Together for a good cause: Modex at Hacking for Humanity Romania 2018



Between 22–24th June, the second edition of Hacking for Humanity Romania took place in Romania’s capital, Bucharest. During this hackathon, developers, designers, students, entrepreneurs and educators gathered to present and to develop solutions for social problems focused on environment, autism and natural disasters. Modex, the world’s first App Store for blockchain, was the presenting sponsor. https://blog.modex.tech/together-for-a-good-cause-modex-at-hacking-for-humanity-romania-2018-21487f5b3d50

Introducing the Lisk Documentation and Migration Guide
https://blog.lisk.io/introducing-the-lisk-documentation-and-migration-guide-ca0f13531866

The Lisk team has been working diligently on our biggest accomplishment to date — Lisk Core 1.0. We’re nearly at the finish line. However, ahead of the release of Lisk Core 1.0 to testnet on Thursday, June 28, we’d like to share the updated Lisk Documentation and Migration Guide to ensure that everyone is able to migrate and be aware of the changes and updates in our products.

The Lisk Documentation and Migration Guide contains a series of comprehensive documentation for the Lisk Protocol, Lisk Core, Lisk Elements, Lisk Commander, Lisk Hub and Lisk Explorer, to help you begin working with Lisk as quickly as possible. In this blog post, we will break down the various sections of the documentation and guides to help with the on-boarding of the latest versions of our products and teach you the basics, as well as more complicated aspects, of the network.

Lisk is a blockchain application platform whose mission is to bring blockchain technology to the mainstream through an SDK (Sidechain Development Kit) written in JavaScript, the most commonly used programming language in the world. The cryptocurrency used in the Lisk ecosystem is called Lisk (LSK).

A Radio Interview: Miles Paschini, Founder B21, by Blockchain Radio
Founder Miles Paschini talks to Pierre Bourque on Blockchain radio about B21, our investment platform and vision for the future!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Qmvrx3Tl4

Our team is very excited to announce that today RootProject has officially completed and distributed funding our first partnered project. As many of you know, we partnered with Cocoon House in Everett, Washington.

The comprehensive approach of Cocoon House, through the continuum of Outreach, Housing and Prevention, ensures that each young person is met where they are, physically and emotionally, to provide the best possible outcomes for their future. Young people connect with Cocoon House staff when in their programs, in their schools, or out on the street. Parents are provided with services to help keep their teen in the home or offer the smoothest transition possible if the teen is returning home from homelessness. This type of individualized service allows Cocoon House to meet the diverse needs of young people and their families in all possible ways because every child deserves a home and a bright future Cocoon House currently operates four shelters — two emergency and two long-term — and is the only Snohomish County agency that focuses on youth between the ages of 12–24.

One of the things that drew RootProject’s attention to Cocoon House is their work with LGBTQ+ youth. 32% of the youth in housing at Cocoon House identify as LGBTQ+. Cocoon House is proud to accept and respect a person’s chosen name and pronouns and is strongly committed to removing barriers and supporting inclusion and diversity in all its forms. They strive to create a safe and open atmosphere for young people, families, staff, community partners and donors.

The RootProject raised $5,200 for Cocoon House through crowdfunding. These funds will go to fund projects like the Intersectional Skill Building Program. This is a crucial element to helping young people develop the skills for adulthood. The program helps equip young people with everything from how to search for a job, to how to write a resume, to allowing them to relax and play video games for twenty minutes. Some Cocoon House residents attending high school use the program’s technology to help them with their classwork. The program is an 18-week series designed to ensure long-term success and assists participants with everything from personal growth to health topics and independent living.

Stephanie Almeida, Communications Manager with Cocoon House said: “We are always looking for innovative ways to help meet the needs of some of our most vulnerable community members, at-risk and homeless youth. We are excited to partner with Root Project as a pilot project to use the power of cryptocurrencies to crowdsource funding for critical programs and support.”

Using the power of blockchain, impact investment and crowdfunding for social good is exactly why we started RootProject. We want to be part of the solution and use innovative technology collaborating with world-class nonprofits, like Cocoon House, to solve the most significant issues facing our society while assisting those in immediate need and ending cycles of homelessness.
https://medium.com/rootproject/rootproject-fully-funds-first-project-with-cocoon-house-77664b56214c

Startup Holds Equity Crowdsale For Banking License

Blockchain-based challenger bank BABB — which stands for Bank Account-Based Blockchain — announced it will be holding an equity crowdsale to cover the costs of obtaining a banking license.

BABB is a startup developing a blockchain-based bank that aims to decentralize services and open up access to a bank account for individuals around the world. The company deploys the use of smart contracts stored and transferred on blockchain, utilizing technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics to augment its services. Customers simply open an account on their smartphone by taking a selfie and saying a passphrase. In addition, they gain access to a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, which makes it quick and cheap to transfer money, lend to and borrow from other users, and exchange currencies.

This crowdsale will give investors the chance to own equity in the company. It is expected to open to the public next week, following a private funding round.

The company has already successfully raised $20 million in a token sale used to ensure a long runway for the software development, as well as launch the company’s platform, app and payment card. Now, its equity crowdsale will allow BABB to expand its efforts by funding the legal and regulatory costs of becoming a licensed bank. The crowdsale will be offered through Crowdcube, with investors who participate receiving equity in BABB Group, the parent company of both the bank and the software company.

Shareholders will have ownership, voting and preemption rights.

Earlier this year, BABB named bank technology veteran Paul Johnson its new CIO. Johnson previously served as chief of another U.K. challenger bank Aldermore, at which he oversaw its IPO in 2015.

“I can only see blockchain technology as the next step in this evolution of payments and asset transfer in the future,” he said in a statement announcing his position at BABB. “The BABB proposition highlights this extremely well with the ‘everyone is a bank’ concept, and I am excited to be joining the team to build this platform.”
https://www.pymnts.com/news/banking/2018/babb-equity-crowdsale-banking-license/

New Coins added to the Internet of Blockchains: Weekly Recap #6
https://medium.com/@theblocknetchannel/new-coins-added-to-the-internet-of-blockchains-weekly-recap-6-22a4ae9bb2cf

Official coin announcements are continuing! Each of these coins are supported on the Blocknet protocol, making them ready for cross-blockchain dApps, and tradable on the Block DX Decentralized Exchange. We are announcing roughly one coin per day with the hashtag: #coinaday across our social media. This is a recap of the sixth week of coin announcements that are ready for the internet of blockchains.

Below are examples of cross-chain uses and dApps that could be built on the Blocknet protocol. These include general and specific examples for each coin. The Blocknet protocol empowers lightweight dApps to harness contracts and protocols from other blockchains, laying a foundation for the decentralization of the API ecosystem. This is achieved via the groundbreaking technology of the Blocknet XRouter being fully released in July, which you can read more about here.

The coin announcements will continue over the coming weeks as we approach the full production release of Block DX in the summer.

We are always eager to have passionate blockchain enthusiasts spread the word by posting, retweeting, upvoting and sharing each announcement with the respective communities on Reddit and BTCTalk. It only takes a few moments. Strength in numbers!

Below you will find links to our social media and links to the social media of the relevant coins that you can comment on, share, and upvote to help let the cryptoworld know about the capability these coins are bringing to the internet of blockchains.

Cosmecoin Explained
https://medium.com/iconsult-cosmecoin/cosmecoin-explained-fe9e8b225383



What is Cosmecoin?

iConsult Software Ltd. has developed Cosmecoin. It is an upgrade to their existing, award-winning software, used within Cosmetic Surgery and Medical Aesthetic businesses globally. This system uses blockchain technology and smart contracts to create a reward-based ecosystem. The software aims to connect, record, protect and reward patients and practitioners alike.

Sounds confusing, doesn’t it? Let me break it down for you.

The Cosmecoin ecosystem can be split into two parts: the practitioner software and the patient portal.

The practitioner software (Clinic OS) provides aesthetic businesses with a market-leading CRM system to help manage the day-to-day running of their clinic. Clinic OS provides a digitalised and comprehensive consultation process, including treatment specific forms, which ensures that all important data is recorded fully and securely. Detailed records allow for clinic audits to be carried out quickly and easily, saving time and money. Once the appropriate information is collected, it is encrypted and placed on a cloud-based database, which ensures the secure and trustworthy storage of data.

The patient portal (Cosmecoin) combines a whole hoard of services in one app. It will provide consumers with an extensive database of practitioners, clinics and treatments. This comes with unbiased, genuine patient feedback, allowing individuals to make informed decisions before treatments. The Cosmecoin blog will supply consumers with up-to-date industry news and educational articles.

Patients have the choice to log in to the app to get easy access to their own medical data. This includes their treatment history, photos, consent forms, and aftercare information. The system also allows personal data to be securely transmitted between clinics if a patient chooses to receive different treatments in different practices. Treatment bookings and payment can be easily carried out through the app.

These two sections of the ecosystem are combined together by the Cosmecoin reward-token (COSX). Like a supermarket loyalty point, COSX tokens are allocated to patients, for practitioner feedback and platform engagement, and practitioners, for best practice behaviours. Within the patient portal on the Cosmecoin app, consumers will be able to view a digital ‘wallet’. This will detail the number of COSX reward-tokens they have and their token transaction history.

COSX reward-tokens can be redeemed for discounts on further treatments booked through the Cosmecoin app. Alternatively, consumers can head over to the ‘Cosmecoin shop’ within the app and use tokens to purchase (or part-purchase) aesthetic products (e.g. skincare, etc.).

In short, the Cosmecoin app and accompanying Clinic OS software will work together to provide the Cosmetic Surgery and Medical Aesthetics industries will an all-in-one ecosystem. This will provide solutions to industry problems and revolutionise aesthetics forever.

Pundi X will speak at Blockchain for Finance Conference, APAC



Held at the Hilton Hotel on June 20–21 in Singapore, Blockchain for Finance Conference, APAC will will share distributed ledger technology (DLT) / blockchain developments across APAC. Speakers include banks, authorities, and leading blockchain companies, such as Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), J.P. Morgan, Standard Chartered, HSBC, Manulife Asia, SWIFT, AIA, IBM, Stellar, ConsenSys, Pundi X, Utrust, among others. https://medium.com/pundix/pundi-x-will-speak-at-blockchain-for-finance-conference-apac-e1373a793285

RightMesh Weekly Update: June 15, 2018
https://medium.com/rightmesh/rightmesh-weekly-update-june-15-2018-10a4cb9b930f



This week was full of magic as our team came together from Singapore, Bangladesh and Canada to attend a two and a half day, Harry Potter themed, strategic retreat in beautiful BC. The team left feeling elated and ready for the growth that is soon to come.

Introducing CyClean’s Partner

Part 1: DOGU
When you support a project, what is the most important thing to consider? One of the most important things is partnerships. The more trustworthy partners the company has, the more credibility it offers. This is a basic mechanism behind wise investments, and this is why partner organizations and companies are important. Today, I am going to introduce our proud partner organization: DOGU.

This is their logo. Pretty and fancy isn’t it? For those of you who are unable to comprehend Korean, let me explain what DOGU means. DOGU means tool in Korean. So, yes! DOGU is making tools that can benefit our society. As you realize already, DOGU and CyClean are similar in that both of them are looking for a way to make this society better. This is why DOGU is our proud partner. We hope we can do something more with DOGU in the future.

What DOGU does
DOGU makes DOGU. How simple is that. DOGU makes tools. Here are some products that DOGU is producing right now.

D-Bot, VR/AR products are all related to the 4th Industrial Revolution. Guess What? CyClean is looking for a way to make our world better place through blockchain technology, and blockchain is one of the leading technologies of the 4th Industrial Revolution. So, DOGU and CyClean share many similar visions.

DOGU is working hard to improve the autonomous driving environment, robot control technology, virtual reality, and industrial design.

Open to New Ideas
What I like about DOGU the most is that they are open to new ideas from their consumers. DOGU provides helpful resources to university students, companies, and research institutions to develop and research their own ideas and products. DOGU makes your imagination a reality.

CyClean and DOGU?
Now you may feel that DOGU is doing something valuable. I personally think that DOGU is doing an amazing job to make this world a better place to live in. CyClean and DOGU believe in the future. And both of us are aware that our world is changing very quickly. Both of us want to be a part of this amazing future. That is why CyClean is proud about what DOGU is doing. Just so you know, DOGU is one of our many partners. Stay tuned for more amazing partnerships!

https://medium.com/cyclean-coin/introducing-cycleans-partner-part-1-dogu-8c24b3a7c46c

Message from CEO Jonathan Ha
https://blog.red-pulse.com/message-from-ceo-jonathan-ha-319dc53cd4eb



I’m excited to share several things with you today. First off, I know that many of you in the community have noted that the Red Pulse Team seems to have gone relatively quiet. While we have been maintaining communication through our social channels such as Telegram, Reddit, and email newsletter, I do agree that it’s not the same warm fuzzy feeling as compared to when we were conducting our token sale and shortly thereafter.

But this was intentional. What have I and the team been doing in the meantime, you may ask. We’ve fully staffed up our product and engineering team, with capabilities spanning blockchain, front-end, back-end, infra/devops, UI/UX, machine learning, natural language processing, and data science. Not only are they on board now, they’ve been working at breakneck pace to build our new research platform, to achieve our vision of creating an open and transparent financial knowledge ecosystem.

On the marketing and community development front, I’m excited to share that Sombat Southivorarat is rejoining the Red Pulse team on a full-time basis, as our Marketing Strategy Lead. Many of you that participated in our token sale remember Sombat as our faithful community manager, and one of the key reasons for our success. Come say hello to Sombat in our telegram channel t.me/redpulse.

I’ll also be communicating directly with the community on a more frequent basis, via messages such as these, as well as quarterly Live AMAs to give everyone a chance to hear directly from me and ask questions in real-time.

Finally, Red Pulse will be conducting an Asia roadshow, with meetups exclusively focused on the Red Pulse ecosystem. The roadshow will be kicked off on July 21 in Seoul as an official event capping Korea Blockchain Week. On that day, I’ll be making a major announcement related to all the fantastic progress that our product and engineering teams have been working on, followed by stops in Tokyo and Hong Kong.

We’ll share more specifics leading up to the July 21 event, so stay tuned. As always, thank you for your continued support of Red Pulse.

This Week in Cryptocurrency — Matchpool Weekly #003
Matchpool’s BrainerZ Pool + Partnership, Mining Ban Proposal, Andy Warhol, and the Bitcoin ETF Rebound Round out the Week
https://blog.matchpool.com/this-week-in-cryptocurrency-matchpool-weekly-003-cfc1ff8b0122

An Interview with Ian Huen and Darren Lui, Co-Founders of Aenco, World's First Blockchain-Based Healthcare Financial Solutions https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/314699

Democratizing Insurance Using Blockchain
Smart contracts are enabling decentralized insurance to reach niche markets, minimize conflict of interest, achieve faster time to market, etc. https://blog.etherisc.com/democratizing-insurance-using-blockchain-2cdac647e957

Everything You need to know about Bidium’s Grand Airdrop Finale

BIDIUM, the cryptocurrency exchange has launched the grand BIDIUM Airdrop Program. The very program is said to commence from 11 June 2018 at 04:00 P.m IST and is likely to wrap up by 15 June’ 2018 04:00 P.m 2018 IST
And the Airdrop Finale Tokens will be distributed on 10 July 2018.
So here’s comprehensive list of steps every aspiring investor need to follow in order to be registered.
https://bidium.io/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-bidiums-grand-airdrop-finale/

CREDITS opening London Office
https://medium.com/@credits/credits-opening-london-office-ba38235ae749

From the start CREDITS was set-up as a long-term international project with a strong focus on the regions with high blockchain awareness. On May 31, CEO and Founder Igor Chugunov came on a visit to the UK to open a CREDITS office in London. The company decided to expand the geography with an aim to accelerate the program of implementing advanced CREDITS blockchain technology for use across all types of business across all sectors. Mr. Chugunov and the new team met to discuss the strategy of the company’s development in the country, the ways it can contribute to the growth and strengthening of the local blockchain community, and the ties CREDITS would like to forge with local and international businesses and educational institutions.

At the meeting with the UK business development team the head of CREDITS shared his vision of the company and the direction and strategies of its operations in the country. They discussed the current status of CREDITS applications and future listings to major exchanges.

One of the key points of the meeting was to determine what kind of partnerships the company will be pursuing, the strategies of acquiring new business and the ways in which CREDITS can benefit businesses from various sectors as well as how they could benefit CREDITS. Mr. Chugunov spoke to his UK colleagues about the current talks with major businesses and the nature of the partnerships the company is aiming for.

CREDITS emphasized that one of the top priorities at this stage is to increase the company’s presence in the UK and become an active member of the Blockchain community in the country, significantly increasing the number of supporters and investors. With the aim of joining and becoming an important part of the local developer and computer science community, which is of particular importance now, the company is planning to organize meetups, hackathons, seminars and conferences.

https://medium.com/@credits/credits-opening-london-office-ba38235ae749

Meet Joe Johnston — Head of Special Projects at Datum
https://blog.datum.org/meet-joe-johnston-head-of-special-projects-at-datum-661993c4f9a0

Datum has been rapidly growing since our founding in June 2017, and this could not have been achieved without a dedicated and talented team! This is the first of a series of interviews introducing you to Datum team members and some behind-the-scenes tidbits.

Bringing better user experience to blockchain — the point of view of a game designer.
SKRT is the official virtual currency of the videogame and universe of Skara. You can trade SKRT on Mercatox!
https://medium.com/@SkaraTBR/bringing-better-user-experience-to-blockchain-the-point-of-view-of-a-game-designer-acbc7e62fd78

With TimeBox service, you don’t have to worry about cryptocurrency inheritance!



What Happens to Cryptocurrency When You Die?
A young man died suddenly in Colorado this year, leaving his family the burden of sorting out his estate. Little did they know their loved one had been investing in Bitcoin, the digital currency that cost as little as $13 in 2013 and recently climbed as high as $5,000.

The grieving family stood to inherit a small fortune — that is, if they could only find and access the cryptocurrency.

Bitcoins are a virtual form of money protected by unbreakable cryptography. This attribute makes it a secure way to store wealth but also creates the risk that when Bitcoin owners die, their digital fortune will be out of reach forever. That’s a major problem for the relatives of tech-savvy individuals who have invested in a market currently worth about $70 billion.

Bitcoins are stored in a virtual wallet. Each wallet uses a string of random characters called a “public key,” visible to anyone, as an address for sending and receiving the cryptocurrency. A separate “private key” allows the owner access to the wallet’s contents.

If a Bitcoin owner dies without passing on the private key, his heirs may discover his wallet only to realize that they will never gain access to the wealth inside. To prevent this, the owner simply has to ensure that someone gets a copy of the private key by writing it down, storing it on a flash memory drive, or entrusting it with a commercial service that manages them.

But some of these methods come with their own perils. Suzanne Walsh, a wills and estate attorney with Murtha Cullina, says executors and heirs may fail to recognize a private Bitcoin key for what it is and end up discarding it — hence the attraction of a commercial service.

Indeed, that’s the reason why the family of the Colorado man will likely be able to recover his Bitcoins, Walsh says. The family discovered the man invested in Bitcoin upon reviewing his bank account, which revealed debits to Coinbase, a popular wallet and exchange service. With documents in hand, the family approached the San Francisco company, which confirmed the existence of a wallet and is in the process of transferring its contents. (Other exchanges also have policies to transfer virtual currency to next of kin but are reluctant to discuss the issue for fear that fraudsters will use fake death claims to steal customers’ Bitcoins.)

But what if you don’t know about the existence of a deceased person’s Bitcoins?

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Henry Leibowitz, an attorney at Proskauer, says executors typically use tax filings as a way to locate assets. He likens the Bitcoin situation to a time when people died with stock certificates in shoe boxes — sometimes they would go unnoticed for decades until the corporation that issued them concluded that nobody would redeem them and turned them over to a state government’s unclaimed property division.

Finally, if the Bitcoins are not listed in a will, they are susceptible to what estate lawyers call “probate by truck” — where heirs walk off with property by claiming that “he would have wanted me to have it.” The difference is, instead of a favorite lamp or piece of jewelry, a relative might walk off with the private key to a Bitcoin wallet worth thousands or millions of dollars.
https://medium.com/@timebox.network/with-timebox-service-you-dont-have-to-worry-about-cryptocurrency-inheritance-14d40d323518

The Crypto Series of Poker Champions & Race to WSOP Winners


Congratulations to the Crypto Series of Poker champions! These players used their skills to compete with over 5,000 players in our inaugural crypto poker event, winning over 22,000,000 CHP tokens in the process.
https://medium.com/@CoinPoker/the-crypto-series-of-poker-champions-race-to-wsop-winners-c463e254981e