Traditional” venture capital (VC) investment in blockchain and crypto firms has almost tripled in the first three quarters of 2018, according to a new Diar report published September 30.
Diar cites data from Pitchbook that indicates that blockchain and crypto-related firms have raised almost $3.9 billion in VC capital in so far this year — a 280 percent rise as compared with last year. The rise comes not just in terms of an increasing number of deals, but also in the burgeoning median value of each, which has grown by over $1 million this year.
Diar cites data from Pitchbook that indicates that blockchain and crypto-related firms have raised almost $3.9 billion in VC capital in so far this year — a 280 percent rise as compared with last year. The rise comes not just in terms of an increasing number of deals, but also in the burgeoning median value of each, which has grown by over $1 million this year.
💦 ZERO CARBON - TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE USING BLOCKCHAIN
The Zero Carbon Project is tackling climate change using the blockchain and international carbon credits.
Renewable energy has responded well to the climate change challenge, with impressive cost reductions achieved. However, we are concerned that renewables remain too expensive and so the impact on carbon emissions is slow.
Innovative solution
The Zero Carbon Project has 2 parts:
1. deliver energy at a lower price than existing renewable and fossil fuel energy contracts; and
2. to entice people to use the Zero Carbon Project, provide a blockchain-driven incentive scheme to reward consumers for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project and encourage consumer action.
The first part of our solution consists of a competitive ‘Zero Carbon Market’ which provides consumers access to cheaper energy contracts where the carbon emissions have been offset by international carbon credits.
Secondly, our blockchain economy is based on Energis tokens that have been designed to capture the future value that customers receive form our Market. This is enabled using the distributed ledger, Ethereum smart contracts and crypto exchanges.
Energis tokens are underpinned by concrete value as energy suppliers must use them to pay their transaction fees for using our Market. Therefore, as our consumer base grows, the demand for Energis tokens increases, constrained by a fixed supply.
We intend that up to 70% of the transaction fees received by the Zero Carbon Project will be ‘recycled’ and provided to consumers as rewards for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project. Energy suppliers and consumers (“Customers”) can sell Energis tokens to other customers, including energy suppliers who purchase them to pay transaction fees. This is the Energis economic cycle.
Progress achieved to date
We have been actively building the Zero Carbon Market over the last year. This includes building the Project team, completing the systems, designing the Energis smart contracts and registering energy suppliers in the UK. Our UK Market is now complete and ready for launch in October 2018. This will be followed by a global roll out in 2019.
Track-record of innovation and execution
The Zero Carbon Project is a subsidiary of Beond www.beondgroup.com which is an award-winning energy and carbon consultancy based in London. Beond is a team of 30 energy market professionals who are passionate about helping clients achieve their ambitions and also about tackling global climate change, through the application of new technologies. Our core values are integrity, innovation and quality.
Beond services over 600 energy consumers in UK including Knight Frank, Capita, The Salvation Army and Salford County Council, and has received eight awards over the last three years covering innovation, green business and consultancy services.
Website: https://www.zerocarbonproject.com/
Telegram Group: https://t.me/ZeroCarbonProject
The Zero Carbon Project is tackling climate change using the blockchain and international carbon credits.
Renewable energy has responded well to the climate change challenge, with impressive cost reductions achieved. However, we are concerned that renewables remain too expensive and so the impact on carbon emissions is slow.
Innovative solution
The Zero Carbon Project has 2 parts:
1. deliver energy at a lower price than existing renewable and fossil fuel energy contracts; and
2. to entice people to use the Zero Carbon Project, provide a blockchain-driven incentive scheme to reward consumers for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project and encourage consumer action.
The first part of our solution consists of a competitive ‘Zero Carbon Market’ which provides consumers access to cheaper energy contracts where the carbon emissions have been offset by international carbon credits.
Secondly, our blockchain economy is based on Energis tokens that have been designed to capture the future value that customers receive form our Market. This is enabled using the distributed ledger, Ethereum smart contracts and crypto exchanges.
Energis tokens are underpinned by concrete value as energy suppliers must use them to pay their transaction fees for using our Market. Therefore, as our consumer base grows, the demand for Energis tokens increases, constrained by a fixed supply.
We intend that up to 70% of the transaction fees received by the Zero Carbon Project will be ‘recycled’ and provided to consumers as rewards for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project. Energy suppliers and consumers (“Customers”) can sell Energis tokens to other customers, including energy suppliers who purchase them to pay transaction fees. This is the Energis economic cycle.
Progress achieved to date
We have been actively building the Zero Carbon Market over the last year. This includes building the Project team, completing the systems, designing the Energis smart contracts and registering energy suppliers in the UK. Our UK Market is now complete and ready for launch in October 2018. This will be followed by a global roll out in 2019.
Track-record of innovation and execution
The Zero Carbon Project is a subsidiary of Beond www.beondgroup.com which is an award-winning energy and carbon consultancy based in London. Beond is a team of 30 energy market professionals who are passionate about helping clients achieve their ambitions and also about tackling global climate change, through the application of new technologies. Our core values are integrity, innovation and quality.
Beond services over 600 energy consumers in UK including Knight Frank, Capita, The Salvation Army and Salford County Council, and has received eight awards over the last three years covering innovation, green business and consultancy services.
Website: https://www.zerocarbonproject.com/
Telegram Group: https://t.me/ZeroCarbonProject
✅ TRON launches project Atlas to bring BitTorrent users into its blockchain
TRON is aiming to bring blockchain and file sharing together with their latest venture, Project Atlas, which will blend blockchain technology with BitTorrent’s massive peer-to-peer infrastructure.
TRON acquired BitTorrent in July 2018, along with its 100 million active monthly users. BitTorrent is an established peer-to-peer network with a developed and tested infrastructure, but only time will tell how well the collaboration will work.
It’s an intriguing move, but what does it mean? Peer-to-peer file sharing has always been a popular way of exchanging information and media online, with around 27 million people using it to share or download files every day.
It’s clearly an important space and dates back to the early days of the internet. File sharing advocates are quick to call attention to its value in promoting democracy, openness, and the free exchange of ideas. Its detractors, of course, will point to the misuse of file sharing and torrenting platforms by pirates and criminals.
TRON is aiming to bring blockchain and file sharing together with their latest venture, Project Atlas, which will blend blockchain technology with BitTorrent’s massive peer-to-peer infrastructure.
TRON acquired BitTorrent in July 2018, along with its 100 million active monthly users. BitTorrent is an established peer-to-peer network with a developed and tested infrastructure, but only time will tell how well the collaboration will work.
It’s an intriguing move, but what does it mean? Peer-to-peer file sharing has always been a popular way of exchanging information and media online, with around 27 million people using it to share or download files every day.
It’s clearly an important space and dates back to the early days of the internet. File sharing advocates are quick to call attention to its value in promoting democracy, openness, and the free exchange of ideas. Its detractors, of course, will point to the misuse of file sharing and torrenting platforms by pirates and criminals.
🔊Bitmain has acquired a Telescope startup that has created a Bitcoin Cash wallet.
BCH-wallet was first introduced this year. Telescope is currently available in the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. In the future, the company intends to expand the list of supported browsers.
The wallet is supported by BitPay and moneybutton.com. Cryptographic keys are stored in the browser extension and are signed on the user side. According to representatives of the project, this approach provides a high level of security.
As it is stated by the representatives, Telescope brings a “simple but key innovation” to the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem.
Bitmain owns approximately 6% of the total Bitcoin Cash. The investment policy of the Chinese giant is perceived in the crypto community ambiguously. So, in August it became known that because of the large share of BCH in the company's portfolio and the deep drawdown of the price of this asset, Bitmain suffered significant losses.
BCH-wallet was first introduced this year. Telescope is currently available in the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. In the future, the company intends to expand the list of supported browsers.
The wallet is supported by BitPay and moneybutton.com. Cryptographic keys are stored in the browser extension and are signed on the user side. According to representatives of the project, this approach provides a high level of security.
As it is stated by the representatives, Telescope brings a “simple but key innovation” to the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem.
Bitmain owns approximately 6% of the total Bitcoin Cash. The investment policy of the Chinese giant is perceived in the crypto community ambiguously. So, in August it became known that because of the large share of BCH in the company's portfolio and the deep drawdown of the price of this asset, Bitmain suffered significant losses.
👾The recently fixed CVE-2018-1744 bug in bitcoin’s network was used to issue 235 million Pigeoncoin (PGN) coins.
The coins put into the market make up almost a quarter of the PGN market offer, which currently holds 1,446 place in the Coinmarketcap rating. The coin is represented on the little-known exchange CryptoBridge, which, at the time of the elimination of the bug, suspended the trade of this coin.
Thus, the threat that the bug carried in itself for two years turned out to be quite real. As the Bitcoin Core developers note, the exploitation of the vulnerability allowed an attacker to disrupt almost 90% of the first cryptocurrency network nodes.
The bug appeared in the Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0, which was released in November 2016, and affected all subsequent versions up to 0.16.2. Its operation made it possible to disrupt the network when trying to validate a block containing a transaction that tries to spend the same input twice. Such a block would be invalid and could only be created by miners who are ready to refuse the loss of a 12.5 BTC reward, over $ 80,000.
Another confirmation of the threat posed by CVE-2018-1744 is the fact that last week an unknown person performed a double write-off operation of 0.1 BTC in a bitcoin test network. According to experts, one of the network members did not update the software and this led to the appearance of two versions of the testnet on block No. 1414411.
In the updated test network, the block with the same number contained 195 transactions and was produced an hour later. The main Bitcoin network was not affected.
The coins put into the market make up almost a quarter of the PGN market offer, which currently holds 1,446 place in the Coinmarketcap rating. The coin is represented on the little-known exchange CryptoBridge, which, at the time of the elimination of the bug, suspended the trade of this coin.
Thus, the threat that the bug carried in itself for two years turned out to be quite real. As the Bitcoin Core developers note, the exploitation of the vulnerability allowed an attacker to disrupt almost 90% of the first cryptocurrency network nodes.
The bug appeared in the Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0, which was released in November 2016, and affected all subsequent versions up to 0.16.2. Its operation made it possible to disrupt the network when trying to validate a block containing a transaction that tries to spend the same input twice. Such a block would be invalid and could only be created by miners who are ready to refuse the loss of a 12.5 BTC reward, over $ 80,000.
Another confirmation of the threat posed by CVE-2018-1744 is the fact that last week an unknown person performed a double write-off operation of 0.1 BTC in a bitcoin test network. According to experts, one of the network members did not update the software and this led to the appearance of two versions of the testnet on block No. 1414411.
In the updated test network, the block with the same number contained 195 transactions and was produced an hour later. The main Bitcoin network was not affected.
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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.
Join us and be part of this exciting journey:
https://t.me/orvium
https://orvium.io
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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Stock brokerage giant TD Ameritrade bets on a new cryptocurrency exchange
The U.S. brokerage firm announced a strategic investment in an exchange called ErisX, which offers both bitcoin spot and futures trading.
“We wanted to find a platform that would be fully regulated, and something that has that capital markets feel,” says JB Mackenzie, head of futures and foreign exchange trading at TD Ameritrade.
The U.S. brokerage firm announced a strategic investment in an exchange called ErisX, which offers both bitcoin spot and futures trading.
“We wanted to find a platform that would be fully regulated, and something that has that capital markets feel,” says JB Mackenzie, head of futures and foreign exchange trading at TD Ameritrade.
Raincheck-Global loyalty & rewards points exchange aggregator on 🚀 Stellar
Want to be able to transfer your existing reward/loyalty points into one digital unit that can be used at any scheme? How about accurately monitoring your points, with the flexibility of transferring them at any time, on a fast and secure network? RAIN Token will give you this power at a fraction of the cost of other providers. Built on the Stellar Blockchain your secure transactions will go through within seconds at the cost of one cent per 100,000 transactions, whereas Ethereum based projects still cost around $0.20-1.45 per transaction. RAIN Token is the seamless and inexpensive experience you’ve been waiting for.
Built by a team with diverse backgrounds in full stack software development, data/cyber security, global payments, retail, travel, finance and investment; Our two founders pioneered the internet in the early 90’s, founding several tech startups and have a combined 50+ years experience in the ICT sector. The RAIN Token team recognises the faults in current loyalty/rewards schemes and with their wealth of knowledge, and experience, have created a solution.
Plus, unlike some exchanges, RAIN Token has your back if you get stuck. A dedicated customer service team is available 24/7. No more submitting a support ticket and waiting 2 weeks to get an automated response.
The RAIN Token is all about simplifying the reward/loyalty point systems and giving power back to the consumer, allowing them to attain the best value - Creating opportunities for retailers, and customer, alike. Get in on this awesome project before it takes off.
https://raintoken.org/
https://t.me/getraincheck
Want to be able to transfer your existing reward/loyalty points into one digital unit that can be used at any scheme? How about accurately monitoring your points, with the flexibility of transferring them at any time, on a fast and secure network? RAIN Token will give you this power at a fraction of the cost of other providers. Built on the Stellar Blockchain your secure transactions will go through within seconds at the cost of one cent per 100,000 transactions, whereas Ethereum based projects still cost around $0.20-1.45 per transaction. RAIN Token is the seamless and inexpensive experience you’ve been waiting for.
Built by a team with diverse backgrounds in full stack software development, data/cyber security, global payments, retail, travel, finance and investment; Our two founders pioneered the internet in the early 90’s, founding several tech startups and have a combined 50+ years experience in the ICT sector. The RAIN Token team recognises the faults in current loyalty/rewards schemes and with their wealth of knowledge, and experience, have created a solution.
Plus, unlike some exchanges, RAIN Token has your back if you get stuck. A dedicated customer service team is available 24/7. No more submitting a support ticket and waiting 2 weeks to get an automated response.
The RAIN Token is all about simplifying the reward/loyalty point systems and giving power back to the consumer, allowing them to attain the best value - Creating opportunities for retailers, and customer, alike. Get in on this awesome project before it takes off.
https://raintoken.org/
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💫Acinq startup, the developer of Lightning Network solutions, which was founded several years ago, raised $1.7 million during a round of financing led by Serena Capital.
One of the most popular Acinq solutions is the Eclair Wallet, it supports the Lightning Network protocol.
The investments will be used to create more advanced services based on LN, as it was stated by the representatives of the company.
The funds raised will also allow Acinq to hire 3-4 highly specialized developers. In addition, the startup intends to actively cooperate with other companies on the development of standards for the LN protocol.
Acinq team efforts will also be focused on creating mobile and desktop LN wallets, as well as on the recently introduced API called Strike.
One of the most popular Acinq solutions is the Eclair Wallet, it supports the Lightning Network protocol.
The investments will be used to create more advanced services based on LN, as it was stated by the representatives of the company.
The funds raised will also allow Acinq to hire 3-4 highly specialized developers. In addition, the startup intends to actively cooperate with other companies on the development of standards for the LN protocol.
Acinq team efforts will also be focused on creating mobile and desktop LN wallets, as well as on the recently introduced API called Strike.
🙌Several Japanese banks started to use MoneyTap mobile payment application.
Ripple and the Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings are working on its creation and implementation.
The payments do not require commissions and are made in Japanese yen or foreign currencies.
On the website it is stated that the application allows real-time interbank payments using xCurrent technology, which does not involve the XRP token.
The application is available for devices running Android and iOS. When sending funds, MoneyTap uses the phone numbers or QR codes of the recipients. The application is also supported by devices equipped with a fingerprint scanner.
In September, SBI Ripple Asia announced registration with the Ministry of Finance of the country and obtained the status of a licensed agent of electronic payments.
Ripple and the Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings are working on its creation and implementation.
The payments do not require commissions and are made in Japanese yen or foreign currencies.
On the website it is stated that the application allows real-time interbank payments using xCurrent technology, which does not involve the XRP token.
The application is available for devices running Android and iOS. When sending funds, MoneyTap uses the phone numbers or QR codes of the recipients. The application is also supported by devices equipped with a fingerprint scanner.
In September, SBI Ripple Asia announced registration with the Ministry of Finance of the country and obtained the status of a licensed agent of electronic payments.
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.
Join us and be part of this exciting journey:
https://t.me/orvium
https://orvium.io
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:
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https://orvium.io
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The cheapest way to do trustworthy hardware today depends on relative anonymity in the purchasing process, and the assumption that hardware isn’t by default backdoored — only targets get backdoors applied. This was true at one point for hardware, probably won’t be in 2030.
🗣Ryan Lackey, an entrepreneur and computer security professional. He was a co-founder of HavenCo, the world's first data haven.
🗣Ryan Lackey, an entrepreneur and computer security professional. He was a co-founder of HavenCo, the world's first data haven.
✅DECENT blockchain company has developed a cryptocurrency web wallet.
It is based on DCore's own platform, which allows you to create custom tokens and convert coins into euros, dollars and British pounds in real time.
The product also has the ability to print a paper wallet.
Also it is equipped with a new user interface design and numerous functions, including storage of user tokens, instant transfers and simple account creation.
The release took place after the wallet was tested by the DECENT team and tokens of DCT token.
DCore aims to revolutionize the way digital data is exchanged by providing simplified, decentralized and borderless content and data distribution for decentralized applications.
It is based on DCore's own platform, which allows you to create custom tokens and convert coins into euros, dollars and British pounds in real time.
The product also has the ability to print a paper wallet.
Also it is equipped with a new user interface design and numerous functions, including storage of user tokens, instant transfers and simple account creation.
The release took place after the wallet was tested by the DECENT team and tokens of DCT token.
DCore aims to revolutionize the way digital data is exchanged by providing simplified, decentralized and borderless content and data distribution for decentralized applications.
💦 ZERO CARBON - TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE USING BLOCKCHAIN
The Zero Carbon Project is tackling climate change using the blockchain and international carbon credits.
Renewable energy has responded well to the climate change challenge, with impressive cost reductions achieved. However, we are concerned that renewables remain too expensive and so the impact on carbon emissions is slow.
Innovative solution
The Zero Carbon Project has 2 parts:
1. deliver energy at a lower price than existing renewable and fossil fuel energy contracts; and
2. to entice people to use the Zero Carbon Project, provide a blockchain-driven incentive scheme to reward consumers for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project and encourage consumer action.
The first part of our solution consists of a competitive ‘Zero Carbon Market’ which provides consumers access to cheaper energy contracts where the carbon emissions have been offset by international carbon credits.
Secondly, our blockchain economy is based on Energis tokens that have been designed to capture the future value that customers receive form our Market. This is enabled using the distributed ledger, Ethereum smart contracts and crypto exchanges.
Energis tokens are underpinned by concrete value as energy suppliers must use them to pay their transaction fees for using our Market. Therefore, as our consumer base grows, the demand for Energis tokens increases, constrained by a fixed supply.
We intend that up to 70% of the transaction fees received by the Zero Carbon Project will be ‘recycled’ and provided to consumers as rewards for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project. Energy suppliers and consumers (“Customers”) can sell Energis tokens to other customers, including energy suppliers who purchase them to pay transaction fees. This is the Energis economic cycle.
Progress achieved to date
We have been actively building the Zero Carbon Market over the last year. This includes building the Project team, completing the systems, designing the Energis smart contracts and registering energy suppliers in the UK. Our UK Market is now complete and ready for launch in October 2018. This will be followed by a global roll out in 2019.
Track-record of innovation and execution
The Zero Carbon Project is a subsidiary of Beond www.beondgroup.com which is an award-winning energy and carbon consultancy based in London. Beond is a team of 30 energy market professionals who are passionate about helping clients achieve their ambitions and also about tackling global climate change, through the application of new technologies. Our core values are integrity, innovation and quality.
Beond services over 600 energy consumers in UK including Knight Frank, Capita, The Salvation Army and Salford County Council, and has received eight awards over the last three years covering innovation, green business and consultancy services.
Website: https://www.zerocarbonproject.com/
Telegram Group: https://t.me/ZeroCarbonProject
The Zero Carbon Project is tackling climate change using the blockchain and international carbon credits.
Renewable energy has responded well to the climate change challenge, with impressive cost reductions achieved. However, we are concerned that renewables remain too expensive and so the impact on carbon emissions is slow.
Innovative solution
The Zero Carbon Project has 2 parts:
1. deliver energy at a lower price than existing renewable and fossil fuel energy contracts; and
2. to entice people to use the Zero Carbon Project, provide a blockchain-driven incentive scheme to reward consumers for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project and encourage consumer action.
The first part of our solution consists of a competitive ‘Zero Carbon Market’ which provides consumers access to cheaper energy contracts where the carbon emissions have been offset by international carbon credits.
Secondly, our blockchain economy is based on Energis tokens that have been designed to capture the future value that customers receive form our Market. This is enabled using the distributed ledger, Ethereum smart contracts and crypto exchanges.
Energis tokens are underpinned by concrete value as energy suppliers must use them to pay their transaction fees for using our Market. Therefore, as our consumer base grows, the demand for Energis tokens increases, constrained by a fixed supply.
We intend that up to 70% of the transaction fees received by the Zero Carbon Project will be ‘recycled’ and provided to consumers as rewards for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project. Energy suppliers and consumers (“Customers”) can sell Energis tokens to other customers, including energy suppliers who purchase them to pay transaction fees. This is the Energis economic cycle.
Progress achieved to date
We have been actively building the Zero Carbon Market over the last year. This includes building the Project team, completing the systems, designing the Energis smart contracts and registering energy suppliers in the UK. Our UK Market is now complete and ready for launch in October 2018. This will be followed by a global roll out in 2019.
Track-record of innovation and execution
The Zero Carbon Project is a subsidiary of Beond www.beondgroup.com which is an award-winning energy and carbon consultancy based in London. Beond is a team of 30 energy market professionals who are passionate about helping clients achieve their ambitions and also about tackling global climate change, through the application of new technologies. Our core values are integrity, innovation and quality.
Beond services over 600 energy consumers in UK including Knight Frank, Capita, The Salvation Army and Salford County Council, and has received eight awards over the last three years covering innovation, green business and consultancy services.
Website: https://www.zerocarbonproject.com/
Telegram Group: https://t.me/ZeroCarbonProject
🌐The European Organization of Securities and Markets will spend €1 million in 2019 to monitor activity in the field of cryptocurrency and financial technologies.
ESMA will ensure compliance with the requirements set out in the EU Markets and Financial Instruments Directive. This directive imposes a ban on marketing and distribution of CFD among retail investors and other restrictions for this market.
Also ESMA will monitor current trends of fintech and cryptoindustry, identify all sorts of problems and risks associated with financial innovatios, moreover, provide recommendations to market participants.
ESMA will ensure compliance with the requirements set out in the EU Markets and Financial Instruments Directive. This directive imposes a ban on marketing and distribution of CFD among retail investors and other restrictions for this market.
Also ESMA will monitor current trends of fintech and cryptoindustry, identify all sorts of problems and risks associated with financial innovatios, moreover, provide recommendations to market participants.
👋Coinbase’s Head of the institutional platform group Adam White decided to leave the company after managing the business for nearly 6 years, during the times when Bitcoin was trading around $200.
🗣As the representatives of the company stated: While we’re extremely sad to see him go, we’re also confident in that group’s ability to keep executing on the vision that he laid out to be the most trusted venue for institutional investors to trade cryptocurrencies.
White’s departure may have come as a surprise to the company, which has recently been making a lot of efforts to create an infrastructure focused on institutional clients, and is also striving to become the leading trading platform for retail investors.
Also it became known that Jonathan Kellner, the former chief executive officer of Instinet will be covering the same responsibilities, as Mr. White.
🗣CEO Brian Armstrong also added: Over the past five years, Adam helped us build our exchange business into the largest U.S.-based crypto-trading venue, and was integral to growing Coinbase’s global presence and scaling our culture to multiple offices.
🗣As the representatives of the company stated: While we’re extremely sad to see him go, we’re also confident in that group’s ability to keep executing on the vision that he laid out to be the most trusted venue for institutional investors to trade cryptocurrencies.
White’s departure may have come as a surprise to the company, which has recently been making a lot of efforts to create an infrastructure focused on institutional clients, and is also striving to become the leading trading platform for retail investors.
Also it became known that Jonathan Kellner, the former chief executive officer of Instinet will be covering the same responsibilities, as Mr. White.
🗣CEO Brian Armstrong also added: Over the past five years, Adam helped us build our exchange business into the largest U.S.-based crypto-trading venue, and was integral to growing Coinbase’s global presence and scaling our culture to multiple offices.
