- Cypherium
Cypherium, a team constructed of developers with backgrounds at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, is developing a new blockchain, that will be highly scalable and permissionless. Their multi-level governance design, an absolutely unique feature, has been designed and implemented from the ground up. The Cypherium blockchain separates governance at both the protocol and application layers.
CEO Sky Guo notes, "There are very few teams who can build what we are attempting to build. We believe that Cypherium will not only resolve scalability issues, but also help blockchain technology break into the mainstream."
- Rentberry
Rentberry is a decentralized long-term rental platform that has been disrupting the rental industry since 2015. Rentberry's platform has the power to automate steps within the renting process, from signing contracts to paying rent. This saves the tenant and landlord time and money, while expediting the legal agreements between parties. Moreover, Rentberry's blockchain and smart contracts technology offers tenants the ability to save thousands of dollars in rental security deposits.
Rentberry CEO Alex Lubinsky says, "$500 billion dollars are frozen in rental security deposits. Rentberry is the first international solution to help quality renters unlock billions of dollars, while streamlining the process of finding apartments, paying rent, and everything in between."
- Loci
Loci, a venture-backed technology startup known for its DIY patent research tool, InnVenn, has expanded its platform to include the ability to buy and sell intellectual property via its native utilitarian tokens, LOCIcoin. InnVenn also has the capability of posting creation and disclosure of new claims for IP onto the Ethereum blockchain in Loci's quest to simplify and update the patent process.
"Getting an idea protected with a patent is a convoluted, expensive, and risky process--but blockchain technology can fix that. We have created a platform that empowers the inspired inventor with a much quicker and safer alternative in making money from their great ideas," says Loci CEO John Wise.
- Vitreus
https://vitreus.io is a startup that uses the best of emerging technology including blockchain and smart contracts to assert transparency of traded luxury assets by building on the public Ethereum blockchain. They've built a global, digital ledger on top of the Ethereum blockchain that tracks and protects valuable assets throughout their lifetime journey. Vitreus collects an asset’s defining characteristics (like history, ownership, size, weight etc) to create a permanent record on the blockchain.
Vitreus solves 2 major problems of the industry:
The diamond industry has existing certification houses, labs that use spectography to identify color grading, but there’s no central database for the information. A lost diamond relies upon paper-based certification records.
Unscrupulous companies mine “blood diamonds,” and counterfeiters flood the market with convincing fakes. It can be a challenge to ensure beyond a promise that you’re buying an authentic, conflict-free gem.
