Crypto: Omisego (OMG) SWOT-analysis

in #bitcoin6 years ago (edited)

About Omisego "OMG "

Omise Go’s mission statement is to “unbank the banked”. They aim to do this by delegating the functions of traditional clearing houses to smart contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain. They are developing an SDK that will make it easy for wallets to connect to the OMG network and thus transact seamlessly between blockchains and fiat currencies (solving the interoperability problem).

Omise Go will pioneer Ethereum’s second layer solution, plasma. Plasma is Ethereum’s proposed 2nd layer scaling solution, that might be able to provide millions or even billions of transactions per second. The OMG network is a proof-of-stake and infinitely scalable Plasma blockchain with a decentralized exchange built into its core consensus layer.

Omise Go will be secured by masternodes, but there will be a maximum number of nodes allowed. The stakers with the highest number of tokens staked will be selected as validators. The maximum number of validators has not yet been determined.
This choice is made to keep the validator network from getting bogged down: although they want wide distribution, too many validators staking low amounts will slow things down since each block has to be validated by two thirds of the total stake. More validators requires more messages, slowing down consensus on the next block. So although they want to encourage wide base-layer adoption in the interest of a more secure and fair network, they also need to balance this with efficiency.

For those with smaller holdings, wide adoption is still possible via staking pools, wherein a validator assumes custody of tokens and stakes them on participants’ behalf, most likely in exchange for a percentage of the returns. More details on this are yet to come.

Exchanges to buy OMG

Swot analysis of OmiseGO

Stengths

  • Strong development backing
  • Strong corporate support
  • First to market
  • Solid business model

Weakness

  • Extreme competition by traditional payment providers and other crypto projects
  • Network will be powered by the rich
  • Behind a few competitors in terms of proof of concept and MVP

Opportunity

  • Plasma might fix all of Ethereum's scaling problems and OMG will reap the benefits
  • Omise Go has the potential to include millions of people in the global economy who previously were excluded
  • OMG can leverage the competences of high-profile crypto-personalities for both tech research and marketing

Threat

  • Plasma is still very experimental and might fail
  • The Stellar network is arguably a competitor and is already live

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.31
TRX 0.12
JST 0.033
BTC 64605.91
ETH 3159.61
USDT 1.00
SBD 4.11