Origin Protocol operates as a network tasked with enabling peer-to-peer (P2P) trade of goods and services through its application. The platform of the protocol, the Origin Commerce Platform, aims to create a comprehensive online marketplace without relying on intermediaries, using the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain and Interplanetary FS (IPFS).
The platform creates a decentralized space where buyers and sellers have access, can check current listings, conduct research, and perform many more transactions. Thus, facilitating the processing of fragmented formations becomes easier.
Origin Protocol addresses issues such as high transaction costs, lack of transparency, difficulty in adding innovations, and being centralized. Thereby, it aims to move the existing online market forward. The protocol provides a decentralized environment that offers incentive options to facilitate the work of buyers and sellers.

The Origin Protocol team consists of participants from different countries interested in the blockchain world. Origin Protocol, headquartered in San Francisco, has various investors around the world. However, fundamentally, the protocol was founded by Josh Fraser and Matthew Liu in 2017.
Matthew Liu, one of the founding partners, is an experienced software engineer. In addition to being one of YouTube's earliest product managers, Liu also founded the monetization team at YouTube, eventually creating a billion-dollar advertising business. After investing in the Ethereum crowdsale, he began to take an interest in cryptocurrencies. Since then, Liu has been investing in blockchain and token projects.
Josh Fraser, before founding the Origin Protocol platform, is a name who has founded three different companies. The entrepreneur has also been actively present in the crypto market for over a decade. In addition, Fraser has worked as the CTO at the social networking platform Eventvue.

Origin Protocol encourages developers and businesses to create decentralized markets on the blockchain. Through the Origin Commerce Platform, users can list their products without being hindered by the usual high gas fees. The platform also serves as a community function where users can see bids and listings, leave ratings and reviews.
Origin Protocol allows buyers and sellers to manage and regulate their transactions themselves. If buyers and sellers agree, they can use nicknames in their transactions.
Identities on the Origin Commerce Platform can be verified via public keys that can also be used on social media accounts later. The platform also allows for verifications from trusted third parties.
The three main components of the Origin Commerce Platform, all open source, are:

The Origin dApp is a consumer marketplace product that allows buyers and sellers in the network to conduct business. Users can use this Origin marketplace application provided they have the Origin Mobile app or an Ethereum wallet and a web3-enabled browser.
In the Origin dApp, sellers can list, regulate the availability of their offers, and confirm payments. Buyers, on the other hand, can view a complete list of all goods and services shown in the Origin marketplace DApp and make purchases.
The Origin DApp serves as a light client service on the Origin network. The frontend code can be stored and distributed on the open IPFS network.

Blockchain and distributed technologies are new and challenging to work with for a large portion of developers. Origin plans to publish easy-to-use developer libraries that simplify the development process for third parties. Thus, the platform hopes to attract traditional web and mobile technologies that are not familiar with blockchain programming.

Origin protocols encompass open-source standards for most marketplace features, including user identity creation, sharing listings, and peer-to-peer transactions. Fundamentally, the protocols serve as a public data layer composed of users, listings, and other data from the marketplace contract.

The Origin network aims to enable a large-scale commerce network with the following features:

Origin Protocol aims to create a decentralized market economy infrastructure by providing a P2P network among traders and eliminating traditional intermediaries. The main goal of the Origin network is to create distributed systems for users to offer their products. Thus, the network aims to prevent unnecessary costs by eliminating third parties in trading.
The elimination of intermediaries, unlike traditional trade, will be a development that pleases both buyers and sellers. The integration of large companies into the system will take trade to another dimension, making Origin Protocol distinctive and highly innovative.

Origin Protocol uses the OGN token for incentive systems, staking, governance, and payment transactions. The total OGN supply is fixed at 1,000,000,000 tokens. As of December 2021, the circulating supply of OGN is 388,570,732.54.

The OGN token is based on the Ethereum Blockchain and operates under the ERC-20 standard. OGN can be stored in any wallet that supports the ERC-20 token procedure. The protocol uses Interplanetary FS (IPFS) to secure the flow of data between peers and to achieve data integrity.

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