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# Benefits of nomdenet

Nomdenet Presale is primarily for 2 broad Audience
1. People and Individuals who are creating and intending to operate Holochain Applications (Happs)
2. Individuals who are passionate with DWeb and hence Holochain who would like to steward a handle that can be used across many Holochain Applications

## Benefits of Nomdenet for Audience 1

- **Out-Of-The-Box-Solution-For-Rivalrous-Data for Happ Developers (for now?)**
	Out hypothesis is that many (a few now but in the future many!) Holochain applications will want to have the ability to provide a unique handle to virtually anything in the application (agents, groups, application names, etc.) for purposes of easily identifying a particular datum or to play with the vanity of human beings (I want people to associate my online experience with my **unique** handle). 
	However, in a truly distributed network (like Holochain), creating and storing rivalrous (unique) data deterministically can be challenging both technically and logistically. This is simply because, unlike in a traditional centralized application or blockchain based application, there is no one database or centralized ledger that can be checked for uniqueness of a particular data. In Holochain, everyone writes at the public space (Distributed Hash Table to be precise but not important to know here) all at the same time. So the question is, how do you ensure that no one is registering *tatssato* handle besides me? If it was twitter, they can lock the database for any other writes of new handles while I'm registering my handle; and for blockchain, you can check the entire ledger's history and have consensus that *tatssato* has indeed never been registered before. 
	In Holochain, there is no inherent way of doing what I just mentioned possible in centralized database or blockchain. **This is where nomdenet comes into picture**. By running 7 witnesses as agents with high uptime, we can run a majority of consensus (4 out of 7) among these 7 witness agents everytime a new handle is being registered by anyone from any Holochain applications. Nomdenet then removes many of the hurdles for the Holochain Application Developers to **deterministically allow unique (rivalrous) data to exist**. Some of the hurdles are, writing complex validations rules, coding countersigning sessions, finding people to run 7 witness nodes, creation of some sort of payment mechanism in case of need, etc.
  - **Provides a simple yet reasonable business model for the Holochain Apps**
	  - After purchasing *local name (only unique within one namespace)* coupons at a set price (15c as of the moment), happ developers can set the price (from free to a certain upper limit?) of their local name. If they wish to do so, this provides them with a simple business model to sustain the operation of the happ they are building, which the namespace belongs to. For example, after buying 100,000 name coupons at $0.15 per coupon ($15,000), the happ developer can set the price of the name coupons for their end user at $0.20c and create certain profits ($5,000 in this case) which can then sustain their project.
  - **Collective Action community growth fund** (copy pasting what james have written [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yFL4KPSUR1WRG0mD092ngsY_5VLlX3ahgOz3zZquT4g/edit#heading=h.iz6anw1epxp7))
	  - The intention of the presale is to cover some of the costs to date, ensure there is budget to operate the business through to profitability and to begin to set up the Collective Action community founder growth fund. The fund ensures that 75% profits of **NOMDENET** are reinvested into people who are committed to growing a healthy future for our digital world.
	  - This Collective Action community founder growth fund will support community projects and founders with an alignment to all 10 capitals (as defined here [https://www.metaintegral.com/](https://www.metaintegral.com/)).  In grounded category-based language this may include business strategy, marketing, accounting, legal, personal growth, business systems and financial assistance.  If you have one of these capacities, capitals in abundance feel free to offer your assistance. 
	  - After costs are accounted for, 75% of profits from NOMDENET  go to a community strategic fund that helps strategic projects come to market, so feel free to pay more with the following tools.**
		  - Bundling.
		  - Pre-purchasing placing a deposit.
		  - Set your own price
		  - Donations
  - **Simple Tool to Mitigate Sybil Attack**
	  - By having to require end users of Holochain Applications to pay for a name coupon before using the Holochain App, Happ developers may be able to mitigate exposure to Sybil Attacks.

## Benefits for Audience 2
- **Global Name to associate your experience in multiple Holochain Applications into one handle**
	- With the artificial scarcity created, it gives global names a unique value in the Holochain Space. A person can allow his/her handle to uniquely exist in many Holochain applications and associate on the experiential level. (because technically the agent's public key should still be utilized to associate data to an agent) 
	- By purchasing a global name, you wish to support its growth and can afford to show that by paying a reasonable sum and being engaged in all of the Dapps that opt-in.
	- We could explore ways in increasing the value of Global name in some ways in the future as well.
- **Some names may be infrastructurally be needed**
	- In namespaces where unique handle needs to be a must (like a App UUID for DevHub or Holo's "app store"), Nomdenet can help ease the burden of implementation and structurally and technically assures that there will be no rivaling data where there should be none.
