With the ever-expanding amount of cryptocurrencies out there, a need for a universal wallet to hold your entire portfolio increases exponentially. With the increase in the need of such wallet, the quality of the wallet must rise up to match the demand. Ethos appears to be able to fit all required categories
What is Ethos?
Ethos claims it is a universal wallet that is able to store all of your tokens, coins, and digital assets on its mobile-focused ecosystem, securing your assets with a SmartKey. Ethos does not control your assets and is completely decentralized allowing you are in complete control of them. You can also add assets stored elsewhere to your wallet, such as an offline hardware wallet or an exchange, allowing you to be able to check your entire portfolio all in one place. Another one of Ethos' features is it's social media platform, allowing you to see user reviews of coins, and provides detailed information on each cryptocurrency and recent data trends, though you should still do your own research past Ethos' data.
Ethos Bedrock: The Next Blockchain API
Ethos uses its own blockchain it calls Ethos Bedrock, allowing users to build other projects on it (like the Etherium blockchain). It compares itself to Red Hat, saying "Red Hat didn’t reinvent Linux,
but they provided a very important and useful set of services and packages that made it accessible for
businesses and consumers." On Ethos Bedrock, the Ethos team will be building multiple applications including Ethos Wallet Services, a decentralized exchange, and Ethos Fiat Gateway, an exchange allowing you to trade cryptocurrency for fiat currencies, requiring additional KYC ("Know Your Customer", Identification).
But not fully decentralized?
Yes, Ethos Wallet is not a fully decentralized wallet. A majority of the features are, but just like many other products, cryptocurrency needs some sort of infrastructure to provide support for less technical users, and a team to help when people have issues. Ethos plans on centralizing certain components of its service to provide a better user experience.
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Ethos will be airdropping certain cryptocurrencies it has partnered with to pre-registered users, such as $PAX and Ravencoin (Info here). To join the airdrop, you must pre-register on their site here.
All in all, Ethos appears to be an amazing ICO, but remember it is just that. An ICO. Please do your own research before investing anything into cryptocurrency.
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