unique advantages in the global WiFi roaming network.
At the summit, Roam announced that it will launch a new product line, Roam Growth, before TGE. The specific product details will be announced soon. At the same time, Roam will airdrop a total of 20 million $ROAM tokens to users who purchase various Roam mining machines before TGE and early MetaBlox NFT holders to reward them for their contributions to the early network ecosystem construction of the project.
A solid promoter of OpenRoaming™ solutions
Roam aims to build a decentralized global wireless WiFi roaming network supported by and serving users, helping users seamlessly connect to more than 3.5 million OpenRoaming™ nodes and 440,000 self-built nodes around the world, providing users with enterprise-level secure WiFi roaming services.
Roam is the only Web3 project member in the OpenRoaming™ program. Its original intention was that the team found that the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) organization was hindered in promoting the OpenRoaming™ program globally, and the natural decentralized properties of Web3 will be able to well solve the pain points encountered in the deployment process of this solution.
As an innovative technical standard launched by WBA in 2019, OpenRoaming™ aims to simplify the Wi-Fi authentication process, enable users to roam seamlessly between multiple networks, and ensure the security of data transmission. Roam recognizes the importance of OpenRoaming™ in improving the public Wi-Fi experience, and therefore promotes its development as the core driving force of its own development.
Roam's core technology is also reflected in the application of centralized identifiers (DIDs) and verifiable credentials (VCs). Through DIDs and VCs, Roam provides users with a secure and reliable identity authentication system to ensure that users can maintain data privacy and security when connecting to WiFi networks. The application of DIDs and VCs not only ensures the security of users' information, but also brings more trust and security to the Roam ecosystem.
By promoting the construction of blockchain and decentralized DeWi ecosystem, Roam not only lowers the threshold for small and medium-sized enterprises and individual users to participate in OpenRoaming™, but also promotes the wide coverage and in-depth application of the network through economic incentives. Roam has built a solid Web3 protocol layer between Wi-Fi networks, OpenRoaming™ technology and users to support users to easily join the OpenRoaming™ network through Roam's routing devices or mobile devices and enjoy the convenience of seamless roaming.
The prosperity of the Roam ecosystem
Thanks to technological innovation, Roam has rapidly built a huge network of users and nodes in the process of promoting the popularization of OpenRoaming™ with its innovative products, unique incentive schemes and social growth strategies.
In just three years, the number of Roam application users has exceeded 560,000, covering more than 180 countries, and the number of self-built nodes has exceeded 440,000. According to the data on the DePINscan official website, Roam's global node number ranks among the top three in the DePIN track. In addition to Roam's own hotspots, users can also share and use more than 3.5 million OpenRoaming™ nodes deployed on land, ships, and aircraft by companies such as Boingo, Cisco, and Global Reach in the OpenRoaming™ program.
As of now, Roam has been invested by many well-known institutions such as Samsung Next, Anagram, Volt Capital, Comma3 Ventures, ECMC Group, Awesome People Ventures, Stratified Capital, DeWi Labs, Future 3 Campus, IoTeX, ZC capital, JDI, Synergis and SNZ.
In June, Roam announced its launch on Solana Mobile’s dApp store, which is powered by Saga mobile phone, which is known as the world’s most Web3-focused mobile phone. With the dApp store, Roam apps achieve faster loading speeds and superior connectivity, significantly improving user experience and effectively bridging the gap between Web3 and everyday technology.
At the same time, Roam is a key project to introduce WiFi connectivity to all APhone cloud devices through AppNest. The cooperation with AppNest aims to provide a seamless and reliable WiFi access experience with the help of OpenRoaming™ technology, ensuring fast and secure connections between APhone devices, thereby further enhancing the user experience.
Roam has also expanded its use cases, forming an alliance with Coral App to bring OpenRoaming™ technology to Coral Phone. The cooperation focuses on optimizing the WiFi roaming experience and launching Roam Miners to create new opportunities for connectivity and revenue.
Through this series of innovative initiatives, Roam is gradually building an open, fair and efficient new global wireless network ecosystem, providing global users with efficient and convenient network access methods.
Roam’s ecosystem extends beyond the OpenRoaming™ network to include token economics, NFTs, and deep integration with other Web3 applications. Roam Points, $ROAM tokens, and Roam NFTs (formerly MetaBlox NFTs) together form the economic foundation of Roam, providing users and network contributors with a rich variety of ways to participate and revenue sources, allowing the Roam ecosystem to drive network development from the bottom up.
Small and medium-sized enterprises, individual users, etc. can join the OpenRoaming™ network at any time through the Roam protocol, including purchasing a Roam router or sharing the hotspot by loading the Roam App on a mobile device.
Roam Hardware and Software Products
In terms of hardware equipment, the main product currently on sale is Roam's core hardware product - the Rainier MAX60 router, which is an important part of the DeWi ecosystem it has built.
The Rainier MAX60 router not only supports OpenRoaming™, but also has Wi-Fi 6 performance, supporting data transmission rates up to 9.6Gbps, which is nearly 3 times faster than WiFi 5, effectively reducing bandwidth congestion. At the same time, it can meet the needs of 200+ devices connecting simultaneously within a range of 150 square meters, which is very suitable for most home and small business scenarios.
In terms of security, Rainier MAX60 adopts the latest WPA3 security protocol to provide users with multi-factor authentication and encryption protection to ensure the security of user data, privacy and funds.
Compared with traditional routers, the mining performance of Rainier MAX60 is its biggest highlight. Users will receive Roam Points when activating and using it, and will support dual mining/multi-mining functions and airdrop rewards for other projects in the Roam ecosystem.
This design not only lowers the entry threshold for users, but also brings them potential additional income, further improving the economic return of Roam mining machines. With extremely low price thresholds, continuous economic incentives and excellent network performance, Rainier MAX60 is driving a large number of small businesses and personal WiFi nodes to spontaneously join the OpenRoaming™ network construction.
As a core component in the Roam ecosystem, Roam App not only provides users with an easy-to-use platform that enables them to easily join the Roam network and enjoy free WiFi services, but also introduces a series of innovative Web3 native functions, greatly enriching the user experience.
Through the "Check-in-to-earn" function, users can receive points rewards by verifying the working status of WiFi network nodes and adding hotspot WiFi. Currently, the cumulative number of check-ins in the application has exceeded 11 million, demonstrating the user's activeness and love for this feature.
The "Connect-to-convert" function provides users with a variety of incentive mechanisms and enables Roam App to use the accumulated traffic to serve other Web3 projects. These project parties can accurately airdrop to target users according to their own needs, thereby achieving early launch and growth of the ecosystem. Active users are expected to receive token airdrop incentives from a series of Web3 projects, which will further stimulate their contribution to the Roam ecosystem and is expected to convert a large number of Web2 users into Web3 users.
The "Location-based-socialfi" function helps users expand their social graphs based on their geographic location and strengthens the links between users in the ecosystem. The introduction of this socialization not only enhances the cohesion of the Roam community, but also provides a solid foundation for further fission of the ecosystem and exploration of commercial value.
In addition, the "Infra-as-a-service" function enables Roam to cooperate with other infrastructure project parties in infrastructure services. Through hardware cooperation with the DePIN project party, Roam supports multiple mining on one machine, bringing more diversified benefits to users.
Roam Economic Model
There are three main assets in Roam's economic system: Roam Points, $ROAM, and Roam NFTs, which together drive the thriving Roam ecosystem in different ways.
Roam Points are the core assets of the current ecosystem. Users can obtain them in a variety of ways, including participating in network contributions, direct purchases, and exchanges with partner merchants. These points have wide circulation within the Roam ecosystem and can be used to purchase third-party applications, access network-generated data, and even publish advertisements in the Roam network environment.
In addition, users can also choose to convert Roam Points into governance tokens $ROAM through a staking and burning mechanism after TGE, further enhancing their value and use. It is worth noting that when Roam Points are used for specific purposes or under certain conditions, they will be destroyed. This mechanism helps to effectively control the supply and thus enhance the scarcity of the token.
$ROAM is the governance token of the Roam ecosystem, and holders can obtain it through staking, burning, airdrops, etc. These tokens play an important role in the ecosystem, reflecting the value of the project, participating in community governance, and staking to obtain rewards.
Roam NFTs (MetaBlox NFTs) are issued directly by the MetaBlox Foundation and can be associated with specific mining equipment. Holders can obtain $ROAM rewards by staking these NFTs. At the same time, NFTs also give holders a special community status, allowing them to enjoy unique rights and status symbols in the Roam ecosystem.
In summary, Roam’s economic model provides users with diverse ways to participate and incentive mechanisms through three carefully designed assets, which jointly promote the prosperity and development of the Roam ecosystem.
A new phase
Despite the current market shock, Roam has not slowed down its pace. Roam adheres to the concepts of innovation, openness, and cooperation to promote the decentralized development of the global Wi-Fi roaming network. With the upcoming airdrop and subsequent TGE information, it does not mean that the good news has landed, but it has entered a new stage.
Roam will continue to deepen its economic model and incentive mechanism construction, and continuously optimize and improve its hardware equipment and software application functions. For example, in terms of hardware, Roam plans to launch more models and specifications of equipment to meet the needs of different users; in terms of software, it plans to introduce more Web3 native functions and social gameplay to further enhance user experience and participation.
On the technical level, Roam continues to explore and apply new technologies and standards to improve network performance, enhance security and reliability; on the market level, it will continue to expand its user base and partner network to expand market share and enhance brand influence; on the ecological level, it will continue to improve its economic model and incentive mechanism to attract more users and project parties to participate in the construction of the Roam ecosystem to jointly promote the popularization and application of the OpenRoaming™ network.
At the same time, Roam will actively respond to market changes and user needs to adjust its development strategy and layout direction to ensure that it maintains its leading position in the fierce market competition and achieves sustainable development goals. For example, in response to the current situation where the global Wi-Fi market has strong demand but the OpenRoaming™ node coverage rate is low, Roam will increase investment to expand network coverage and user base to meet market demand and improve user experience; in response to the rapid development of blockchain technology and Web3 but limited application scenarios, Roam will actively explore and expand new application scenarios and cooperation models to promote technological innovation and upgrading.
I believe that in the future, Roam will continue to lead the industry development, promote technological innovation and market expansion, provide more convenient, secure and efficient Wi-Fi roaming services to global users, and become one of the important driving forces in the field of blockchain technology and Web3.
