The Senventh BlockCDN R&D Progress ReportI just published “The Senventh BlockCDN R&D Progress Report” 
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Achain Weekly Report-2018.01.03 would like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year! We did some work progressively last week. Let’s check it out! Business Development: Established business cooperation with new exchange. ACT was launched on COINEGG. Holders can get ready to trade here: https://www.coinegg.com/Core: Upgraded function of contract editor (IDE). *Fixed net jam caused by contract execution. *Provided technical support to CryptoDogs. *Tested Linux version of LVM/Grbit. *Debugged Grbit after refactor. *Technical support to exchanges. Achain Wallet: Tested the Mac version. https://medium.com/@AchainOfficial/achain-weekly-report-2018-01-03-a957dd2a1e1a
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Power Ledger (POWR), BAT and Siacoin – Are Utility Tokens Necessary?Blockchain presents a wealth of new opportunities for startup companies. The technology’s existence as a vessel for innovation could lead to an overhaul of many industries that affect our daily lives Now, Australian start-up Power Ledger is making headlines due to its ambitious goal to serve as the leading blockchain-based electricity trading platform. Power Ledger’s momentum begun with its token generation event in early 2017. The team procured $34 million AUD (roughly $33.5 million CAD) by selling their utility token, POWR. POWR is the currency that facilities the Power Ledger economy. It serves as the measure of value used to allow for direct energy trading between businesses and households. The idea behind the service is simple; give power back to the people by eliminating the need for intermediaries (in this case, energy suppliers). https://discover.coinsquare.io/blockchain/utility-tokens/
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The World Wi-Fi Triad — Router owners and operatorsThe World Wi-Fi triad depends on its end users (browsers) and its advertisers to function, but it is the router owners that form the foundation of the system. It is the router owners and operators that tie everything together. Therefore, it is especially important that they are reimbursed in proportion to their importance. And what better way to be reimbursed than in cold, hard cryptocurrency? You let people use the network that you aren’t using to its full potential and in return they watch ads. And advertisers pay you for the opportunity to advertise to a geographically targeted audience. This is the World Wi-Fi triad: Advertisers, End users, and router owners. But first let’s start with the basics: why router operators should sign up for World Wi-Fi and let strangers use their internet connections. https://medium.com/@WorldWifi_ICO/the-world-wi-fi-triad-router-owners-and-operators-21c524aa1cda
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trade.io get their ICO off to a smart startThe team over at trade.io launched their “Trade Token” ICO on Ethereum on 7th December. Business has been brisk, with early investors taking advantage of the lower prices for these ERC-20 compliant tokens. Further price increases are scheduled before the ICO closes on 4th January 2018. Thankfully, trade.io took the sensible precaution of getting their smart contract carefully vetted before they went live. They asked our expert ICO security team to audit their Trade Token contracts to uncover any vulnerabilities, logical flaws or other code errors that might put their platform, funds and investors at risk. https://blog.positive.com/trade-io-get-their-ico-off-to-a-smart-start-8bb75af995df
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Peerplays Blockchain Distributes First Rakes to Stakeholders Summary On November 4, 2017 at 16:00 GMT, the Peerplays blockchain distributed its first rakes with stakeholders of the provably-fair peer-to-peer gaming network. The previous 30 days included the playing of the first decentralized app (DApp) on the main network called Helmbet which is a classic rock-paper-scissors game published by Pacatum. During that time, 21 tournaments were played for a total prize of 25.5 PPY. 3% of that prize (0.765 PPY) was collected as a rake by the blockchain. 0.76481 PPY, was shared with 679 stakeholder accounts in proportion to their holdings of the core token, PPY. The remainder of the 3% (0.00019 PPY) was too small to distribute with the available numerical precision of the blockchain and is being retained for the next sharing on December 4, 2017. Details of the Rake Sharing The process of how the Peerplays blockchain shares rakes with stakeholders has previously been described by the Peerplays Blockchain Standards Association (PBSA) in fairly technical manner. The process effectively goes through three phases: (1) collection of the rake by the blockchain, (2) allocation of the rake to stakeholders, and (3) paying out the allocation. Collection of the Rake When a tournament has successfully concluded, a portion of the prize is collected as a rake by the blockchain. This amounts to 3% of the prize as the blockchain is currently configured. The rake is set set aside until the next periodic allocation cycle. Allocation of the Rake The allocation cycle is currently configured to occur once every hour. At this time, the blockchain checks to see whether the available rake is greater than a minimum threshold before proceeding. If the threshold is exceeded, then the available rake is allocated to stakeholders in proportion of their stake relative to all others at this moment in time. (Whether the account held any PPY before or after this moment is irrelevant. What matters is what the account holds when this allocation cycle occurs. During this first month, there were 720 allocation cycles.) If an account’s allocation falls below the minimum precision that can be measured for that asset by the blockchain (e.g. 0.00001 for PPY), then that allocation is effectively zero. To reiterate, whether any particular account receives an allocation during a particular cycle depends on: (a) the amount of rake collected since the prior allocation; (b) the proportion of stake held by the account when this allocation cycle occurs; and, (c) whether that allocation exceeds the minimum precision that can be measured for that asset by the blockchain (e.g. 0.00001 for PPY). This allocation is internally aggregated by the blockchain with the account’s other “pending payouts” until the next payout cycle. Paying Out the Allocation The payout cycle is currently configured to occur once every 30 days. At this time, the blockchain distributes the pending payouts to every account that has been allocated since the prior payout cycle. Next Rake Sharing Although the next distribution of rakes will occur on December 4, 2017, the reader should be reminded that the sharing of rakes occurs every hour that a rake is collected and from every DApp that is integrated with the blockchain. https://steemit.com/peerplays/@taconator/peerplays-blockchain-distributes-first-rakes-to-stakeholders
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Qtum Mainnet Results December 18–24 Here is the weekly chart review of Qtum Mainnet performance, with New Network Weight (22.2 million), a reprise of the memory pool topic and discussion of fees. In life, the only thing certain is death and taxes. In crypto life, we need to add transaction fees to that list. The tutorial will look at transaction fees, how they are set and some typical transaction fees on the network. https://medium.com/@jb395official/qtum-mainnet-results-december-18-24-8e43e51aca3b |
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How Connectius will solve E-commerce`s problems https://medium.com/@connectius/how-connectius-will-solve-e-commerce-s-problems-ac014f64044dE-commerce is one of the most rapidly growing areas, its development accelerating every day. In 2016, the global online shopping industry was worth over $1.5 trillion, and may reach $4.5 trillion by 2021. Online shopping makes life easier. Now someone living in the US can order an item from China in just a few minutes, without leaving their home. According to the research companies LexisNexis and Javelin Strategy & Research, last year the American market in the online shopping industry (the second largest in the world) was worth $460 billion. Suppliers lost about 8%, or almost $37 billion, of their revenues to fraudulent activity. The most common types of fraud are chargebacks (where the customer demands a refund) and non-card-based transactions. Stores have to spend another 5% or so on dealing with unscrupulous buyers. Market needs formed the basis of the Blockchain Connectius platform, which was created to organize a fundamentally new type of online sales ecosystem. The platform is aimed at solving key problems faced by both buyers and sellers. It is universal and works for everyone who interacts with consumers of their services through the Internet: shops, tour operators, booking and hotel reservation systems, car rental services, etc.We thought about how the system will be deployed, and make sure that it can be easily integrated with any existing trading platform, without requiring significant costs. Using distributed ledger technology ensures a higher level of security for payments and transactions. Blockchain entails the use of smart contracts for settling customer payments. Smart contracts can save retailers from their biggest headache: unscrupulous customers who use chargebacks and other methods to defraud service providers. The basic principle of blockchain is that data cannot be falsified or deleted. The completion of each transaction out of millions will be documented in a corresponding entry, which would serve as unassailable proof in the event of a dispute. The retailer’s representatives would have to difficulty figuring out whether the buyer’s claim for a refund has any merit. If it does, the buyer can be immediately refunded, no questions asked. Users also have the opportunity to refer to an independent arbitrator to resolve the problem. Another key feature of blockchain is decentralization, which prevents leaks of users’ personal data. In conclusion, the functions of blockchain affect what consumers care most: the cost of services. Reducing losses due to fraud, eliminating the intermediary and reducing transaction processing costs help stores reduce prices and gain an advantage over competitors. More importantly, sellers acquire loyal customers who return again and again. |
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Launch of Genie ICO’s Referral Program: 5% payout in currency! Genie ICO Referral program is Live! You have probably visited www.genieico.net, studied our Whitepaper, and even bought our tokens! You understand the enormous potential of our project — to build the first Asia wide Blockchain Asset Exchange to democratize trading across Asia and later the world. You are confident in our team and are excited to share this opportunity with your friends. https://medium.com/@genieico/launch-of-genie-icos-referral-program-12b192b2ee12 |
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How To Add Your BKX Tokens To Your MyEtherWallet or MetaMask WalletHow to add your BKX tokens to your MyEtherWallet or MetaMask wallet. We are pleased to announce the end of our token sale! In order to receive your BKX tokens, you should ADD them to your wallet. This easy-to-use instruction will show you the best way to add BKX tokens to your wallet. https://medium.com/@bankexcom/how-to-add-your-bkx-tokens-to-your-wallet-a312866e5ef
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DomRaider Monthly News — DecemberTime has flown by since our last DomRaider Monthly News and we have been keeping busy since! A lot of things has happened during that time and we want to share what have been up recently in order you know how the project is going. The DomRaider team has been hard at work, developping the blockchain ecosystem and working with companies to support DRT and build partnerships. No big news to announce yet, but here’s what’s in the works DomRaider Team to Double over 2018 DomRaider Team faces a task whereby there is a need for immediate start of operations versus the necessity to select the most competent stakeholders. We face no tradeoff in this, as we were approaching highly-qualified individuals long before our ICO and this permitted us to pre-hire a number of high-achievers who will be joining DomRaider. And today, DomRaider is expanding: by the end of 2017, the team has grown up to reach 30 people. Tomorrow, DomRaider will be joined by 41 talents that will reinforce the team. We have started the recruitment and we have a great number of vacancies in various team. Development Team will include new developers, IT solutions architects, and Product Managers. They will strengthen our actual team on building different components of DomRaider including development of the basic protocol of the auctions systems. We are also hiring people to develop partnerships to drive the adoption of DomRaider Ecosystem. Business, Marketing and Administrative teams will also grow up as we are hiring people to help execute the Roadmap of DomRaider. What Positions are Still Open? Well you should have a look first at the carreers section. You are welcome to send a spontaneous application to joinus [at] domraider.com, if you believe you fit one of the positions mentioned in the previous link and if you share the vision of DomRaider. Please note that it may take up to 14 days for us to follow up with your candidacy due to a very high amount of information we have to process. Then in 2018, we will announce new team members joining DomRaider. Announcements are likely to take place on a weekly basis throughout the entire 1st quarter of 2018. Lighting up auctions traditionally opaque market Well, this is not a feature but more the philosophy behind the blockchain project: by decentralizing the auctions market, the big picture is to democratize a traditionnaly opaque market. The global auction market is a huge opportunity and online purchases and online marketplace using auctions system faces huge problems, among them the lack of trust. By making auctions transparent, open, and unlimited, DomRaider will provide a new hasslefree tool to help auction houses online and offline to better manager their auctions and reach new clients worlwide. Thanks to its own experience in the auctions market and throught the developement of the blockchain ecosystem, DomRaider will be able to bring solutions for scalability, transparency, interoperability, speed and cost transactions. Minimum Viable Product (MVP) As Etienne Roudeix, our Blockchain Product Manager, has explained, we are working on the Minimum Viable Product, scheduled to go online by the end of january 2018. At first thought, making auctions available on the Ethereum Livenet blockchain through a smart contract should be something easy, but there are many difficulties that must be solve, especially the fact that transactions cost (gas) and take (mining) time. To overcome these major limitations (and some others current issues ), it has been decided to first launch a MVP using a private blockchain through Go implementation (Geth). THis solution will allow to run a simple auction protocal on a transparent private Ethereum blockchain. Meanwhile, important features related to the auctions process are currently developed, such as payment guarantee, open API, Block explorer, proxy bidding, DRT integration ,and finally Opened Geth Node and foreign nodes allowed. As we are trying different approaches to scaling implementing theses features, we are planning first release in Q1 for some of th Thanks to the MVP it will be able, at the very beginning, to see how the blockchain auctions works, and by extension this will bring more exposure and trust on the DomRaider auctions blockchain ecosystem. We will have more updates and hires and announcements coming up next year. 2018 will be a good year for DomRaider! Until that we wish you some pleasant end of this year and happy holidays! As always, if you enjoyed this story, please hit the clap button below so we know what you’re looking to learn about! And in the meantime, we welcome your feedback and you can expect other DomRaider Montly News and Dev logs early in 2018. https://medium.com/domraider/domraider-monthly-news-december-7e2e561419ec
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The 17th week net transactional revenue share has been paidToday (27th of December, 2017), Bankera paid its seventeenth net transactional revenue share to Bankera token holders. Last week, SpectroCoin generated a record-breaking net transactional revenue of 572,003.2813 EUR. 20% of that was distributed among Bankera token holders. This totaled to 114,400.66 EUR or 190.46 ETH (given the current exchange rate of 600.66 euros for 1 ether). The total number of tokens outstanding includes 3,299,666,394 of the pre-ICO and ICO BNK tokens, and 452,594,910 BNK tokens that were distributed by the end of last week as referral commission bonuses, bounties (for translations, promotion, etc.) and as compensation for some of the advisors. The 452,594,910 BNK tokens were issued from the tokens allocated for management and advisors. There were 3,752,261,304 BNK tokens issued in total. Since the net transactional revenue share is only allocated to issued tokens (not the total possible supply in the long-run), each BNK holder has been allocated 0.0000000507583 ETH (0.0000304885 EUR) per Banker. Given the initial ICO price of 0.017 EUR, this revenue share is equal to a 9.77% annualized return (0.00097654117 EUR per 1 BNK). If we compare the revenue share with the pre-ICO price of 0.01 EUR, the annualized return is 17.15% (0.00171516171 EUR per 1 BNK). It is also worth mentioning that SpectroCoin community has grown by 26,707 new users during last week from 552,394 to 579,101. Subsequently, leading to more transactions and a higher net transactional revenue. Bankera’s ICO is still live, so don’t miss the opportunity and get your own Bankers (BNK)! https://blog.bankera.com/2017/12/27/the-17th-week-net-transactional-revenue-share-has-been-paid/
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INBlockchain Token allocationINBlockchain, the team behind Yunbi and Bigone exchanges, is one of the most important backers and supporters of CoinDash (INB Blog post). The original 6 months INB token allocation lock-up period came to an end during December. CoinDash is preparing to allocate approx. 20 Mil CDT to INBlockchain in the coming days. We are happy to advance our partnership with the listing of CDT in Big.one. https://blog.coindash.io/inblockchain-token-allocation-fc3a7e7afa7e
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BCDN is going to be listed on BigONE Exchange on December 28thBlockCDN team announced that BCDN tokens is going to be listed on BigONE Exchange on December 28th. As one of the most famous ten cryptocurrency Exchanges around the world, BigONE Exchange is wildly accepted worldwide. The team made this decision to list BCDN on BigONE Exchange, not only to display the progress of the project for our users, but also to express the team confidence in project development. We believe this big change will leave a deeply impact on the future development. https://medium.com/@BlockCDN/bcdn-is-going-to-be-listed-on-bigone-exchange-on-december-28th-ba9af078827e
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LoMoStar — A Grand Vision for the Social EconomyIt’s a hot Saturday afternoon. You and your friends are wandering around the high-street window-shopping. Your friend opens the LoMoStar app and notices a virtual ‘red envelope’ has appeared outside the Starbucks in the next street over. They click it, a coupon pops up on the LoMoStar app and you receive a small amount of cryptocurrency at the same time. “It sure is hot this afternoon! We are selling Icy cold Frappuccino for 50% off! Limited time offer for 15 minutes only!” You all decide that’s exactly what you need right now, so you allow LoMoStar app to guide you to the Starbucks where you show the store your offer and claim the coupon for your icy cold beverage. It tastes delicious. Thanks LoMoStar. LoMoStar is a Beijing-based blockchain company which ambitiously plans to tackle the opaque system of today’s online advertisement with three main concepts: blockchain, location-based services and the Social Economy. By combining them in a native app with a native cryptocurrecy, while supporting multiple cryptocurrencies, LoMoStar could potentially be the global catalyst for widespread adoption of blockchain technologies beneath a seamless user experience. LoMoStar’s vision of the Social Economy is best understood by one of the problems they are seeking to address — the online advertisement system. Before we begin to explore the Social Economy, we must first understand why the current online advertisement model is anti-social. https://medium.com/@ronsee/lomostar-a-grand-vision-for-the-social-economy-8d6ac4c17e8c
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