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get-protocol

A crypto protocol based in the Netherlands, and aims to adopt blockchain Tech to solve ticket fraud and scalping.

GET Protocol (GET) is a blockchain-based ticketing engine, allowing ticketing companies to issue admission rights in a fully digital way. It offers a blockchain-based smart ticketing solution that can be used by everybody who needs to issue tickets (NFTs) in an honest and transparent way. Aim of GET GET Protocol aims to solve the problem of ticket fraud and scalping using blockchain technology. The company claims that over a million smart tickets have been sold using the protocol for events across Europe and Asia. Overview The GET Protocol is fueled by GET. This is a utility ERC20 token, meaning that it serves a specific purpose within the protocol. Due to the blockchain nature of the engine, the properties of the GET token allow for a transparent and stable value equivalence with fiat money, as this is locked in every event cycle. GET is a utility token that serves as fuel for smart tickets issued by the GET Protocol. The GET token serves as a gatekeeper for network usage and restricts access for non-approved bad actors or unwanted events, without centralized ‘censorship’. GET is the only valid medium of exchange within the protocol. This ensures that both parties of a trade agreement by default on the basic terms of the trade, reducing friction. The GET Protocol is all about making the ticketing industry more transparent and accountable. It does so in part by using blockchain technology, which provides exactly those features: transparency and accountability. GET essentially bridges mainstream audiences into web3 at a large scale. Their products are being used by creators and ticketing companies to offer a radically new way of ticketing. Over a million tickets have been processed by them so far. The protocol gives complete control over the sale and trade between ticket holders from the moment the first ticket is sold until the last ticket is scanned and enables organizers to tap into NFTs at ease. GET Foundation The GET Protocol Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, which is on a mission to make ticketing fair, transparent, and accessible for fans, organizers, artists and alike.

alan-bolton

Alan Bolton is an Irish digital artist living in Tenerife, Spain

Alan Bolton is an Irish digital artist living in Tenerife, Spain. He has a strong passion for photography, videography, 3D visuals, as well as artworks. He likes to bring his own abstract style to projects and he is consistently pushing himself to create unique art that stands out from the average. Career The bulk of Alan's work consists of social media content for brands and music artists. His clients include top DJs such as Tiësto, Deadmau5, Jay Robinson, and Example. Alan's artworks are mainly 3D animations and imagery with a surreal abstract feel. He is inspired heavily by music, spirituality, technology, and nature. Each one of his pieces is special to him and he likes to give a back story to each piece and what went through his mind in creating the artworks. I’m inspired heavily by music, spirituality, technology, and nature. Each one of my pieces is special to me and I like to give a back story to each piece and what went through my mind in creating the artwork. History Alan began his career as a creative artist in November 2017 after moving to Los Angeles, California shortly after graduating from college with a bachelor's degree in Business & Management from the Dublin Institute of Technology. I spent 14 months in Los Angeles working as the lead content creator for the hugely popular YouTube channel MihranTV. I helped skyrocket the channel following from 480k to 1.2 million within my time in this role. This consisted of uploading 5 videos per week on YouTube ranging from full production dance videos to tutorials and vlogs. I learned how to create consistently high-quality content at an extremely fast pace. He returned home to Ireland in January 2019 and started working as a freelance content creator full-time. He has been working with brands all over the world and continuing to grow his skills and define himself as creative. NFT Artworks In November 2020, Alan entered the crypto art scene. His work is available on MakersPlace, KnownOrigin, Zora, Foundation & Rarible. Below are some of his collections: The Nature of Mind: This is a single signed edition NFT piece that was purchased by Big Mike for $20,000. It is in a 1080 x 1350 px, Video (39.3 MB) format. The piece is based on the relationship of living organisms such as human beings combined with advanced technology. Mind Ecology: This piece has 5 limited editions costing $7,579.01. It comes in a 2160 x 2700 px, PNG (30.3 MB) format. Crypto Gaming: The 2160 x 2700 px, PNG (24.2 MB) NFT piece was created in 5 limited editions. Sapiens \- The Next Generation by Alan Bolton Notable Sales Alan Bolton’s unique surrealist digital style has captured the eyes and artistic appetites of collectors across the space. His artworks are highly coveted and tend to sell out quickly at high price points. His original 1/1 artworks have reached primary sale price points up to \~$30,020. There is a strong demand for Bolton’s work on the secondary sales market as well, with examples including his SATOSHI’S MASTERPIECE which sold for $1,650 on the primary market, later to be purchased for $21,000 on the secondary market (<strong+1173%</strong). Another creation, PURE MYSTERY sold for $5,049 and resold on the secondary market for $51,548 (+921%). Collaborations Bolton had 3 sellout drops in 2021 in collaboration with deadmau5, record label Hau5trap, and Manchester City Football club. with Seven20 Alan recently in April 2021 joined the team of Seven20 in preparation for the release of their 3-piece audiovisual NFT drop which was available for viewing and purchase on April 27, 2021, on MakersPlace. According to Dean Wilson who is the CEO and Founder of Seven20: "The intersection of tech and music has been synonymous with the deadmau5 brand since inception. With NFTs, it’s important to respect the space – and for us, that means discovering and developing the next generation of digital artists, the same way we do with electronic ones. We’re thrilled to welcome Alan to the team, and proud to present his collaborations to the world." with hau5trap In April 2021, Hau5trap, a label defined by its passionate creators both behind the scenes and in the studio collaborated with Alan to expand their artistic breadth with their first NFT launch. The 3-piece audiovisual NFT drop was available for viewing and purchase on Tuesday, April 27 on MakersPlace. The drop includes a 1 of 1 one-minute audio piece, and 2 open editions, both being 15-second audio loops. I wanted to create something in my style of 3D art that fits with the Hau5trap vibe. I am heavily inspired by spirituality and the human mind so I wanted to create pieces that play off the theme of “Mind Games” and the power of the human mind yet with a fun creative flow that fits with house music.

nolimitcoin

NoLimitCoin is a hybrid pow/pos cryptocurrency that uses the SHA256D algorithm.

NoLimitCoin is a hybrid pow/pos cryptocurrency that uses the SHA256D algorithm. It is an efficient and secure cryptocurrency that has been developed for use on our crypto fantasy sports platforms. Overview NLC2 was designed as a currency for use in our fantasy sports platform. As the coin becomes more widely adopted and used, it will be an investment-grade coin. With its unique architecture, NLC2 can serve many other areas of the economy including traditional merchants and online merchants of any kind. As of October 2017, NLC2 is traded with Bitcoin on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges such as Bittrex, Cryptopia, CoinExchange, CryptoBridge, Nova, and YoBit. On major gateway exchanges such as Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase, fiat money (e.g. USD) is used to buy Bitcoin via a bank account transfer or credit card. This can then be exchanged for NLC2 on one of the aforementioned exchanges. NLC2 Blockchain The two aforementioned factors rendered NLC an unviable option to support fantasy sports platforms. By 2016, the NoLimitCoin Codebase was upgraded with a subset of the Peercoin and Bitcoin blockchains. To confirm transactions, the NLC2 blockchain employs a Proof-of-stake (“PoS”) algorithm in which new coins are distributed in a pseudo-random fashion to staking wallets. Each wallet that stakes NLC2 is rewarded for its role in improving the strength, security, and size of the network. All staking wallets receive a 4% increase in their balance yearly; new coins are distributed at regular intervals depending on the amount staked. The NLC2 blockchain has safeguards implemented against possible manipulation by nefarious actors, with the PoS algorithm being one of them. The other system in place is the fact that the staking difficulty is retargeted after each block. Doing so prevents wallets with large amounts of NLC2 from unduly weighting the staking algorithm, creating a fair and profitable reward system for investors in NoLimitCoin. <br

jrny-club

JRNY CLUB is a membership NFT that gives users early access to partner NFT projects, as well as JRNY NFTs, NFT movies and more.

JRNY CLUB is a membership NFT that gives users early access to partner NFT projects, as well as future JRNY NFT sets, private community chat and announcements, exclusive NFT movies, and more. Overview The floor price for JRNY NFT Club NFT is $7,339.34. There is a total of 10000 NFTs in circulation, which are held by 7683 different people and have a market cap of $73,393,440.94. The platform of JRNY CLUB has an objective to create one of the top NFT Clubs in the metaverse. In addition, JRNY is creating 3D models in the future NFT sets. Creating Reputable Partnerships Currently, JRNY CLUB has partnerships with alot of NFTs to benefit JRNY NFT holders and drive more awareness and demand to JRNY NFT sets. JRNY NFT Launchpad JRNY CLUB is assisting other projects in developing and launching their NFT sets in order to provide even more value to NFT holders. Members are to benefit from this in a variety of ways, including early whitelist access, gifts, lower mint costs, and more. 2022 NFT Blast JRNY CLUB is planning something big for 2022 that will raise significant awareness for not only the JRNY NFT CLUB, but also the entire NFT and Crypto world. Notable Sales !unnamed.jpgThe JNRY NFT club have made a big name in value and sales since their entrance into the NFT market, selling Secondarily on OpenSea marketplace. The most expensive JRNY Club NFT sold was VOYAGER 8156. It was sold for $1.3k on 5th of September 2022. Team Tony Spark of JRNY Crypto founded RNY NFT CLUB with the intention of developing an NFT set that will consistently provide value to holders. To maintain the project's development and usefulness, new team members are frequently added. Other Team members : TonySparkOG - Founder KryptoRick - Team Manager BantoBoi - Community Manager/Partnership DNP3 - Project Advisor Roadmap !FKNedSAVgAE7rLN.jpgNFT Videos and a private community chat JRNY NFT CLUB members has access to community chat and private NFT update videos as soon as the NFT mint is over, covering new high-potential NFT sets. FREE Mint to future JRNY NFT sets JRNY NFT CLUB members receive one free mint on two upcoming sets. By the end of the year, the primary set are available. Bored Ape Yacht Club and other NFT Giveaways JRNY CLUB is creating a community NFT wallet where users can participate in regular giveaway contests. To begin, one Bored Ape Yacht Club, three Mutant Ape Yacht Club, and five Doge Pound NFTs are given away. Through collaborations and OpenSea commissions, JRNY can be able to buy more NFTs for prize contests. A $100,000 Community Grant Fund JRNY is launching a community grant fund starting with $100,000 for the first year of development for those that want to contribute value to the JRNY NFT CLUB and receive funding from the JRNY Team. In addition, 2.5% of OpenSea fees are added to future community grants in order to consistently add value and utility to JRNY NFTs.[3]

morpheus-network

Morpheus Network (MRPH) (founded 2016) is a supply chain SaaS middleware platform seamlessly integrating legacy...

Morpheus Network (MRPH) (founded 2016) is a supply chain SaaS middleware platform seamlessly integrating legacy and emerging technologies (E.g., Blockchain, IoT, RFID, etc). They provide supply chain managers with shipment and item visibility to automate and optimize safe and secure supply chains saving time and money. This is achieved with smart contracts that drive the supply chain with predetermined, automated work contracts, shipping & customs documents as well as automated international payments to over 1600 banks globally through integration with the SWIFT Payments Hub. Overview Morpheus Network was created to make logistics easier using blockchain technology. !maxresdefault.jpgBy combining the most brilliant minds in global trade, information security, blockchain, and artificial intelligence, Morpheus Network aims at amending the inefficiencies that the World Economic Forum has identified in a $15 trillion USD industry. Features Automation Smart Contracts drive the supply chain with predetermined, automated work contracts, shipping & customs documents, as well as fast international payments to over 1600 banks globally. Multi-Flow Payments Payments are made automatically using smart contracts, which can be sent or received in any currency or cryptocurrency globally. Settlements are initiated through the SWIFT Network, supporting over 200 countries worldwide. Integrations The platform runs as blockchain-agnostic and is compatible with any blockchain infrastructure a company will want to use. For example, two companies can leverage all platform benefits without the same blockchain infrastructure implemented (e.g. Ethereum and Hyperledger). Layering Technology The layering of new and existing technologies - legacy or blockchain - further enables supply chain automation. Integrations include making use of FedEx’s tracking technology to signify shipment arrivals or using Ripple as a settlement objective in a supply chain Smart Contract. Team The Morpheus Network team has the expertise needed to make Morpheus Network run as smoothly and safely as possible. They have team members with significant experience in development (blockchain, IoT, ML, AI) project management, importing and exporting, shipping and compliance, web and blockchain security, banking platforms, tax accounting, regulations, and legal. Their team members have experience working with companies such as IBM, Deloitte, DHL Express, BMO, GE, Canada Trust, American Express, and many others. Danny Weinberger \| Co\-Founder & CEO He is an international relations and logistics specialist, highly accomplished, and profit-driven Director of Operations with extensive experience in venture capital and financial services. His focus is majorly on the technology sector, as well as facilitating millions of dollars in global transactions with Fortune 500 companies (including Magna, Aecon, GE, Linamar, and Commercial Spring). He has over 15 years of experience in Global Trade Noam Eppel \| Co\-Founder & COO He has extensive entrepreneurial experience in building and growing companies, he has over 15 years of experience In Web Development & Information Security. He founded Clean Forest Solutions Inc., a full-service website agency composed of senior IT professionals, and worked with clients including multinational financial corporations, e-commerce companies, law firms, hotels, hospitals, startups, and nonprofit organizations. Roger Crook \| Team Lead for Global Logistics Prior to working at Morpheus Network, he was CEO of DHL and also the CEO of Capital Springboard. Karl McDermott \| Global Head of Business Development MRPH Token MRPH is the fuel of Morpheus Network’s automation platform, it allows Ethereum-based smart contracts to be used as predetermined, automated work contracts, shipping & customs documents, and automated international payments. Tokens can be used as a value-based utility (as cash), or to pay for transaction fees. !Morpheus-Network-Token-allocationjpg.jpeg The MRPH tokens are the currency used to cover the associated costs as a result of operating the platform for data storage, notarization and exchange. As a user, MRPH tokens are used to pay for two key functions on the platform: Firstly, automating processes, that had to be done manually before, thereby saving time and money. Secondly, notarizing all transactions/datasets in an immutable ledger for all parties to create a single source of truth and converting information into a common machine-readable data format. With their aim to provide a unified communication layer between different systems and blockchain protocols, Morpheus Network has created an abstraction layer that brings multiple platforms into one place. So the MRPH token acts as a bridge for data exchange between different systems and networks. The Software Development Kit or “SDK” allows users to create custom-built modules for the Morpheus Network Module Marketplace. In order to monetize the development efforts, they put into creating new modules for the platform by leveraging the SDK (software development kit), enabling them to offer their modules to other Morpheus Network clients. When this is utilized by enterprises globally, the completion of these customized modules will also be validated by the blockchain by employing the MRPH utility token.

kapitalk

Kapital_k is an angel investor and researcher with a background in gaming and blockchain. He is Chief Editor of thecoreloop, and co-host of Flywheel DeFi. He ho...

kapital\_k is the chief editor of thecoreloop and the co-host of Flywheel DeFi. He is a researcher and angel investor, and has a vast background in the gaming and blockchain sector. Education kapital\_k attended Gabrielino High School, where he participated in the Speech & Debate Team and Interact Club. He then pursued his Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics at California State University, Fullerton, where he graduated with honors as a member of Zeta Phi Rho Incorporated and Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity. He continued his education at USC Marshall School of Business, earning a Master of Business Administration with a STEM/Tech. Commercialization Concentration, focusing on entrepreneurship and video games/interactive media. During this time, he also held leadership positions in the Marshall Interactive Gaming Association and the Entrepreneurship & Venture Management Association, where he organized 250+ speaker/panel series. In addition, kapital\_k gained practical experience in the gaming industry through his involvement with USC GamePipe Lab's Advanced Game Projects. He served as the Publishing Manager on Corporate Clash (Mobile Game) and the Associate Producer on Serpent Showdown (Switch-exclusive), where he managed burndown charts and crafted publisher strategy and collateral. He also worked on a consulting project for NCSoft East, leading a team of six students for an MBA Capstone Project and collaborating with NCSoft to deliver five case studies and three solutions for their Transmedia Storytelling Initiative. He also took a course on Video Game Entrepreneurship with Professor Anthony Borquez, CEO of Grab Games, where he created an investor deck, financial models, and a prototype. Finally, kapital\_k participated in the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), placing 3rd in the 2020 regionals in San Francisco. After completing his MBA, he attended UCLA Law Fellows in 2017. Career Early Career kapital\_k began his early career as a Financial Advisor's Assistant at Conaway and Conaway, Inc. in Tustin, California from March 2015 to May 2016. During this time, he was responsible for comprehensive financial planning and portfolio allocations, as well as managing the operations and logistics of the planning department. He also assisted with CRM and day-to-day business operations. Following this, he worked as a Client Services Manager at Sterling Wealth Partners in Tustin, California from May 2016 to April 2017. He provided comprehensive financial planning and portfolio allocations services to over 85 clients, while also managing and servicing their accounts. Additionally, he handled CRM and day-to-day business operations. From May 2016 to May 2017, kapital\_k also worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at IOC Ventures in Irvine, California. His responsibilities included assisting portfolio companies, representing the firm at professional events, analyzing early-stage ventures' financials, and conducting industry market research. Blockchain and Gaming Industry kapital\_k has had an extensive career in the blockchain and gaming industries, with his earliest job in the sector being an Analyst Researcher for Science Blockchain from August 2017 to September 2018. He then worked as an Associate for Science Video Games & Esports from October 2018 to September 2020. During this time, he conducted due diligence for incoming investment deals and worked with the product team for three portfolio companies, launching two live-streaming apps, and an institutional-grade crypto derivative/OTC trading platform. He also designed monetization models, increasing subscription revenue of a portfolio company by 400% month-over-month through A/B testing subscription plans. kapital\_k then served as the Publishing Manager & Associate Marketing Lead for USC Games from September 2019 to May 2021. As part of his duties, he crafted publisher strategy and marketing collateral, supported the design team with core loop and monetization mechanics, and managed burndown charts as Associate Producer for a Switch-exclusive game called Serpent Showdown in 2019. In 2020, he was also involved in the development of Corporate Clash, an auto-battler mobile game where players battle for ultimate business dominance. In May 2020, kapital\_k took on two roles, Lead Esports/Twitch Streamer Talent Acquisition & Brand Partnerships for KOBRA Talent and Head of Dev. Relations & User Acquisition for Wonderpop Games, a Roblox game publisher and development studio. At KOBRA Talent, he launched a Twitch streamer incubator and built a network of 45+ streamers and 7+ brands within six weeks, resulting in 7500+ Avg. Concurrent Viewers and 24MM+ Total Views. At Wonderpop Games, he managed third-party developer relations, sourcing 20+ developers, acted as the associate PM on first-party developer game, and led user acquisitions through programmatic Roblox-native ads and Roblox Youtube Influencers. thecoreloop Currently, Kiet works as an Associate for Science Digital Asset Opportunity Fund I since February 2022 and is also the Editor in Chief for thecoreloop, a daily content and news aggregator for web2 and web3 gaming news. He aims to put his expertise in both blockchain technology and gaming to use, finding the intersection between the two his passion at the moment. "Web3 gaming is a thing, and I get to mix crypto and gaming together so it was a perfect blend" Flywheel DeFi kapital\_k is also the co-host of Flywheel DeFi, a crypto content curating platform that is centered around Frax Finance. He co-hosts podcasts and is one of the main speakers on the platform's videos, alongside DeFi Dave. kapital\_k also carries out research for the team in order to provide the community with alpha on Frax.

arpa-chain

ARPA Chain (Founded April 2018) is a secure computation network compatible with blockchains.

ARPA Chain (Founded April 2018) is a secure computation network compatible with blockchains. It has strong cryptography which enables private smart contracts, unprecedented data-at-use privacy protection, as well as scalable computational sharding. History ARPA was Founded in April 2018 in Beijing, China by Felix Xu and Yemu Xu whi are both the founders and CEO. ARPA's goal is to separate data ownership and utility while ensuring free, secure and private data flow. Usage ARPA network is flexible, easy-to-use, and compatible with existing blockchains such as Ethereum and EOS. ARPA token is a fundamental part of the ecosystem. It helps with: Computation cost: All participants in MPC computation are compensated with ARPA tokens for their contribution of computing power Data and model usage fee: To encourage data providers to list high quality data resources on the ARPA network, each MPC computation will be charged for data usage fee to compensate the data provider Security deposit: Participants will use ARPA token as a form of safety deposit for launching and fulfilling computation jobs. Community governance: Token holders above a specific threshold can have the right to vote for future accepted payment tokens and other proposals. Benefits ARPA is a blockchain-based solution for privacy-preserving computation, enabled by Secure multi-party computation (“MPC”). The aim of ARPA is to separate data utility from ownership, and enable data renting. It’s MPC protocol creates ways for multiple entities to collaboratively analyze data and extract data synergies, while keeping each party’s data input private and secure. It allows secret sharing of private data, and the correctness of computation is verifiable using information-theoretic message authentication code (MAC). Developers can build privacy-preserving dApps on blockchains compatible with it. Popularly used cases include: credit anti-fraud, secure data wallet, precision marketing, joint AI model training, key management systems. Achievements of ARPA The team members have worked at leading institutions which includes Google, Amazon.com, Huawei, Fosun, Tsinghua University, Fidelity Investments. ARPA is currently assisting the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology in setting the national standard for secure multi-party computation. It is a corporate member of MPC Alliance and IEEE and is in partnership with fortune 500 companies to implement proof-of-concepts and MPC products. In 2019, it was named as the Top 10 most innovative blockchain companies in China by China Enterprise News and China Software Industry Association. Revenue Strategy ARPA is a layer 2 on block-chain and it charges part of the transaction fee as service fee. It also take a portion from the data transaction as a computation platform and it charges a monthly service fee from the participating enterprises. Patners JD.com who is the second-largest online retailer of China is partnering with blockchain privacy platform ARPA to protect the financial data of major clients. Specifically, the data platform for the firm’s subsidiary JD Digits (formerly JD Finance) will integrate with ARPA’s blockchain-based network, which uses technology known as secure multi-party computation (sMPC). JD Digits was formed to help other companies modernize with cutting-edge technologies like AI and bloc-kchain. Under the partnership, the sMPC technology will be utilized “at scale” to offer a range of privacy features for financial companies working with JD Digits, ARPA said in an announcement Monday.

electroneum

Electroneum is a digital money system that was specifically designed for mobile users.

Electroneum (ticker symbol: ETN) is a cryptocurrency. It was first announced on August 4, 2017 and the development team is located in United Kingdom. The maximum supply is set at 21,000,000,000 ETN. As of December 28th 2017, the circulating supply was 4,997,507,466 ETN. Overview Electroneum is a digital money system (like Bitcoin) that was specifically designed for mobile users – thereby appealing to a potential market of 2.2B smartphone users worldwide. The Electroneum mobile mining experience (when available) will allow anyone to mine "ETN" coins with their mobile phone. It is a digital currency (or "cryptocurrency"), Electroneum is created, held, and spent entirely electronically. No one person or entity can control it or regulate it. Instead, transactions are processed and validated by a growing network of computers around the world (called "miners") that must all agree on the account balances of every user (or wallet). Mathematical functions safeguard every aspect of the process and make sure that no one can game the system or commit fraud. The Electroneum coin launched officially on 1 November 2017 and the app wallet launched on 13 December 2017. What Makes Electroneum Different? Electroneum (and other cryptocurrencies) is "decentralized", meaning that it is controlled and regulated by a network of computers all over the world who have no affiliation with one another. Therefore, no person, company, bank, or government can control Electroneum or create more of it. Because Electroneum is held digitally, you can send money to any person in the world with an Electroneum wallet (more on this later). No bank regulates spending so there are is no long waiting time or high transfer fees required. A typical transaction takes about 10 minutes to spread through the network and to be validated by the mining network – making it much faster than other inter-country money transfer methods. Who Created Electroneum? Electroneum was created and developed in 2017 by a group of people based in London, UK and led by CEO Richard Ells. In September/October 2017, the company pre-sold ETN coins to investors through an initial coin offering (ICO) in order to raise funds for further development. The Electroneum "blockchain" (decentralized ledger system) went live on 1 November 2017 and put the coin into circulation. The Electroneum app wallet went live on 13 December 2017 and provides a user-friendly way of sending and receiving ETN. The company also created the Electroneum app used to mine Electroneum, manage your account, or send/receive Electroneum coins. Is It Safe to Use? A large amount of "cryptography and mathematical safety standards is built into the system to safeguard it against crooks and fraudsters. Every computer in the mining network must conform to these standards or risk being rejected by the rest of the network. It is therefore entirely safe to use, and only the person in possession of both the public key (account number) and private key (password) of an account – i.e. you – can spend the money in that account. Since Electroneum accounts (wallets) consist of strings of random characters, no personal information is tied to the account. Although every computer in the network will be able to see all transactions from a specific account, they won’t be able to link that account to any specific person. This makes Electroneum transactions virtually anonymous. How Does an Electroneum Account Work? Electroneum is held in a so-called cryptocurrency wallet – defined by an account number (called the public wallet address) and two passwords (called the private view key and the private spend key). Both the public key and private key are long strings of letters and numbers, typically 64 characters in length. When you first buy Electroneum coins (say 100 coins), every computer in the mining network agrees that your account number contains 100 Electroneum coins, thereby providing a faith-based system for the currency. A wallet is simply a collection of the 3 keys above that represents a ledger entry on every computer in the mining network. If a person can provide all 3 these keys, they are considered to be the rightful owner of the coins, and are allowed to spend it. To spend Electroneum coins, you can send it to the account number (public wallet address) of the receiving person. The network will then deduct coins from your account and credit it to the receiver’s account. To receive coins, the sender must send it to your public wallet address, and the same process is followed. Who Creates Electroneum Coins? New Electroneum coins enter the system as "rewards given to miners. Each time a miner checks and verifies a certain amount of transactions, he/she receives a reward in the form of Electroneum coins. After receiving the reward for his work, the miner can then spend those coins or exchange it for other currencies – effectively introducing new coins into the system. Anyone can set up their computer to be a miner (called mining node). Mining Electroneum With a Mobile Phone? Electroneum has a major advantage over other cryptocurrencies in that it can be mined using a "mobile phone". Traditionally, mining could only be performed on a computer with lots of processing power. However, the team has created an algorithm, that allows anyone with a mobile phone to mine effectively – thereby making it possible for millions of smartphone users, around the world to learn about cryptocurrencies and mine their own coins. To mine Electroneum coins, all you need to do is to download the app to your phone and create an account. The app can mine in the background while you perform other tasks, or you can play the mining game to earn slightly more coins.

leverj

Leverj is a decentralized leveraged crypto exchange that provides solutions to inherent risks.

Leverj is a cryptocurrency token that operates on the Ethereum platform. It is the only self-custodial decentralized derivatives exchange that provides upto 100x leverage. LEV is the fastest cryptocurrency decentralized exchange (DEX) in the world. Overview Leverj is designed around a bi-level token structure. The primary token (LEV) is of fixed supply, and represents a license to transact on the Leverj platform proportional to the total token supply. The secondary token, FEE, is the accounting Mechanism to ensure the rights of LEV can be exercised fully in a decentralized manner. The amount of FEE tokens charged can be lower (say 0.1 FEE) or higher based on the product traded. Leverj can also adjust the coupon value based on market conditions such as price of ether. Leverj focuses on derivatives products, which distinguishes it from other DEX offerings. Using non-custodial risk management, we can offer derivatives products without requiring an exchange user to take over losing positions for liquidations. ETH/USD inverse futures will be the primary offering. However, we can offer futures on any market with a stable, well developed market. We can also offer a variety of options or futures on liquid ERC-20 tokens. Lev & fee tokens The Leverj DApp is designed with a bi-level token structure a two level tokens. The primary token is of fixed supply, and represents a license to transact on LEV platform proportional to the percentage ownership of the token supply. The Secondary token FEE is the accounting mechanism to ensure the rights of LEV can be exercised fully in a decentralized manner . Lev Token LEV is the primary token in our two-level token system. It is of fixed supply and represents a license to transact on the platform proportional to the percentage ownership of the token supply. The token sold during the token launch is known as the Leverj LEV token. This token is created only on the ICO issuance and it’s supply is permanently fixed. LEV tokens may be used to generate FEE tokens. Staking Fair distribution of FEE tokens is ensured by staking LEV tokens. Users who stake for longer durations get more FEE tokens. This ensures that users committed to trading on the platform can be assured that they can exercise their license compared to users who are holding LEV simply for speculation. Leverj uses economic pressure instead of a mathematical model to compute the proper amount of FEE required to be in circulation. This is because a mathematical model will always have elaborate that no model can perfectly account for. An economic pressure relieves us of the need for modeling and we simply use actual demand pressure which can be reduced to simple computation. <br

eric-chen

Eric Chen is a blockchain personality and the current co-founder and CEO at Injective Protocol.

Eric Chen is a blockchain personality and the current co-founder and CEO at Injective Protocol. Prior to Injective Protocol, He was a researcher at Innovating Capital working on trading strategies and protocol Research. Education Eric Chen attended the New York University where he gained a Bachelor of Science- BS, CS . He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance from the New York University Stern School of Business. History Eric Chen is renowned for co-founding the layer-2 decentralized derivatives exchange protocol i.e Injective Protocol. Eric Chen started his pursuit for cryptocurrency and Blockchain back in high-school when he mined Bitcoins for the first time which was around 2012. After a career as a researcher at NYU Blockchain Labs and Innovating Capital, in 2018 Eric founded Injective Protocol together with Albert Chon (current CTO at Injective Protocol). The idea behind the project was to improve the usability and security of DeFi (Decentralized Finance), thus eliminating problems related to high latency, poor liquidity, and UX. Eric Chen's ultimate goal was to give DEX users the same flawless experience they have with Centralized Exchanges (CEXes), eliminating the gap between the two. Eric has worked with several organizations in the course of his Career He was involved in risk analysis and algorithmic trading while working with Sino Partners Fund for about three months in 2014. He assisted with the construction of mutual fund products in Essence Fund Management (Located in China) as research. He worked at Innovating Capital as a researcher and had practically had been in-between an analyst and research before co-founding Injective Protocol Eric Chen officially joined the crypto world in 2017 when he started contributing some developers' works to open-source projects. Injective Protocol Injective Protocol, as a project started in 2018 with Eric Chen and his co-founder Albert Chon. The duo built every component of Injective protocol to be fully trustless, censorship-resistant, publicly verifiable, and front-running resistant. Binance Labs provides incubation for this crypto-project and a round was raised and led by Pantera Capital.

andre-cronje

Andre Cronje is the founder of yEarn.finance (YFI).

Andre Cronje is the founder of yEarn.finance(YFI), a yield farming aggregator that has been building synergistic tools throughout the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) space. YFI's market capitalization surpassed $1.1 Billion just one and a half months after its launch in July 2020. The popularity of YFI has created many different forks of the project, include $YFII, $YFFI, $YFM, $YFN, $YFO etc. Early Life and Education Andre Cronje was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Education Between 2001 to 2003, Andre Cronje earned an LLB degree in Law at Stellenbosch University. Andre Cronje studied computer science intricacies, basics of software engineering, principles of Project management, and most importantly problem solving and time management at CTI Education Group in 2005. Career Early beginnings Andre Cronje began his career as a Lecturer in Computer Training Institute, located in South Africa. Within June 2005 to September 2006, Andre Cronje taught full-time and part-time students within the fields of Information Technology, Commerce, Creative Arts, Graphic Design, Psychology, Counselling, and Law. In October 2006, Andre Cronje became a Technical Team Leader (4CIT) at Vodacom. He left Vodacom in December 2008 for International Mobile Protection Initiative. Andre Cronje was the Chief Technology Officer at International Mobile Protection Initiative from January 2009 to May 2010. Andre Cronje served the Chief Technology Officer of Mobile Game Card Applications from June 2010 to August 2012. After leaving Mobile Game Card Applications, Andre Cronje joined Altron as the Mobile Development Manager at Altron in August 2012. Andre Cronje worked as the Software Architect at Full Facing (Pty) Ltd for two years. Andre Cronje was the Head of Technology (Mfin division) at The Shoprite group of companies from 2013 to 2017. Andre Cronje headed the technology team of Freedom Life from November 2013 to August 2018. He moved to BitDiem and worked there as the Blockchain Protocol Advisor for seven months. Andre Cronje was Technical Advisor at Aggero until January 2019. Andre Cronje served as the Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer for CryptoCurve for one year. Andre Cronje also functioned as a Technical Advisor for Kosmos from March 2019. Andre Cronje has worked in other several recognized organizations, among which are Lemniscap, FUSION Foundation, Fantom Foundation, and CryptoBriefing. Andre Cronje is the developer and founder of the yEarn platform and YFI token.

avalanche

Avalanche (launched September 2020) is a layer-1, decentralized, open-source proof-of-stake blockchain that functions as a platform for decentralized applicatio...

Avalanche (launched September 2020) is a layer-1, decentralized, open-source proof-of-stake blockchain that functions as a platform for decentralized applications, custom blockchain networks, and also smart contracts. The native cryptocurrency of the blockchain is AVAX. History Avalanche was first conceptualized and shared on InterPlanetary File System (aka IPFS) in May 2018 by a pseudonymous group of enthusiasts named "Team Rocket." Later it was developed by a dedicated team of researchers from Cornell University. The research was led by Emin Gün Sirer, a professor of computer science and software engineer, assisted by doctoral students Maofan "Ted" Yin and Kevin Sekniqi. Following the research stage, Ava Labs was founded to develop the network primarily to meet complex financial industry requirements. In March 2020, the AVA codebase for the Avalanche consensus protocol became open-source and available to the public. Avalanche's Initial Coin Offering (ICO) ended on July 15, 2020, followed by the launch of mainnet in September 2020 during which the protocol also issued the native token AVAX (an acronym for "Avalanche"). Ava Labs Ava Labs Inc. also known as Ava Labs, was founded to develop the Avalanche (AVAX) network primarily to meet complex financial industry requirements. It is located in Brooklyn, New York, United States, with an employee size of 51 to 200 members. AVAX Token The Avalanche (AVAX) token is the native token of the Avalanche platform and is used to secure the network through staking, transact peer-to-peer, pay for fees, and provide a basic unit of account between the multiple subnetworks created on the Avalanche platform. The token's ticker is denoted as AVAX and it has a total supply of 720 million AVAX. Tokenomics At launch, 360 million AVAX (50%) were minted and sold through private and public sales. The remaining 360 million AVAX (50%) are for staking rewards distributed over the following decades. 2.5% - seed sale, with 10% released on mainnet launch and the rest being released every three months. 3.5% - private sale, with 10% released on mainnet launch and the rest being released every three months. 10% - public sale, with 10% released on mainnet launch and 15% released every three months over a period of 18 months. 9.26% - allocated to the foundation, released over ten years. 7% - community endowment, released over twelve months. 0.27% - testnet incentive program, released over one year. 5% - strategic partners, released over four years. 2.5% - airdrops, released over four years. 10% - team, released over four years. Funding Rounds In February 2019, AVA Labs raised $5.9 million from VC firms: Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain, MetaStable, and Initialized Capital, as well as individual investors Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, and Ramtin Naimi of Abstract Ventures. In June 2020, the development team, Ava Labs raised $12.6 million in a private token sale. Participants included Galaxy Digital, Bitmain, Initialized Capital, NGC Ventures, and Dragonfly Capital, among others. On July 15, 2020, Ava Labs raised $37.58 million in a public sale. Participants purchased tokens through three options: Public Sale Option A1 (Staking Round 2): This option allowed participants to purchase tokens at $0.50 per AVAX, which was subject to a one-year vesting schedule with quarterly unlocking. Public Sale Option A2 (Staking Round 2): This option allowed participants to purchase tokens at $0.50 per AVAX, using an 18-month vesting schedule, with quarterly unlocking. Option A2 allowed purchasers to a much larger set of tokens than Option A1. Public Sale Option B: This option allowed participants to purchase tokens at $0.85 per AVAX, with no lockups. In order to prevent concentration and incentivize distribution, this allocation enforced a maximum check size of $5,000. Technology Avalanche is an open-source platform offering interoperable and scalable decentralized finance applications and enterprise blockchain deployments. It uses a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, requiring validators to stake AVAX to validate transactions on the network. The platform features multiple chains, with core chains and application-specific subnets. Validators must be a member of the Primary Network; all other subnets are optional. The Primary Network contains three blockchains: Contract Chain (C-chain) It hosts smart contracts and decentralized applications. It has its own Avalanche Virtual Machine, similar to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), allowing developers to fork EVM-compatible DApps. It uses the Snowman consensus mechanism. Exchange chain (X-chain) The X-Chain handles the creation of new digital assets and the exchange of tokens between the core blockchains and their various subnets. It uses the Avalanche consensus mechanism. Platform Chain (P-Chain) This is the base staking platform that manages network validators and enables developers to create new subnets. Every validator must stake on the P-Chain and participate in securing Avalanche’s Primary Network. Governance AVAX provides on-chain governance for certain network parameters, enabling participants to vote on changes and settle network upgrade decisions democratically. These parameters, such as the minimum staking amount and minting rate, may be subject to dynamic parameter optimization through a crowd oracle. Modification of the system is limited to a predetermined number of parameters, to ensure predictability and safety, and all governable parameters are subject to time bounds. Core In June 2022, Ava Labs launched Core, an all-in-one browser extension for Avalanche dApps, NFTs, bridges, Subnets, & more. Core supports Avalanche, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and all EVM-compatible chains. On December 7, 2022, Core expanded support to eight additional languages. English Chinese — Simplified (简,体中文) Chinese — Traditional (繁體中文) German (Deutsch) Hindi (हिन्दी) Japanese (日本語) Korean (한국인) Russian (Русский) Spanish (Español) Turkish (Türk) “The Core team continues to listen to its community and has taken another stride towards building a globally accessible Web3 future by providing multi-language support, making every effort to make the user’s journey personalized and delightful,” \- said Akash Gupta\, Director of Product at Ava Labs\. Core Mobile Wallet On December 13, 2022, Ava Labs released Core mobile, a free, multichain mobile wallet packed with features for both experts and those new to crypto, while keeping crypto assets and digital collectibles safe under self-custody. It launched first on Android with support for iOS planned for 2023. According to the announcement, Core mobile aims to be the fastest and most intuitive wallet for connecting to the rapidly-growing DeFi, NFT, and gaming ecosystems across Avalanche. It also includes support for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and EVM-compatible blockchains. !image Avalanche Flash Loan Attack On the 6th of September 20222, CertiK Skynet reported a flash loan attack on Avalanche impacting a specific contract, The attacker profited $370k USDC. These Possible impacted protocols include DEX Trader Joe, staking platform Nereus Finance and AMM Curve Finance. Avalanche x Amazon Ava Labs announced in a blog post on January 11, 2023, to work with the cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring wider adoption of blockchain technology by enterprises, institutions, and governments. The partnership will make it easy for developers to launch and manage nodes on the Avalanche blockchain, as AWS will support Avalanche’s infrastructure and decentralized applications. Ava Labs also plans to add "subnet" deployment, a network within a network, to the AWS Marketplace, enabling both individuals and institutions to easily launch custom subnets. “It has been a huge boon for both individual and enterprise developers to be able to spin up nodes and test networks on the fly with AWS in whatever legal jurisdiction makes the most sense for them. I’m proud that we’ve implemented a protocol that can accommodate millions of participants with near-instant finality. Our work with Amazon can accelerate the positive impact of Avalanche.” \- said Emin Gün Sirer, Founder and CEO of Ava Labs in the blog post. Avalanche x Shopify Shopify (SHOP) expanded its non-fungible token (NFT) integration on 5th January 2023, allowing its merchants to begin designing, minting, and selling Avalanche NFTs. With the Venly Shopify merchant app, retailers can sell NFTs with "minimal technical knowledge," according to a press release . NFTs created by merchants are "automatically turned into products" that can be displayed and purchased on their storefronts. In addition, buyers are not required to have an existing crypto wallet and instead will receive an email with a link to a newly created blockchain wallet. "The integration makes it easy to navigate Avalanche NFT sales from initial design all the way through final distribution," \- said John Nahas\, vice president of business at Ava Labs\. Avalanche x International Chess Federation The International Chess Federation (FIDE), the sport’s governing body, announced on 23rd December 2023, it is partnering with the Avalanche blockchain to bring its competitions into Web3. The partnership will create “operational efficiencies for players and federations and improve game integrity,” according to a press rel

treasureland

Treasureland (founded in 2020) is an NFT marketplace created by the developers of DEGO Finance and the largest NFT trading.

Treasureland (founded in 2020) is an NFT marketplace created by the developers of DEGO Finance and the largest NFT trading market on the Binance Smart Chain. It has a complete NFT ecosystem including NFT casting, mining, crafting, auction, trading, and more. Overview Treasureland is a multi-chain Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace that allows users to mint their artwork and list it on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). It will bridge the transactions between users and DeFi programs. !fetched-img-f642abe3b09d0000jpg.jpeg The Treasureland NFT marketplace was created by the developers behind DEGO Finance. DEGO was launched in September of 2020 and is focused on building cross-chain systems. The launch of Treasureland V1 was actually a part of DEGO's Q4 2020 roadmap. When the platform first launched, it utilized Ethereum (ETH), however, it later transitioned into BSC after several users complained about the high gas fees. So with BSC, the users are able to use much lower transaction fees. Treasureland Market builds a unique frictionless trading platform that enables users to enjoy the fun of gold mining in their marketplace. This multichain NFT Issuance is empowering users to mint NFTs with just a click. Through the platform, they can easily buy, sell, auction, or mine NFTs. Treasureland offers a unique blend which includes: Stand-alone but open NFT ecosystem that allows anyone to issue NFT, initiate mining, auction, trading, etc. NFT protocol that acts as a cross-chain Layer 2 Infrastructure to Blockchain projects for user acquisition, token distribution, and various diverse NFT applications. History The launch of Treasureland's version 1 was part of DEGO’s Q4 2020 roadmap, DEGO had plans to optimize the platform in the first quarter of 2021. A cross-chain development plan is set for the second quarter of 2021, while the third quarter could see testing on the Degochain. !treasure land review image.jfifAt the time of launch, Treasureland marketplace held an airdrop of BSC NFT tokens. Users can collect NFTs from Treasureland Marketplace by trading BSC NFT tokens or by using certain cryptocurrencies like BNB or DEGO. Another alternative is the ability to mine BSC NFT tokens. Treasuerland allows a new user to connect his wallet to the Marketplace. It supports multiple wallets like MetaMask, MathWallet (MATH), SafePal (SFP), Trust Wallet, TokenPocket, and ONTO wallet. Technology With Treasureland, the users can see the current price of the artwork and a basic approximate USD value (depending on cryptocurrency current market rate). In addition, they provide more information on the page which includes the ID number, the block number in which the NFT is minted, the time of creation, and a link to the owner and seller. !fetched-img-bc906edaa00d6000png.pngWhen selecting an NFT, the user can see everything necessary about their NFT which includes the price, the seller, the block number, the creation time, and more. Buying NFTs on Treasureland To buy NFTs on Treasureland, users can only do so by holding the supported cryptos to trade. The platform currently supports BNB. So if users want to buy NFTs on Treasureland, they must hold BNB. Enter Treasureland, connect to the wallet (Binance Smart Chain). Via the search bar, find the NFT wish to purchase on the Treasureland. Click the NFT to enter the purchase interface, then click the “BUY” button. (Make sure to have enough BNB in your wallet.) The checkout screen will appear, click the “Checkout” button. After the gas settings interface pops up, click the “Confirm” button (Generally, use the default gas). After confirming the transaction is successful, click “BACK TO ACCOUNT” to return to your account to see the purchased NFT. Selling NFTs on Treasureland To sell an NFT on Treasureland is simple. A user just needs to go to their available NFTs for sale and simply “Unlock for Sale”. Once that is done, the user will just need to approve it on their MetaMask or whatever wallet application that they are using. After the transaction goes through, the button will change to “Sale”. Then just press on the “Sale” button and input your price of the NFT. Simply, hit “Confirm”. They will then be able to see the user’s token visible under the “On Sale” tab. Enter Treasureland, connect to the wallet (Binance Smart Chain) Find the NFT you want to sell in “Account”. Click “NFT” to enter the NFT interface, click the “SALE” button. (Prepare enough BNB for gas in the wallet.) After the gas settings interface pops up, click the “confirm” button (Generally, use the default gas). Return to the NFT product interface. Step 1 (number 1): click on the “SALE” button, a dialog box will appear. Step2 (number 2): enter the selling price. Step3:(number 3) click on the “Confirm” button. After the gas settings interface pops up, click the “Confirm” button (Generally, use the default gas). When the listing is complete, you can see in the Account interface that the NFT for sale is “ON SALE” status. Then just wait for the buyer to purchase NFT and complete the transaction. Minting an NFT on Treasureland Enter: https://v2.treasureland.marke Find the“submit”and click “Create NFT” Click [sign in], and click [Sign] to complete the signature authorization in the wallet pop-up dialog box. Enter the NFT creation interface. Step 1: Choose to create single or multiple NFTs. Step 2: Upload the NFT file to be created from local. Step 3: Fill in the NFT name, description, and add attribute information at number 3. Preview the NFT at number 4. Step 4: Click [Create NFT] to create an NFT. After creation, click [View] to see the NFT you created in the account, you can also opt to sell NFT by clicking [Sale]. Marketplace Fees When users make a trade at any NFT Marketplace, they might charge the user a commission. However, Treasureland Marketplace levies a transaction fee or gas fee. A high gas fee on the Ethereum blockchain was one of the primary reasons why Treasureland transitioned to the Binance Smart Chain, so these fees are less of an issue here than they are elsewhere. Partnerships They have long-term cooperation with some well-known companies or institutions around the world to promote the development of the NFT ecosystem. Companies like PancakeSwap, BurgerSwap, Binance Charity, MathWallet (MATH), Bounce, APRON, Phala Network, NFT For Good, Qian Protocol, Alpaca (ALPA), Mask Wallet, Sorare, Cocos Blockchain Expenditure, Seascape Network, My Neighbour Alice, and VIDT among others. Treasureland x NFTWorldArt Treasureland x Seascape Treasureland announced on the 24th of June, 2021 their partnership with Seascape Network on an NFT Summer Trading campaign. This campaign began oficially on Friday 25th of June 2021, users were to get TRADING with their Scapes with $Dego & Treasureland. Every 3 trades (buy/sell) will earn users a ticket in the raffle and a shot at winning an exclusive epic Non-Fungible Token (NFT). !fetched-img-a446321faeb2000png.png Treasureland x CryptoTycoon Treasureland has collaborated with CryptoTycoon, which is a DeFi light gaming platform based on the Binance smart chain. FishSwap is a BSC fishing game developed by CryptoTycoon. This game combines DeFi, NFT and Mystery box gameplay. Players can open Mystery boxes in the game to obtain NFT fishing rod cards with different attributes. The fishing rod NFT of FishSwap in CryptoTycoon will be auctioned, sold and exchanged through Treasureland. Treasureland x Free Spark Treasureland has collaborated with Free Spark, which is the first music brand in China focusing on NFT. It is incubated and established by spark music, a music copyright service platform with more than 600000 RF music library resources. Free Spark will provide more support to Tresureland in the field of NFT. The two sides will further cooperate in NFT and other fields, as well as cooperation between the project and artists. Treasureland x Mozik Treasureland has collaborated with Mozik, a decentralized music NFT platform. Mozik will provide more support for Tresureland in the field of NFT. Treasureland, together with Mozik, will create a new, healthy and transparent music ecosystem. Both sides will establish further cooperation and also provides more possibilities for cooperation between the project and artists. Treasureland x KAKA NFT WORLD Treasureland has collaborated with KAKA NFT WORLD, which is a game NFT+DeFi ecological platform. KAKA NFT WORLD will make blockchain games more valuable, It will provide more support for Treasureland in the field of NFT, and both parties will establish close cooperation in the field of DeFi+NFT. Treasureland x VEGA Ventures Treasureland has collaborated with VEGA NFT, an NFT artist incubation group under a crypto fund named VEGA ventures, dedicated to incubation and cooperation with NFT artists. VEGA NFT will keep supporting Tresureland with artworks and talented young artists. The two parties will establish close cooperation in the field of NFT and pursue more possibilities of cooperation between NFT-related projects and artists. Treasureland x FM Gallery Treasureland has collaborated with FM Gallery, a blockchain-based distribution platform for NFT artworks. This partnership will allow FM Gallery and Treasureland to introduce the best NFT artworks to more art lovers and collectors through innovative sales, while enabling rare blockchain-based asset trading experiences on one of the most active NFT marketplaces. “We are pleased to partner with Treasureland,” said FM Flora Peng, founder of FM Gallery. “This partnership will allow us to introduce more NF

leo-token-leo

LEO Token also known as UNUS SED LEO is a utility token and cryptocurrency that provides holders with discounts on trading, lending, and exchange fees on the cr...

LEO Token also known as UNUS SED LEO is a utility token and cryptocurrency that provides holders with discounts on trading, lending, and exchange fees on the cryptocurrency exchanges run by iFinex which include Bitfinex, Ethfinex, and EOSfinex. History Launch iFinex launched the UNUS SED LEO in May 2019 in an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) for LEO in May (private sale) and in June (public sale) where the token was sold for $1 a piece on a 1:1 basis for USDT, raising a total of $1 billion over a 10-day period. LEO tokens were initially issued on two blockchains: 660 million ERC-20 tokens were issued on Ethereum and 340 million EOS-based tokens on EOS. The Bitfinex exchange allows for cross-chain conversions. The launch of the LEO token came after the alleged partial government seizure of Bitfinex assets which were held by Crypto Capital in the Summer of 2018 and the BitFinex Hack in 2016 where 119,756 BTC was stolen by hackers. The name UNUS SED LEO comes from the Latin phrase “Unus Sed Leo”, pulled from the Greek storyteller Aesop’s fable The Sow and the Lioness. Translated as “one, but a lion”, the phrase encapsulates the fable’s moral, which centers on the philosophy of quality over quantity, in that the might and bravery of a single lion cub is greater than an entire sow’s litter. Crypto Capital Seizure Previously in late summer of 2018, Crypto Capital represented to Bitfinex that funds held in its custody had been the subject to a partial government seizure, although they were expected to be released shortly. By the end of 2018, Bitfinex grew concerned that Crypto Capital might fail to return funds held there, and began negotiating a credit facility for a secured, revolving line of credit. BitFinex Hack On the 2nd of August 2016, Bitfinex suffered a hack in its system leading to a loss of 119,756 BTC worth about US$72 million at the time. Bitfinex halted Bitcoin withdrawals and trading after a breach was reported. Exchange customers, including those whose accounts had not been broken into, had their account balance reduced by 36% and received BFX tokens (debt tokens) in proportion to their losses. The BFX tokens could be used towards company equity or could be redeemed by Bitfinex. On the 25th of February 2019, Bitfinex was able to recover 27.7 BTC with the help of the U.S. government. In relation, two Israeli brothers, Eli and Assaf Gigi were arrested for their alleged involvement in the 2016 hack. An additional 6.5 BTC was recovered on 14th December 2021 in collaboration with Poloniex, a digital token exchange. The recovered funds were converted to USD and paid to RRT (Recovery Right Token) Holders. Bitfinex continues to pursue multiple strategies for recovery by collaborating with law enforcement and third parties to track and seize the stolen bitcoins as soon as they reach any exchange or business. In February 2022, a New York couple, Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather R. Morgan were arrested and charged by the U.S. federal authorities for conspiring to launder the stolen funds and defraud the United States. Of the 119,756 BTC stolen from the Bitfinex platform, the U.S. Department of Justice recovered nearly 94,000 BTC (worth approximately $3.6 billion at the time of recovery). In a statement, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said it was “the department’s largest financial seizure ever". In an announcement to their community, Bitfinex explained that they will work with the DOJ to establish their rights to a return of the stolen bitcoin. They also explained that if they receive a recovery of the stolen bitcoin, as described in the UNUS SED LEO token white paper, Bitfinex will, within 18 months of the date it receives that recovery use an amount equal to 80% of the recovered net funds to repurchase and burn outstanding UNUS SED LEO tokens. These token repurchases can be accomplished in open market transactions or by acquiring UNUS SED LEO in over-the-counter trades, including directly trading bitcoin for UNUS SED LEO. Tokenomics Burning Every month, iFinex and its associates buy back an amount of LEO from the market equal to a minimum of 27% of the consolidated gross revenues of iFinex from the previous month, continually until no tokens will remain in commercial circulation. iFinex and its subsidiaries plan to repurchase and burn outstanding LEO tokens, with an amount equal to 95% of net funds recovered from Crypto Capital. iFinex and its subsidiaries plan to also repurchase and burn outstanding LEO tokens, with an amount equal to at least 80% of net funds recovered from the Bitfinex hack. The Transparency Initiative On the 14th of June 2019, BitFinex announced the launch of the UNUS SED LEO transparency initiative. A program where token holders are provided with unique, verifiable insights into the token buyback process. This includes access to insights into all collected platform fees and continuous LEO burns. This information is displayed on the UNUS SED LEO dashboard and can be accessed via the official website. The first implementation of the burn mechanism only includes revenue from trading fees. However, the Bitfinex team said it has plans to expand to include all revenue streams - deposit or withdrawal fees, funding fees, and other exchange products which will result in an all-encompassing token buyback mechanism. The UNUS SED LEO mechanism went live at 10.00 AM UTC, 14th June 2019 with the tokens being burned every 3 hours until 100% of the supply has been removed from circulation. The total lifespan of the UNUS SED LEO cryptocurrency is subject to the amount of fees generated through iFinex. Utility LEO token offers taker fee reduction and lending fee reduction for trading platforms, products, and services provided by iFinex. All tiers of LEO holders’ taker fees are to be reduced by 15% for all crypto-to-crypto pairs, including the crypto-to-stablecoin pairs. Bitfinex also announced that LEO holders with more than 5,000 USDT in LEO will be eligible for taker fee reductions of 10%. LEO holders are entitled to up to 25% discount on withdrawal and deposit fees. This 25% deduction is to be removed in LEO first, provided the trader has these tokens in their portfolio. Also, the withdrawal and deposit fee discounts are eligible for any user holding more than $50 million worth of LEO tokens to withdraw up to $2 million without incurring additional fees. These discounts apply to platforms that operate under the iFinex banner - BitFinex, EOSfinex, and any future platforms built under the iFinex banner.

kambria

Kambria is a decentralized open innovation platform for Deep Tech (AI, Robotics, Blockchain, VR/AR, IoT).

Kambria is the native utility token of the Kambria platform which operates on the Ethereum blockchain. It allows users access to the Kambria Platform and gains rewards from participation. Kambria Kambria, headquartered in Santa Clara, California is the first blockchain project that is aimed at building an open innovation platform for frontier technology. The Kambria platform is focusing first on the AI and Robotics vertical with the backing of its well-established robotics company, OhmniLabs. With the help of top universities and existing partnerships with large international corporations and access to talented developers, The Kambria foundation focuses on building an ecosystem that can bring the next wave of frontier technology to provide value to billions of people around the world. Kambria Services Kambria (KAT) renders a number of services and this includes Membership to the platform, Additive manufacturing (3D printing), Prototyping services, Manufacturing Alliance, Acquiring developers, Hackathon participation, etc. Features Kambria (KAT) token, which is the native token of Kambria, plays an integral role in the ecosystem. Membership Fees, Products, and Services For users to be able to begin developing or hosting bounties on Kambria's platform, an entry fee/ membership fee is required to be paid in KAT. Members are required to access all desired products and services in exchange for KAT tokens exclusively. This means that in order to utilize the platform for its intended purpose, users will be incentivized to retain KAT in their wallets so that they can acquire these benefits at a moment’s notice. Hackathons & Bounty Challenges Another feature on the platform is that Kambria will use hackathons to connect huge pools of raw talent, including world-class engineers and scientists, with large corporations. The platform's hackathons will help develop technology that caters to the needs of these corporations. In addition to increasing adoption, hackathons will also require participants to utilize KAT to access key platform features. By also using KAT for prize payouts, hackathons will significantly increase adoption for both the platform and the use of KAT. Judging, Voting, and Participation For the bounty program to be successful, Kambria's decentralized economy will utilize both smart contracts and some failsafe mechanisms to protect both the integrity and quality of the products that are built in a bid to raise a system to protect both bounty creators and the developers who participate in these bounties. The platform created pools of judges with no vested interest in bounty creators or developers. These judges will be required to stake KAT to even participate in the bounty process. If the bounty is successful, then they will receive their KAT back and will be awarded Karma as a result of their contributions. Karma & Revenue Sharing In addition to KAT is the Karma concept. Karma is a non-tradeable ledger entry awarded to contributors on the Kambria Platform. Karma is intended to be used as a way to track contributions made on Kambria so that profit revenue made by Kambria International can be shared fairly amongst users. Therefore, as their work and contributions increase, so does their earning potential. The idea is to create a reputation system that also benefits contributors by creating incentives across multiple avenues. Tokenomics Kambria (KAT) is an ERC20 cryptocurrency that is created on the Ethereum platform. Kambria (KAT) has a total supply of 5,000,000,000 KAT and a circulating supply of 1,199,975,955 KAT. The ticker symbol is KAT and currently, the most active cryptocurrency exchange trading (KAT) is KuCoin. Partners Kambria (KAT) is supported by about 26 institutions or organizations, some of which are listed below: Stanford University, Nanyang Technological University, Silicon Valley Robotics, Decentralized Ai Alliance, Alpha blockchain, amongst other active partners with Kambria (KAT) project. <br

colethereum

ColeThereum or Cole Villemain also known as COLΞ and ColeThereum on Twitter is the co-founder and former executive member of Pudgy Penguins.

ColeThereum or Cole Villemain also known as COLΞ and ColeThereum on Twitter is a co-founder and former executive member of Pudgy Penguins. After several controversies, Cole was ousted from the Pudgy Penguins team after community members voted to remove him from the team. Career Cole Villemain alongside the other three co-founders Clayton Patterson (mrtubby), Mickyj and Jonah released the Pudgy Penguins NFT project on July 23rd 2021. 8,888 Pudgy Penguins were released and quickly became popular, selling out in less than half an hour. These cartoon penguins started at the price of 0.03 ETH per penguin with each of them being unique, featuring a combination of different characteristics such as hats, glasses, hairstyles, and clothing. !image During the rise of Pudgy Penguins, certain rare NFTs in the collection were sold around $463,500 at the time. Additionally, famous individuals like NBA player Steph Curry and musician Tory Lanez are among the individuals who own items from the collection which brought a lot of eyes to the project. Controversies Villemain has also been the subject of controversy in the past. On August 12th 2021, an on-chain analyst using the handle @zachxbt posted a widely-shared tweet thread accusing him of unethical behavior, including the creation of a drop shipping business called Eboy Outlet, which generated numerous negative reviews and complaints from customers who had not received their orders or refunds. The Facebook and Instagram pages of the business were taken down soon after @zachxbt highlighted them in his post. Villemain also came under fire for his promise to give away an NFT from the Fame Lady Squad collection to one of his followers, before listing it for sale on OpenSea, he insisted that it was his plan to give the piece away after a community member questioned the listing. He also admitted to promoting projects without disclosing that he was paid to endorse them. “I share NFT projects. It’s what I do. Was I paid a couple times? Yes. Do I regret those? Yes. Am I going to stop sharing NFT projects I like? No. Am I going to be more careful? Yes.” - ColeThereum !image On December 11, 2021, a former community moderator named ColdPizza, who was previously known as 0xDarth, made a public departure from the project after failing to reach an agreement on job terms, including compensation, when he was promoted to community manager. ColdPizza publicly criticized Villemain's leadership during a Twitter Space event which had 3,000 listeners, accusing him of bribing him with 1 ETH, which was worth $3,500 at the time, to prevent him from disclosing any more information about the Pudgy Penguins project. Villemain denied the allegations, stating that he has "never and would never bribe anyone" and had only offered ColdPizza a 1 Ethereum as a bonus for his work and input to the project. “We let go of one of our staff members and I offered a 1 Ethereum bonus for being helpful to the project. It was taken out of context and false rumors spread.” Following Cole’s announcement of taking a break from Twitter for a while, a well known Pudgy Penguins advocate, 9x9x9 posted a series of tweets on January 6th, accusing Villemain and his co-founders of embezzling the project's treasury, and offering to sell a 20% stake in the project for 4,000 ETH, around $12.9 million at the time. They also claimed that Villemain had reduced the sale offer to 888 ETH after it was rejected. 9x9x9 also alleged that the community had proposed removing Villemain from the team and said, "Removing Cole is like eating a painkiller when you have cancer." Due to all these rumors and controversies, On January 6th 2022, In the community vote on Villemain's leadership took place in a private Discord channel, where a large majority of Pudgy Penguins holders voted in favor of removing Cole from the leadership position. !image SUPERTHEREUM On 17th January 2023, a twitter account under the name SUPERTHEREUM was created, tweeting vague hints on a new NFT project. The day after the first tweets, Cole retweeted one of SUPERTHEREUM's tweets saying, "I’m happy that I got to announce @SuperThereum around this time and not when everything is pumping and there is a lot of FOMO and expectations" with his Twitter bio changed to "founder of @superthereum" alluding the start of a innovative and creative NFT project under his name.

bitzeny

BitZeny (ZNY) (November 8, 2014) is a cryptocurrency from Japan that claims to be CPU-only. It uses an algorithm called...

BitZeny (ZNY) (November 8, 2014) is a cryptocurrency from Japan that claims to be CPU-only. It uses an algorithm called Yescrypt-0.5. Overview BitZeny's history goes back to November 2014. Aiming at a cryptographic currency that everyone can easily mining, it was born by Japanese domestic developers as a clone of Bitcoin (BTC). The currency unit is ZNY, a total number of issues is 250 million and there is a limit. The biggest feature of BitZeny is that central processing unit mining can be done with a normal PC. Since many encryption currencies are mined using GPUs and ASICs, it is an oligopoly state by some minors who can invest in special equipment. BitZeny is difficult to mining with GPU and ASIC, and adopts an algorithm suitable for CPU mining. Bitzeny Community Bitzeny community is bustling with many miners because this cryptocurrency adopts the "CPU mining" which an individual can take the profit. Also, some restaurants accept Bitzeny payment, and various functions about BitZeny are being developed. (ex. Twitter tip bot "Rin-Hime") So "The Bitzeny world" - which is enjoyed miner and holders spreading in the world. Bitzeny Exchange CryptoBridge TradeSatoshi Stocks.exchange C-CEX

andreas-antonopoulos

Andreas M. Antonopoulos (born 1972) is a Greek-British bitcoin advocate.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos (born 1972) is a Greek-British bitcoin advocate. He is a host on the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast and a teaching fellow for the M.Sc. Digital Currencies at the University of Nicosia. Early career Antonopoulos obtained his degree in Computer Science and Data Communications and Distributed Systems from University College London. As a partner at Nemertes Research, Antonopoulos researched computer security, stating that the greatest threat to computer security was not experienced hackers, but overly complex systems that resulted from rapid change in business. Bitcoin involvement In 2012 Antonopoulos became enamored with bitcoin. He eventually abandoned his job as a freelance consultant and started speaking at conferences about bitcoin, consulting for startups, and writing articles free of charge. According to his podcast, Antonopoulos is a consultant on several bitcoin-related startups. In January 2014, Antonopoulos joined Blockchain.info as chief security officer. In September 2014 he left the CSO role. In April 2014, Antonopoulos organised a fundraising campaign for Dorian Nakamoto, who was identified in a Newsweek article as the creator of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. The reporting techniques used in the article were controversial among journalists and Bitcoin community members. The fundraiser, intended to assist Nakamoto after the attention he received as a result of the article, raised 50 bitcoins, worth US$23,000 at the time. On 8 October 2014, Antonopoulos spoke in front of the Banking, Trade and Commerce committee of the Senate of Canada to address the senators' questions on how to regulate bitcoin in Canada. In March 2016, the first edition of Mastering Bitcoin was released by Antonopoulos, in print and online, followed by a second edition in June 2017. Receiving of bitcoin gifts In December 2017, unsolicited donations of over 100 bitcoins were sent to Antonopoulos by over a thousand followers of his work, after Roger Ver made a public post to Twitter on 5 December questioning Antonopoulos's investment choices given his "eloquent" public speaking about bitcoin since 2012. Adam Back reportedly began the outpouring of support by tweeting: "if 'sign guy' can get a meaningful start from tips, we should try to find a way for the community to fund Antonopoulos to a hodler's position". Erik Voorhees went on to support Antonopoulos by saying: "If you've ever learned about, participated, used or benefited from bitcoin in any way, please donate to Andreas".

trueusd

TrueUSD is a fully collateralized ERC-20 token on Ethereum blockchain pegged to the US Dollar with each token backed by an equivalent amount held in escrow.

TrueUSD (TUSD) is a stablecoin that is designed to maintain a value of one U.S. dollar per token. It is an ERC-20 token built on the Ethereum blockchain, and it is issued by the TrustToken platform. The TrustToken platform claims to be the first to offer a fully collateralized stablecoin, meaning that for every TUSD token issued, there is an equivalent amount of U.S. dollars held in escrow in a third-party trust account. Overview TUSD's value is linked directly to the US dollar, and each TUSD is fully collateralized with one US dollar held in an escrow account, thereby providing a 1-to-1 backing. The transfer of TUSD can be done at a low cost of $0.01 and can be sent to any person around the world. Additionally, redemption of TUSD for fiat US dollars is possible after undergoing a KYC/AML verification process. In addition to TUSD, the platform provides several other stablecoins, including TGBP (Tokenized British Pounds), TCAD (Tokenized Canadian Dollars), and TAUD (Tokenized Australian Dollars). To ensure the reserves that collateralize each currency, Truecoin collaborates with third-party accounting firms that offer monthly attestations. Truecoin has also initiated the transition towards a 'live attestation' dashboard, which enables TrueUSD holders to access real-time data about their TrueUSD accounts. The dashboard is made possible through a partnership with Armanino, a leading accounting firm in the United States. How TUSD Works TrueUSD operates on the Ethereum blockchain through smart contracts, enabling the creation and redemption of a tokenized version of the US dollar. Once a user purchases TUSD through the TrustToken platform using US dollars, the smart contract automatically generates and issues the corresponding amount of TUSD, which becomes part of the circulating supply of the token. When a user redeems TUSD through TrustToken, the platform credits them with an amount in US Dollars equal to the redeemed TUSD amount, while a smart contract burns or permanently removes the redeemed tokens from the circulating supply of TUSD. TrustToken does not charge any fees on TUSD transactions, but generates revenue by charging interest on US Dollars held in their accounts. Traders can buy and sell TUSD at a 1:1 ratio, creating a natural arbitrage opportunity and keeping the token pegged to the dollar. TrueUSD x Chainlink TrueUSD has announced the implementation of Chainlink's Proof of Reserves technology to enhance security during the minting process and to reinforce transparency and dependability. The TUSD smart contract uses this 'Proof of Reserve' data feed to verify that the total supply of TUSD does not exceed the total amount of US dollars held in reserve before any new stablecoin is minted. This automated workflow is transparent in the smart contract code and is supported by open and independent data feeds, ensuring both stability and redeemability for TUSD users. [email protected] Trust Token Platform The TrustToken Platform is a dApp built on the Ethereum blockchain that facilitates the creation of tokens backed by real-world assets and allows for global transfer of value. Since its launch in March 2018, TrustToken has expanded its range of tokenized currencies beyond the Tokenized USD (TUSD) to include Tokenized British Pounds (TGBP), Tokenized Canadian Dollars (TCAD), and Tokenized Australian Dollars (TAUD). The company has plans to introduce additional tokenized currencies, such as TEUR and THKD, by the year 2020.

matic

MATIC is an ERC-20 token that powers Polygon, a Layer-2 solution designed to scale the Ethereum network. It is used to govern and secure the network, as well as...

MATIC is an ERC-20 token that powers Polygon, a Layer-2 solution, designed to help scale the Ethereum network and improve its functionality. Overview MATIC is the native token of Polygon. It is used to govern and secure the network by staking. It's the currency of Polygon apps that enables users to interact with hundreds of decentralized applications involved in the Polygon ecosystem. !imageAs MATIC is an ERC-20 token issued on Ethereum, it can also be purchased using a variety of decentralized exchanges such as Uniswap and Sushiswap. In addition, a user can use the official Polygon Bridge in order to exchange assets between Ethereum and Polygon. MATIC acts as an economic investment to encourage users to contribute and participate in the Polygon ecosystem. It is used to pay validators as a unit of exchange, and active users who have contributed to the network will receive incentives in the form of this token. Consensus To take part in the consensus on the network, users must stake MATIC. The staked MATIC also serves as a form of punishment for malicious behavior, such as proposing invalid blocks, verifying blocks illegally, or executing invalid transactions, by requiring stakers to put up their stake as collateral. If a staker violates the network rules, their staked MATIC will be forfeited. Tokenomics There is a total supply of 10 billion MATIC tokens and, as of August 2022, over 7.4 billion have already been minted and released into the system. On January 18, 2022, Polygon went through the EIP-1559 upgrade, which introduced a deflationary effect on the token. As per the team, the MATIC tokens would go through annual burns that would remove 0.27% of the token’s total supply (about 27 million MATIC). Polygon held its initial exchange offering (IEO) on Binance using the Binance launchpad in April 2019. They were able to sell 19% of their tokens at a rate of $.00263/MATIC through this launchpad. Shortly after this IEO, Polygon held 2 additional funding rounds. The first was a seed round where they sold 2.09% of the total MATIC tokens at a rate of .00079/MATIC. The second was a token sale dedicated to early supporters, where 1.71% of MATIC tokens were sold at a rate of $.00233/MATIC. The total breakdown of the MATIC token supply is as follows: private sale (seed round + early supporters): 3.8% Binance Launchpad: 19% Team: 16% Advisors: 4% Staking Rewards: 12% Foundation: 21.86% Ecosystem: 23.33% !chart_showing_Breakdown_of_the_MATIC_token_supply.png Token Distribution The remaining 2.5 billion MATIC tokens that are not in circulation yet, will be distributed over the next 4 years through staking rewards. !chart_showing_Chart_X._Release_schedule_of_MATIC_tokens.pngRelease schedule of MATIC

defi

DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is an umbrella term for peer-to-peer financial services on public blockchains, primarily Ethereum.

DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is the concept of a decentralized financial system where there are open and decentralized alternatives to the closed centralized financial system. DeFi dapps and protocols use technologies like blockchain and smart contracts to offer financial services more transparently with fewer intermediaries. Overview DeFi (Decentralized Finance) generally refers to digital assets, protocols, and decentralized applications (dApps) that are built on the blockchain. DeFi is a financial service with no central authority. It involves taking traditional elements of the financial system and replacing the middleman with a smart contract. Most DeFi protocols operate on the Ethereum blockchain, although a few have migrated to other competing blockchains to have higher scalability. DeFi leverages all of the properties attributed to Ethereum: Permissionless: Anyone can access all DeFi services without a third-party engagement. Users do not have to seek permission to interact with a smart contract. Censorship Resistant: No person is restricted from using DeFi services due to any identifying characteristics such as nationality, gender, or political beliefs. Programmable: Any service which can be coded into a smart contract, can be introduced as a DeFi service. Transparent: All smart contracts are available for analysis and verification. Additionally, all user interactions can be tracked, making DeFi fully transparent. Compostability: DeFi services can leverage each other to create new offerings and servers. Trustless: All transactions and interactions with the smart contract are visible on the ledger and secured by the underlying blockchain. History Inception (2017-2018) DeFi term was created in an August 2018 Telegram chat between Ethereum developers and entrepreneurs including Inje Yeo, Co-founder of Set Protocol, Blake Henderson of 0x, and Brendan Forster of Dharma. They were trying to find the name for the movement of open financial applications being built on Ethereum. Except for "DeFi", other options considered were Open Horizon, Lattice Network, and Open Financial Protocols. Finally, the chat members came up with DeFi. Shortly after, on October 4, 2018, the group held its first DeFi summit in San Francisco in collaboration with Dharma Protocol, 0x Project, Coinbase, Abacus Protocol, and many others. Since the first summit, hundreds of conferences around the globe were held. Additionally, the DeFi Telegram has seen exponential growth. Growth (2018-2022) The value of DeFi protocols grew fast with the growth of the community. In July 2018, DeFi protocols were valued at $181 million. Almost exactly a year later, its collective value broke $500 million. In addition to this milestone, DeFi began to see the diversifying in where protocols are held, as MakerDAO previously held more than 91% of DeFi's value in December of 2018, and lowered its share by 20% that same July. February 7, 2020, saw DeFi's value enter the billion-dollar milestone. Spencer Noon of DTC Capital said in a statement: No other smart contract platform comes close in terms of its developer mindshare, tooling, and infrastructure, to the point where I don't believe DeFi could exist anywhere else today. And perhaps most surprisingly, we're finally seeing a credible case for ETH to accrue a long-term monetary premium as the only truly trustless collateral type in decentralized finance. Shortly after, the total locked value saw a dip and swiftly returned back to its billion-dollar milestone around early June 2020. A major contributor to the growth was the DeFi governance tokens that began to appear on the market. The DeFi world saw the introduction of native governance tokens from firms including Compound, Balancer, UMA, Curve Finance, and pNetwork which can be acquired through protocol usage. As a result, the total value locked (TVL) on protocols with governance began to see quick liquid growth. Around early May 2020, Bitcoin entered the DeFi ecosystem through WBTC, as it was added to MakerDAO's platform, and came with a 0% USD Coin stability fee. RenVM, a platform used for minting Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Zcash into ERC20 tokens was launched. The introduction of the platform contributed to the increase in value, as Bitcoin holders were able to use their digital assets within the "DeFi landscape". Another major launch that contributed to the increase was dYdX's launch of Perpetual Contracts and its first product was the ability to trade BTC-USDC with up to 10x leverage on Ethereum. The growing interest in Bitcoin futures created a domino effect, adding to DeFi's total value-locked growth. The increase in total value locked was also attributed to the introduction of Ethereum Merge, which launched phase one in July 2020. Companies including Nexus Mutual, a decentralized insurance protocol, expressed interest in its plans to stake a large portion of its current assets into Eth 2.0. Investors hoped that the introduction of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) would provide those who staked with the ability to earn rewards for "validating blocks". In addition to the growing confidence in what the future holds for Ethereum and Eth 2.0, the Ethereum network began to hit all-time highs in traffic. As a result, the number of DeFi assets exponentially grew and even saw a doubling in assets being held between April and May of 2020, reaching 1,000 for the first time, and users reaching over 550,000. Also, the median transaction fees found in DeFi and stablecoin hit a 2-year high, with around $2.56 spent alone on Ether gas fees within the month of May 2020. The total value locked (TVL) in DeFi platforms exceeded the $5 billion mark in August 2020. This is a 5x increase in just 60 days since reaching the $1 billion mark in early June 2020. As of August 16, 2020, a record high of $6 billion worth of crypto was locked in DeFi smart contracts, according to data analytics site DeFi Pulse. MakerDAO, Aave, and Curve Finance led the pack, with some $4.2 billion locked in between them. As of March 2021, DeFi's total value locked (TVL) increased from about $25 billion to almost $100 billion. With a wealth of consumer success, DeFi began aiming for institutional adoption as its next objective. On December 2, 2021, DeFi recorded an all-time high total value locked (TVL) of $256 billion. On April 3, 2022, the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi fell to $231 billion as it began to enter the bearish market. As of September 2022, the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi is approximately $54.95 billion. The TVL has not been this low in over five months since March 29, 2022. Use Cases Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) Decentralized exchanges are typically built on top of different blockchains, making their compatibility specific to the technology on which they are developed. DEXs built on Ethereum’s blockchain, for example, facilitate the trading of assets built on Ethereum, such as ERC-20 tokens. DEXs allow users to store assets away from a centralized platform while yet enabling on-the-fly trading from their wallets via blockchain-based transactions. Automated market makers, a type of DEX, became prevalent in 2020 and use smart contracts and liquidity pools to facilitate the purchase and sale of crypto assets. Additionally, certain DEXs may have fewer features and higher associated financial fees than centralized exchanges. Lending Platforms In DeFi, lending and borrowing are now among the most common activities. Users can borrow money utilizing lending protocols while using their cryptocurrency as security. With loan solutions commanding billions of dollars in total value locked (TVL), decentralized finance has seen vast amounts of cash flow through its ecosystem. Payments and Stablecoins DeFi requires a stable unit of account, or asset, in order to be considered a financial system that consists of transactions and contracts. Participants must be able to anticipate that the value of the asset they are using won't change. Stablecoins are useful in this situation. The lending and borrowing that are typical in the DeFi market are made stable using stablecoins. Stablecoins are preferred for trading and business because they don't display nearly as much volatility as cryptocurrencies do because they are typically fixed to a fiat currency, such as the U.S. dollar or the euro. As of October 2022, the top five stablecoins include Tether (USDT), USD Coin, Binance USD, DAI, and FRAX. Margin and Leverage The margin and leverage components take the decentralized finance market to the next level, allowing users to borrow cryptocurrencies on margin using other cryptocurrencies as collateral. Additionally, leverage can be built into smart contracts to perhaps increase the user's returns. Given that the system is dependent on algorithms and lacks a human component, an event of a malfunction increases users' risk during the usage of these DeFi components. Insurance Another significant aspect of DeFi is insurance. A financial organization will insure clients against potential losses in exchange for a premium payment from them. Code and smart contracts manage a lot of money in the DeFi area, and there are already innumerable examples of smart contract exploits and attacks where billions have been taken. DeFi insurance protocols let users protect themselves against the possibility of a protocol being exploited when they have mo

my-defi-pet

My DeFi Pet is a virtual pet game that combines DeFi, collectibles and your own personality.

My DeFi Pet is a virtual pet game that combines DeFi, collectibles and your own personality. The name encompasses the three characteristics of the game: “Pet” raising game, “DeFi” features integrated, and “My” personalisation. My DeFi Pet is operated on Supported Network including Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and KardiaChain. Gameplay "My DeFi Pet" revolves around a core loop of engaging gaming activities such as collecting, breeding, evolving, battling with, and trading/socialising for pets. We use the concept of Season to break down the game progress into smaller parts. This mechanism complements our human tendency for short term rewards. Collect There are two primary ways to obtain a pet. 1. Summon: you can obtain a random egg by consuming a certain amount of DPET tokens. 2. Auction: A new pet is born every hour, and bidding (with DPET tokens) lasts for 24 hours. After the bidding period, any unclaimed pet will remain at the Altar for later purposes. Breed Combine any 2 pets will create a new pet that inherits its parents' genes. Evolve Each pet has certain evolution levels and capabilities depending on its rarity. Players can level up their pet by feeding them DPET tokens. Season Reward The first season will start with a 100,000 USDT prize, locked by the DPETs team in a smart contract. The amount is claimable by finding the NFTs with the exact specifications as prescribed in the contract, and then sending these to the contract to claim the reward. The particular requirements will be decided after launch. Tentatively, the prize requires 10 legendary pets with maxed level. DPET Tokens The native digital cryptographically-secured utility token of My DeFi Pet (DPET token) is a transferable representation of attributed functions specified in the protocol/code of My DeFi Pet, and which is designed to be used solely as an interoperable utility token on the platform. DPET token is a non-refundable functional utility token which will be used as the medium of exchange between participants on My DeFi Pet in a decentralised manner. The goal of introducing DPET token is to provide a convenient and secure mode of payment and settlement between participants who interact within the ecosystem on My DeFi Pet, and it is not, and not intended to be, a medium of exchange accepted by the public (or a section of the public) as payment for goods or services or for the discharge of a debt; nor is it designed or intended to be used by any person as payment for any goods or services whatsoever that are not exclusively provided by the issuer. DPET token does not in any way represent any shareholding, participation, right, title, or interest in the Company, the Distributor, their respective affiliates, or any other company, enterprise or undertaking, nor will DPET token entitle token holders to any promise of fees, dividends, revenue, profits or investment returns, and are not intended to constitute securities in Singapore or any relevant jurisdiction. DPET token may only be utilised on My DeFi Pet, and ownership of DPET token carries no rights, express or implied, other than the right to use DPET token as a means to enable usage of and interaction within My DeFi Pet. DPET token provides the economic incentives which will be distributed to encourage users to contribute and maintain the ecosystem on My DeFi Pet, thereby creating a win-win system where every participant is fairly compensated for its efforts. DPET token is an integral and indispensable part of My DeFi Pet, because without DPET token, there would be no incentive for users to expend resources to participate in activities or provide services for the benefit of the entire ecosystem on My DeFi Pet. Given that additional DPET token will be awarded to a user based only on its actual usage, activity and contribution on My DeFi Pet, users of My DeFi Pet and/or holders of DPET token which did not actively participate will not receive any DPET token incentives. The DPET economics has been designed to incentivize and maximise the interaction between the players and the game. For example, users will be rewarded with DPET and random rewards to encourage them to spend on activities within the system which would promote adoption of the platform, such as spending on purchasing, breeding or evolving pets, or spending time playing games. DPET may be spend by players to significantly enhance their progress and experience in-game. So as to promote decentralised community governance for the network, DPET token would allow holders to propose and vote on governance proposals to determine features and/or parameters of My DeFi Pet, with voting weight calculated in proportion to the tokens staked. For the avoidance of doubt, the right to vote is restricted solely to voting on features of My DeFi Pet; the right to vote does not entitle DPET token holders to vote on the operation and management of the Company, its affiliates, or their assets or the disposition of such assets, and does not constitute any equity interest in any of these entities. This arrangement is not intended to be any form of joint venture or partnership. It is the community members which would drive development of My DeFi Pet, so DPET token incentives would need to be distributed to compensate them for their time, expertise and effort. Only users which have participated in submission of proposals, commenting, reviewing and/or voting will be entitled to receive DPET token governance rewards. Technology "My DeFi Pet" is a combination of top tier traditional game developers and a leading blockchain team. All DPET tokens and NFT tokens will be available and tradable cross-blockchain, currently Binance Smart Chain and KardiaChain. Utilising the non-invasive interoperability from KardiaChain, we can offer the game to any major blockchain’s community, such as Ethereum and Polkadot.

ethan-buchman

Ethan Buchman is a software engineer and blockchain entrepreneur who co-founded the Cosmos Network and Tendermint and is CEO of Informal Systems and Technical D...

Ethan Buchman is the co-founder and former CTO of the Cosmos Network and Tendermint (now known as Ignite and NewTendermint), a high-performance blockchain platform. He is also the CEO of Informal Systems, a company that works on innovative developments to improve the connection of different protocols and people and the Technical Director of Interchain Foundation which is a non-profit organization focused on the expansion and adoption of decentralized networks. He is a software engineer and blockchain entrepreneur with a background in computer science and mathematics. Education Ethan Buchman attended the University of Guelph and graduated in 2013 with a Honor's Bachelor of Science in Physical Science then completed his Master's of Applied Science in Engineering Systems and Computing in 2016. During his time in Guelph, he met Vlad Zamfir, a renowned researcher and supporter in the Ethereum community, where he was taught about the faults of the financial system and how it is corrupt. This is when the two discovered Bitcoin and Ethereum which drew Buchman’s attention to applied science and later used Tendermint as the topic of his master’s thesis. He went into the history of consensus science as well as Tendermint to explain how our civilization “can use this extensive literature and advancements to make blockchain more efficient and environmentally friendly”. Career After completing his bachelor's degree, Ethan Buchman began his career in the blockchain space as a core developer in Eris Industries, a company that offers a free platform for users to build applications through blockchain and smart contract technology. He was part of Eris Industries from September 2014 to April 2016; where he left the company to focus on his new job as Chief of Coin Culture, a digital currencies community; and also the company he helped founding in January 2016, Tendermint. In 2017, he joined the Interchain Foundation, as the Vice President and has kept his position since, as well as taking on the additional role of Technical Director in January 2020, being responsible for both positions simultaneously until he dropped the Technical Director title in February 2021. In January 2020, he became the CEO of Informal Systems, working on the development of the Cosmos ecosystem. Tendermint and Cosmos Ethan met Jae Kwon, the other co-founder, in early 2015 at a conference called CryptoEconomicon and the two spent much of that year working on Tendermint, a consensus algorithm for blockchains. Ethan completed a Masters Degree on Tendermint during this time and his thesis is considered a significant introduction to blockchains and Proof-of-Stake. In late 2015, he and Jae formed a company around Tendermint called All in Bits Inc. In 2016, they came up with the concept of Cosmos, an "Internet of Blockchains," based on Tendermint, the Application Blockchain Interface, and the InterBlockchain Communication protocol. They then released the Cosmos whitepaper which was well received and the project won an award for Most Innovative Project at the International Blockchain Week in Shanghai. By the end of the year, they had started hiring their first developers. During his last year as CTO, Ethan dedicated his work to the launch of Cosmos Hub which went live in February 2019. !Jae-Kwon-and-Ethan-Buchman.jpgVision Cosmos Ethan Buchman envisions Cosmos as a technology that prioritizes interoperability, blockchain sovereignty, and scalability. His goal is to enable communities to be in charge of their own infrastructure and applications, and to focus on social impact applications that have tangible effects on the real world, which would lead to a more sustainable civilization. “Cosmos is about the community computer revolution. It’s about giving communities the ability to be sovereign over their own infrastructure and applications. We’ve seen a lot of blockchain applications being developed using the Cosmos development stack, that we’re now calling the interchain technology stack. Many of these communities orient around a token that represents the values of the community and are distributed in a way that represents these values.” Buchman also believes that Cosmos’ Inter-blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol offers a high level of security that other cross-chain applications cannot provide and believes that it will bring a new kind of internet, “the internet of blockchains.” "The Cosmos network has the potential to connect any blockchain to any other blockchain, creating a decentralized network of networks, which can allow for seamless, secure and transparent communication between different blockchains." "In the long term, we envision that Cosmos will enable a new era of the internet, one that is decentralized, secure, and interoperable." Blockchain Buchman has a long-term vision of enhancing the condition of political economies and granting greater representation to those who perceive themselves as marginalized by the current institutional structures. He aspires to facilitate the adoption of community-based currencies and economic models that prioritize local wealth creation instead of channeling all the gains to foreign investors. “Over the long-term, we’re trying to upgrade the state of political economies. To help give more representation to people who feel underrepresented in existing institutional structures. Ultimately, something I’m working towards in the long-term is there being more community-oriented currencies and economic systems that are geared towards building wealth locally rather than everything being extracted to external, foreign investors.” Buchman stated that he has shifted his focus to creating real-world impact through blockchain technology and is driving the industry towards a more equitable and sustainable future. By developing community-oriented currencies and collaborating with organizations on real-world use cases, he is working towards bridging “the divide between the digital and real worlds in a way that empowers everyone", making blockchain technology more accessible and useful for a wider range of users. "We need to move beyond the hype and focus on creating tangible value for real people" "It’s no longer about just technology, it’s about real people, real assets, and real economic value"

amrit-pal-singh

Amrit Pal Singh is a 3D Illustrator, Art Director, and an NFT Artist known for creating whimsical 3D illustrations and designs.

Amrit Pal Singh is a 3D Illustrator, Art Director, and an NFT Artist that is known for creating whimsical 3D illustrations and diversity-driven design. Career He started his carer as a designer and animator at "Fueled" Full-time from July 2012 to July 2014 in Greater New York City Area. As a Motion Designer for web & mobile applications. Amrit was responsible for designing and animating user interactions, promotional videos, and viral projects like "40 Years of Cellphone". In December 2017, he was made the design Consultant - Snapchat Lenses at Snapchat, Inc. on contract. Amrit was responsible for creating concepts for various Snapchat lenses (face effects and filters) focusing on the Indian market. Thereafter, In April he became the Head of Design at "Kite" in the New Delhi Area, India. Amrit joined the team as Head of Design with a mission to design a fully inclusive suite of financial products for businesses. As the principal product designer for Kite Cash which has processed over 70 million USD in transactions and served 110,000 users from 1,200 cities, building financial identities with more than 6 million data points. After working as an independent product designer with Kite for more than a year. He founded Mister Bumbles Interactive Pvt.Ltd [a design and publishing firm focusing on storytelling and childlike wonder. Born from an idea of indulging in creative side-projects, we create products that are fun and make your day a tiny bit better] in July 2014 in New Delhi Area, India. In May 2019, as a 3D Illustrator and Art Director commissioned by companies like Google, Snapchat, Netflix, Pinterest, Ola, and Gowalla. Amrit is known for creating whimsical 3D illustrations and diversity-driven design assets, he was recently supported by Adobe Fund for Design. Education Amrit attends Centennial College where he obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Design and Animation from 2007 to 2011. From 2011 to 2012, he went further to study Digital Designs at the Vancouver Film School where he graduated with Honours. During his free time, he did Motion Design, Ui and UX Design, and Filmmaking. Designs & Recognitions Amrit has work has been featured by Forbes, Architecture Digest, VSCO, Smithsonian, Behance, Wacom, Buzzfeed, Daily Mail, and many more. He recently started his crypto art journey by dropping Toy Face NFTs. His first few NFTs have been sold for 60+ ETH. He is currently selling on Foundation, SuperRare, Bitski, and Zora. Clients: Google, Snapchat, Netflix, Pinterest, Gowalla, Ola, FedEx, BBDO, Step, Vercel. Features & Award Features: Maxon Featured Artist - 2021 Featured on Forbes - 2020 Ello and Talenthouse Featured Artist - 2020 VSCO Featured Artist for Mental Health Month - 2020 Awards: Technical Achievement Nominee, Impact Awards - 2012 Best Graduate Project Award, Vancouver Film School - 2012 Salazar Award Finalist - 2012 Adobe Design Achievement Award Finalist in Motion - 2012 Adobe Design Achievement Award Finalist in Print - 2012 Applied Arts Award Winner - 2012 Asia Design Award for Mobile Design - 2016 Golden Kitty Award Nominee & Product Hunt - 2021 NFT Journey Amrit Pal Singh has earned over $1 million selling 57 Non-fungible tokens, of his artwork in about nine months. Though he has been a designer and illustrator for over nine years, Singh just minted his first NFT in February 2021. He created it after a friend mentioned to Singh that one of his past projects, called Toy Faces, would “work well as NFTs”. “Straightaway, I got a few bids,” said Amrit. Amrit Singh, who is based in New Delhi, India, went on to sell more NFTs of his Toy Faces on marketplaces like Foundation and SuperRare, in addition to commissions. Toy Faces are cartoon-like 3-D portraits of different people and characters, including Malala Yousafzai, Steve Jobs, and Frida Kahlo. They’re also non-generative, which means Singh created each one, one at a time. “Most of them are inspired by people who have inspired me,” In addition to his Toy Faces, Singh also designed and sold another project called Toy Rooms, which is a collection of 3-D illustrations depicting different rooms, including a cave from Disney’s “Aladdin,” a hobbit’s study from “The Lord of the Rings” and the living room from “The Simpsons.” For me, these rooms were gateways to a world of possibilities and childlike wonder during the pandemic, mostly bound to my room in complete isolation, I rekindled my love for 3-D illustrations through this collection. Singh has primarily invested his earnings in other artists by buying their NFTs. He has spent over 30 ether, or over, on NFTs to display them in the metaverse. I bought virtual galleries, land, and a cafe that’s basically a museum for Toy Faces and other art I collect from artists that I really admire.

james-simpson

James Simpson is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Stability Labs (Meta).

James Simpson is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Stability Labs (Meta). He is part of the squad at Stability Labs saddled with the responsibility of building the mStable Standard. Career James has been working at Stablity Labs since January 2019. Stability Labs is a platform that unites and secures tokenized resources on Ethereum. James also works as advisor at Apollo Capital since February 2019. Before becoming an advisor, he was an investment analyst for Apollo Capital. James was previously a Data Analytics Consultant for KPMG Australia from February to August of 2015. Education James graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2016 where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors. He graduated with first class. He was awarded 2016 Dwight Prize for his excellent academic performance. He also attended Fudan University in 2014 where he studied the Chinese language. Skills James is highly skilled in data analysis, research and Chinese language. He also has good public speaking skills.

bitboy-crypto

BitBoy Crypto is a YouTube channel covering cryptocurrency news, project reviews, and trading advice.

BitBoy Crypto is a YouTube channel covering cryptocurrency news, project reviews, and trading advice. BitBoy was founded in January 2018 by Ben Armstrong. As of September 20212, the channel has over 1.4 Million subscribers and over 216,342,312 views and has created over 3.4K Videos. BitBoy Crypto is a verified Brave (web browser) creator. About Entry into Cryptocurrency Armstrong first invested in Bitcoin (BTC) in 2012. After studying the industry for nearly six years, he started the BiBoy Crypto YouTube channel on February 7, 2018, to share his knowledge with aspiring investors. BitBoy Crypto is the place where anybody can get the latest crypto news, project reviews, and cryptocurrency trading advice. Users can learn about different altcoins, and their torical Bitcoin cycles, & get the latest Ethereum news. BitBoy Crypto reports on the top bitcoin, cryptocurrency & blockchain news stories from around the web, With some stories containing exclusive reporting only found on BitBoyCrypto. Ben Armstrong is a Crypto YouTuber, Creator of BitBoyCrypto.com, Coach, Investor, & Husband. Ben works hard to educate and inform the crypto community on the latest happenings in the crypto space, whereby making his channel one of the best and trusted. Ben Armstrong is one of a handful of influencers who have gained huge followings by offering cryptocurrency advice. Critics say it’s a profession riddled with ignorance, conflict, and moral hazards. Social media presence YouTube Since the channel's inception in early 2018, BitBoy Crypto has become one of the most recognized channels related to Bitcoin (BTC) and the Blockchain industry. In February 2021, the channel crossed over 500,000 subscribers. On the channel's website BitBoyCrypto.com, visitors get access to exclusive stories outside of other Cryptocurrency news sources. The most viewed videos on the channel are titled, "Chamath Palihapitiya Warns ETH Holders! (Ethereum to ZERO!)", "6 Altcoins That Will 1000x in 2020 \| Crypto Gems"\, and "Ethereum Heading To $50k \(How ETH Flips Bitcoin\)"\. He also used to run the Beards and Bitcoins (Podcast). Instagram Under the handle, "bitboy\_crypto", Armstrong has a following of over 474,000 on the platform. His posts consist of cryptocurrency memes and informative news related to the industry. He is also active on Facebook, with a following of over 153k BitBoy Crypto News BitBoy Crypto News is a website dedicated to educating & informing the public on Bitcoin & cryptocurrency. BitBoyCrypto.com has exclusive stories that provide a different perspective on the news than many readers get from traditional crypto news sources.

caterina-rindi

Caterina Rindi is the Director of Open Source Community & Developer Relations at G-Research.

Caterina Rindi is the Director of Open Source Community & Developer Relations at G-Research, she is an independent Consultant, Blockchain Educator, and Public Speaker. Caterina is an international consultant and multilingual speaker, traveling frequently between Europe and the United States. Caterina has been involved in the P2P, blockchain, and open-source ecosystem since late 2013, educating and introducing non-technical audiences to peer-to-peer tools and OSS projects. Education Caterina holds California State Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, and a B.An in Psychology from the University of California, Davis. Career From 1993 to 2004, Caterina worked at West Contra Costa Unified School District. From 2000-2002, she was an Operations Manager at uRoam, Inc (acquired by F5 Networks, Inc.). In 2005, Caterina became a Project Manager at the University of California where she worked up to 2008. From 2009 to 2011, Caterina served as a Site Operations Director at ARC Tutoring. In 2010, she was a Center Director of Operations at Sylvan Learning Center. In 2011, Caterina joined Dolby Laboratories as an HR Coordinator. From 2014-2015, Caterina served as a Community Manager at Swarm Inc. In 2016, she was an Operations Director at Incuba UC. From 2005 to 2017, she served on the Board of Directors at Homeless Children's Network. Currently, Caterina works independently as a consultant, as well as the Director of Corporate Social Responsibility + Impact at Elefant Markets. In her spare time, she is an Organizer of the East Bay Bitcoin Meetup. She lends her expertise to fintech startups as well as other clients in industries ranging from P2P collaborative economies, consumer products, governance, and healthcare, and is helping organizations think about tapping the advantages of decentralized, transparent, secure databases and self-executing contracts. Past speaking events and conferences: TEDxGhent SXSW Institute for the Future University of Tokyo Health 2.0 Inside Bitcoins OuiShare Fest Stanford University. Work Experience | Organization | Position | Work Duration | | ------------ | -------- | ------------- | | G-Research | Director of Open Source Community & Developer Relations | Jun 2019 - Present | | Dolby Laboratories | Analyst & AI Learning Manager | Jun 2016 - Present | | RindiConsulting.com | Consultant | 2015 - Present | | Oakland Blockchain Meetup | Organizer | 2015 - Present | | National Head Start Association | Blockchain Fellow, Tech Council, HeadStarter Network | Jan 2018 - Present | | Elefant Inc | Director, Corporate Social Responsibility & Impact | 2017 - Dec 2019 | | Homeless Children's Network | Board of Directors | 2005 - 2017 | | IncubaUC | Operations Director | 2016 | | Swarm inc. | Community Manager | 2014 - 2015 | | Dolby Laboratories | HR Learning Coordinator | 2012 - 2014 | | University of California | Project Manager | 2005 - 2008 | | <brWest Contra Costa Unified School District | Program Director<brVice-Principal | 2002-2004 | | Roam, Inc. (acquired by F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV)) | <brOperations Manager | 2000 - Aug 2002 | | West Contra Costa Unified School District | <brTeacher - Bilingual | 1993 - 2000 |

api3

API3 is a decentralized API (dAPI) network that will enable off-chain API data providers to connect their APIs to the blockchain

API3 is a decentralized API (dAPI) network founded by Heikki Vanttinen. When live, API3 will enable off-chain API data and service providers to connect their APIs to the blockchain without the use of any middlemen. In November 2020, API3 raised $3 million in a seed funding round led by Placeholder VC. Overview API3 is a network created to build, manage and monetize decentralized APIs (dAPIs) at scale. dAPIs are blockchain-native, decentralized API services built by combining multiple provider-operated oracle nodes into aggregated data feeds, without the use of third parties. Furthermore, to achieve a system that is end-to-end decentralized, both dAPIs and the API3 project as a whole have a completely open and direct governance model, powered by the API3 token and the API3 DAO. API3 will allow first-party data providers like stock exchanges and credit reporting agencies to run airnodes, applications that run on the same cloud hosting platform that host their API services. Airnodes are open-source software that transmit data from first-party providers. Airnode code will be built and maintained by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), where stakeholders share responsibility for governance and maintenance of the API3 framework. In November 2020, API3 closed a seed funding round led by Placeholder VC. The round also drew participation from Digital Currency Group and CoinFund. API3 raised $3 million in exchange for 10 million API3 tokens that will be subject to 2-year vesting. These tokens have a linear vesting schedule and become unvested on a block by block basis. The 10 million API3 tokens sold to the seed round investors make up 10% of the total supply of 100 million tokens. API3 Token API3 is the native token of the API3 project. It gives its holders the right to take part in the governance of the API3 ecosystem through the API3 DAO. To generate shares in the API3 DAO, token holders have to stake the API3 tokens into the insurance pool, which also gives them access to weekly staking rewards. In October 2020, the API3 team announced that they would be increasing the token allocation for the public sale from 15% of the total supply (15M API3) to 20% of the total supply (20M API3). The additional 5 million API3 tokens will come from the initially planned Governance Partner Distribution. This means that the only unvested tokens available will be distributed through the public token distribution on the Mesa DEX. Partners Kleros Curvegrid Curve Labs Emurgo SOSV dlab ChainAPI Placeholder VC Pantera Capital Accomplice Coinfund Digital Currency Group Hashed Rarestone Capital Equilibrium Block0 Solidity Ventures

amir-chetrit

Amir Chetrit is an early Bitcoin and Ethereum developer who co-founded Colored Coins project before stepping down in 2014.

Amir Chetrit is a developer who became involved in the blockchain industry prior to the creation of Ethereum. He was working on a project called Colored Coins, which aimed to manage real-world assets as tokens on the Bitcoin network. In 2013, he met Vitalik Buterin at a Bitcoin conference in Amsterdam and invited him to join the project. However, due to a lack of involvement in Ethereum, Chetrit agreed to step down as a co-founder during a meeting with the Ethereum developers in June 2014. Despite supporting various blockchain projects, Chetrit prefers to keep a low profile and avoid public attention.

handshake

Handshake is a decentralized naming protocol for allocating ownership rights to Top-Level Domains.

Handshake is a decentralized naming protocol for allocating ownership rights to Top-Level Domains (TLD), such as a.com or a.org, which one can use for websites, email addresses, or crypto addresses. Handshake Co-founders Andrew and Joseph on the future of authentication and naming As of August 24th, 2020, HNS is ranked 158th on CoinMarketCap with a market cap of 54,303,246 USD and max supply of 2,040,000,000 HNS. History Handshake was started by Joseph Poon (co-creator of The Bitcoin Lightning Network and Plasma payment channels), Andrew Lee (CEO of Bitcoin payments gateway Purse), Christopher Jeffery (CTO of Purse and creator of Bitcoin node software Bcoin), Boyma Fahnbulleh (Bcoin developer), and Andrew Lee (Founder of VPN provider Private Internet Access) as a secret project at San Francisco, California. From the beginning, its goal was to build a decentralized alternative to the existing system for allocating and managing Top Level Domains (TLDs). The Handshake software originates from a fork of the Bitcoin client Bcoin, which was first developed by Christopher Jeffery. How Handshake Works Handshake bidding Handshake users are able to purchase the rights to a Top-Level Domain (TLD) through an auction system, where participants submit bids in the form of HNS tokens through Handshake's Vickrey auctions. The winning bidder is then able to register the TLD under their cryptographic keys by entering the pair into Handshake's Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchain, which acts as a distributed alternative to Certificate Authorities (CAs). The winner's tokens get burned (i.e., permanently removed from circulation) in this process. The participants who were unsuccessful can reclaim their tokens after the auction is over. The current Domain Name System (DNS) stack relies on a group of Certificate Authorities (CAs) that work to verify the authenticity of website ownership and prevent malicious actors from intercepting search requests. Handshake is working on removing the reliance on these trusted third-parties by having its public Proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain serve as the source of truth. So rather than registering a domain name with a CA and storing it on the root zone file, users can just purchase a TLD with Handshake's native token, HNS, and have it registered under their public key on the decentralized Handshake network. Token Sale In August 2018, Handshake raised 10.2 million dollars from various financial contributors, including participation from a16z, Founders Fund, Polychain Capital, and Draper Associates. All the investors combined to purchase 7.5% of the initial HNS supply of 1.36 billion tokens, valuing the Handshake network at $136 million. The remaining HNS supply was reserved at 7.5% each for early contributors (to pay for pre-launch development), Certificate Authorities (CAs) or naming corporations, and domain name holders with authentic proof of ownership. 5% of tokens went to various non-profits and FOSS projects, who received all of Handshake's $10.2 million fundraise as donations. The project also pledged to give out the majority of the initial supply (65%) to Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) developers and projects, including non-profit organizations and universities. Developers that had a valid GitHub account were able to claim these coins via an HNS faucet, a software tool that allows users to generate free tokens. Handshake also provided a 90-day period before its main net launch (known as a "Sunrise Period") for all the existing rights-holders (name and TLD owners) to claim their "trademarked names" and HNS allocations. All unclaimed tokens were burnt eventually. | Start Date | 08/02/2018 | | ---------- | ---------- | | End Date | 08/02/2018 | | Token Allocated | 102,000,000 HNS | | Price | $0.100 per HNS | | Total Collected | $10,200,000 | Consensus Details Handshake makes use of Proof-of-work (PoW) consensus to reach a global agreement when ordering of HNS transactions and also as a user registers a domain name. Its nodes each run the same software rules so every participant is able to reach an agreement on name ownership. The consensus rules are identical to that of Bitcoin, whereby the valid chain is the longest chain with the most accumulated work (i.e., hash power). Also like Bitcoin, network consensus is probabilistic because a new competing chain, known as a fork, could emerge with more accumulated work and make the current chain invalid. Handshake went for PoW rather than alternative consensus mechanisms because of its known security parameters and the ability to support compact light client proofs. Its blockchain leverages the latter feature by allowing users to participate in consensus and resolve names via Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes (i.e., light clients) instead of full nodes. Mining How to GPU Mine Handshake (HNS) and Review Handshake miners are able to generate new blocks using the BLAKE2b + SHA3 hash algorithm, and hashes in Handshake are Big-Endian. Due to the fact that Handshake is SegWit-only, there are no output scripts, just addresses (which themselves are witness program version + witness program hash). A witness program can encode a public key or a script hash, but those keys and scripts will appear in transaction inputs as witness stack items. In the mining process, the miners all compete to produce a block header less than the target set by Handshake's difficulty level. Handshake alters the difficulty level, or how hard it is to discover a valid block header, every block to keep block times around ten minutes. The network borrows from Zcash's difficulty retargeting algorithm, which uses a variation of DigiShield. Handshake opted for a reimplementation of DigiShield because it performs well when faced with abrupt changes in network hash rate. Their next mining halving is in May 2023. HNS serves as the reward for miners on Handshake's Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchain and also has the function of helping secure the network. How to Mine Handshake's HNS Step 1: Generate a Handshake address (to set as your pool payout address) There are three options for generating a Handshake address based on the preferred security level. a) Generate the address with a Handshake full node (HSD) b) Generate the address using Bob Wallet c) Generate an address on Namebase by creating an account Step 2: Choose and register for a Handshake mining pool Currently, there are four mining pools that support Handshake mining. They can be chosen based on any criteria like fee, anonymity, etc. It's preferable to use the pool that has lower fees - which is 6Block and HNSPool. a) F2pool b) HNSPool c) 6Block d) PoolFlare Step 3: Choose, download, and install mining software for your OS There are different GPU specialized mining clients that are presently available like HandyMiner, GMiner, SRBMiner, 6miner, and NB Miner. HandyMiner is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux (also available in GUI) 6miner is available on Linux and Windows NBMiner is available on Linux and Windows - NBMiner README Step 4: Configure Handshake Miner with Handshake pool information Once the mining software has been set up, the next step is to configure the miner so that it can communicate with the Handshake pool of choice and credit for any work done. It is possible to swap between the pools by simply tweaking the configuration. Each miner comes with a config file that can be edited to update the Handshake pool being mined. This can be done by either entering the pool information during the initial configuration or by opening the configuration file with an editor. Step 5: Start mining Handshake For NBMiner, run start\_hns.sh (Linux or Mac) or start\_hns.bat (Windows) For 6Miner, run mine\_hns.sh (Linux and Mac) or mine\_hns.bat (Windows). For HandyMiner, open dashboard.sh (Linux), dashboard.mac.command (Mac), or dashboard.windows.bat (Windows).

oikos

OIkos is designed as a synthetic assets platform based on the TRON network.

OIkos (cryptocurrency) is designed as a synthetic assets platform based on the TRON network, it is designed to offer on-chain exposure to fiat assets such as commodities, fiats, stocks and others. Synthetic assets are known as Synths and are backed by the Oikos network token and locked into smart contracts as collateral. Within the exosystem, synthetic assets are able to track the prices of different other assets. By so doing, users can trade their assets freely on OIKOS Exchange on a peer to contract (P2C) basis. Overview OIKOS decentralized Exchange lets users trade safely and securely on a Trust-free Exchange as well as earn rewards from staking OKS token. This thought is an incredible one that won't just attract more traders to Oikos Exchange to invest in Tron based tokens but will also draw new crypto investors to the cryptoworld. Oikos permits the creation and the management of a multitude of assets, such as those related to fiat currencies, valuable metals, for example, gold and silver, but also documents and portions of different organizations, for example stock belonging to Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. Oikos Swap is a Tron port of Uniswap: a trustless decentralized exchange that allows users to trade any Tron-based token without any deposits or withdrawals to a centralized order book. Better yet, Oikos Swap liquidity pools have little to no slippage for the vast majority of transactions. Anyone can contribute by adding or removing liquidity to gain commission in the form of exchange fees as well as rewards paid in OKS token. Likewise, to Synthetix which has its SNX token, Oikos additionally has its OKS token and utilizes a similar system whereby these tokens have to be locked to create synthetic assets. A dedicated exchange and token swap was created on which it is possible to link an account and exchange the assets that will be created with this system. Team Oikos is a Tron-based synthetic asset platform that provides on-chain exposure to fiat currencies, commodities, stocks, and indices, collectively known as Synths (Synthetic assets), which are backed by Oikos Network Tokens (OKS) locked into a smart contract as collateral presently has just 4 team members. Manuel Corona - Co-Founder & Marketing Expert Albert Rodriguez - Co-Founder & Mad Scientist Kevin Holder - Software Engineer Mike Chan - Community & Business Development

kingdom-karnage

Kingdom Karnage  is a cross-platform virtual Trading Card Game available to play on PC and Android platforms.

Kingdom Karnage is a cross-platform virtual Trading Card Game available to play on PC and Android (Apple coming soon). All assets in the game can be withdrawn as tokenised FTs/NFTs and are infused with Enjin Cryptocurrency. KK is now fully on Enjin’s Jumpnet which means there are no gas costs at all. Overview !ss_8a9ce5de626d562c3afc2dfdb7c3fe23a253d220.1920x1080.jpgDigital trading card game Kingdom Karnage fully exploits the potential of the digital medium. You are free to purchase, sell, or trade with other players directly from your gaming wallet, so don't limit yourself to only collecting and disenchanting. Set your own pricing and maximize the value of your game. No matter which side you choose to support—humanity, zombie hordes, or orcish tribes—Kingdom Karnage goes well beyond your typical TCG experience. Set out to conquer campaign modes for each side, find and explore dungeons for prizes, and bask in the pleasure of defeating opponents in PvP after assembling a deck of 30 cards. In turn-based combat, managing your health, attack, mobility, and skills is made more difficult by countdown clocks. Gameplay !1_wPNSI08FgX3xXFdd-R4iWw.pngEach player builds a deck of up to 30 cards from varying rarities (Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary) which you take into battle. The aim of each battle to reduce the enemy hero’s health to zero before he manages to deplete your hero. Character There are five different levels of character rarity: common, uncommon, rare, epic, and legendary. The levels of each character are 10. To advance to the next level, combine two characters with the same level and stats. Characters gain attack power and health points as you level them up, and occasionally they also get new skills. Check out the card library to see all of the available characters. The majority of characters adhere to the combination rules and have ten levels; however, a few special characters are in short supply and have dynamic leveling; for more details, see the section of this guide. There are a maximum of 3 special talents available for each character. Each ability has a significant impact on the combat strategy and enables you to create a diversified deck that sets you apart from your competitors. Characters have a base movement speed of 2, unless their abilities demand different. Decks Pressing the Deck Icon on the Main Menu brings up the Deck Menu. Your Hero is shown in the upper left corner; tapping the Hero's symbol brings up the Options menu. The buttons 1 through 5 represent various deck saves. At initially, they are locked with only one deck saving option. When worn, a unique item called a "Codex" enables extra deck saves and boosts your hero's HP as well. With four Codex rarities, the first four provide more deck saves and HP than the last. The deck name that displays the "Deck Power" is "Deck Five." Deck Power, which grows or decreases when characters are added to or removed from your deck, measures the average power of the cards you have chosen to include in your deck. Choose one of the available cards at the bottom of the screen to add a character to your deck. Then, to include it in your current deck, click on an open Deck Slot in the center. In a similar manner, you may choose a card from the bottom and click on a Deck Slot that is currently occupied to swap out the character you originally selected. You can see a white number at the bottom of each card, indicating how many of that particular card you now hold. You may have up to three of the same character in your deck, whether they be three level 1 versions or one level, two levels, and three levels. When a character can no longer be added to your deck, it is "greyed out" and no longer available. Deck Rarity Restrictions | Card Type | Unit per Deck | | --------- | ------------- | | Uncommon cards | 3 per deck | | Rare cards | 3 per deck | | Epic cards | 1 per deck | | Legendary cards | 1 per deck | | Dynamic cards: | 1 per deck | | Common cards | 3 per deck | You can choose just the character race, just the level, or just the rarity. Alternatively, you may choose a combination to narrow your search by rarity, level, and race. After choosing your filters, click the filter button once again to apply them. Pets Pets will soon be available in the game and will consist of: A companion for your hero who is an in-game character. New pet skills that can change the course of a conflict. The capacity for your pet to aimlessly mine KKT on your behalf. Heroes !ss_fb3adacef340fb84d10801b9058f94a229599267.1920x1080.jpgThere are 5 Heroes available right now. Everyone starts with a basic hero who has 10 HP. The health of Multiverse Mike, an Enjin Multiverse character, has increased; it is presently +1 HP. At level 1, The Wyden offers a tremendous +5 HP. Then, when you upgrade your Wyden, an additional +1 HP every level. Wydens can only level up by winning a future 1v1 competition against other Wydens. The dynamic Multiverse Mikes Hero HP bonus rises in proportion to the growth of the Kingdom Karnage player base and the quantity of Multiverse Mike NFTs in circulation. The strongest Hero is The Wyden. He is sold out and is only accessible from other players through JumpNet Marketplace or the in-game market. Game Modes Challenge There are two main challenge types available for now: Random and Endurance. The simplest fun-only option is called Random Challenge. You are matched up with an arbitrary opponent. an opportunity to test out your deck with no repercussions, but also with no incentive. Not for the faint of heart is the endurance mode. The opposing boss has 999 HP, can kill soldiers who approach too closely, and keeps having his deck strengthened. Fortunately, the objective is to avoid being defeated as long as possible; it is not to win. When you lose, Blue Gems are given to you in the lower left corner along with your kill score. You gain more jewels as you kill more enemies. King of Karnage The current King of Karnage can be challenged by players to a 1v1 battle. The King is controlled by AI, therefore several players can challenge the King at any moment. The prize fund receives a challenge entry fee in the currency $KKT (minus a small fee collected by the game). Every 10 minutes, a tiny portion of the Global KKT pool is added to the reward pools as well. Every time a King successfully defends his throne, one random card in his deck is demoted one level, so weakening his deck and preventing powerful players from becoming unbeatable. When a King is beaten, they take 75% of the money in the pot at the time, leaving 25% to start the reign of the winner. There are two KoK variants available. one for newcomers ("Normal") and one for seasoned players ("Elite") (100KKT). Any player may challenge either throne, but nobody may hold both thrones simultaneously. The Global KKT pool contributes more to the experienced throne reward pool than it does to the novice throne. Common and uncommon cards with a rank of 4 or below are only allowed in beginner mode. Any deck may be used to play Elite mode. PvP You compete against other players' decks in player versus player (PvP). The game requires a full deck of 30 cards (no restrictions on race). Use your player-created deck in ranked 1 v 1 battles. Rewards are given daily and weekly in ranked PvP: Daily: Win 5 daily PvP fights to get a daily gift. The more daily PvP battles you win during the month, the higher you will go up the reward tree and the better the rewards will be. Each month, you can compete against other players for KKT rewards in a league style. To get an award, users must maintain their ranking in the top 100. Game Currencies Kingdom Karnage has two currencies: Kingdom Karnage Token (KKT) Blue Diamonds Kingdom Karnage Token (KKT) The official currency of Kingdom Karnage is KKT. All premium game modes, such as the following: The Auction House Catacombs King of Karnage Midas Vault KKT Contract Address: 0xe64017bdacbe7dfc84886c3704a26d566e7550de Blue Diamonds The coin known as Blue Diamonds is found in the Kingdom Karnage dungeons. Users may always exchange 5 blue diamonds for a random Kingdom Karnage card (Common to Rare).

blake-kathryn

Blake Kathryn is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary designer and NFT artist.

Blake Kathryn is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary designer and NFT artist. She has collaborated with many big companies including Jimmy Choo, Instagram, Facebook, Columbia Records, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fendi, and Adidas Originals. !MTgwNDU1OTM2MzU0MTY2NjM2jpg.jpegPreview of "Iconic Crypto Queen" NFT from Paris Hilton x Blake Kathryn collab, which sold for $1.1 million In April 2021, Kathryn teamed up with Paris Hilton to release a special "Planet Paris" NFT collection. In June 2021, Kathryn will release original Pride-themed art in collaboration with Playboy. Early Years Blake Kathryn Thomas was born in Florida. While growing up, she developed a strong passion for arts and illustration. She said, “Growing up in the surreal state of Florida (literally we have a huge surrealist museum), surrounded by kitschy art, creativity was always around. That being said, I’m strongly averse to kitsch anything and minimalism/pop art strung my heartstrings the second I learned of the movements. Combine those influences with futuristic-utopia- vibes from my childhood love for anime and the aesthetic recipe for disoriented appeal naturally created itself. “I grew up a fan of Nintendo and Anime, especially Cowboy Bebop and Sailor Moon. Those early influences seemed to have intermixed over the years with my graphic design background, creating the sort of hybrid dreamscapes I largely focus on today.” She migrated to New York City after college, and after a few years, she took a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. Personal Life Kathryn stated in an interview that her favorite pastime is walking the city. She said: “I’m fortunate to live in a walkable neighborhood, West Hollywood, so I get off the screen to grab a bite, brew or sight as often as I can. Hobby-wise I on and off beer brew and am looking to take an urban gardening class soon, to upgrade the irl green thumb skills.” Her favorite food is sushi, burritos, and tsukemen. Her favorite genres of music are future-funk, lo-fi hip hop, 90’s R&B, and 80’s pop-rock. She has also stated that if she wasn’t an artist, that she would love to own a plant nursery: I’d love to own a plant nursery focused in succulents, cacti, palms and flowers. That’d be the dreamiest alternative reality.” Her favorite illustrators are James Jean, Aykut Aydogdu, and Jenny Yu. Her favorite creatives are Nadia Lee Cohen (director), Alex Garland (director/writer), Guillermo del Toro (director), Roger Deakins (cinematographer), Liam Wong (photographer). Blake Kathryn currently resides in West Hollywood, California, USA. Education Kathryn studied Graphic design at the University of Florida. At first, she had the intention of going into advertising, but she found herself attracted to studying graphic design. She started studying in 2008 and graduated in 2013. After graduation, she moved to New York City and started her career, while furthering her interests in the music industry and fine arts. Career Blake Kathryn began her career as a cashier for Publix in June 2006. From January 2011-April 2011, she was a Web Design Intern at 352 Media Group. She attended weekly lectures focused on coding (HTML/CSS) and web design to complete assigned projects, as well as improve technical skills. She was also a Graphic Designer at the Division of Recreational Sports, the University of Florida from June 2011-May 2013. Her responsibilities included conceptualizing, designing, and producing various materials and campaigns regarding the University of Florida’s Department of Recreational Sports. Examples include posters, logos, television ads, print/digital campaigns, and the semesterly magazine. Later, she worked at Macy's from June 2013 - January 2015. Her gift card design selected for 2014's spring collection. She also directed Macy's credit and loyalty programs in a collaborative team. She also developed concepts and designs for new loyalty initiatives, refreshed annual branding guidelines, and created visual collateral to communicate cross-platform.She eventually went on to become a freelancer and worked with many organizations. She stated in an interview: “Subject-wise I greatly enjoy distorting forms to create a new visual approach to everyday objects or themes. Upon transitioning to the 3D realm I fell in love with brightly lit environments, inspired from real life photoshoots. That detail preference quickly crafted the shiny pastel palette I work with today.” Her surrealist renderings demonstrate a deft command of digital art tools and a well-defined aesthetic that plays on visual tropes associated with 90’s computer-generated imagery. She has a one-of-a-kind look that has attracted clients like Adidas, Fendi, The New York Times, and Adobe. During her interview with The Verge, Kathryn told how she first got into 3D: “March 2015, I remember this so specifically as it was when the 100 Day Project was kicking off on Instagram. I promised myself to shake out of my vector-minimalist style leading up to this challenge. I was browsing old work a couple weeks ago and it’s wild to see how rough those early days are. That being said, I went through a pretty common self- taught path: tutorial overload on Greyscalegorilla, YouTube, Eyedesyn, you name it. I fell so in love with the possibilities of breaking into a 3D canvas I never looked back and am happy to say it completely reshaped my career trajectory.” Speaking about software she uses to create her artwork, she mentioned the following: “Cinema 4D is my bread and butter. Supported by After Effects, Photoshop, Daz3d, Redshift, and very occasionally Zbrush and Substance Painter. There’s so many applications out there it can feel like a complex dance navigating between them for some projects.” Collaborations Kathryn signed a campaign with Fendi, called F is For Fendi, and created a series of sensual three-dimensional illustrations in pastel tones that highlight Fendi’s Peekaboo bag collection. Her other notable works include The Chainsmokers’ “Side Effects” music video and campaigns for Adidas Originals and Complex x Sprite. In addition, she has collaborated with other big names like Jimmy Choo, Instagram, Facebook, Columbia Records, The New York Times, Skrillex, Paco Rabanne, Super Deluxe, Rip It, Bloomberg Businessweek, Giphy, Happy Socks, Island Records, Lazy Oaf, Ramriddlz, Vox (website), Western Digital. Playboy In April 2021, Playboy announced a partnership with Nifty Gateway to create Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) from its extensive archive of photographs, interviews, covers, and art. One of the first NFT collaborations Playboy intends to bring to the table is with digital artist Blake Kathryn. Kathryn will create original Pride-themed art in time for Pride month which takes place every year in June. Another project between Nifty and Playboy is original works from Boston-based collage artist Slime Sunday in collaboration with the magazine’s editorial curators. Paris Hilton On April 17, 2021, Paris Hilton launched her first NFT drop on Nifty Gateway, for which she collaborated with Blake Kathryn. Hilton explained that the theme of the drop is all about female energy and empowerment, and she praised Blake for immediately understanding her vision for the project. "Blake instantly understood my aesthetic and it was everything that I loved," Hilton said. "Feminine, ethereal, soft, yet powerful, and beautiful." "Planet Paris" dropped on Nifty Gateway on April 17 and the collection's marquee work, titled "Iconic Crypto Queen," fetched a $1.1 million winning bid. Artworks Pathway This artwork was minted on October 15th, 2020, and it’s Blake Kathryn’s first tokenized digital artwork. A common feeling during dreams is when one moves further away from, or closer to something as they travel at a constant speed. Digital art collectors should pay special attention to Pathway as it not only hits the dreamlike perceptual distortion nail right on the head. Passage This artwork was minted on November 30th, 2020, takes a customer aboard a luxurious spacecraft adorned with dancing flowers while it gently moves through pink clouds with dreamlike surrealism. Season Traditionally as seasons turn people only see dramatic changes to the outdoors. However, in this hyper-real dream, Seasons, which was minted on December 12th, 2020 features a unique indoor symbiosis between nature and technology experienced by a wild array of trees, flowers, and even fireflies changing with the seasons. Seven Sirens (Clay Edt) Seven Sirens: Clay Edt. was minted on October 19th, 2020, and features characters from the mesmerizing video Seven Sirens which can be watched on Blake Kathryn’s YouTube channel. While the Seven Sirens video itself was posted in April 2020, this is the very first tokenized mention of the characters, and being as how they are uncolored (a colorized version was minted some weeks later) it gives a rare glimpse into the possible creation of the video. NFTs Blake Kathryn released her NFT artworks on curated platforms like Nifty Gateway, SuperRare, OpenSea, and Foundation. Her total artworks are currently valued at around 761.893 ETH. She has sold a total of 538 artworks and still counting. Her largest sale is currently worth 11 ETH so far.

sorare

Sorare (launched in 2019) is a fantasy football game where users can buy, trade, and play with digital cards.

Sorare (launched in 2019) is a fantasy football game where users can buy, trade, and play with digital cards. Every card is an official digital collectible, certified by a club or league. Sorare’s are Non-Fungible Token (NFT), based on the Ethereum Blockchain. It is backed by a world-class team of investors, supported by gaming giant Ubisoft and already trusted by 100+ football clubs, with many more coming every month. In July 2020, Sorare raised $4 million in a seed fund round led by E.ventures. Overview Sorare is a virtual game platform, whose name means “so rare”, focused on the area of sports and Blockchain, where it seeks to tokenize athletes. It is a fantasy football game where a user can buy, trade, and play with digital cards. Every card is an official digital collectible, certified by a club or league. “The difference with the cards is that, despite being digital, they are limited, licensed and portable,” says Nicolas Julia, CEO of Sorare. !sorare.jpgUsing the Ethereum blockchain, Sorare generates unique digital trading cards representing professional soccer players that can be traded by users. A user plays as the team manager and can use their five cards to compete in the weekly league competitions. More than 140 football clubs from Europe, the United States, and Asia partnered with Sorare to issue officially licensed cards so that football fans can collect and play with their favorite players, amongst them Juventus F.C., Atletico, and Olympique Lyonnais. The company was founded in 2018 and the game was launched in 2019. The two founders, Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort saw the potential of blockchain technology to create a new category in the sports gaming industry. The platform multiplied its volume by 10x from $30,000 in December 2019 to $350,000 in June 2020. In June 2020, Sorare announced licensing partnerships with the U.S. soccer league, Major League Soccer, and the South Korean K League, bringing both leagues onto its platform. According to the firm's CEO, Nicolas Julia, the two agreements helped the firm add about 3,500 new users to its platform. In July 2020, Sorare raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by E.ventures. In an announcement emailed to CoinDesk, the firm said Fabric Ventures, Semantic Ventures, and a former member of the German national soccer team, Andre Schurrle, had also invested in the firm. Tech Players, as managers, form virtual teams of five football players, from Blockchain cards on the Sorare platform. Teams are ranked based on their players’ performance on the real-world football field and the points awarded. The cards vary in power and experience and can generate bonus points from (0 to 100) Every week, when a real world football team is playing, teams with the most points are rewarded with new cards. These teams must consist of: 1 GoalKeeper 1 Defender 1 Midfielder 1 Forward 1 Extra Player Users can also nominate one captain who earns a 20% bonus. There are other bonuses depending on the type and experience of the card (basically how often it has been entered in tournaments – referred to as XP). Cards from the present season also get a 5% bonus but users can still use older cards. For example, a 2019/20 card can still be used in 2020/21, 2021/22, or even 2030/31 campaigns, even if the player has transferred to a different club – providing that club plays in one of the leagues that are featured on the platform. Managers can buy and sell their cards to other managers on the Sorare platform, with market prices varying continuously, often driven by the performance of players in the real world field. Some of the cards are licensed digital collectibles (rare, super rare and unique cards). The use of blockchain technology means that Sorare cards are limited edition digital collections that players can trade and use freely. Sorare platform cards are traded through an auction mechanism. When there is a higher bid on a card, users who have a lower bid on the card are re-credited and notified. The bidder who offers the highest price receives the letter at the end. Tournaments Leagues Tournaments run twice per week, covering the midweek and weekend fixture lists and are always free to enter. There are global tournaments where players from any of the covered competitions can be entered. There are also regional leagues where users have to select their five players from a specific region. There are different types of Tournaments depending on the scarcity of the Collectibles composing the Teams. Participation in these Tournaments is subject to restrictions in terms of Team composition: All Star League: The All-Star League contains several Divisions in which you can play with any combination of Player Cards (Unique, Super Rare or Rare). Under 23 League: The Under 23 League contains several Divisions in which you can play with any combination of Player Cards (Unique, Super Rare or Rare) whose real life age is 23 years old or under. Regional Leagues: The Regional Leagues contain several Divisions in which you can play with any combination of Player Cards (Unique, Super Rare or Rare) who are eligible for that region (Euope, America or Asia) | Region | Leagues | | ------ | ------- | | European Champions League | EPL, LaLiga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 | | European Challenger League | Top flights in Portugal, Russia, Belgium, The Netherlands, Scotland & Turkey plus the English Championship | | American Champions League | MLS, Liga MX, Brazilian Serie A, Superliga Argentina, Colombian Primera A | | Asian Champions League | J1 League, K League 1, Chinese Super League | Training League: The Training League contains several Divisions in which users can play with any combination of Player Cards (Unique, Super Rare or Rare) Weekly Challenges: The Weekly Challenges are one-off Tournaments in which users can play with any combination of Player Cards (Unique, Super Rare or Rare) providing they fit the entry criteria. Sorare Card A Sorare Card is an officially licensed digital collectible of a footballer for a particular football season. Thanks to Blockchain technology, fans can collect their favourite players with the benefits of provable scarcity (fixed supply). On top of that, Sorare Cards are freely tradeable and usable in an open world of different applications and games. Each collectible enjoys many of the attributes of other Blockchain-Asset: it cannot be copied or taken away from the user. Users also enjoy access to the complete digital history of the card. For the 2020-21 season, three levels of scarcity exist for each Sorare Card: Unique, Super Rare (10 copies) and Rare (100 copies). The primary reasons to consider owning a Sorare Card are its collectible desirability (each Card will carry a unique level of desirability and as a result, value to different people (player represented, serial number, nationality, club...) and its in-game value (in addition to the underlying collectible appeal and intrinsic value of each Card, they can be used in a world-wide Fantasy Football game called SO5 where it is possible to win rewards every week), and its third-party game value (the ultimate vision is for Sorare Cards to carry value across multiple games (not just our Fantasy Football game). How To Play With Sorare Cards Every Sorare Card can be used to play in fantasy football tournaments on the platform. There are currently only five-a-side games available. However, the scoring system, based on data provided by Opta, is rather advanced. Users will get points for typical events like goals, assists, and clean-sheet, as well as for shots on target and tackles for defenders. Here is the complete scoring matrix below. General (All Players) | Fouls Won | +0.50 | | --------- | ----- | | Minutes Played | +0.02 | | Fouls Committed | -0.50 | | Yellow Card | - 2.00 | | Red Card | -5.00 | | Goals | 7.00 | | Assists | 4.00 | Listed Clubs As of March 20, 2021, 140 clubs are present in the game in total. This marks an increase of over 50 additional club sides compared with that in October 2020. Sorare has signed a deal with the Major League's Players Association, meaning portraits of every player with the kits of those teams appear in the game except the image rights of MLS and its clubs. For example, La Liga is represented by Atlético Madrid, Real Betis, Real Madrid, and Valencia, four of the country’s biggest clubs. That selection enables users to sign Jan Oblak, Sergio Ramos, Carlos Soler Ramos, and Sergio Canales, and include them all in the same team. Funding Sorare has raised a total of $59.2 million in funding over 3 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Feb 25, 2021, from a Series A round. Sorare is funded by 20 investors. Benchmark and Accel are the most recent investors. List of Investors | Investor's Name | Funding Round | Partners | | --------------- | ------------- | -------- | | Benchmark | Series A - Sorare | Peter Fenton | | Accel | Series A - Sorare | Andrei Brasoveanu | | Antoine Griezmann | Series A - Sorare | | | Headline | Series A - Sorare | | | Alexis Ohanian | Series A - Sorare | | | Gary Vaynerchuk | Series A - Sorare | | | Rio Gavin Ferdinand | Series A - Sorare | | | MPGI | Seed Round - Sorare | Mato Peric | | Fabric Ventures | Seed Round - Sorare | | | Gerard Pique | Seed Round - Sorare | Gerard Pique |

superlative-secret-society

Superlative Secret Society is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection of 11,000 programmatically generated art avatars.

Superlative Secret Society is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection of 11,000 programmatically generated art avatars, made using more than 220 pieces of aesthetic, hand-drawn artwork. Overview Superlative Secret Society is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection of 11, 000 programmatically generated art avatars. The project was launched in September 2021. The SuperlativeSS are not human, robot, animals, or aliens; they are metaphysical beings that inhabit the Superlative Multiverse and appear to us as pieces of art. Each SuperlativeSS NFT is made up of 8 core traits: galaxy glitter, background, foreground, head, body, muffler, necklace, and orb. There are over 220 traits of varying rarity. Each SuperlativeSS NFT is a verifiably unique ERC-721 token. SuperlativeSS was built by a passionate team and a loving community. The project offers incredible utility and they are dedicated to supporting the next generation of artists. SuperlativeSS Foundation As a SuperlativeSS member, users can automatically become a part owner of the SuperlativeSS Foundation. The SuperlativeSS Foundation identifies talented artists and provide support and guidance with creation, marketing and selling. 100% of the profit received from working with these artists will be distributed to SuperlativeSS members. Members of the foundation have unique perks like: Gallery in Bali Members get exclusive access to the Superlative Gallery and VIP Lounge in Bali= Exclusive Artwork Members can win signed 1/1 prints of their SuperlativeSS NFT or a photo or artwork of their choice SuperlativeSS Art Foundation The Art foundation is owned and run by the community. 100% of profits go to holders of SuperlativeSS NFTs. Superlative Gallery Members can vote which art should be displayed. 30% of all profits go to holders of SuperlativeSS NFTs. Metaverse Gallery Exclusive access, giveaways and opportunities to display and trade your art Global Tour Members can visit pop-up galleries to discover and display NFTs. Phase 1: Jakarta, London and NYC. Exclusive Merchandise Members can get their SuperlativeSS art turned into Limited edition tees, hoodies and other merchandises. Commercial Rights Members have full ownership of their SuperlativeSS NFT, including both creative and commercial rights. Roadmap 10% Exclusive giveaways of 1/1 artwork and ETH 20% Collaborations with artists and other projects 30% $15,000 donation to Share The Meal to help fight global hunger 40% Launch Foundation! 5 ETH added to the community wallet 50% Release limited edition SuperlativeSS merchandise 60% Superlative 'Multiverse' Gallery - acquire land in the metaverse 70% Start Global Tour & 15 ETH added to the Foundation community wallet 80% Set up Community Wallet 100% Grand opening of the Superlative Gallery in Bali Team A team a group of developers, designers, geeks and creatives that are passionate about art, blockchain and bringing people together. The Initiator - Prasdiman - Creative direction and project management The Artist - Arief Witjaksana - Artist, visionary and visual storyteller The Technician - The\_Bot - Backend, smart contracts and servers The Speaker - Goddamnft - Marketing and community management

justswap

JustSwap is a decentralized exchange launched by open source, cryptocurrency, and DeFi project based onTRON.

JustSwap is a decentralized exchange launched by open source, cryptocurrency, and DeFi (Decentralized Finance) project based on TRON. The protocol is governed by the JST token. JustSwap can convert any TRC20 tokens based on a system price. All trading fees on the platform go straight to liquidity providers of the protocol, instead of the protocol itself. History JustSwap is a decentralized protocol that was launched by TRON in August 2020, as part of TRON's initiative to become more involved within the DeFi space. The launch of this protocol is reportedly step 1 in a three-step plan to create a DeFi ecosystem around the TRON blockchain. The following planned steps are set to be the launch of JUST stablecoin (USDJ), and JUST (JST) yield farming, which is set to launch August 31, 2020. Justin Sun, TRON's CEO celebrated the launch of JustSwap via a livestream that attracted over 763,000 viewers on Chinese app Yizhibo. Additionally, Sun posted a video that explains Uniswap, and an open letter 'to crypto lovers on JustSwap launch.' TRON and Just team are going All-In on the DeFi ecosystem. We will not back down until we see the decentralized financial revolution end in triumph. I have faith that as long as we race against time and keep upgrading our products, JustSwap will one day become the powerhouse of 100x cryptos and TRON will build a DeFi protocol that parallel's Ethereum's. Despite trading volume exceeding over $6 million within the first few days of JustSwap's launch, TRON's native token, $TRX, suffered a 24-hour drop of 4.5%. Regardless, the token still stood as one of the best performing among the top 30 cryptoassets, gaining over 36% within the previous seven days. In September 2020, TRON entered a strategic partnership with a 1inch.exchange. Under the partnership deal, JustSwap will fully integrate with 1inch and Mooniswap (1inch’s own AMM) will integrate into TRON's blockchain. TRON’s developers said that they expect that the integration will allow JustSwap to serve more traders or investors, while improving its price accuracy. $USDJ USDJ is a stablecoin that is pegged to the United States dollar. Anyone can deposit TRX as collateral into the protocol to generate USDJ. This opens a collateralized debt position that must be repaid before the deposited TRX can be reclaimed. If the underlying asset plunges in price while it is collateralized it will trigger a liquidation and the remaining value will be stored in the CDP for withdrawal. When the market is unstable, a target rate feedback mechanism is triggered which allows the USDJ system to adjust the target price. This leads people to hold USDJ when the target rate is positive and sell when it is negative. This feedback mechanism reduces volatility $JST Token JustSwap is governed by the JST token which is used to vote on all governance actions on the platform. Stability fees that are charged after a user pays back their CDP can only be paid in JST tokens. It can only be earned through liquidity mining, trading, and participating in JustSwap campaigns. JST has a maximum supply of 9,900,000,000. In May of 2020 Tron Network airdropped 2.2% of the total JST supply to TRX holders, in total it was 217,800,000 JST. The amount given to each TRX holder was determined by the formula: (TRX held by the customer during snapshot / Total TRX held by TokenPocket during snapshot) \ Total JST received by TokenPocket].[

pantera-capital

Pantera Capital (est. 2003) is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on blockchain technologies.

Pantera Capital (est. 2003) is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on blockchain technologies. Pantera was founded by CEO Dan Morehead, a former chief financial officer and head of macro trading at hedge fund Tiger Management. Overview Pantera’s portfolio investments include bitcoin services provider BitPesa, exchange platform Bitstamp, BitPagos Inc., 21 Inc., Ripio Credit Network, ChangeTip, Circle, and Xapo. Pantera announced in March 2014 that it had shifted its focus to bitcoin and other digital currencies, having previously been primarily working with global macro hedge-fund investments. In 2014, Pantera announced a partnership with Fortress Investment Group, Benchmark and Ribbit Capital to create a shared bitcoin investment fund led by Pantera, Pantera Bitcoin Partners. Of the deal, CEO Morehead said, “We believe Bitcoin is at an inflection point, making it the right time for a transition to more institutional management." The partnership was said to indicate “a significant step in the push to move Bitcoin into the financial mainstream.” In October 2017, Pantera Capital along with Blockchain Capital and Polychain Capital contributed $50 million Kik Interactive Inc's presale. In the same month Pantera raised $5 million in video streaming token pre-sale. See also Bitcoin Xapo BitPay Blockchain

andres-reisinger

Andrés Reisinger is an Argentinian seasoned and renowned artist, director, product, interior and 3d graphic designer.

Andrés Reisinger (born 1990) is an Argentinian seasoned and renowned artist, director, product, interior, and 3D graphic designer focused mainly on industrial design, craft, architecture, sculpture, conceptual art, installation, and 3D digital art. He is also the founder of Barcelona-based interdisciplinary practice Reisinger Studio. He has been spotlighted as one of the Young Guns Art Directors Club by The One Club for Creativity New York and also selected by Forbes as a Forbes 30 Under 30 European talent. Early Life and Education Andrés was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1990. As a child, he studied music and harmony for 10 years at the Conservatory of Classical Music, and there, the activities taught him a lot about discipline. And then at the University of Buenos Aires, they taught him how to break it and turn it into something new. During his adolescent years, he became more interested in the audio-visual practice, that's where he found a discipline and spent millions of hours on graphic design. He was introduced to 3D tools by a friend of his studying architecture when he was 18 years old. It was then he started experimenting with 3D computer graphic software, which allowed him to test, explore, do and undo quickly without any recourse other than his own time. He is totally dependent on these tools that sometimes he prefers to sketch directly in 3D rather than drawing on paper. He went to FADU UBA University Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo at the Universidad de Buenos Aires] in Buenos Aires to study graphic design.[ During his studies at the university, he learned not just graphic design but design in all its facets. He had numerous teachers who were architects and artists and at that time he was taught that art and design merge. Career His experience together with contemporary culture makes up his inter-disciplinary practice today; based on his over 11 years of experimental and commercial collaborations with interior and furniture designers, including Patricia Urquiola, Franklin Till Studio, Cassina, Studio Proba, Space10, and Ikea. And global brands including Nike, Inc., Samsung, Microsoft, Massimo Dutti, Rimowa, Uniqlo, Bloomberg, and Verizon Communications. He recently sold 10 digital-only designs in less than 10 minutes for a total of nearly half a million dollars. He creates pixel-based collectibles specifically for the online world. The furniture, which ranges from a bulbous soft pink table to a tubular armchair, can be placed in shared 3D virtual spaces or in games such as Minecraft. Each piece can also be used in virtual and augmented-reality apps or in development platforms used to design games, animations, and CGI movies. He spent four months and about 15 hours each day on the collection. "I’ve been working on this, and for this, my whole life," he told Robb Report via email. The “impossible objects”, which he calls them, were offered in an online auction titled The Shipping via online marketplace Nifty Gateway in February 2021. All 10 were immediately bought, and the sale got more than $450,000 in total. Five of the pieces were also offered as ‘real’ physical counterparts but some of them were still being built and they’ll all be sent to their respective buyers once completed. His virtual designs have previously appeared in real life back in 2018, he set the internet alight with the Hortensia, a plush pink chair enveloped in 20,000 fabric petals. It was so popular that he decided to make a physical version that eventually went on display at Barcelona’s Montoya gallery. The Hortensia chair was once again offered at the online auction digitally and will be available in physical form globally. He also auctioned the opportunity to design a custom piece of furniture which went for $67,777. "I really think the custom piece should have gone higher in price," he added. "Something to polish for next time". Prior to all these, he was an Art designer and Director at PLENTY, a Motion Graphics, Graphic Design, and Animation company for over 3 years in Buenos Aires. He was also previously a Co-founder at Six & Five for over four years. Awards and Recognitions He has been recognized as one of the Young Guns Art Directors Club by The One Club for Creativity New York and also selected by Forbes as a Forbes 30 Under 30 European talent. He was the winner of the Young Guns 17 award after a few failed attempts, he said in an interview with The One Club that; "This was the third time I entered Young Guns. The first two attempts were obviously not successful, and I struggled with that to the point where I didn't enter again for a few years, in order to re-think what I was doing with my work. Now I understand why I didn't win in the past. The past times I had entered Young Guns, I was only looking for success, for glory. I was immature and had a lot of things to work on". "About a year or two ago, I decided that if I was going to put my voice out there in the world, it had better be my own voice, no matter if I succeeded or failed. And then my own voice started to create things. You can only connect the dots when looking backward. Now it makes much more sense that I didn't win until now". Since one of the highlights of entering Young Guns (Art Directors Club of New York) is the ability to submit personal projects alongside professional ones, he took advantage of this, he said "Yes, I submitted Plastic Rain, my first personal project formally exploring a new retail experience. At that time it was a bit prophetic, but it's exactly what marketing is looking and shifting-to nowadays. Traditional marketing simply doesn’t cut it anymore. Plastic Rain is my proposal for experiential marketing. Experiential marketing directly involves customers, inviting them to experience brands in-person rather than putting them in the position of an observer and hoping that traditional marketing efforts will resonate with them or be memorable". His professional project submitted was one that shifted his career to a whole new level. It was titled "Complicated Name For the Show" his first solo exhibition. The presentation consisted of three newly commissioned designed objects within an original context that was also created by him. This was his first time physically creating his personal vision and it was a real struggle to create in the physical world, working with the susceptibilities, manufacturers, processes, weight, and even gravity. Reisinger Studio Reisinger Studio is Multidisciplinary Design Studio established by Andrés, his digital team. and the physical team in Barcelona, Spain. The digital team is mostly formed by Graphic Designers and Art Directors working with 3D and Animation. And the physical team is mostly formed by product designers and artisans working on new designs or research and development for translating digital objects into physical pieces. In an interview with Stir World, Andrés explained why he refers to his studio and art as being "unclassifiable." He says: I work towards constant change and development - the term “unclassifiable” refers to all of it, my practice, the media I use, the disciplines I revolve around. I focus on a mix of many things that are in a perpetual state of improvement, so in that sense, it’s unclassifiable, and because of this specific nature, probably forever will be. I was inspired by the Argentinian writer, Jorge Luis Borges, who was also defined as <emunclassifiable</em. NFTs Each piece bought from Andrés' collection, is verified via a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) which is individually identified on a blockchain. These tokens enable artists and collectors to sell items directly to a global audience without a third party taking a cut. Buyers are able to place the pieces inside a virtual gallery game and sell them when demand is high to make a profit just like any other collectible. This allows creating and circulating fake collectibles to be futile because provenance is ascribed to each item, which can be digitally traced back to the issuer. NFTs are also immutable, meaning that the collectors—not the creators—possess them. "This contrasts with buying things like music from the iTunes Store, where users don’t actually own what they’re buying," Reisinger says. "They just purchase the license to listen to the music". He also added "Imagine that I sell one of my furniture pieces for $10,000, and one month later the collector decides to put it up for sale with success for $20,000," "The NFT smart contract allows me to receive a percentage of that second-market sale without even knowing the collectors or the gallery. The percentage is decided when the smart contract is created, so you can decide your percentage for second-market sales". The Shipping The Shipping, by Andrés Reisinger, is a new concept of the digital auction that highlights a collection of ten unusual pieces of furniture, which are already well-known creations in his studio, it was his first 24h online auction that was held on the 19th of February, 2021. The collection consists of ten pieces of furniture, five come with physical counterparts, but all ten of them can be implemented digitally in an open world. They also come with the promise that they will be iterated on in the future to continue being open-world compatible. One of the pieces is a personalized piece of furniture, all of them are accompanied by 3D illustrations where each piece is seen in a unique environment specific to Andrés Reisinger's universe. All pieces include a single ill

neblio

Neblio is a proof of stake (pos) cryptocurrency.

Neblio is a proof of stake (pos) cryptocurrency. It was first announced on July 27, 2017 and the development team is located in Richmond, Virginia. As of December 28th 2017, the circulating supply was 12,673,652 NEBL. What is Neblio? Neblio is a blockchain developer platform which is going to be used to build decentralized applications and services. It’s a decentralized peer to peer network of nodes that are applying to exchange information as transactions and then save those transactions in an immutable distributed ledger. The copies of the ledgers created are kept by all nodes thus making it impossible to tamper. To be precise, Neblio is a developer platform that was built to provide a boost to the deployment and development of distributed applications. In the business world, the lack of skill set and difficulty have become major obstacles that have restrained the adoption of the blockchain for development of applications. Neblio Platform aimed to provide a way to overcome these challenges. In Laymans Terms: Imagine you tried to create something but it required you to read the instruction manual in a foreign language. Wouldn’t it be easier if the manual book had a plethora of languages you can read through? Well programming has multiple languages and not many people understand all of them. This is going to make it easier for many people to learn how to start developing on the blockchain. Those languages are Python, Java.Net, Objective-C, Noodle.JS, PHP. <br

charlotte-halkett

Charlotte Halkett was the former Managing Director for buzzvault. She left her position as MD of Insurance Product in 2019.

Charlotte Halkett was the former Managing Director for buzzvault. She left her position as MD of Insurance Product in April 2019. She was previously part of the original team to launch insurethebox. She is currently the Chief Underwriting Officer at ManyPets. Career Charlotte started her career as an Actuarial Consultant, working for EMB Consultancy and Hewitt Associates. Since 2017, Charlotte is a Managing Director for buzzvault, before leaving in April 2019. Previously, she was a Marketing actuary and later a General manager at Insure The Box Limited. During these years she also had the position of General manager at Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Europe. After leaving buzzvault, she began to work as the Chief Commercial Officer for ManyPets. ManyPets is an Award-winning innovative technology, they rank 30th on the Tech Track 100 (2020) and won the Insurance Choice Awards (2020) for both Best Pet Insurance Provider and Innovation of the Year. In April 2022, she was promoted to Chief Underwriting Officer at ManyPets. Education In 1997-2001, Charlotte studied at the University of Cambridge and received an M.S in Natural Sciences.

artvatars

Artvatars is a new project that revolutionizes how collectors buy and collect NFTs.

Artvatars is an NFT project that revolutionizes how collectors buy and collect NFTs. It is created with the collaboration of over sixty of the world's best CryptoArtists, Artvatars represent a rare work of art. Big Idea The idea is to create unique 1/1 NFTs designed by the best CryptoArtists and then to use AI technology in order to splice the artworks and recompose them to create a unique composition—a one-of-a-kind idea, unique to the industry. Overview Artvatars are composed of the artwork of each artist, which is spliced into various components. Artvatars bring the next generation of exclusive Digital Art Collectibles to users. As of September 2022, the NFT project has seen 723 ETH in trading volume on OpenSea. The collection debuted with 20,000 NFT collectibles with the first 5,000 selling for 0.15 ETH the following 5,000 for 0.3 ETH, the third batch for 0.45 ETH, and the final lot for 0.6 ETH. The Artvatars project was launched on Ethereum layer-2 solution Polygon in a bid to circumnavigate gas fees and offer users overall better efficiency and value. The project is pretty high profile because of the artists involved. Among them are NFT artists like Bryan Brinkman, Kitty Bast, Alotta Money, and Hackatao, who have been responsible for millions of dollars in NFT trading combined. Project Similarity Artvatars is in many ways similar to the Ethereum project Hashmasks, another character-based art project that combined works of different artists. As of September 2022, there are more than 4,000 wallets holding one or more Hashmasks and during February 2021, some of these Hashmasks sold for more than $1 million. To buy an Artvatar, collectors need to transfer ETH to the Polygon blockchain. The platform has prepared an easy-to-follow guide using Metamask. Immortalize On-chain User Artvatar is forever imprinted on the Polygon blockchain. With the project running on an Ethereum layer-2 solution, Artvatar makes the experience of generating users Artvatar convenient by facilitating a speedy process with zero gas costs. Immortalizing themself is as easy as can be. The NFTs are tradeable on OpenSea. Another cool feature is that collectors can be able to search for the individual components that make up the Artvatars by the artist’s name. Notable Sales On February 2022, Artvatars 3257 sold for 8 ETH (\~$11,000 at the time of sale) on OpenSea. On April 27, 2021, Artvatars 4998 sold for 5.2 ETH (\~$7,000 at the time of sale). On September 18, 2021, Artvatars 337 was sold by TheEconomistNFT for 3.5 ETH (\~$5,000 at the time of sale) on OpenSea.

robotos

Robotos NFT is a collection of droid characters designed by Pablo Stanley and minted as NFTs.

Robotos NFT is a collection of droid characters designed by Pablo Stanley and minted as NFTs. They are constructed from various metal outfits, tin faces, digital accessories, top pieces, faces, backpacks, arms, and colors. Overview The "Robotos" mean and refer to Licensor's creation of a unique digital collectible, also known as an NFT, that is managed entirely by the Ethereum network and the respective smart contract on that network. The first generation of 10,000 droids is constructed from various metal outfits, tin faces, digital accessories, top pieces, faces, backpacks, arms, and colors. Robotos have different body types, some rarer than others. By collecting Robotos users will be able to have a voice in the community and help guide the direction of the project and development of the story. Users can get different image assets of their Roboto, including an animated GIF, PNG, and SVG file (which is resolution-free.) . Each Roboto comes with rights to create and distribute derivatives. The images & Roboto metadata can be released after Robotos NFTs sell out. The "Robotos NFT" project was launched with a mint price of.05 ETH. As of press time, the mint price has almost doubled at.09 ETH. This means that the cheapest Robotos NFT is available for $290. The lifetime volume is 2400 ETH or around $7.7 Million. Robotos Rarity Each NFT is algorithmically generated by combining 170+ unique traits with varying rarity across categories. | Types | | | ----- | --- | | 9,999 | Total Robots | | Common | Robotos | | Less Common | Helmetos | | Rare | Cyborgos | | Super Rare | Computos | | | Variation | | --- | --------- | | 38 | Head Top | | 32 | Eyes | | 18 | Helmets | | 16 | Mouth | | 18 | Ears | | 12 | Arms | | 10 | Chassis Colors | | 9 | Backpacks | | 6 | Computo Head | | 6 | Chest Screens | | 5 | Bodies | | 4 | Head Types | | 4 | Human Faces | Robotos Team The Robotos team is Zackboto in developer, Ashiraboto in community, Meelaboto in Marketing, and Pabloto in art. Pablo Stanley Pablo has previously contributed to the design with open-source illustrations like Open Peeps, Humaaans, Avataaars, Buttts, Bottts, and Open Doodles. He is also the creator behind The Design Team and consistently shares comics on his Instagram account and has also shared free crash courses on different art and design tools in his YouTube channel, Sketch Together. Previously he was a Lead at Invision, a Staff Designer at Lyft, and co-founder of Carbon Health. This means that apart from being an artist, he also has exposure to UI/UX for apps and websites. Later, you’ll see how this has influenced his creative process. In an interview with Benzinga, he shared that "he got into the NFT space by accident. Three years ago, he created an open-sourced illustration library that others can freely use. Then, a few months ago, he discovered that someone released an NFT Collection using his art". He joked that it put him in a unique situation wherein the art was his but he was not connected to the project in any way. So that situation inspired him to get into NFTs because there was already an existing community that loved his art. Roadmap Roboto's backstory development and other characters that are part of the Roboto's universe Roboto Gallery Monthly Exclusive NFT: Collaborations with other artists and/or projects. Roboto Workshop is limited to Roboto holders. Robotos Gen 2: The collaboration with the community to determine the best way to implement breeding.

origin-dollar

Origin Dollar (OUSD) (launched 2020) is a cryptocurrency token built on the Ethereum Blockchain.

Origin Dollar (OUSD) (launched 2020) is a cryptocurrency token built on the Ethereum Blockchain. It is the first stablecoin of its kind that earns a yield while stored in the wallet. It was created by the team at blockchain-powered commerce platform, Origin Protocol (cryptocurrency) (OGN). Company Origin Dollar was developed by a startup headquartered in San Francisco known as Origin Protocol, Inc. The company was founded in 2017 and it currently has 11-50 employees and has head office at San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US. It raised a total of $38.1M USD in funding over 7 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Aug 31, 2018 from a seed round. Their investor list includes Chain Capital, Kamal Ravikant , Foundation Capital , KBW Ventures , Alexis Ohanian, Gil Penchina , Cypher Capital , Curtis Lee , DHVC , Curtis Lee and Kenetic and many others. Overview Origin Dollar is a stablecoin created on the Ethereum blockchain. It is pegged to 1:1 to USD indirectly. It is backed by 1:1 by other stablecoins like USDT, USDC and Dai . As a result, 1 OUSD always remains close to 1 USD in value. It is one of the first stablecoin that earns interest while standstill in the cryptocurrency wallet. Its design is superior to existing stablecoins like Tether (USDT and USD Coin because OUSD captures competitive yields while being passively held in wallets. Features OUSD has many advantages over not only fiat money, but also over popular USD pegged stablescoins like Tether (USDT and USD Coin, Pax. Some of the features of OUSD are. Speed Fiat money takes hours (sometimes days) to reach people or institutions. As Origin Dollar is based on blockchain it enables stability and desirability of the USD and has the speed of cryptocurrency transactions. Programmable As it is OUSD is created on blockchain, it is programmable money. It can be integrated into applications and businesses. The developers can create accounts to store money with simple code. It can be used for lending, borrowing, faster and payments, payroll, global crowdfunding, transparent and stable donations and charity etc. Transparency As OUSD is an open source project based on blockchain, anyone can trace transactions using block explorers as compared to Fiat money transfer. Elastic Supply OUSD is a stablecoin and works differently than other cryptocurrencies. Instead of the price increasing as the value of the assets under management increase, its value remains constant at approximately $1 USD. Its supply is elastic and this approach is inspired by the Ampleforth . The stable value ($1USD) is achieved algorithmically by smart contracts. The smart contracts constantly adjust the monetary supply and automatically updates the balance in every token holder’s wallet to reflect the yield that has been earned by the protocol. Despite being inspired by Ampleforth's rebase mechanism, OUSD has some differences. OUSD is 100% backed by other stablecoins and will not have the same challenge maintaining the peg to the dollar. Given the ease of minting and redeeming OUSD, users can count on arbitrageurs to ensure the peg is maintained. OUSD rebasing should only increase supply since the amount of OUSD minted is tied to the realized gains earned by the underlying strategies. The principal of user is protected as long as nothing goes wrong with the underlying lending/AMM and stablecoin protocols on which OUSD rely on. Any decrease in user balance would be an indication of trouble in the system. Unlike Ampleforth, which rebases once a day, the monetary supply of OUSD is constantly being updated in real-time as yield is generated. Yield Generation The OUSD smart contract pools capital from all stablecoin depositors, then routes that capital to a diversified set of yield-earning strategies. Earnings are automatically converted to OUSD and deposited to the owner wallet. The new lending and automated market maker pools have raised total value locked (TVL) in DeFi, but it has also made it increasingly challenging for yield farmers to manually allocate capital in efficient and optimal ways. Projects like yEarn have shown that smart contracts can automate the re-balancing of funds across various strategies to optimally earn lending interest, market making fees, and rewards tokens. The first version of OUSD employs a simple compound strategy, but new strategies will be deployed every month that maximize returns while minimizing risk and dependencies. Currently supported platforms are Compound, Aave, Curve and soon yEarn, Balancer and Uniswap will also be supported. Tokenomics Origin Dollar is an ERC20 Token created by deploying smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain It currently has circulating supply of 543,523 OUSD. It registered all time high of $1.04 USD on Oct 10, 2020 and all time low of $0.950539 USD on Oct 11, 2020. It is available to trade on Uniswap cryptocurrency exchange. Users can save it in any Ethereum and ERC20 supported wallets including MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Coinbase Wallet etc.

binance-dex

Binance DEX (launched in 2019) is a DEX built on Binance Chain that allows exchanging digital assets issued and listed on it.

Binance DEX (launched in 2019) is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on BNB Chain that allows exchanging digital assets issued and listed on it. The matching happens within the blockchain nodes and all of the transactions are recorded on-chain, therefore forming a complete, auditable ledger of activity. Overview Binance DEX is a decentralized exchange and an extension of the largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily volume, Binance. Binance DEX is built on BNB Chain. The testnet was launched on February 24, 2019, and this is what founder Changpeng Zhao said at the time of launch: "Binance DEX is a decentralized exchange with a decentralized network of nodes, where you hold your own private keys and manage your own wallet,” said Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO of Binance. “With Binance DEX, we provide a different balance of security, freedom and ease-of-use, where you take more responsibility and are in more control of your assets." After two months of testnet, a period involving nearly 8.5 million transactions across a simulated trading competition, coding competition, bug bounty program, and new updates and enhancements, the first version of mainnet was released on April 23, 2019. The mainnet was released along with the launching of BNB Chain and so Binance Coin (BNB) migrated from ERC20 standards to BEP-2 to become the native asset on BNB Chain, and also Binance DEX, where it is used as a base token to assist network transactions. The users were allowed to create wallets using Binance's official Trust Wallet and also third-party wallets like Enjin Crypto Wallet, Magnum Wallet, Coinomi Wallet, Atomic Wallet, ZelCore Wallet, Infinito Wallet, Math Wallet, Ellipal Wallet, Guarda Wallet, Exodus Wallet, and also hardware wallets, Ledger and CoolWallet. The users also gained access to the Binance Chain Explorer, web wallet, public data nodes, and APIs, but actual trading began later. CZ believed that this would start a new era for financial systems and he also asked the community to come forward and give input for the same. This is what he stated: “We believe decentralized exchanges bring new hope and new possibilities, offering a trustless and transparent financial system,” said CZ (Changpeng Zhao), CEO of Binance. “With no central custody of funds, Binance DEX offers far more control over your own assets. We hope this brings a new level of freedom to our community. We will work closely with projects and teams to grow the entire ecosystem.” On September 1, 2020, BNB Chain, a parallel chain to Binance main chain was launched. It enabled the creation of smart contracts and the staking mechanism for BNB. It helps the whole Binance ecosystem to grow because of cheaper transaction fees with a high-performance network (with a block every 3 sec), increasing cross-chain interoperability by using DeFi mechanisms, bootstrapping and investing in many DeFi projects, and collaborating with many blockchain and crypto projects. So currently, Binance DEX is powered by a dual-chain system and because of BSC, it will get more and more volume using cross-chain interoperable mechanisms and decentralized applications (DApps). The Dual Chain Model Binance DEX is first developed on a Binance Chain (BC) that allowed anyone to create, issue, and trade assets on the Binance Smart Chain and Binance DEX. Binance Smart Chain (BSC) enabled the writing of smart contracts which help to develop a decentralized application (DApp) and bring liquidity to Binance DEX using interoperable mechanisms from other blockchains like Ethereum, Bitcoin and others. The BC and BSC are compatible and can communicate with each other. | Parameter | Binance Chain | Binance Smart Chain | | --------- | ------------- | ------------------- | | Type | Main Chain | Parallel Chain | | Consensus Mechanism | Dpos (Delegated-Proof-Of-Stake) | Proof of Staked Authority (PoSA) | | Number of block validators | 11 | up to 21 | | Mean Block Time | < 1 second | < 5 seconds | | Programmability | Non-Compatible to EVM | Supports Ethereum Virtual Machine smart contracts | | Token creation | Can only issue token (BEP-2) on Binance Chain | Can create a tokenized form for foreign assets (BEP-20 = Cross-chain BEP-2) on Binance Chain | | Cross-chain | BEP3 introduces 'Hash Timer Locked Contract' functions and further mechanisms to handle inter-blockchain tokens peg. | BSC comes with efficient native dual chain communication; Optimized for scaling high-performance dApps that require a fast and smooth user experience. | Features Functionality Binance DEX has a very similar user interface to Binance centralized exchange and it utilizes a web-based trading platform. It has also integrated TradingView charts which offer a full range of technical indicators for traders. The core function of the platform that it allows users to create their own wallets and hold their own private keys along with support to alternative third-party software and hardware wallets including popular wallets like Atomic Wallet, Ledger, and others. Technology The exchange is built on the Binance Chain therefore it has advantages like one-second block time with near-instant transaction finality. As a result, it can support similar trading volumes as cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance, although it uses a different order matching engine. It uses a periodic auction technique to match all available orders, and as the match happens simultaneously for all orders with the same price in every auction, it put an end to the role of market makers and takers. Security Similar to other decentralized exchanges, Binance DEX doesn’t take custody of user funds, and the users and traders maintain control of their wallets, private keys, and their funds. Binance Chain runs on Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) and Proof-of-stake (PoS) based consensus mechanism that involves a series of qualified block validators and makes use of a number of anti-front running mechanisms to maintain the treading integrity of the exchange. Binance DEX vs Binance Binance is a centralized exchange and it is hosted on servers while Binance DEX is a decentralized exchange built on Binance Chain. Apart from this primary difference, there are many additional key differences. | Type | Binance | Binance DEX | | ---- | ------- | ----------- | | Nature | Hosted on centralized servers | Decentralized exchange built on a Binance public blockchain | | Fund Control | The exchange wallet controls the funds of the user. | The user can create wallet or use any preferable third party wallet to control and use funds. The is user is responsible for the funds. | | Type of Orders | The user can trade using both market order or limit order. | Only limit order is accepted as order are processed every block. | | KYC | Requires KYC for large withdrawals (over 2 BTC per day). | Doesn't require KYC. | | Order Matching | Order matches up bids and offers to complete trades. It is continuous like on most of the centralized exchanges. | Order matching is done using periodic auction matching for all the existing open orders received in the past and the latest blocks. | | Market Makers and Takers | They play a big role. The market makers create an order that provides liquidity, which is useful for market takers to buy or sell instantly. | There is no role for maker makers and takers as orders are processed at once. | Order Matching Matching Logic As blocks are produced at the regular interval, order matching takes place using periodic auction matching for all open orders received in the past up to the latest block. It uses a discrete matching engine. The orders are collected every block and all open orders up to the latest block are matched at the end of that block. Principles of the Matching Engine 1. Matching is attempted 1 time each block. 2. Matching occurs when the highest bid price is higher than the lowest ask price. 3. Only 1 price is selected in each block, determined as the fill price among all the fillable orders. 4. Order matching is prioritized first by price aggressiveness, then second by time (block height) that they are accepted. Order Matching Process Every matching attempt occurs after a block is recorded on the chain (mined and verified). The matching attempt follows the below steps determining block fill price from the following factors: Determining block fill price\from the following factors Maximum executable volume Minimum surplus Market pressure Reference price Allocating order fills using rules Orders with the highest bid price will match with the orders with the lowest ask price. If all bids or asks at the block fill price cannot be fully-filled by the respective asks or bids, orders from the earliest blocks are selected and filled first. If all bids or asks at the block fill price cannot be fully filled by the respective asks or bids, and arrive in the same block, allocated execution will be in proportion to their quantity (floored if the number has a partial lot). If the allocation cannot be divided equally, a deterministic algorithm will guarantee a fair selection using a random order ID. Trading !ggpng.pngBinance DEX Trading Interface To log in and trade on Binance DEX, a user needs a BNB Chain-compatible wallet. The wallet can be created on the website itself or any compatible third-party wallet like Trust Wallet, SafePal, CoolWallet S, Math Wallet, Meet.one, Equal, Atomic Wallet that can be used via the WalletConnect interface. The users can also use hardware wallets like Ledger. Since it is a non-custodial decentralized exchange, the user is in c

rocket-pool

Rocket Pool is a decentralized Ethereum staking platform.

Rocket Pool is a decentralized Ethereum staking platform. As of October 2022, the protocol has more than 292,736 Ether staked with around 1,659 node operators and a Total Value Locked (TVL) of $650.11 million. Overview Rocket Pool offers two methods of staking Ethereum staking and running a node which requires a minimum of 16 ETH half the amount needed to run a node or just staking which requires a minimum of only 0.01 ETH. Rocket Pool's smart contracts have been audited by Sigma Prime, Consensys Diligence, Trail of Bits, and Immunefi Bug Bounty. Staking + Running a Node Ethereum holders can stake Ethereum and run a node with Rocket Pool. Stakers earn both ETH rewards from staking and variable RPL token rewards for providing RPL collateral. The solution is permissionless and allows stakers to run a node by staking 16 Ethereum which is half the minimum needed to solo stake Ethereum. Staking Rocket Pool also allows Ethereum holders to stake with as little as 0.01 ETH. Ethereum holders can deposit as little as 0.01 ETH and receive the rETH liquid staking token. rETH accrues staking rewards over time. The solution is decentralized as a decentralized network of node operators earns rewards for rETH holders. The solution is also non-custodial since node operators do not handle funds. Any penalties incurred by node operators are taken from their earnings rather than rETH holders. RPL Token RPL is the native token of Rocket Pool with a total supply of 18,000,000. It ensures that the system remains trustless, and decentralized and that the community can govern the way it functions. As a form of insurance, RPL can also be staked on a Rocket Pool node. Since the operators stake RPL, they also receive an additional reward of the same token. This is created by the administered inflation. Operators can stake as much as 150% of the staked ETH’s value. New RPL tokens are minted every 28 days; a period that is called “checkpoint.” RPL is distributed to node operators in exchange for operating on the network. According to Rocket Pool, it purposely manages a 5% inflation rate of the RPL token. In November 2021, a new Rocket Pool protocol token has been released and the old Rocket Pool token could be migrated using the Rocket Pool staking website. Token Allocation | S/N | Distribution | (%) | Amount | | --- | ------------ | --- | ------ | | 1. | Founders & Project | 15% | 2,700,000 | | 2. | Investors | 54% | 9,720,000 | | 3. | Premined Rewards & Airdrops | 31% | 5,580,000 | rETH Rocket Pool ETH (rETH) is the protocol’s liquid staking token. The rETH token represents an amount of ETH that is being staked and earning rewards within Ethereum Proof-of-Stake. As Rocket Pool node operators stake, the resulting rewards increase the value of rETH relative to ETH. Launch Rocket Pool first launched on Ethereum mainnet in November 2021 when the Beacon Chain was a separate chain that ran in parallel to the main Ethereum Proof of Work chain. Later, Rocket Pool became an Ethereum Proof-of-stake (PoS) infrastructure service compatible with staking in Ethereum after The Merge. The team originally had the release planned for October 6th but decided to delay that due to the discovery of an ETH2 staking issue. This issue was discovered through their bug bounty program and it would have affected not only Rocket Pool if it launched then, but it also affected several live staking platforms as well. In its first two days of operations, Rocket Pool had registered 237 node operators across 42 global locations, with 1,088 ETH staked. Mainnet Rollout The Rocket Pool mainnet launch was a staged rollout gradually increasing the protocol’s total value staked. Rollout occurred in 4 short to medium-length phases. Each stage limited the number of minipools and the size of the rETH deposit pool. Once the minipool limit was reached new node operators were not able to deposit until the next phase. Once the rETH deposit pool reached its limit, stakers were not able to swap ETH for rETH until the next phase. Redstone Redstone is the name of the Rocket Pool release that includes The Merge compatibility. The Redstone smart node and smart contract release happened before the Ethereum Merge. Priority Fee Distributor After The Merge, smart node operators and their minipool validators became responsible for creating blocks, and in doing so, they began receiving priority fees (also known as tips) which are attached to each transaction. This new distributor made sure these fees are split between the node operator and rETH liquid staking users, just like Beacon Chain rewards previously. Rewards System Node operators in the Rocket Pool protocol were previously required to stake RPL as an insurance promise to the protocol. If they incurred serious penalties, then their RPL stake was penalized. Node operators who staked this RPL were also rewarded every 28 days from the protocol for providing this insurance. With the Merge, nodes have to make an on-chain claim every 28 days and the gas fees depend on how busy the Ethereum network is at the moment the claim is made. Smoothing Pool The new Smoothing Pool is an opt-in feature that collectively pools the priority fees of every member opted into it. This is a way to effectively eliminate the randomness associated with block proposals on the Beacon Chain. Protocol DAO (PDAO) The Rocket Pool Protocol DAO is responsible for a host of settings across the protocol and is run by RPL governance. Protocol DAO can raise and support governance proposals, figure out how to spend the PDAO treasury, and potentially change certain protocol settings. For phase 0, the PDAO will have no direct on-chain power. This is to limit the governance power until it is stable enough to take control. The Core Team will affect this power at the behest of the PDAO. Oracle DAO (ODAO) The Rocket Pool protocol has two types of nodes, regular bonded nodes and oracle nodes. These node operators make up Oracle DAO. The Oracle DAO is a decentralized network of special nodes in the protocol that operates in a true on-chain DAO made just for Rocket Pool. Members in this DAO can create proposals to invite new members, leave the DAO, earn RPL from the protocol’s tokenomics, and much more. These nodes play a crucial role in relaying information from the beacon chain on ETH2 to Rocket Pool's smart contracts on ETH1. Launch Members Lighthouse Nimbus Prysmatic Labs Etherscan & Beaconscan Beaconcha.in ConsenSys Codefi Blockdaemon Staked Blockchain Capital Bankless Ethstakers Fire Eyes CryptoManufaktur Rocket Pool Team David Rugendyke - Founder & CTO Darren Langley - General Manager Kane Wallmann - Senior Solidity Engineer Nick Doherty - Senior Blockchain Engineer Joe Clapis - Senior Blockchain Engineer Maverick (Nick Ashley) - Marketing & Community Manager

benoit-pagotto

Benoit Pagotto is the founder of RTFKT, a virtual fashion platform, and has experience in retail, advertising and marketing. He launched RTFKT in 2020 with co-f...

Benoit Pagotto is the founder of RTFKT, a virtual fashion platform. Pagotto started his career in retail, working for four years at the famed Parisian concept store Colette, before moving into marketing. He had stints at various advertising and design agencies, eventually moving in-house at esports company Fnatic. In early 2020, he launched RTFKT with co-founders Chris Le and Steven Vasilev. Plans for the company’s debut were almost thwarted when in the weeks prior to launch, Nike was awarded a patent for CryptoKicks, a blockchain-based virtual sneaker — the exact product that was set to be at the centre of RTFKT’s brand. The founders forged on, and its virtual sneaker drops — which featured the work of artists such as Jeff Staple and Takashi Murakami — quickly gained attention.

rug-pull

In the cryptocurrency industry a rug pull refers to when a project disappears or "exit scams" with all users' funds...

In the cryptocurrency industry a rug pull refers to when a project disappears or "exit scams" with all users' funds invested into that project. Decrypt Media has called a "rug pull" when a developer releases a new cryptocurrency, gets people to buy it, then exploits the source code they themselves created to take off with users' funds. Rug pulls along with market manipulation is considered the scourge of the industry. And the scam is so effective because retail investors often have no idea who they’re dealing with and do not remember to DYOR. Trivia In September 2020, CoinDesk released an article titled, "First Mover: SushiSwap’s Billion-Dollar ‘Rug Pull’ Is Thriller to Crypto Geeks". Origins On Crypto Twitter many users see popular accounts talking about new coins regularly. ICO (2017 -2018) Uniswap In late 2020 during the height of the DeFi boom, Uniswap was plagued with projects performing rug pulls. The bad actors operated by minting new tokens, creating Telegram groups to raise awareness of the project, followed by a Uniswap listing and injecting liquidity. At this point, the original malicious liquidity provider would wait for people to swap their ETH for the newly minted coin, after which the token’s creators would drain the liquidity pool, leaving holders with nothing but a worthless coin. Examples Below is an example of a Crypto Twitter user (@boxmining) on August 26, 2020 warning other retail investors about potential rug pulls. on Twitter warning of a rug pull. Someone was shilling “TRUAMPLE” yesterday, and 3 hours later the developers pulled the rug, stealing 1800 ETH. Be careful guys. Rug pulls are getting more and more frequent. DeFi Examples In October 2020, News.bitcoin.com exposed rug pull actors in DeFi (Decentralized Finance). The bad actors had performed a rug pull on users' deposited funds. The bad actors exposed by the Bitcoin publication included: Overview A public team is always preferred over anonymous developer projects. See also Liquidity Mining Web 3 List of DeFi terms

mask

Mask Network is a decentralized portal that allows users to seamlessly send encrypted messages, use DApps like cryptocurrencies.

Mask Network is a decentralized portal that allows users to seamlessly send encrypted messages, use dapps like crypto payment, decentralized finance, decentralized storage, e-commerce (digital goods / NFTs), Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) over the top of existing social networks without migrating, and thereby creates a decentralized Applet (DApplet) Ecosystem. !Web3-mask-crypto-aax-scaled.webpMask Network is a protocol that allows its users to send encrypted messages over Twitter and Facebook. It essentially acts as a bridge between the internet and a decentralized network running on top. Overview Mask Network runs on the Ethereum network, which is currently transitioning to proof-of-stake. About Mask Network is a Shanghai-based startup founded Suji Yan. Prior to founding Mask Network, Yan had founded Dimension.im, which is a series of products meant to advocate for social liberty along the cypherpunk movement, specifically “Right of Cryptography and Freedom of Interpretation.” Mask Network was initially launched in July 2019, with its first use case of allowing Facebook and Twitter users to encrypt posts on the social media platforms. It then raised $2 million in a funding round in November 2020, co-led by HashKey and Hash Global, and a further $3 million funding round in February 2021 with participation from Digital currency Group and Fundamental Labs. Now, Mask Network offers the ability to fund Gitcoin grant campaigns directly from Twitter, as well as plans to offer peer-to-peer payments and decentralized storage functionality. It is a Decentralized portal that also allows users to use DApps like crypto payments, decentralized finance, decentralized storage, e-commerce (digital goods/NFTs) and decentralized organizations (DAO) over the top of existing social networks without migrating, creating what is referred to as a decentralized Applet (DApplet) ecosystem. Mask Network Token In February 2021, Mask Network launched their MASK governance token, which aims to help the Mask Network in its aim to build a bridge between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. The MASK governance token is governed by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) called the MaskDAO. Token holders can vote on key decisions for the MaskDAO, where each one MASK represents one vote. At the genesis, 100,000,000 MASK tokens were created, and the rest of the supply will be unlocked over a three-year period. 7% of the MASK supply goes to a “Community Public Offering,” while another portion of the tokens will go to the reserve (39.55%), early investors (14.25%) and the team (23%). What Makes Mask Network Unique? The Mask Network allows users to add a level of privacy to their online interactions. By letting users send encrypted messages to friends, send and receive cryptocurrency and share files, and interact with DApps, all on a Decentralized level. Team 1. Suji Yan - Founder Partnership Arweave (AR) ChainIDE HashKey Maker Gitcoin

nuls

NULS provides fluid, cost-effective, time-saving solutions for developers with minimum blockchain experience.

Nuls is a global blockchain open-source project which is higly customizable modular blockchain infrastructure. It consists of a microkernel and functional modules. NULS provides smart contracts, multi-chain mechanism and cross-chain consensus. It aims to break the technical barriers of blockchain. This to reduce the cost of development and promote the usage of blockchain technology in the commercial field. Overview The Nuls blockchain development platform divides the blockchain into several modules such as network, account, ledger, storage, consensus, and smart contract. Every module will perform independently, ignoring the change of other modules. The modules of Nuls cooperate through the service bus and event bus. The microkernel manages the service bus and event bus. Nuls further provides a smart contract container (NulsVM) which application developers can define and run. Additionally, Nuls supports users to customize their own sub-chains by combining appropriate modules from the module library according to their own application requirements. Nuls seeks to be easy to use, adaptable to various application scenarios, highly performant, support transparency and security of data. The default consensus mechanism of Nuls is Proof-of-Credit (POC). The nodes of the consensus meeting should pack blocks by turns, and every node only pack one block per round. Sub-chains on the Nuls platform can use other mechanisms by replacing the consensus module. Recognizing the inevitability of technical upgrades and the unpredictability of business application logic, Nuls incorporates the modularity of the Linux kernel to develop the Nuls micro-kernel. The design of Nuls follows the principle of “everything is a module”. A Turing-complete smart contract virtual machine, NulsVM, will support JAVA as the first language and will expand during development. NulsVM is the key of lightweight customization within the coding layer. As is usually the case with blockchain platforms, NULS has its own currency, which is also known as NULS. These tokens will be used to support the decentralized applications running on top of this network, as well as paying for applications, supporting future developments, and paying for transaction fees. It may take some time for this network to reach its full potential, though. NULS Team The core members are highly-experienced and well-versed blockchain technology enthusiasts with experiences in managing community operation. Their shared purpose and philosophical ideology led them together to develop a novel Blockchain Internet Economy that aims to simplify trust in the blockchain technology. Most members of the team have a lot of experience in the programming field. The Founder of NULS, Jason has 6 years experience in the banking security sector and has designed security systems for dozens of Banks in China. NULS Masternodes NULS will also have masternodes, which generate a nice passive income. The cheapest masternode will be 20k NULS as of now. <br

spookyswap

SpookySwap is a decentralized automated market maker (Automated Market Maker) exchange on the Fantom Opera network (DEX).

SpookySwap is a Fantom Opera network automated market-making (Automated Market Maker) Decentralized Exchange (DEX). Overview The SpookySwap is different from other DEXs. It is designed in building a strong foundation with the BOO token as a governance token, diverse farms, a built-in bridge, built-in limit orders, and user-centered service. Spooky utilizes the Fantom network to deliver top speed, security, and scalable transactions. SpookySwap stresses the BOO token as a governance token and a variety of farms to entice users to join this Fantom project and help it grow. Token traders on SpookySwap, in particular, are charged a 0.2 percent commission (0.22 percent for limit orders), giving them a competitive advantage over their competitors. BOO Token The BOO token is SpookySwap's tradable governance token. When using Spookyswap's DeFi services, BOO tokens benefit holders in general. On the SpookySwap platform, users can take advantage of BOO tokens in multiple ways, including: 1. Providing Liquidity in pools allows users to earn the swapping fees from the pairs. 2. BOO token is the governance token of SpookySwap for voting on changes to the protocol. That feature contributes to making SpookySwap decentralized. 3. By depositing BOO in the buyback BOO pool, users get xBOO in return as the share of their stake. 4. BOO tokens are also used to participate in IDO sales on FTMpad - the first IDO platform on Fantom Opera Chain How does SpookySwap work? SpookySwap offers an easy way to swap one token for another via automated liquidity pools. Like other popular DEXs on different blockchains, the swapping rate is calculated by an AMM constant-product formula x\y=k. On SpookySwap, when trading tokens, users are required to pay a 0.2% fee (0.22 for limit orders). Liquidity Providers earn 0.17% of that as BOO rewards, and 0.03% goes to xBOO holders. None of the trading fees go to any DAO treasury or development funds. When providing Liquidity, you receive spLP (Spooky Liquidity Provider tokens) representing your share in the liquidity pool. For example, by depositing $BOO and $FTM tokens into a pool, users receive BOO-FTM spLP tokens in return. Partners SpookySwap has forged deep alliances with major initiatives like as Alpha Finance (ALPHA), AnySwap, Yearn Finance Network (YFN), Beefy, and others. As a result, SpookySwap and other projects are banding together to strengthen their competitive position.

polkaswap

Polkaswap is a decentralized exchange to be launched on the Polkadot network.

Polkaswap is a decentralized exchange to be launched on the Polkadot network. It provides a standard bridging interface and will give the easy possibility to list and exchange tokens for all substrate parachains and other blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin. Polkaswap is being created with the help of a Web3 Foundation Grant. Protocol How Polkaswap Works When traders call the swap function, Polkadot's liquidity aggregation algorithm will fill the order using the best offers from liquidity sources. Liquidity sources can be represented as automated market makers, order books, or other algorithms. PSWAP token Polkaswap will enable users to create liquidity pools for token trading pairs in the Polkaswap DEX and receive PSWAP. Like Uniswap, Polkaswap will have 0.3% trading fees per transaction. Trading fees are used to buy back and burn PSWAP tokens and new PSWAP tokens are minted to reward liquidity providers (LPs). Rewards to liquidity providers start at 100% of burned trading fees and gradually goes down to a flatline at 35% of daily burned tokens after 5 years. The PSWAP token issuer will be a smart contract that will distribute PSWAP according to programmed logic and to incentivize Polkaswap growth. There are currently no plans to sell PSWAP via an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) or private sales. Distribution PSWAP tokens will be given as rewards to those who join the Kusama and Polkadot parachain auctions. As Polkaswap is being developed, the team will publish more information about the distribution of PSWAP tokens. PSWAP Utility The PSWAP token incentivizes liquidity providers, utilizing a deflationary model with respect to token supply. The 0.3% fee for every trade in the Polkaswap DEX is used to buy back PSWAP tokens. Part of these PSWAP tokens are allocated to the liquidity providers, and part are burned to decrease the token supply. At first, 100% of bought-back PSWAP tokens are allocated to the liquidity providers, but with time this percentage decreases with the burned tokens. Sora (XOR) Polkaswap will be built on top of the SORA Network. The SORA token (XOR) will be used for gas/fees and liquidity provision on Polkaswap. XOR is a useful token for liquidity provision on Polkaswap because it is "stable-ish" (minimizing impermanent loss), highly liquid (because of the token bonding curve market maker), and neutral between other Polkadot ecosystem projects, but uses DOT and KSM as reserves. Polkaswap Prices The Polkaswap protocol design allows multiple liquidity sources per token pair. Every liquidity source will have its own algorithm to determine prices. When a user calls a swap function, the Polkaswap liquidity aggregation algorithm will fill the order using the best offers from liquidity sources. Permissionless The Polkaswap protocol and traders cannot be censored or allowlisted. The developers cannot technically stop or edit the smart contracts in any way after they have been deployed. Deployment of developed code will be decided by the community and is not the decision of the developers. Polkaswap Pool There will be multiple, different pools in Polkaswap. It will start with a 50/50 XYK pool (similar to contemporary DEXs like Uniswap), and then add multiple other pool technologies to provide a better trading experience for users. Polkaswap will have a liquidity aggregation path algorithm, which will fill trades according to the best offers using multiple pools simultaneously.

presearch

Presearch is a community-powered, decentralized search engine that provides better results.

Presearch is a community-powered, decentralized search engine that provides better results while protecting users' privacy and rewarding various users when they engage in the search. PRE provides significant utility within the Presearch ecosystem, with the use cases growing constantly. Overview Presearch has become one of the biggest projects in the blockchain space by taking a pragmatic approach and focusing on users over pure technology, enabling community input and user needs to be the key drivers of the technology evolution. Presearch tokens are the unit of account within the Presearch ecosystem, representing rewards earned, advertising purchased or staked, and, in general, the value created. Using the Ethereum blockchain, Presearch has its own PRE token that operates on an open, transparent, and decentralized ledger. PRE tokens are hosted on the Ethereum platform as standard ERC20 blockchain tokens. This means that PRE is transferable to any Ethereum compatible wallet that recognizes ERC20 tokens. Token holders are able to sell their PRE directly to any business or individual interested in generating Presearch results at whatever price the seller is able to obtain for their token inventory. Presearch has developed a program and supporting sales collateral to help sellers obtain top dollar for their PRE, and also link sellers to best practices for proper invoicing, taxation, and reporting for their PRE sales to assist them with their PRE inventory. Ultimately, it is up to the seller to ensure they remain compliant with all local regulations, but Presearch would like to help sellers to stay in compliance. Tokenomics The Presearch Platform is an ecosystem focused on building out the world’s first and best-decentralized search engine, with a path to eventually becoming the best search engine in the world. The Platform will provide a search engine not controlled by a single, centralized database, for-profit corporation acting as a one-size-fits-all gatekeeper to the internet, but instead as a platform that gives you choice: Choice around privacy vs. personalization Choice around the kinds of search results you see and how you can direct the experience to your own benefit rather than algorithms driving you to content designed primarily to optimize corporate profits. Choice to receive value out of the platform, in terms of both improved experience and rewards, directly corresponding to the value which you contribute to the platform. Token Utility PRE is the means to create a giant value cycle where community members consistently both contribute and receive increasing value the more they use the platform. As more and more people run searches, advertising revenue increases, and more nodes are needed. The advertising revenue funds marketing efforts and increases referral rewards to drive more users, which further drives more searches. This increases the value that each stakeholder contributes to the network, which in turn increases the rewards they receive for the value they add. As rewards increase, there is a greater incentive for engineers and data scientists to contribute better algorithm, which in turn increases the value of the network for searchers and advertisers. Keyword Staking Keyword Staking is a revolutionary new concept being pioneered by Presearch as it builds the world’s first decentralized search engine framework. Keyword Staking enables token holders to commit or “stake” their PRE against specific words and multiword terms. With Presearch Keyword Staking, users can select a keyword (e.g., “Bitcoin”) and then stake PRE that user has purchased or earned against that term. users can then create an ad that links to the Website of your choice .

cronos-cro

Cronos (CRO) is the cryptocurrency native to Crypto.com's decentralized, open-source blockchain - Cronos Chain.

Cronos (CRO) is the cryptocurrency native to Crypto.com's decentralized, open-source blockchain - Cronos Chain. Holders of the CRO token are able to earn rewards through staking as well as receive benefits that are applicable when using any of Crypto.com's services. Cronos Chain Cronos Chain’s mainnet beta was launched on November 8th 2021. It is built on the Cosmos SDK and is also compatible with both the Ethereum Virtual Machine(EVM) and Inter-Blockchain Communication(IBC) Protocol. This allows users to import cryptocurrencies from both networks as well as DApps to be easily integrated to the ecosystem. Cronos Chain was made to have fast transaction speeds and high cost-effectiveness and utilizes Proof-of-Authority(PoA) to increase scalability. Utility CRO is central to all of Crypto.com's platforms and is used in the payment, trading and financial services offered by Crypto.com. 1. Payments: Crypto.com Pay, Crypto.com VISA Cards, Crypto.org Chain 2. Trading: Crypto.com Exchange/App 3. Financial: Crypto.com Earn/Credit/DeFi Swap Holding or using CRO comes with benefits in terms of rewards or discounts when using any of the services provided by the ecosystem. <br Staking Users are able to get discounts on trading fees when paying with CRO and are also able to receive further benefits when staking their CRO tokens. Depending on how much is staked, users are able to become eligible for different Crypto.com’s Visa cards that come with varying rewards, as well as benefit from the Crypto.com Pay platform. <br !visa cards.PNGThese rewards are paid on a weekly basis. To stake CRO, the user needs to have enough CRO for the desired staking benefit in their wallet on the Crypto.com app. This can be done by purchasing or exchanging CRO from other cryptocurrencies, or allocating the tokens from an external wallet or exchange. CRO can be staked straight to a Crypto.com Visa card. Users are also able to increase their staking amount during the initial 180-day staking period. After the staking period is complete, staked CRO can be restaked to keep the benefits or, unlocked but certain wallet benefits will be lost. Governance As a decentralized, open-source protocol, all CRO holders are able create and vote for governance proposals. To create a proposal, users need to: draft a clear overview of the proposal, including information about the team; the solution it provides; its impact on the network; a timeline and metrics for success. There are three types of proposal formats: parameter change, community pool spend, and text. Users are able to get feedback in order to improve their proposal by engaging with other community members on social platforms and revise their proposal before submitting it to the testnet or mainnet. When submitting a proposal, there is an initial deposit of 1000 CRO’s to upload the proposal and a total of 10000 CRO must be deposited during the 14 day voting period to keep the proposal open for voting. If the proposal is approved, the deposit will be returned, and the proposal will be implemented into the Cronos ecosystem. The Cronos ecosystem utilizes the Proof-of-Authority consensus algorithm, which uses ‘validators’ to double check all transactions made within blocks. In order to make sure that these validators are capable and trustworthy, they have to go through a vetting process. Once they have been verified, validators collect CRO from transaction fees and also hold Cronos Staking Tokens, which dictates each validator nodes' voting power and in turn helps maintain order and increase functionality of the governance system. History Crypto.com, co-founded by Kris Marszalek, Rafael Melo, Gary Or, and Bobby Bao was founded under the name “Monaco Technologies GmbH" back in June of 2016, alongside their native token, MCO. On July 6th 2018 Monaco was rebranded under the name of “Crypto.com”. The rebranding was an act to further consolidate and align their vision of increasing the adoption of cryptocurrencies around the world, as explained by CEO, Kris Marszalek. “Crypto.com gives us a powerful new identity in line with our original vision to put cryptocurrency in every wallet. We will strive to deliver impact worthy of the name and build infrastructure that enables growth of the ecosystem, delivering on the promise of a decentralized future.” After the rebranding, Crypto.com announced the replacement of MCO with CRO. From August 3rd 2020 to November 2nd 2020 all MCO token holders were given a window to swap all their MCO tokens for CRO. To speed up the process of transitioning from the MCO token to CRO, Crypto.com offered an early swapping bonus of 20% APR on their exchange and 18% APR for staking CRO on their app. The initial circulating supply of CRO was 100 billion. On 10th May 2021, Crypto.com announced Particle B(now known as Cronos Labs)'s $100 million fund towards projects that were built on their blockchain to further incentivize developers to expand the whole ecosystem. Partly due to this, the total value locked (TVL) reached over $2 billion, within 3 months of the mainnet going live. The CRO token burn On February 22nd 2021, Crypto.com announced that 70 billion tokens were to be burned in order to fully decentralize their Cronos Chain. On the day of the announcement, 59.6 billion tokens were burned and the remaining 10.4 billion tokens were locked into a smart contract, to be unlocked and burned monthly. After the burning of 70 billion tokens, the circulating supply drastically increased, to just over 80% - leaving 5.9 billion CRO. 0.9 billion CRO was given to Particle B for the development of the Cronos Chain ecosystem and the remaining 5 billion CRO was assigned as rewards for Chain validator and delegators. Token Distribution Following the mass burn of the CRO tokens, the new total supply of 30 billion tokens will be distributed into 5 different segments: 30% - Secondary distribution and launch incentives to be delivered in daily amounts across 5 years starting from November 14th 2018. 20% - Capital reserve that was frozen until November 7th 2022 20% - Long term incentives for the network, was also frozen until November 7th 2022 20% - Ecosystem grants 10% - Community development

casinocoin

Casinocoin is an open source, p2p, platform independent digital currency specifically designed for online casino gaming. 

Casinocoin is an open source, peer-to-peer, platform independent digital currency specifically designed for online casino gaming. Casinocoin can simply be summed up as universal casino chips. It was launched on July 18, 2013. How Does CasinoCoin Work? The idea for CasinoCoin first emerged after the online gambling industry’s infamous “Black Friday”, which took place on April 15, 2011. After this date, online casinos were effectively shut down across the United States. Online gambling platforms were forced to register with small island nations or Central American countries, and gamblers were forced to play on unregulated gambling platforms with limited transparency. CasinoCoin was designed to solve that problem. Originally released in 2013, the currency is designed to be easily transferable between games, exchanges, and gamblers. The tokens were originally described as “universal casino chips.” The original casino coin was an ambitious project that never really got off the ground. In spring of 2017, a group of developers and gambling industry professionals acquired Casino Coin (CSC). That group was called the Double C Foundation. CasinoCoin is based on XRPL blockchain technology, i.e Ripple’s revolutionary ledger technology which was intended for the financial industry. The XRPL enables fast and efficient currency transactions. The recommended wallet to store CasinoCoin is Xumm Wallet Features All the Casinos Users have facility to earn rewards by accessing Casino multiple platforms Many offers bonuses for the CSC community. Low Fees Since CasionCoin uses XRPL, the deposit and withdrawal transactions cost very low network fees. Simple Registration Simple and easy registration process helps to improve overall experience, which helps to grow relationships over the longer course of time. Trustless Storage CasioCoin doesn't rely on third parties for the storage. Users can use non-custodial XUMM wallet to store and have full control over their Casinocoins. Tokenomics CasinoCoin has a ticker symbol of ticker symbol of CSC and has a total supply of 65,000,000,000 CSC. It is available for trade on Bitrue and Stex exchanges currently. <br On April 20, 2021 CasinoCoin team initiated a token swap from the CSC Ledger (CSCL) to the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The token swap was available only in Xumm wallet and not on the exchange. The Xumm Wallet enabled an embedded migration wizard which allowed users to import CSCL and then swap to XRPL tokens. The KYC was mandatory for the process because of regulations. The Token Swap process ended on June 20, 2021. The Team CasinoCoin was acquired by the Double C Foundation in spring 2017. The Foundation’s team consists of former PokerStars Marketing Executive John Caldwell and ex-Senior Project Manager of Research & Development for Rational Group, Duncan Cameron.

squiggle-dao

Squiggle DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) for digital Art and on-chain generative art.

Squiggle DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) for digital Art and on-chain generative art. It was launched in April 2021 and founded by Erick Calderon (Snowfro). Users who hold at least one Chrome Squiggle in their Ethereum wallet automatically become a member of Squiggle DAO. Overview Squiggle DAO is a community-driven generative art platform, it is also a home for Chromie Squiggles and on-chain generative art education. The DAO also acts as a foundry for artists who want to create. Users who hold at least one Chrome Squiggle, automatically become a member of Squiggle DAO. Squiggle NFT acts as an entry pass to the Squiggle DAO Discord into a world built for Squiggle lovers. While some of the Art Blocks team are members, Squiggle DAO is an unofficial, grassroots community. The SquiggleDAO mission is to support the growth and cultural relevance of generative NFT art. Currently, their future plan isn’t known to the public, only to the members of the DAO. Users can join and help bring the Squiggly world to life, by buying a Squiggle. But those not eligible to join the DAO can also learn about the community by joining the channel for non-squiggle holders. History Art Blocks Curated Founder, Erick Calderon (Snowfro), a generative artist and technologist, created Chromie Squiggle. He has been known for his interest in on-chain generative art in 2017 and has minted several Cryptopunks back in the days. The Chromie Squiggle collection was the first generative art project listed on Art Blocks, making this collection part of the history of the on-chain generative art movement. The project started when Snowfro decided to send Chromie Squiggles to Huston’s design industry. The Chromie Squiggles were originally created to demonstrate what generative minting could do. That it was possible to create thousands and thousands of outputs without a collision (two identical pieces). He started to generate 2000 Squiggles and gave them to his clients and people in the design industry. Later on, Snowfro saw that there were almost no similar projects to the Chromie squiggles, he then thought it could be a unique and identifiable project that would be worth pursuing. Over the next two years after its first experimentation, he started modifying it and finally released it as the first project on his newly created platform, Art Blocks. Before long, the Chromie Squiggle holders created the Squiggle DAO, a community-led project and decentralized art house powered by hundreds of Chromie Squiggles owners. Chromie Squiggle Chromie Squiggles are colorful generative art NFTs that live on the Ethereum blockchain. Each squiggle is unique, generated algorithmically using data in a hash string to determine the locations of the points as well as the colors. The Chromie Squiggles collection has only 10,000 iterations possible, and each Squiggle has very different characteristics (number of points, rate of the gradient, starting color), which makes some Squiggles extremely rare. There are only 10,000 Chromie Squiggles minted. Currently, around 9,100 Chromie Squiggles have been minted into existence. Chromie Squiggles are no longer available to mint for purchase on Art Blocks. However, Chromie Squiggles can be purchased in secondary markets, like OpenSea. The last 900 Chromie Squiggles are reserved for individuals who help further the goals of the Art Blocks community. $SQUIG Token The $SQUIG token is the coordination mechanism of Squiggle DAO, it has no financial value and offers no rights or claims to assets or revenue. The purpose of this token is to enable the members of the DAO to participate in DAO governance. One $SQUIG = one vote. Some examples of how the token is used include: Nominating multi-sig holders Coordinating resources to support artists Acquiring generative art from the open market or auction Supporting other projects/platforms in the space Launching generative art exhibitions | Token ID | SQUIG | | -------- | ----- | | Token Address | 0x373acda15ce392362e4b46ed97a7feecd7ef9eb8 | | DAO Treasury | 0x56fcb471A9DdE74045830439AD6612C9aad53C19 | | Total Supply | 10,000,000 SQUIG | | DAO Treasury | 5,000,000 SQUIG | | Genesis Team | 1,000,000 SQUIG | | Community AirDrop | 500,000 SQUIG | | Bounty Program | 500,000 SQUIG | | Public Distribution | 3,000,000 SQUIG | Governance 1.0 Governance 1.0 will enable SQUIG holders to propose and participate in DAO activities via Snapshot, a popular DAO-lite framework launched by Balancer Labs and subsequently open-sourced. The SquiggleDAO Snapshot: https://snapshot.org//squiggledao.eth/. Some key initiatives include: Resourcing and launching a bounty program Expanding the use of $SQUIG to build the Squiggle DAO Treasury Grants to artists Electing key members (moderators, writers, art curators) The initial threshold to submit a proposal for a governance vote user must hold 10,000 $SQUIG. This is designed to ensure those with skin in the game have the opportunity to have greater impact on the DAO. The DAO will have the ability to change this at any time. The Squiggle DAO Treasury The Squiggle DAO Treasury holds the tokens and NFTs governed by the DAO. Squiggle DAO had a program whereby any eligible $SQUIG holder can increase their voting rights in the DAO by contributing a Chromie Squiggle to the treasury. Contribution of a Squiggle is a sign of commitment to the Squiggle DAO cause. Contributors are rewarded with more influence in the DAO's decision-making. The community donated beautiful squiggles to the treasury: 80 DAO members donated a squiggle to the Treasury The Treasury has 101 Squiggles with an estimated value of 140 ETH 367,400 SQUIG will be distributed to contributors. This brings the total community distribution to 975,400 SQUIG or \~10% of the total supply. Squiggles Merch Competition The Squiggle Community held a Merch competition, which started on September 15th, 2021, and ended on September 29th, 2021. The contestants were to make their design, a static image that included the SquiggleDAO logo, $SQUIG, or any Squiggle owned by the DAO. Contestants may choose to design a t-shirt, hoodie, and/or trucker hat. The t-shirt and hoodies may have a front and back design. The trucker hat would just be the front panel. Community-chosen designs were rewarded in $SQUIG tokens: 1000 $SQUIG — Community winner 500 $SQUIG — Community runner-up 250 $SQUIG — Community 2nd runner-up 100 $SQUIG x 2 — Community Honorable mention Collaborations Squiggle DAO x Coinvise Coinvise, an organization that helps creators build open economies on Ethereum and Polygon, has collaborated with Squiggle DAO to help build and expand the project. Team The team consists of art collectors, artists, technocentric dreamers that enjoy digital art and believe in decentralized decision-making. They also act as the Squiggle DAO Interim Governing Council. tripleg thattallguy jonas quickrider carlosgomes

poco

Poco is a new "play-to-earn" NFTs game built on the Binance Smart Chain network and Blockchain technology.

Poco is a new "play-to-earn" NFTs game built on the Binance Smart Chain network and Blockchain technology. The game offers many features such as gaming, NFT marketplace, staking, and yield farming. Overview The Poco game was designed to be similar to Axie Infinity, with the goal of allowing users to earn tokens through gameplay and donations on the Poco ecosystem. The game features wonderful characters, and users may build their own for use in forming teams and purchasing them on the NFT marketplace. The NFT gaming protocol offers numerous means of earning. With this in mind, users decide how and what they earn. Poco is an amusing game, it also comes with social networking and job platform features due to strong community and play-to-earn chances on its initial success. The Poco game entails battling, leverage renting, buying, breeding new characters, and selling to increase ranking in the Poco community while making passive income. The game is community-based. As such, users can vote on new features to be added. Partnership On the Binance Smart Chain mainnet, Poco has integrated Chainlink (Chainlink is the industry standard for building, accessing, and selling oracle services needed to power hybrid smart contracts on any blockchain) Price Feeds and Chainlink VRF. POCOLAND has access to high-quality, tamper-proof market data needed to get the real-time price of BUSD and BNB for the NFT Marketplace by integrating the industry-leading decentralized oracle network. Presently, users can securely purchase characters, equipment, and other items using BUSD and BNB as their collateral, with each transaction backed by highly accurate and reliable conversion rates. Chainlink VRF provides randomness to POCOLAND’s in-game breeding mechanism, helping to ensure that each user has a fair chance to mint the rare Pocos Players may mint and trade assets such as characters, equipment, and other in-game stuff on the Poco NFT Marketplace. Players can trade with one another to form a powerful Poco character squad, or they can sell assets to offer collateral for the chance to manufacture rare or epic Pocos. The Game (Story) No one knew when a magical realm formed, where just one creature existed, Poco, a long time ago. Before Poco arrived, the planet was completely dark, but things quickly changed, and vibrant colors began to spread throughout the earth. Poco are recognized by the natural element it contains. There are five elements in total: Dark, Light, Fire, Water, and Wind. Amongst them develop a rare breed of creatures that took a different turn in evolutionary path. A path that granted them mere godlike magical powers to have control over different natural elements. They continue to prosper and expand into their own civilization, Poco Universal, with dominant power unlike any other. Legendary battles were fought in their honor to demonstrate their strength, power, wisdom, and bravery. Yearly tournaments were organized to determine the one true champion of the planet, with participants traveling from all around Poco Land to compete. However, it is true that their tremendous dominance did not persist indefinitely, and they have found themselves weakening over time. Now, as they evolve from different clans, mingling and refining their later generation to restore their godlike status and power, they battle to identify the strongest among them to govern and save their species from extinction. How to Play and Earn There are five ways to play and earn money from Poco game: Play games, do daily quests, join events. Complete to win in PVP battles, tournaments. Sell game materials collected from gaming and tournaments on the marketplace. Exchange, buy and sell the Poco characters on the NFT market. Send poco, items through the rental service on Poco NFT marketplace to get passive income. Poco (NFT) Poco's elements The Gacha (random) mechanic is used in Egg hatching, resulting in a Poco (NFT) with the following characteristics: Five Elements: Dark, Light, Fire, Water, Wind. Four Class: Tanker, Mage, Archer, Support Four Primary Stats: Strength (Damage, HP); Agility ( Attack Speed, Armor); Intelligent (Magic Power, Skill Casting Speed, Magic Resistance), Speed (Speed. Affects turn order during battle) Five Stats from Equipment : Critical Rate, Critical Damage, Dodge Chance, HP Regen, MP Regen Four Skills: 1 Passive skill, 2 Active skills and 1 Ultimate influenced by Class Seven Rank: E < D < C < B < A < S < SR Eight Parts: Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Ears, Skin, Wings, Body, Tail. Three Forms: Baby, Master, Epic. Level: 1-29, 30-69, 70-100 Arrange the team formation: Four Pocos to be in your fighting squad In Play Mode, the pieces that make up a Poco allow for a lot of flexibility in terms of the power of Pocos or a squad. In fus, players are free to use their imagination when forming teams and pricing their Pocos on the NFT Marketplace. Evolution and Rank System Every Poco will grow through 3 phases: Baby Master Epic. Appearance of a Poco consists of 8 Parts: Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Ears, Skin, Wings, Body, Tail. How each part looks will be different as the Poco evolves Every Poco will have 7 Ranks, ranging between: E D C B A S SR. Rank System Poco do upgrade rank every time it hits the level limit (30, 40, 50,...100) in order to continue to level up (for example, Poco will need to upgrade when it reaches level 30 in order to continue to level up. level 40). When the level limit is reached, the PocoLove token, 1 Poco of the same type, and luck are required to upgrade the Poco. The higher the poco level, the lower the upgrade success rate. However, even if users fail to upgrade, they lose materials (Doesn't affect your poco). Class System Pocos belong to one of the 4 classes: Tanker, Archer, Mage, Support. A Poco’s class are classified from its core Stats and skill in its Body. The Stats include: Damage, Defense, HP, MP. Each part of Poco might develop with more than 1 Stat. Leveling System The maximum level for a Poco is 100. Leveling up requires Experience Point (EXP), which can be obtained from Daily quest, Battles and Story/Map roaming, etc. Poco’s max level will be limited by its current rank. Players should prioritize Ranking Up their Pocos to unlock their potential. Stats System Primary Stats: Strength, Agility, and Intelligence Primary Stats are influenced by Class. A Poco’s ace reveals its potential: Tanker: high Strength Mage: high Intelligence Archer: high Agility Support: balanced <strongSecondary Stats</strong: Secondary Stats are reflected by Primary Stats <strongStrength</strong: HP, Defense: damage resistance to opponent’s attack. <strongAgility</strong: Speed: determine the attack order during the combat. Damage: attack damage, in relation to Skills and the opponent’s Defense. <strongIntelligence</strong: MP Regeneration: Mana regenerating after each turn. Resistance: chances to resist sabotaging effects from opponent’s Skills. Secondary Stats improved by Equipments: Critical Rate: increase chance of critical hit Critical Damage: increase damage of critical hit Dodge Chance: increase chance to dodge incoming attack HP Regeneration: HP recovery per second Life Steal Breeding System Pocos can be grown, then improved to higher skills, or bred with other Pocos to create new offspring, just like real-life pets. Poco and PocoLove Token are required to breed a Poco, depending on how many times the Pocos have been bred. | Breed Count | Breed Number | PL Cost | | ----------- | ------------ | ------- | | (0/5) | 1 | 150 | | (1/5) | 2 | 300 | | (2/5) | 3 | 600 | | (3/5) | 4 | 1200 | | (4/5) | 5 | 2400 | Poco Crop Poco crop is the Pocos' home, split into various plots of land that serve as homes and farms for their Pocos. Plots can be enhanced over time by combining different resources and creating ingredients found throughout the game. In addition, land-owners might find seeds on their land plots, or use the Pocos that occupy the land plot to explore resource nodes on the map. When interacting with resource nodes Pocos can find resources that can potentially be used to upgrade an individual farm or Pocos. Gameplay Battle (PVP, PVE) One-on-one conflicts are possible in the arena. In each round, a player can assemble a squad of four Poco warriors from their collection to face opponents. To be rewarded for their efforts, they must defeat their opponents. Matchups will be decided automatically by the algorithm, and will be between players with similar point totals - there will be no distinction made between player levels. These Poco games are turn-based combat games, which means that players and their units take turns joining the fight. To win, players must assemble a powerful squad of Poco warriors with complete skills (wind, water, fire, dark, light) and brilliant strategies to combine those skills in the most effective way. Concept: Four Poco are required to complete a combat formation. Before starting combat, players can arrange Poco's position or choose a pre-arranged configuration. The conflict are turn-based, which means that each turn required a set order and target. The order of attack are determined by Poco's speed. Each battle has a set time limit. If the attacking player fails to defeat all of the opponent's Poco within the time limit, the battle is declared lost. By selecting "x2," the player can increase the combat pace. PvP Rank Mode PVP Rank is based on t

ripple-labs

Ripple is a technology company which develops the Ripple payment protocol, exchange network, and provides solutions for global payments. Ripple also created XRP...

Ripple is a technology company that develops the Ripple Payment protocol and exchange network. Although XRP is often referred to as Ripple, it's important to know that XRP is an open-source digital asset independent of Ripple, which is a technology company. Founded in 2012 and originally named OpenCoin and renamed Ripple Labs in 2013 and rebranded Ripple in 2015. Ripple is a global payment network with major international banks and financial services providers as its customers. Overview Ripple is the company behind XRP, and it’s a payment settlement system and currency exchange network that can process transactions globally. Ripple is a money transfer network designed to serve the needs of the financial services industry. Ripple was designed from the very beginning to essentially be a replacement for SWIFT (a leading money transfer network) or to otherwise replace the settlement layer between major financial institutions. As the Ripple community expanded, Ripple created the XRPTalk, which spanned off from Bitcoiltalk. The XRP Talk forum was the main catalyst behind the growth of the XRP community and it was replaced by XRPChat, which has grown to become one of the largest in the cryptosphere. Ripple added Escrow and Payment Channels, which helped boost its scalability and performance. The new features enable companies to adopt the Ripple Consensus Ledger (RCL), and the Interledger Protocol (ILP). This allows them to benefit from XRP technology, as they experience faster and cheaper cross-border payments.!Ripple Cross border payments.webp History 2004 Ripple Project((Ripplepay.com) was founded by Ryan Fugger who is the predecessor of the current XRP ledger. 2005 Ripplepay.com launched. 2011 Jed McCaleb started developing a digital currency system (XRP Ledger) together with David Schwartz and Arthur Britto. 2012 Chris Larsen and Jessie Powell joined Jed McCaleb to discuss the concept of the digital currency system. Ryan Fugger passed over the ownership of Ripplepay to Jed MeCaleb's team. Jed McCaleb's team founded OpenCoin Inc. in September 2012. 2013 Opencoin was rebranded to Ripple Labs in September 2013. 2015 Ripple Lab was rebranded to Ripple in October 2015. 2016 Launched the Global Payment Steering Group to oversee the creation and maintenance of Ripple payment transaction rules, formalize standards for activity using technology and other actions to promote the implementation of Ripple payment capabilities. Santander became the first bank in the United Kingdom to use Ripple for cross-border payment. 2017 Ripple signed with 10 new banks including Axis Bank and Yes Bank in India, Akbank in Turkey and BBVA bank in Spain. 47-bank consortium from Japan joined Ripple and other 57 big customers from America and other regions joined the platform. Received a boost from Kraken adding four different XRP trading pairs, including XRP/CAD, XRP/JPY, XRP/EUR, and XRP/USD. 2020 XRP Ledger (XRPL) Foundation was established in September 2020 and raised $5.5 million from Ripple, Coil, and GateHub. XRPL Foundation is an independent and nonprofit entity with a mission to accelerate the development and adoption of the decentralized XRP Ledger. !XRPL Foundation.jpg 2021 Ripple announced a plan to launch its Liquidity Hub in 2022 to help financial services firms offer their customers the ability to buy and sell. Liquidity Hub is a turn-key liquidity and global payout platform, built specifically for enterprise needs supporting a variety of digital assets and connecting organizations to a rich set of liquidity venues to source optimized pricing via smart order algorithms. Technology XRP Ledger Technology The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is a decentralized public blockchain that allows for the fast, low-cost, real-time transfer of XRP, fiat currencies, and other digital assets. It is also open source, meaning anyone can participate in its development. XRP Ledger was created in 2012 by Ripple co-founder and CEO Chris Larsen. Initially, it was used to power the Ripple payment network, but it has since been adopted by other companies such as Coil and Omni to innovate upon diverse Web3 implications. XRP Ledger is a decentralized platform allowing for peer-to-peer asset transfer. A consensus algorithm validates connections on the network, which makes the network incredibly fast and secure. Ripple Consensus Algorithm Consensus algorithms are solutions designed to address something known as the “Byzantine Generals’ Problem. In the case of Bitcoin, it uses the Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm, while Ethereum uses the Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm to address the problem. The Ripple Consensus Algorithm helps the protocol address the issues faced by the current system of cross-border transfers. Current systems take days to settle a transfer and are opaque, which means the receiver has no idea when they will receive the funds in their account. On the other hand, Ripple addresses transactions in mere seconds. The Ripple Protocol Consensus Algorithm relies on nodes that verify transactions by reaching a consensus. However, the consensus algorithm makes it impossible for validators to agree to a malicious transaction. Use Cases Ripple Liquidity Hub Liquidity Hub is a turn-key liquidity and global payout platform, built specifically for enterprise needs. With Liquidity Hub and Ripple’s suite of products, businesses can access optimized crypto liquidity and an extensive payout rail network to power crypto payments, crypto treasury operations, and a variety of other solutions. !Ripple Liquidity Hub.jpeg Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Complete platform for minting, managing, transacting, and destroying CBDCs. Each solution is built on a private ledger that is based upon XRP Ledger technology—a proven blockchain that has transacted over 70 million times over the course of 10 years and is trusted by financial institutions around the world. Partnership / Collaboration Novatti Novatti uses Ripple's payments solution to drive customer growth. Novatti is a leading digital payments company that enables businesses across 58 countries- from corner stores and startups to global organizations - to pay and be paid from any device, anywhere. Modulr Molulr is a leading embedded payments platform in the UK and Europe, enabling customers to make payments 24/7, 368 days a year in seconds. Ripple enables Modulr to deliver seamless payments. Tranglo Tranglo is one of Asia's leading cross-border payments hubs providing 25 countries with technology that makes cross-border transactions faster, affordable and more secure. Tranglo partnered with Ripple to provide accessible and equitable financial services to the public. I-Remit I-Remit is the largest Filipino-owned non-bank remittance service provider in partnership with more than 100 financial institutions in 30 countries across the globe. Ripple helps I-Remit provide low cost, real-time cross-border payments around the world. MoneyMatch MoneyMatch is a Malaysia-incorporated FinTech company focused on delivering a more efficient cross-border payments service by providing same-day, low-cost global payments to both SMEs and individuals. MoneyMatch and Ripple make it cheaper and faster for Malaysian small and medium enterprises to pay global suppliers. Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) SCB is Thailand’s longest established bank and one of the largest banks in terms of market capital assets, offering four models for inbound services with more than $300M. Ripple helps SCB drive innovation with instant cross-border remittances. Sentbe Sentbe is a financial services firm based in Korea and Singapore offering online international remittances across Southeast Asia and beyond. Ripple helps Sentbe provide faster, cheaper and convenient remittances for migrant workers in Korea. MoneyNetint MoneyNetint is a financial services company based in the U.K. providing cross-border receipts and payments to corporate clients around the world. RippleNet gives MoneyNetint easy access to new corridors. Issues / Criticism Legal Issues Ripple Labs Inc. resolves criminal investigation May 2015 - Ripple Labs Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, XRP II LLC, formerly XRP Fund II LLC, agreed to resolve a criminal investigation in exchange for a settlement agreement calling for a series of substantial remedial measures, including a migration of a portion of Ripple’s virtual currency business to a separate entity, the company’s ongoing cooperation in other investigations, an extensive remedial framework to ensure future compliance with federal laws and forfeiture and penalties totaling $700,000, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag of the Northern District of California, Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery of the U.S. Treasury Department Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Chief Richard Weber of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation Division. SEC charges Ripple and two executives December 2020 - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it filed an action against Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its executives, who are also significant security holders, alleging that they raised over $1.3 billion through an unregistered, ongoing digital asset securities offering. The complaint alleged that Ripple raised funds, beginning in 2013, through the sale of digital assets known as XRP in an unregistered securities offering to investors in the U.S. and worldwide. Ripple also allegedly distributed billions of XRP in exchange for non-cash consideration, such as labor and m

duckdao

DuckDao is a Digital asset incubator whose primary aim is to grow promising projects into their full stature.

DuckDao is a Digital asset incubator whose primary aim is to grow promising projects into their full stature. It is a Decentralized and democratized platform that offers various earning strategies to Crypto investors. Furthermore, it opens up its users to several investment opportunities regardless of their invested capital. About DuckDao As earlier introduced Duckdao is an incubator that helps promising projects achieve their full potential by leveraging the investment power and buzz making potential of the community. It aim to democratize access to investment opportunities that were previously available only to well-heeled investors and venture funds, opening up the closed ecosystem of early-stage Cryptocurrency project investments to everybody. How Duckdao Operates Duckdao looks to break the cycle of early-stage investments in high-potential Cryptocurrency projects, which typically see large traditional VCs buy out stacks of tokens in strategic, seed, and private sale investment rounds at far lower prices than retail investors got during the public sale. These VCs (Venture Capitalist) would then dump their holdings on retail investors to secure an easy profit, while simultaneously damaging sentiment surrounding the project. Duckdao creates a context that supports a healthy and sustainable relationship with its users and a fair opportunity for them. This is in contrast to other platforms where large Venture Capitalists try to make easy profit from retail investors. Duckdao supports the mutual growth of all projects and investors to create lasting success for all. Classification of DuckDao Participation in Project DuckDao involvement with projects can be classified into three distinct tiers: Tier 1 (Incubation Level): Duck works with projects from their very beginnings up until the points they are listed on an exchange — plus more in aftercare. Incubated projects benefit from a range of marketing, advisory, and listing services to help catapult the project to success. Tier 2 (Strategic Contribution Level): In this Tier, Duckdao enables projects to leverage on its influence on social media platforms such as Twitter. Tier 3 (General Contribution Level): At this stage, the platform has no involvement in the projects. They only manage OTC sales and community requests. Duckdao has made great impacts in the fundraising space through its community-backed activities. Decentralizing Opportunity: How it Works When Duckdao partners with projects, such projects would allocate tokens to Duckdao users. These tokens are then shared to users who have joined the platform’s token-permissioned telegram communities. The Duckdao token (DuckDaoDime or DDIM) gives users access to the available community tiers. This, in turn, provides them with many benefits. Access to each membership tier can only be granted to Ducks who have at least a fixed minimum number of DDIM tokens in their wallet. To gain access to the Duck membership groups, the requirements are: The Duck Fightclub: 10 DDIM Beach Club: 200 DDIM Gentlemen’s club (VIP): 2,500 DDIM Diamond Club (VIP): 10,000 DDIM Duck Allstars Club: Top 10 DDIM Uniswap Ducks (members of the DuckDAO) can access DDIM either through community events or by purchase on @Uniswap. Users are automatically removed from a group once their DDIM balance falls below the required amount. Furthermore, a larger percentage of the allocation received from projects are distributed to customers in the highest tier (Duck Allstars Club). Regardless, DuckDAO ensures a fair distribution of the allocation. DuckStarter DuckSTARTER is DuckDAO’s public token launchpad, a service platform for blockchain projects. It will act as the final bridge between early-stage projects and the community before the project goes fully public. Contributions to DuckStarter projects can be done with USDC DuckStarter has a unique level system which requires users to lock-in a certain amount of DUCK tokens to participate in the launch platform. Duck Liquidity Pool Duck Liquidity Pool, the brainchild of DuckDAO, refers to the name of the DuckDAO DeFi market maker. Users can deposit funds to DUCK-based liquidity pools through Uniswap and earn tokens via deployment through smart contracts. Consequently, the LP tokens received after deposits are made can be staked on the DUCK farm. Stacking on DUCK Farm allows users to earn DUCK tokens and market maker rewards. When users contribute to the Duck Liquidity Pool, they are rewarded with the DUCK tokens. There are several ways through which duck farmers can earn these tokens: Contributing to DUCK liquidity pool on Uniswap NFT rewards distribution of market-maker rewards project token airdrops. Tokenomics The economy of the tokens on DuckDAO is managed in a way to create fair incentives for its community members. Exactly 80,000 tokens are used as rewards for community members for: active involvement on social media participating in deals interactions with projects during AMAs. Around 40,000 tokens go to the five Duck team members when a deal lists in profit. They will also get rewarded when a deal has been successfully closed. After these, they won’t be awarded any more than the allotted quota and are subsequently required to purchase on the market. The reserved 500,000 tokens are at the mercy of the Allstars team as the tokens are locked. For them to be unlocked, more than half of the top ten individuals have to vote in favour. The move to unlock tokens is only allowed in any of these situations: liquidity is needed for an exchange The token price needs to be adjusted liquidity is needed to reward members Depending on demand, the Duck team may propose to use part of the reserved 500,000 tokens as part of a sale or airdrop. Out of a total supply of 100,000,000 DUCK, about 22% pre-mined tokens are for sale to fund the DuckDAO liquidity pool, 70% is reserved and used as reward for liquidity providers through yield farming, 7% of the operational tokens are locked, while 1% is reserved for the core team.

the-open-network-toncoin

The Open Network (TON), also known as TON Blockchain, is a decentralized layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain created by the encrypted messaging platform...

The Open Network (TON), also known as TON Blockchain, is a decentralized layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain created by the encrypted messaging platform, Telegram in 2018. The multi-blockchain architecture of The Open Network provides a platform for decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts. It consists of a master chain, multiple working blockchains, and sharding protocols. The Open Network (TON) is a community-driven blockchain with a flexible architecture and focus on serving a typical consumer. In September 2021, the network processed a then-world record of 55,000 TPS during a contest, although reports suggest that current TPS could reach up to the hundreds of thousands or even millions. This high TPS rate and validation is seen as a key factor in the project's rapid growth and is thought to help avoid performance losses, while also having a low environmental impact. History Since 2017, the team at Telegram had been developing a new blockchain platform called the TON (Telegram Open Network) Blockchain and a native cryptocurrency called Gram. TON is a blockchain project created by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov to build a platform that disrupts the decentralized application space by leveraging Telegram’s wide user base. The platform promised the speed and scalability important for the mass adoption of cryptocurrency. Through TON, Telegram users were supposed to be able to buy, transfer, and store value in ID-verifiable wallets facilitated by the GRAM coin. Telegram and its affiliates had not made any promises or commitments to develop any applications or features for the TON Blockchain or otherwise contribute in any way to the TON Blockchain platform after its launch. Rather, the Telegram team hoped that the decentralized community of third-party developers would contribute to the TON ecosystem through the development of applications and smart contracts. In January 2018, the team released a white paper and a detailed technical paper which gave an insight into the features and design of the project. TON was described as a platform for decentralized apps and services with the ability to scale and support millions of transactions per second. Gram Gram was the native cryptocurrency Telegram planned to launch to establish a platform for decentralized applications (dApps). In order to fund the development of Telegram and the TON blockchain project, Telegram attracted investments through a private Gram offering. A two-step legal scheme was employed: the Gram purchase agreement was structured as a future contract that allowed investors to receive tokens once TON launched. As futures were only sold to accredited investors, the offering was exempt from registration as securities under Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, on the basis that once TON was operational, the Grams would have utility and would not be considered securities. The offering ran in 2 rounds, each taking in $850 million. The first round offering was 2.25 billion tokens at $0.38 each, with a minimum purchase of $20 million, and the second offering was 640 million tokens at $1.33 each, with a minimum purchase of $1 million. As of April 2018, the firm had reported raising $1.7 billion through the ongoing ICO. Development of TON The development of TON took place in an isolated and opaque manner. The launch of the testnet was initially scheduled for Q2 2018 with the mainnet launch in Q4, but the milestones were postponed severally. The testnet was launched in January 2019 with a half a year deviation from the plan. In May 2019, the company released the lite version of the TON blockchain network client. In September 2019, the company released the complete source code for TON nodes on GitHub, making it possible to launch a full node and explore the testnet. The launch of the TON main network was scheduled for October 31, 2019. Telegram vs SEC SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) had concerns about Gram's private sale and contacted Telegram about it, but after months of communication, both sides did not come to an understanding. On October 11, 2019, a few weeks before the planned TON launch, SEC obtained a temporary restriction order to prevent the distribution of Grams. SEC argued that the initial purchasers of Gram would be acting as underwriters, and the resale of Gram, once distributed, would be an unregistered distribution of securities. After a lengthy legal battle between Telegram and the SEC, Judge P. Kevin Castel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York agreed with SEC that the sale of Grams, the distribution to initial purchasers, and the highly likely future resale should be viewed as a single "scheme" to distribute Grams to the secondary market in an unregistered security offering. The "security" consisted of the whole set of contracts, expectations, and understandings around the sale and the distribution of tokens to the interested public, and not only the Grams. In this case, the initial purchasers acted as underwriters that planned to resell tokens not consume them. The restrictions on Gram distribution remained in force for purchasers based in and outside the U.S., as Telegram had no tools to prevent U.S. citizens from purchasing Grams on the secondary market. Following this development, The Telegram Open Network team announced that they would be unable to launch the project by the expected 30 April 2020 deadline. On May 12, 2020, Pavel Durov announced the end of Telegram's active participation with the TON blockchain. On June 11, 2020, Telegram settled with SEC U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and agreed to return $1.22 billion as "termination amounts" in Gram purchase agreements, and pay an $18.5 million penalty to SEC. Telegram also agreed to notify the SEC of any plans to issue digital assets over the next three years. The judge approved the settlement on June 26, 2020: "New and innovative businesses are welcome to participate in our capital markets, but they cannot do so in violation of the registration requirements of the federal securities laws," Kristina Littman, chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s Cyber Unit, in a statement. In 2020, Telegram repaid TON investors $770 million and converted $443 million into a one-year debt at 10% interest, raising its total liabilities to $625.7 million. On 10 March 2021, Telegram made the placement of 5-year bonds worth $1 billion to cover the debts it returned by 30 April 2021. Post-SEC Since TON (Telegram Open Network) was developed as an open-source software project and its code was publicly available on GitHub, other projects started to develop the technology. On May 7, 2020, the Free TON project was launched, which used the available TON technology developed. By January 2021, the community of the project reached 30,000 people. Free TON's token titled "TON Crystal" or just "TON" was distributed as a reward for contributions to the network. Of 5 billion tokens issued at the moment of launch, 85% were reserved for users, 5% for validators, and 10% for the developers (including 5% dedicated to TON Labs, the developer of TON OS middleware for TON blockchain, which is the essential part of Free TON). On June 29, 2021, the Telegram team said they would consider granting the use of the ton.org domain and GitHub repository to the TON Foundation, in response to an open letter. By August 4, 2021, the domain was transferred to the TON Foundation. TON Foundation After Telegram quit the project in May 2020, an open-source developer community led by Kirill EmelyanenkoK and Anatoliy Makosov initiated NewTON open-source community aimed at further development and support of TON on the open source principles. Developers who never worked for Telegram, members of the open developer community, validators, winners of public TON Blockchain Contests, and crypto enthusiasts from all over the world joined them. Upon researching TON source code, architecture, and documentation, NewTON resumed developing in compliance with the original whitepaper and ideas. In May 2021, the NewTON team was renamed as TON Foundation (The Open Network)— a not-for-profit community focused on the support and development of the network. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on December 23, 2021, published a post on his official Telegram channel that gave backing to the TON Foundation project. “When Telegram said goodbye to TON last year, I expressed the hope that future generations of developers would one day carry on with our vision of a mass-market blockchain platform, So I was inspired to see the champions of Telegram’s coding contests continue developing the open TON project, which they rebranded to Toncoin.” - he wrote. TONCOIN The Telegram native crypto \- Gram was rebranded into TON coin (The Open Network) after the abandoned project was taken over by the TON Foundation in 2020. TON coin is the principal cryptocurrency of The Open Network (TON) blockchain, and in particular of its masterchain and basic workchain. It is used for transaction fees, securing the blockchain through staking, deciding how the network develops, gas payments (i.e., smart-contract message processing fees), and settling payments. Background In November 2019, Telegram Open Network testnet2 launched and 5 billion coins were minted, with a small fraction (1.45%) distributed to developers and testers. In May 2020, after the SEC prohibited Telegram from issuing Grams to investors, Telegram ceased its work on the TON ecosystem and testnet2 tokens were placed into

epichero

EpicHero  is the world's first play-to-earn game, rewarding NFT...

EpicHero is the world's first play-to-earn game, rewarding NFT holders with 7% BNB on token transactions and a 1% NFT marketplace transaction tax. Players simply keep the EpicHero NFT in their wallet, providing the EpicHero NFT bearer with significant passive revenue over time. Overview EpicHero is an answer to NFT holders' passive income rewards and an NFT burning mechanism. With the support from Thoreum, EpicHero brings its battle-tested tokenomics in Defi and to NFT gaming. EpicHero is the world first reflection rewards NFT, it means the longer users hold their NFT the bigger the amount of dividend they get in BNB, it gives holders the incentive to hold to collect the dividend and with highly limited numbers, this feature makes the NFT look more attractive in the long run because everyone desires to have it. EpicHero NFT is extremely rare, and because of the NFT merging (burning) mechanism, it will become much rarer over time. Users can choose two heroes to merge into a new one with better attributes or rarity, so the number of heroes will be decreased a lot over time. A 10% tax is paid on each EpicHero NFT transaction conducted in the Thoreum NFT Marketplace to allow EpicHero NFT passive reflection rewards. The remaining NFT holders receive half of these taxes in the form of BNB reflections, while the other half is used to fund game development, advertising, and marketing. Features of EpicHero 1. The first NFT game in the world, and the only one till now, that rewards NFT holders with BNB reflection. 2. Battles with thousands of people on BSC, potentially including thousands of NFTs competing at the same moment for actual prize money. 3. True 3D NFTs with distinct appearances and stunning images that users are proud to own and show. Users may now watch their NFT in full 3D mode, rotate, zoom in, and view in a magnificent 360-degree panorama for the first time. Epichero Token EpicHero ($EPICHERO) is the token that powers the EpicHero NFT game. Users can use $EPICHERO in-game or just hold it to earn Thoreum reflection rewards. Winning battles, fulfilling quests, or simply playing games will earn users $EPICHERO. While $EPICHERO tokens are regularly produced as game rewards, they are also consumed through a variety of in-game events such as summoning a new hero, growing a hero to the next level, merging two existing heroes to form a new one, and many more. These burns aid in restoring supply balance. $EPICHERO is also required for expenses when challenging dungeons and upgrading the equipment. Users can also use $EPICHERO to hire other player's heroes to form a team together, etc. $EPICHERO can be obtained by mining, by participating in daily works. $EPICHERO can also be traded through the DEX platform. $EPICHERO Use Cases NFT Farming Game Incentives. Gameplay utility Governing $EPICHERO Transfer Tax All $EPICHERO transactions on PancakeSwap are subject to a 5% purchase tax and a 15% sell tax. The first half of these taxes is returned to $EPICHERO token and NFT holders in the form of $THOREUM and $BNB reflections, while the second half is used for game development, advertising, and marketing expenses. Tokenomics Initial Burn: 50% Angel investors rounds: 5%. Distribution: 1 month full locked, then 0.4% weekly. Advisors: 2.5%. Distribution: 2 months full locked, then 0.5% weekly Team : 5%. Distribution: 2 months full locked, then 1% weekly Foundation: 10% Marketing, Audit, Exchanges, etc. + 2.5% partnership Game Incentives (farming, PvP, PvE, prizes) : 17.5% Airdrop: 1.25% Public sale: 5% Liquidity: 1%. ITO fee: 0.25%. Epichero NFTs EpicHero's gather, trade, and game-focused ecosystem is powered by EpicHero battle card NFTs. To play EpicHero, the future battle card game, each player must have at least one NFT card. Players need larger decks in future games like 3 against. 3, 5 vs. 5, and Thousands vs. Thousands. Every battle card is unique and varies in class, rarity, element, and strength. This makes certain cards more desirable than others for players, traders, and collectors alike. Users can connect their BSC wallets to the EpicHero DApp and purchase, view, trade, and combat NFTs. Battle cards in EpicHero have stats and features that have direct in-game effects. The scarcity of attributes possessed by an EpicHero card determines its value. EpicHero cards' distinguishing features The number of stars on the card indicates the rarity tier (ranging from I, common, to VII, rarest). The numerical values represent card strength and indicate the card's in-game advantage. Finally, each EpicHero NFT is given a 10-element elemental icon, which is also represented on the card. The advantaged card will gain a damage boost if the card's element has an elemental advantage over another card in battle. EpicHero 3D NFT cards (Rarity distribution) EpicHero cards vary in rarity and stats. Table 1 below shows the distribution of rarity tiers from Genesis Hero battle card mints. High rarity tiers. After opening "The Genesis Mysterious Box", the users can randomly own one Rarity Level. There are a total of 7 levels: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Super Rare, Legendary, Mythical, and Epic. The distribution of rarity tiers from Demi Hero battle card mints. High rarity tiers can only become rarer in the future. After opening The Demi Mysterious Box, users can randomly own one Rarity Level. There are a total of 4 levels: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Super Rare. Genesis Hero vs Demi Hero Many people believe it is impossible to play the EPICHERO 3D NFT game because the heroes are too expensive; the current price of a genesis hero is around $650, while the EPICHERO price has increased by 450 percent from the presale price of $0.2 to the current price of $0.9 and is still rapidly increasing. Furthermore, there are only 25,000 genesis heroes, and the floor of each hero is already more than 1 BNB, making it challenging for some users to own heroes. Price Genesis Hero costs 10,000 THOREUM/chest + 500 EPICHERO to open Demi Hero costs 500 THOREUM + 25 EPICHERO to summon Rarity Genesis Hero have a starting star level from 1 to 7 (Epic) Demi Hero have a starting star level from 1 to 4 ( Super Rare) Double Reflection rewards Genesis Hero: Double BNB passive reflection rewards: earn 7% of each buy&sell of EpicHero token and 5% of each EpicHero NFT transaction on the marketplace. Demi Hero: Double Thoreum passive reflection rewards: earn 5% of each Demi Hero transaction on the marketplace then earn 8% in THOREUM every $THOREUM buy & sell transaction from holding $THOREUM in a wallet. Double Staking rewards Genesis Hero: Double staking rewards: earn $EPICHERO from Genesis daily tasks and other gaming events, then earn 3% in THOREUM every $EPICHERO buy & sell transaction, just from holding $EPICHERO in a wallet. Demi Hero: Double staking rewards: earn $EPICHERO from Demi daily tasks and other gaming events, then earn 3% in THOREUM every $EPICHERO buy & sell transaction, just from holding $EPICHERO in a wallet. The ability to earn the staking reward of a demi hero is 1/20 of a genesis hero at the same level and rarity. By introducing Demi hero into the game, new players can now experience all of EpicHero’s amazing features at a low investment cost. Element Advantages Epic Hero elements have power relations and can be strategically used to change the flow of the battles. A Hero of a certain element does more damage to a hero of the against type, and takes less damages from them. A Hero of Fire/Light does more damage to a hero of Metal/Thunder, and takes less damages from them. A Hero of Metal/Thunder does more damage to a hero of Wood/Wind, and takes less damages from them. A Hero of Wood/Wind does more damage to a hero of Earth/Darkness, and takes less damages from them. A Hero of Earth/Darkness does more damage to a hero of Water/Ice, and takes less damages from them. A Hero of Water/Ice does more damage to a hero of Fire/Light, and takes less damages from them. Heroes Attributes Endurance: Endurance represents health and endurance, the value of life, so physique is essential for every class. In addition to health, the Endurance also determines the possibility of a character being affected by debuffs. How to own an Epichero NFT 1. Buying a Mysterious Chest and summoning a Genesis Hero Users can buy mysterious chest through the Mysterious Chest page. Users need to pay 10,000 Thoreum Tokens for each mysterious chest. In the future, users can pay with any tokens in the Thoreum Alliance with discounted price ( ThunderADA, ThunderBNB, ThunderCAKE, ThunderETH and more). After that, users can open their chest using EpicHero. The users need to pay 500 EPICHERO ( this number will be dynamically adjusted based on EpicHero price, but only up not down) to open a chest. 2. Purchasing a Demi Chest to summon a Demi Hero Users need to pay 500 Thoreum & 25 EpicHero Tokens to summon a demi hero. They can also use Thoreum Alliance (ThunderCake, ThunderBNB, ThunderADA, ThunderETH) tokens & EpicHero tokens to summon a demi hero. 3. Summoning a Hero through Breeding System 4. Summoning a Hero through Merging System How to earn with EpicHero Hold EpicHero in wallet earn Thoreum - 3% each EpicHero token buy&sell Hold Thoreum in wallet earn Thoreum - 8% each Thoreum token buy&sell Hold Genesis NFT earn BNB - 7% each EpicHero token buy&sell, 5% each Genesis NFT transaction on Genesis marketplace. Hold Demi NFT earn Thoreum - 5% each Demi NFT transaction on Demi marketplace.

al-cabones

Al Cabones is an NFT network of organized crime groups based on the blockchain.

Al Cabones is a network of organized crime groups based on the blockchain. The collection consists of 10,000 wanted skeleton mobsters each carrying their own history of ruthless crime. Overview Al Cabones is also an underground society of 10,000 unique skull mobster NFTs. The six different mobster families, determined by the background of user Al Cabone (Boneannos, Corelebones, Gambones, Colombones, Rambones, and Napolebones). Each family is in an active rivalry with the other. Traits Each mobster has been programmatically generated from 150+ attributes across traits ranging from Clothes, Eye Accessories, Head-Gear, and many more. All 10,000 are uniquely notorious but some have scarcer traits than others. Each mobster is completely unique, with over 150 traits and millions of possible combinations. Besides getting full commercial use rights of their Al Cabones, holders are entitled to a membership that will provide them with special perks & exclusive benefits. Hiding a fugitive is risky and so should be rewarded. Mint It will cost 0.066 ETH + gas to mint an Al Cabone. There is a maximum of 15 Al Cabones that can be minted per TX. The floor price Each Alcabons are represented by a placeholder image on the explorers or Open Sea. The pre-sale of 3000 NFTs at a floor price of 0.03 ETH each got sold in six minutes. The public sale of 7000 NFTs at a floor price of 0.06 ETH started on 29th Aug at 9 PM UTC. But still, the current price of the token on the open market is around 0.47 ETH which means, there is a listing gain of about 1000% for the NFT. Team Monty (@Vincentvncough) Project Manager Mahmoud (@mahmoud89) Developer Haych (@MisterNameless) Co-Founder/Marketing Rumah Artist Zach Co-Founder/Front-end Design Roadmap 0%: Report of a few Mobsters being spotted in the metaverse! 10%: Unlock 1 ETH giveaway for every 2000 Mobsters minted through the website. 25%: Bring your Mobsters out! Tag us on Twitter with your Monsters. 5 random tweet will be selected for the special airdrop. Community wallet filled with 5 ETH. 50%: 25 Mobsters will be airdropped for 25 random holders. Two 1/1 NFT airdrops to most active members on twitter and discord. Community wallet filled with 10 ETH. 75%: Tales on the history of crime by Al Cabones released. Community wallet filled with 10 ETH. Donation to a charity of our community's choice (Voted on) 100%: Weapons will be distributed to every holders, let the blood spills. Community wallet filled with 20 ETH.

moonbirds

Moonbirds is a collection of 10,000 Ethereum NFTs featuring pixelated owl characters with randomized traits and features, giving holders intellectual property r...

Moonbirds is a collection of 10,000 Ethereum NFTs, each featuring a pixelated owl character with randomized traits and features. While there are shared characteristics among multiple images, no two NFTs are exactly alike. The project is similar to the Bored Apes and other profile picture (PFP) projects in regard to holders having intellectual property rights and the ability to create products, services, merchandise, and more. Moonbirds holders also have access to the PROOF Collective, a private community. PROOF Collective The PROOF Collective is an NFT-based membership club created by Kevin Rose, who is a tech founder (Digg, Revision3), Moonbirds founder, and a partner at VC firm True Ventures. Rose is a renowned NFT collector, and he converted his PROOF podcast into a private community that can be accessed with an NFT pass. It offers advantages such as free NFT drops, access to events and content, and other rewards to its holders. PROOF released 1,000 access pass NFTs in December 2021 via a Dutch Auction format, starting at 5 ETH. PROOF aims to bring together members of the NFT community, including early collectors and decision-makers, who collectively own more than 150,000 NFTs, including over 800 Bored Apes, nearly 500 MeeBits, and 148 CryptoPunks. Each PROOF NFT holder was gifted two Moonbird NFTs, which left 7,875 for the public. Moonbirds Launch In April 2022, Moonbirds released an inaugural collection of 10,000 pixelated owls, featuring firey hair, eye patches, mohawks, flower headbands, and colored eyes. Two Moonbirds NFTs were distributed to PROOF NFT holders, with the remaining 7,875 available to the NFT community. The Moonbirds collection had a set mint price of 2.5 ETH, approximately equivalent to $7,000 at the time, which was met with criticism from the NFT community regarding its level of accessibility. Despite this, the collection sold out within two days, and resales have been increasing on secondary marketplaces since the drop. Each Moonbird grants holders access to PROOF’s exclusive discord community and associated rewards, first dibs on PROOF’s upcoming metaverse project, Project Highrise, and additional rewards that increase in scale the longer holders keep their Moonbirds NFT. PROOF calls this process “nesting” — Moonbirds’ version of NFT staking — by which holders lock up their assets in exchange for passive crypto income, potential rewards, and other benefits. While Moonbirds are within their nesting period, they can’t be sold on secondary marketplaces. !image Growth and Leadership Challenges Following the Moonbirds launch, Kevin Rose detailed in a YouTube video that proceeds from the first Moonbirds collection will be used to build a new media company. "many different benefits are coming to collectors over the coming years and this is the very beginning of what's going to be a multi-decade journey to build a new media company" - Kevin Rose On April 25, 2022, co-founder, and COO Ryan Carson announced on Twitter that he was stepping down to focus on his NFT investment firm, the 1.21 Gigawatts fund. This was Carson’s first time mentioning he was involved in said fund. The NFT community discovered that Carson’s purchase of $580,000 worth of Moonbird NFTs, some of which were rare, on launch day from a secondary marketplace, was the reason behind his controversial exit. This has been seen as a possible conflict of interest, given that Carson had knowledge of the project's inner workings, including the rarity numbers of the collection. This is known as "NFT sniping" — when stakeholders purchase rare NFTs on secondary marketplaces at lower prices before their values increase. Kevin Rose hosted a town hall on Twitter Spaces to discuss Carson’s departure and encourage the community to remain invested in the project. Rose also stated that Carson will remain a shareholder and PROOF community member. “We are not the next Yuga Labs or Crypto Punks, we’re PROOF and we're going to keep being PROOF and we're confident that alone is a reason why we want to be here,” — Rose said towards the end of the Spaces. Around the same time on April 25, 2022, Alexis Ohanian — co-founder of Reddit, joined as an investor, with his Seven Seven Six firm investing $10 million into PROOF as it scales its media and community plans. Moonbirds Oddities The Oddities collection of Moonbirds was launched in May 2022, one month after the launch of Moonbirds, containing 10,000 'Moonbird pellets' designed by industry veteran Gremplin, artist of CrypToadz and Noun. The artwork for the collection was revealed two months later in July. Kevin Rose confirmed that the Moonbirds Oddities Twitter account is associated with the Moonbirds project and that a holder has “to be nested to be ready to receive an oddity.” !image Moonbirds Mythics Kevin Rose and Justin Mezzell introduced Moonbirds Mythics, a 20,000 collection PFP project featuring Moonbirds-inspired art, on August 30, 2022, during the Future PROOF. Holders of Oddities may be eligible to receive a Mythic when nesting Moonbirds, though the exact distribution of Mythics is highly contested and may be subject to change based on messages from Rose in the PROOF Collective Discord. Rose and Mezzell unveiled several drawings at Future Proof, emphasizing that the drawings were not final. The art featured sketches of owls, one with a black-and-white Chromie Squiggle and another with a sleeping hoodie. “I love the idea of really thinking about the Mythics being these collectors of art and culture and creativity,” — Mezzell said. !image Moonbirds DAO The Moonbirds project plans to adopt community governance through a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) set to launch by the end of February 2023. Kevin Rose's startup will associate the DAO with property worth approximately $2.6 million, including $2 million worth of ETH and approximately $500,000 worth of Moonbirds NFTs, and seven DAOs (or approximately $100,000) worth of Proof of Your Own Moonbirds NFTs. This is estimated to be 37 NFTs based on the current floor price (or the cheapest available NFTs).

cryptokitties

CryptoKitties is a blockchain collectible game built on the Ethereum where players can breed, collect and sell virtual cats..

CryptoKitties is a Blockchain collectible game built on the Ethereum Blockchain. Here users breed, collect and sell virtual cats. These virtual cats are bought and sold for Ethereum. Features CryptoKitties is a game built on the Ethereum Blockchain. Each CryptoKitty is one-of-a-kind and 100% owned by the user. This is made possible by the use of NFT (or Non-Fungible Tokens) technology. Non-Fungible Tokens are special types of tokens that represent ownership of a unique asset on the Blockchain. These tokens cannot be replicated, taken away, or destroyed. Every CryptoKitty is a NFT and the user buying it has its true ownership. The supply of kitties is limited by certain factors such as reproduction rate, which decreases every time they are bred. The first generation requires under an hour of rest time after having a kitty; After 6 breeding cycles, the slowest generation takes 1 week between each breeding cycle before they can reproduce again. The kitties can be bred with one another to produce a new CryptoKitty. The baby kitties are born into with a combination of their parents' genetics. 1. Some of the kitties were being sold for over $100,000 worth of Ethereum. The CryptoKitties have complex personalities and profiles describing their occupation, hobbies and interests. There are detailed character descriptions of the CryptoKitties. Some of the kitties are Dispensary clerks, Metallica fans, or Chanel shoppers. CryptoKitties had 11% of the total ETH volume in the days following the release. It was a viral game that spread in popularity rapidly. this was worth close to $100 million in volume within 24 hours. By the end of 2017, Cryptokitties got so popular that it amounted to 12% of the total transactions occurring on the Ethereum network thereby clogging it. The most expensive feline, named Genesis, was sold for 246.9 ETH which amounts to about $114,000. Genesis was actually the first cryptocat to come around. Genetics Different kitties are more rare than others, based on Genetic traits that appear less often. These can be Recessive causing the specific Phenotypes to be more infrequent than others. For instance, there are some with large, glowing eyes, thin Mustaches that look like Salvador Dalí's mustache. !1jbaJS-72rAbw5jKR4BmGVA-1920x998.png In addition, only 18% of the total genes have been released so far, allowing for a controlled introduction of new traits into the Gene pool. Because the genome is 256 bit, there are roughly 4 billion combinations of crypto kitties. The genetic code is a long hash code and it controls things like tail size, hair style, facial gestures, stripes, spots, whiskers and even the background of the kitty. Team The creator of the kitties was McElroy Flavelle, a Virtual reality engineer. Another Software engineer, Nick Johnson. He was responsible for bug testing the site. Gameplay Players purchase, breed and trade virtual cats that have different visual features of varying levels of rarity. Players must purchase Ether cryptocurrency to join the game, and spend it to perform each breeding and trade action within the game. The virtual cats are breedable and carry a unique number and 256 bit distinct genome with DNA and different attributes (cattributes) that can be passed to offspring. Several traits can be passed down from the parents to the offspring. There are a total of 12 'cattributes' for any cat, including pattern, mouth shape, fur, eye shape, base color, accent color, highlight color, eye color, and optional wild, environment, 'purrstige' and 'secret'. Other features like cool down times are not passed down but are instead a function of the 'generation' of the offspring, which is one more than the 'generation' of the highest 'generation' attribute. A CryptoKitty does not have a permanently assigned gender. While they can only engage in one breeding session at one time, each cat is able to act as either matron or sire. There is a 'cooldown' time that indicates how soon the cat can breed again, which goes up with the number of breeds, capped at one week. The virtual cats are static images that can only be purchased, bred and sold. The game has no goal. See Also Beanie Babies Neopets

yaxis

yAxis is a meta yield-aggregator designed to help yield

yAxis is a meta yield-aggregator designed to help yield farmers to allocate their capital to the most profitable protocols. yAxis takes advantage of the best yield farming opportunities found in yEarn's yVaults, Pickle Finance's pJars, DFI.Money (YFII), or Value DeFi. Overview yAxis is an experiment in DAO-directed yield farming where YAX holders vote regularly on which yVault/aggregator strategy to implement for user funds. This DAO also pools users' funds to minimize gas fees. When voting on YAX governance actions YAX holders can also factor in vault withdrawal fees and price-slippage/fees when converting from one underlying asset to another before deciding where to allocate funds. YAX holders could also vote and modify the protocol so that YAX holders receive a percentage of the profits yield farmers make while using yAxis. yAxis the team is developing an additional product in stealth known only as Project Y.O.D.A. for release in Q1 2021. Incentives yAxis will initially be incentivized by fairly distributing the YAX token to users who provide liquidity with underlying asset (uA)/y-asset (yA) pairs. These incentivized pools will also be used by yAxis to arbitrage vault pairs and to access capped vaults. The YAX token is intended to have no value. There will be no pre-mine and no developer fund. yAxis Roadmap Phase 1: Token distribution and yA/uA liquidity incentives (subject to change by YAX governance). yAxis total supply is 1,000,000 YAX. Tokens will initially be distributed evenly to LPs for the following Uniswap pools: ETH/yETH YFI/yYFI yCRV/yyCRV (yCRV/yUSD) sBTC/ysBTC DAI/yDAI aLINK/yaLINK Staking LP tokens will reward YAX, the yAxis governance token . Additional pools can be added based on community feedback . To avoid incentivizing high-risk behavior, APYs will not initially be published . YAX/ETH pool will be added after launch. 10% of YAX rewards will be saved in a community fund/treasury. yAxis launch time is currently to be determined. Phase 2 (executed during phase 1): Creation of the YAX DAO to direct development of the YAX protocol and additional tools. Governance may also alter YAX emission and could choose to reward early users of yAxis (stablecoin depositors) . Phase 3: Launch of the yAxis DAO-directed “vault.” Users will deposit stablecoin and receive a yAxis share token which will accrue value based on the best yVault strategies or strategies on another yield aggregator. Governance may vote for fees to be distributed to YAX holders. MetaVault yAxis's primary goal is to build a "meta" yield aggregator that chooses the best yield farming strategy. This will be a single vault that is platform-agnostic and takes advantage of other aggregator/vault products such as yVaults, APY.Finance, pJars, etc. MetaVault can be divided into two parts: The Multi-Asset MetaVault Users will be able to deposit multiple types of stablecoins and will receive a single type of token in return. This MetaVault token (MVLT) will represent the user's share of the MetaVault. The MVLT token is analogous to yVault yTokens (i.e. yDAI for the yearn DAI vault). MVLT will accrue value as the MetaVault puts the deposited funds to work in the best yield aggregator strategy. This will all be done while pooling gas, which will decrease fees that often eat away at rewards, especially for smaller depositors. When a better strategy presents itself, the MetaVault will convert deposited funds into the appropriate asset and deposit into the appropriate yield aggregator. For example, the vault may choose to switch from the DAI yVault to the sCRV pJar by withdrawing DAI from the yVault, converting DAI to sCRV, and depositing sCRV into pJar. When users wish to withdraw their funds, they simply return their MVLT to the MetaVault, which will then distribute their deposits plus interest. Users can choose to withdraw into any stablecoin. Custom Governance Platform The community will determine the MetaVault strategy by staking YAX governance tokens in a custom governance platform. YAX holders will choose from a "menu" of yield aggregators and will stake their YAX tokens in a contract that represents what they believe is the best strategy. When voting on strategy changes, YAX holders won’t just consider aggregator APY, but also strategy risks, vault withdrawal fees, and price slippage/fees from converting assets. In return for voting, yAxis community expressed interest in paying YAX voters a performance fee from the MetaVault. YAX voters are essentially signaling their preferred aggregator strategy on the governance platform. Initially, there will be a snapshot taken at regular time periods to determine if a MetaVault strategy change should take place. A separate voting mechanism will allow YAX holders who are involved in strategy voting to vote for general proposals that influence yAxis. Determining which yield aggregators should be considered for voting is one such task. The MetaVault went live on October 26, 2020 <br

polkastarter

Polkastarter (POLS) is a cryptocurrency and decentralized exchange (DEX) built for cross-China token pools and auctions...

Polkastarter (POLS) is a cryptocurrency and decentralized exchange (DEX) built for cross-China token pools and auctions, enabling projects to raise capital on a decentralized and interoperable environment based on Polkadot. On December 15, 2020, Polkastarter 1.0 Beta went live on Ethereum Ethereum Mainnet. Polkastarter 2.0 is set to launch on Polkadot in Q1 of 2021. Overview Polkastarter is a permissionless decentralized exchange (DEX) built for cross-chain token pools and auctions, enabling projects to raise capital on a decentralized and interoperable environment based on Polkadot. Polkastarter's roadmap for 2020 and 2021 includes two phases of development. Phase 1 Phase 1 will start with the launch of a minimum viable product (MVP) on the Ethereum network. The goal of this phase is to test the Swap and token sale dynamics, gather user feedback, and prepare a robust infrastructure that can be migrated to Polkadot. Q4 2020 - Phase 1 (Minimum Viable Product): Polkastarter 1.0 (Ethereum Beta) Permissionless listings Liquidity Mining Key token swap information, including smart contract, swap ratio Fixed swap public and private pools Private pools with password ideal for OTC and private-sales Anti-scam features like smart contract verification High slippage price alerts Pool swap page with features like max pool amount Max investment per user limits English, Chinese and Korean Language Phase 2 Phase 2 will see the full launch of the working product on the Polkadot environment, enabling Polkadot projects to raise funds in DOT or any other Polkadot-based tokens that the project chooses to raise. The team's vision is for Polkastarter to offer cross-chain pools and token sales, by taking advantage of Polkadot's bridges such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether. Q1 2021: Polkastarter 2.0 Multi-chain token pools (Ethereum and Polkadot) Staking for Governance Staking for Pool Rewards Community-powered featured project voting Full KYC integration Q2, Q3 and Q4 2021: Polkastarter 3.0 Cross-chain token swaps Dynamic ratio swaps Polkastarter MVP Core Features The goal for the MVP is to be a fully working fixed swap platform for ERC20 token pools, creating a marketplace that links pool creators and liquidity providers. Pool creators will be able to create and launch fixed token swaps in a permissionless environment. Liquidity providers will be able to earn and transact in these new tokens. Community incentives such as liquidity mining will be live from day one to bootstrap network effects. Fixed Swap Pools These will be fixed swap pools, in which two or more parties exchange a fixed amount of tokens for a predetermined price. In this initial prototype, pool creators will be able to enter pool details like token contract address, name of the pool, limit per address, type of pool access (public, private, whitelist), and, finally, token price. Liquidity Mining To incentivize participation in the daily token pools, the Polkastarter team is launching a liquidity mining program concurrent with MVP launch on Ethereum. In the manner of DeFi projects like Synthetix and Balancer), this program will distribute a fixed amount of POLS tokens daily. All liquidity providers will receive POLS from this as-yet-undetermined fixed amount on a pro-rata basis. For example, if there is 1000 ETH in fixed swap volume for 24 hours, a user that contributed 100 ETH of that volume will receive 10% of the total daily liquidity rewards. Liquidity providers can claim their POLS token rewards after 24 hours and will have 7 days to claim their reward tokens on the Polkastarter dashboard. Unclaimed tokens will be sent back to the rewards pool for later distribution. Staking for Pool Access For high-demand pools, access can be limited to the top liquidity and network contributors. Password protection and whitelisting are potential features that could provide additional limits. However, to best align the interests of the entire Polkastarter community, the POLS token can be used as a coordinating mechanism. For instance, if community members want access to certain token pools, they must stake POLS tokens. For projects that use the Polkastarter platform, the goal is to craft diverse token holder communities loyal to the project and invested in its long-term success. Private Pools And Whitelisting One of the Polkastarter use cases is private fundraising and closed over-the-counter (OTC) deals. To enable these, the team will launch with features like password-protected pools and address whitelisting for pool participation. Permissionless Listings Though certain Polkastarter features may be enhanced for POLS token holders, anyone will be able to use the protocol in order to create and launch fixed swap token pools. Counter-measures to prevent bot-based and malicious pools will also be integrated. Other Features Other features include anti-scam features preventing users from buying the wrong token. These include smart contract verification, smart contract information, token import alert, and high slippage alerts. All of these mechanisms work together to make users aware that they might be buying at an unfair price. In addition, the Polkastarter platform can be viewed in either dark or light mode. Polkastarter 1.0 On December 15, 2020, Polkastarter 1.0 Beta went live on the Ethereum mainnet. 6 pools for SpiderDAO, MahaDAO, and Royale were made available. Half of these pools are for public participants, and the other half exclusive to $POLS holders. Additionally, the team created a Polkastarter Token ($POLS) pool at around 3-5% discount, so they could test the Atomic Pools feature with early access participants. On Polkastarter a user will be able to participate in Standard Pool - pools where a user buys tokens and then has to wait for the pool time to finish to receive their purchased tokens, and Atomic Pools - pools where a user gets their tokens immediately after purchase. Polkastarter decided to run their security audits with two different companies: Red4Sec and Hacken. In total, they ran 4 separate audits: Fixed Swap smart contract audit with Red4Sec, Polkastarter JS audit with Red4Sec, Polkastarter web security audit with Red4Sec, and Fixed Swap smart contract audit with Hacken. POLS Token Pols token holders will be able to vote on product features, token utility, types of auctions and decide which projects get to be featured by Polkastarter. Transaction fees will be paid in POLS. POLS has a total supply of 100 million tokens, with 42.5 million sold. The tokens went for $0.025. Upon listing on Uniswap, Polkastarter will have an initial market cap of $893,750 and a fully diluted market capitalization of $5 million. Team and advisor tokens will be locked for at least one year and seed/private round investors will also be subject to a vesting schedule between 3 to 8 months. Usage of Funds 45% of the funds will be used to support the developer team. Marketing actions such as partnerships, awareness, and go-to-market strategy will account for 20% of the total funds raised. Legal and Accountancy will represent 5% of the total funds raised. 30% of funds will be used to provide liquidity to Uniswap and other exchanges. Staking for Pool Rewards Token pools on Polkastarter will incur a fixed fee, paid by the pool creator. If a pool creator receives 1000 DOT worth of a token and the fee is fixed at 1%, 10 DOT will be deducted from his purchase and added to the staking reward pool. Staking rewards will also be distributed in 24-hour cycles. If a user holds 2% of the total staked POLS during that 24-hour cycle, that user will get the equivalent of 2% of all the staking rewards for that same period. If during that period Polkastarter generated 10,000 DOT, that user will get 200 DOT. Polkastarter network users are only eligible for staking after providing liquidity to the Polkastarter pools. Contributors can lose their staking status if they stop providing liquidity to the network. Staking for Pool Access For high-demand pools, access can be limited to the top liquidity and network contributors. Password protection and whitelisting are potential features that could provide additional limits. However, to best align the interests of the entire Polkastarter community, the POLS token can be used as a coordinating mechanism. For instance, if community members want access to certain token pools, they must stake POLS tokens. Pool creators can activate POLS staking to limit pool access exclusively to POLS holders. The incentive for this type of behavior from the pool creator is a reduced fee on the total swapped funds. Staking for Governance The Polkastarter governance framework aims to build a solid and sustainable protocol for development and usage. POLS holders will be able to vote for ecosystem initiatives, new features development, liquidity rewards distribution specs, and other applications. POLS holders need to stake POLS in order to be able to vote and to submit proposals. Proposals will be first discussed off-chain on the Polkastarter governance platform. The idea of this pre-voting mechanism is to promote proposal discussion before on-chain submission. Once the proposal is ready to be submitted, there will be an on-chain vote. Every winning proposal is then reviewed and applied by the Polkastarter development and management team. Team Founders Daniel Stockhaus - Co-founder and CEO Tiago Martins - Co-founder and CTO Advisors John Patrick Mullin - Co-Founder & Council Member, Mantra DAO Matthew Dibb CEO and Founder of Astronaut and Picolo Research Pa

gavin-wood

Gavin James Wood (born April 1980) is a British programmer who is a co-founder and former CTO of Polkadot and Ethereum.

Gavin James Wood (born April 1980) is a British programmer who is a Co-founder of Polkadot Network and also a Co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum. He invented fundamental components of the blockchain industry, including Solidity, Proof-of-Authority consensus, and Whisper. Gavin Wood was also the founder and CTO of Parity Technologies (founded 2015), the organization that released the Parity Bitcoin technology stack. He coined the term Web 3.0 in 2014 and serves as President of Web3 Foundation, whose mission is to nurture cutting-edge applications for decentralized web software protocols. Education Gavin Wood attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. After graduating from Lancaster Royal Grammar School, he pursued software engineering and studied for his Masters in engineering at the University of York. For his doctoral degree, he decided on music visualization for human-computer interfacing (HCI) as the preferred field of study at his postgraduate alma mater, the University of York. Wood continued on to graduate from the University of York with a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Computer Systems and Software Engineering in 2002. He also completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at York in 2005, with a thesis titled "Content-based visualization to aid common navigation of musical audio". The thesis directly led to Moodbar, a static music visualization used in several prominent music applications on the Linux desktop. Career Before Ethereum Dr. Wood continued to expand his developer experience in the early 2000s with an extendable, yet scalable architecture of audio-signal refinement and fine-tuning with Exscalibar. After completing his Ph.D., he worked on a next-generation cross-platform game engine for Frontier Developments. In 2007, he started Quid Pro Code, a software shop where he designed and implemented the first C++ language workbench, Martta, while he consulted Microsoft Research on technical aspects of embedded domain-specific languages. In 2011, as the Technical Director at the Lancaster Logic Response, Gavin Wood used techniques from his Ph.D. to develop a system for creating real-time light shows for music, which were later deployed to London's top nightclubs. At Lancaster Logic Response, Dr. Wood also worked in the development of Noted, an extensible audio analysis and notation C++ environment. Ethereum In 2013, Gavin Wood was building OxLegal, a smart text contract editor, when he met Vitalik Buterin through a mutual friend, and it wasn't long before they came up with the idea of Ethereum, a global, open-source platform for decentralized applications. With Buterin, Wood began working on a decentralized platform that was quite similar to the cryptocurrency incumbent Bitcoin, and at the same time very different in terms of the pursuit of decentralizing the Internet. Gavin holed up with Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, Wendell Davies, and others in a beach house in Miami in January 2014. It was in Miami he coded the first functional implementation of Ethereum, known as PoC-1 or the alpha release. Dr. Gavin Wood became a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Ethereum and wrote the Ethereum Yellow Paper where the Ethereum Virtual Machine, the runtime system for smart contracts in Ethereum, is specified. It was the first formal specification of a blockchain’s state machine to be written. Over the next two years, Dr. Wood solely focused on the development of Ethereum, which included general platform architecture, the majority of the C++ Ethereum client, and the initial design of Solidity, an object-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts used by Ethereum. By 2016, Dr. Wood expanded his focus and founded EthCore, promptly raising pre-seed funding. With over sixty developers across fifteen countries, EthCore later became Parity Technologies. From Ethereum to Parity Technologies Two years after founding Ethereum, Dr. Wood went on to found Parity Technologies, a blockchain infrastructure firm for the decentralized web with Ethereum alumni Dr. Jutta Steiner (head of security auditing), Dr. Aeron Buchanan (head of finance and operations) and Ken Kappler (head of comms). At Parity, he ideated a host of projects to innovate the current decentralized application landscape that ranged from the fastest and most advanced Ethereum client, Parity Ethereum (written in Rust), to DIY blockchain frameworks like Substrate, a flexible tech stack that enables users to build their own blockchain from scratch. Dr. Gavin Wood continued his decentralized internet vision with Ewald Hesse, Dr. Ana Trbovich, and three other blockchain pioneers in co-founding Grid Singularity, which is an open Internet-based decentralized energy data exchange platform built on blockchain technology. He also has been involved in decentralized asset management for multiple blockchains with Melonport AG, in 2016. In 2017 Dr. Wood founded Web3 Foundation, a nonprofit organization focusing on decentralized internet infrastructure and technology, and started with the Polkadot network. Web3 Foundation has supported research into the Whisper protocol (conceived in 2014), which promises to allow private distributed messaging in the future of Web 3.0. The Web3 Foundation launched the “canary network” Kusama that allows developers to explore the finer intricacies of Polkadot in a real economic environment before launching their tech on the mainnet. Kusama’s launch proved to be a valuable waypoint toward the launch of Polkadot network, the sharded multi-chain interoperability network Dr. Wood co-founded after leaving Ethereum. Additionally, Gavin Wood has helped found or advise a number of additional organizations, including Blockchain Capital and Polychain Capital. Polkadot In 2016, Gavin Wood founded Polkadot, a network protocol that enables the transfer of arbitrary data, including tokens, across blockchains alongside Robert Habermeier, a Thiel fellow and member of the Rust community with a background in blockchain, distributed systems, and cryptography, and Peter Czaban, Technology director for Web3 Foundation with a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Oxford and background in defense, finance, data analytics, machine learning, and business development. He was also responsible for publishing the Polkadot whitepaper. "Polkadot is a multi-chain. The idea is that it's a blockchain, but we bundle lots of different blocks up all at the same time that can be executed in parallel. So these things can all be executed at the same time. In doing so, we create this sort of idea of a multi-chain, because every block is actually lots of different blocks that we can in principle run a hundred times the amount of transaction throughput that just one chain, like Bitcoin or Ethereum could." Polkadot raised approximately $144 million in its first token sale in October 2017, with major investors including Boost VC, Pantera Capital, and Polychain Capital. As the lead developer of Polkadot and its experimental development environment, Kusama, Wood oversaw a busy development for the project. He also worked on the DOT token redenomination event in August 2020, helping the project and the community to fight against unscrupulous exchanges that listed the “new DOT” tokens before the redenomination was concluded. "Polkadot is really like a community of chains that share their security, this means that you get guaranteed secure interoperability between the chains. Basically, the chains can send messages and those messages are guaranteed to arrive and they're guaranteed not to be in any way corrupted, they're guaranteed that the sending chain won't have reverted and then finalize some other block later because of some economic attack for example and this is crucially different because it allows you to build truly composable applications rather than just some kind of lossy network" Stepping Down as CEO On October 21, 2022, Gavin Wood announced his resignation as CEO of Parity Technologies, the corporate entity behind Polkadot. In a company blog post, Gavin Wood said he was leaving his position to spend more time on making blockchain technology more relevant to the public: “It therefore means more time to focus on the stuff which I both enjoy and where I feel that I can deliver the most value to the company’s mission. I’ll be pointing my regained focus towards exploring how we can contribute to making Polkadot and Web3 more relevant to large swathes of the population. This will begin by helping the community design and build several interesting chain-integrated social primitives which I think are crucial for us to deliver a true Web3 platform.” Gavin also mentioned that his skillset is better suited for more hands-on responsibilities like coding and design: “The role of CEO has never been one which I have coveted (and this dates back long before Parity). I can act at being a CEO well enough for a short while, but it’s not where I’m going to find eternal happiness. Anyone who has worked with me knows where my heart lies. I’m a thinker, coder, designer and architect. Like many such people, I work best asynchronously; a great day is taking 10 hours straight to think out some problem, prototype something or collapse some disparate thoughts into an article.” Gavin still remains the company’s majority shareholder and assumed the position of Parity’s new Chief Architect while Björn Wagner, the firm’s co-founder stepped into the position of CEO. Papers

linear-finance

Linear Finance is a DeFi delta-one asset protocol capable of instantly creating synthetic assets with unlimited liquidity.

Linear Finance (LINA) (founded in 2020) is a DeFi (Decentralized Finance) delta-one asset protocol capable of instantly creating synthetic assets with unlimited liquidity. The project opens traditional assets like commodities, forex, market indices and other thematic sectors to cryptocurrency users by supporting the creation of “Liquids” — Linear’s synthetic asset tokens. The protocol consists of various products like Linear.Buildr, a DApp used to manage Liquids using Linear (LINA) and other tokens as collateral. The exchange is specifically created to enable trading of a variety of Liquids with rapid confirmation times and robust security. The main goal of Linear is to provide a superior user experience with better scalability and greater speed. Linear Finance intends to provide a simple solution for users that want exposure to traditional assets while still benefiting from the features enabled only by blockchain technology. The ticker symbol is LINA and its total supply is 10,000,000,000 LINA. LINA Token LINA is an ERC-20 token built on the Ethereum network whose main purpose is as collateral for Liquids (using Buildr) and for community governance of the protocol. All token holders have access to the Linear DAO, enabling them to vote on different initiatives and proposals, helping to shape the development of the Linear Ecosystem. Overview Although Linear Finance is built on top of the Ethereum network, the protocol allows users to access other supported chains and transfer assets to them. In addition to digital assets, Linear enables customers to access traditional assets like forex and commodities through dynamic price feeds which act to solve the systemic front-running problem that occurs with many Decentralized Exchange (DEX) protocols. LINA tokens serve as the base collateral to mint Liquids. However, customers can also use other digital assets like ETH and wBTC to cover 20% of this base collateral. The Linear Exchange provides unlimited liquidity for Liquids and lowers the settlement timeframe to as low as one second per block — making it suitable for high-frequency traders and those running algorithmic trading software. One of Linear Finance’s most unique features is its proposed liquidation mechanism, which will be decided based on community governance. LINA holders are able to help choose transaction fees and how much to allocate to the insurance fund, among other options by voting. Founders of Linear (Team) | Name | Position | | ---- | -------- | | Kevin Tai | Chief Executive Officer | | Drey Ng | Chief Technical Officer | | Aedreon Marshall | Chief Marketing Officer | | Jonathan Lei | Lead Blockchain Developer | Number of Linear Coin Circulated The total supply of LINA is currently 10 billion tokens. Linear utilizes an inflationary system with a decreasing rate until a terminal floor is reached. The inflation rate is initially set at 75%, but this decreases at 1.5% per week— and is subject to modification if a consensus is achieved by the LinearDAO. Linear Finance secured a $1.8 million investment from reputable seed investors like Alameda Research, NGC Ventures and Hashed. In addition, the project conducted a small initial coin offering (ICO) in September 2020, raising a total of $310,000 by selling LINA tokens at $0.005 with a personal cap of $500 per participant. Of the total supply, 40% is reserved for staking rewards, 15% for the Linear Finance reserve, and 10% to the ecosystem. The team also has a 10% allocation, while advisors have 5% — both team and advisor tokens are subject to a vesting schedule. As per early projections by the Linear team, 40% of the LINA supply will be in circulation around 40 months after the genesis event, though this may be lower due to potential token burns. Linear Protocol’s Backbone The backbone to Linear’s protocol is the collateralized debt pool that is backed by the Linear token, DAI, and eventually other assets. So users who provide collateralized assets to the debt pool are able to create “Linear USD”. Linear USD can then be used to purchase other synthetic assets (Linear Liquids) on the exchange. The collateralized assets are then pooled to enable instantaneous liquidity and act as a counterparty. The Linear token will also act as a governance token allowing holders to vote on distribution models, future assets, oracle selection, pledging ratio, and more. The Linear Token holders in the debt pools will also receive a proportion of fees from the synthesization of assets. LinearDAO To facilitate the proper functioning of the Linear platform, the LinearDAO will be in place to overwatch the platform. LinearDAO will consider important functions and parameters of the platform including: Pledge Ratios LINA inflation rewards and frequency Split of transaction fees including: burns, fee claims and Linear Reserve New functionalities and technological roadmaps Processing community proposals and voting to ensure best optimization for platform Collateralization When it comes to collateralization, Buildr, the decentralized dApp, takes a hybrid approach. To generate a synthetic asset, users need to deposit a mixture of LINA and other cryptocurrencies. The ratio must be 80:20 where 80% of the collateral must be LINA and the other 20% is other cryptocurrencies. Staking Staking is a crucial part of Linear Finance ($LINA). There are various incentives in place to incentivize users to stake their LINA tokens. Users are able to earn rewards via: Exchange Fees Rewards: Currently, the initial transaction fee collected from users on the Linear platform is set at 0.25%. These fees are then distributed to LINA stakers at a pro-rata basis if their Pledge Ratio (P ratio) is above the threshold. For non-LINA stakers, the rewards may also be available depending on the decision of the community’s governance council in the future. Inflationatory Rewards: As of right now, the starting inflation rate is at 75% which will diminish on a weekly basis of 1.5%. Stakers will be able to receive such rewards weekly as well if their P ratio is above the threshold. Yield Farming Campaign Rewards: With the explosion of yield farming and the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) market, Linear has also added the crucial element of yield farming. Yield farmers will help maintain Linear’s debt pools and the whole platform, itself. During the first two years of the platform, users who are active on the exchanges can receive token bonuses. All of these token bonuses will then be able to be transferred into other liquidity pools like Balancer, Curve, and Uniswap. How to get LINA Tokens Normal Users: 1. Get LINA tokens via fiat payment gateway partners 2. Staking LINA tokens via Buildr to build “l”USD 3. Get Liquids exposure using “l”USD and exchanging among different Liquids via Linear.Exchange 4. Claim the transaction split and inflationary reward 5. Convert the Liquids exposure back to “l”USD 6. Burning the “l”USD to unlock the staked LINA tokens Market Makers: 1. Get LINA tokens via fiat payment gateway partners 2. Staking LINA tokens via Buildr to build “l”USD 3. Depending on net position of a particular Liquid, marketmaker can help stabilize the debt pool by going the other way; example: long position of “l”XAU, marketmaker goes short on XAU 4. Linear will incentivize the marketmaker to act by giving extra yield (LINA token) with the inflation reward and transaction split for their efforts in stabilizing the debt pool Linear.Exchange In order to solve the fundamental issues of speed and interoperability of many traditional crypto exchanges, Linear created their own exchange in hopes of addressing key issues. The team created a platform where transactions will occur faster with almost unlimited liquidity. The exchange will allow the Liquid settlement time to be lower down to seconds with the help of blockchain technology (compared to T+2 in traditional securities). Linear is currently working with BSC to lower the settlement timeframe as it has a blocktime as low as 1 second as well as instant finality. Linear.Exchange is able to combine the best of both worlds: infrastructure of Ethereum, high TPS of BSC, and the most looked for tooling. Another benefit of the system is that when creating Liquid there will be minimal transaction fees as compared to traditional gas fees paid on Ethereum. With the platform’s BSC-based oracle, it will allow quick refreshment of fees in seconds while benefiting from lower fees. Exchanges Listed The top exchanges for trading in Linear are currently: Huobi Global FTX Upbit Bithumb Hoo. Partners and Strategic Investors Linear has carefully chosen its partners for their potential long-term growth, development and sustainability. Investors Alameda Research CMS BlackEdge DuckDao Evernew Capital Huobi Global GBV Vendetta Capital Moonrock Capital Soul Capital NGC Ventures Kenetic Hashed Strategic partners 3Commas BitMax.io Band Protocol ellipti Hex Trust imToken Moonbeam Nervos Panony Slowmist Umbrella Winkrypto Media Partners https://www.chainnews.com/ https://www.coindesk.com/ https://forkast.news/ https://www.nasdaq.com/ https://www.panewslab.com/ https://www.theblockcrypto.com/

ethdenver

ETHDenver is the largest Web3 #BUIDLathon in the world, held annually in Denver, USA to build and network using Ethereum blockchain.

ETHDenver is an annual Web3 event that focuses on building and networking on the Ethereum blockchain and hosting hackathons. ETHDenver is managed by SporkDAO and was founded by John Paller in 2017. Overview ETHDenver is marketed as the “largest Web3 BUIDLathon in the world” with their BUIDL meme as their mantra. The BUIDL meme came about in ETHDenver 2018 as the community’s reaction to the HODL meme that was widely used by the Bitcoin community. John Paller chose Denver as the ideal city to host the event as he aimed to transform Colorado's limited meetup culture. According to Paller, Denver is a city greatly populated by skilled developers and was undervalued as the country's hub for innovation. "I recall thinking how incredible it would be if we made Colorado the go-to destination for Web3 innovation and development. We have an abundance of people here - we host the most prominent meetups in the country, and we've never received recognition for it" ETHDenver aims to amplify the Web3 community by making the event free of charge and also places their hackathon at the forefront of the event’s activities as a chance for people to display their creativity and talents. “We don’t charge for tickets, because it’s about giving people a blank canvas and a big tent to come and express their own creativity in a way that’s meaningful for them. It’s an egalitarian opportunity to have creative expression.” Their mascot is a Bufficorn, a legendary creature that is a combination of a buffalo and a unicorn. The Bufficorn is said to offer reliable protection to the Spork Marmot and that the Bufficorn Solstice is celebrated annually in the capital city of Colorado. The events were held at Gart Sports Castle, which was used to fit into their mythical, fantastic narrative. !image BUIDLathon EthDenver offers four different tracks for participants or BUIDLers to compete in: Bounty Track, Open Track, Impact Track and ColoradoJam. Bounty Track In the Bounty Track, participants are encouraged to "hack" on open repositories listed no more than 3 days before the competition. Sponsor companies offer bounties as prizes for successful completion of these projects. The prizes range from $500 to $10,000 USD, and are funded by the companies listing the repositories. Open Track The Open Track is more flexible and allows participants to work on any project of their choosing. There are no restrictions on the type of project or the technology used. Participants are free to engineer any project they wish, with no limitations on subject matter or technology. Impact Track The Impact Track is focused on promoting sustainability, and participants are encouraged to submit projects that qualify under the United Nations' Sustainability categories. Existing projects are not allowed to ensure a level playing field. The top 5 projects will share a prize pool of at least $15,000 in cash or ETH equivalent. This track aims to encourage participants to create projects that can make a positive impact on society and the environment. ColoradoJam EthDenver introduced a new track in 2021 called ColoradoJam, which aims to provide participants, or "Jammers," with an opportunity to showcase their creativity in finding solutions for public infrastructure challenges faced by the state of Colorado. The challenges are issued by various state agencies, and participants can use either Web2 or Web3 technologies to develop their projects. The cash prize is awarded based on the specifications of each state agency offering the challenge. History ETHDenver 2018 ETHDenver 2018 was a notable event for the ETHDenver community, as it solidified the organization's values of learning, building, and community engagement. The event had a roster of 35 speakers and received support from 65 sponsors, with food trucks and stalls on-site to enhance the overall experience. However, the event was plagued with multiple technical difficulties from the outset, most notably with the WiFi connection. Furthermore, the event had a loose structure, which was brought to attention during the opening ceremony by the keynote speaker. These shortcomings were used to emphasize the concept of “co-creating the event”. Some of the unique features of the event included a diverse range of technical and non-technical workshops, a maker space, a chill-out room with a DJ, and live music. ETHDenver 2019 ETHDenver2019 used innovative blockchain technology to facilitate their event. One such example is the use of uPort and Taiga Market for user identity verification during the application process. Applications were prioritized based on a deposit of ETH. ETHDenver created its own ERC-20 token, buffiDai, which attendees could use to buy food and play games. To facilitate fast spending of funds, burner wallets were used to spend buffiDai. Additionally, ETHDenver hosted a scavenger hunt game where participants would receive a NFT from Gitcoin called Kudo. In terms of their hackathon, they introduced 3 of the 4 tracks: bounty, open and impact tracks in 2019 giving their BUIDLathon more of a structure and providing more opportunities for participants of the event. Burner wallets At ETHDenver, a Burner Wallet was used to facilitate transactions for food trucks, vendors, and participants. Attendees received a SolidCoin with an Ethereum private key in the form of a QR code, allowing them to easily seed a wallet and receive instant onboarding into cryptocurrency. Food trucks signed up for a Wyre account, scanned a vendor private key, and displayed a QR code for participants to pay for their meals. ETHDenver 2020 ETHDenever 2020 was the first ETHDenver event that featured the creator and chief scientist of the Ethereum Foundation, Vitalik Buterin. ETHDenver 2020 marked a significant moment for the ETHDenver community as the organization transitioned to a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). Attendees who passed Fortmatic's identity verification process received a badge, granting them membership to ETHDenver 2020 and the ability to participate as a DAO stakeholder. The event featured an inclusive approach, providing scholarships in partnership with Bounties Network, Devcon Scholars, and Apprentio to promote geographic diversity. The Burner wallet was also implemented into ETHDenver 2020, and free childcare services were also available. In addition, attendees had the opportunity to engage in a variety of activities, including an arcade with both blockchain-based and traditional games, guided meditations, and art installations, earning reputation and voting power in the DAO by participating. ETHDenver also hosted a BUIDL week from February 10 to 13, 2020, DAOFest hosted by DAOStack on February 13, 2020, and a Mountain Retreat in Breckenridge, Colorado, from February 17 to 20, 2020, to further promote community building and learning. Pega Bufficorn ETHDenver 2020 introduced a new mascot, said to be a friendly cousin of the Bufficorn, Pega bufficorn. Pega bufficorn is a limited-edition creature that has been added to the popular online game, Adopt Me. This hybrid creature is a cross between a buffalo and a unicorn with wings, and it features unique characteristics that set it apart from other creatures in the game. The Pega bufficorn has a distinctive mane and a set of large horns that give it an impressive appearance. In addition to its striking physical features, the Pega bufficorn has a special ability to create a magical aura around itself that can boost the mood and happiness of other players in its vicinity. !image ETHDenver 2021 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ETHDenver 2021 was held entirely online. The event took place for 7-days, open 24 hours a day and offered a wide variety of activities, including talks and workshops by top blockchain influencers and experts. Through multiple sponsors, they had $250,000 up for grabs for winners of the hackathons and as incentive for people to participate in live games and BUIDLing. ETHDenver 2021 consisted of live AMAs, live gaming, meet and greets and also looked for ways to make a virtual replica of the Sports Castle on mediums such as Minecraft and VR. One of the main topics of the occasion was NFTs, where there were seven presentations on the main stage of speakers and listeners discussing the use cases of NFTs and how they will evolve in the future. ETHDenver 2022 ETHDenver 2022 was the largest and longest-running Ethereum event in history, with more than 20,000 people registered to attend, and over 13,000 people attending the official gathering. The event featured non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and Ethereum's major upgrade from a proof-of-work mining model to proof-of-stake. The conference featured a wide range of activities and services, including massages with crystals, meditation rooms, workshops for circuitry tinkering, a life-size chess set, bean bags for napping, and a puppy playroom. Speakers included former U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang, Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, and Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who announced that cryptocurrencies would be accepted to pay off taxes and fees in the state of Colorado. ETHDenever 2022 was also known for its diverse attendees as the conference was also filled with venture capitalists, speculators, politicians, and EDM enthusiasts. ETHDenver 2023 ETHDenver 2023

harmony

Harmony is a Blockchain platform designed to facilitate the creation and use of Decentralized applications.

Harmony is a Blockchain platform designed to facilitate the creation and use of Decentralized applications (DApps). The network aims to innovate the way decentralized applications work by focusing on random state sharding, which allows the creation of blocks in seconds. Harmony aims to offer a fast and open blockchain for decentralized applications. Harmony has created an ecosystem for the end-to-end transfer of Cryptocurrency by integrating the existing networks that allow you to convert your fiat currency into crypto and vice versa. There are quite a few compelling reasons why you should deep dive into this altcoin project. Overview What is Harmony? Harmony Launched as part of the initial exchange offering (IEO) on the Binance Launchpad in May 2019, Harmony (ONE) is a decentralized blockchain platform designed as a bridge between scalability and decentralization efforts. Its development went under the motto of “decentralization at scale” with the focus on data sharing and the creation of marketplaces of fungible tokens and non-fungible assets. Furthermore, Harmony comes with an additional promise of delivering high throughput accompanied by two “lows”: latency and fees. Combined, they are supposed to put the platform at the heart of the efforts to lay the foundation of the future decentralized trustless economies. What Is Harmony Trying to Achieve? Harmony’s development focused on the idea that no platform has achieved a satisfying degree of balance between decentralization and scalability, as explained in the project’s Whitepaper . Based on this, it promises to deliver the goods on the following goals: Harmony wants to get rid of structural limitations preventing cryptocurrencies from becoming genuine digital money. This primarily refers to the scalability problem, such as that faced by Bitcoin whose increased popularity created performance and brought about increased costs of the use of its payment system. Instead of this, Harmony will implement deep sharding technology which covers not only the transaction validation and network communication but the blockchain state as well. Its bid for full scalability is based on getting rid of the modular approach and trying to solve consensus “the scale”. This includes optimizations that are being added across multiple layers of consensus algorithms, networking, and systems to improve performance without hurting decentralization. Higher transaction throughput is what should set Harmony apart from the likes of Ethereum and other blockchain solutions which are forced to achieve performance gains by sacrificing other features. Harmony developers describe competing solutions as unable to resolve scalability issues or provide support for applications that require high throughput performance, such as with gaming or decentralized exchanges. Similarly, blockchains such as EOS or IOTA tried replacing consensus models and introducing new tech, such as directed acyclic graph (DAG). All of these came at the expense of security and/or decentralization which Harmony aims to preserve by creating shards (groups) of validators that would be able to process transactions simultaneously. Based on this, the total transaction throughput should increase in a linear manner and in parallel with the growth in the number of shards. In September 2018, Harmony’s managed to achieve 118,000 TPS with some 44,000 nodes, with the hope to close the gap to Visa’s 2,000 TPS on a daily basis. Harmony’s consensus protocol goes for speed and energy efficiency. Much of Harmony’s scalability and throughput promises rest on the ability of its Fast Byzantine Fault Tolerant protocol (FBFT) to employ parallel transaction processing to scale with the size of the network and effectively tackle its connection latency. Its network topology is designed to enable faster consensus reaching and message exchange. At the same time, Harmony features a kernel designed to run its protocol in a manner that allows a wider range of devices to participate in the consensus-building, thus strengthening its decentralization. The deep sharding process itself relies on an adaptive proof-of-stake model based on distributed randomness generation (DRG) procedure which is described as secure, easily verifiable, and scalable. Platform Strengths Secure, Radom State Sharding. Harmony has transcended the blockchain trilemma by bringing the best research to production. Sharding is proven to scale blockchains without compromising security and decentralization. Harmony divides not only our network nodes but also the blockchain states into shards, scaling linearly in all three aspects of machines, transactions, and storage. To prevent single shard attacks, we must have a sufficiently large number of nodes per shard and cryptographic randomness to re-shard regularly. Each shard has 250 nodes for a strong security guarantee against Byzantine behaviors. We use the Verifiable Random Function (VDF) for unbiased and unpredictable shard membership. Fast Consensus w/ Instant Finality. Harmony has innovated on the battle-tested Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) for fast consensus of block transactions. Our Fast BFT (FBFT) leads to low transaction fees and 1-block-time finality in Harmony Mainnet. We use Boneh–Lynn–Shacham (BLS) constant-sized signatures to commit blocks in a single round of consensus messages. We achieve 8-second block time with view changes in production against adversarial or unavailable leaders. Harmony Mainnet was launched in June 2019. The network has produced 10M+ blocks with 20k+ transactions in publicly traded, native ONE tokens. Effective PoS & Token Economics. Harmony has designed a novel Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism for network security and economics. Our Effective Proof-of-Stake (EPoS) reduces centralization and distributes rewards fairly to thousands of validators. The staking mechanism supports delegation and reward compounding. To support 100% uptime but fully open participation, EPoS slashes validators who double-sign and it penalizes elected but unavailable nodes. Harmony Economics Model caps the annual issuance at 441 million tokens (about 3% rate in long term). Our model gives validators a simple and predictable return. All transaction fees are burnt to offset the insurance, naturally leading to zero inflation when our network usage becomes high. Team Stephen Tse is the founder and CEO of Harmony. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in cryptographic protocols and type theory has been obsessed with protocols and compilers since high school. He reverse-engineered ICQ and X11 protocols, coded in OCaml for more than 15 years, and graduated with a doctoral degree in security protocols and compiler verification from the University of Pennsylvania. Rongjian Lan was a search infrastructure engineer for Play Store at Google. He published over 10 academic papers on Spatio-temporal querying and map-based visualization. Rongjian started researching decentralized protocols and sharding in early 2017. Sahil Dewan is a graduate of Harvard Business School, where he served as president of the blockchain and cryptocurrency club. He has worked at Draper Dragon Fund and advised several blockchain projects. Nick White (now in the external team) holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. As a graduate teaching assistant at Stanford, he researched artificial intelligence and applied mathematics with Prof. Bernard Widrow. Tokenomics Prior to the IEO, Harmony started out as a startup in 2018. Its fundraising project managed to raise USD 18 million in April 2019, drawing attention from multiple investors such as Silicon Valley’s Consensus Capital, Hong Kong’s Lemniscap VC, and others. More than 2.8 billion of its ONE tokens were purchased by investors, with 12.6 billion of them set aside for pre-mining. To investors, Harmony promises access to an ecosystem that will support its adoption across various markets, with a focus on data sharing, decentralized marketplaces, Supply chain tracking, ad exchanges, credit rating systems, and gaming. Harmony (ONE) has a maximum supply of 12,600,000,000 tokens. As of February 2021, the circulating supply on the market is about 9,486,327,268 ONE. Out of the total supply of ONE token, 22.4% were dedicated to the initial seed sale. Another 12.5% were set aside for an additional Launchpad sale. The Harmony founding team and developers received 16.9% of the total supply. About 26.4% of ONE token were dedicated to protocol development, while another 21.8% were directed towards ecosystem development.

refinable

Refinable (launched in April 2021) is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) platform built on Binance Smart Chain (BSC).

Refinable (launched in April 2021) is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) platform built on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). The project provides an affordable way for users to leverage, trade, discover, and create Non-Fungible Token (NFT). Notably, it accommodates both individual and corporate users. The protocol supports three types of users: creators, traders, and collectors. Refinable aims to remove the obstacles that most other NFT stores are currently facing, such as high minting costs and gas fees. By joining forces with Binance, which already has a large, established community and network capacity, they will enter the ecosystem with a powerful backup and have the support necessary to remove the barriers that stunt the growth of the NFT market. Overview Refineable is an NFT trading platform backed by Binance and the American YouTuber Mr. Beast. Mr. Beast is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist who shot to fame for pioneering the stunt video genre on his YouTube channel. It is the first Polkastarter IDO to launch exclusively on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). As the first major NFT hub on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Refinable is the definitive platform to create, discover, trade, and leverage any digital content on the blockchain. Through Refinable, creators will be able to easily tokenize their content and distribute them to end-users through a variety of mechanisms, such as auctions, gifts, and royalties. Users, on the other hand, will be able to find and invest in NFTs from a range of sources, and then further leverage their NFT portfolio to extract additional value from it through the broader DeFi (Decentralized Finance) landscape. By addressing some of the major friction points for NFT creators and users, such as high fees, poor discoverability, and low flexibility, Refinable looks to leverage the untapped potential of NFT and bring them to an even larger audience. Tech Refinable makes it easy for NFT creators and users to easily interact through an intuitive decentralized platform where users can browse a diverse range of NFTs from their favorite artists, brands, and entertainers. The platform is designed to allow creators to launch their own NFT line without any coding experience while also keeping fees and commissions to a bare minimum — helping to maximize uptake by both individual creators and larger industry partners. Right now, Refinable is part-way through its development roadmap. The team behind the project plan to launch Refinable's NFT creation and trading features in Q2 2021, and expects to roll out social features, community drops, and governance features in the next quarter. It will eventually bake in more advanced functionality, such as IP protection, commercial and non-commercial rights and customizable royalties - which may make NFTs more attractive to institutional users and brands. Features The project works by interfacing its different features. Below are the top features and how they fit into the project’s overall success. Supports both ERC721 and ERC1155 Refinable is one of the few NFT platforms to support both of the main Ethereum Non-Fungible Token (NFT) standards, allowing creators to leverage their unique capabilities to produce ever-more functional and desirable NFTs — while reducing costs and improving DeFi composability. Facilitating Trading After creating or discovering the NFT of their dreams, the users can transact securely using the Refinable platform. In addition, traders will have access to a plethora of trading tools and a wide variety of options to maximize the trade and minimize headaches. Built on Binance Smart Chain Unlike the vast majority of NFT product suites that run on Ethereum, Refinable is built on Binance Smart Chain - a platform secured by a novel consensus mechanism known as proof-of-staked-authority (PoSA). This makes it just as easy to interact with as Ethereum-based platforms while benefiting from drastically improved transaction fees and transaction confirmation times. Low Service Fee The protocol charges a transaction fee based on users’ status. For example, standard buyers pay a 2.5% fee while verified token holders incur a 1.5% charge. | Name | Standard Users | Verified Token Holders | | ---- | -------------- | ---------------------- | | Buyers | 2.5% | Up to 1.5% | | Primary Sellers | 2.5% | 2% | | Secondary Sellers | 2.5% + Royalties | Up to 1.5% + Royalties | Enhanced Trading The project enhances trading in a variety of ways. For example, it allows NFT creators and owners to choose their preferred transaction methods, automate royalties, and dictate the settlement currency. Note that the currency defines the supported Crypto when trading a non-fungible token. Refinable’s Native Token (FINE) Like most Blockchain-powered platforms, Refinable features a native utility token, known as $FINE. The token is woven into the core of the Refinable ecosystem and provides holders with a variety of benefits, including increased distribution and royalty limits, access to exclusive sales, and listing upgrades. It can be used to settle fees on the Refinable marketplace and for governance purposes. The token will be used as both a utility and governance token. The token has governance powers allowing holders to vote or propose new features. However, the number of FINE tokens held determines a user’s voting strength . The platform conducted its final raise in April 2021 via a Polkastarter IDO and launched shortly after on PancakeSwap. The top exchanges for trading in Refinable are currently Gate.io, PancakeSwap (V2), Decoin, and DODO. FINE Usage Platform users will enjoy a sleuth of benefits from simply holding verified amounts of FINE tokens. These benefits will not be available to users without FINE tokens, who will be limited by the default restrictions. Settle and fund transactions: Users can Fund and settle their trades using the native FINE token in lieu of BSC's own BNB token. Priority listings and discovery: Listings from users with verified token holders will receive increased exposure and listing priority on our marketplace. Increased minting limits and TX limits: Creators verified with FINE tokens will also have higher limits when issuing and distributing their content. Discounted platform service fee: Verified token holders are also entitled to lower service fee when trading on the platform. Early access to presales: Holding verified tokens will also enable early access to item presales, exclusive drops, and special listings from the community and the Refinable team. Community moderation and voting: Verified token holders can also participate in the moderation panel and proposal voting for the Refinable platform by voting with FINE. The more FINE a user holds, the more voting power they will have. Token Distribution Users will be able to obtain FINE tokens during our Public Sale event, with the initial distribution following shortly after. Post token generation event(TGE), FINE tokens can also be acquired on the platform via various means. | Total Token Supply | 500M | | ------------------ | ---- | | Initial Market Cap | 899K | | Private Sale Price | $0.03/FINE | | Public Sale Price | $0.033/FINE | Community Mining FINE tokens will be awarded to the highest contributing users on the platform every two weeks. Creators and traders that have contributed the most to the platform by volume will share an allotted amount of FINE tokens. There will be a fixed cap on how much FINE is awarded to each user per batch to ensure a wider distribution of tokens within the community. Platform Incentives Users will be able to earn bounties of FINE tokens by completing various activities on the platform such as profile completion, community engagement, user invites, and more. Token Sale The Token Sale distribution includes all tokens allocated for private and public sales. Tokens reserved for the initial offering will be released on a linear schedule for all private sale users with 25% unlocked on TGE, and 100% unlocked at token generation for our public sale users. Total Private/Public Sale - $3,090,000 Private Sale Price - $0.030/FINE (25% Unlocked on TGE) Public Sale Price $0.033/FINE (Fully Unlocked) Total Token Supply - 500,000,000 Community Mining The Community Mining allocation will be reserved for awarding the top contributing users on the platform, by volume. These awards will be distributed at a fixed time interval from a general token pool. Additional rewards may be given to seasonal campaigns. Tokens reserved for community mining will be released into the pool on a decreasing percentage scale to incentivize early users and reward our seed community. Liquidity Fund The Liquidity Fund allocation is specifically reserved for fulfilling the needs of future platform integrations including providing liquidity and other bounties. Team The Team allocation is reserved as compensation for current and future Refinable team members including advisors and partners. All Team tokens are subject to lockups and vesting periods starting one year after TGE. Treasury Fund The Treasury Fund will be allocated to fund all platform and ecosystem development activities such as feature developments, marketing bounties, cross-application integrations, affiliate incentives, and much more. Treasury Fund tokens are subject to vesting periods beginning after TGE. Reserve The Reserve allocation will function as an emergency token pool and will not be released via any set schedule but only upon approval from FINE stakeholders. Roadmap Q1 Testnet Launch Smart Contracts (ERC721,

cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange using cryptography.

Cryptocurrency (or crypto) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer of assets. Bitcoin, created in 2009, was the first decentralized cryptocurrency and remains the most widely traded and covered cryptocurrency. As of January 2022, there are over 111 countries worldwide where Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are legalized and recognized by law. As of October 2022, there are over 10,000 active cryptocurrencies according to Coinmarketcap. Some of the most popular cryptocurrencies include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, USD Coin, Binance Coin, and Ripple. Overview Cryptocurrency is a digital payment system that does not rely on banks to verify transactions. It’s a peer-to-peer system that can enable anyone anywhere to send and receive payments. Payments made using cryptocurrencies do not exist as actual physical coins that can be transported and exchanged; rather, they only exist as digital entries to an online database that detail specific transactions. A public ledger keeps track of all cryptocurrency transactions that involve funds transfers. Cryptocurrency is stored in digital wallets. As of September 2017, over a thousand cryptocurrency specifications existed; most are similar to and derived from the first fully implemented decentralized cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. Within cryptocurrency systems, the safety, integrity, and balance of ledgers are maintained by a community of mutually distrustful parties referred to as miners: members of the general public using their computers to help validate and timestamp transactions adding them to the ledger in accordance with a particular timestamping scheme. Miners have a financial incentive to maintain the security of a cryptocurrency ledger. Most cryptocurrencies are designed to gradually decrease the production of currency, placing an ultimate cap on the total amount of currency that will ever be in circulation. Compared with ordinary currencies held by financial institutions or kept as cash on hand, cryptocurrencies can be more difficult to seize by law enforcement. Architecture Ledger and Digital Signature A ledger is a computer file that records economic transactions including monetary balances. These ledger transactions are decentralized and are protected by digital signatures. Each cryptocurrency transaction has its own ID, which is followed by a public and private key ("digital signatures") that are unique to that transaction. To verify a transaction, all three criteria must match — Transaction ID, Private key, and Public key. The private key is a 256-bit binary code (over 1x1077 combinations), and it is impossible to guess the correct combination. The ledger transaction also has a cryptographic hash function and hence encrypting and protecting the decentralized transaction ledger. The SHA 256 cryptographic hash function is used in cryptocurrency and is a one-way cryptographic hash function, which means it cannot be decoded backward. Blockchain Blockchain technology is used to secure cryptocurrency transactions. Each time a transaction is completed, the record of that transaction is added to the blockchain's growing "chain of blocks." Following a transaction between two parties, the distributed ledger is verified across a peer-to-peer network using computational work known as "Proof of work." Each transaction has a cryptographic hash function that is linked to the next transaction block, forming a blockchain. The enhanced encryption enables the cryptocurrency network to be decentralized and operate effectively without the intervention of a regulatory body. Blockchain technology makes the network more secure and avoids bank regulatory costs. Mining Mining on a blockchain is the process of validating transactions. Miners collect data on each transaction and place the information in a ‘block.’ They subsequently authenticate each transaction. Successful miners receive new cryptocurrency as a reward for their efforts. The incentive to contribute to the network's processing power reduces transaction fees. Miners use specialized machines such as FPGAs and ASICs in running complex hashing algorithms. Machines such as SHA-256 and scrypt have increased the rate of generating hashes that validate any transaction. Timestamping Cryptocurrencies use various timestamping schemes to avoid the need for a trusted third party to timestamp transactions added to the blockchain ledger. History The Idea — 1998-2008 In 1998, Wei Dai published a description of "b-money", an anonymous, distributed electronic cash system. Shortly thereafter, Nick Szabo created "bit gold". Like Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that would follow it, bit gold was an electronic currency system that required users to complete a proof of work function with solutions being cryptographically put together and published. A currency system based on a reusable proof of work was later created by Hal Finney who followed the work of Dai and Szabo. !Top-Cryptocurrencies-To-Invest-usa-1-817x404_c-2-768x380.png In October 2008, a paper by Satoshi Nakamoto (a pseudonym) titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System outlined a system for creating a digital currency that did not require trust in any third party. Nakamoto's paper served as the catalyst for the emergence of cryptocurrencies. The Launch — 2009 The first decentralized cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was created in 2009 by pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto. It used SHA-256, a cryptographic hash function, as its proof-of-work scheme. The first Bitcoin transaction took place between Nakamoto and Hal Finney on 12th January 2009. It was not until February 2010 that someone realized how valuable this new technology could be when one person paid 10,000 Bitcoins for two pizzas delivered by Papa John’s. That transaction is now worth millions of dollars. Further Development— 2010-2022 In April 2011, Namecoin was created as an attempt at forming a decentralized domain name system, which would make internet censorship very difficult. Soon after, in October 2011, Litecoin was released. It was the first successful cryptocurrency to use scrypt as its hash function instead of SHA-256. Another notable cryptocurrency, Peercoin was the first to use a proof-of-work/proof-of-stake hybrid. IOTA was the first cryptocurrency not based on a blockchain and instead used the Tangle. In 2012, following the success of Bitcoin, many other cryptocurrencies known as altcoins have been launched. Some of these are clones or forks of Bitcoin, while others are new cryptos that were created from scratch. They include Litecoin (2011), Ripple (2012), Ethereum (2015), Dogecoin (2015), and EOS (2018). On August 6, 2014, the UK announced its Treasury had been commissioned to do a study of cryptocurrencies, and what role, if any, they can play in the UK economy. The study was also to report on whether regulation should be considered. The Boom In late 2017, cryptocurrencies began to see unprecedented growth. The total market cap for all cryptocurrencies reached $820 billion in January 2018 before plummeting later that month. Despite this crash, the crypto market continued to experience steady growth since then. Many startups took advantage of the cryptocurrency boom to raise money via initial coin offerings (ICO). In 2017 and 2018, more than 800 ICOs raised roughly $20 billion in funding. The ICO space was then plagued by outright frauds and scams, and the value of many of these ICO tokens collapsed within a year. In December 2020, Bitcoin broke out to new all-time highs of more than $20,000 and eventually made it as high as $68,990 in November 2021. Ethereum, the number two cryptocurrency, also had an even more impressive climb, from just $120 to a high of almost $5,000 in 2021. In November 2021, the global crypto market cap reached $3 trillion. As of October 2022, there are around 10,000 cryptocurrencies existing according to Coinmarketcap. Legality In 2021, El Salvador became the first-ever country to accept Bitcoin as a national currency. In March 2021, it was announced by Swiss Lugano's city director, Pietro Poretti, and its mayor, Michele Foletti that Bitcoin and the stablecoin Tether will soon be adopted as Lugano's "de-facto" legal tender. The "de-facto" element of this announcement is very important, as it means the city will be adopting Bitcoin regardless of whether Switzerland's national government accepts it or not. In September 2021, Panamanian Congressman Gabriel Silva released a bill intended to provide "legal, regulatory, and fiscal certainty to the use, holding and issuance of digital value and crypto assets in the Republic of Panama". Silva is known to be enthusiastic about cryptocurrency, and has made multiple tweets regarding the bill and stated that it will hopefully "create jobs, attract investment and bring transparency" within Panama.

decentralized-information-asset

Decentralized Information Asset is an open-source oracle platform that allows market actors to supply, share, use verified data.

Decentralized Information Asset is an open-source oracle platform that allows market actors to supply, share, and use transparent, crowd-verified price data. Market actors can supply, share, and use financial and digital asset data. Based in Switzerland, DIA operates as a non-profit association. Overview Founded in 2018 as a Swiss association, DIA's vision is to make validated and auditable financial market data accessible and open-source to both traditional and decentralized financial markets. Rather than sourcing and providing data itself, the DIA platform sets crypto-economic incentives that drive the sourcing and validation of data by the community. DIA aims to fully distribute governance to become a full DAO by 2025. DIA is run by a team of experienced web3 founders and financial market experts and is backed by notable venture capital funds, including Outlier Ventures (OV), Continue Capital, and TRG Capital as well as angel investors from the traditional financial space. In August 2020, DIA was listed on KuCoin with available pairs BTC/DIA and USDT/DIA, and BitMax.io with available pair USDT/DIA. On August 11, 2020, DIA was listed on Poloniex. DIA Ecosystem Token Pool DIA Association committed 25 million DIA Governance Tokens from the total token supply to the DIA Ecosystem Token Pool. This equates to 12.5% of the total supply of DIA Governance Tokens. The DIA Association will vote quarterly on future distribution on the Ecosystem Token Pool, starting Q4 2020. Proposals will be collected continuously and require a minimum of 1.000 DIA Governance Tokens. All proposals will be shared with governance entitled DIA holders that can propose any issue for voting. The DIA Ecosystem Token Pool was created by the DIA Association to achieve two main goals: Autonomy: the distribution of DIA Governance Tokens to relevant ecosystem participants to achieve autonomy of the DIA Association by 2025 through the Governance Token Distribution Mechanism. Innovation: to support the DeFi ecosystem to build applications using reliable and transparent data. Funds of the Ecosystem Token Pool are distributed through DIA Labs. DIA’s Governance Token Distribution Decentralized Information Asset announced the first step to decentralize its governance by the public distribution of its governance token on August 3, 2020. The event gave participants the opportunity to acquire DIA’s Governance Token (DIA). Following its private sale which sold out in just 3 days, DIA made its governance token accessible in a novel allocation mechanism dubbed “bonding curve distribution”. This is the first public distribution of DIA’s governance token and aims to decentralize governance to the broader DeFi and blockchain ecosystem and raise funds for the continued development of the platform. The distribution was publicly accessible via DIA’s website starting August 03, 2020, at 3 pm CET. The token sale didn't go off without a hitch though, DIA used a bonding curve pricing mechanism that allowed users to buy and instantly sell back and while they initially said they would support ETH, DAI, and USDC, they only provided buy and sell orders in USDC. However, there wasn't enough ETH liquidity to go around and the wETH/DIA price ended up higher than the USDC/DIA price. Some investors felt scorned and a Telegram group was formed to discuss possible legal action. Fortunately, the token quickly shot up enough in value to cover losses. DIA Token The DIA Token empowers the community to govern the DIA platform and validate DIA's crowdsourced data feeds. It is deployed on the Ethereum blockchain and also available on other blockchains-- Binance smart chain, arbitrum, etc. With a maximum supply of 200,000,000 DIA tokens, users can seamlessly participate in ideation, proposals and voting on the consensus that influences the decisions of the DIA's DAO. DIA tokens are currently being traded on exchanges including: Binance Coinbase Huobi Global Crypto.com Kucoin Gate.io Poloniex. Bonding Curve The bonding curve DIA uses is a replica of the one used by the Gnosis Protocol. The bonding curve is a predefined price curve. The price for each token increases as tokens are bought and decrease as they are sold back. Investors can sell back tokens at any time, as the contract is 100% collateralized at all times and the contract autonomously creates an instant market. Through this process, the bonding curve determines the price equilibrium. DIA will be accessible on Gnosis Protocol through the Mesa DApp after the Bonding Curve distribution and after receiving approval from the dxDAO. Team Michael Weber - Association President Michael is a cryptocurrency veteran and serial entrepreneur who founded Bonsum & Goodcoin in 2014 - a blockchain-powered loyalty solution and the first ever qualitative "Good" digital currency, which was successfully sold in 2016. He began his career as a data analyst and went on to work at several different investment banks across the world. Michael is an active board member of NGO Hostwriter and Co-Founder of bitEasy. Michael earned a Master of Science and Diplôme de Grande École from ESCP Europe and a first diploma in Economics & Physics from the University of Cologne. Samuel Brack - Technical Lead Samuel is a cryptocurrency and cybersecurity expert researching on privacy, digital currencies, and distributed systems. He is a distinguished keynote speaker who has spoken at leading computer networking conferences in Singapore, Dubai, Berlin & Florida. He holds a Bachelor and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Humboldt University of Berlin and is currently pursuing his PhD. Samuel is an active member of the Berlin hackerspace Afra and the IEEE Computer Society in Los Alamitos, California. Paul Claudius - Lead Advocate Paul is a serial entrepreneur and crypto investor. Previously, he was Director Europe of the nu3 group based in Berlin, transforming the multi-million e-commerce business into a vertically integrated brand. Paul started his professional career as part of BNP Paribas Corporate Development in New York City and Axa Private Equity in Frankfurt. Paul has advised and invested in multiple start-ups in health tech, IOT and e-commerce. Carl Bruns - Communication Lead Carl is the CMO and communications lead for DIA. In the past, he advised and built several ventures in diverse industries ranging from publishing, property technology, e-commerce to personal banking. Most recently before DIA he helped built and ran an online marketing and PR agency called ABCD agency. DIA DAO DIA started out as a DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation). This explains that the goal of the platform is to be governed, managed and continued by a group of decentral stakeholders, the community of DIA token holders and their delegates. Till recent times, the DAO has already engaged in a series of meaningful proposals and votes ranging from the use of treasury funds across the launch of new savings programs to deploying an airdrop to the DIA holders affected by the 2020 KuCoin hack. In our efforts to expand the DAO's involvement in DIA’s core product and to open up for and foster new discussion, we are laying the foundation to formalize DAO processes by launching the DIA DAO Forum. The DIA DAO is becoming the framework for co-creation and open, decentralized work. The DIA DAO is a program that rewards contributions to the DIA mission in various disciplines from operations to development to growth. Members can earn Ethereum and ‘XP’, which grant additional benefits such as leadership ranks and boosters. Additionally, DIA tokens are an extra layer of reward to enable participation in the DIA DAO governance. The DIA DAO is launching in an alpha phase. We are looking for talent to shape the program early on, take leadership and earn juicy rewards.

jeremy-fall

Jeremy Fall is a celebrity restaurateur, creator of Probably Nothing, 30 Under 30 nominee, and first-generation American. He is known for launching multiple suc...

Jeremy Fall is a celebrity restaurateur and the creator of Probably Nothing, a web3 culture studio. He has launched multiple restaurants across Los Angeles and Chicago, with his recipes and restaurants featured on national television programs, such as Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Guy’s Big Project, Going Off the Menu, Home & Family, and Food Network Start. He was nominated 30 Under 30 in the category of Food and Drink in 2020. Early Life & Education Jeremy Fall is a first-generation American, whose parents are from Tunisia and France. He grew up in Los Angeles, where he helped manage a cafe that he, his mother, and stepfather lived above, which allowed him to get involved with food and hospitality until he was 16 years old. “I have always loved the context around food, more than food itself, which got me thinking how I could do food and restaurants my own way.” He studied at Occidental College, where he later dropped out from. Career At 24 years old, Fall had opened three bars around Los Angeles: Genesis, Golden Box, and King Eddy Saloon. Two years later, he opened his first restaurant Nighthawk: Breakfast Bar, which was afterwards recognized as one of the “Hottest Bars from Coast to Coast” and appeared in multiple movies. Taking what he learned in the world of food and hospitality, he stepped into the world of entertainment and branding. “You’re using food as a cultural unifier for people to come together, which allows you to (essentially) do anything you want with it as a base. For me, that’s when I started telling people that I wasn’t actually in the restaurant/food business anymore – I was in the brand and entertainment business.” He has partnered as the chef and restaurateur with entertainment companies such as Roc Nation and Grammy-winning artists like Miguel. During his first series Beats for Breakfast, aired on Facebook Watch, he was featured cooking recipes in each episode, while Miguel was making music next to him at the same time. “Miguel would make a beat, and we’d make a breakfast dish. The show was really to highlight the parallel between how things are constructed between producing music and producing food.” Probably Nothing Fall launched Probably Nothing as a way to bring together web2 and web3, thus focusing on web2.5. “Web3 is a really beautiful concept, but I do not believe it will ever be possible, as it’s currently defined. I don’t think we need to erase Web2, but instead, pivot to finding the best of both worlds – Web 2.5, where these major brands can help give the Web3 space the resources it and its users need to grow that economy.” After eight months of launching, Probably Nothing positioned itself as one of the top of the industry brands. Even though it is a centralized brand, it has been able to grow due to “its ability to employ a full-time team on payroll, while simultaneously providing its community access through free mints, utility, and not leaving people high-and-dry.”

birake

Birake is a decentralized application token based on the Ethereum blockchain and in line with ERC223 standards powered by BIR.

BIRAKE (founded on 1 January 2018) is a decentralized application token based on the Ethereum blockchain and in line with ERC 223 standards, powered by the Birake token (BIR). It is a White Label Cryptocurrency Exchange project. The token generation event for BIR took place in March 2018 with interested parties able to buy BIR for Ether or Bitcoin. !70282374_1901525969992908_6519668352833552384_njpg.jpegBirake Coin Overview Birake had its origins in 2010 as a software company with activity primarily in South America. The mission of Birake is to provide both website owners and users of Birake exchanges network, the biggest database of orders/users and achieve the biggest trading volume from the cryptocurrency area. For the website owners: providing a fully functional platform, ready to use from day one, full of orders and transactions; and for the users: possibility to find the best deal from a huge amount of orders, low commissions, high trading experience, bounty and rewards programs. Birake inter-connects exchanges from its network and share orders & assets between them. Moreover, it provides future trading platform owners the flexibility to incorporate their own domain name brand, logo and personalization of their exchange platforms. The Birake Network is a central database of orders which are openly shared among all exchanges run on the network. Similarly, traders can have access to multiple exchange platforms at once through the Birake exchanges network. BIR Token BIR coin is the main payment method within Birake Network. Birake exchange platform can be acquired with BIR coins. The token generation event for BIR took place beginning in March 2018 with interested parties able to buy BIR for Ether or Bitcoin (BTC). The first 50 million BIR were offered at a 30% discount, while the event was capped at a total of 225 million tokens. Of the 225 million tokens available before the launch date, 90 million will be available in the pre-sale, with another 135 million available in the main sale event. In total, the platform is designed to support 300 million BIR tokens, set to be distributed in June of 2018. In this distribution, tokens will be distributed to Ethereum wallets of investors in the crowd sale, as well as to those participating in the development of the project, advertisers, and the marketing and communication team. Birake Business School The basis of the economic model of Birake is the following: • Transaction Volume - is the volume in USD transaction during one year • Number of website exchanges is the number of websites which are running on its white label platform. Each Website will have a separate domain name and custom personalization • Cryptocurrencies - average of cryptocurrencies available for trading in each month • New cryptocurrency price - an average cost for adding a new cryptocurrency to the network (one-time fee) • Customer percentage - average website owner income percent from transactions fee • User transaction fee - average of transaction fee percentage applied by website owner to each transaction • Birake percentage - is the average percentage from transactions fee from website owners Marketing and Sales The successful market penetration of Birake platform depends on the efficient development of the Birake exchanges using their White Label Platform. Birake along with their website owners will promote using the following channels: Search engines, platform owners and contextual advertising operators: Google, Yandex, Mail, Rambler, Begun and others - the largest market players of all categories of digital marketing services. Social media. They are already present on telegram, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Medium, Bitcointalk and many more. Online media. Wider coverage in the distribution of news and content. Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and Cryptocurrency related communities. Owners of online services and widgets. Mobile applications and services. One of the key and fast-growing development areas of the entire digital economy. They are most interested in all the services driving successful communication. Referral operators. Features Real Time Cryptocurrency Trading: A Decentralized Exchange (DEX) trade engine for highly efficient matching of trades. The buyers and sellers can place orders and get matched for best pricing. Order Book shared World Wide: All the exchanges will benefit from all the network active orders. New exchanges will be full of users and orders from day 1. Full Protection: Birake is running on a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) technology which is safer than any other centralized platform Secure Wallets: Using DEX platform wallets are completely isolated from the platform Team Bogdan Mavrodin - Founder & CEO Radu Theodor - Co-Founder & CMO Razvan Dinu - Co-Founder & CTO Stefan Onica - Marketing and Sales manager Bogdan Grigoroiu - IT Business analyst

dexe

Dexe.network or Dexe (Decentralized Social Trading Platform) (Founded in 2017) is an online, decentralized and autonomous...

Dexe.network or Dexe (Decentralized Social Trading Platform) (Founded in 2017) is an online, decentralized, and autonomous cryptocurrency assets portfolio environment that operates via autonomous Smart contracts. This include tools for virtual currency allocation, automatic rebalancing, and eliminates the risks of transferring digital wallet details such as private keys and API or any virtual currency data to a third party, as well as fixing the absence of decentralized interconnection between users and successful traders within the framework of DeFi. Overview Dexe is developing a one-of-a-kind copy trading tool in the Defi ecosystem. Due to the huge leap and growth in the liquidity of trading products such as Uniswap, Balancer, Curve, Mooniswap, etc. there are enormous opportunities for decentralized copy trading with the best public traders of the industry. Each user using the DeFi ecosystem can lock her/his cryptocurrency and receive Stablecoins in return, the volume of which can be increased by automatically copying trades. Any users will be able to connect their non-exchange wallet, such as MetaMask or Trust Wallet, to the Dexe website, choose the best trader, or a group of traders who successfully sell and buy crypto assets and subscribe to them. Dexe will copy the trades based on the subscription parameters set by the user itself. In the current case, the cryptocurrency stays on a wallet that is accessible only to the user. The user will also be able to copy trades, knowing only the wallet address, or by specifying whether she/he wants to buy or sell a certain token like the owner of the selected wallet. DeXe Network is a social trading platform that bridges the current gap between Defi and Cefi, operating as autonomous smart contracts to connect users and professional traders in a decentralized manner. DeXe Token The Dexe token enables the open and permissionless system. Following protocol rules and contributing resources facilitates consensus between participants. Dexe.network has a low barrier to entry and encourages innovation. The token has two vital functions: (1) Automatic buyback and distribution among insurance vault, farming rewards among token holders and burning of tokens for a % of traders’ rewards. (2) Participation in DeXe DAO. It is not required to be a DEXE token holder to participate in DeXe.network and benefit from the several of its social trading functions. Moreover, DeXe is uploading DEXE smart contract into the open-source community which is free speech and is the fundamental tenets of our Memorandum. However, in order to be able to fully participate in the community, receive the voting right, contribute through proposals and benefit from the incentives inside the network, basically, to become a member of DAO, users are required to acquire DEXE. Distribution of Tokens Public sale — 5% Staking rewards — up to 10%. Fund — 33% Team — 20% Partnership and ecosystem — 16%. School of trading and competition — 10% Marketing — 5% Market liquidity fund — 1% Management of Funds Token Holders Incentives One of the DEXE functionality includes automatic buyback and distribution among insurance vault, farming rewards among token holders, and burning of tokens for a % of traders’ rewards, proportionally within DeXe.network.DeXe.network processes automatic buyback from its social trading activity. By default 1\3 of automatic buyback shall be distributed for the sake of the development of DeXe.network Grant of Funds and other DeXe network is committed to contributing and enhancing the decentralized ecosystem within the DeXe DAO Community and far behind its membership. Thus, DeXe is committed to allocating DEXE tokens for the purposes of conducting meetups, grants to the community, learning, and spread of knowledge, partnership. Investment With the growth of DeXe.network there may appear investors who, being encouraged by the ideas of DeXe network, will be interested in the investment of the network as such, outside of the usual token acquiring procedure. Team Dmitriy Kotliarov – CEO & Founder

hitbtc

HitBTC is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides trading services to institutions, merchants.

HitBTC is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides trading services to institutions, merchants and individual traders across the globe. It is one of the top-10 exchanges around the world in terms of volume. HitBTC is operated by HIT Solution Ltd and is based in Hong Kong. History The HitBTC platform development started in 2013 with a 6 million USD Venture Capital investments, as of the collaboration between software developers, finance professionals and traders. In February 2014 HitBTC was officially launched with following instruments: BTC/USD, BTC/EUR, BTC/LTC USD/EUR. In April 2014 Bitcoin Exchange ‘HitBTC’ released Comprehensive Demo Trading for trading strategies testing and API settings adjustment. In May 2014 HitBTC launched altcoins voting program allowing the community decide, which alternative cryptocurrencies should be added to the market. During summer 2014 more trading pairs with altcoins were added, including DOGE, QCN, NXT, FCN, BCN, and XMR. As of February 2019, HitBTC listen 22 cryptocurrencies. Exchange HitBTC provides trading operations for the most popular digital currencies (BTC, LTC, ETH, QCN, NXT, FCN, BCN, and XMR) and prevailing fiat currencies (EUR, USD). For fiat depositing/withdrawal inside European Union SEPA transfer is available. For other countries wire transfer is available. HitBTC has stated it's main focus on implementing cutting-edge technologies to cryptocurrency trading. The core matching engine is stated as the most advanced technological product in its class. It implements real-time clearing (T+0 settlement), advanced order matching algorithms and has been acclaimed for its fault-tolerance, uptime and high availability. Controversies In early 2015, HitBTC was hacked at around the same time as BTER and Excoin exchanges. HitBTC did not disclose how many coins were stolen. In early January 2019, HitBTC froze customers' accounts ahead of the annual Proof of Keys event. The event advocates for account holders to withdraw their cryptocurrency and deposit it back in the exchange in order to check for solvency.

alphacat

Alphacat (ACAT) is a cryptocurrency that operates on the NEO platform.

Alphacat (ACAT) is a cryptocurrency that operates on the NEO platform. Alphacat is described as a marketplace for simple-to-use yet powerful Robo-advisors focused on cryptocurrency investment. Alphacat provides the tools that give users a competitive edge, by leveraging proven and patented trading algorithms with advanced Artificial Intelligence and Big Data technologies. Overview Alphacat (ACAT) is a platform for various innovative solutions in cryptocurrency trading, built with the NEO blockchain protocol. It is offering the world’s first robot advisor marketplace focused on cryptocurrencies with many interesting forecast investment tools announced to be released in the near future. Built using the NEO platform, Alphacat is developed by an all-star team mainly composed of Wall Street financial experts and former team members of Google’s Artificial intelligence program. Alphacat’s predictive investment tools give its users a competitive edge by leveraging proven and patented trading algorithms, and combining them with advanced Artificial Intelligence and Big-Data technologies. The goal of Alphacat is to make it easy for the average person to invest and achieve good investment results by using complex automated trading systems and predictive robots. The success of Alphacat is closely related to the accuracy and profitability of the developed tools. Ecosystem The Alphacat ecosystem is a platform where Investors, Experts, and Developers Meet to Create the Future of Financial Investment Tools Using AI and Big-Data Technologies. and this consists of Surveyors, Architects & Engineers, Investors, Data, Processing, and a Marketplace. Alphacat aims to disrupt and revolutionize the FinTech (Financial technology) industry by offering a complete ecosystem for Digital-assets financial applications and services powered by Neo. Alphacat Features Alphacat combines the power of artificial intelligence and big data with blockchain technology and the digital finance markets, thereby providing competitive applications and Robo-advisor that utilize its proven and patented prediction algorithm. Alphacat is a decentralized marketplace built on the Neo platform. It is where researchers and experts can create and publish immutable financial investment and innovation papers. The NEO blockchain will protect these experts' intellectual property, allowing them to benefit from their years of work and research. The blockchain will also maintain the privacy and security of the investors who use their research while offering trustless incentives to deserving parties, ensuring fairness and the verifiability of all participants. Tokenomics Alphacat (ACAT) is a cryptocurrency created on the Neo Blockchain. The ticker symbol of Alphacat is denoted as ACAT. ACAT has a total supply of 6,250,000,000 ACAT. It registered an all-time high of $0.022562 USD on the 16th of February, 2018; and an all-time low of $0.000095 USD on the 2nd of July, 2020. Currently, the most active market trading ACAT is KuCoin Decentralized Exchange (DEX). ACAT-Store The ACAT-Store is a marketplace offering a range of AI-powered, investment robot advisors. It is where investors can use the advantages offered by these various financial tools to gain a competitive edge in the digital market.

bondly-finance

Bondly Finance (launched in September 2020) is an interoperable, transparent DeFi protocol built on the Polkadot blockchain.

Bondly Finance (launched in September 2020) is an interoperable, transparent DeFi (Decentralized Finance) protocol built on the Polkadot blockchain which later moved on to the Cardano blockchain. It is described as a portable peer-to-peer exchange that enables trading across any chain, through any medium. It aims to bring agile and trusted DeFi to everyone and bridge the gap between decentralized escrow payments and traditional marketplaces providing services like cryptocurrency staking, atomic swap, a decentralized exchange (DEX), non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces, etc. Overview Bondly was created on a Polkadot blockchain. It aims to drive DeFi (Decentralized Finance) adoption by solving current DeFi problems like increasing gas fees and interoperability between different blockchains. It also aims to create a trust for DeFi ecosystem as many of the new people entering into this space become victims of 'giveaway scams' and send their crypto's to people they don’t know for vague promises of more wealth. Bondly is not a core blockchain, it is the financial infrastructure solution that operates on top of existing blockchains that is designed to offer maximum value to consumers and institutions. Cardano On December 11, 2020, it was announced that Bondly would bridge its cryptocurrency into Cardano, while still supporting Polkadot. This comes as part of Cardano's roll-out of Goguen, which is a new protocol that allows decentralized applications to build and operate within Cardano's ecosystem. This was the first time a DeFi project was put on Cardano's platform. Tokenomics Bondly platform has introduced multiple tokens of different types and each has its own importance. BONDLY is a native token while Bondly Collectible Card Game (BCCG) is a collection of various Non-Fungible Token (NFT) tokens. BONDLY Token BONDLY Token is a utility token for the Bondly ecosystem. It is an ERC20 token created on the Ethereum blockchain. It is supported natively within the Polkadot ecosystem and Bondchain is listed as a candidate for a parachain slot within Polkadot. The BONDLY Token Generation Event (TGE) took place on December 8, 2020. It has a total supply of 1,000,000,000 BONDLY. Token Distribution The total supply of 1billion BONDLY tokens will be distributed as follows. | Beneficiary | % of Total Supply | Amount (in BONDLY) | | ----------- | ----------------- | ------------------ | | Community Bonding (Seed round, Partners (P1, P2), Pre Offering, Public Offering) | 22.26% | 222,620,759 | | Other Allocations (Founders, Team, Advisors, Reserve, Dex Liquidity, BCCG and staking Rewards) | 17.0% | 170,000,000 | | Bondly Ecosystem (vested over 36 months) | 18.6% | 186,000,000 | | Liquidity Pools and DEX such as Uniswap on release | 0.5% | 5,000,000 | | Rewards for Taking and Liquidity Providers | 40% | 400,000,000 | | Burned after Token Generation Event | 1.64% | 16,379,000 | Bondly Collectible Card Game (BCCG) BCCG is a fully digital, NFT-based, collectible card game that adds immense utility, educates about Bondly's products, and incentivizes gamers to participate in Bondly ecosystem. Each card in the universe (Bondverse) will be based on one of the Bondly Family Products. Each card will describe the purposes and features of that Bondly product while the art will personify those features. The first set was released on Nov 3, 2020 and 2nd set was introduced November 15, 2020. The BCCG cards are typically categorized as Heroes and Villains. | Set | BCCG Card type | | --- | -------------- | | 1 | Isekai | | 1 | Gothic Horror | | 1 | Thirller | | 2 | Magical Girl | | 2 | Comic Superhero | | 2 | The SeVerers | BCCG Sale BCCG sale (set 1) went live on November 2 ,2020, UTC-4 (10 AM EST) with 15 unique cards priced at 0.5 ETH per card and 2.5ETH per card for purchasing a set. The sale had total 750 cards on offer. The total BCCG items being sold out within six hours of launch, the launch generated over 375 ETH in trading volume, more than 45,000 social mentions. These first edition card buyers will receive a free airdrop of $BONDLY tokens, which can be used to cover a total of ten premium tournament entries. On the Token Generation Event (TGE) of the BONDLY token, the wallet holding the card will receive 5k BONDLY (enough for 5 premium tournaments). After 30 days, a snapshot will be taken and whoever is holding the card will receive another 2.5k BONDLY tokens. After an additional 30 days (60 days since TGE), a snapshot will be taken and the holder will receive the final 2.5k BONDLY tokens. BCCG 1st Edition cards allow community members to become VIPs in the BONDLYVERSE, resulting in rewards, access to gaming tournaments, and many other benefits. BCCG Tournament The BCCG Tournament includes battles between BCCG Card holders. The game is similar to games like Battle Royale or Last man standing where only one can survive, as the game progresses and becomes a winner eventually. The game has a set amount of players fit into 1v1 ladder brackets. They compete on the basis of BCCG cards and ultimately one emerges as the winner. The Game framework has the following rules. 1. Each card operates as a pass to enter a tournament ladder system of 6 to 24 participants. The type of card used to enter must be unique compared to other contestants within that tournament . 2. There are two types of tournaments - Free and Premium. The Premium Tournament requires Bondly tokens to participate . The tournament rewards differ by type of tournament. 3. The battle works in a very similar way to ’challenges’ within G-Loot where the outcomes for each game determine the winner. There are no fundamental benefits that one card will provide over another for the tournament, but there will be specific tournaments that will require that you hold a card of a specific set in order to enter (eg “Thriller Tournament”) 4. The rewards for bracket winners will vary and will include (but not be limited to) BONDLY Tokens, partner tokens, Special Edition (Not Available for Purchase) NFT cards, specialty NFT from Bondly partners network and more. Products & Services BONDLY Staking Bondly team announced Bondly token staking service in a partnership with Ferrum Network. It went live on December 9, 2020 with an ultra-customized version of Ferrum’s staking technology. The Bondly Staking platform gives participants the ability to lock their tokens and earn high yields based on the length of time staked. It’s similar to a decentralized high-yield bank account, with maximum customization for projects and flexibility for participants. Bondly Staking is a customized version and it allows stake not only Bondly token, but also NFT tokens like their BCCG Card Game, and more. Currently, it allows Staking Your BCCG Hero and Villain NFTs. NFT Rewards Staking Reward Schematic In addition to BONDLY rewards, Bondly also gives NFT Rewards for each one of their staking contracts. Through this, the user can win their most rare, exclusive first edition BCCG card “Farzin” from the Isekai series. It is a Hero card and will come with its own utility within the BCCG game and the Bondly product ecosystem. This card will not be sole by Bondly Team. The only way to earn this RARE NFT is through the BONDLY staking program. To Qualify for Farzin Card Airdrop users need to providing 3k BONDLY tokens in any one of the reward pools (staking or a liquidity pool) for the whole two weeks. If the user fulfills this, he /she will be eligible to win one of the 15 Farzin card drops. Staking Pools Staking Pools Bondly has created four types of rewards pools, all with their own unique characteristics. | Terms | VIP Staking | Gold Staking | BCCG Card Staking | Liquidity Staking 1.0 | | ----- | ----------- | ------------ | ----------------- | --------------------- | | Maturity Period | 60 days | 90 days | 30 days | 90 days | | Full Term APY | 40% | 40% | 0% | 105% | | Early Withdrawal Period | 30 days | 45 days | 1 day | 45 days | | Early Withdrawal APY | 0% | 0% | 0% | 40% | | Farzin NFT Distribution | 3 cards every 2 weeks | 2 cards every 2 weeks | 5 cards every 2 weeks | 5 cards every 2 weeks | | Size | 2 million BONDLY | 2 million BONDLY | Unlimited | Unlimited | | Contribution Period | 5 days or until filled | 5 days or until filled | 7 days | NA | | Eligibility | Only existing BCCG cardholders | Anyone | Anyone | Anyone | | Note | | | | Rewards will be split in BONDLY/ETH and BONDLY/USDT pair. | Liquidity Staking To perform liquidity staking, the user needs to provide liquidity in BONDLY either paired with ETH or USDT on the Uniswap exchange. Once the user provides liquidity in BONDLY-ETH or BONDLY-USDT, he will get LP pool tokens, that can be staked on Bondly's staking portal to earn rewards in BONDLY. BONDSwap (BSwap) BSWAP is a product of the Bondly Protocol that allows users to exchange any token or cryptocurrency to another token/cryptocurrency created on another blockchain. It basically provides an interoperable cross-chain facility, so that users can easily make require trades to maximize their gains. Generally over the counter (OTC) trades are performed by two parties that wish to exchange one cryptocurrency for another, or with fiat. A Decentralized Exchange (DEX allows for the anonymous exchange of cryptocurrencies, but it is generally limited to tokens operating on the same blockchain, typically Ethereum (e.g. ERC20 Tokens). For DEX, there is a liquidity problem as well. A centralized exchange allows cross-chain swaps, but they are susceptible to regulatory scrutiny and also potential hacks. Bondly is solving these problems through the creation of a Decentralized cross-chain Atomic swap architecture, BONDSwap (BSWAP). It allows pa

tigerswap

TigerSwap is a forked audited DeFi protocol based on TRON that forks Uniswap and SushiSwap.

TigerSwap is a forked audited DeFi (Decentralized Finance) protocol of Uniswap and SushiSwap built on TRON. Overview TigerSwap Global is the first V3 concentrated liquidity on binance smart chain. It adopts the core design of Uniswap and SushiSwap. Tiger Swap is a decentralized financial payment network that rebuilds the traditional payment stack on the blockchain. It utilizes a basket of fiat-pegged stablecoins, algorithmically stabilized by its reserve currency TIGERSWAP, to facilitate programmable payments and open financial infrastructure development. Protocol The TigerSwap protocol will be running an initiative that sees stakers of various JustSwap liquidity provider tokens rewarded with the $TIG and $TigC token. Tokens TigC TigC is the governance token of TigerSwap. It will be airdropped to members who participated in the development, promotion, and governance of the TigerSwap community in the early stages of the forked protocol. All members who join the TigerSwap community can receive it. The number of TigC tokens is 100,000, which will never be increased and will only be used for project community governance. Tig Tig is the equity token of TigerSwap and enjoys the certain rights of the TigerSwap. The dual-token governance structure separates the interests of shareholders and governors. For investors, holding Tig and TigC tokens can get double benefits. Farming Cycle With TigerSwap, one can provide liquidity into a pool and earn rewards in the form of Tig tokens. As an early adopter as a liquidity provider to TigerSwap, they become a significant stakeholder of the protocol. Supply The total number of Tig token is 220 million, of which 100 million tokens are farmed through staking those liquidity provider tokens into the corresponding initial list of pools, and 100 million tokens will be farmed after the decentralized exchange (DEX) goes online. At the same time, using SushiSwap's model, 10% of each Tig issued is allocated to community developers to ensure the continuous development of the project. The number of Tigs farmed by each liquidity provider is calculated by the proportion of the LP provided by it in the total LP in the same pool. The initial set of available pools: Pool 1: USDT/TRX LP — 1Million Tig Pool 2: Pearl/TRX LP — 1Million Tig Pool 3: JFI/TRX LP — 1 Million Tig Pool 4: SUN — 1Million Tig (SUN token is first supported by DEX!!!) Pool 5: Tig/TRX LP — 90 Million Tig (MORE Rewards!!!) Pool 6: TigC/TRX LP — 1 Million Tig The output in each of the above pools is halved every 10 weeks and ends in 100 weeks. With TigerSwap, liquidity providers receive a proportionate share of the trading fees generated by each pool they provide liquidity to. However, unlike other automated market maker protocols, liquidity providers will continue to receive a share of the trading fees even after they have withdrawn their liquidity. A 0.3% fee will be charged for each trading pair, and these fees will be converted into Tig tokens and then distributed to the liquidity providers of each pool. The total amount of tokens in this part is 100 million. All fees generated by users during the trading process will be used to repurchase Tig (via TigerSwap) for token burning. The token repurchase and burning mechanism of centralized exchanges has been proven to be the most effective mechanism for enhancing the value of tokens in the cryptocurrency industry, such as Binance Coin and HT. TigerSwap has followed this mechanism and made some innovations in this mechanism. One is decentralized destruction, which makes the destruction more transparent and open. In addition, it has added an invitation and reward mechanism to attract more high-quality assets and liquidity providers. See also JustSwap $SUN (Cryptocurrency)

adtoken

adToken, the currency of the adChain Registry is a cryptocurrency that detects fraudulent websites on advertising websites.

adToken (ADT) is a cryptocurrency that improves the advertising market by detecting fraudulent websites. It is the native currency of the adChain Registry that provides solutions for the digital advertising ecosystem. Overview adToken is a standard ERC20 token on the Ethereum Blockchain. It's intended for use in the adChain Registry app. adToken (ADT) is a true utility token because it is integral to the functionality of the adChain Registry. It is a browser-agnostic solution that builds up a clean pool of supply for advertisers who want to post their ads on non-fraudulent websites. The coin gained traction because it is the first ever decentralized whitelist for authentic publisher domains. Development ConsenSys, MetaX, the Data & Marketing Association (DMA) and the adChain Association (ACA) have together set up the adChain Registry open protocol. MetaX provides user interface for facilitating voting process through a Web browser. DMA promotes responsible gathering and refining of detailed data for the identification and fulfillment of customer needs and interests and also provides a marketing ecosystem for the industry participants. adToken Technology adChain uses layer technology such as Transport Layer Security (TLS) to push authentication out of the application layer. This enables adChain registrants to conduct ad commerce in markup formats like RTB, VAST, VPAID, etc. This also allows authentication by the old production-ready software. So, new users can save significant onboarding costs which can be as low as a few lines in a webserver config file. adChain uses bidirectional TLS to authenticate users with the help of certificate signing keys in the Web HTTPS regime. Publishers may either run their own ad servers to retain control of their certificate signing keys or work with vendors who solicit bids and return ad markup. This is mutual authentication wherein the vendors must apply for a listing in the adChain Registry or interface with publisher-controlled signing servers. Features adChain’s governance model prevents the websites from inflating the figures of the number of impressions that they acquire because it tracks the listed publishers’ activities. The platform is completely Decentralized as all participants are eligible to audit the whitelist. This also maintains transparency of the platform. The developers can also create their own dApps, and customize or directly use adChain registry’s dApps like the Bot Recognition dApps, which separates the bot-generated clicks from human clicks. This increases the functionality and usability of the platform. Tokenomics The ADT token is launched on the Ethereum blockchain and is utilized as the native currency for MetaX. According to its Ethereum explorer reports, its total supply is capped at 1,000,000,000 ADT and a current fully diluted market cap of $91,920.00. Currently, there is no centralized market open for trading $ADT tokens, and its major liquidity lies in Uniswap. Team The technical team is led by Mike Goldin who is also the founder of ConsenSys, Ameen Soleimani and Miguel Morales. All of them have rich experience in Blockchain technology. The development team is backed by Shailin Dhar and Raleigh Harbour, who have been chosen for active consulting roles given their experience in digital advertising industry. The most recent post from the team on their social handles dates 2019 on their twitter space.

leverj-gluon

Leverj Gluon (L2) is a decentralized derivatives trading platform.

Leverj Gluon (L2) is a decentralized derivatives trading platform. It is also the only self-custodial decentralized derivatives exchange that provides up to 100x leverage. L2 provides high-speed decentralized spot markets. Overview Leverj Gluon allows users to trade with their own wallets or keys utilizing multisignature accounts. In addition, identities are secure and decentralized to avoid potential leaks of user information. L2 users are expected to experience high market liquidity, tight spreads, low slippage, atomic stops, hardware key authentication, near-instant settlement, proof-of-audit embedded in the blockchain, zero-knowledge API keys, and in the near future, price action entries, trade replay videos, managed trading and simulated trading. The user's identity for any trade is simply a public key that controls the user's coins. Users can create new public keys at will, further obfuscating their identity. Leverj decentralizes the most desirable features of derivatives trading by implementing them in cryptocurrencies and eliminating points of friction. With a tight focus on derivatives trading and the supporting ecosystem, L2 has taken the approach of defining the product first. Leverj Gluon has built a functioning exchange with a usable UI (user interface), decentralized identity, and provable audit. Leverj uses Gluon, a bespoke and enhanced version of plasma that offers the scalability and speed of a centralized exchange. Gluon is more efficient than zkRollups and Optimistic rollups based layer-two technology for building a high-speed self custodial exchange. ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups impose additional time and throughput constraints, which are not suitable for low latency and high throughput derivatives trading. Gluon has first-class support for constructs like margin and has exhaustive fraud proofs for trading. Gluon Gluon (also known as Gluon Plasma) is a custom-built layer two sidechains to Ethereum that allows for a cheap, fast, and transparent experience for Leverj. The custody of users’ assets on the plasma sidechain is managed by the Gluon plasma contract. The plasma contract serves as the interface for assets between the main chain and the plasma sidechain.

conflux

Conflux Network (CFX) is a utility-based cryptocurrency token issued to operate within the Conflux network's Ecosystem.

Conflux Network (CFX) is a utility-based cryptocurrency token issued to operate within the Conflux network's ecosystem. Conflux Network is an open protocol for a new space of DApps, finance, and Web 3.0. Conflux Network is a quick and secured public blockchain that combines proof-of-work and a tree-graph structure to originate a new generation of decentralized commerce. Overview Conflux Network is an open network that was built to drive the next generation of global commerce by unlocking the decentralized applications and digital assets of tomorrow. Conflux enables a secure and interoperable flow of assets and data across protocols and applications to create an 'internet of value' for everyone. Conflux Protocol's public, permissionless blockchain is powerful and developer-friendly. It is a layer-1 blockchain protocol that offers heightened scalability, security, and extensibility for the next generation of open commerce, decentralized applications, financial services, and Web 3.0. The Conflux network provides significant performance improvements with its processing of parallel blocks in a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure, which lowers confirmation times and increases transaction throughput substantially. The Conflux consensus algorithm operates with a special Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure known as Tree-Graph. By integrating proof of work into a Tree Graph architecture, Conflux delivers a robust network with Solidity compatibility, zero congestion, and low fees. It is a Proof-of-work system (PoW) blockchain network that allows the parallel processing of blocks and transactions, while eventually forming a final serial chain. This feature is in contrast with other well-known networks, such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), that process blocks strictly one-by-one. The parallel processing creates economic incentives for miners that are notably different from serial chains. Fostering entrepreneurship and innovation, Conflux elevates startups and organizations across industries and continents to generate decentralized marketplaces and digital assets for meaningful business and social impact. Conflux also intends to surmount the problem of the unpaid smart-contract space occupation. The Conflux Protocol also introduces ongoing costs of contract maintenance which gives users an economic incentive to avoid wasting resources. History Conflux Network originated from the research lab of Turing Award recipient Dr. Andrew Yao at Tsinghua University. The Network is supervised by a global team of world-class engineers and innovative computer scientists. The CFX cryptocurrency project and the Conflux Network is a continuous research that was built to provide a solution to the ‘blockchain trilemma’ problem with a novel Tree-Graph consensus mechanism that optimizes security, scalability, and decentralization. In 2018, the Conflux Foundation came to bear, and a regulatory compliant fundraise was issued to build an open infrastructure based on this breakthrough consensus mechanism. Shortly after, Conflux established itself as the only state-endorsed public, permissionless blockchain in China. As respected advocates of public Blockchain infrastructure in China, Conflux is advancing the education and research in blockchain development. In 2020, Conflux established the Tree-Graph Research Institute in partnership with the government of Shanghai and the Key Laboratory of Blockchain Infrastructure and Applications with the government of Hunan. Conflux has also expanded its global operations and community with a diverse distributed team of more than 50 members across over four continents, including offices in Toronto, Canada, and Lagos, Nigeria. Features Conflux Network's (CFX) Internet of Value (IoV) cryptocurrency platform offers the following key features: Scalability: The Conflux Network's Future-ready Decentralized applications can leverage a high throughput rate of 3000-6000 Transactions per second and offers its users low transaction fees. Versatility: Conflux Network is an open network that supports building new financial applications, digital assets, business applications, and data economies. Security: The Conflux Network has a highly tested and trusted Proof-of-work consensus mechanism with increased security and Anti- Reentrance attack protection at the protocol level. Ecosystem Conflux Network's ecosystem is a platform where users can discover a growing array of next-generation tools, protocols, and applications within the network's innovation playground. The following functions are embedded within the Conflux Network's ecosystem: Conflux DeFi : Conflux Network is powering open finance through its Ecosystem of cross-chain protocols, exchanges, and applications that are the 'legos' to build the next-generation of DeFi. ShuttleFlow: Conflux' ShuttleFlow provides cross-chain asset functionality between various Blockchains and Conflux Network to create a secure, efficient, and simple user-experience for moving assets across public chains. The Conflux Foundation provides resources for further development, and the ShuttleFlow Alliance members aim to maintain it collaboratively. Dual Protocol-BoomFlow and MatchFlow: The Dual Protocol adopts an "off-chain matching and on-chain settlement" mechanism. With this twin ledger under the Dual Protocol, the on-chain and off-chain data will remain identical all the time while lively responding to users' requests. The Dual Protocol provides an Operating system as convenient as a centralized system while ensuring their asset ownership and privacy. Ecosystem's Infrastructure Conflux Network's ecosystem has the following featured as part of the Conflux' infrastructure: ConfluxScan : Creating a Simple DApp Using ConfluxPortal Exploring the Conflux Network transactions, blocks, and tokens can be done through an easy to use block-explorer created by the Conflux team. ConfluxPortal : Users can find interaction with Conflux Network and can also manage their assets using a simple browser-based wallet that unlocks the power of the blockchain on the user's computer. ConfluxBounty : Users can participate in growing the Conflux Network through joining the platform's community events, building integrations with other applications, and others. Products Conflux Network's ecosystem offers the following products on its platform for users and prospective users: MoonSwap : This gives users access to high-speed and 0 GAS. MoonSwap is the Next-Generation Protocol for DEX, it will be the first Automated Market Maker (AMM) DEX running on Ethereum L2, and it is also supported by Conflux Network and Cross-Chain Asset Protocol ShuttleFlow. MoonDEX : The MoonDEX is a crypto-product on Conflux Network. It is a decentralized order-book exchange powered by Conflux Network using BoomFlow and MatchFlow. Flux: Flux is a proposed product of the Conflux Network. It will operate as a DeFi application for earning interest through lending and borrowing on Conflux Network. Tspace: NFTs have been on the increase lately. So also on the Conflux Network, the Tspace is a proposed product that is to function as a decentralized marketplace on Conflux Network. This space was built so that users can demonstrate and trade digital collectibles- Non-Fungible Token (NFT). Tech-Features Conflux Network's (CFX) technology has the following featured on its platform: Accessible Tooling : Users can build applications in an Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible environment with Solidity smart contracts and Conflux Truffle. Interact with Conflux Network through a familiar browser-based wallet and SDKs in JavaScript and Go (programming language). Deploying Smart Contract Using SDK Improved Capabilities : The Network's users can Leverage scalability and low transaction fees through the ShuttleFlow cross-chain asset protocol. Create new applications using a comprehensive IDE like Conflux Studio for enhanced development experience. Unique Features : The Conflux' user's experience can be simplified by utilizing the transaction sponsorship mechanism. Leverage the built-in staking interest to provide a foundation for innovative financial applications. Tokenomics Conflux Network (CFX) is a cryptocurrency token issued by the Conflux' network and is utilized within Conflux' Network. The ticker symbol of the token is denoted as CFX and it has a total supply of 10,000,000 CFX. CFX recorded an all-time high of $0.134017 USD on the 13th of November, 2020, and an all-time low of $0.076603 USD on the 11th of November 2020. CFX has been listed on MXC centralized exchange and it is currently traded actively on its platform. Conflux: Africa's Shore Conflux Network launched its Testnet in 2019 and is already entering Africa's commerce. Conflux hopes to be opened to more business integration in Africa and intends to contribute to the growth of the Crypto-Blockchain industry within the Africa community. The African project is a win-win for both Conflux and the African community. Conflux is looking to establish a concrete community of developers and miners and also intends to partner with local exchanges. Africa's market is one of Conflux’s top priorities not just for brand recognition, but also for the advancement of the blockchain industry. In recognition of the African market and its potential, Conflux has decided to appoint an African representative, which simply implies close proximity between Africa and Conflux Network. Investors Founded in

navin-vethanayagam

Navin Vethanayagam is the Chief Brain of IQ.wiki formerly Everipedia, and the Galaxy Brain of BrainDAO.

Navin Vethanayagam is the Chief Brain of IQ.wiki formerly Everipedia, and the Galaxy Brain of BrainDAO. Career Navin Vethanayagam leads IQ.wiki, formerly known as Everipedia, as Chief Brain alongside Cesar Rodriguez who serves as IQ.wiki's Chief Technology Officer. Navin also serves the Galaxy Brain of BrainDAO, which manages the IQ token. He was previously the Chief Community Officer of Everipedia where he managed the company's community, social channels, and press relations. In this role, he also led the international communications and editorial teams at Everipedia. As Chief Community Officer, Navin worked on several projects including leading the editorial, marketing, and community aspects of building the IQ.wiki platform. He was interviewed by CryptoSlate's Akiba for SlateCast where he discussed the expansion of IQ.wiki onto Polygon and the platform's future plans. He also worked on the communications around the launch of the IQ token and later Everipedia's partnerships with The Associated Press (AP). He led the press relations and marketing for the Everipedia OraQles project which was used by AP to publish election data on the blockchain for the first time ever. The event was covered by several media outlets including Forbes, Coindesk, Cointelegraph, and Nasdaq News. He also worked closely with AP to create their first NFT which sold for 100.888 ETH on OpenSea. Navin also wrote several governance proposals involving the IQ token and BrainDAO. He wrote the proposal to fund BrainDAO, IQIP-9: Bridging the Real-world and the Metaverse with BrainDAO. He also worked on governance proposals that involved IQ tokenomics including IQIP-14: New IQ Tokenomics for IQ.wiki which involves establishing new tokenomics for the IQ token after the launch of IQ.wiki. Previously, he wrote IQIP-2: Reducing IQ’s Max Supply which involved reducing the maximum supply of the IQ token and hard capping it to 21 billion tokens. Navin first joined Everipedia in 2016 as the company's sixth team member. His role initially focused on creating content for the site before expanding into community management. Prior to joining Everipedia, Navin worked as an Associate Business Analyst at Scotiabank in their Global Wholesale Technology - Derivatives division while studying at Western University. Early Life & Education Navin Vethanayagam was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the Ivey Business School at Western University with a Bachelor of Arts, Honors Business Administration. He previously studied Business Management and Organizational Studies at Western University.

adrian-vasiu

Adrian Vasiu is a Co-founder & CEO of Ofero Network.

Adrian Vasiu is a Romanian-based Entrepreneur, Business founder, Economist, and Venture Capitalist. He is a Co-founder & CEO of Ofero Network an asset-backed innovative ecosystem based on the PoTT protocol (Proof of Trust and Transparency), developed on MultiversX Education Adrian Vasiu holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration, General Business Administration from the Lucian Blaga University Sibiu. Career !photo_2023-02-02_17-44-40.jpgAdrian Vasiu started his career Personal Life Adrian Vasiu Ofero Network Ofero Network (launched in 2021) is a tokenization platform based on the PoTT protocol (Proof of Trust and Transparency), built on the MultiversX blockchain (previously Elrond). Its goal is to use the power and innovation of its technological products and services to create a synergy between real-world and crypto assets.

super-bowl-lvii-nfts

Super Bowl LVII NFTs are non-fungible tokens released by Reddit as exclusive avatars collectible by users, with four different avatars representing the Eagles, ...

Super Bowl LVII NFTs are collectible avatars launched by Reddit in partnership with the National Football League (NFL) to celebrate the Super Bowl event held on February 12th, 2023. About 1.3 million of the official Super Bowl LVII NFT avatars have been minted during the first week after the launch, including more than 500,000 on the first day. Overview The non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were launched on February 6, 2023, on the Polygon network and were free for Reddit users to mint, with a limit of one NFT per account. These avatars can also be transferred to a third-party wallet for further buying, selling, or trading options if desired. Since its launch, about 1.3 million of the official Super Bowl LVII NFT avatars have been minted, including more than 500,000 on the first day. The Reddit Super Bowl LVII NFT collection offers users four different collectible avatars, representing the Eagles, Chiefs, The Champs, and LVII Super Fans teams. Owning an NFT provides users with unique benefits on the platform, such as profile animations and a CC0 license (copyright license) to use the avatars as they see fit. The launch of the NFTs is in line with Reddit's strategy of offering digital collectibles to its users, a concept that has proven to be highly successful in the past. !image Reddit NFT History Reddit’s Collectible Avatars have been making headlines since the release of its first NFT collection in 2022. The CryptoSnoos NFTs, based on the platform’s mascot Snoo, generated over $12.5 million in sales volume and were one of the biggest Web3 onboarding events in blockchain history. Between December 12, 2022, and February 7, 2023, Reddit minted over 4 million NFTs. In less than two months, the number of avatar owners increased from 306K to 1,789 million. On Polygon, Reddit has around 9 million NFT avatars. Most of the Reddit users are football fans and the platform has massive 411 million monthly views in football communities with 195 million monthly views for r/NFL. !image Reddit's Strategy Reddit has promoted the NFT collection, avoiding using the term NFT and instead referring to their collections as digital collectibles following the fall of cryptocurrency company FTX. This approach has been a huge success and helped to generate significant attention for the platform. The recent launch of the Super Bowl LVII NFTs shows Reddit's intention of monetizing concepts that are well-known to its users, particularly football fans, who represent a significant proportion of the platform's monthly views.

glitch

A blockchain protocol that fosters scalable solution that advances decentralized finance, utilizing GLCH as its native token.

Glitch Protocol (GLCH) (Founded in 2020) is a Blockchain agnostic super protocol built to facilitate trust-less money market. It is a Decentralized network solution precision-built for DeFi (Decentralized Finance). Glitch offers a new operating system precision defined, with a scalable solution that can make the necessary leap to challenge the dominance of traditional, centralized financial markets. At the core of the Glitch Protocol lies a ground-breaking Profit-Sharing Vault Model, an efficient Decentralized Exchange (DEX) and a unified token framework. Background Glitch was born out of a simple idea. For DeFi (Decentralized Finance) to meet its full potential, it needs a dedicated system — one that’s easy to use, scalable, and capable of uniting an entire ecosystem of Decentralized application (DApp). It was built from the ground up and designed to improve upon the best of existing chains. It is lightning-fast and features near-zero transaction fees. Glitch is geared specifically for DeFi (Decentralized Finance), with scaling and profit-sharing at its core. Overview Glitch is a Hong Kong-based Blockchain startup that is developing a super protocol purpose-built to facilitate trustless money markets. It is a Blockchain-based operating system purpose-built for money market Decentralized application (DApp) and Decentralized financial activity. In contrast to existing Blockchain ecosystems, Glitch is not intended to be a jack-of-all-applications. Rather, its underlying structure and customizations are focused exclusively on DeFi (Decentralized Finance) applications. Glitch is inspired by EOS, one of the most successful Blockchains developed for scalable throughput thus far. However, Glitch differs from EOS in several key respects: Glitch provides scaling from layer 1 through low-latency, high throughput transaction processing Glitch utilizes a stakeholder carousel to ensure fair governance Glitch incentivizes community support through a profit-sharing Vault The Platform is developing a brand new Blockchain dedicated to decentralized financial products and built with scaling and profit-sharing at its core. The Protocol offers high transaction throughput, near-zero transaction fees and a profit-sharing model that is appealing to investors, dApp developers, and end-users. Glitch is led by a team of seasoned Blockchain professionals and prominent advisors who have come together to deliver a new breed of Defi “Operating Software” free from the shortcomings of existing chains. Features Scalable consensus: Glitch approaches scalability from layer one and uses a delegated proof of stake algorithm to deliver low-latency, high throughput transaction processing. Profit-sharing vault: All Glitch dApps automatically share revenue with network participants via a network vault incentivizing active development and user engagement. By default, 20% of all network fees and revenues from dApps are deposited into a network vault stored on the Glitch Protocol. Tokens from the Vault are then shared with all Glitch stakers supporting the network's computation requisites. This model fosters community support for Glitch dApps by giving coin holders financial incentives to help dApp developers generate revenue. This creates a positive feedback loop in which developers can count on community support and coin holders are rewarded with tokens that can then be spent through dApps across the Glitch network. Token wrapping: Glitch wraps ETH and ETH assets and runs them in dApps on its network, providing the same asset spread and potential benefits as Ethereum, without the congested network issues. Decentralized exchange (GEX): The GEX is a permissionless, Peer-to-peer engine that enables users to trade assets quickly, cheaply, and securely — bringing unprecedented speed and low transaction costs. Glitch bridges the gap with existing Blockchain, by allowing external tokens to be wrapped and imported into the Glitch Ecosystem. To ensure price discovery, transparent market information and efficient resource allocation, all assets living on top of the Glitch protocol will be tradeable via a fully Decentralized Peer-to-peer exchange incorporating the state-of-the-art technology with regards to liquidity provision and market-making. Unified Token Framework: For DeFi (Decentralized Finance) to flourish, there must be a single token that unites an entire ecosystem of dApps. That is the rationale behind Glitch, which offers a unified Blockchain operating system on which third-party developers can build dApps for DeFi (Decentralized Finance). All dApps built on Glitch will use a single token for transactions and governance, ensuring cohesion across all of the various dApps for DeFi (Decentralized Finance) within the ecosystem. Glitch Consensus Mechanism Glitch Protocol uses Dpos (Delegated-Proof-Of-Stake) to generate consensus around the Blockchain. DPOS is currently the only Decentralized consensus Algorithm that is capable of scaling up to the transaction speed required to support DeFi (Decentralized Finance). The Glitch DPOS algorithm is similar to the implementation used in EOS. Blocks will be produced every 0.5 seconds and only one producer is authorized to produce a new block at each time interval. Block producers may only produce blocks on a single fork at one time, and Byzantine Fault Tolerance is used to ensure that producers cannot sign blocks on multiple forks without producing cryptographic evidence. In the event that there is a fork in the Glitch Blockchain, consensus will automatically change to whichever chain is longest. Notably, Glitch does not allow for block producers to be chosen by vote. Instead, this operating system uses a carousel system that gives each stakeholder an equal chance to produce a block. This prevents a small group of block producers from effectively hijacking the Blockchain and governance of the operating system. The fact that Glitch implements scalability from layer 1 is a major advantage for the adoption of this operating system. In contrast to layer 2 scaling solutions, such as Matic Network, Glitch does not force users to navigate a secondary account portal or use an additional token. The seamlessness of layer 1 scaling stands to make Glitch competitive with traditional financial solutions from the perspectives of user experience and functionality. Glitch Public Token Offering Execution GLITCH Public Token Offering will be executed by leveraging the TrustSwap Launchpad. Immediately upon the conclusion of the offering, a Uniswap pool will be created, and exchanging can commence for $GLCH tokens.Alongside the offering, a Liquidity Staking Rewards program will go live for participation through the use of the LP token of the Uniswap GLCH/ETH pair, with the first incentives program running for 3 months. TrustSwap is a company whose ideals run parallel to GLITCH’s. Over the past three years, their well-known founding team members have all owned and operated companies, including other token networks, advisory companies, and Blockchain development firms in the cryptocurrency space. Their financial applications never compromise on security and are arguably the safest option for companies and users to participate in DeFi (Decentralized Finance). TrustSwap technology utilizes simple and secure Peer-to-peer transactions, via TrustSwap SmartLaunch, which ensures that Glitch and its participants can transact securely and without the fear of participants or team members negatively impacting the markets following the public offering. TrustSwap’s time-based SmartLock ensures a methodical distribution to mitigate the risk of unauthorized token transfers. Glitch will use TrustSwap for: Team token vesting Token holder vesting Liquidity locks 1% of $GLCH total supply will be airdropped to the top 1,000 ‘Swap Scores’ (Average Swap staked over the most recent sixty days). The snapshot is taken on the day of the Launchpad offering, therefore, if users are outside the top 1,000, they still have ample time to build their score to be eligible. To figure out how much a user will need, by using the leaderboard and calculator. 0.5% of the total supply will go to the TrustSwap Foundation Fund. Offering Details: Initial Marketcap: $1.36M Price per token: $0.09 Fully unlocked tokens on day one Raise Hardcap: $1.2M Total Supply: 88,888,888 GLCH Tokens from the public sale on the TrustSwap launchpad are 100% available on day one of launch. All other previous sales are subject to vesting. Liquidity: Uniswap LP will be seeded and a liquidity rewards campaign will be started within the first week of the sale completion. 1% of GLCH tokens will be rewarded over the first 3 months for Uniswap LP providers. Team: Locked for 3 months, then quarterly vesting for 12 months. Advisors: Locked for 3 months, then vesting for 6 months. Core Teams Wisnu Wijaya is Glitch’s in-house designer and the chief architect of the visual elements of Glitch. He has been a major contributor to the project since January 2021, Wisnu has played an important role in shaping our success thus far. A multi-disciplinary creative with strong analytical skills, Wisnu has been working as a designer for the last five years. Active in crypto since 2018, Wisnu’s been working to support various projects and initiatives via the global tech consultancy the Blockchain Zoo. In terms of Glitch, his fingerprints are everywhere — logos, banners, social media content, motion graphics, and, of course, our website. His user-centered approach, understanding of crypto, and refined design skills are largely responsible for Glitch’s unique branding.

flywheel-defi

Kapital_k is an angel investor and researcher with a background in gaming and blockchain. He is Chief Editor of thecoreloop, and co-host of Flywheel DeFi. He ho...

Flywheel DeFi is a platform that provides information on the crypto space, creating high-quality DeFi content with Frax Finance as their focus. The platform curates short clips as well as articles, and hosts podcasts, inviting special guests from different fields of expertise. Overview The Flywheel DeFi was created in June 2022, with DeFi Dave, kapital_k and Sam McCulloch as the leading team. DeFi Dave and kapital\_k are co-hosts of FlyWheel DeFi’s podcasts and are the main speakers on their youtube channel and Sam McCulloch carries out the lead producer role. The Flywheel DeFi podcast is an authoritative source of information and insights about the Frax ecosystem, serving as a marketing department that provides valuable content to its target audience. The podcast sees itself as the "Bankless of Frax," taking the lead in driving the narrative for Frax and Foundational Deep DeFi forward. Its primary goal is to promote Frax to the wider DeFi community and showcase its potential to reach Ethereum-level size. Flywheel recognizes that the Frax ecosystem extends far beyond the core team, with numerous contributors and commentators advancing the protocol into the future. The podcast serves as a platform to organize and highlight these contributors, carrying the Fraximalist torch up high for those who seek it. By engaging the wider DeFi community, the Flywheel DeFi podcast is committed to promoting the potential of Frax and its ecosystem. Content Flywheel Flywheel is the platform’s main podcast, where they release weekly videos covering various topics in the DeFi space, still aiming to have the conversations centered around Frax Finance. They have released over 40 episodes that all last over an hour and had some of the core team members behind Frax Finance such as, Sam Kazemian, Robert Sams, Jack Corddry as well as prominent figures in the web3 space including, the founder of ZigZag, Taureau; and members of the leadership council of OlympusDAO, Indigo and Jala. Frax Check Frax Check is also a weekly series that aims to provide a breakdown of Frax Finance’s performance and updates of the week. This Week in Frax This Week in Frax is weekly content that looks over recent news as well as an overview of the discussions that took place during governance proposals and in the whole Frax ecosystem. Money Moves Money Moves is a series that covers the topic of money and provides a deep dive into the value of Frax by inviting experts in the field of economics and finances. Fraximalist Meetups Flywheel DeFi also sets up meetups with members of the Frax Finance community in real life, giving speeches and giving away merch. The first meet up was in April 2022 during the Devconnect in Amsterdam and have had up to 420 fraximalists attending the 2nd meetup in Paris during the EthCC in July 2022. !image Grants Flywheel DeFi's first grant proposal was made on August 6th 2022. Flywheel requested for $60,000, split equally between FXS and FRAX and proposed that the grant will fund Flywheel's content creation and meetups for a period of six months. They also promised that with the grant, Flywheel will continue to produce content covering the Frax ecosystem, including its flagship podcast Flywheel, which features discussions about the latest developments in Frax, DeFi, stablecoins, and more. Other content, including Fraxcast and StableClaire Explains, were also to be produced. In addition, the grant would fund advertisements for Frax's DeFi primitives, such as Fraxswap, Fraxlend, FPI, and FrxETH. This proposal was approved on August 11th, 2022, with 97.67% voting in favor of Flywheel DeFi. On January 20th 2023, Flywheel DeFi requested a grant of $214.2k in FRAX and FXS (50% each) over the next year to continue promoting the Frax ecosystem and producing high-quality DeFi content. Flywheel has become an essential resource for those interested in Frax, hosting meetups and providing educational resources, memes, and organic threads about the ecosystem. The previous grant helped Flywheel produce 23 episodes of Frax Check, and 19 episodes of the flagship podcast that included ads for primitives like Fraxswap and FrxETH. Although they could not reach the required amount of ads, Flywheel proposes to make up for it by including FrxETH advertisements in at least 10 of their videos on their channel that are not either Flywheel or Frax Check. In addition, they have reached out to a talented meme maker to create promotional videos about FrxETH and relevant Frax primitives. This proposal was accepted well by the community with 100% of the votes voting for the grant to be made and the proposal ended on February 4th 2023. !image

cathy-mulligan

Catherine Mulligan is a Professor of Computer Science at the Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon.

Catherine Mulligan is a Professor of Computer Science at the Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon and the Director of DCentral Lab and ERA BIG Chair (Blockchain) in Lisbon. She is also a Visiting Fellow, at Imperial College London, and Associate Director, at Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering (IC3RE). Cathy researcher, author, adviser, and keynote speaker on Digital Transformation, covering technical, economic, and policy applications of digital technologies. Education Cathy has a BSc (Hons) in Business Information Technology from, the University of New South Wales, Australia, including a Master in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge (2006). She completed her Ph.D. at Cambridge on The Communications Industries in the Era of Convergence. Career Cathy is a Professor of Computer Science at the Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon and the Director of DCentral Lab and ERA BIG Chair (Blockchain) in Lisbon. She is also a Visiting Fellow, at Imperial College London, Associate Director, at Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering (IC3RE) She has led projects in India, Malaysia, Singapore, London, and the EU as well as participated in high-level policy discussions across NGOs, the UN, OECD, and European Commission. I was a member of the UNSG’s High-Level Panel for Digital Cooperation in 2019 and am a current member of the World Economic Forum’s Data Policy Global Futures Council. Catherine started her career in 1995, serving on a Help desk at Novell APAC. In 1996, she was a Programmer at the Commonwealth Bank Of Australia. From 1997 to 1998, she served in Infrastructure Management at Macquarie Bank and was a Web developer at Silicon Graphics. From 1998-1999, Cathy was a Research Assistant (Computer Aided Design Project) at the University of New South Wales. In 1999, she joined Ericsson, where she worked as a Manager for 11 years. From 2010 to 2012, Cathy was a Transitional Fellow at the University of Nottingham. From 2013 to 2014, she served as a Head of Digital Strategy and Economics at Future Cities Catapult. Up to 2017, Cathy worked on OASC Standardisation at Open & Agile Smart Cities and was a Visiting fellow at Glasgow School of Art. Currently, Cathy is a Blockchain Fellow of the World Economic Forum and is an Honorary Senior Researcher at UCL within the Department of Computer Science, she also leads the MBA Elective “Digital Transformation, Leading Real-World Change” at Imperial College Business School. She was previously the Co-Director of the Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering and led several high-impact grants in the Digital Economy across the world including India, Malaysia, the EU, Australia, and the UK, Catherine has published several books, with topics ranging from Mobile technologies to the evolution of innovation within the communications industries from 1960 through 2010. Work Experience | Organization | Position | Service Duration | | ------------ | -------- | ---------------- | | Instituto Superior Técnico | Professor of Computer Science (European Research Area Chair - Blockchain | May 2021 - Present | | Imperial College London | <ul<liVisiting Lecturer Imperial College Business School</li<liCo-Director Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering</li<liResearch Fellow</li</ul | <ul<liJan 2018 - Present</li<li2015 - 2018</li<li2012 - 2018</li</ul | | World Economic Forum | Fellow - Crypto Impact and Sustainability Accelerator (CISA) | | | University College London | Honorary Senior Research Associate | Dec 2017 - Present | | Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)<br | IET Digital Panel Member | May 2019 - Jun 2022 | | Fujitsu | VP and Region CTO of North & West Europe<br | Oct 2019 - Mar 2021 | | United Nations<br | Member UNSG High-Level Panel on Digital Co-Operation | Jul 2018 - Jun 2019 | | EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum | Member of Management Board | Feb 2018 - Apr 2019 |

defipie

DeFiPie is a marketplace that aims to unify the present DeFi space, it provides a gateway to crypto staking mining, etc.

DeFiPie (PIE) (founded in 2019) is a marketplace that aims to unify the present DeFi space, which is a bit fragmented. It provides a single gateway to crypto staking, liquidity mining, lending, yield farming, etc. They aim at launching the first DeFi (Decentralized Finance) SuperApp that will integrate data and Information from all the disconnected DeFi services and protocols. Built on Polkadot, the app focuses to improve user experience (UX) and interconnectivity of the DeFi ecosystem. Overview The Platform is concerned with bringing interconnectivity and better UX to the highly disjointed DeFi space. It functions as a super app that provides users with direct and easy access to a wide variety of DeFi services from a single interface. DeFiPie users enjoy several interesting benefits, amongst which are: Automatic lending on the platform’s P2P loan market. A wide variety of assets like XTZ, ATOM, DOT, and ADA, which are available for staking Effective matching of loans with DeFiPie’s advanced matching algorithm. The ability to create lending, staking, and liquidity pools. DeFiPie combines some of the best features of the money market protocols, while also offering its own unique features, enabling users to enjoy the promises of Decentralized Finance. Lenders and borrowers can lend or borrow crypto assets in a decentralized manner without passing a registration, doing a KYC, and trusting a third party. Investors, traders, and speculators can offer their idle capitals as custom pools with a fixed rate for lending. Liquidity Providers can provide assets to existing pools and farm the Governance Token PIE with an annual percentage yield of up to 150%. Users can also stake PoS-based assets in existing pools to earn staking rewards according to the underlying protocols. DeFiPie is the first super app for the DeFi space, it will combine access to lending, liquidity pools, and staking into one application. The user interface is designed to maximize navigational efficiency leading to an awesome and easy user experience. Whatever a user wants to be executed in the DeFi space will be just a few clicks away. DeFiPie also provides novel features to users which include a P2P loan marketplace, the ability to create lending pools, and yield farming opportunities. Users will be able to easily transfer their asset exposure from one position to the next. | | DeFiPie | Compounder | BZX | Aave | Curve | Synthetix | ThorChain | Balancer | | --- | ------- | ---------- | --- | ---- | ----- | --------- | --------- | -------- | | List of Assets | Any | Selected | Selected | Selected | Selected | Selected | Selected | Selected | | Pool Strategy Lending | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NO | NO | NO | NO | | Margin Trading | Yes | NO | Yes | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | | Assets Swapping | Yes | NO | NO | NO | Yes | NO | Yes | Yes | | Synthetix Asset Trading | Yes (Lending) | NO | Yes | NO | NO | Yes | NO | NO | | Staking | Yes | NO | NO | NO | NO | Yes | NO | NO | Team DeFiPie boasts of a team with highly skilled and experienced professionals. The Core team members include CEO and Co-founder Aleksei Kopievskii, a well-known web developer with over 8 years of experience. He has been actively involved with several tech startups and has functioned as an investor and advisor to many of them. Kopievskii also brings his years of experience to the DeFiPie ecosystem. Other important members of the team are Co-founder and CTO, Maksim Malikov, and CMO, Alymbek Sariev. Aleksei Kopievskii CEO and Co-founder/ Lead Software Developer He is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to various technology startups. He has over eight years of experience in web development and was an Ex-developer at Wings, Switzerland. He is also a blockchain developer with six years of experience, a Hackathon organizer, and a participant around the world. He has been involved and invested in crypto since the end of 2013 with a deep understanding of underlying technology and Proof of Stake. Maksim Malikov CTO and Co-founder/ Lead Software Developer He is a business builder and adoption finder, he was the winner of "Startup Chile" with a price of $35,000. He is the founder of Smart Progress with over 250 thousand users. He is also the founder of a distributed file-sharing system with over 100 thousand users daily. He is an advisor to notable Russian software companies, he has over 15 years of experience in software development, 4 years of experience as a blockchain architect, and a strong interest in emerging technologies and governance. Alymbex Sariev CMO and Founding Member/ Lead UI-UX Developer He is an entrepreneur with a deep passion for UI/UX design as he has over eight years of experience in UI/UX design. He is the Lead UX designer at Aplana, has basic experience in multiple programming languages, and also helps startups to scale. DeFiPie Services Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) One of the most important aspects of most DeFi protocols is lending. Many protocols, however, offer automated lending solutions. This means that users have no control over their loan offers. With DeFiPie, both lenders and borrowers have the option to choose between automated, semi-automated, or manual lending options. This provides users with the freedom to choose which service will be most beneficial to them. Any users deciding to choose an automated DeFiPie lending option will receive loans at an automatically determined interest rate. The drawback to this option is that they might not get the best interest rate available. However, choosing manual lending options gives a user with total control over the lending process. This allows them to determine important details like the interest rate, loan timeline, and loan-to-collateral ratio, among several others. Staking-as-a-Service (SaaS) Users with large holdings of PIE tokens have the option to create a staking pool on DeFiPie. This is where other interested users can merge their tokens for staking, subsequently, increasing the interest rates of all parties involved. Stakers on DeFiPie pools also pay one of the lowest fees in the entire DeFi space. And what’s even more exciting is the fact that despite being in a staking pool, users still retain absolute control over their assets. Staking rewards paid in PIE tokens also attract higher rewards compared to those who are paid in other tokens. Liquidity Pools-as-a-Service (LPaaS) On DeFiPie, users have the option of investing their crypto in any liquidity pool of their choice. They subsequently earn rewards based on the number of assets they invested. All pool members also receive a share of trading fees. When a user places a certain amount of crypto assets in a liquidity pool, they immediately receive a corresponding amount of PIE tokens. These tokens will help improve liquidity in the entire ecosystem. Users on the platform can also create their own liquidity pools easily. They will, however, have to determine important details like interest rates, collateral choice, and many more. Custom lending pools As earlier stated users with enough PIE tokens can create their decentralized lending pools. Users in this pool decide on the workings of the pool. This is unlike conventional DeFi protocols where mechanics are determined by algorithms. In this case, members decide on details such as PIE holdings required to become an admin or to receive voting rights, utility rates, lending rates, collateral, etc. Collateralization Options on DeFiPie Simply put, this means allowing users to earn rewards on their stand-in PIE tokens. Unlike conventional DeFi protocols, users will earn PIE on their assets. PIE earned this way can furthermore be used as loan collateral. Yield farming Users receive PIE tokens as incentives for each day that they are active on the system. In addition, actions carried out on the platform are rewarded with PIE. This helps to ensure a balance between supply and demand on the DeFiPie system. Interested users can also farm PIE by simply locking up assets on DeFiPie. Everything on how to use DeFiPie can be found here. DeFiPie ($PIE) token PIE is the native token of the DeFiPie ecosystem. It is a huge way to earn passive income as users are rewarded with PIE in the DeFiPie ecosystem. The token is required before users can carry out specific tasks on the DeFi platform, including: Creating and participating in a custom lending or liquidity pool, as well as partaking in P2P lending. Creating or accepting manual loan service offers. Users also need PIE tokens to start a staking pool. PIE token holders will also be eligible to receive annual yield farming rewards of up to 150%. PIE holders will also benefit from up to 150% in annual yield farming rewards and be able to participate in network governance. Users who choose to receive rewards in PIE will be able to secure higher interest rates. DefiPie Updates The DefiPie ecosystem announced on its blog, that the following is being worked upon: Uniswap V3 Price Oracle. Creating a price oracle for uniswap V3. This, for the protocol, is needed as more and more projects are moving their liquidity from Uniswap V2 to Uniswap V3. Fee for creating new pools There is a risk of a spam attack on the protocol. To counteract this, the ecosystem is introducing a fee for creating a new pool. Fees will be determined through governance. User validation of new pools Because there is a risk of creating a pool for a malicious token (this is how the last attack on the protocol was carried out). We have made a delay in the start of loans for new pools. Now we need to ensure the validation of new pools. Tok

pudgy-rods

Pudgy Rods is a collection of 7000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that are based on the Pudgy Penguins ecosystem.

Pudgy Rods is a collection of 7000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that are based on the Pudgy Penguins ecosystem. The Pudgy Rods have a total of 24 traits including: 7 1/1s 5 tiers of rankings And 12 different colors !rogs-opensea.png Overview On August 30, 2021, Pudgy Presents in the form of eggs, that were to hatch on Christmas day, were distributed to holders of Pudgy Penguins as a surprise airdrop. This was initially met with excitement by the community, however, the introduction of Pudgy Rods was met with some criticism as an inanimate object hatched from an egg as well as a spelling error ("Rogs" instead of "Rods") in the name when it was announced. With the speculation of the co-founders rug pulling the project, the name "Rogs" were used within the community, making fun of the executive team at the time. The rods were said to be used in a fishing game to be released in the future. "Oh, you’re going to need either a Lil Pudgy or Pudgy Penguin to play our fishing game next year…" !image Despite this initial setback, after the change in CEO, the community remained optimistic about the potential value of Pudgy Rods as useful assets in future games related to the Pudgy Penguins ecosystem. Luca Netz's View on Pudgy Rods' Future Despite the failure of the initial launch of these rods, with a new team at hand, CEO, Luca Netz, is planning to “do something a lot bigger” with them. On the Waddleman section of Pudgy Media, Luca talks about changing the rods to something completely different such as igloos or spaceships that has the potential to bring a lot more utility when it comes to the metaverse. He also mentions serums and vials similar to the ones used by Yuga Labs to turn Bored Apes into Mutant Apes. Luca highlights the importance of the holders of the genesis rods and how he is thinking of ways to reward members who were part of the project from the beginning similarly to many other NFT projects in the space. Finally, the ideas will be brought to the team where they will decide on “3 to 5” of the best replacements of the “rogs” and a vote will commence on the discord server.

gamecredits

A gaming eSport launched on the Ethereum network; developed to restore ownership and incentives to players.

GameCredits (GAME) (launched in 2014) is a cryptocurrency created on the Ethereum blockchain. It is recognized as the first gaming cryptocurrency and blockchain based ESports solution that empowers every gamer and player with true ownership, digital security and boundless possibilities for fun. Company Game Credits was developed by privately held Game Credits Inc in 2014. Their team consists of members having vast experience in the gaming and blockchain space and have been placed across the globe. CEO Jason Cassidy has been working as a Bitcoin Consultant for Canada's 1st Bitcoin consulting company known as 'Crypto Consultant' since 2013. GameCredits has developed a huge community in the last six years. Overview Game Credits was the first to offer blockchain-based cryptocurrency in Gaming Industry. It was established in February 2014 and launched few months after. It currently has around 50 employees. Its primary focus was as a digital currency, used to revolutionize in-game purchases and give game developers a monetization based on the fair-play rules that the technology of blockchain affords. A Metaverse for Gamers The vision for the Genesis Worlds Project is to develop a decentralized RPG metaverse that will last beyond 100 years. Users can participate in decisions around rules and rewards and earn GAME for their contributions to the community. Worlds for Everyone Genesis Mining Claims are the founding NFTs that allow users to participate in individual world governance, while mining GENESIS tokens. Each Mining Claim NFT features a 3D concept model of the World. Users can collect Mining Claims of all their favorite Worlds to build their unique portfolio. The longer a user holds Mining Claims, and the more Mining Claims owned, the more GENESIS they can mine. Features The GAME Credits platform is a decentralized suite of unique tools that transforms any game into a blockchain game. It easily plugs into any online game via easy to use API suite and robust SDK. The GAME Credits platform offers the following features to every online game in the world. GameMint The GAME Credits NFT Protocol API and SDK enables opportunity to develop in-game items (Non-Fungible Tokens - NFT’s) with ease. These can then be distributed to players then after. GameRewards Gamers can also passively earn NFT’s by staking GAME tokens and become part of other promotional giveaways and other activities through the GAME Rewards system. Game developers can also create giveaways (based on staking), in-game accomplishments, or contests to engage players. These all based on a player’s stake of GAME toward the game. Game credits has rich and easy to use SDKs that allow the anyone to create an open economy within every game with language and engine support for unity, unreal, JavaScript and more. GameTournament It is a provably fair Esports tournament organizer to create and run competitive, prize-driven tournaments within any game, enabling a true e-sports experience led by developers or the community. GameExchange The GAME Credit Exchange provides an opportunity to create an in-game or external third party marketplace for players to buy and sell in-game items using Marketplace API. Gamers and third parties earn a cut of the fees generated from each transaction made across the exchange ecosystem . Gamers can also sell items on secondary markets or through the GC portal, and subsequently, sell GAME through exchange partners. Tokenomics GAME token is an ERC20 Token created on Ethereum by deploying Smart contracts. It has a total supply of 200,000,000 GAME. It registered an all-time high of $6.90 USD on Jan 09, 2018, and an all-time low of $0.000003 USD on (Nov 01, 2014). It is listed on popular exchanges, including Bittrex, Livecoin, BitBay, Hotbit, CREX24 and also Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Uniswap. Development & Partnerships Game Credits has seen useful development to gamers over the years. They had core/QT wallet, which offered support to run nodes to strengthen the network. In 2018, they developed GShare, an overhauled PC Store/Single Click GPU & CPU Renting Application (not available currently). It had partnerships with Mobile Go and organized and hosted tournament for games including Dota 2 in 2017-18. In 2018, They partnered with Xsolla, which provided game developers and their players with two new payment methods, blockchain cryptocurrencies GAME and MGO for PC and mobile gaming. In April 2020, Geme Credits acquired Nova Blitz, a digital card game.

arbitrage

Arbitrage is the practice of buying and selling assets over two or more markets as a way to take advantage of different prices.

Arbitrage is the practice of buying and selling assets over two or more markets as a way to take advantage of different prices. For instance, a trader could buy a particular asset in one market and quickly sell the same asset in another market, at a higher price. The reason why arbitrage exists is due to inefficiencies in the markets. This means that a particular asset may present distinct trading prices in different locations, even though both markets are offering the exact same asset (or very similar ones). In the context of financial markets, arbitrage is often considered a fundamental force because it prevents distinct markets from creating significant price disparities among similar or identical assets. Therefore, the practice of arbitrage relies on small price divergences and, as a result, tends to cause a price convergence. The speed at which this convergence occurs may be used as a measure of the overall market efficiency. A perfectly efficient market would present no arbitrage opportunities at all as each trading asset would have the exact same price across all exchanges. When performed correctly, arbitrage may be considered as a risk-free way to capitalize on temporary price disparities. Still, one should keep in mind that trading bots are running on all kinds of markets and many of them were specially designed to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities. Therefore, arbitrage trading may present some risks depending on the strategy and execution. Within cryptocurrency markets, the best way to profit from arbitrage opportunities is to avoid depending on blockchain transactions. For instance, if a trader wants to do arbitrage with Bitcoin in two different exchanges, it would be better for that trader to have an account on both platforms. In addition, both accounts should have enough funds to ensure they can buy and sell immediately, without having to rely on deposit and withdrawal confirmations (which may take thirty minutes or more depending on the network traffic). Although we have at least ten different types of arbitrage strategies, traders are often referring to the one we just described, which is the more traditional form and is known as pure arbitrage. Since this strategy relies on the discovery of market inefficiencies and price disparities rather than speculation, it is often considered as a low-risk approach. Another less popular method is called merger arbitrage (or risk arbitrage), and as the name suggests, it is a highly speculative approach that relies on a trader’s expectation of a future event to affect the price of an asset. This may include, for instance, companies acquisitions, merges, or bankruptcy filings.

susd

sUSD (Synthetic USD) is a c created by the decentralized synthetic asset issuance protocol built, Synthetix.

sUSD (Synthetic USD) is a c created by the decentralized synthetic asset issuance protocol built, Synthetix. These synthetic assets are collateralized by the Synthetix Network Token (SNX) which when locked in the contract enables the issuance of synthetic assets (Synths). sUSD is pegged to the United States dollar and is tracked through price feeds supplied by Chainlink's decentralized network of oracles. Synthetix Overview Synthetix is a decentralized synthetic asset issuance protocol built on Ethereum. These synthetic assets are collateralized by the Synthetix Network Token (SNX) which when locked in the contract enables the issuance of synthetic assets (Synths). This pooled collateral model enables users to perform conversions between Synths directly with the smart contract, avoiding the need for counterparties. This mechanism solves the liquidity and slippage issues experienced by decentralized exchanges. Synthetix currently supports synthetic fiat money, cryptocurrencies (long and short), and commodities. SNX holders are incentivized to stake their tokens as they are paid a pro-rata portion of the fees generated through activity on Synthetix. Exchange, based on their contribution to the network. It is the right to participate in the network and capture fees generated from Synth exchanges, from which the value of the SNX token is derived. Trading on Synthetix.Exchange does not require the trader to hold SNX. How Synths Work Synths are synthetic assets that track the price of the underlying asset. They allow holders to gain exposure on Ethereum to various asset classes without holding the underlying assets themselves or trusting a custodian. Synths are backed by the Synthetix Network Token (SNX), which is staked as collateral at a ratio of 750%. sUSD Token sUSD is a synth that is pegged to the United States dollar through price feeds supplied by Chainlink. The supply is dynamic but as of December 6th, 2020 there were 22,510,653 in existence. Synthetix's native token, SNX, is locked up to create sUSD (which stands for "synthetic USD"). The sUSD acts as debt while SNX acts as collateral. Partners Synthetix has partnerships with the following organizations: Framework Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Three Arrows Capital, XBTO, DTC Capital, Hashed, IOSG Ventures, Spartan Ventures, and more.

bisq

Bisq is an open-source peer-to-peer application that allows anyone to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies.

Bisq (founded in 2014) is an open-source peer-to-peer application that allows anyone to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies or alternative cryptocurrencies. Overview Unlike existing exchanges, Bisq is fully decentralized and censorship-resistant using alternative protection mechanisms: escrow transaction employing 2-of-3 multi-signature address security deposits to incentivize following the trade protocol a decentralized arbitration system helps resolve disputes Bisq protects user’s privacy by using a custom P2P network over Tor, in which every user is a participating node. An all-in-one desktop application (for Linux, OS X, and Windows) provides an intuitive user interface and executes the trading protocol. Bisq protects the privacy between trades by separating each trade with a different set of addresses. Bisq relies on a decentralized arbitration system to ensure that traders fulfill their obligations. Bisq Business Model Bisq is not a company, but an open-source project that aims to fill a gap in the cryptocurrency ecosystem: to provide an exchange platform that follows the same principles as Bitcoin itself. A unique incentive mechanism is set up to support the project: 1. Transaction fees go in part to the developers and in part to the arbitrators 2. In the event of disputes, arbitrators collect the security deposit of the losing party (or in some cases half the deposit of each party). Features of Bisq Unlike traditional online exchanges, Bisq is designed to be: Instantly accessible – no need for registration or approval from a central authority. Decentralized – there is no single point of failure. The system is peer-to-peer and trading can not be stopped or censored. Safe – Decentralized arbitration system and security deposits protect traders. Private – no one except trading partners exchange personally identifying data. All personal data is stored locally. Secure – end-to-end encrypted communication routed over Tor. Open – the code is open-source software. Bisq is for those who do not want to forfeit control or privacy to a central authority in order to trade with other individuals. They regard financial transactions as a form of private speech that should be protected from surveillance by banks, governments, and other institutions.

alexey-koloskov

Alexey Koloskov is Orion Protocol’s Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder.

Alexey Koloskov is Orion Protocol’s Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, with extensive experience spanning the two worlds of traditional finance and DeFi. He started his journey in the crypto space in 2016 as Chief Architect and Creator of the Waves DEX (now @waves.exchange) – the most successful decentralized exchange to date. About Alexey is a Blockchain developer and the chief architect and creator of the Waves Decentralized Exchange (Waves’ DEX). He has extensive experience in the development and management of complex banking software and in managing large-scale IT projects. Over the past several years he has established a reputation as an active and expert participant within the Blockchain development community. His work in Blockchain development and exchange implementation provides ORION with unparalleled expertise and insight. Prior to this, Alexey spent years creating software for some of the largest international banks (including Deutsche Bank and UniCredit). Education Alexey Koloskov Studied at the Moscow State University, and graduated with a Masters of Science (2000-2005). Experience Chief Executive Officer at Orion Protocol , Employed on Jun 2017 – Present. Blockchain developer and the chief architect at Waves Platform , Employed on Aug 2016 – Nov 2019. Lead IT Project Manager at UniCredit Bank Russia Employed on October 2014 – Aug 2016. Chief Engineer at Sberbank of Russia-Technology , Employed on Sep 2011 – Oct 2014. Skills & endorsements Scala Cryptocurrencies Decentralized Exchanges About Orion Protocol Orion Protocol is a new kind of Blockchain trading platform that combines the best features of exchanges, brokerages, and instant trading apps. The platform is built around a liquidity aggregator connected to all major crypto exchanges, as well as its own internal Decentralized exchange, enabling users to gain the best price for their trades from a single portal. Built on the most advanced liquidity aggregator ever developed, Orion Protocol aggregates the liquidity of every single crypto exchange into one decentralized platform: providing a singular, non-custodial, gateway to the entire digital asset market. By providing access to the digital asset market in one place, we're building a protocol on which to bridge the worlds of crypto, traditional finance, and real world assets.

hedera

Hedera is a decentralized public ledger using the Hashgraph consensus algorithm to maximize speed and security. It facilitates transactions and the release of D...

Hedera is a open-source, decentralized public ledger that uses the Hashgraph consensus instead of blockchains in an attempt to maximize speed and security simultaneously. The platform is also eco-friendly and facilitates transactions and the release of decentralized applications (Dapps) while providing transparency, enabling organizations to overlook movements on the network. Overview Hedera Hashgraph was established in 2017 after Founder and former Chief Scientist Leemon Baird invented the Hashgraph consensus algorithm in 2015. After the invention of an alternative to blockchains, Baird put together a team of executives and secured crucial investment to work on Hedera. The company made its public debut in March 2018, presenting its offerings to a live audience in New York City and a virtual audience of 50,000 people. At launch, Hedera introduced its website, cryptocurrency, governing body (the Hedera Governing Council), and a whitepaper outlining its vision and plans. Hedera Hashgraph is described as a public distributed ledger technology (DLT) network that simply allows its users to relate and carry out online transactions efficiently and securely without the need for third-party companies, which often collect and sell their users personal information. The purpose of Hedera is to offer a stable, trustworthy network for a wide variety of decentralized, enterprise-grade applications. Hedera also utilizes a native token, $HBAR to power the Hedera's ecosystem. Hedera Hashgraph operates on a system known as asynchronous Byzantine fault tolerance (aBFT), which provides high levels of security even in the presence of compromised users. It boasts faster processing compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum, due to its parallel transaction processing pattern instead of the typical serial method used by blockchain technology. !image The network reaches consensus through the exchange of information between nodes, called gossip. Unlike mining in Bitcoin and other altcoin networks, nodes communicate and verify network transactions. The consensus protocol is overseen by a council of 39 leading businesses and organizations, who make decisions regarding software upgrades, network pricing, and treasury management. Hashgraph Consensus Algorithm Hedera Hashgraph uses the Hashgraph consensus mechanism to maintain agreement on its transaction history across its distributed network. This mechanism is supported by two types of nodes - consensus nodes and mirror nodes. Consensus nodes are moderated by the Hedera Governing Council and is responsible for determining the transaction ordering and history, while mirror nodes are permissionless and serve to disseminate this information throughout the network to other participants. !image Hedera's approach is distinct from traditional blockchains that rely on a larger number of users to propose and add blocks to the chain through open competition. By utilizing a limited number of nodes to determine its history, Hedera's model provides greater security and stability of its transaction records, avoiding potential changes or reversals. By blending the benefits of both public and private blockchain networks, Hedera Hashgraph aims to offer an improved consensus mechanism. Governance Hedera Hashgraph operates through a governing body called the Hedera Governing Council. The council is responsible for managing the consensus nodes, which decide the order of transactions on the network. The council comprises 39 members, including renowned companies such as Google, IBM, and Boeing. The primary functions of the council are to vote on changes to the software, ensure that funds are utilized correctly, and protect the network's legal status across different jurisdictions. It's worth mentioning that council membership is limited, with each member allowed to serve a maximum of two three-year terms, during which they hold equal voting rights on network and platform decisions. As of now, the Governing Council members run the mainnet nodes, but Hedera intends to open this up to any interested party in the future. Hedera Governing Council The Hedera Governing Council was established in the first quarter of 2019. Hedera made their first announcement of the initial five members on March 7th 2019, introducing, Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs, DLA Piper, Magazine Luiza, Nomura Holdings and Swisscom Blockchain as their first council members. On August 12th 2019, Hedera announced the addition of IBM and Tata Communications as members of their governing council, stating that the two organization "expands the Council’s diversity; it now includes leading enterprises from the telecommunications, technology, financial services, law, and retail sectors". “The addition of IBM and Tata Communications to the Hedera Governing Council is a powerful endorsement of the hashgraph consensus mechanism, and further decentralizes the governance of Hedera Hashgraph. Our governance model, which includes a robust system of checks and balances, ensures power can’t be consolidated, while at the same time providing a stable and scalable platform on which developers can build.” - Mance Harmon, CEO On September 16th 2021, The Hedera Governing Council announced their plans to allocate 10.7 billion hbars, worth approximately US$5 billion at the time, to develop the Hedera ecosystem. The HBAR Foundation aimed to provide grants to startups and other organizations for developing the Hedera network's applications, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (DeFi), Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and gaming. The remainder of the allocation was said to be used for partnerships and other initiatives to strengthen the ecosystem. “Our mission is to fund a future where entrepreneurs form digitally-native economies and ecosystems, controlling their own assets, identities, data, marketplaces, and more. We are excited to engage with and support organizations and teams that share this vision.” - Shayne Higdon, Executive Director and CEO On July 12th 2022, The Hedera Governing Council replaced all previously permanent executive voting directors on the Board with elected representatives from the Council and the industry. These voting directors were responsible for maintaining enterprise-grade corporate governance, including financial oversight and the appointment and oversight of all corporate officers. The newly adopted governance process included an annual election where the Governing Council elected half of the seven voting directors to two-year terms, ensuring continuity of oversight. The Board of Directors consisted of six directors from existing Council members and one independent director. On February 7th 2023, Dell joined the Hedera Governing Council, with plans to develop decentralized applications for its customers' blockchain and Web3-related projects. The council has up to 39 members, including Google, IBM, Deutsche Telekom, Boeing, DBS, and Nomura Holdings. Hedera aims to attract big businesses to build on its public distributed network, offering security and stability. Dell's first public blockchain-related move in some time is to explore developing applications on the Hedera network for decentralized environments such as edge computing. $HBAR HBAR is the official currency of the Hedera Hashgraph network. It serves multiple purposes within the network, including facilitating transactions for decentralized applications, enabling peer-to-peer transactions, and maintaining network security against potential malicious actors. It is also used for paying transaction fees and can power energy-efficient cryptocurrencies. Network fuel Developers use $HBAR to pay for network services, such as transferring HBAR, managing fungible and non-fungible tokens, and logging data. For each transaction submitted to the network, HBAR are used to compensate network nodes for bandwidth, compute, and storage. Network protection Hedera’s Proof-of-stake public network uses $HBAR, which are staked or proxy staked (coming soon) to a network node, to weight votes on transactions when reaching consensus. Weighted voting with hbars makes it difficult and expensive for a bad actor to maliciously affect consensus — it would require them to own and stake over one-third of the network’s total supply of HBAR, which will not be possible for the first 5 years. Tokenized Asset With the opportunity to access Digital assets like never before, Hedera Hashgraph allows asset tokenization on its ecosystem, by employing Native fungible and non-fungible assets on Hedera with performance, security, stability, and low, predictable fees. Tokenomics The distribution of HBAR tokens are shown below: !image Staking The Hedera public ledger operates using a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, where a node's influence on the consensus is proportional to the amount of HBAR cryptocurrency it has staked. For a transaction to be validated and placed into consensus, it must be validated by nodes representing over two-thirds of the total HBAR staked. The staking feature has been rolled out in four phases, with the first three already completed at the time of writing. Phase 1: Technical Availability The technical availability phase enabled the staking functionality to be live on both the Hedera Testnet and Mainnet as of July 21, 2022. In this phase, users were technically able to stake their accounts to mainnet nodes, but this did not contribute to a node's consensus weight (voting power). The goal of this initial release was to provide a level p

fewocious

Fewocious is one of the most successful digital artists creating Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).

Fewocious is one of the most successful digital artists creating Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). In June 2021, a collection of NFTs by Fewocious sold for $2.16 million at auction house Christie's. The collection was inspired by the 18-year-old artist’s experiences as a young, transgender artist. He is the youngest artist ever to be featured by Christie's. This sale brings his total NFT sales to over $20 million. As of April 2021, Fewocious is the third highest-selling NFT artist, following Beeple and Trevor Jones. Career 2020 Fewocious, who began his career by selling his artworks, emerged as one of the most successful stars of a new digital art movement driven by Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) creation. In March 2020, Fewocious learned about Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) when he was offered $90 to sell one of his digital pieces as an NFT. He sold their first NFT through SuperRare. The NFT, called "She Makes Me Feel Alive," sold for 10 ETH on September 24, 2020 (about $6,000 at the time of purchase). Then in early November, Fewocious achieved a big sale: $25,000 for "Moment i Fell in Love". More five-figure sales followed soon after, including "The Modern Prometheus," which sold for 35 ETH (about $20,863) on December 2, 2020. Fewocious again made crypto headlines In December 2020, when an "NYC Skyline" NFT piece commissioned by the co-founders of blockchain hedge fund Morgan Creek Digital, Anthony Pompliano, and Jason Williams, fetched $21,350 at auction being sold to Scot Wingo. It was his first commissioned artwork on Nifty Gateway, the NFT marketplace backed by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. 2021 In January 2021, Fewocious' "Growing Up...I'm Scared" drop on Nifty Gateway earned him $370,000. Fewocious x Two Feet In February, four collaborative NFTs launched by musician Two Feet and Fewocious have generated more than $1 million in Nifty Gateway’s largest auction of 2021 at the time. The auctions were organized by Illumino, an NFT-focused firm. Illumino was put together by the LA-based management agency Keel, crypto VC firm Framework Ventures, and Bruch Projects - the NFT arm of Manna Ventures. The NFTs went live on Valentine's Day, beginning with one-of-a-kind 3D renditions that were sold to the highest bidder. The one-of-a-kind renditions included "Crowded City" and "A Peak In My Head" - works composed collaboratively by Fewocious and Two Feet that sold for $150,000 and $158,888 respectively. Two other collaborative works were made available for open auction at a set price of $999 each, allowing unlimited purchases of the NFTs to be made during the auction. In total, 383 editions of "CryptoCaster" and 324 editions of "City Hand" were minted, generating roughly $382,600 and $323,700 respectively. Fewocious x RTFKT Studios On March 6, 2021, his NFT art brought in $3.1 million in seven minutes via his collaboration with the virtual sneaker brand RTFKT Studios that was sold on NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway. Each virtual edition of the Fewocious x RTFKT drop came with a physical pair of shoes. The artist told Content Commerce Insider: “I had never seen a shoe drop on Nifty, not on the scale that we did it. I’ve seen smaller ones, but I don’t know if any have ever come with physicals like this.” In March, his NFT "The Everlasting Beautiful", that combined animated art with sound, was sold for $555.000 to the crypto investor and influencer Jason A. Williams on Nifty Gateway. Fewocious x Christie's Auction In June 2021, a collection of five Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) by Fewocious sold for $2.16 million in a sale hosted by auction house Christie's. The collection titled "Hello, I’m Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life" consisted of five lots and closed on June 30, 2021. Each lot represented a different year in the artist's life, from age 14 to 18. “Year 1, Age 14 - It Hurts to Hide” tackles the artist's formative year as an artist as they began to question their gender identity. “Year 2, Age 15 - My Mama’s Dream" tackles the struggle to become one's self in spite of parental wishes. “Year 3, Age 16 - When a Child Feels Lost” represents the year Fewocious realized he needed art as an escape. “Year 4, Age 17 - His Name is Victor” marks the year he started minting NFTs, and “Year 5, Age 18 - I Taught Myself How to Fly" stands as the year he took off flying as an independent. The collection consisted of digital NFT videos paired with physical paintings. Aside from being the youngest artist ever to be featured by Christie's, Fewocious became the first artist to crash their site - when the sale first went live on June 23, Christie's site collapsed as it was inundated with traffic potential buyers. Rescheduled for two days later, the auction went live on June 30, receiving bids from over 20 collectors. Buyers had the option of paying in Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC). Shortly after the sale closed, Fewocious tweeted, "at a loss for words right now. thank you so much to everyone for making me feel so loved, believing in my art and believing in me, it means the world." Upon request, Fewocious will deliver the physical painting to the collector in a custom suitcase, Christie's said in a statement, “an ode to how he transported his earliest drawings and paintings when leaving behind his past in pursuit of a brighter future.”

civic

CIVIC (CVC) (Founded in 2015) is an Ethereum-based Decentralized platform that aims to prevent online fraud reduction.

CIVIC (CVC) (Founded in 2015) is an Ethereum-based Decentralized platform that aims to prevent online fraud reduction. It is an Identity Management solution that gives individuals and businesses the tools they need to control and protect personal identifiable information. Using the digital identification platform, the user can create his / her own virtual identity and store it together with personal information on the device. Civic believes identity should be convenient, safe, and secure, and put users in control. Civic allows people to control the use of their identity information. They use cutting-edge identity verification technology to secure and protect personal information transfer. Civic provides on-demand, secure and low-cost access to identity verification services using Blockchain technology. They also notify users when their data is used by an entity affiliated with Civic, allowing users to make sure the use of this information is legitimate. CVC is the native token of the Civic infrastructure which is built on Ethereum’s Blockchain as it is an ERC20 token. Company Civic Technologies, Inc is an identity management service company that allows one to protect and authorize the use of their identity in real-time. The company was founded in 2015 by Vinny Lingham, They Specialize in Blockchain technology, Blockchain identity verification, Blockchain identity, and Cryptocurrency wallet. The company is currently headquartered in San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US, California. It consists of a range of 11-50 employees who Specialize in various Identity verification Services. Funding$: Civic has raised a total of $35.8M in funding over 6 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Sep 21, 2017, from a Seed round. Civic is funded by 19 investors. Plug and Play and Genesis One Capital are the most recent investors. Civic has a post-money valuation in the range of $1M to $10M as of Jan 27, 2016, according to PrivCo. Sign up for a free trial to view exact valuation and search companies with similar valuations. History & Team Civic was started by Vinny Lingham, a South African entrepreneur with a simple vision that a person’s identity should be held by the person themselves. He stated, “You own it, you don’t get it from your Government”. Civic began integrating with partner sites and developing its first set of Smart contracts in Q3 of 2017. Their platform went into an Alpha phase in Q4, providing KYC services including document verification and the ability for Validator to confirm identities to earn CVC tokens. Q1 in 2018 saw CVC progress to Beta version 1, expanding CVC token transaction capabilities amongst partners and Identity providers. As of today, Civics product is available on the web and mobile app. They’re currently doing open enrollment for service providers and inviting users to submit the information that can be validated on the network. Vinny’s previous ventures include being the founder of a digital gift card platform, gyft, which was acquired by First Data in 2014). He brings over a decade of experience from the E-commerce space, which makes him very familiar with KYC and other identity authentication processes. Vinny and the rest of the executive team are based in San Francisco: Civic Team Members: | Name | Position | Bio | | ---- | -------- | --- | | Vinny Lingham | Co-Founder & CEO | Vinny is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded the digital gift card platform, Gyft, which was acquired by First Data Corporation in 2014. After over a decade of experience in e-commerce, he realized that no one had a universal solution to tackle identity fraud for consumers. | | Jonathan Smith | Co-Founder & CTO | Jonathan has more than 15 years of experience in banking and technology advisory. After a successful career in some of the most complex and security-sensitive environments, Jonathan brings his talent for technology leadership, innovation, and delivery to the world of digital identity. | | Chris Hart | COO | Chris is a collaborative leader and business partner with nearly 20 years of senior finance and IT experience, most recently as the CFO at Guidebook, Inc. and Nextag, Inc. He holds a BA in English and Philosophy from Emory University and an MBA in Finance from the University of San Francisco, where he graduated summa cum laude. | | JP Bedoya | VP of Product & Design | JP has over 15 years of experience developing and designing consumer and enterprise products. He previously served as head of Product Design at The Climate Corporation, overseeing product experience and user research, and VP of Product at LifeLock, where he oversaw consumer products, new member acquisition, and new product development. | | Daniel Kelleher | VP of Engineering | Daniel has over ten years of experience in the fields of finance, e-justice, and blockchain, and holds a PhD in computer science from Trinity College, Dublin. He is dedicated to finding trustworthy, secure, and decentralized technological solutions to improve the lives of people around the world. | | Anna Aubuchon | Director of Business Operations | Anna is passionate about delighting customers, blockchain technology, and startup growth. With a background in business consulting and operations, she has held management positions at Thomson Reuters and Gyft. A trilingual Hong-Kong native, Anna received her BComm from UT Rotman School of Management, with a focus in Management and Economics. | | Mike Marron | Director of Finance & HR | Two decades of finance, accounting, and HR experience working with companies in diverse industries: tech startups, biotech, fashion, architecture, design, commercial transport, marketing, and film production. Committed to collaborating with engaged, thoughtful teams to deliver meaningful services and interesting products to the marketplace. He most recently led finance and HR at Gyft. | | Nancy Li | Director of Marketing | Nancy has over 10 years of experience in marketing, events, and sponsorships. Prior to Civic, she worked at Match Group, one of the largest dating portfolios in the world, and built their Sponsorships and Brand Partnerships programs from the ground up. Nancy is passionate about blockchain, startups, and brings creative storytelling and strategic marketing expertise to Civic. | Overview Civic was co-founded in 2015 by Vinny Lingham and Jonathan Smith. The Civic project is currently headquartered in San Francisco, CA. It is a Blockchain-based Identity management solution that gives individuals and businesses the tools they need to control and protect Personal identity information. The platform is designed to change the way users think about Identity verification services by giving users more control over their personal data while allowing them to access a wide range of services without needing to fork over excessive amounts of personal information. Civic's identity verification solution uses distributed ledger technology to authorize identity usage in real-time and is used to sparingly share information with Civic partners after authorization by the user. Unlike some other identity management services, Civic users store all their sensitive data on their mobile devices. Users are able to authorize the sharing of specific personal data by providing a Biometrics signature through the Civic app. Civic is a Blockchain-based solution that provides each user with more control over his/her private data in a secure manner. Civic provides a mobile application that is available in the App Store and Google Play. With a juicy slogan, Picture a wallet, only better, Civic app is a comprehensive and modern way to store your essentials verified by a Blockchain-based ecosystem. Users can keep their Digital assets (BTC for now and ETH, USDC, CVC in the future) in just one place and manage them whenever they want. In case users lose access to their Cryptocurrency (lost phone, Civic failure, etc.), they will be protected by Civic’s $1 million Cryptocurrency Protection Guarantee. What is more, Civic enables Blockchain-stored identity verification. One can verify his/her identity once and share this piece of information with trustable companies. This means the KYC/AML procedure will no longer take too much time. Civic’s model allows for on-demand, secure, and lower-cost access to identity verification via the Blockchain. Background and personal information verification checks may no longer need to be undertaken from the ground up every time a new institution or application requires one. Civic already has a working identity verification product that is available worldwide. Civic has won the Best New Startup award at the K(NO)W Identity Conference 2017. Example of use: A company offers a free sale of goods, which is only suitable for us citizens. The company collaborates with Civic and provides a QR code (or something like that) that verifies whether the giveaway participants are US citizens. Participants who have account Civic can verify the information using their civic account without providing the documents evidencing that he is a citizen of the United States. Civic Features 1\. Cut out scammers and bots: Thanks to Biometrics comparisons, Liveness checks, and document verification, scammers and spoofers don’t stand a chance. Civic is not just AI-powered, they are human-powered too. 2\. Provide fast\, low\-friction onboarding: Users get verified in minutes from their mobile devices. The support team guides users who don’t automatically pass verification. Civic maximize user's identity verification success rate. 3\. Privacy: When

ocean-protocol

Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) is an ecosystem for sharing data and associated services.

Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) is an ecosystem for sharing data and associated services. It provides a tokenized service layer that exposes data, storage, computer, and algorithms for consumption with a set of deterministic proofs on availability and integrity that serve as verifiable service agreements. Ocean protocol helps to unlock data, particularly for Artificial Intelligence. It is designed for scale and uses blockchain technology that allows data to be shared and sold in a safe, secure, and transparent manner. History Ocean Protocol was founded in 2017 by BigchainDB founder, Bruce Pon, and AI and design expert, Trent McConaghy. Their main goal was to get back control of big data from corporations like Microsoft, Google, and Apple Inc., and allow it to be shared and monetized freely on an exchange. By doing this people would no longer have to give up control of their data or compromise its security in order to make money from it. Pon and McConaghy brought together a broad team with people experienced in AI, blockchain, and big data, as well as policy and business, to develop Ocean Protocol. Ocean Protocol allows users to create a decentralized marketplace, composed of data assets and services that can be exchanged by users. The marketplace connects data providers and consumers and links to the data itself. It keeps an on-chain record of who owns the data, and who has purchased and shared it. "Ocean allows people to unlock the value of data without necessarily unlocking the data itself. It is a substrate to finally realize the potential of an open permission-less data economy while still preserving privacy," said Trent McConaghy, co-founder of Ocean Protocol. "We welcome early collaborators already deploying their solutions on our network today, and we look forward to seeing tens, hundreds, even thousands of other marketplaces and applications to be built on top of Ocean, so that data can be freed from their existing silos to deliver world-changing solutions for many verticals including automotive, energy, healthcare and so on." "Data and AI related service providers can use Ocean as a launchpad offering relevant services to data providers and consumers. In addition, Ocean gives data and AI professionals a means to monetize their findings and models," He added. Ocean Protocol launched the Ocean Token in November 2017, alongside its Marketplace Framework which outlines the market attributes and components necessary to deploy the decentralized Ocean Protocol data exchange. By 2018, the Ocean Token was already in pre-launch distribution with 3,500 contributors in 100 countries, an Advisor Program was also launched with 40 advisors in 20 cities, and they announced a partnership with IBM Watson AI XPRIZE. In March 2020, Ocean Protocol launched its decentralized marketplace, customizable for data providers. By its latest round of funding in May 2019, Ocean Protocol had raised over $28 million. Team The team combines a deep background in Big data, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and data exchanges, with real-world business experience as entrepreneurs, designers, and technologists who have started over 20 companies. !imagesbhj.jpg Their team and community are committed to kick-starting a New Data Economy that reaches every single person, company, and device, giving power back to data owners and enabling people to capture value from data to better our world. | Team Member | Role | | | ----------- | ---- | --- | | Bruce Pon | Founder and CEO | | | Trent McConaghy | Founder and CTO | | | Razvan Olteanu | COO | | | Cristina Pon | Co-Founder | | | Sheridan Johns | | | | Masha McConaghy | Co-Founder | | | Matthias Kretschmann | Development and Building | | | Mihai Scarlat | | | | Ahmed Ali | | | | Manan Patel | Growth Accelerator | | | Samer Sallam | | | | Sarah-Jean Vallon | Communications and Marketing | | | Marian Dragomir | DevOps Architect | | Ocean Protocol has over 35 advisors spanning the globe, with recognized expertise in AI, blockchain, big data, business, and policy. Advisors were carefully selected based on an alignment of values towards unlocking data and AI for society. Advisors work to build meaningful collaborations, refer potential business partners, integrate with the protocol, and provide guidance on governance. Some of the advisors include Dr. Carsten Stöcker CEO of Spherity , Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gajek Co-founder & former CTO Weeve , Adam Drake CEO Atazzo and Chris Ballinger founder and CEO of MOBI. Overview Data exchanged in a marketplace is not stored on the Ocean Protocol network itself: customers search for data sets on different marketplaces, then purchase an encrypted reference to it which can only be unlocked once certain conditions (for example, payment) are met. So data owners have full control of their data, regardless of what happens to it or who buys it. The Ocean Protocol is an ecosystem composed of data assets and services, where assets are represented by data and algorithms, and services are represented by integration, processing, and persistence mechanisms. Ocean Protocol facilitates discovery by storing and promoting metadata, linking assets, and services, and provides a licensing framework that has toolsets for pricing. A multitude of data marketplaces can hook into Ocean Protocol to provide “last mile” services to connect data providers and consumers. Ocean Protocol is designed so that data owners cannot be locked into any single marketplace. The data owner controls each dataset. Their goal is to keep working on enhancing AI software and services and they developed their Community Marketplace as a complementary ecosystem to the Enterprise Marketplace, where datasets can be bought and sold freely. As part of this effort, Ocean Protocol is seeking to deploy a standalone web app, restructure its data tokens for simplicity, and integrate incentives and staking into its Data Marketplace. Over 20 million Ocean Tokens have been allocated to the fund, earmarked for developers, startups, and service providers building projects on the network. The Fund consists of the Shipyard incubation program, Ocean Bounties (managed on Gitcoin), and hacking competitions such as the Data Economy Challenge. Use Cases Ocean Protocol has seen several successful implementations. In 2019, sgCarMart integrated Ocean Protocol into its online used car marketplace, allowing buyers to access accurate, verifiable data on their second-hand car purchases, including numbers of previous owners or details of ongoing mechanical problems. Ocean Protocol is also being used in the healthcare industry where data on diseases normally recorded in offline isolation can be shared and analyzed with discretion and security around the world. Most recently, the Ocean network has been used by an AI solution known as James to make crucial data on Parkinson’s disease available to global healthcare users, helping to facilitate better decision making and resolve trends across data sets. Ocean Protocol has partnered with industries and startups in order to show how safe sharing of data can help companies gain a competitive edge and improve people's wellbeing. In the Insurance sector, Aviva and ConnectedLife are applying data analytics and artificial intelligence on smart home data to enhance the protection and care for the aging population and support independent living. In Healthcare, Roche Diagnostics is exploring ways to improve care for patients on blood-thinning therapy. In Retail, Next Billion is piloting a new data-sharing model that rewards rural store owners for contributing sales data. Services Ocean Protocol offers access to a broad data environment with open-source software, including the Keeper blockchain client, Parity SecretStore, and Aquarius metadata management, available for developers seeking the necessary components to develop and implement their own Ocean network. Ocean Protocol has developed two main products: the Data Ecosystem Platform and the decentralized Data Marketplace. The Data Ecosystem Platform The Data Ecosystem Platform facilitates data access control so that owners are able to upload and store their data while retaining complete control when they monetize it for buyers. The platform includes the tools necessary to achieve that end, such as the Ocean blockchain, smart contracts, and software development kits. The Decentralized Data Marketplace The Decentralized Data Marketplace facilitates the sale and purchase of data by connecting sellers and buyers around the world. It consists of the Enterprise Marketplace, aimed at enterprise-level data providers (working, for example, in health, mobility, or logistics) and of the Community Marketplace, used by the wider community to buy and sell data assets. Ocean Marketplace Actions A marketplace's core functionality is about connecting buyers to sellers for given assets: to make the assets discoverable, and buying/selling an asset of interest. For smoother user flow, Ocean Market supports adjacent functionality: publishing the asset in the first place, and consuming it. Each subsection will cover these, in the order that it would happen, with a focus on Ocean Market. Action: publish dataset. When the user (publisher) clicks on "Publish", they end up here. They start to fill out metadata, including Title and Description. The publisher then provides the URL of where the data asset can be found. This URL gets stored encrypted and on-chain. When a buyer later consumes a data token, that URL will be decrypted. The publisher then fills out price information. It may be fixed price or dynamic (automatic). If automatic, they add liquidit

arbitrum

Arbitrum is a layer 2 solution that aims to scale Ethereum while lowering the cost of the chain.

Arbitrum is a suite of Ethereum scaling solutions that enable high-throughput, low-cost smart contracts while remaining fast and secure. The platform is designed to allow developers to easily run unmodified Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) contracts and Ethereum transactions on a second layer, while still benefiting from Ethereum's excellent layer 1 security. In January 2019, Arbitrum raised $3.8 million through seed funding and also $20 million series A. In 2021, they raised $120 million through a Series B, which was led by the Lightspeed Venture Partners fund. In May 2021, Off-chain Labs launched the mainnet beta of Arbitrum One, but only to developers, with over 300+ dApps deployed & over $1 billion in TVL. In June 2022, Arbitrum Odyssey, an 8-week program, was launched to popularize and attract users to the L2-network Arbitrum One. It is divided into eight stages, each of which is dedicated to a different aspect of the Arbitrum ecosystem. Overview Arbitrum is a trustless layer 2 protocol for cheap, fast transactions with full Ethereum smart contract functionality. It utilizes the transaction roll-up technique to record batches of submitted transactions on the Ethereum main chain and execute them on low-cost, scalable layer 2 sidechains while leveraging Ethereum to ensure correct results. This process eradicates much of Ethereum's current computational and storage burden while enabling new classes of powerful layer 2-based DApps. Arbitrum's goal is to provide developers with an easy-to-use platform for launching highly efficient and scalable Ethereum-compatible smart contracts. In the Arbitrum network, ETH is used to pay transaction fees. Transferring to the Arbitrum network is typically 90–95% less expensive than transferring to Ethereum, and there is significant room for further commission reduction. Arbitrum also has its Virtual Machine, the platform's custom virtual machine (AVM). The Arbitrum Virtual Machine (AVM) is the execution area for Arbitrum smart contracts and is built on top of EthBridge, a smart contract collection that interacts with the Arbitrum chain. Smart contracts compatible with Ethereum are automatically translated to run on the AVM. How it works For any users to interact with an Arbitrum chain, a set of Nodes will forward their transactions to the Arbitrum Sequencer (a specially designated Arbitrum full node that, under normal conditions, is responsible for submitting users’ transactions onto L2), which will report transaction results just as an Ethereum node would but in a much faster way. The transactions are then recorded on the Ethereum blockchain, ensuring that all underlying data is accessible to users. On Ethereum, once a transaction has reached finality, it is considered final and cannot be replaced or re-reordered. The transaction's outcome is complete at this point. Following the posting of transaction data to the Ethereum blockchain, transaction execution is moved off-chain and performed by Arbitrum validators. Arbitrum validators recover their off-chain processing results in the form of an assertion (sometimes called a rollup block). The assertion is optimistically posted on the Ethereum chain, proof is only attached if the assertion is challenged. Validators place a bet that they will forfeit if they are caught trying to cheat. This ensures that validators have an incentive not to engage in dishonest behavior. Whenever an assertion is posted, a challenge window opens in which any validator can challenge it. Other validators verify the assertion and prove fraud if it is incorrect. Validators who successfully prove fraud will be rewarded handsomely. If the challenge window expires without a successful challenge the correct assertion is confirmed and accepted by Ethereum. This makes Arbitrum reliable in preventing fraud as long as anyone validating the chain is honest. Features High EVM Compatibility Being compatible with Ethereum, Arbitrum can run unmodified EVM contracts and unmodified Ethereum transactions. This allows Ethereum DeFi developers to integrate their decentralized applications (dapps) with Arbitrum without having to make any modifications. Low fees Arbitrum is designed and engineered to minimize the system's L1 gas footprint, lowering each transaction cost. Arbitrum's efficient roll-up technology allows it to reduce fees to a fraction of what they are on Ethereum while still providing sufficient incentives for validators. Scalability Artbitrum scales through Ethereum by moving contracts computation and storage off of the main Ethereum chain, allowing much higher throughput. Trustless Security Arbitrum has its security rooted in Ethereum, with permissionless validation, the Arbitrum protocol is trustless. The safety of the chain relies on there being at least 1 honest validator. Product There are currently two chains live on Arbitrum mainnet: Arbitrum One Arbitrum One is an optimistic rollup L2 scaling solution for Ethereum, offering fast & cheap transactions tailored for Defi and NFTs. Users can now use Alchemy, Infura, QuickNode, Moralis, Ankr, BlockVision, and GetBlock to interact with the Arbitrum One. Arbitrum Nova Arbitrum Nova utilizes the Anytrust scaling model offering even lower transactions tailored more for gaming/social applications. Nova is an EVM-compatible chain built on Arbitrum AnyTrust technology that is optimized for ultra-low-cost transactions while providing strong security guarantees. Nova was made available to the public in August 2022. Nova is ideal for gaming projects, social layers, or any application that requires high throughput while maintaining low transaction costs. Nova is powered by the most trusted organizations across web2 and web3, including Offchain Labs, Reddit, Google Cloud, Consensys, and FTX. Tech Arbitrium uses the Optimistic Rollups concept, which allows developers to quickly launch smart contracts and decentralized Ethereum applications with lower transfer fees and increased bandwidth while making no changes. An optimistic rollup is a specific technique for rolling up transactions. To speed things up, optimistic rollups assume that the transactions contained within the rollup are valid. They are optimistic in the sense that when they post the updated state to Ethereum they do this without posting any proof at all. Arbitrum's optimistic rollups are settled on a private sidechain. Arbitrum gathers transactions in batches, settles them on its sidechain, and then feeds the transaction data back to the Ethereum blockchain ledger. The team built Arbitrum as an Optimistic Rollup (OR) because they believe that OR is the best way to meet users’ realistic needs for a secure, trustless, EVM-compatible L2. AnyTrust AnyTrust is a variant of Arbitrum Nitro technology that lowers costs by accepting a mild trust assumption. Arbitrum AnyTrust introduces a trust assumption in exchange for lower fees, data availability is managed by a Data Availability Committee (DAC), a fixed, permissioned set of entities which includes : Consensys FTX Google Cloud Offchain Labs P2P Quicknode Reddit Partners Chainlink Labs Dopex GMX Hop Protocol Lido Finance Livepeer Quick Node Synapse Protocol Treasure DAO Uniswap Foundation Unlock Protocol Vesta Finance Coinbase Ventures Pantera Compound Blocknation. Team Arbitrum is built by Off-chain Labs, a world-class team of researchers, engineers, and Ethereum enthusiasts. The team includes a global community of developers, academics, and operators, with deep experience in cryptography, decentralized systems, and game theory.!1_j10QD9Og9JOC2Ps3HXU66A.png Ed Felten - Co-Founder + Chief Scientist Steven Goldfeder - Co-Founder + CEO Harry Kalodner - Co-Founder + CTO Lee Bousfield - Senior Software Engineer Rachel Franks - Senior Software Engineer Daniel Goldman - Senior Software Engineer Fred Lacs - Senior Software Engineer Mahsa Moosavi - Software Engineer Daniel Silverberg - Operations Manager A.J. Warner - Director of Partnerships and Strategy Hunter Brea - Community Manager Nina Rong - Community Manager China Peter Haymond - Partnerships Manager Size Chad - NFTs & Gaming