Skraps: A Platform Where Talented Micro-Investors Can Capitalize http://www.thedrum.com/profile/news/283110/skraps-platform-where-talented-micro-investors-can-capitalize?platform=hootsuiteWith the Skraps platform launch just months away, the cryptocurrency investment model Skraps has created will allow a wide range of savvy young investors to enter the market. The world has been agape at the meteoric rise as well as the subsequent plummet of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Opinions are voiced daily - from the delirious to the doomsayers - and not even the dotcom rise in the 1990s had so much opinion and nervous movement attached to it. Amid all of the hype, there are always smart and diligent investors who persist and come out ahead of the pack. On the Skraps platform, these skilled investors are to be rewarded, without even having to engage.
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Startup Grind Perth Hosts Jemma Green Power Ledger Febuary 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7dhdB46s9QStartup Grind presents Dr Jemma Green who is co-founder and chair of Power Ledger. Jemma shares her journey from investment banking in London to building a democratised renewable energy trading platform built on the Blockchain. |
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ICOs and their futureMarket Trends on Token Sales in 2017–2018 2017 was a landmark year, as it was once in 2008. Only if 2008 was remembered by the financial crisis, then 2017 will be remembered by the phenomenon of ICOs and the blossoming of cryptocurrencies. The key question that interests market participants is how the factors that influence the success of the ICO have changed. And it would be nice to understand what a successful ICO is. Success for an ICO is raising a lot of money. Of course, this is only the first step towards creating a cool product and satisfying the investor’s interest. However, there can be no future for even a successful project without proper security in the form of hedging as the proverbial “business sharks” are coming to the market and do not care about the viability of products, only pumping and dumping tactics for their own enrichment. DeHedge is a project designed specifically and endowed with official US regulations for hedging viable project tokens. ICOs currently have a lot of issues attributed to them — legal issues, regulations, financing, scams, and many more. With every year the issues will snowball as the market grows. It is impossible to securitize the entire market or industry just reduce the risks through proper hedging. The market is growing, but the growth has slowed to November rates and has been growing by a couple of per cent per month since. The number of projects continued to grow at a tremendous pace, though. December saw a spike in the collected sums, possible reasons of which are the desire of most projects to complete their ICOs by the end of the year and abnormal charges for Hdac (258M) and Sirin Labs (158M) projects, which accounted for 25% of all funds collected in December In January there was a seasonal decline as the majority of teams rested and celebrated, and who really wanted to work held their token sale back in December. In general, the situation on the market resembles a sale on a Black Friday with a huge number of projects, all wanting investments. As a result, the average amount of fees for an ICO dropped almost threefold in mid-summer. The number of projects on the market is growing rapidly, but the amount of money is not. The importance of small investors has declined, large investors and crypto funds have grown and their significance has also changed under the pressure of external factors. https://medium.com/@DeHedge/icos-and-their-future-b8f1f838fd54
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Lympo announces a partnership with Eidoo wallet and its ICO engineLympo is happy to announce that it will cooperate with the Eidoo wallet and its ICO engine for the Lympo token sale starting on February 17. Our CEO Ada Jonuse said: “We are very glad to have such a strong crypto space player with more than 100 000 users as our token sale partner and as a wallet to conduct the future Lympo airdrops. Eidoo partnership will allow us to reach Eidoo users and to promote the token sale. The new ICO engine will demonstrate the future of the token sales with the best user experience for our contributors.” Eidoo wallet users will be able to contribute to the Lympo token sale using the new ICO engine that guarantees the best token sale experience for our contributors. If you want to try it out, please create an Eidoo wallet and do our KYC procedure registering your Eidoo wallet address. https://medium.com/@lympo.io/lympo-announces-a-partnership-with-eidoo-wallet-and-its-ico-engine-496b46cee872
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Voting for the updated White PaperChronoBank highly valuates the opinion of its community and investors. For this reason, we decided to put the adoption of the updated White Paper to vote. The changes made in the updated White Paper were necessary to comply with existing worldwide regulations. Our proposed new approach removes the dividend-style rewards. However, whilst TIME will not receive dividends from platform activities, it will be used to mine LH tokens. We want to be sure to meet the SEC’s compliance requirements and not be seen as a security, but rather as a utility token. One of the critical benefits of this change is that TIME will meet the SEC’s requirements, and therefore we will be eligible for listing on all exchanges. https://blog.chronobank.io/voting-for-the-updated-white-paper-62ac55b2b39c
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iXledger and InsChain Announce a Partnership in Greater China RegionLONDON & NEW YORK & HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iXledger today announced its partnership with InsChain to expand iXledger services into Greater China Region. The collaboration will enable acceptance of iXledger’s Utility Token, IXT, on the InsChain platform for peer-to-peer services throughout Greater China Region. “The partnership with InsChain will bring a whole new level of services to the iXledger community. The growing Market Economy, as an extension of the Shared Economy, requires efficiency and interoperability between many partners and participants to support new insurance solutions. The IXT utility tokens facilitate efficient micropayments across blockchain enabled ecosystems. This interoperability enables the creation of new insurance products and services, while enabling price discovery with total control and transparency, “ said Cristina Dolan, Co-Founder and President US, iXledger. “The InsChain founders have extensive backgrounds in actuarial science and a strong understanding of evolving insurance requirements in the Greater China Region.” “We are excited to partner with iXledger, they understand the blockchain enabled Market Economy and have the technical experience required to build the next generation blockchain platforms that will power insurance related ecosystems. This partnership will enable consumers and businesses to participate in new insurance models like our InsChain peer-to-peer product,“ said William Bu, InsChain CEO, “We are excited to have Cristina Dolan join the InsChain Advisory Board.” According to analysts, China is one of the fastest growing insurance markets in the world. A report by Munich Re economists states that the insurance industry in China is “forecast to grow at twice the rate of the economy as a whole.” https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180213005259/en/iXledger-InsChain-Announce-Partnership-Greater-China-Region
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Lucky Lunar New Year Bonus!Gong Xi Fa Cai! Chinese New Year is approaching the corner, and it’s the Year of the Dog this time. We would like to wish our supporters “身体健康，万事如意”（Pronunciation is “ Shen ti Jian kang, Wan Shi Ru Yi”) which mean good health and all dreams come true. To celebrate Spring Festival with all, Genie ICO will be giving out virtual red envelopes (termed “ang pao”) to our token purchaser. This “ang pao” will be given out based on the amount of tokens purchased between 1st Feb to 28th Feb. https://medium.com/@genieico/lucky-lunar-new-year-fc6101710541
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How Cryptocurrency Can Help Developing Countries https://medium.com/the-mission/how-cryptocurrency-can-help-developing-countries-2a720192ba6aPoverty, corruption, inflation, and high unemployment levels are some of the problems that are common to developing countries around the world. Years of political instability and poor governance has plunged some nations into devastating economic crisis. With the fast-paced nature of growth and advancements in other more developed parts of the world, the prospects sometimes do seem bleak for these developing nations. However, the emergence of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency has brought renewed enthusiasm about the prospects of a revival in these countries. The focus of this article is to examine possible answers to the big question of how cryptocurrency can be of use to these countries. |
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Update: 75% of Soft Cap MetWith two days remaining in the public presale, we are ecstatic to announce the SyncFab MFG Crowdsale has met 75% of the Soft Cap goal. Over 11,000ETH was contributed by the MFG community members — composing of innovators, buyers, and manufacturers. With the addition of the public sale, we are confident of fulfilling the soft cap and optimistic of achieving the hard cap goal! https://medium.com/syncfabmfg/75-of-soft-cap-met-4c38b51f8ca2?platform=hootsuite
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IOHK | Cardano development techniques, with Duncan Coutts, PhD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhKUHpQZIoc&feature=youtu.beCardano is being developed with the aim of making it high assurance software. This is code that is rigorously developed using certain techniques to ensure it is bug free and fit to carry huge amounts of value safely, something which is currently missing in the cryptocurrency area. In this talk, Dr Duncan Coutts, IOHK’s Director of Engineering, explains a mathematical technique being used to specify and test new components of Cardano’s software. Benefits of this approach include reducing accidental complexity in the code, and a simpler specification leads to simpler implementation, and easier testing that can be conducted comprehensively. There is no other project that has ever been built to these parameters, combining peer reviewed cryptographic research with an implementation in highly secure Haskell code. This is not the copy and paste code seen in so many other blockchains. Instead, Cardano was designed with input from a large global team including leading experts and professors in the fields of computer programming languages, network design and cryptography. We are extremely proud of Cardano, which required a months-long meticulous and painstaking development process by our talented engineers. Duncan has more than 15 years' programming experience with Haskell and is a well-known member of the Haskell community. He helps maintain several popular libraries and tools including Cabal and ByteString. He has several years' experience in packaging the Haskell toolchain and took a leading role in establishing the Haskell Platform. He holds a first-class degree in Computation and a D.Phil in Computer Science, both from Oxford University. He has published papers at international conferences, including ICFP. His research focus is on generating high performance code from idiomatic high-level Haskell code. This included co-authoring the ByteString and Binary libraries and work on stream fusion for lists. He has five years' experience teaching computer science, including four years spent teaching Haskell to mature students at graduate level. |
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Credits ICO Review – One Million Transactions Per Second or Scam?Credits is a project based out of Singapore which has just recently finished their Pre ICO on December 26th of 2017. Now Credits will be moving into the ICO Phase starting on February 15, 2018. So lets take a closer look at this new Credits project token shall we? http://www.joshpaiva.com/credits-ico-review/
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The Team Behind DIW: Alcaeus Labs Since the project’s conception, DIW has been working hard and, thus far, we have gotten some great feedback which makes us quite excited for our upcoming ICO. All this would probably not have been possible without the help of our distinguished team: Alcaeus Labs. Alcaeus Labs is a company providing complete online business solutions by utilizing the latest technologies and trends of the contemporary world. Its area of expertise lies in blockchain solutions, web based applications, web design, internet marketing & SEO. The team is made up of diverse individuals, each in their own field of expertise but have one thing in common — a background interest in blockchain technology and the crypto world, prior to backing DIW. We knew therefore that we would not go wrong by joining our heads with them, and we were right! Stephanos Constantinou, Alcaeus Labs’ CEO and Co-Founder, mentioned that: “When assessing the issues that the digital world faces, such as data breaches & online fraud, along with the limited ability to utilize cryptocurrency, it occurred to us that something actually marrying the two should and could be done. DIW came up with the solution and we felt inspired to step in helping out towards the actualization of the project”. As we have mentioned in our Whitepaper, the project’s main functions which line up to tackle the above mentioned issues (chronologically), are the Secure Digital Vault, the Global Rating System, the Payment Gateway and the Smart Contract based Escrow service. “Ultimately the vision of DIW is to incorporate the Health Care sector, by enabling the encrypted peer-to-peer storage and secure sharing of personal EHRs between account holders and medical professionals,” adds Stephanos. “We are incredibly enthusiastic about DIW! By simply creating and maintaining an account on the DIW platform, one will finally have complete control of their own digital world!”, says Alcaeus Labs’ COO and Co-Founder Christopher Zenios. “It’s been just over a month since going live with the DIW project, and we are all well on our way to implement all aspirations of DIW”. It is a privilege to have acquired such a fruitful cooperation with Alcaeus Labs, we are certainly looking forward to the journey that is expecting us with them. https://medium.com/@diwtoken/the-team-behind-diw-alcaeus-labs-9390ae3589e7 |
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Achain Platform Projects Token Distribution Suggestions VotingRegarding Achain Platform Projects Token Distribution Suggestions，lets vote now using the link given below! Voting Time: February 5, 2018 00:00 to February 6, 2018 24:00 (GMT+8) Taking into account the feasibility and timeliness of the implementation of the program, 9options are now being selected. The snapshots mentioned below refer to take snapshots of the ACT balances stored in Achain wallets and Kcash wallets: 1) Enroll in the candy reward program, take a snapshot of the ACT balance at the specified block height, and dispense candies according to the holding currency ratio, and set the maximum number of candies available for each holder. 2) Enroll in the candy reward program, take a snapshot of the ACT balance at the specified block height, and dispense candy according to the holding currency ratio without setting the maximum candy limit. 3) Sign up for the Candy Rewards Program, take a snapshot of the ACT balance at the specified block height, and place in different stalls for different levels of candy. 4) No registration, regular snapshots, send candies in accordance with the proportion of holding money. 5) All candies are used for lottery. 6) All community members share the candies equally. 7) The candy is divided into two parts, one for snapshots of the balance, the distribution of candy on a specific scale and the other for marketing activities to increase the size of the community.  Investors holding more than 10,000 ACTs participate in the candies giveaway. 9）Candies will be distributed based on the 2 factors: The amount of ACT tokens held and the duration that they have been held. https://medium.com/@AchainOfficial/achain-platform-projects-token-distribution-suggestions-voting-64d1bf375266
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Community Updates — February 5Please download the latest version of Qtum Core if you are staking. This version contains critical security updates and also a new user interface. **Please make sure to backup your wallet beforehand** Community UpdatesWatch Jordan Earls’ Berlin Meetup Livestream on Qtum & our x86 VM Trusted IoT Alliance Cisco Live EMEAWatch the Trusted IoT Alliance’s (TIoTA) panel that took on January 30th in Barcelona at Cisco Live. The panel discussion was moderated by Anoop Nannra, Cisco’s head of blockchain and chairman of TIoTA. The discussion included Zaki Manian, executive director of TIoTA, Jordan Earls, co-founder of Qtum, Peter Busch, Automotive Leader at Bosch, and Ryan King, CEO of Foam Space. First Ever Space NodeThe CZ-2D rocket carrying SpaceChain satellite and running a Qtum full node was launched successfully at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite has successfully entered orbit and the ground station received its telemetry signal. At present, the satellite antennas, solar panels, and the battery are all in proper operation. The blockchain node test will be performed after system stablizes. https://blog.qtum.org/community-updates-february-5-875ee828e3fc
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Weekly report 02/01Development Our developer’s team was focused on integration of Joule and MyWish platform. One of our main priorities is to make Joule’s interface straightforward and simple to use. PartnershipsThis week was brimming with successful partnership negotiations. *WandX became our partner. It’s a decentralized platform enabling seamless creation and trade of any ERC20 Token or a basket of ERC20 Tokens. MyWish will develop token template for WandX baskets of ERC20 Tokens. Moreover, soon Any ICO/Token created on MyWish will be tradable on WandX exchange. ( https://www.wandx.co) *We are looking to continue integration on B2B smart contract to World-class fitness club infrastructure. *Collaboration with Agrello on the objective of KYC integration to Crowdsale contract. *First meeting with SingularDTV ( https://singulardtv.com/) about MyWish’s contracts integration to Musician’s crowdsale process. Exchanges *YoBit.Net — we have paid the fees and expecting to be listed in the next 2 weeks. *WandX — Wish tokens will be listed on WandX exchange asap. *Coss.io — we have reached an agreement on costs and have sent required documents. Expecting the listing date soon. *No response from KuCoin https://medium.com/@VladimirTikhomirov/weekly-report-02-01-37aa2c87e860
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Swarm City Dev Update Feb 5, 2018Swarm City Dev is hard at work on bringing Boardwalk V2 from idea to fruition. As mentioned in past updates, to get there Dev needed to rebuild everything from scratch. Even functionalities included in the Terminal release; for example sending SWT, the shortcode, and creating a profile, are being overhauled. Also, one of the main challenges revealed with the release of Boardwalk V1 was how the app managed interactions with Ethereum. It became clear this required some rethinking as well. Boardwalk V1 acted as a direct conduit to the Ethereum blockchain, and what Dev found was this was a cumbersome setup. The frank assessment is the Ethereum platform is so new that tools for managing interactions between a more humanistic front end app and the Ethereum machine do not yet exist. How this manifested to the end user was slow response times, and even dropped or stuck transactions. To solve these issues, Dev created a buffer layer to exist between the V2 front end and the blockchain. This layer is the Swarm CIty API. https://press.swarm.city/swarm-city-dev-update-feb-5-2018-792e2133056
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Stox Announces New Partnership with FintruX Stox.com has published a new ICO prediction on the Stox application platform, for the FintruX ICO launch. After Stox’ July 2017 ICO, which gathered over 148K ETH, Stox continues its growth by expanding it’s ICO Predictions category to predict the success rate of ICO’s for any new project. FintruX Network is the global P2P lending ecosystem powered by Ethereum and no-code development. Their vision is to create an ecosystem connecting borrowers, lenders, and rated service agencies. FintruX facilitates marketplace lending in a true peer-to-peer network to ease the cash-flow issues of small businesses and startups. This special opportunity to harness the wisdom of the crowd on the FintruX ICO, which is both unique and engaging for STX token holders, will add value to FintruX ICO participants. Additionally, Stox will unlock greater FintruX community engagement by rewarding them for valuable insights into borrowers’ credit worthiness. Mr. Conrad Lin, CMO & Co-Founder at FintruX, communicated to Stox, [that] “The synergy between the Stox platform and FintruX is a natural development, giving us even greater insight into borrowers’ risk profiling by sourcing the highly developed ‘wisdom of the crowd’ concept Stox has achieved.” Both platforms offer a unique advantage in their easy adaptability for mass market users, while being entirely blockchain based. This is true for both the mainstream audience who enjoys making predictions on the Stox platform, powered by the STX cryptocurrency token, and individuals requiring the lending resources FintruX has to offer using FTX tokens. Click here to participate in the prediction. https://blog.stox.com/stox-announces-new-partnership-with-fintrux-753f92c8b2bd
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