What is Ankr? Ankr is a project about reliable infrastructure on the Web3 platform with a variety of different products targeting very diverse users from regular users to developers and even protocols.
So what products does Ankr have that can serve all classes in the crypto market? Let’s find out with Weakhand in this article.
What is Ankr?
Ankr is the infrastructure foundation of Web3 in the near future with a variety of different products. Ankr products include:
- Liquid Staking: This is a similar product to Lido Finance. Currently, Ankr is providing Liquid Staking products for platforms such as Ethereum, Polygon, Binance, Avalanche, Polkadot, Fantom and many other blockchain platforms.
- Ankr Scan: This is a Multichain Explorer platform. Currently, Ankr is providing Explorer products for blockchains such as Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism,…
- AppChains: Ankr provides a framework that helps developers build Appchains on blockchains such as BNB Chain, Avalanche and Polygon.
- RPC Service: This is a paid service from ANKR with many different services from free to premium and the highest is business to provide RPC services to developers.
- Gaming SDKs: Continues to be a framework that supports developers in building games on the Web3 platform instead of the usual Web2.
- Advanced APIs/SDKs: Save time and money using advanced APIs for NFTs, Queries and Tokens.
By providing a variety of different products, Ankr has reached all users in the crypto market including users, developers and protocols.
Core Team
Stanley (Liangan) W.: Co Founder & CTO
- Satnley has quite an extensive educational career, starting with a Bachelor of Arts and Business Administration degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Next, at the same university, Stanley earned a Bachelor of Science and Electrical Engineering degree.
- Then at the University of Rochester, Stanley successfully earned a Master’s degree in Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Finally, at the University of California, Stanley earned a database management certificate.
- After graduating, Stanley spent his entire career in technology as a Senior Software Engineer and Technology Team Leader at Amazon.
- After 11 years with Amazon, Stanley decided to quit his job in 2019 and start building Ankr as it is today.
Ryan Fang: Co Founder
- Ryan spent some time studying Business Administration at the University of California. It is possible that during this time Ryan met and had a relationship with Stanley, but Stanley was Ryan’s senior.
- Ryan is familiar with risk management jobs at large banks such as Morgan Stanley, State Street, and Credit Suisse.
- After a short period of working for banks and credit institutions for only about 8 months at the above 3 companies and corporations, Ryan decided to start a business with PrimeBlock company from January 2021 until now. Previously, in October 2017, Ryan joined the founding of Ankr.
Chandler Song: Co Founder & CEO
Chandler also graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Chandler spent more than 1 year working as a Software Engineer at Amazon and then started his career with the Ankr project.
Investor
- November 4, 2017: The project successfully called for $200K in the ICO round from the community.
- November 19, 2017: In the angel investment round, the project successfully called for $120K but the participating parties were unknown.
- June 15, 2018: The project continues to successfully call for $12M in funding but the parties involved are unknown.
- June 21, 2018: $15M continues to be successfully raised by Ankr with the leadership of Pantera Capital, NGC Venture and DHVC, in addition to the participation of OK Blockchain Capital, Mapleblock Capital, JD Capital, Bixin Ventures, Link VC.
Tokenomics
General information about ANKR
- Project name: Ankr
- Code: ANKR
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Token classification: ERC – 20
- Smartcontract: 0x8290333cef9e6d528dd5618fb97a76f268f3edd4
- Total supply: 10,000,000,000
Token Allocation
- Private/Pre Sales: 30%
- Public Sales: 5%
- Community & Miners: 40%
- Team & Advisor: 20%
- Marketing: 5%
Token Realease
For the Public Sales section, it will not be locked and will be paid in full at the TGE section. For Community & Miners and Team & Advisor, it will be locked within 6 months then paid in installments over the next 42 months.
Exchanges
Currently users can trade Ankr tokens on exchanges such as Binance, Bitget, BingX, Coinbase, XT.com, MEXC,…
Ankr’s Information Channel
- Website: https://www.ankr.com/
- Twitter: @ankr
- Telegram:
Summary
With the strategic investment of Binance Labs, ANKR will certainly continue to launch more products in the future. Hopefully through this article everyone can really understand what Ankr is?
