Guardium (GDM)

What is Guardium

This problem requires both a new class of Global Public Utility and a new class of Protocol-Based Decentralized Organization to govern, facilitate and update this service.

Protocol

Draft specification of the protocol is under development. The protocol governs the following areas:

Reference Implementation

Problems of User Interface, Location and Responder Knowledge can potentially be solved by today’s smartphone applications, indeed Guardian Circle employs smartphone technology to solve these problems. It’s easy to imagine a service like Uber where anyone can come to your aid simply at the press of a button.

Guardian Circle decentralizes response. It enables people to protect one another with peer-to-peer 9-1-1 services through their mobile phones. Mobile devices can be used to instantly alert and organize multiple nearby citizen and professional responders into a ‘flash mob of help’.

Guardium is a blockchain based token used to compensate protection and emergency response worldwide. It is used to power the Guardian Circle alert response intelligence grid. Guardium blockchain based smart contracts can serve as pre-established security agreements that can accelerate or facilitate trusted emergency response.

Utility Tokens will have the greatest impact where people are unbanked. These are also the same places that have limited or no emergency services. Both technologies are required to make the people who live in these regions of the world safer.

Trust

Any solution seeking to decentralize the delivery of emergency services must solve the much larger problem of trust. Despite the wide availability of potentially helpful, proximal and available responders, the responses of those individuals may be ineffective or in the worst case malicious.

Enter blockchain technologies. The blockchain can be used to solve problems like identifying and compensating reputable providers of emergency service. By providing an immutable, consensus-based distributed ledger, the individual responses to emergencies can be recorded, audited and aggregated, and trust can be developed in the network. Bad actors and free riders can be identified and blocked from the network.

Smart contracts can enable decentralized parties to enter into pre-established agreements which further increase the trust in the network.