Orvium - Open and Transparent Science Powered By Blockchain
It is time to get involved and get the control back of the human knowledge.
Orvium is more than another startup — you are about to participate in a project driven by top engineers and scientists with many years of experience driving innovation at CERN, the birthplace of the Web, and NASA.
Orvium aims to disrupt one of the most lucrative industry world-wide, with profit margins reported to exceed those of companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple, while making science more transparent, universal and open than ever. Orvium creates a unique decentralized platform powered by blockchain, decentralized storage, big data and artificial intelligence to create an unprecedented decentralized solution to process, validate, disseminate and preserve scientific knowledge forever.
We want you to be part of our future: Our TGE offers you the unique opportunity to buy ORVIUM tokens and join an excellent team. With your participation, we are going to scale science and become the leading publication platform while returning the benefits of science to society. The Web was originally designed to meet the demand for transparent and automatic information sharing between scientists around the world, lets do it now and for all.
Early-birds will be rewarded with a 10% bonus during our pre-sale.
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It is time to get involved and get the control back of the human knowledge.
Orvium is more than another startup — you are about to participate in a project driven by top engineers and scientists with many years of experience driving innovation at CERN, the birthplace of the Web, and NASA.
Orvium aims to disrupt one of the most lucrative industry world-wide, with profit margins reported to exceed those of companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple, while making science more transparent, universal and open than ever. Orvium creates a unique decentralized platform powered by blockchain, decentralized storage, big data and artificial intelligence to create an unprecedented decentralized solution to process, validate, disseminate and preserve scientific knowledge forever.
We want you to be part of our future: Our TGE offers you the unique opportunity to buy ORVIUM tokens and join an excellent team. With your participation, we are going to scale science and become the leading publication platform while returning the benefits of science to society. The Web was originally designed to meet the demand for transparent and automatic information sharing between scientists around the world, lets do it now and for all.
Early-birds will be rewarded with a 10% bonus during our pre-sale.
Join us and be part of this exciting journey:
https://t.me/orvium
https://orvium.io
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Hong Kong to Expedite Immigration for Blockchain Job Seekers
Hong Kong is seeking to attract worldwide talents with specialties in innovative technologies including blockchain via a special immigration policy.
The Hong Kong government released a talent list on Tuesday that covers a range of 11 professions that are now eligible to receive bonus marks when experts in these areas apply for the city's Quality Migrant Admission Scheme (QMAS).
One of the areas is dedicated to innovation and technology experts in, but not limited to, ... artificial intelligence, robotics, distributed ledger technologies, biometric technologies andindustrial/chemical engineering, etc.
Launched in 2006, the QMAS allows successful applicants to enter and settle in the Chinese special administrative region without having to first secure a job offer from a local employer.
The Scheme is a quota-based entrant scheme. It seeks to attract highly skilled or talented persons to settle in Hong Kong in order to enhance Hong Kong's economic competitiveness, according to the program's description.
The scheme's selection process requires applicants to meet several prerequisites before being awarded points under one of the two points-based tests: General Points Test and Achievement-based Points Test. The points are further used for competing with other applicants each year.
For applicants who meet the specifications of the respective profession under the Talent List, bonus marks will be given under the General Points Test of theQMAS, the government said in the announcement.
To be qualified in the innovation and technology area, blockchain professionals need to hold a bachelor or above degree with experience in notable firms in the filed and knowledge of how to apply blockchain in financial services.
The effort comes at a time when the Hong Kong government is taking the lead in adopting blockchain to boost the city's competitiveness in financial technology.
As CoinDesk previously reported, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the city's de facto central bank, is set to roll out a distributed ledger network among several banks in the region to facilitate transactions in trade finance.
Hong Kong is seeking to attract worldwide talents with specialties in innovative technologies including blockchain via a special immigration policy.
The Hong Kong government released a talent list on Tuesday that covers a range of 11 professions that are now eligible to receive bonus marks when experts in these areas apply for the city's Quality Migrant Admission Scheme (QMAS).
One of the areas is dedicated to innovation and technology experts in, but not limited to, ... artificial intelligence, robotics, distributed ledger technologies, biometric technologies andindustrial/chemical engineering, etc.
Launched in 2006, the QMAS allows successful applicants to enter and settle in the Chinese special administrative region without having to first secure a job offer from a local employer.
The Scheme is a quota-based entrant scheme. It seeks to attract highly skilled or talented persons to settle in Hong Kong in order to enhance Hong Kong's economic competitiveness, according to the program's description.
The scheme's selection process requires applicants to meet several prerequisites before being awarded points under one of the two points-based tests: General Points Test and Achievement-based Points Test. The points are further used for competing with other applicants each year.
For applicants who meet the specifications of the respective profession under the Talent List, bonus marks will be given under the General Points Test of theQMAS, the government said in the announcement.
To be qualified in the innovation and technology area, blockchain professionals need to hold a bachelor or above degree with experience in notable firms in the filed and knowledge of how to apply blockchain in financial services.
The effort comes at a time when the Hong Kong government is taking the lead in adopting blockchain to boost the city's competitiveness in financial technology.
As CoinDesk previously reported, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the city's de facto central bank, is set to roll out a distributed ledger network among several banks in the region to facilitate transactions in trade finance.
OEL Foundation
The supply chain industry generates over 13% of global GDP and is the lifeblood of the global economy. Innovations in this industry drive savings to every business and consumer on the planet.
Trillions of dollars are spent every year transporting everything from raw materials to finished goods, and every year billions in value is lost due to delays and disputes, driving up transport costs and slowing the cash flow cycle. The largest brands in the world lose 1% of revenue they can never invoice without proof of delivery to retailers, and transporters wait weeks to be paid.
The industry is ready to move to a blockchain-based platform that provides real transparency and proof of activity. This will allow every participant to invoice and be paid faster, grow their business, improve service and lower costs.
The Open Enterprise Logistics (OEL) Foundation and Alliance has been established to provide a standard Enterprise Architecture for all supply participants to build logistics dApps and blockchain-enable their technology.
Early adopters have already achieved real-world success, with Alliance member OpenPort becoming the first in the world to sell a blockchain-powered transport invoice on the AssetChain marketplace. https://bit.ly/2GqoBHD
OEL Alliance members are acting now to remove the paper trail, create trust and liquidity, and bypass intermediaries.
Members – from the largest shippers to the smallest transporters – will use the OPN (“open”) token to fuel the ecosystem behind one of the largest industries in the world. The TGE for OPN is a chance be part of an enterprise project that will change how goods and payments flow through the supply chain.
Website: https://oel.foundation/
Telegram: https://t.me/OELFoundation
ANN thread: https://bit.ly/2l986r8
The supply chain industry generates over 13% of global GDP and is the lifeblood of the global economy. Innovations in this industry drive savings to every business and consumer on the planet.
Trillions of dollars are spent every year transporting everything from raw materials to finished goods, and every year billions in value is lost due to delays and disputes, driving up transport costs and slowing the cash flow cycle. The largest brands in the world lose 1% of revenue they can never invoice without proof of delivery to retailers, and transporters wait weeks to be paid.
The industry is ready to move to a blockchain-based platform that provides real transparency and proof of activity. This will allow every participant to invoice and be paid faster, grow their business, improve service and lower costs.
The Open Enterprise Logistics (OEL) Foundation and Alliance has been established to provide a standard Enterprise Architecture for all supply participants to build logistics dApps and blockchain-enable their technology.
Early adopters have already achieved real-world success, with Alliance member OpenPort becoming the first in the world to sell a blockchain-powered transport invoice on the AssetChain marketplace. https://bit.ly/2GqoBHD
OEL Alliance members are acting now to remove the paper trail, create trust and liquidity, and bypass intermediaries.
Members – from the largest shippers to the smallest transporters – will use the OPN (“open”) token to fuel the ecosystem behind one of the largest industries in the world. The TGE for OPN is a chance be part of an enterprise project that will change how goods and payments flow through the supply chain.
Website: https://oel.foundation/
Telegram: https://t.me/OELFoundation
ANN thread: https://bit.ly/2l986r8
Medium
Acudeen Facilitates the First Blockchain-Enabled Invoice Factoring Transaction in the Philippines with OpenPort
Following last week’s exciting news of a partnership between Acudeen Technologies and OpenPort, The Acudeen Team is proud to announce that…
Moscow's government is planning to use ethereum as part of a system for allotting trading spots during weekend farmers markets.
The system will record applications submitted by farmers, who compete for a limited number of commercial plots. Some 15,000 trading spots are up for grabs, with the market season stretching between April 20 and November 25 and farmers coming in from Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
As might be expected, there's a push to get a spot, with some 20,000 applicants submitting their bids each year. The idea is to use ethereum as a way to create an immutable record of applications, with updates made for those who are either approved or denied access, according to Andrey Borodyonkov, who serves as the blockchain product manager for Moscow City Hall.
"Blockchain is an additional guarantee that the incoming applications remain immutable as well as makes the audit of the application history possible," he explained to CoinDesk.
The system will record applications submitted by farmers, who compete for a limited number of commercial plots. Some 15,000 trading spots are up for grabs, with the market season stretching between April 20 and November 25 and farmers coming in from Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
As might be expected, there's a push to get a spot, with some 20,000 applicants submitting their bids each year. The idea is to use ethereum as a way to create an immutable record of applications, with updates made for those who are either approved or denied access, according to Andrey Borodyonkov, who serves as the blockchain product manager for Moscow City Hall.
"Blockchain is an additional guarantee that the incoming applications remain immutable as well as makes the audit of the application history possible," he explained to CoinDesk.
🔜 Mobu (MOBU)
Mobu is a decentralised platform and end-to-end solution for launching compliant security tokens - "The Future of Security tokens".
The 80 Trillion dollar big securities market is coming to the blockchain. But there are still plenty of problems which occur when launching a security token. One of the main problems which arise when planning on launching a security token is the fact that it is a legal, regulatory and technical nightmare launching one. Furthermore, until now there is also no trusted competitive environment for ICO service providers to ensure lower pricing and better quality.
Those problems MOBU aims to solve.
MOBU is an ecosystem/marketplace that implements a unique MOB20 standard protocol to ensure compliant security tokens and similar to how the HTTP protocol defined the internet, the MOB20 protocol aims to define a set of commands that a compliant security token should implement!
Mobu uses the blockchain technology to create a set of rules that govern the issuance of security tokens while programming them into smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. This way they are transparent and immutable. And they decide on security tokens due to the lower fees, the more complex versions of dividend policies and voting rights, the possibility to execute deals faster and succeed cross-border funding within a larger investor base, as well as suffering fewer manipulations by financial institutions.
In the Mobu ecosystem the token issuers(real future companies on MOBU) post bounties to get service providers, Developers earn MOBU tokens for creating smart contracts, KYC providers pay MOBU tokens to join the network/ecosystem, Investors pay MOBU tokens for KYC process, legal representatives and escrow providers earn MOBU tokens for offering services. Mobu additionally will steel bank partnerships to ensure FIAT can easily be converted to crypto all around the world and MOBU tokens can be earned worldwide. Furthermore, Lockup utility will ensure scarcity of MOBU tokens!
The Pre-ICO with up to 25% bonus will start on 1st of September, you can already put yourself on the interest list on their website by clicking "Register Your Interest" and filling out your data.
🔶 Documents:
📑 Whitepaper — Mobu Whitepaper
🔶 Additional links:
🌐 Website — mobu.io
✈️ Telegram — t.me/mobuCHAT
🕊 Twitter — twitter.com/MobuICO
📓 Facebook — facebook.com/MobuICO
🐣 Reddit — reddit.com/r/Mobu/
📸 Instagram — instagram.com/MobuICO/
🐱 Github — github.com/mobuadmin
🗣 Bitcointalk — bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4726508.0
📚 Bitcoin Wiki — en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/MOBU
📺 YouTube — Mobu YouTube channel
📝 Medium — medium.com/mobu-io
🔶 ICO-Dates:
Symbol: MOBU
Token type: ETH (ERC20)
ICO Price: 1 RBY = 0.15 USD
Min purchase: 0.1 ETH
Total supply: Tokens are only issued when physically sold
(350,000,000 tokens maximum possible supply, as per smart contract)
Soft cap: 1,000,000 USD
Hard cap: 35,000,000 USD
ICO Start date: 1st of December 2018
The Pre-ICO starts on 1st of September and comes with an up to 25% Bonus, visit their website and click on "Register Your Interest" to keep informed.
🔶 Our Score:
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 4.5/5
The Mobu project, which delivers a product which is genuinely needed, is managed by a strong team and advisory board with lots of experience in a broad spectrum. They have a detailed whitepaper and a clear vision while entering a vast market where up until now none competitor is active. Security tokens are apparently "the future of Crypto", and thus, we expect Mobu to be a strong player and a success story in this area. The MVP is announced for this month, just before the Pre-Sale starts, and once we had a chance to test the platform, we will consider to higher the current rating.
🔶 Promotional video: https://youtu.be/ydlXE_E2UUo
Mobu is a decentralised platform and end-to-end solution for launching compliant security tokens - "The Future of Security tokens".
The 80 Trillion dollar big securities market is coming to the blockchain. But there are still plenty of problems which occur when launching a security token. One of the main problems which arise when planning on launching a security token is the fact that it is a legal, regulatory and technical nightmare launching one. Furthermore, until now there is also no trusted competitive environment for ICO service providers to ensure lower pricing and better quality.
Those problems MOBU aims to solve.
MOBU is an ecosystem/marketplace that implements a unique MOB20 standard protocol to ensure compliant security tokens and similar to how the HTTP protocol defined the internet, the MOB20 protocol aims to define a set of commands that a compliant security token should implement!
Mobu uses the blockchain technology to create a set of rules that govern the issuance of security tokens while programming them into smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. This way they are transparent and immutable. And they decide on security tokens due to the lower fees, the more complex versions of dividend policies and voting rights, the possibility to execute deals faster and succeed cross-border funding within a larger investor base, as well as suffering fewer manipulations by financial institutions.
In the Mobu ecosystem the token issuers(real future companies on MOBU) post bounties to get service providers, Developers earn MOBU tokens for creating smart contracts, KYC providers pay MOBU tokens to join the network/ecosystem, Investors pay MOBU tokens for KYC process, legal representatives and escrow providers earn MOBU tokens for offering services. Mobu additionally will steel bank partnerships to ensure FIAT can easily be converted to crypto all around the world and MOBU tokens can be earned worldwide. Furthermore, Lockup utility will ensure scarcity of MOBU tokens!
The Pre-ICO with up to 25% bonus will start on 1st of September, you can already put yourself on the interest list on their website by clicking "Register Your Interest" and filling out your data.
🔶 Documents:
📑 Whitepaper — Mobu Whitepaper
🔶 Additional links:
🌐 Website — mobu.io
✈️ Telegram — t.me/mobuCHAT
🕊 Twitter — twitter.com/MobuICO
📓 Facebook — facebook.com/MobuICO
🐣 Reddit — reddit.com/r/Mobu/
📸 Instagram — instagram.com/MobuICO/
🐱 Github — github.com/mobuadmin
🗣 Bitcointalk — bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4726508.0
📚 Bitcoin Wiki — en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/MOBU
📺 YouTube — Mobu YouTube channel
📝 Medium — medium.com/mobu-io
🔶 ICO-Dates:
Symbol: MOBU
Token type: ETH (ERC20)
ICO Price: 1 RBY = 0.15 USD
Min purchase: 0.1 ETH
Total supply: Tokens are only issued when physically sold
(350,000,000 tokens maximum possible supply, as per smart contract)
Soft cap: 1,000,000 USD
Hard cap: 35,000,000 USD
ICO Start date: 1st of December 2018
The Pre-ICO starts on 1st of September and comes with an up to 25% Bonus, visit their website and click on "Register Your Interest" to keep informed.
🔶 Our Score:
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 4.5/5
The Mobu project, which delivers a product which is genuinely needed, is managed by a strong team and advisory board with lots of experience in a broad spectrum. They have a detailed whitepaper and a clear vision while entering a vast market where up until now none competitor is active. Security tokens are apparently "the future of Crypto", and thus, we expect Mobu to be a strong player and a success story in this area. The MVP is announced for this month, just before the Pre-Sale starts, and once we had a chance to test the platform, we will consider to higher the current rating.
🔶 Promotional video: https://youtu.be/ydlXE_E2UUo
Twitter
MOBU (@MobuICO) / Twitter
Technology-enabled digital investment bank to streamline capital markets. The full infrastructure solution for the next generation of assets.
Bittrex, the thirty-sixth largest crypto exchange by trading volume, announced this week that it will be adding US Dollar trading pairs for two more popular altcoins: Cardano (ADA) and Zcash (ZEC).
According to the brief Twitter announcement, Bittrex reveals that it will be adding direct fiat support for ADA and ZEC starting on September 5.
The news comes a week after the exchange announced that it would be rolling out USD trading pairs for XRP and Ethereum Classic (ETC) for eligible personal and corporate accounts.
Bittrex originally added USD fiat trading for bitcoin (BTC), as well as for stablecoins Tether (USDT) and TrueUSD (TUSD). Additionally, corporate and personal investors outside of the United States or in California, New York, New Mexico, Montana, Arizona, and Washington State are now eligible to participate on Bittrex, as well as corporate investors in Pennsylvania.
ADA and ZEC are ranked 8th and 20th, respectively, in the AltDex 100 Index (ALT100), a benchmark index for large-cap cryptocurrencies and tokens.
https://cryptoangel.space/bittrex-plans-to-launch-usd-pairs-for-cardano-and-zcash/
According to the brief Twitter announcement, Bittrex reveals that it will be adding direct fiat support for ADA and ZEC starting on September 5.
The news comes a week after the exchange announced that it would be rolling out USD trading pairs for XRP and Ethereum Classic (ETC) for eligible personal and corporate accounts.
Bittrex originally added USD fiat trading for bitcoin (BTC), as well as for stablecoins Tether (USDT) and TrueUSD (TUSD). Additionally, corporate and personal investors outside of the United States or in California, New York, New Mexico, Montana, Arizona, and Washington State are now eligible to participate on Bittrex, as well as corporate investors in Pennsylvania.
ADA and ZEC are ranked 8th and 20th, respectively, in the AltDex 100 Index (ALT100), a benchmark index for large-cap cryptocurrencies and tokens.
https://cryptoangel.space/bittrex-plans-to-launch-usd-pairs-for-cardano-and-zcash/
Crypto Angel Space
Bittrex plans to launch USD pairs for Cardano and Zcash ⋆ Crypto Angel Space
The two altcoins will be added with direct fiat support starting September 5. Bittrex, the thirty-sixth largest crypto exchange…
You can now buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin on Yahoo Finance.
THE VIRUS IS SPREADING
🗣Anthony Pompliano, Founder and Partner at Morgan Creek Digital.
THE VIRUS IS SPREADING
🗣Anthony Pompliano, Founder and Partner at Morgan Creek Digital.
👏A meeting of the EU Ministers of Economy will be held in Vienna on September 7.
Officials will discuss the growing popularity of the cryptocurrencies and needed regulations for this industry.
It is reported that the main topics at the summit will be insufficient transparency and the possibility of using digital assets for criminal purposes, including money laundering, tax evasion and the financing of terrorism.
The ministers will discuss possible tightening of the rules to counter such use of the cryptocurrency.
Earlier the European Parliament approved a package of new measures to combat money laundering in the countries of the European Union, among which officials intend to strengthen control over bitcoin and other virtual currencies.
Exchange platforms, virtual wallets and banking institutions are required to verify the identity of customers and the origin of funds.
Officials will discuss the growing popularity of the cryptocurrencies and needed regulations for this industry.
It is reported that the main topics at the summit will be insufficient transparency and the possibility of using digital assets for criminal purposes, including money laundering, tax evasion and the financing of terrorism.
The ministers will discuss possible tightening of the rules to counter such use of the cryptocurrency.
Earlier the European Parliament approved a package of new measures to combat money laundering in the countries of the European Union, among which officials intend to strengthen control over bitcoin and other virtual currencies.
Exchange platforms, virtual wallets and banking institutions are required to verify the identity of customers and the origin of funds.
⛏⛓BTC.com launches mining pools for the production of Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.
Users of the web portal pool.btc.com will not only be able to mine these cryptocurrencies, but also switch their computing power from the Ethereum pool to the Ethereum Classic pool, depending on the mood in the market.
The production will take place with the help of the GPU.
We expect that within the next 12 months our mining pool will monitor 12% of the Ethereum network, said Zhuang Zhong.
Last year BTC.com produced 21% of all blocks of bitcoin. At the moment, according to blockchain.com, the mining pool owns 17.3% of the network's first hash of bitcoin.
Users of the web portal pool.btc.com will not only be able to mine these cryptocurrencies, but also switch their computing power from the Ethereum pool to the Ethereum Classic pool, depending on the mood in the market.
The production will take place with the help of the GPU.
We expect that within the next 12 months our mining pool will monitor 12% of the Ethereum network, said Zhuang Zhong.
Last year BTC.com produced 21% of all blocks of bitcoin. At the moment, according to blockchain.com, the mining pool owns 17.3% of the network's first hash of bitcoin.
🏦The Central Bank of India has published an annual report, a separate section of which is devoted to cryptocurrencies. RBI noted the existence of risks associated with cryptocurrencies, and also added that some of the currency trading can soon be switched to peer-to-peer mode.
Representatives of the central bank noted that the ecosystem can affect traditional payment and settlement systems, which, in turn, can affect monetary policy.
The report also paid attention to the April’s ban on the use of cryptocurrency by financial institutions.
Development in this direction needs to be monitored, as some can switch from trading on exchanges to P2P mode, which will result in increased use of cash. The possibility of migration of currency to shadow pools, cash settlements and offshore should be carefully monitored.
It is noteworthy that along with the central banks of many countries, RBI is also exploring the possibility of creating its own digital currency.
Earlier this week it became known that RBI formed a division to study new technologies, including blockchain, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence.
Representatives of the central bank noted that the ecosystem can affect traditional payment and settlement systems, which, in turn, can affect monetary policy.
The report also paid attention to the April’s ban on the use of cryptocurrency by financial institutions.
Development in this direction needs to be monitored, as some can switch from trading on exchanges to P2P mode, which will result in increased use of cash. The possibility of migration of currency to shadow pools, cash settlements and offshore should be carefully monitored.
It is noteworthy that along with the central banks of many countries, RBI is also exploring the possibility of creating its own digital currency.
Earlier this week it became known that RBI formed a division to study new technologies, including blockchain, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence.
CRYPTOCARZ IS THE WORLD'S FIRST BLOCKCHAIN-ENABLED VR RACING EXPERIENCE
CRYPTOCARZ IS A MULTIPLAYER, VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)-ENABLED RACING EXPERIENCE, DEVELOPED USING THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN.
To play, users will have to load the car assets into the game from an Ethereum wallet, where they are stored as an ERC721 token. The ERC721 token has paved the way for a new class of digital assets called non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These allow users to own, customise and maintain control in the
same way as in the physical world.
Blockchain Studios contends that this new asset class opens up new opportunities for user engagement and ownership. We believe that the first wave of innovation will come from gaming. CryptoCarz is the first platform to bring together blockchain, VR and gaming technologies. By giving gamers new options to visualise, own, adapt and race their own car, we think a new era in gaming has arrived.
WE BELIEVE GAMING IT WILL BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RISE – AND INTEGRATION – OF THREE TECHNOLOGIES: BLOCKCHAIN, E-SPORTS AND VR.
Each of them, independently, represents a paradigm shift for game development and consumption. Their attributes will make technology more individual, inclusive and immersive. The combination of these technologies will give rise to new scenarios, where gamers can own, modify, trade and play in an unprecedented way
THE CONCEPT
Cars, gaming and cryptocurrency are shared passions at Blockchain Studios, so combining them was a natural choice when we started working on CryptoCarz. We see strong synergies between the cryptocurrency community and gamers and we believe there is a market for a game that blends racing, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. CryptoCarz is a multiplayer, fully immersive, VR-enabled racing experience, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. To race in the game, a user will have to demonstrate ownership of a car that is modelled and stored as an ERC721 Ethereum token in the gamer’s private wallet. The car will then be loaded into the game via integration with MetaMask and other proprietary tools
The game will initially offer 20 car models representative of the top cryptocurrencies. Each model will have a maximum of 650 units, hard-coded and numerically defined in the smart contract.No further cars in these models will be produced in the future.
Links:
Telegram Group: https://t.me/cryptocarz
Website: www.cryptocarz.io
Whitepaper: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_WP.pdf
One pager: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_1P.pdf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptocarz
Medium blog: https://medium.com/@cryptocarz
CRYPTOCARZ IS A MULTIPLAYER, VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)-ENABLED RACING EXPERIENCE, DEVELOPED USING THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN.
To play, users will have to load the car assets into the game from an Ethereum wallet, where they are stored as an ERC721 token. The ERC721 token has paved the way for a new class of digital assets called non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These allow users to own, customise and maintain control in the
same way as in the physical world.
Blockchain Studios contends that this new asset class opens up new opportunities for user engagement and ownership. We believe that the first wave of innovation will come from gaming. CryptoCarz is the first platform to bring together blockchain, VR and gaming technologies. By giving gamers new options to visualise, own, adapt and race their own car, we think a new era in gaming has arrived.
WE BELIEVE GAMING IT WILL BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RISE – AND INTEGRATION – OF THREE TECHNOLOGIES: BLOCKCHAIN, E-SPORTS AND VR.
Each of them, independently, represents a paradigm shift for game development and consumption. Their attributes will make technology more individual, inclusive and immersive. The combination of these technologies will give rise to new scenarios, where gamers can own, modify, trade and play in an unprecedented way
THE CONCEPT
Cars, gaming and cryptocurrency are shared passions at Blockchain Studios, so combining them was a natural choice when we started working on CryptoCarz. We see strong synergies between the cryptocurrency community and gamers and we believe there is a market for a game that blends racing, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. CryptoCarz is a multiplayer, fully immersive, VR-enabled racing experience, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. To race in the game, a user will have to demonstrate ownership of a car that is modelled and stored as an ERC721 Ethereum token in the gamer’s private wallet. The car will then be loaded into the game via integration with MetaMask and other proprietary tools
The game will initially offer 20 car models representative of the top cryptocurrencies. Each model will have a maximum of 650 units, hard-coded and numerically defined in the smart contract.No further cars in these models will be produced in the future.
Links:
Telegram Group: https://t.me/cryptocarz
Website: www.cryptocarz.io
Whitepaper: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_WP.pdf
One pager: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_1P.pdf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptocarz
Medium blog: https://medium.com/@cryptocarz
Chinese ecozone clamps down crypto promotional events
The Guangzhou Development District, an exclusive economic zone in China's Guangzhou district has ordered a clampdown on cryptocurrency promotional events following an earlier move by the capital Beijing, reports The Star Online. According to the report, the ecozone – established in the 1980s as one of the first special economic zones in the country – said the crackdown was to maintain “the security and stability of the financial system” as it imposed all activities that promote digital currency within the zone.
“The moves – both restricted to the districts in question – are the latest examples of China’s intensifying crackdown on cryptocurrencies, which began last September with bans on crypto exchanges and initial coin offerings,” the South China Morning Post reported. It added, "ICOs are unregulated crowdfunding methods involving cryptocurrencies. Despite central government initiatives on adopting blockchain, the underlying technology behind these virtual currencies, Beijing has made it clear it does not want retail investors putting their money into cryptocurrencies amid fears of financial chaos.”
Guangzhou’s decision came after central district of Chaoyang in the Chinese capital of Beijing issued a notice on August 17 informing shopping malls, hotels, shopping malls, and office buildings in the area not to host events related to cryptocurrency. The notice was issued after an offshore digital currency exchange operator held an event in the capital a week earlier. The twin moves of Beijing and Guangzhou highlighted China’s seriousness in intensifying its crackdown against virtual currencies after the communist nation banned initial coin offerings and exchanges in September last year.
However, the government is banning cryptocurrency trading while its central authority is promoting blockchain and fintech to raise consumption and adoption in the real economy. Early this month, the Chinese National Development Commission (NDC) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued a joint release to unveil the nation’s. Three-Year Action Plan to Expand and Upgrade Information Consumption (2018-2020) that touches on the application of information technology (IT) in the real economy
The action plan also calls for the promotion of financial technology (fintech), blockchain algorithms, and other businesses that signaled the government’s seriousness in using blockchain and IT as a tool instead of a distinct economic sector.
The Guangzhou Development District, an exclusive economic zone in China's Guangzhou district has ordered a clampdown on cryptocurrency promotional events following an earlier move by the capital Beijing, reports The Star Online. According to the report, the ecozone – established in the 1980s as one of the first special economic zones in the country – said the crackdown was to maintain “the security and stability of the financial system” as it imposed all activities that promote digital currency within the zone.
“The moves – both restricted to the districts in question – are the latest examples of China’s intensifying crackdown on cryptocurrencies, which began last September with bans on crypto exchanges and initial coin offerings,” the South China Morning Post reported. It added, "ICOs are unregulated crowdfunding methods involving cryptocurrencies. Despite central government initiatives on adopting blockchain, the underlying technology behind these virtual currencies, Beijing has made it clear it does not want retail investors putting their money into cryptocurrencies amid fears of financial chaos.”
Guangzhou’s decision came after central district of Chaoyang in the Chinese capital of Beijing issued a notice on August 17 informing shopping malls, hotels, shopping malls, and office buildings in the area not to host events related to cryptocurrency. The notice was issued after an offshore digital currency exchange operator held an event in the capital a week earlier. The twin moves of Beijing and Guangzhou highlighted China’s seriousness in intensifying its crackdown against virtual currencies after the communist nation banned initial coin offerings and exchanges in September last year.
However, the government is banning cryptocurrency trading while its central authority is promoting blockchain and fintech to raise consumption and adoption in the real economy. Early this month, the Chinese National Development Commission (NDC) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued a joint release to unveil the nation’s. Three-Year Action Plan to Expand and Upgrade Information Consumption (2018-2020) that touches on the application of information technology (IT) in the real economy
The action plan also calls for the promotion of financial technology (fintech), blockchain algorithms, and other businesses that signaled the government’s seriousness in using blockchain and IT as a tool instead of a distinct economic sector.
Yahoo Finance has integrated trading with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin on its platform.
Crypto exchange Huobi has completed an acquisition deal to become the largest shareholder of a public firm listed in Hong Kong, inching a step closer to a possible back-door listing.
Pantronics Holdings, the acquired firm, released a statement on Aug. 29 that Huobi Group completed the deal by having purchased about 199 million of its shares via two of the group’s subsidiaries – Huobi Capital and Huobi Universal.
With that amount, Li Lin, chairman of Huobi Group and controller of the two subsidiaries, now owns 66.26 percent of Pantronics and is effectively the largest individual substantial shareholder.
The deal could further give Huobi the opportunity of a back-door listing in the future – a process where a private firm enters the secondary financial market by purchasing a major number of shares of a public company.
Based on the announcement, the transactions were made at an average price of HK$2.72 (or $0.35) per share with a total amount close to $70 million. Yet, the number of shares acquired appears to fall short of what the exchange intended.
As CoinDesk previously reported, in a disclosure of interests filed by Pantronics on Aug. 21, Huobi was seeking to purchase 73.73% of the firm’s ordinary shares which would have cost a total of $77 million. Pantronics’ shareholding disclosures were further amended on Aug. 28 to reflect the change.
A spokesperson for Huobi Group declined to comment on the issue and said the firm is not authorized to disclose information other than what was in the announcement.
Further, the latest document on Wednesday offered a peek into Huobi’s corporate structure such as the ownership percentage by notable investors of Huobi including Sequoia Capital and Zhenfund.
Based on the document, while Huobi Capital is fully owned by Li himself, Huobi Universal’s largest owners include Techwealth (58.44 percent), Sequoia Capital CV IV (23.32 percent) and Zhen Partners Fund I (7.46 percent).
Among them, Techwealth is an investment company, of which Li owns 89.09 percent.
Meanwhile, Sequoia Capital CV IV is a fund that’s solely owned by Sequoia Capital China and Zhen Partners is a venture capital firm launched by Chinese entrepreneur Xu Xiaoping together with Sequoia Capital China.
https://cryptoangel.space/huobi-acquires-public-firm-for-70-million/
Pantronics Holdings, the acquired firm, released a statement on Aug. 29 that Huobi Group completed the deal by having purchased about 199 million of its shares via two of the group’s subsidiaries – Huobi Capital and Huobi Universal.
With that amount, Li Lin, chairman of Huobi Group and controller of the two subsidiaries, now owns 66.26 percent of Pantronics and is effectively the largest individual substantial shareholder.
The deal could further give Huobi the opportunity of a back-door listing in the future – a process where a private firm enters the secondary financial market by purchasing a major number of shares of a public company.
Based on the announcement, the transactions were made at an average price of HK$2.72 (or $0.35) per share with a total amount close to $70 million. Yet, the number of shares acquired appears to fall short of what the exchange intended.
As CoinDesk previously reported, in a disclosure of interests filed by Pantronics on Aug. 21, Huobi was seeking to purchase 73.73% of the firm’s ordinary shares which would have cost a total of $77 million. Pantronics’ shareholding disclosures were further amended on Aug. 28 to reflect the change.
A spokesperson for Huobi Group declined to comment on the issue and said the firm is not authorized to disclose information other than what was in the announcement.
Further, the latest document on Wednesday offered a peek into Huobi’s corporate structure such as the ownership percentage by notable investors of Huobi including Sequoia Capital and Zhenfund.
Based on the document, while Huobi Capital is fully owned by Li himself, Huobi Universal’s largest owners include Techwealth (58.44 percent), Sequoia Capital CV IV (23.32 percent) and Zhen Partners Fund I (7.46 percent).
Among them, Techwealth is an investment company, of which Li owns 89.09 percent.
Meanwhile, Sequoia Capital CV IV is a fund that’s solely owned by Sequoia Capital China and Zhen Partners is a venture capital firm launched by Chinese entrepreneur Xu Xiaoping together with Sequoia Capital China.
https://cryptoangel.space/huobi-acquires-public-firm-for-70-million/
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It is time to get involved and get the control back of the human knowledge.
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Orvium aims to disrupt one of the most lucrative industry world-wide, with profit margins reported to exceed those of companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple, while making science more transparent, universal and open than ever. Orvium creates a unique decentralized platform powered by blockchain, decentralized storage, big data and artificial intelligence to create an unprecedented decentralized solution to process, validate, disseminate and preserve scientific knowledge forever.
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Ethereum's Next Upgrade Could Be the $29 Billion Blockchain's Biggest Test Yet
Hard forks are never easy.
By definition, such system-wide upgrades require every software user to upgrade to new rules near-simultaneously, meaning there's coordination difficulties that need to be overcome to ensure the code continues to operate as designed. Still, in a upcoming October upgrade named Constantinople, ethereum is faced with a perhaps unique challenge — how to find a balance between a web of diverse stakeholders, each battling for different outcomes.
Making matters more complex, there's a hard deadline for the upgrade, currently set for October. Predicted sometime in early 2019, a piece of code known as the difficulty bomb is scheduled enact, thereby making ethereum's blocks steadily less time efficient to mine.
If no action is taken, the difficulty bomb will push ethereum into what is known as the "ice age," a period wherein the difficulty is so high that transactions can no longer be processed, making the blockchain unusable. (The bomb was originally included in the code to encourage the platform to quickly adopt new technology).
Because delaying the difficulty bomb also impacts ether inflation (the time it takes to mine blocks is directly correlated to the quantity of ether distributed on the platform), ethereum is under pressure to upgrade its code before the bomb hits.
But, at present, a path forward remains unclear.
With a total of four ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) currently under discussion, many are arguing that in delaying the difficulty bomb, Constantinope should also reduce the amount of ether that is currently paid out to miners, the entities that run specialty computing hardware to secure transactions.
However, miners are warning that too great a decrease in profits will reduce the security of the network, effectively forcing miners to secure other cryptocurrencies. (Concerns are especially great for GPU miners, which are now currently competing with ASICs, machines specialized for cryptocurrency mining and little else).
While an exact timeline for Constantinople has yet to be finalized, developers are pointing to late October or November as the likely timeline for the upgrade (any later could risk intersecting with the difficulty bomb). As such, in an upcoming meeting on Friday, developers are likely to finalize the EIPs to be included in the upcoming hard fork.
Hard forks are never easy.
By definition, such system-wide upgrades require every software user to upgrade to new rules near-simultaneously, meaning there's coordination difficulties that need to be overcome to ensure the code continues to operate as designed. Still, in a upcoming October upgrade named Constantinople, ethereum is faced with a perhaps unique challenge — how to find a balance between a web of diverse stakeholders, each battling for different outcomes.
Making matters more complex, there's a hard deadline for the upgrade, currently set for October. Predicted sometime in early 2019, a piece of code known as the difficulty bomb is scheduled enact, thereby making ethereum's blocks steadily less time efficient to mine.
If no action is taken, the difficulty bomb will push ethereum into what is known as the "ice age," a period wherein the difficulty is so high that transactions can no longer be processed, making the blockchain unusable. (The bomb was originally included in the code to encourage the platform to quickly adopt new technology).
Because delaying the difficulty bomb also impacts ether inflation (the time it takes to mine blocks is directly correlated to the quantity of ether distributed on the platform), ethereum is under pressure to upgrade its code before the bomb hits.
But, at present, a path forward remains unclear.
With a total of four ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) currently under discussion, many are arguing that in delaying the difficulty bomb, Constantinope should also reduce the amount of ether that is currently paid out to miners, the entities that run specialty computing hardware to secure transactions.
However, miners are warning that too great a decrease in profits will reduce the security of the network, effectively forcing miners to secure other cryptocurrencies. (Concerns are especially great for GPU miners, which are now currently competing with ASICs, machines specialized for cryptocurrency mining and little else).
While an exact timeline for Constantinople has yet to be finalized, developers are pointing to late October or November as the likely timeline for the upgrade (any later could risk intersecting with the difficulty bomb). As such, in an upcoming meeting on Friday, developers are likely to finalize the EIPs to be included in the upcoming hard fork.
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🔷IBM announced the launch of a system for cross-border payments based on the Stellar protocol.
Among the advantages of the platform, IBM calls for transparency of operations, low cost, increased productivity, simplified form of payment for transactions and a high degree of security.
According to IBM, 97% of the world's largest banks, which are part of the company's customer base, can use this system.
IBM announced the launch of the system on the basis of Stellar in October 2017. In May, the head of the blockchain-direction of the corporation Jess Lund expressed his support for the Stellar project. He said that the decentralized platform is a scalable, high-performance open source blockchain and has great flexibility. According to him, these advantages became decisive factors when choosing a partner for the IBM project.
Among the advantages of the platform, IBM calls for transparency of operations, low cost, increased productivity, simplified form of payment for transactions and a high degree of security.
According to IBM, 97% of the world's largest banks, which are part of the company's customer base, can use this system.
IBM announced the launch of the system on the basis of Stellar in October 2017. In May, the head of the blockchain-direction of the corporation Jess Lund expressed his support for the Stellar project. He said that the decentralized platform is a scalable, high-performance open source blockchain and has great flexibility. According to him, these advantages became decisive factors when choosing a partner for the IBM project.
✔️In the first quarter of 2018, Binance received $200 million in profit.
💡To compare Nasdaq earned almost the same - $209 million, while the number of Binance employees is only 4% of the stock exchange staff.
Also Binance's profit of $50 million exceeded the profit of Deutsche Bank.
The number of employees of the largest bank in Germany is 100 thousand people, and it was founded in 1870, while crypto exchange is only 8 months old and employs 200 people to bypass the profits of financial market giants with thousands of employees and many years of experience.
💡To compare Nasdaq earned almost the same - $209 million, while the number of Binance employees is only 4% of the stock exchange staff.
Also Binance's profit of $50 million exceeded the profit of Deutsche Bank.
The number of employees of the largest bank in Germany is 100 thousand people, and it was founded in 1870, while crypto exchange is only 8 months old and employs 200 people to bypass the profits of financial market giants with thousands of employees and many years of experience.
OEL Foundation
The supply chain industry generates over 13% of global GDP and is the lifeblood of the global economy. Innovations in this industry drive savings to every business and consumer on the planet.
Trillions of dollars are spent every year transporting everything from raw materials to finished goods, and every year billions in value is lost due to delays and disputes, driving up transport costs and slowing the cash flow cycle. The largest brands in the world lose 1% of revenue they can never invoice without proof of delivery to retailers, and transporters wait weeks to be paid.
The industry is ready to move to a blockchain-based platform that provides real transparency and proof of activity. This will allow every participant to invoice and be paid faster, grow their business, improve service and lower costs.
The Open Enterprise Logistics (OEL) Foundation and Alliance has been established to provide a standard Enterprise Architecture for all supply participants to build logistics dApps and blockchain-enable their technology.
Early adopters have already achieved real-world success, with Alliance member OpenPort becoming the first in the world to sell a blockchain-powered transport invoice on the AssetChain marketplace. https://bit.ly/2GqoBHD
OEL Alliance members are acting now to remove the paper trail, create trust and liquidity, and bypass intermediaries.
Members – from the largest shippers to the smallest transporters – will use the OPN (“open”) token to fuel the ecosystem behind one of the largest industries in the world. The TGE for OPN is a chance be part of an enterprise project that will change how goods and payments flow through the supply chain.
Website: https://oel.foundation/
Telegram: https://t.me/OELFoundation
ANN thread: https://bit.ly/2l986r8
The supply chain industry generates over 13% of global GDP and is the lifeblood of the global economy. Innovations in this industry drive savings to every business and consumer on the planet.
Trillions of dollars are spent every year transporting everything from raw materials to finished goods, and every year billions in value is lost due to delays and disputes, driving up transport costs and slowing the cash flow cycle. The largest brands in the world lose 1% of revenue they can never invoice without proof of delivery to retailers, and transporters wait weeks to be paid.
The industry is ready to move to a blockchain-based platform that provides real transparency and proof of activity. This will allow every participant to invoice and be paid faster, grow their business, improve service and lower costs.
The Open Enterprise Logistics (OEL) Foundation and Alliance has been established to provide a standard Enterprise Architecture for all supply participants to build logistics dApps and blockchain-enable their technology.
Early adopters have already achieved real-world success, with Alliance member OpenPort becoming the first in the world to sell a blockchain-powered transport invoice on the AssetChain marketplace. https://bit.ly/2GqoBHD
OEL Alliance members are acting now to remove the paper trail, create trust and liquidity, and bypass intermediaries.
Members – from the largest shippers to the smallest transporters – will use the OPN (“open”) token to fuel the ecosystem behind one of the largest industries in the world. The TGE for OPN is a chance be part of an enterprise project that will change how goods and payments flow through the supply chain.
Website: https://oel.foundation/
Telegram: https://t.me/OELFoundation
ANN thread: https://bit.ly/2l986r8
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Acudeen Facilitates the First Blockchain-Enabled Invoice Factoring Transaction in the Philippines with OpenPort
Following last week’s exciting news of a partnership between Acudeen Technologies and OpenPort, The Acudeen Team is proud to announce that…
🤝Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten seeks to acquire Everybody's Bitcoin exchange for 265 million yen or $2.4 million.
Rakuten intends to improve the internal exchange systems and comply with all regulator requirements so that the Everybody's Bitcoin trading platform operates within the legal framework.
🗣The official statement:We believe that in future the role of cryptocurrency payments in e-commerce, offline retail and P2P transfers will only increase. To be able to carry out unimpeded transactions with digital currencies, we need to add functionality to the crypto exchange.
The decision to purchase Everybody's Bitcoin was also influenced by numerous requests from customers of another branch of the corporation, brokerage firm Rakuten Securities, which expressed its desire to carry out cryptocurrency transactions.
At the moment, the platform does not have an official permit for crypto activities from the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA).
Rakuten intends to improve the internal exchange systems and comply with all regulator requirements so that the Everybody's Bitcoin trading platform operates within the legal framework.
🗣The official statement:We believe that in future the role of cryptocurrency payments in e-commerce, offline retail and P2P transfers will only increase. To be able to carry out unimpeded transactions with digital currencies, we need to add functionality to the crypto exchange.
The decision to purchase Everybody's Bitcoin was also influenced by numerous requests from customers of another branch of the corporation, brokerage firm Rakuten Securities, which expressed its desire to carry out cryptocurrency transactions.
At the moment, the platform does not have an official permit for crypto activities from the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA).
