Despite a time of high uncertainty in the cryptocurrency market, the LYM token continues to grow

Recent months saw a period of growing uncertainty and large fluctuations in the value of most traditional crypto coins with Bitcoin losing more than half its value from December 2017 to date. Any rebounds do not seem to hold up for long and stability is yet to be achieved.

https://medium.com/@lympo.io/despite-a-time-of-high-uncertainty-in-the-cryptocurrency-market-the-lym-token-continues-to-grow-a7562443be7c

AMA feed— How Omnitude plans to revolutionise eCommerce

Curious about who we are at Omnitude? Where is Omnitude going to be in 10 years? Is there a pressing blockchain related question that’s keeping you up at night? Wonder no more!

We are pleased to announce that our community manager Greg Painter is preparing to do a live AMAfeed on Monday, March 19th at 4pm (GMT). This is the chance where our community members have the opportunity to ask any questions about our project and get direct answers from our team. All questions are welcome!

https://medium.com/omnitude/ama-feed-how-omnitude-plans-to-revolutionise-ecommerce-a9290e4035a4

Genesis Markets announcement


An ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi is eminent for saying “the more you know, the less you understand.”

We will have the opportunity to change this phrase up a little bit to better fit the project — “the more you progress, the more you lack.” Because to evolve in this world, changing at a crazy pace, you can not lag behind. Thus, we will be announcing more projects to join the Genesis Vision ecosystem in the nearest future.

Today we wanted to tell you about Genesis Markets — a project of a Genesis Vision crypto broker. We will be talking in a bit more detail about why we need brokers, and what specific tasks the Genesis Markets will be dealing with.

To dive into this further, we need to define why we actually need a broker:

Brokerage firms are financial companies that act as the middleman between the buyer and the seller. The broker gives you access to the exchanges and takes care of all the clearing and settlement relating to the trade, so even if it were all one centralized system to trade you would likely still be paying something to someone for connecting you with the exchanges and guaranteeing both sides of the trade.

This is also necessary so that customers, who do not have accounts with the existing brokers can also become traders without going beyond the platform.

Thus making it possible to trade and use the platform even if your broker is not yet connected.

Unfortunately, the current situation with crypto trading is far from paradise. Traders currently need to trade on multiple exchanges just to purchase a particular altcoin. Not only this but most of the exchanges have entirely different trading platforms and UI, many of them also have insufficient liquidity levels.

In contrast with that, the conventional trading world has it rather good, compared to crypto markets. Conventional trading has products like MetaTrader, which solves most of the problems mentioned above.

Conventional traders have gotten used to the unified trading platforms and the abundance of assets within one platform. But, they would love to dive into the crypto world and learn a lot more about altcoins if they had access to all of the crypto trading instruments at once. There is no desire to make due diligence for 10 or more exchanges, just to have a basic grasp on the market.

Our solution to this was to create Genesis Markets — a crypto broker, that would feel familiar to conventional traders, designed to make all crypto instruments accessible within a single brokerage.

Genesis Markets will aggregate depth of the market and order books from multiple crypto exchanges. This is necessary to provide customers with access to all available orders that are currently on the market. This also inevitably increases liquidity, as the orders with similar prices will be merged.

Similarly, all of the crypto trading instruments will be aggregated as well.
There are exchanges on which there are many trading pairs and tools. Then, there are more specialized exchanges, where the number of available trading instruments is significantly lower.

One thing unites all of them — none of these exchanges unites all trading instruments.

You can only trade the individual cryptocurrencies, which are available on that single exchange. If you do want to purchase some coins/tokens that aren’t at present on the exchange of your choice, well, you will have to switch to another one. There is simply no way around it. Such migration barriers represent a real issue, mainly because it is quite tricky to move your cryptos from one exchange to another.
Genesis Markets will have all trading instruments available.

The liquidity will be provided by multiple exchanges. This would make Genesis Markets a perfect hub for purchasing cryptocurrency. As a customer, you will have access to multiple order books that will grant you an option always to purchase crypto at the best available price.

Here is a nice example: if you want to purchase 1 BTC, Genesis Markets will be able to purchase 0.5 BTC from one exchange, and both 0.3 and 0.2 BTC from other exchanges. In the end — you will acquire your BTC for the best market price currently possible via all of the available market.

Genesis Markets will also be developed concerning enhancements of the trust management aspect — standard platforms and exchanges do not provide any functionality for trust management. Genesis Vision is a platform for trust management, and Genesis Markets will also incorporate this idea.

Last, but not least — Genesis Markets will have convenient unified trading platforms. The trading platform will be standardized and transparent. This is made so that a customer does not need to learn all the exchange user interfaces in existence; they can just get used to a single platform.

Finally, we’d like to take the opportunity to remind you once again, that the Alpha version of the platform is launching on April 1st.

You need to keep in mind, that the project at such a stage is still very much primarily a prototype, but we’ve been dying to share the progress with you, and we hope that you’ll like what we have in store.

Genesis Vision is looking forward to conquering the market. We are obsessed with the idea of transparent asset management. Keep an eye out for future news, a lot of great stuff is coming soon. This is just a beginning.

https://blog.genesis.vision/genesis-markets-announcement-f520ea832168

Chimaera Airdrop is LIVE
https://medium.com/@Chimaera_Tech/chimaera-airdrop-is-live-c8da2e8525c1



Want to support the Chimaera project and earn some free coins? Follow the instructions in this post to participate in the Chimaera Airdrop Drop program.

Chimaera is a new-age gaming platform that allows multiplayer games to be hosted on the blockchain. Entire game worlds built from the ground up to be decentralized. In-game items that can be obtained with your own skill with true ownership — and they have real world value. Gaming worlds that run unstoppable on the blockchain.

Taylor App Demo - Beta Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ2MXw32wjg&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=sponsored_post&utm_campaign=first_app_video

Demonstration of the Taylor App (beta version) making a trade on Bittrex.

A few disclaimers:
Please, note that this is a beta version.
There are some known bugs in the interface. Some info on the app screen is not correct, accurate or is miscalculated.

The signal used in this demonstration was not generated by our market monitor bot. Is was created by hand only for the purpose of creating this video. The entry point used here is not the entry point that our trading strategy would generate.

Waltonchain subsidiary, IOT Technology, Received Support Fund from Jimei District Xiamen City



In January 2018, Waltonchain’s subsidiary IOT Technology received the Jimei District Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support Fund for their innovative “Unmanned Retail Clothing Store Solution”.

IOT Technology’s Unmanned Retail Clothing Store Solution is an innovative, intelligent, software and hardware system, based on RFID and blockchain technology. It is aimed at improving customer experience and store management efficiency by utilizing a big data blockchain cloud platform and customized smart terminals. This innovative solution realizes smart terminal management in each store, stores the data related to the store merchandise, automatically loads it to the blockchain, and also provides real-time operation and consumer behaviour data analysis. The technology can be widely used in various areas of the Internet of Things, such as smart stores, unmanned shops, smart manufacturing and smart warehousing, etc.

IOT Technology is an enterprise providing professional RFID solutions within the blockchain technology space. It’s industry expertise include RFID & Blockchain R&D, RFID production, project consultation, marketing and services.

The company has independent RFID core technology and blockchain architecture R&D capabilities with a strong technical team with rich experience in the R&D industry. The main products from IOT Technology include:

• UHF reader-writer modules,

• Handheld RFID terminals,

• UHF reader-writers,

• UHF antennas,

• UHF electronic tags,

• IoT & blockchain systems & applications etc.

All key technical indicators of the products have reached or exceeded industry standards for similar products across the globe, and with a commitment to high standards of R&D, IOT Technology will continue its innovation toward design and function.

The ultimate goal of Waltonchain is to create a business ecosystem integrating blockchain with IoT. Based on the cutting-edge blockchain + IoT intelligentization technologies and solutions, through implementation in all the industry sectors, Waltonchain will lead the way to a new, smart lifestyle.

https://medium.com/@Waltonchain_EN/waltonchain-subsidiary-iot-technology-received-support-fund-from-jimei-district-xiamen-city-5b1c160883f9

BitSchool Q&A (2) Personalized Learning
https://medium.com/bitschool/bitschool-q-a-2-personalized-learning-cba4f9a835d3



The BitSchool Q&A is based on questions that have been raised after we announced our ICO. We thought these questions and our answers might be of interest to anyone who’s either interested in our project or thinking of participating in our Token Sale. Take a look at the questions and answers.

Token Economics (AAA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=SORXBZCZMrI

The GIFTO team brings you this week's 'Ask Andy Anything' (AAA) series, where Andy Tian, the CEO of GIFTO, will answer any questions shared with our community managers and angels via Telegram and other platforms.

This week's AAA is about GIFTO token economics. Andy jumps into questions about token distribution, how the GTO wallet works in UpLive and how Udiamonds and GTO systems operate.

Electricity cost by country. Europe

In this series of articles, we want to show statistics on the electricity cost per kWh for countries in different parts of the world.

The data is comparative, as the price of electricity varies widely within the countries themselves by region, and tariffs sometimes change every month. The difference in cost is also affected by the infrastructure and geography of individual areas.



Electricity in Europe according to Eurostat

Every year Eurostat publishes comparative data on the price per kilowatt of electricity in selected European and nearby countries. The latest statistics publication for the current year is planned to appear in May 2018. According to data for 2017, the Top 10 countries with the lowest cost for household consumer include:

Ukraine (0,039 Euro per kWh)
Kosovo (0.066)
Serbia (0.066)
Macedonia (0.082)
Albania (0.084)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (0.86)
Bulgaria (0.096)
Montenegro (0.097)
Moldova (0.098)
Turkey (0.105)

The prices presented in the rating include taxes for private consumers. Private (or domestic/household) consumers are referred to buyers with an annual electricity consumption from 2500 to 5000 kWh.
Among the members of the European Union, the highest cost for electricity was achieved in Germany, Denmark, and Belgium. Compared with the leader in the minimum cost in the EU — Bulgaria, the cost in the above-mentioned countries is more than 3 times higher.

https://medium.com/solardao/electricity-cost-by-country-europe-660c2741d5d

How CrossPay App Helps The Unbanked
https://medium.com/sentinelchain/how-crosspay-app-helps-the-unbanked-b591a06e7f8d

In our vision to empower the unbanked economy, we have designed the Sentinel Chain ecosystem that involves not just members of the unbanked communities but various other stakeholders such as merchants, insurers, investors, etc.

The Sentinel Chain ecosystem is composed of five components:

1 CrossPay Mobile App
2 CrossPay Blockchain
3 Livestock Identification Tag
4 Sentinel Chain
5 Sentinel Chain Token

In this article, we will talk about the CrossPay platform (made up of the CrossPay Mobile Application and the CrossPay Blockchain) and how it benefits the underserved and unbanked communities.

In short, the CrossPay Mobile App is designed to be more than just a mobile wallet. Not only does CrossPay provide the unbanked with access to their account balance and enables transactions with other members in the communities like fellow community members, e.g., fellow villagers, and merchants, e.g., village shops, CrossPay will be key to the tokenisation of livestock (this unique element of CrossPay will be covered in another article).

Powering the transactions via the CrossPay app is the CrossPay Blockchain. There are several forms of blockchains, and ours uses the private blockchain technology. The advantage of deploying private blockchains into the CrossPay platform architecture is that it is private (duh) as usage is restricted to the members of the local community. In addition, the speed of deployment, the protection from the volatility of public blockchain currencies, and scalability are also the advantages of using private blockchain versus public blockchain.

It is with the CrossPay Platform that we can issue native cryptocurrency that circulates in the local community and the local community alone. Wait a minute, did we say native cryptocurrency? But why use a native cryptocurrency token? To understand how this usage is beneficial to the underserved and underbanked communities, we must travel back in time slightly.

Requirements for the manufacture of gas cylinders
https://medium.com/@cylinders_io/requirements-for-the-manufacture-of-gas-cylinders-53cbd8ad3818

Production of gas cylinders from composite materials is a hi-tech process which demands observance of certain conditions and satisfaction of a number of requirements:

· compliance with parameters of the shell tightness;
* compliance with fire and explosion safety requirements of the shell;
* compliance with weight requirements;
· meeting the design parameters;
· providing adaptability to manufacture;
* maintaining acceptable economic parameters.

Compliance of products with all the above requirements make manufacturers of gas cylinders for storage of compressed natural gas use only advanced chemical materials with a number of its specific properties and characteristics. These are the materials we plan to use to manufacture our unique composite gas cylinders of the 4th type Composite Cylinders Advanced!

2018 Global (Shanghai) Blockchain Application Entrepreneurship Competition — Competition Details

 The purpose of the competition

From January 2018 to June 2018, the competition will fully integrate the forces of all sectors of the society. While searching for “blockchain” professional and technical talents, it will also explore more potential, valuable and influential blockschain innovation and entrepreneurship projects. There will be 400+ blockchain innovation and entrepreneurship projects, 150+ well-known investment institutions and investors, 100+ mainstream media, 50+ industry experts, 50+ venture capital leaders to participate.

Through this competition, we will achieve closer integration of blockchain technology with the Internet of Things, Big Data, AI, healthcare, finance, intellectual property, games, entertainment, and traditional Internet industries, to create a better environment and conditions for the implementation and promotion of the applications of blockchain.



https://medium.com/@AschPlatform/2018-global-shanghai-blockchain-application-entrepreneurship-competition-competition-details-13e2af845d5c

Payment Systems Of The New Economy

In the previous article we discussed how the FinTech ecosystem built by China makes it the leader of the new economy. This part dives deeper into the payment mechanisms of the Modern world. The popularity of mobile payments and strong blockchain startups make China a prospective candidate to start the “third industrial revolution.”

https://blog.bankex.org/payment-systems-of-the-new-economy-a05b6cb89fa0

How trade.io is positioning itself at the forefront of the blockchain market
https://medium.com/@trade.io/revolutionizing-modern-day-investing-cb16380a7b9e

Interested in understanding a little bit more about who we are?

If you haven’t heard by now, trade.io is the next generation’s financial institute. A blockchain-based trading platform which aims to democratize the financial markets and redistribute wealth back to investors and companies, through reducing and eliminating fees and inefficiencies by utilizing its innovative trading platform.

Through the creation of our exciting innovative peer-to-peer shared liquidity pool, profits can, in turn, get redistributed back to customers, making us diverse from other exchanges in the market. We use peer-to-peer platforms to support the trading of a wide range of assets, and have just launched the most exciting coin: the TradeToken. At a lower more competitive price than other currencies currently out there, all new traders will be among the pioneers wishing to take advantage of our next-generation platform from the start.

The trade.io exchange not only supports trading of assets, but supports a more efficient listing of assets in the crypto economy through a safe and reliable blockchain system. The success achieved so far is a testament to the core investors behind the project who hold solid investment banking experience and senior advisory expertise (stay tuned for a later post on the trade.io community).

Our long-term vision and goals

Naturally, we aim at becoming the leading exchange for traditional companies to raise funds from both crypto and traditional financing communities. Through utilizing technology, we can tackle our goal of achieving the biggest trading liquidity pool and strive to become a top-five crypto-asset based on market capitalization.

The ICO story

Our impressive ICO, which was launched on December 7, raised a staggering $31,169,749 from 15,073 participants who purchased 65,782,147 Trade Tokens, or TIO. Our primary ICO milestones were all achieved, which included a soft cap of $5 million, a further $10 million to strengthen the liquidity pool, as well as an astonishing $30 million for the blockchain exchange creation.

And that's just the beginning! trade.io's exciting launch of the exchange this spring has got the board and management team anticipating that this will indeed be the leading exchange of its kind-initially in the crypto space, and then we plan to introduce more popular instruments including Forex and others.

TOMO Community update March, 5 — The public sale has ended
https://medium.com/tomocoin/tomo-community-update-march-5-the-public-sale-has-ended-d8ef2dc033fb

It was wonderful to see the supports from the community as we sold out the the public sale within 5 seconds of the beginning of round 2, where the personal cap goes up to 10 ETH.

The smart-contract was working perfectly where its address received around 800 transactions for round 2, in which only 30–35 succeeded, and the rest was returned. In total, the smart-contract address received around 2000 transactions, successfully sold out 4 millions Tomocoin, and we took in 1250 ETH for the public sale. Somewhat unfortunately to the sender, 295K of Refereum was accidentally sent to the address, and it now disappeared forever.

Update #9 - important milestones in March

I will share some insights on what you will hear from the team this month. The month of March for our community will be an exceptional month. Together, we will reach a few important milestones for Edgeless:

Edgeless will celebrate one-year birthday. Thanks to you, our community, and team we achieved a lot during our first year. According to Bloomberg, the tokens with the biggest gain, a 500 percent jump since it started trading, was issued by Edgeless. We became the FIRST Ethereum ICO project which has solved smart contract scalability issues, launched a working online casino and started generating real results for the business. We are also the first crypto casino that has received an official Curacao gambling license. Most current ICOs are projects that are promising solutions based on smart contracts; but are still in a ‘white-paper’ stage.

At the end of March, we will introduce Edgeless 1.0 version which is focused towards catering for mass consumer adoption. The platform will have significantly improved user experience, simplified registration process, flawless mobile experience, statistics dashboard and social elements including a chat.

The new Dice game based on smart-contracts will be released. Dice is an extremely popular game among top bitcoin casinos. Additionally, it’s much easier than Black Jack and fun for people who just want to make a bet without thinking too much about the rules of the game.

Marketing, marketing, marketing. During the last 2 months, our team have tripled in size and top talents have joined the team to push Edgeless to a global level. We are preparing the entire service for mass user adoption, so Edgeless will start larger marketing campaigns.

https://www.edgeless.io/blog/update-9-important-milestones-on-march

Bullion News Update: 05/03/18

Bullion Participation Nodes (BPN)
Progress continues on the full release of Vault 3.0, including the Bullion Participation Nodes (BPN aka masternodes) feature. At the same time we are receiving good feedback from the Bullion community regarding bugs or errors. Rest assured the team is working extremely hard to resolve all issues found within this alpha release to ensure a slick and smooth user experience. You can expect further news regarding the release of the BPN shortly - keep your eyes peeled for the announcement!

Improved Orphan Rate
We are delighted to see end users enjoying the benefits of the feature included into Vault 3.0 which has managed to reduce the orphan rate from roughly 5% to 3%. This 40% improvement will bring more stability to the network and deliver a more optimal staking experience.

Cryptopia Logo Update
We are delighted to see Cryptopia have updated the Bullion logo across their entire exchange now. Our new branding is cleaner, more modern and will be well represented in the new Bullion website, which is currently under development. A request has already been sent out to coinmarketcap.com to update the Bullion logo - we understand it can take time for an admin to correct this, however it should be updated shortly.

https://staging.busy.org/@cbx/bullion-news-update-05-03-18

Version 0.1.7: Change log
https://medium.com/@encryptotel/version-0-1-7-change-log-1009917b96fc

Our relations with partners Mtel and CenterTelecom have proved to be very productive and continue to influence the shape of a product to come. Testing on real users helped us a lot with bug hunting (and we have found more than a few of them) and let us make improvements to our functional design. And so our humble log:

Implemented the Call Rules module;
Implemented the IVR module;
Basic encryption can now be enabled or disabled right from the dashboard;
Implemented a tariff plan change;
Fixed UX issues which occured during registration and password recovery;
Implemented file downloads in the Storage module;
It is now possible to add a contact from the address book to the black list;
Improved statistics;
Implemented notification message upon IP change (logged in from another device) during session;
Fixed registration issues and added proper error notifications;
Fixed editing of Ring Groups;
Fixed various small bugs;

Meet the Team: VP of Engineering Srini Kandikattu
https://medium.com/votem/meet-the-team-vp-of-engineering-srini-kandikattu-ff0dbdb5ddec

Votem is led by some of the most influential people in the elections, business, and blockchain spaces. This series will bring to light these individuals and their roles at Votem.

Srini leads the development and operations of Votem’s Mobile Voting Platform. He comes to Votem with 20+ years’ experience in software product development, management, operations and innovation. Prior to joining Votem, Srini was COO & CTO for mobile marketing platform company Archer, where he led multi-national teams building software products for the mobile marketing industry while also overseeing Operations and delivery of Services and Solutions. Prior to Archer, Srini held various senior leadership positions at iLoopMobile, IBM and Siebel.

Ignorance of the law
https://medium.com/@gpccio/ignorance-of-the-law-3bccb6e76aa0

Copying songs, films or images from the Internet without permission is illegal in accordance with copyright laws, but they are often ignored. The principle is simple: unless the copyright owner has given permission to share content — whether through YouTube or a photo sharing site — copying, even for private use, is illegal.

However, there is little concern about the reality of the law: while there is growing recognition that copying the media, and music in particular, can harm creators, the real barriers to piracy are technological.

Ignoring the rules you can easily find yourself in an unpleasant situation from a legal point of view.

We offer a system of copyright protection on blockchain, which will allow doing this. With our platform, you will be able to verify the copyright for the author work.

Blockchain allows you to keep a certificate of your copyright among all network members, and it will be impossible to replace this data.

To eliminate the possibility of downloading the same author works, a neural network that will search for copies and analogues on the Internet will be developed.

The platform will monitor the authors copyright use and promptly notify them in case of an unauthorized use.