Orvium

Overview

Orvium is an open source and decentralized platform to manage and feature peer-reviewed, scholarly publications. Orvium aims to eliminate several inefficiencies pertaining to the scientific publishing model and enhance the quality and effectiveness of scientific journals.
Amongst the rampant issues within the scientific publishing industry include:

• Misalignment of Interest: A serious issue in the scientific community is the publication model, where scientific authors are charged for publishing their academic journals instead of the traditional publishing model which pays content creators. This misalignment arises when the scientific community carries out peer review – a form of scientific validation required for scholarly publishing – for FREE, yet scientific publishers get paid billions annually.

• Excessive Fees: The high fees charged by scientific journal publishers has created a corporate-like structure which potentially compromises the quality of scientific research. Ultimately, the central component for a scientific journal to be published is the fees to be paid to publishers.

• Content Copyrights: The copyrights of the academic journals are held by the publishers, instead of scientific content creators. Future earnings resulting from re-publication into our mediums or selling the copyrights to the content is only due to the publishers, not the content creators.

 

Applications

Due to a misaligned model that potentially compromises the current scientific publication industry, there is a surge in the migration to open source initiatives (e.g.arXiv & PLOS ONE). Therefore, the evolution towards a blockchain-based solution is a natural progression that would positively disrupt the scientific community. The model will work as follows:

Orvium establishes a decentralized, immutable and independent process that enables time-stamped proof-of-existence (POE), authorship and ownership for scientific content. The blockchain enables Orvium to keep a public trace of all activities relating to a given content, including first submission, revisions, accepted and rejected peer reviews, copyright and user license changes, among other activities.
Orvium features a host of functionalities for stakeholders that include:

• Continuous, Transparent Peer Review: Pursuant to openness and public accountability required for a credible peer review process, Orvium offers that and much more, enabling reviewers to have a full life cycle traceability of the journal via the blockchain. Having access to all the information since the inception allows reviewers to determine the validity and soundness of the scientific work. Additionally, multi-author reviews can also be undertaken.
• Zero-Day Publication: All content – even in early draft status – are immediately available online once they’re transmitted into the Orvium platform.
• Manuscript Versioning: Scientific work can be created systematically on the platform, with multiple changes and versions being continually upgraded. This means authors can label their work as ‘Work-in-Progress’ and only they can see the modifications. These versioning capabilities enhance the content creation process, enabling Orvium’s solution to be the solution towards digitization as well.
• Custom Copyrights & User Licenses: Although Orvium fosters open access publications, there are options for authors or institutions to opt for licensing/subscription models since stakeholders can define user conditions (via Decentralised Autonomous Journals)
• Decentralized Journals: This is a unique value proposition of Orvium which will be discussed in the next few sections under ‘Unique Differentiator’
• Accommodation of Gray Literature: Traditional content or research that doesn’t pass the traditional peer review or screening process would be accommodated in the Orvium platform to allow for a more thorough peer review process and ensures that these potential nuggets of knowledge can be salvaged and saved.

Technology Breakdown

A more technical breakdown of Orvium’s platform architecture is as follows:

Orvium will be built on the Ethereum blockchain. The main programming language for the Orvium platform is JavaScript, with Solidity being used for the development of smart contracts. The definition of the architecture will be conceived using Hasicorp Configuration Language (HCL) while the frontend application will leverage on Angular and webpack.
In terms of storage solutions, data storage will be achieved using NoSQL & SQL databases for document and relational data while the binary storage will be achieved using different decentralized solutions that is currently being assessed, that include IPFS, Swarm, Sia and Storj.

Unique Differentiator

• Decentralized Autonomous Journals (DAJ): Similar to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), Orvium allows anyone (individual authors, institutions or users) to create their own autonomous journals, where they can determine personalized governance rules, licensing/subscription models and contribution rights of participants.
• Integration of Social Dynamics: Orvium will also be a social platform that fosters participation among stakeholders and users through opening the definition of journals, the creation of challenges or rewards for reviews to increase scientific validation, the promotion of patronage campaigns and the funding of research lines to the general public. We opine that if done right, this could be ground-breaking as it allows for greater participation from the general public into the traditionally closed (and some would argue exclusive) scientific circles. Greater mass participation would undeniably enhance the advancement of scientific solutions that could be pressing towards the real needs of society. Just imagine cancer research funded by the masses instead of authors depending on research grants that are dependent on many inefficient variables.

Team

Orvium team looks to be impressively capable. There’s a rich line of engineers, developers and technical architects guided by an impressive list of scientific and business-oriented advisors. A majority of their team member is affiliated with CERN, which is one of the world’s largest and most respected institutions for ground-breaking scientific research.
Founding Team

The founding team consists of well-established individuals in the scientific circle. Manuel Martin – Orvium’s lead and blockchain expert –  has worked in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider or the most complex experimental facility ever built. He has also has collaborated with NASA, GSI and the US Department of Energy. His career was focused on supporting large-scale collaborative practices for technological innovations. Antonio Romero is the technology architect of Orvium and has led several big-data and machine-learning collaborations between CERN and ICT market leaders. He has accelerated cutting-edge predictive-maintenance and machine-learning solutions for CERN accelerator. Lastly, Roberto Rabasco is Orvium’s application & cloud technology expert with a decade of experience in developing software solutions for  international companies such as Deutsche Telekom, Just Eat and Asos Ltd
Tech Team

At the engineering and development front, Orvium features a strong tech team with individuals and experts from CERN and Volkswagen data labs. Covering a range of expertise in software and computing engineering, economics and security, it seems that Orvium is well-equipped to advance their vision.

Advisors

Orvium features a distinguished list of scientific advisors from academics to experts in renown institutions. They include Alberto Di Meglip Ph.D., head of CERN’s Open Lab, Tom Soderstrom, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA, and Chris Mattmann, Ph.D., associate CTO and innovation officer of the NASA JPL, as well as a member of the board of directors for the Apache Software Foundation.

Roadmap

The following section describes the different phases of the project regarding the development and deployment of the Orvium platform, foundation of the core team, institutional agreements and other actions.
Note about the platform releases: Orvium follows an evolutive approach for developing the platform. The team will continuously deploy new features over time adding more functionalities to the solution. These releases will be first deployed on the Testnet and, after a public testing period, we will promote them to the Ethereum Mainnet.

Phase 0:­ Nebula
Goals:

• Idea conception and development
• Assemble team
• White paper creation
• Incorporate company and legal framework definition
• Establish collaboration frameworks for partners
• Functional prototype (Web interface, API, smart contracts)
• Marketing campaign
• Development of Token Generation Event smart contracts

Timeline: 2017 Q1 to 2018 Q1
Phase 1: ­ Red Giant
Goals:

• Token Generation Event:
  • Public audit of Token Generation Event smart contracts
  • Launch
  • End of sale report publication
  • Independent audit of fund disbursement
• Talent finding and recruitment
• MVP release

Timeline: 2018 Q2 to Q3
Phase 2: ­ Supernova
Goals:

• Platform:
  • Orvium Supernova Release and Deployment in Mainnet
    • User identification
    • Paper submission
    • Peer review
    • Manuscript management
    • Blockchain Integration
  • Bug bounty program
• Support for Science and Technology:
  • Develop research institution collaboration program
  • Develop grant R&D program

Timeline: 2018 Q4 to 2019 Q1
Phase 3: ­ White Dwarf
Goal:

• Platform:
  • Orvium White Dwarf Release and deployment in Mainnet
    • Improved life­cycle traceability
    • Decentralized Autonomous Journals management
    • Licenses and Copyrights management
• Support for Science and Technology:
  • Establish agreements with universities and research organizations to incentivize the Orvium publication model
  • Launch grant R&D program

Timeline: 2019 Q2 to Q3
Phase 4: ­ Neutron Star
Goal:

• Platform:
  • Orvium Neutron Star Release and Deployment in Mainnet
    • Patronage
    • Funding campaigns
• Support for Science and Technology:
  • Patronage of research lines in collaboration with institutions

Timeline: 2019 Q4
Phase 5: ­ Pulsar
Goal:

• Platform:
  • Orvium Pulsar and Deployment in Mainnet
    • Integrate big data analytics
    • Fine tune the operational efficiency
    • Adiabatic and continuous integration of the R&D results to the Orvium platform
• Market capture and expansion of the business model
• Support for Science and Technology:
  • Enhance collaboration programmes and frameworks

Timeline: 2020 Q1
The first version of Orvium’s public release is scheduled for the last quarter of 2019, which is a long wait. However, their minimum viable product (MVP) will be released at the 2nd/3rd quarter of 2018, which means users can utilize their beta platform thereafter.

Token Economics & Utility

Here is the breakdown of Orvium’s token supply:

Token Utility
Orvium is a utility token built on the Ethereum blockchain, functioning as the main currency for the following use cases:

• Peer Review Reward: Researchers that engage in the process of peer-reviewing scientific journals would be rewarded with ORV tokens
• Payment for Content Usage: If a paid licensing model is utilized, users will have to pay for accessing, downloading and reproducing the content using ORV tokens. Orvium will take a small transaction fee which is unspecified at the moment
• Creation & Management of DAJs: Orvium holders can contribute to the creation and operation of DAJs by staking ORV tokens into DAJs smart contracts
• Scientific Patronage: Orvium allows the public to challenge the scientific community to solve specific, pressing need in society. Anyone can create this ‘challenge’ by staking ORV into smart contracts and will be disbursed to the author of the published solution

We opine that there are strong use-cases for ORV on the Orvium platform, given the nature of inclusivity that the project offers. It can easily be envisioned that the public would be interested to engage in efforts to advance scientific discoveries and progress (especially on pressing humanitarian issues), and through the platform of scientific patronage and the creation of DAJs that targets the general public, there’ll potentially be huge traction. Greater public participation will result in greater demand for ORV tokens for the staking process, which will, in turn, drive up prices for ORV tokens since the supply is fixed.
Here are the token details for Orvium:

Strengths

• Extensive Documentation: Orvium features an extensive white paper. There’s also a technical document that details the platform architecture of Orvium, as well as a light paper which summarizes the detailed white paper.
• Solid Team & Advisors: Orvium is backed by a strong technical team of experts and technical individuals that possess the capacity to make the project a success. With distinguished advisors that include individuals from NASA, CERN, and Apache foundation, it seems that Orvium has gained considerable credibility.
• Strong Unique Value Proposition: The introduction of Decentralised Autonomous Journals looks to be an interesting innovation that combines the advancement of blockchain technology and the scientific publishing industry that badly requires a systemic overhaul. Equally important is their social platform mechanism that would foster great participation from the general public; this would advance scientific work in a variety of pressing issues surrounding humanity.
• Interest Alignment of Stakeholders: Orvium reinvents the scientific publishing model by rewarding researchers who engage in the peer review process, which is the core process of validating scientific findings. This is a disruptive model that a blockchain-based solution offers; tokenization of rewards. This would enable the enhancement of a more robust publishing framework.
• Strong Token Utility: Orvium’s platform and functionalities allow for the inclusive participation of the general population in advancing scientific solutions, which would, in turn, enhance the token utility within its platform. Given a variety of use-cases, ORV tokens look to be a token that will achieve high velocity in the near future.

Weaknesses

• Long Release Date: Orvium’s fully functional release is scheduled for the last quarter of 2019, which is a long wait relative to the ICO project landscape.
• Potentially Slow Implementation: It can take a long time before Orvium gains traction due to the sluggish nature of the scientific, academic community. Disrupting this industry would require a strong number of partnerships and collaborations at the grassroots level, which isn’t obvious at the moment.

Summary

Given the inefficiencies of the scientific publishing industry, Orvium’s solution is an innovative approach to disrupting not only the industry but effecting change towards the advancement of science through its inclusive nature. However, the tectonic challenges facing the industry coupled with its long-release date could be a source of concern for the short-term market. With a highly competent team and a distinguished line of advisors, Orvium looks to be a blockchain-based solution that has a good chance of carving a sizeable lead in this niche.

Verdict: Good Long-Term Hold

To know more of them, kindly visit this links below,

WEBSITE : https://orvium.io/
BITCOINTALK : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3535259.0
WHITEPAPER : https://orvium.docsend.com/view/nvr6ywj
TWITTER : https://twitter.com/orvium
FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/orvium.io
REDDIT : https://www.reddit.com/r/Orvium/
TELEGRAM : https://t.me/orvium

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Liqnet - United Exchange

Trading is not easy especially when you are in the early stages of crypto. Dealing with registrations, personal security protocols that needed to be done, trading fees, transaction fees and timestamps. Those are the things that you need to look forward when you want to trade your currency in an exchange and wanting to trade other currency in the other. Liqnet has a solution for that.

 So what is Liqnet?

 LIQNET is a cryptoexchange that aggregates liquidity from various platforms thus solving the problem of the splitting of users and their trading orders by forming a unified order book with the best market depth and prices. In simple words: LIQNET is a cryptocurrency exchange that aggregates liquidity from different exchanges across the internet. For example a sell order for a certain cryptocurrency may be placed on one exchange and a buy order may be placed on another exchange.Its main goal is to reduce the bid/ask spread, while provide the highest liquidity across multiple order types and markets.ICO information:
Token symbol:LENStandard:ERC20 Maximum number of tokens:63 746 032
Current stage: Pre-sale
Pre-sale bonus: 100%
Price of one LEN token:$1 (100% BONUS)Soft cap: 20 000 000 USDHard cap: 50 000 000 USDPayment methods:ETH, BTC, BCH, ZEC, LTC, XRP, Waves, USDTime frame: Pre-sale ends in 3 days! 

Strong sides

• Working product: https://liqnet.com/ is publicly available web terminal 
• Platform allows to set TAKE PROFIT and STOP LOSS orders
• Fully functional iOS and Android trading apps are planning for 2018 
• Limited token supply: 63 746 032 LEN
• Pre-ICO bonus is still available (100% BONUS!)
• Minimized spreads,
• Token holders have some advantages on exchange: they can purchase a discount on fees: one token gives a 0,5% discount on the sum of fees for one day.
• Solid business model: The projected daily trading volume of the LIQNET platform is $200 million, then with an average commission of 0.15% (taker = 0.1%, maker 0.2%), the planned net profit is of $0.4 million a day.
• Physical hardware is located in two different datacenters :France and Canada
• The company is registered in Singapore
• LIQNET has a suite of analysis tools for traders.
• High liquidity allows users to reduce or fully eliminate the costs of slippage.
• 93% of tokens are for sale during ICO period

Weak sides:

• Exchanges face various legal barriers in many countries
• Takes long time for exchange to earn reputation and form loyal customer community
• 100% bonus for pre-ICO participants might scare away potential buyers during main sale
• Little information about the team
• Absence of significant partners in blockchain market
• Small advisory board
• Project is not hyped at all, community is not formed yet
• Token has additional risks associated with Ethereum platform as it uses ERC-20 token

Conclusion: 

This project has good potential if you participate in pre-ICO, since 100% bonus will give you significant advantage over those who will buy token during main sale period. I like that product is already available for public and can be used. There are several risk factors that you have to consider: all exchanges are subject of regulations and sometimes they face serious legal barriers. This project doesn’t have any hype and support from another large projects yet. Liqnet takes specific niche as it solves specific trading problem. LIQNET is capable of aggregating liquidity from different exchanges across the internet, therefore it can reduce the bid/ask spread and fees/costs. While the project has numerous advantages, it might take a time before Liqnet exchange will get significant customer base. I like appreciation token model as it might attract long and short-term investors. 

Warning : This is not an investment advice

If you want to know more about the project visit these links below :

ICO Website: https://liqnet.io
Exchange Website: https://liqnet.com
Whitepaper: https://liqnet.io/static/docs/Liqnet_WhitePaper_en.pdf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiqNet.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LIQNET_official
Medium: https://medium.com/@liqnet.io
Official Telegram Channel: https://t.me/liqnet
Telegram Community Discussion: https://t.me/liqnet_official
 

CREATOR

aervin11

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DataBroker DAO - Not Sensored Data

DataBroker DAO - Not Sensored Data

Here I will tell you a brief summary about DataBroker DAO.
On how you could understand the project and helps you decide whether if this is a good investment or not.
So, here's the breakdown.

Databroker DAO - A Decentralized Sensor Data Marketplace
a peer to peer marketplace created to provide IoT sensor owners with a clear path to data monetization and data consumers with a decentralized market to buy IoT sensor data.

Data from the Internet of Things

- Consumers, researchers, companies are all buying increasingly more IoT sensors to capture data
    - Can be used to improve processes or provide more services
    - Global IoT market over $600B per year (Verizon)

- Most of the time, data is used by sensor owner or re-sold
    - Either way, it remains very siloed
    - More value can be extracted from the date for sure
- Hard Problem : How to fee that data from it's silos?


Databroker DAO solution

- Create a secondary market for sensor data
   - "eBay or Amazon for IoT sensor data"
   - Powered by Ethereum Smart Contracts
- Gateway operators set up to accept sensor data and route it to buyers
   - Run Ethereum node + Databroker DAO distributed API
   - Will be set up around the world - global marketplace
- Use DTX toke (ERC20) for access, incventives, purchases, and platform fees
- Why Blockchain?
   - Micropayments for large, global, trustless ecosystem


Platform core Components

- Registry of sensors and date streams
   - Sellers "stake" tokens to list on reistry
   - If bad data, they can be "challenged" by buyers and lose their stakes
- Identity management via smart contracts
    - Sellers own their data while operators or large scale buyers while end-user existing interfaces
- Data distribution/Storage
   - dAPI connected to leading IoT/Big Data storage vendors, also anchor batches of data on blockchain


Beta Platform
They also have their Beta Platform
Here's the link : https://beta.databrokerdao.com/account

Major Participants

- Sensor owners
   - Bought IoT sensors and have a lot of data to potentially sell
- Data Buyers
   - Purchase the data to use it (e.g. Improve their machine learning models)
- Data processors
   - Buy the data to enchance and re-sell it or handle it for their clients
   - Use this additional data to aument data from other sources
   - Can offer improved services to their clients
- Gateway Operators
   -Open up their network for data to be sold on platform


Value proposition & incentives

- Sensor owners
   - Menetize their investments (pays for itself)
   - Gets 80% of amount of each sale
- Data Buyers
   - Access to date previously unavailable to them
   - Don't have to spend money buying their own sensors
- Gateway Operators
   - Instant more adoption and usage of their Networks/Devices
   - Also gets 10% of each sale
- The platform ( DAO )
   - Gets 10% of each sale to cover operating costs

Who will have the data to sell?

Who will buy the data?

- Academic Researchers
   - Research projects need a lot of data to build models or draw conclusions
- Government Agencies
   - Glean insights from data for potential policy initiatives
- Energy Corporations
   - Inform business decisions like where to start solar farm
- Entrepreneurs
   - Build apps on top of data
- And more!


Databroker DAO Alliance

Roadmap

And that was all for DatabrokerDAO, I hope this could help you on your future decisions regarding the project
(Disclaimer : This is not an investment advice, the content is solely the perception of the author)

For more information about the project, you can visit these links below

Website
https://databrokerdao.com/

Ann Thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2113309.0

Whitepaper
https://databrokerdao.com/whitepaper/WHITEPAPER_DataBrokerDAO_ENG.pdf

Twitter
https://twitter.com/databrokerdao

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/DataBrokerDAO/

Telegram
https://t.me/databrokerdao

Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/DatabrokerDAO/




CREATOR
aervin11
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ETH Address
0xc1CF7Ca561ac80e66cDA5FD113090eC837465b37

TrueGame - Blockchain Casino

TrueGame - Blockchain Casino

Online Casino’s are getting popular and the demand for this kind of platform is undeniably increasing and the money getting involved is up to 40Billion USD.

Playing in these platforms always put an impression on my mind that I would lose, the bias system is too obvious that only big guns could win games but the thing is we can’t be sure about that because the developers is too secretive, they even didn’t introduce themselves on public. Then Blockchain came along and I think this innovation is the real fit for Blockchain technology to be applied.

Inroducing Truegame, a Blockchain based online game room for Lotteries and iGaming.

In this article I would tell you the key points of TrueGame, that would prove that this might be a good project to invest on.

(Disclaimer : This is not an investment advice, the opinion was solely the perception of the author)

So What is TrueGame?

Basically, it’s an Online Gambling platform that would use blockchain to apply transparency, faster and immutable transactions and security. New and the best way on how Online Gambling/Gaming should be vs. old, sloppy, unfair Gambling platforms.

There are current problems that Online Gambling/Gaming industry is facing and Truegame has the solution.

Problem: The Transparency

Lotteries as an example, aren’t transparent as it could be. I mean, the developers didn’t show the players on how a draw is being done and you’d be surprised if somebody would win about 1Million USD just like that. (You don’t screw me)

Solution: The Blockchain and Smart Contract

Using the Blockchain along with ethereum smart contract, it is immutable to change the generation of random number (Smart Contract – Like contracts but written on the Blockchain and is transparent to everybody. Some contracts are published on GitHub including TrueGame’s smart contract). Everybody could check what is happening and nobody could intervene in this process.

Problem: Rewards

Lotteries as an example, if you win a certain draw on the lottery, when would I get the reward? How much fees do I need to pay? How much could I approximately get as a reward?

(Too many questions that you wish you didnt win because winning in normal gaming platform is a headache)

Solution: The Blockchain and Smart Contract

Before every draw, Blockchain would act as an escrow for the rewards. After every draw, the rewards would be automatically sent to the winner, might be deducted for the fee but that would be disclosed on the smart contract so the player could expect a fixed amount of winnings.

Problem: Security

On old Gambling Platforms, every security breach on the side of the developers could result in a massive manipulation for the future draw and reward system (Jackpot)

Solution: Truegame is a (DAPP) Decentralized Application

If the website is compromised, the hacker will not be able to influence the process of the draws or gain access to the Jackpot. The site is only an interface of the infrastructure that TrueGame created in the environment of Blockchain. Drawings, distribution and storage of the Jackpot are managed by a smart contract that is executed in a decentralized environment.

TrueGame is already an up and running platform and is successful.

Games that are running in the TrueGame Platform are

SCRATCHCARDS

It’s like scratching the card and finding a tic-tac-toe arrangement of the reward.

1st Crypto Scratch-off, Crypto Space Battle, Good Luck Meme, Old School Scratch-off, Code me Scratch-off, Crypto Legends

LOTTERIES

The crowd favorite, Lottery.

Who is not familiar with Lotto?

It’s a random withdraw of draw balls that if your Numbers (the one you bet) are exactly the numbers withdrawn, you’ll win. I don’t know if it needs to be exact on arrangement (would vary on the TrueGame Platform)

Though TrueGame is an undeniably great platform, what benefit it possess to attract investors?

EDGE

• -         TrueGame is the one and only Online Gaming Platform to develop and apply a working product (the games)and  took care of gambling license, and prepared a marketing strategy to attract future and current players.
• -             Sealed the private sale hardcap on the first day.
• -          Completely ready team and well planned roadmap
• -          Maximize the use of smart contract that it has a team focused on doing so
• -          Also planning and prepared for the migration for it’s own blockchain system to ensure the fast transactions
• -          First project to accept fiat
• -          Equal chances for each players
• -          IN GAME : Low transaction cost
• -          IN GAME : The absence of a minimum deposit amount for depositing via cryptocurrency
• -          IN GAME : Instant winnings payments
• -          IN GAME : Clear chances of winning
• -          The results of the games, as well as the process of the games can be fully monitored where it is technically possible (for example, in case of lotteries) and one can see the fairness of the games.
• And many more

The Team

Conclusion

I see the project really applicable and fit for the blockchain and so far researching about the project, I see no flaws. The team is great for they have expertise on Online gaming, Marketing, Blockchain, Entrepreneurship and many more. With the combination of a good project and aggressive expert team, I could easily say that this is indeed the best project to invest in 2018.

For more information about the project, you can visit these links below

Website

https://ico.truegame.io/

Ann Thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2947906

Whitepaper

https://ico.truegame.io/docs/whitepaper_en.pdf

Telegram

https://t.me/truegame_chat

 

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aervin11
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ETH Address
0xc1CF7Ca561ac80e66cDA5FD113090eC837465b37

DataBroker DAO - Data Marketplace

DataBroker DAO - Data Marketplace

At the moment, Im having a problem looking for most qualified ICO's that would use the blockchain's ability really well. I doubt every project because they are crowdfunding using the blockchain but the business itself is unrealateable to it.
Presenting "DataBroker DAO - Data Marketplace"
What this project/platform would basically do is to be a marketplace for sensored data, from the sellers like Information and Entertainment, Banking and Securities and many more and the buyers? That would be Environmental agencies, Energy corporations, and the people who are interested about innovation but needs more information reagrding the subject, DataBroker DAO has a solution.
Join me as I dig the project.

WHAT IS DataBroker DAO?

a peer to peer marketplace created to provide IoT sensor owners with a clear path to data monetization and data consumers with a decentralized market to buy IoT sensor data. (Whitepaper)

"The intersection of IoT and blockchain is enormously promising.
For sensor- owning organizations, the ability to use an immutable ledger to store data, ensure its integrity, and provide a clear path to data monetization, is a stellar example of the promise of blockchain. The value of the IoT sensor market is greater than USD 600 billion per year, and is expected to double in the next three years, simply for primary usage of the data by the sensor owner! The magnitude and potential value of a marketplace for data-hungry third parties is staggering. I believe that what online retailers like Overstock.com have done for making physical goods accessible online, DataBroker DAO will do for sensor data.”

PATRICK BYRNE
CEO and Founder of Overstock.com

I see DataBroker DAO a huge help for the world as it would be a new type of marketplace for sensor data's that are usually on primary silos in which it is locked today.
Just think of eBay or Amazon but for Censored Data's.

Breakdown on how DataBrokerDao's operation

WHY USE BLOCKCHAIN?

Blockchain - is an open innovation without permission. Blockchain would change the world because everybody can create their invention on a public ledger transparent to everyone.
From a marketplace perspective using the public Ethereum chain enables the use of a fully built out financial ecosystem, with minimum of fees. Traditional fiat payment processors charge between 1 and 3% for money in and money out, while a purchase using the utility token costs around 0.003 USD7 in fees for purchases of any size.

Taking over IOTA?

 

WHO WILL SELL DATA?

There are a number of data sellers identified and the overview of the sector salready investing in sensors from Gartner highlights the key potential sellers of data for the years to come. The diagram below identifies the 2 groups (business, consumer) and the sub- groups that constitute each. It is clear that the business group is the main driving force in sensor deployment globally.

WHO WILL BUY DATA?

Aside from the data processors in the ecosystem, any company
looking to commercialise a product that is data driven is provided with
the opportunity to develop the product without having to invest in the
hardware. The potential buyers are extremely broad.

 

SUMMARY

The stakeholders in the IoT space have a lot to gain:

• Sensor owners can monetize their data and turn a sunk cost into a potential money maker and at least the opportunity to recoup some of their investments in IoT sensors.
• Network operators acting as gateway operators gain scale and speed in the adoption of their network as connected telcos can present a win-back to their enterprise accounts, a clear USP.
• Sensor manufacturers acting as gateway operators can stop the “race to the bottom” for production and pull resources and capital out of manufacturing and allocate these to more successful SaaS offerings.
• New types of buyers have unprecedented access to data and options to monetize their own data, in this category we see the entire booming and vibrant startup scene.
• Data processors have an ecosystem to sell their services to the right people.

DataBroker DAO has already it's alliance to help facilitate this collaborative ecosystem.

PARTNERS

They also have an alliance on Panasonic, Option, Technilog, Settlemint (the founders of DataBroker DAO own this platform) and many more.

CONCLUSION

They have a clear Roadmap, well experienced team on the blockchain and IT, and I think their project is what we need. Oh! they also have beta platform so you can check and it's live @ https://beta.databrokerdao.com/

For more information about the project, you can visit these links below

Website

https://databrokerdao.com/

Ann Thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2113309.0

Whitepaper

https://databrokerdao.com/whitepaper/WHITEPAPER_DataBrokerDAO_ENG.pdf

Twitter

https://twitter.com/databrokerdao

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/DataBrokerDAO/

Telegram

https://t.me/databrokerdao

Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/DatabrokerDAO/

 

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ETH Address
0xc1CF7Ca561ac80e66cDA5FD113090eC837465b37

Clairety - This is "Legit"

Clairety - This is "Legit"

Clairety, found online at ClairetyAI.com, aims to create an autonomous rating system for social media content. Find out how it works today in our review.
Clairety is a rating agency for social media content. The platform uses artificial intelligence to track the credibility of all 500,000,000 social media contributors in the world today, then reports that data to you with a browser module that embeds ratings directly within your social media content.
Picture scrolling through Twitter, for example, and seeing a controversial tweet about politics. That tweet is accompanied with a rating that gives you an overview of that person’s reputation. Today on Twitter, tweets from any account appear pretty much the same way. Under Clairety, you can get a better idea of which social media posts come from trusted sources – and which tweets come from known propagandists, low-quality news sources, and trolls.
A token sale for Clairety’s RELY tokens began on March 20, 2018.
Obviously, that’s an ambitious goal – so let’s take a closer look at how Clairety plans to accomplish that goal.

What Is Clairety And How Does It Work?

Clairety is based on a fully automated system. That system is completely unbiased and uses no human interactions.
Clairety will identify bots, spam, harassment, extreme speech, and other “low value” content posted online. Here’s how the company explains its system on its official website:
“We can separate facts from opinions, expertise from marketing, and the ‘real story’ from conspiracy theory. We let you know who is risky to believe, and who isn’t providing real economic value to social media consumers, publishers, advertisers, and those hoping to better understand social media and the marketplace of ideas.”
Clairety can be applied to all social media across industries. However, the developers want to specifically target the cryptocurrency space. Cryptocurrency has one of the most toxic social media communities on the internet today. Bitcoin (BTC) supporters trash “Bcash” supporters. Major industry figures are treated as heroes by some and scam artists by others. It’s hard to separate truth from fiction.
As the Clairety website explains, “the crypto space needs a credibility boost. We’re here to help provide it.”
Clairety will start by launching a crypto-specific dataset. That dataset will initially target low-volume specialty social media forums like Cointalk. That dataset, which was specifically designed for quantitative trading, can tell you who to believe and who to avoid on social media.
The ecosystem revolves around the use of ERC20 tokens called RELY.

Clairety Features and Benefits

Clairety aims to offer all of the following features and benefits to the world of social media:
Credibility: Clairety aims to make social media more credible by helping sort truthful sources from non-truthful sources, sorting sources who provide economic value from those who provide no value.
Real Economic Value: Social media is plagued by bots, automated accounts, trolls, and tweet farms that spam RTs and similar endorsements. Clairety claims its system clearly identifies these users, providing real economic value to both social media users and advertisers.
Truly Unbiased: Of course, the big problem with “ranking” quality on social media is that it opens the door for bias. Someone might get a low rating because they have a controversial political opinion, for example. Clairety claims this won’t be an issue on its platform because the platform uses AI that has no views or biases of its own. The system runs without human interaction. Social media users are ranked relative to other users based on the value they provide to a community.
Commercially Proven: Clairety’s automated algorithm was previously used to analyze financial markets. The company claims their system is commercially proven because the core logic has been used in financial markets where it read newswires for program trading systems.
Independent: Clairety claims they’ll never make content or sell content. The only goal of the platform is to tell users what is safe and reliable.
Support Crypto Traders: Clairety’s crypto trading dataset will tell you who to trust. Theoretically, this will allow genuine, high-quality cryptocurrency traders to rise to the top, while “pump and dumpers” and “shills” will sink to the bottom. This advances our community as a whole.

How Do RELY Tokens Work?

RELY tokens are solely a means of payment for Clairety’s service. They’re utility tokens that can be used to purchase products and services from Clairety. They do not confer voting rights or ownership in the platform.
You can purchase 100 Reliance tokens for the following products:

• 1 year of CSMF Data Factors with unlimited usage (price set at 0.05 BTC) and one of the following two items:
• 2 years of Premium Retail Service (price set at $96 USD)
• 3 months of Small Business DaaS (price set at $100 USD)

Proceeds from the Clairety RELY token ICO will be used to develop the platform.

The RELY Token ICO

There’s a total supply of 34 million RELY tokens. Tokens will be sold at an initial exchange rate of $0.50 USD apiece. RELY tokens are ERC20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.
There’s a fixed token supply. RELY tokens are 100% pre-mined, and any unsold or unallocated tokens will be burned.
Clairety is seeking to raise a minimum of $2 million from its token sale and a maximum (hard cap) of $11 million.
The token sale began on March 20 with a private pre-sale. That pre-sale will continue for four weeks, then followed by a public sale in mid-April for four more weeks. The token sale period ends on May 14, 2018.

Who’s Behind Clairety?

Clairety is led by CEO and CTO Tom Costello, who started his career as a quantitative analyst and developer at JPMorgan. He eventually moved to hedge fund management, taking a research position at Moore Capital before managing money under Caxton Associates and Tudor Investments, where he was responsible for a $100 million quantitative trading strategy he designed himself. That strategy was based on a “news reading” system. The core logic of that news reading system is used in Clairety’s social media analysis system today.
The other listed member of the executive team is Randall Brown (CFO), who served as Head of Rates, Sales, and Trading for Mistubishi UFJ Securities, where he was responsible for all aspects of funding, risk management, and oversight of the bank’s US fixed income trading operations.
Clairety is based in New York City. The company was founded in 2017.

Clairety Conclusion

Clairety aims to provide “clairety” in the world of social media by assigning ratings and reputation scores to online accounts. These scores will not be calculated by humans, but instead by bots and AI. This AI will quantitatively analyze an individual’s social media presence to determine their value to the community. The end result is a social media where bots, trolls, and spammers are ranked low, while those who contribute genuine value are ranked high.
Clairety will initially focus on the cryptocurrency industry – an industry that sorely needs a cleanup of its social media presence. Clairety aims to promote genuine cryptocurrency traders while forcing shills, pump and dumpers, and other spammers to the bottom.


Hope that this article could help you determine whether this is a good project to invest on or not. To know more of them you could visit these links below.

Website : http://clairetyai.com/

Whitepaper : http://clairetyai.com/img/Clairety%20Whitepaper%20V1.1.pdf

Telegram : https://t.me/clairetyAI



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Shivom - Healthier World

Shivom - Healthier World

I know that you are still confused about how Shivom - building the largest genomic and health data hub on the blockchain would help us in terms of medical attention. Here I will try to tell you more about Shivom and how could this be possible and useful in the blockchain, using the blockchain.

First, What is Genome/Genomic Medicine?

It is an emerging medical discipline that involves using genomic information about an individual as part of their clinical care (e.g., for diagnostic or therapeutic decision-making) and the health outcomes and policy implications of that clinical use." Already, genomic medicine is making an impact in the fields of oncology, pharmacology, rare and undiagnosed diseases, and infectious disease.


How the blockchain could help Genomic Medicine?

As you know, blockchain is a public ledger that could be seen by all people around the planet also, there is no third party could intervene on the transaction that is happening. Blockchain is just a program, open to all innovations to change and improve daily lives, and this is the opportunity taken by Shivom. Anonymously hiding the owners identity BUT showing it's health issues around the globe and the medication being made is a huge opportunity and open to innovations healthcare that Shivom wanted to promote. ( See whitepaper for more detailed information of infographic charts )

These are the things that Shivom wants to happen

- Everybody will be able to get their genome sequenced and securely stored, and our ecosystem will offer an open web-marketplace for providers to add their apps and services alongside advanced data analytics. The SHIVOM platform works on principles of collaboration and integrity, allowing people to own, manage and monetize their genomics and health data. As we build this global healthcare ecosystem, we will reach even underserved and low-income countries where such services have not been previously available.

- The solution will create shared value for individuals, not-for-profit organizations, governments, and for-profit entities alike.

- Have partnered with the top developers and healthcare organizations, and technology companies and big pharma are already lining up to take advantage of our unique genomics and healthcare approach. As Shivom scales up and goes global, we have many more partnerships already in development.

- The platform is truly pioneering in the way it utilizes blockchain technology, to protect, secure and monetize the donor’s DNA data to drive precision medicine and healthcare forward.


To make those things possible for the project's development, they are currently conducting an ICO/crowdfunding that would let people to invest and be a part of Shivom's success.

Here are some information's about their Token Sale.

The Goal
Durning the ICO, they are having cap's that would determine on how much they would want to raise and on how much would they sell their tokens.
Softcap: 15,000 ETH
Hardcap: 75,000 ETH
Price: 7,000 OMX / ETH
Pre-sale: 16th April — 22nd April (pre-sale terms not yet officially released)
Public sale: Not officially released

Token distribution
• 3 billion tokens to be distributed
• 90M OmiX to the community
• 420M OmiX to founders
• 300M OmiX to advisors
• 600M OmiX for Incentivizing Growth Pool
• 600M OmiX to Company Reserve

*** Number of OmiX tokens at ICO not stated however appears to be 990M MAX ***


Having the transparent crowdfunding visible to all using the blockchain, the proceeds of the ICO would go to ....

ICO funds distribution nominated as being:
• 20% — platform development
• 11% — operations and business development
• 10% — non profit R&D
• 21% — partnerships and marketing
• 5% — legal
• 2% — proof of concept
• 6% — data storage
• 25% — laboratories

*** Founder and advisor tokens are locked for between 18 months and 3 years dependant upon their involvement in the project and stage of entry into the company. ***


The OmiX token enables buying, trading, incentivizing and other services. The token is the fuel of the Shivom ecosystem, as well as part of the governance of the system. Tokens offer the following:
• Ability to acquire premium services in the Shivom ecosystem
• Ability to acquire genome sequencing kits
• Ability to sponsor sequencing projects
• Ability to acquire access to health/fitness apps from 3rd party providers
• Ability to access the genome database
• Ability to pay donors for data/participation in research studies
• Ability for service providers to use the platform


The Catch

The OmiX token enables buying, trading, incentivizing and other services. The token is the fuel of the Shivom ecosystem, as well as part of the governance of the system. Tokens offer the following:
• Ability to acquire premium services in the Shivom ecosystem
• Ability to acquire genome sequencing kits
• Ability to sponsor sequencing projects
• Ability to acquire access to health/fitness apps from 3rd party providers
• Ability to access the genome database
• Ability to pay donors for data/participation in research studies
• Ability for service providers to use the platform

Pro's
• A potentially large market given world population however I’m not sure that too many care enough about genome sequencing for this market size to be realised. The team are however aware of this and research shows one of the biggest barriers for people when considering genomic testing is the security of their data. The blockchain solution offered by Shivom should resolve this problem.

• Recent partnership announced with Genetic Technologies Ltd (GTG), which is a publicly listed Australian company providing a clinically validated risk assessment test for non-hereditary breast cancer. This partnership provides Shivom with access to GTG’s accredited laboratory in Victoria, Australia. GTG will also become part of Shivom’s global genetic counselling network and obtain access to Shivom’s pool of genomic data. This also extends to GTG accredited facilities in the US.

• Recent MoU signed with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, which ‘explores the possibility of providing diagnostic services to patients of Andhra Pradesh by maintaining the privacy of the individual data through blockchain technologies’. It will also focus on shifting from using genomic data for research to using this data for predictive healthcare in a preventative approach. A part of this deal gives Shivom access to conduct pilot testing in the Andhra Pradesh cancer research centre working direct with government.

• A partnership with DeHedge in which Shivom will be the first token offered as a hedged token on their platform. This protects contributors (to some degree) from volatility and risk. The DeHedge team also stringently vet projects before accepting them onto their platform so this also offers some degree of certainty and trust in the Shivom project.

• Strategic technical partnerships with Ocean Protocol and Spherity Protocol.


Con's
• The majority of team members have at least one other project running concurrent to Shivom. Per Lind is particularly concerning with his LinkedIn profile listing involvement in a further 10 projects (including IOTA) from co-founder to partner, VP and director of these other organisations.

• 990M tokens available for ICO yet 600M are allocated for ‘incentives’ and another 600M for ‘company reserves’. In my opinion these numbers seem too high and I feel the incentives (bounty programs mentioned) will dilute the value of the tokens sold during ICO.


Hope that this article could help you determine whether this is a good project to invest on or not. To know more of them you could visit these links below.


Website : https://shivom.io/

Telegram : https://t.me/projshivom

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ProjectShivom

Twitter : https://twitter.com/projectshivom

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/projectshivom

Reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/Shivom/

Youtube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectShivom

Bitcointalk : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2365709.msg24124494#msg24124494

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XYO Network - Blockchain Spy

One of the most interesting and ambitious blockchain projects of recent times is about to have its ICO and it is called the XYO Network.

It is aiming to use its vast network of connected devices in the real world to accurately track items — everything potentially from your cat to your Amazon parcel.

Then with the benefit of blockchain technology, it will use this location data to execute smart contracts for agreed actions to happen, for example to take payment for an Amazon parcel once it is successfully delivered to your home.

The ICO will start on 20th March and run until 20th May.
How the XYO Network Will Work

How will the XYO Network work exactly then?

Well, you have probably heard of the “Internet of Things.” It is the little gadgets and devices around us that will soon be talking to each other to make life easier for us all.

So for example your phone may communicate with the thermostat in your home, to get an idea of your daily routine and when you are likely to be home so that it can set the temperature to the right level for when you come in.

The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution is coming.

What XYO Network is planning to do is take the huge network of over a million GPS-tracked devices it has in the real world and connect them up to the blockchain to provide a kind of trustless tracking system that could revolutionise how we track objects according to their location and then use that information.

These devices — called “sentinels” — include everything from light bulbs to internet routers, doorbells, garage openers, cars, fridges and not forgetting the more obvious ones like phones and tablets. Or they could even be your microchipped cat.

With all of these devices linked up, they can track very accurately where something is and then use that data to execute a contract on the Ethereum blockchain.
Some Real-World Examples

Here are some examples of what this could mean in practice:
Amazon could move to a payment-on-delivery model, whereby a package is tracked until it reaches your front door and you only pay for it once it is with you.
Hotel review sites could know if people had actually travelled to stay in a particular hotel they have just reviewed, thus eliminating fake reviews.
Airline baggage could be more accurately tracked, so that if luggage doesn’t arrive, you would know exactly where it is and could track its progress back to where it should be.
Medical equipment could be followed to ensure it reaches the correct destination and on time
The tracking of pets could be used, so that if your cat went missing, you would know exactly where it was with a high degree of precision and could the appropriate authorities would be alerted to pick it up.

These are some of the obvious uses for XYO’s technology, but actually there are potentially limitless uses of it.

XYO Network’s technology could be used to track lost pets and return them safely

Where Does the Blockchain Come Into This?

Now you may be wondering — this all sounds nice, but where does the blockchain come into the picture and why is it needed? Surely these devices could just communicate with each other anyway, without needing the blockchain?

Well, XYO Network has developed special new Proof of Origin and Bound

Witness protocols and is thus aiming to make location verification trustless.

The beauty of the blockchain is that it can execute smart contracts automatically if given criteria are met.

It sets up a system that says “if x happens, then do y.” In this case, x could be “if Amazon successfully delivers a parcel to this person’s home” and y could be “take payment for said item from that person.”

So the XYO Network will combine all the connected devices of the IoT revolution with the blockchain to make pre-agreed things happen automatically and without needing a middle-man to verify them.

It is a very bold vision and if it works in practice, could make so many different tasks more efficient and transparent.

ICO Details

Here are the key details of the ICO:

Token symbol: XYO

Contract type: ERC20

ICO opens: 20 March 2018

ICO ends: 20 May 2018

Total XYO supply: limited to total number purchased during token sale, no further tokens will be created

Price: 1 ETH = 100,000 XYO initially and 1 ETH = 33,333 XYO at max

Accepted payments: TBC

The XYO Token

The purpose of the XYO Token (XYO) will be so that smart contract developers can use it to access geo-location verification from the real world.

If you have a smart contract on the XYO Network, like for example if Amazon used it with their packages to take payment on delivery of items, then they would need XYO tokens for their smart contract to make contact with the IoT devices.

This means the more usage there is of the XYO Network, the more tokens will be used.

Conclusion

There aren’t many ICOs that bill themselves as “potentially bigger than Bitcoin and Ethereum,” but with XYO Network the claim may not be as completely crazy as it at first sounds.

Yes the XYO Network is giving itself a rather audacious billing, but this is an ambitious project that — if it comes off — could have fairly profound consequences for the world around us.

The Internet of Things revolution is coming — and should make our lives easier in a lot of different ways.

The XYO Network will allow this revolution to have much greater usefulness in the real world, verifying location data and using that to execute smart contracts.

That could mean everything from verifying an Amazon package has been delivered to rescuing your stranded cat.

It’s a bold vision but if it comes off, could be one of most significant blockchain projects we have seen.

Know more of them by visiting these links below

Website
https://www.xyo.network/

Bitcointalk ANN

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3040825.0

Twitter

https://twitter.com/XYOracleNetwork

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/xyonetwork

Telegram

https://t.me/xyonetwork

Blog

https://medium.com/@XYOracleNetwork

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