What is Iagon?
Iagon is an AI-driven shared storage and compute economy, bridging decentralization with compliance.

Iagon’s autonomous, innovative cloud service marketplace provides privacy, security and operational sovereignty for both enterprise & retail consumers while enabling compliant solutions at the click of a button.

Pioneering the next generation of cloud services, Iagon is built on the core tenets of decentralization, giving data ownership back to the users and removing any central point of control. Through data sharding, encryption and a global network of server nodes, Iagon mitigates the security and privacy risks of traditional centralized cloud services, eliminating the possibility of data leaks, surveillance and single points of failure.

With Iagon cloud storage, computing and web hosting, businesses and individuals can leverage a network of resource providers to facilitate their needs, while remaining compliant with their region of operation. Complete operational sovereignty enables each user to set parameters for how and where their data is stored, with active transparent insights and monitoring available at all times. Through Iagon, consumers can store, use, test and deploy in a traditional manner, while benefiting from the advantages of a secure, decentralized and compliant network.

Iagon ushers in a new era of data ownership, putting the keys to your data back in your hands with the tools to leverage it as you see fit. Your data, your control, your future.

Key Benefits / Capabilities of Iagon?

* **Decentralized server network** | Diversified data storage and compute locations to mitigate single-point failures and safeguard users from malicious attacks.

* **Sharded and Encrypted Data** | Store files with any desired degree of redundancy and security, keeping users’ data private and safe.

* **Compliance in a box** | One-click compliance empowers users to choose where their data is stored and how it is transferred or accessed.

* **Operational Sovereignty** | Manage your data with complete control, choosing by who, when and where your data is accessible.

* **Big Data Capabilities** | Leverage the network as your supercomputer, enabling AI and big data computation.

* **Interoperability** | Easily integrated with third-party dapps and protocols, enabling them to leverage decentralized storage and computing in their operations.

Who are the founders of Iagon?
Iagon was founded by a group of PhDs who identified the fundamental issues associated with how data is stored and used in the healthcare industry. In 2017, they began on a solution to create a secure way for individuals to hold, and thereby own their health data, and to interact more effectively with health services. Over time it became clear that data security and ownership were a prevalent issue across many industries and thus, Iagon expanded its scope in pursuit of revolutionizing how data is stored, used and owned.

**Dr. Navjit Dhaliwal**
A serial entrepreneur with a keen interest in business and technology. He is leading the Iagon team to be at the forefront of the decentralised cloud services industry.

**Dr. Elad Harison**
An AI and Machine Learning Expert, Economist and Industrial Engineer. His everyday work integrates the technical, scientific, business and economic aspects of the organisational processes at Iagon. He is responsible for fostering a success-oriented, accountable environment within the company

**Dr. Rohit Gupta**
Currently, Dr. Gupta is the Technology Director with the Expedia Group and had previously worked with Amazon and Ames Research Laboratories before founding HealthGini. In addition to his remarkable background in innovation, Rohit has a proven track record for establishing a culture of customer focus, operational excellence, and continuous improvement in a range of domains, including travel, e-commerce, healthcare, telecommunications, fraud and cloud computing. Always up for new challenges, Gupta is a valued member of the IAGON advisory board as the Cloud Computing Research Advisor.

**Dr. Claudio Lima**
A seasoned executive, global CTO, VP of innovation and thought leader in advanced energy and telecom/IT working with emerging technologies, new businesses and digital transformation. At Iagon, he identifies new technology, landscapes, developments and opportunities and creates plans to implement them for Iagon and its clients.

*Learn more about the team.*

What Makes Iagon Unique?
Iagon is taking a user-centric approach to the solution of decentralised data storage. We are firm believers in data privacy rights and are building Iagon around data protection regulation.

**Security**
The traditional cloud service market has a track record of data breaches, monitoring and outtages which have proven to be costly for many enterprises. Iagon provides a solution that leverages data encryption and sharding techniques to ensure that businesses and individuals data remains confidential while using a distributed storage network to mitigate single-point vulnerabilities, increasing data redundancy and ensuring that customer’s always have access to their data. Unlike with traditional solutions, Iagon empowers user centered data ownership, giving customers the tools they need to be selective with how their data is stored and accessed, while providing them with the peace of mind to know their data is safe and secure.

**Compliance**
An aspect that is unique to Iagon is our focus on bridging decentralization and compliance. We understand the need that remains for companies to choose cloud services and data solutions that allow them to maintain compliance with their regional standards. As a result, Iagon has been built to proactively support compliance, giving users full control over where their data is stored and how it is accessed or transferred while providing real-time insights that can be easily exported and shared with compliance regulating entities.

**Cardano**
Another unique aspect and advantage of Iagon is the choice we made to choose the Cardano blockchain as the Iagon access layer. While we aim to be chain agnostic and grow support for multiple ecosystems, given the current state of the blockchain landscape, we opted to move our initial infrastructure away from Ethereum in favour of a blockchain that was built on similar principles of decentralization and security, while providing a much stronger track record regarding vulnerabilities and exploits. A protocol is only as resilient as the infrastructure it is built upon, and for that reason, Cardano became the clear choice.

As the project evolves, our differentiation will as well. We will share aspects of these product advancements as they near and approach release.

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What is the Iagon Token Utility?

The $IAG token serves as the backbone of the Iagon ecosystem and is integrated throughout the usage of the protocol.

As of now, Iagon provides the following utility:

* **Provide resources to the network:** Resource providers must stake a balance of IAG proportionate to the amount of resources they wish to provide. By providing storage they will earn a portion of the protocol fees.

* **Delegate to a resource provider:** Token holders who do not wish to provide their own resources to the network can delegate their tokens to a resource provider to earn subscription fees.

* **Subscription Boosts:** By holding IAG token, holders can receive a boost to the amount of storage (or compute) they receive from each tier of the subscription.

* **Platform Payments & Rewards:** The token is designed to be used specifically on the Iagon cloud platform, facilitating payment for storage services. These services are priced against fiat currencies (e.g., USD or EUR), with an established exchange rate for IAG tokens, ensuring a stable utility value. The payment in IAG will be facilitated at a later time.

* **Voting Power:** Holding IAG tokens will give holders voting power in votes pertaining to protocol decision-making. Total voting power will be based on a number of different metrics, with the amount of tokens and how long they have been held having the largest impact.

Useful Iagon Ecosystem Links
**General:**
* Website: https://iagon.com/
* Application: https://app.iagon.com/
* Blog: https://blog.iagon.com/
* Github: https://github.com/Iagonorg/
* Documentation: https://docs.iagon.com/docs/documentation/introduction
* Tokenomics: https://docs.iagon.com/docs/whitepaper/tokenomics

**Socials:**
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/IagonOfficial
* Telegram: https://t.me/Iagon_official
* Discord: https://discord.gg/TCS23VWuWm
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IagonOfficial/
* Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iagon/