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Join us on Saturday 20 October for an update on the crypto/blockchain market as well as an exciting line up of projects….more projects to be announced soon:

KartBlock (UAE) — Decentralizing the ecommerce industry. Giving away USD 1,500 worth of tokens.

Securix.io (UAE) — Crypto mining operation. Giving away 5000 SRXIO tokens.

Flamingo Skies (UAE) — Pushing boundaries of blockchain gaming with emerging technologies.

HYGH (Switzerland) — Creating an open global Screen Network for dynamic real-time advertising. HYGH connects owners of public displays with advertisers in a-peer-to-peer fashion. The HYGH platform empowers everyone to become an advertiser, regardless of advertising competence and company size. There easy to use app turns any screen into a highly flexible ad space, be it a tablet located at a convenience store checkout, a TV in a small shop window or a professionally mounted outdoor billboard on the Times Square.

Chainyard (United States) — Blockchain for Business — improve operational efficiencies, eliminating friction and opening up new revenue streams.
Chainyard is a leader in blockchain consulting and developing blockchain-based solutions for government and enterprises based out of Raleigh NC. Chainyard has developed more than two dozen blockchain solutions and actively work with IBM on Hyperledger Fabric.

B21 (Gibraltar) — Private Wealth Management

There will be plenty of time to network before and after the presentations.
The first 20 attendees to register on the day, will enter free…after the first 20 there will a AED 50 per person charge which includes all talks, refreshments and valet parking at the hotel.

RSVP now

https://www.meetup.com/Planet-BlockChain-Dubai/events/255056505/

Anyone wanting to connect in advance or present please drop me a mail at mj@planetblockchain.io

See you soon on Planet BlockChain!

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Join us on Saturday 20 October for an update on the crypto/blockchain market as well as an exciting line up of projects….more projects to be announced soon:

KartBlock (UAE) — Decentralizing the ecommerce industry. Giving away USD 1,500 worth of tokens.

Securix.io (UAE) — Crypto mining operation. Giving away 5000 SRXIO tokens.

Flamingo Skies (UAE) — Pushing boundaries of blockchain gaming with emerging technologies.

HYGH (Switzerland) — Creating an open global Screen Network for dynamic real-time advertising. HYGH connects owners of public displays with advertisers in a-peer-to-peer fashion. The HYGH platform empowers everyone to become an advertiser, regardless of advertising competence and company size. There easy to use app turns any screen into a highly flexible ad space, be it a tablet located at a convenience store checkout, a TV in a small shop window or a professionally mounted outdoor billboard on the Times Square.

Chainyard (United States) — Blockchain for Business — improve operational efficiencies, eliminating friction and opening up new revenue streams.
Chainyard is a leader in blockchain consulting and developing blockchain-based solutions for government and enterprises based out of Raleigh NC. Chainyard has developed more than two dozen blockchain solutions and actively work with IBM on Hyperledger Fabric.

B21 (Gibraltar) — Private Wealth Management

There will be plenty of time to network before and after the presentations.
The first 20 attendees to register on the day, will enter free…after the first 20 there will a AED 50 per person charge which includes all talks, refreshments and valet parking at the hotel.

RSVP now

https://www.meetup.com/Planet-BlockChain-Dubai/events/255056505/

Anyone wanting to connect in advance or present please drop me a mail at mj@planetblockchain.io

See you soon on Planet BlockChain!

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The Heady Days of ICOs

The notion of an ICO — Initial Coin Offering — is something that most in the blockchain space are familiar with. Richard Kastelein, the founder of Blockchain News, was one of the first to bring ICOs into the spotlight in his 2017 Harvard Business Review article describing them as a new fundraising mechanisms. This mechanism represents a financial innovation as a result of a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs and crypto-investors backing blockchain projects which raise funds by creating their own cryptocurrencies (tokens / coins). Projects offer discounted rates on these digital assets in pre-ICO rounds before they go to cryptocurrency exchanges. The investors can then chose to cash out to a fiat currency or another cryptocurrency early on or hold until the currency’s price raises (hopefully).

As a way to raise funds, ICOs have similarities — as well as differences — with traditional venture capital and crowdfunding. In the early days ICOs’ advantages included relative ease and speed of raising money (for a project that was, in many cases, at a concept stage backed by a minimalistic white paper), no oversight by investors (e.g., through a board seat) and, most importantly, high liquidity (which distinguished ICOs from both VC and crowdfunding). Many investors enjoyed extraordinary returns: for example, an analysis of 232 ICOs by Mangrove Capital partners in 2017 concluded that if one invested blindly in every ICO, including the ones that failed, this still would have delivered a 13.2x return (cf. 10% S&P average returns). Some investors in the heady days of ICOs reaped 50,000% returns. A recent academic study of over 4,000 ICOs found that an average ICO investor earned 82%, reflecting high compensation for risk associated with investing in unproven pre-revenue projects.

As the regulatory environment changed by mid 2018 and investors became more sophisticated, with less appetite for pre-MVP (minimum viable product) projects, many of these advantages — alongside with spectacular returns — disappeared. The majority of ICO tokens (nearly 60%) became worthless four months after the ICO crowdsale. Many high-profile industry participants — including Ethereium’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong– are advocating for a shift from the crypto investment and speculation phase fuelled by expectations of extraordinary returns to the utility phase, when tokens are actually being used in real-world economic activity and in a way stipulated in the white paper. It is quite telling that when Fred Wilson of USV ran a poll on the use of the Brave browser (the BAT project), nearly 80% of those polled said they did not use it.


Enter Community Token Offering (CTO)

Utility and wide adoption is precisely what we at Planet Blockchain are trying to achieve with our community token, PBC. The token gives our community access to physical goods (though a marketplace), content and services (e.g., the community will be able to pay for events and conferences and earn tokens for contributing content). Some of these products already exist, others will be included at a later stage in collaboration with strategic partners. Community tokens are nothing new and are certainly not the invention of the blockchain space — currently there are some 3000–5000 local complementary currencies in circulation predating cryptocurrencies. Bancor is perhaps the best known example of a blockchain project launching a network of user-generated cryptocurrencies to achieve important socio-economic objectives in economically disenfranchised places.

We decided against a traditional ICO with this particular project, as the process in today’s environment has become complicated due to legal compliance and marketing costs and often undemocratic, preventing an equitable distribution of possible gains amongst a wide pool of early investors and users. The main difference between the mainstream ICO model and our CTO is that we seek to distribute the PBC token (ERC-20 token) as widely as possible to our global community members while also ensuring liquidity on exchanges. Available evidence on the vast majority of ICOs to date suggests that neither wide community distribution nor listing on exchanges appear to be the case, thus hindering the adoption and diffusion of the revolutionary technology. And without community, there is no liquidity. Naval Ravikant, AngelList founder, has recently emphasized the critical importance of crypto community building: “The top two skillsets for blockchain entrepreneurs, in order: Technology development. Community development. That’s it”.

Our token distribution — 100,000 tokens (worth US$ 20,000) will be given away to the first 10,000 participants — will be achieved in several ways, including AirDrop Campaigns on Telegram and coin draws during our events.

As the ICO model and financial markets continue to evolve despite the recent turbulence, we are likely to see other viable and more equitable models of fund raising and token distribution. Meanwhile, we encourage everyone to take advantage to participate in the emerging crypto economy. Why should communities care? Tokens are a classic network effect: as more people use them more frequently, the tokens and the networks they are built on become more valuable. We look forward to continuing this exciting journey with our global community.

YouTube CTO video: https://youtu.be/gd8ofMVDsc0

Our website: www.planetblockchain.io

Our past events: https://planetblockchain.io/events/

About our token: https://planetblockchain.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/PBC-ANN-1.jpg

Video announcement of the airdrop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4b4yBdFXWY

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The Heady Days of ICOs

The notion of an ICO — Initial Coin Offering — is something that most in the blockchain space are familiar with. Richard Kastelein, the founder of Blockchain News, was one of the first to bring ICOs into the spotlight in his 2017 Harvard Business Review article describing them as a new fundraising mechanisms. This mechanism represents a financial innovation as a result of a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs and crypto-investors backing blockchain projects which raise funds by creating their own cryptocurrencies (tokens / coins). Projects offer discounted rates on these digital assets in pre-ICO rounds before they go to cryptocurrency exchanges. The investors can then chose to cash out to a fiat currency or another cryptocurrency early on or hold until the currency’s price raises (hopefully).

As a way to raise funds, ICOs have similarities — as well as differences — with traditional venture capital and crowdfunding. In the early days ICOs’ advantages included relative ease and speed of raising money (for a project that was, in many cases, at a concept stage backed by a minimalistic white paper), no oversight by investors (e.g., through a board seat) and, most importantly, high liquidity (which distinguished ICOs from both VC and crowdfunding). Many investors enjoyed extraordinary returns: for example, an analysis of 232 ICOs by Mangrove Capital partners in 2017 concluded that if one invested blindly in every ICO, including the ones that failed, this still would have delivered a 13.2x return (cf. 10% S&P average returns). Some investors in the heady days of ICOs reaped 50,000% returns. A recent academic study of over 4,000 ICOs found that an average ICO investor earned 82%, reflecting high compensation for risk associated with investing in unproven pre-revenue projects.

As the regulatory environment changed by mid 2018 and investors became more sophisticated, with less appetite for pre-MVP (minimum viable product) projects, many of these advantages — alongside with spectacular returns — disappeared. The majority of ICO tokens (nearly 60%) became worthless four months after the ICO crowdsale. Many high-profile industry participants — including Ethereium’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong– are advocating for a shift from the crypto investment and speculation phase fuelled by expectations of extraordinary returns to the utility phase, when tokens are actually being used in real-world economic activity and in a way stipulated in the white paper. It is quite telling that when Fred Wilson of USV ran a poll on the use of the Brave browser (the BAT project), nearly 80% of those polled said they did not use it.


Enter Community Token Offering (CTO)

Utility and wide adoption is precisely what we at Planet Blockchain are trying to achieve with our community token, PBC. The token gives our community access to physical goods (though a marketplace), content and services (e.g., the community will be able to pay for events and conferences and earn tokens for contributing content). Some of these products already exist, others will be included at a later stage in collaboration with strategic partners. Community tokens are nothing new and are certainly not the invention of the blockchain space — currently there are some 3000–5000 local complementary currencies in circulation predating cryptocurrencies. Bancor is perhaps the best known example of a blockchain project launching a network of user-generated cryptocurrencies to achieve important socio-economic objectives in economically disenfranchised places.

We decided against a traditional ICO with this particular project, as the process in today’s environment has become complicated due to legal compliance and marketing costs and often undemocratic, preventing an equitable distribution of possible gains amongst a wide pool of early investors and users. The main difference between the mainstream ICO model and our CTO is that we seek to distribute the PBC token (ERC-20 token) as widely as possible to our global community members while also ensuring liquidity on exchanges. Available evidence on the vast majority of ICOs to date suggests that neither wide community distribution nor listing on exchanges appear to be the case, thus hindering the adoption and diffusion of the revolutionary technology. And without community, there is no liquidity. Naval Ravikant, AngelList founder, has recently emphasized the critical importance of crypto community building: “The top two skillsets for blockchain entrepreneurs, in order: Technology development. Community development. That’s it”.

Our token distribution — 100,000 tokens (worth US$ 20,000) will be given away to the first 10,000 participants — will be achieved in several ways, including AirDrop Campaigns on Telegram and coin draws during our events.

As the ICO model and financial markets continue to evolve despite the recent turbulence, we are likely to see other viable and more equitable models of fund raising and token distribution. Meanwhile, we encourage everyone to take advantage to participate in the emerging crypto economy. Why should communities care? Tokens are a classic network effect: as more people use them more frequently, the tokens and the networks they are built on become more valuable. We look forward to continuing this exciting journey with our global community.

YouTube CTO video: https://youtu.be/gd8ofMVDsc0

Our website: www.planetblockchain.io

Our past events: https://planetblockchain.io/events/

About our token: https://planetblockchain.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/PBC-ANN-1.jpg

Video announcement of the airdrop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4b4yBdFXWY

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Details
PLANET BLOCKCHAIN EVENT - SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2018 - All attendees receive PBC tokens!

Dear Blockchainers,
Join us on Saturday 22 September for an exciting line up of projects to present.

Trustsetter – Topic: Digital interaction passport (from UAE).

Kryptoro Holdings (Pty) Ltd - Topic: Blockchain, AI value transfer innovations. Developing solutions for enterprises and establishing their own products to bring to market (from South Africa)

Peculium – Topic: How to save in the cryptocurrency market. They are helping people to switch their savings to the cryptocurrency market, by reducing volatility and risk (from France)

RTS TOKEN – Topic: Introduction to RTS TOKEN. They have developed a decentralized ERC223 protocol token on the ethereum network that will enable users to use it as digital cash to buy, sell and trade within their eco system.

There will be plenty of time to network before and after the presentations.

The first 20 attendees to register on the day, will enter free…after the first 20 there will a AED 50 per person charge which includes all talks, refreshments and valet parking at the hotel.

Anyone wanting to connect in advance please drop me a mail at mj@planetblockchain.io

See you soon on Planet BlockChain!

https://www.meetup.com/Planet-BlockChain-Dubai/events/254730140/

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Details
PLANET BLOCKCHAIN EVENT - SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2018 - All attendees receive PBC tokens!

Dear Blockchainers,
Join us on Saturday 22 September for an exciting line up of projects to present.

Trustsetter – Topic: Digital interaction passport (from UAE).

Kryptoro Holdings (Pty) Ltd - Topic: Blockchain, AI value transfer innovations. Developing solutions for enterprises and establishing their own products to bring to market (from South Africa)

Peculium – Topic: How to save in the cryptocurrency market. They are helping people to switch their savings to the cryptocurrency market, by reducing volatility and risk (from France)

RTS TOKEN – Topic: Introduction to RTS TOKEN. They have developed a decentralized ERC223 protocol token on the ethereum network that will enable users to use it as digital cash to buy, sell and trade within their eco system.

There will be plenty of time to network before and after the presentations.

The first 20 attendees to register on the day, will enter free…after the first 20 there will a AED 50 per person charge which includes all talks, refreshments and valet parking at the hotel.

Anyone wanting to connect in advance please drop me a mail at mj@planetblockchain.io

See you soon on Planet BlockChain!

https://www.meetup.com/Planet-BlockChain-Dubai/events/254730140/

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