Frequently Asked Questions

It has some of the most resilient IPFS infrastructures. It is a Turn-Key Solution that can easily integrate into any current enterprise network, any application or used to build a brand new one. Temporal will give your company a competitive advantage because you’ll be able to move fast and more cost-effectively, PLUS, you will be able to do things with data that have never been done before. Temporal opens new doors to new and robust business solutions.

Webopedia describes it like this: "Big Data is a phrase used to mean a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so large it is difficult to process using traditional database and software techniques. In most enterprise scenarios, the volume of data is too big, or it moves too fast, or it exceeds current processing capacity." We couldn't have said it better.

Big data is the epicentre of customer and client integration. A company can improve supply chain efficiency by collecting and evaluating big data to track how, when, and where products move. You can also identify inefficiencies and where costs and time can be optimized. RFID chips, wireless sensors, automated logs and transactional data can track information from raw material to the customer's home. Using systems like Temporal, you can collate any level of structured and unstructured data from all types of contact points between B2B and B2C, and do it from a 360-degree mountaintop view of your customers. Data can generate through social media, IoT, mobile devices, data logs, and much more. Big Data can help you predict, identify and mitigate fraud. You can monitor transactions in real-time, which allows you to dynamically detect uncharacteristic patterns and meta-patterns that can prevent or lessen fraudulent behaviour. Big data provides the fuel for predictive and prescriptive analytics and enables a company to compare historical and transactional data to identify and mitigate fraud.

Yes, Temporal is designed to provide a small company with all the features of a large enterprise at a price that scales accordingly.

Yes, a little bit, but a lot less than you might think because Temporal does all the heavy lifting.

Yes, relatively quickly, or you can attain FREE storage through Temporal, and purchase more as you need it.

In most cases, they are considerably faster to adapt and implement emerging technologies than large enterprises. Keeping current clients happy and quickly gaining new ones.

Yes. They are leaner and relatively easy to manage through solutions like Temporal that automates many of the features.

IPFS is a robust peer-to-peer data distribution network that shares some characteristics with technologies like BitTorrent and Git. Data is content-addressed, which enables immutable and verifiable data structures. It allows increased data transfer speeds, better data security, and allows you to create powerful applications leveraging the underlying technologies of IPFS. According to IPFS.io, IPFS is the Distributed Web. IPFS delivers high throughput and low latency data distribution.

Temporal primarily relies on IPFS as a decentralized storage provider. It will be extended to include new distributed storage networks as their merit and usefulness become established.

We currently do not have any documented benchmarks of IPFS performance, but if you register for our upcoming newsletter, we will let you know when we have numbers.

IPFS reinvents cloud computing technology by taking data networks beyond “decentralized,” to a more advanced level of DISTRIBUTED, which represents a significant shift in what we can now do with data. The benefits of IPFS for an enterprise are in low switching costs, interoperability across storage providers, and capacity to mix and match features of cloud storage. This elasticity creates efficiencies and business opportunities that have been previously unfeasible because of the high costs of today’s third-party cloud offerings.

Yes. IPFS provides deduplication, clustered persistence, and high performance. You can manage large amounts of data with IPFS, and place immutable, permanent IPFS links into a blockchain transaction, which timestamps and secures your content without having to put the data itself on the chain.

No. However, we have many contributions to upstream IPFS and LibP2P official code repositories helping build the next generation of the internet.

The Playground is an easy-to-use test-pad that allows you to see and use many of Temporal’s features in a safe space. Using Temporals API, we have created the world's first full features IPFS web interface.

Yes!

Yes and No. Open source refers to source code that is made available for use or modification by developers. It is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available. The code is free, but there is a cost associated with hiring a developer if you want to modify the code.

They are the technologies company responsible for the development of the Temporal platform. Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the RTrade team shares a common understanding of the fundamentals of P2P technology and the potential this technology has to improve our lives. RTrades team is comprised of specialists in finance, technology, business, and security. Diversity and experience are our greatest strengths, and we are devoted to helping shape the future of technology so that all of humanity can grow, connect, learn and prosper together.

Our token, RTC, can be purchased via a smart contract that has capabilities similar to Proof-Of-Stake. Staking generates new RTC, which is an accepted payment method for our services. RTC was launched primarily to serve as an exclusive reward system that also lets you pay for our services.

We are currently undecided, but might list on an exchange in the future.

A blockchain is a distributed private or public digital ledger that is used to record transactions across many computers so that any involved record cannot be altered retroactively, without the alteration of all subsequent blocks.

No. Temporal works just as efficiently on or off blockchain.

Yes, you can build, deploy and even manage them. Scaling any blockchain can be done in a snap!