In the headquarters of a California tech company, founder Jason Ho sits surrounded by whiteboards covered in equations and diagrams that look more like quantum physics than business plans. Ho, with over 400 patents to his name and experience designing custom chips for F-35 fighter jets, does not fit the typical Silicon Valley founder archetype.
He is not building another ad-targeting algorithm or chasing engagement metrics. Instead, he is plotting something bigger: the overthrow of the digital platforms that have dominated creator economics for nearly two decades.
Ho is talking about Emulated Quantum Communication (EQC)-based platform, EQC.one, Teklium’s new platform for content creators. Teklium designed this system to upend the creator economy’s economics and rewrite the DNA of digital content, privacy, and ownership.
The Flaws in the Old Machine
To understand what makes EQC.one different, it helps to revisit what is broken. For years, creators have watched as platforms took up to 70% of every sale, dictated terms of visibility through secretive recommendation engines, and held the keys to their audiences and revenue streams.
For a musician releasing music online today, the math is brutally simple: create something people love, and they will keep maybe 30 cents of each dollar it generates. Write a bestselling e-book? Same story. The platform-streaming services, app stores, and content marketplaces have established a lopsided ecosystem where middlemen claim the lion’s share of revenue while contributing relatively little to the creative process.
Jason Ho’s team at Teklium saw this not as a technical inevitability, but as a design flaw, a relic of an earlier internet that people built for a different age. “The internet wasn’t designed for billions of people creating and sharing value,” Ho explained. “It was designed for information sharing among a small group. But now, culture, commerce, and livelihoods depend on it.”
The 99.5% Solution
The numbers are what catch everyone’s attention first. Where industry giants take 30% to 70% of creator revenues, EQC.one charges just 0.5% on transactions. This is not a promotional rate or a temporary subsidy; it is the business model.
Ho mentions, “We’re making security for content creation simpler, while building a better digital economy where creators and providers succeed.”
A musician making $100,000 on traditional platforms might keep $30,000. On EQC.one, they’d keep $99,500. This difference can be life-changing for many creators who have spent years reverse-engineering platform algorithms just to remain visible to their audiences and eke out a living on the margins of financial sustainability.
But radical economics is just the beginning. EQC.one also offers free cloud services to content providers without charges for servers, storage, bandwidth, or content delivery networks.
The platform functions entirely without content-filtering algorithms, which Ho believes have corrupted the digital terrain by prioritizing engagement over quality. Instead, real people base content suggestions on transparent statistics, downloads, ratings, or recommendations by real people, not black-box AI.
“We prohibit content portals from using algorithms to filter, promote, or demote content,” Ho says. “Content suggestions must be based on statistics like downloads and ratings, or recommendations by real people such as trusted critics.”
Quantum-Inspired Security
But radical economics and freedom in content creation are just the beginning. What makes this economic model possible is Teklium’s technological secret weapon: EQC technology, an innovation that mimics quantum computing behaviors without requiring specialized quantum hardware.
EQC powers a “read-once” technology that allows any unauthorized user to access digital content only once. When someone accesses a message or file, the system instantly makes all other copies inaccessible through what Ho describes as a “quantum-inspired entanglement mechanism.”
To understand this concept, imagine releasing a song that no one can copy or download without permission. This is not because of easily circumvented digital rights management but because of fundamental properties of how the data exists.
This technology could potentially solve the piracy problems that have plagued digital creators for decades, leading to better creator revenue and content protection.
Against All Odds
Despite its revolutionary promise, the question that haunts every David vs. Goliath narrative in tech is whether the challenger can achieve the network effects needed for viability. Ho acknowledges this and understands how EQC.one faces formidable challenges of starting from scratch, with established platforms with deep pockets and existing user bases.
However, the founder remains undaunted by the challenge. He has designed EQC.one as a whole ecosystem, complete with its own digital currency and verification system (EQCertificates). Service providers and content distributors alike earn EQCoins through certified “Proof of Works” contributions, creating a marketplace where everyone except the platform itself operates on market-competitive terms.
As someone who has specialized in solving previously unsolvable technical problems, Ho sees the current digital economy as simply another system that he can optimize. “What appears utopian today will seem obvious tomorrow,” he suggests. “The original designers of the internet didn’t design it for today’s usage patterns or business models. We’re simply building what should have been there all along.”
Going Above and Beyond
In addition to the EQC.one platform, Ho with Teklium is also launching Flash Messenger™, the first genuine device-to-device communication tool that functions autonomously without relying on the cloud. Flash Messenger™ operates on two windows: one is a bulletin board, and the other is for flash messages. The read-once technology powers both windows.
According to Ho, users can view a flash message only once, and the sender can determine how long flash messages remain accessible, from 15 to 60 seconds. The system also prohibits users from taking screenshots for extra security.
For Jason Ho, this is just the beginning. Whether David topples Goliath in this case depends on factors beyond mathematics or moral righteousness. But in an industry where creators have long accepted exploitative economics as inevitable, Teklium’s perspective offers something in short supply: an alternative internet vision that finally puts content creators first.