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  • Current Landscape
  • Welcome to Flex
  • Overview
    • Infrastructure for the New Web
    • The Values of the Flex Ecosystem
  • Protocol
    • Flex Validator Nodes
      • Data and Validation Layer
      • Rewards Layer
      • Audit Layer
      • Sentinel Layer
      • Prediction Layer
      • Getting Started
        • Propagation into the Validation Layer
        • Transaction Pool Generation
        • Transaction Weight Assignment
        • Epoch Score Calculation
        • Reward Distribution
        • Reward Claiming
        • Epoch Reward Pool Mechanics
    • Proof-of-Collaboration (PoCol)
      • PoCol Governance using FLEXE
      • Actors in the Flex Ecosystem
    • Flex Commons
      • Code Tokenization
      • Code Registry and Indexing
      • Code Versioning and Forking
      • Code Licensing and Royalties
      • Code Marketplaces and Auctions
      • Code Search and Discovery
      • Flex Commons Governance using FLEXE
    • Ecosystem Tokens' Multi-Staking
    • Technical Roadmap for the Flex Ecosystem
      • Flex Virtual Machine (FVM)
      • Flex SDCK
      • re:Flex Smart Contract Language
    • Flex Improvement Proposal (FIP)
    • Flex Portal: Your Gateway to Web3
  • Contribute to the Ecosystem
    • Strategists: Roles and Contributions
    • Developers and Projects
  • Governance and Utility
    • Introducing the FLEXE Token (coming soon)
    • Flexonomics (coming soon)
    • How to get FLEXE tokens (coming soon)
      • Use the faucet (coming soon)
      • Run a node (coming soon)
  • Quicklinks
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    • Official Website
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    • Digital Asset Disclosure (coming soon)
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  1. Overview

Infrastructure for the New Web

Flex is a community-owned platform that rapidly boosts dApp user growth through a multi-chain, proof-of-collaboration protocol, benefiting the entire community. Here are the problems that Flex solves.

  1. Fragmented ecosystems and communities: Ideally, an ecosystem or community should benefit all participants. However, in the current state of the crypto space, the success of one project often results in the detriment of another, leading to a fragmented environment.

  2. Centralization concerns: Despite the ideal of decentralization, true decentralization remains elusive. While some decision-making processes should be decentralized, this is often not the case.

  3. Barrier to entry: Efforts to reduce the barrier to entry have largely focused on lowering gas fees. Although important, achieving financial inclusion requires broader approaches beyond just addressing gas fees.

  4. Web3 projects building for other Web3 projects: Many Web3 projects are designed to serve only the Web3 community, which restricts broader adoption and utility.

  5. Elitism in Web3: There is a perception that once individuals succeed in the Web3 space, they prevent others from following in their footsteps, which contradicts the inclusive principles of Web3.

Flex Ecosystem: A New Approach to Web3

  1. Incentive alignment: The incentives within the Flex ecosystem are structured so that the success of one participant benefits all. By aligning the interests of all actors, the ecosystem aims to become an autonomous organism that grows and expands while providing value to both early and new adopters.

  2. Fair and transparent distribution of value: The Flex validator network continuously verifies the value added to the ecosystem by each participant. This ensures that the value distribution is fair and transparent, with all users' incentives agreed upon by the network validators.

  3. Supporting new projects: To effectively onboard new users, crypto projects need access to various technologies, which they often lack due to financial or technical constraints. Flex offers an ecosystem that ensures these projects receive the necessary support. In return, these projects contribute the value they generate back to the ecosystem.

By addressing these key challenges, Flex aims to create a more inclusive, fair, and sustainable cryptocurrency ecosystem.

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