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 TrakInvest Whitepaper

The empowerment of individuals through automated systems and social networks is disrupting the traditional retail brokerage and investment management models. The industry has suffered from the loss of customer trust and low levels of retail participation given two key fundamental issues: (i) information asymmetry was driven by the fact that the institutional investor has superior information and analytical tools at their disposal vis-a-vis the average retail investor; therefore the retail investor is typically on the “losing” side of the trade and (ii) inherent conflicts of interest in the traditional financial services model. At its core, The TrakInvest Project is about “Crowdsourcing of Financial Wisdom” and rewarding the participants in its decentralized economy based on performance and insights.

Trakinvest, a virtual social trading platform, currently offers (i) users the ability to share their portfolio data with other members of the network for a monthly subscription (ii) provides “crowdsourced” sentiment, forecasting and prediction tools using innovations in smart contracts, machine learning, NLP and artificial intelligence, and (iii) and digital certification programs in online trading. Users can access and explore the existing platform at www.trakinvest.com.

TrakInvest is best set up to implement this project and already has a strong three-year track record having built up a 100,000+ user base in Asia through its partnerships with corporates, universities, and governments in the region. The Platform will also be introducing (i) a virtual trading platform for cryptocurrencies and (ii) next generation “crowdsourced” sentiment tools for equities and cryptocurrencies. These proprietary tools have been developed using the social trading data and behaviour collected for the last three years. TrakInvest aims to empower the retail investor with all these tools to create a level playing field removing the information asymmetry that has plagued them for so many years.

TrakInvest is poised for strong growth as we look to introduce TRAK Tokens by Q1 2018 to our existing user base, thus providing them with the ability to earn service fees in ETH in exchange for providing their real-time trading data and sentiments through TrakInvest’s web and mobile platforms. Currently, the community continues to provide invaluable trading data, insights, and sentiments through the platform by maintaining a virtual trading portfolio: www.trakinvest.com. At the application level, the token utilities will include: (i) Tokenized data ownership, (ii) Tokenized reputation system, and (iii) Tokenized certifications.

The shift from a centralized technical infrastructure to distributed, ecosystem-enabling platforms is laying the foundations for new business models in investment insights and financial transaction technologies. Identifying the industry shifts, TrakInvest platform is utilizing blockchain technology to create a decentralized peer to peer ecosystem that incentivizes members of the community on performing value added services. The rewards, incentives, and insight tools encourage the full establishment and continuity of the virtual socio-trading environment that rewards for performance and sharing of trading data in a risk free manner.

By leveraging the blockchain technology, TrakInvest aims to increase the scalability of the current platform while enhancing its security and transparency levels. Backed by a powerful tech stack and the strength of Ethereum’s Open community network the ecosystem has a strong technical foot holding.

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 Effect.AI Whitepaper

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The Artificial Intelligence (AI) market is growing at a remarkable rate but has become more inaccessible than ever. The requirement for large annotated datasets and a complex technical infrastructure has driven AI development behind the closed doors of corporations. This paper introduces an open, decentralized network called Effect.AI, that provides services in the AI market. The network replaces several existing services and requires no fees, has a low barrier of entry and provides fast growth of the industry. This is accomplished by three platforms that run on the NEO blockchain and are fueled by a network token called EFX. The first platform is a marketplace for tasks that require human intelligence. It allows anyone in the world to perform tasks for a fair payment and gives businesses access to a large workforce of human intelligence. The second platform is a decentralized registry of AI services described by a rich ontology. On this platform any algorithm can be accessed as a service in a unified manner and has a convenient way to recieve payment. The last platform provides a decentralized, distributed computational platform that can run popular deep learning frameworks. The effect of this network will define the future relationship between humans and AI.

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 HoloChain (HOLO) Whitepaper

HoloChain (HOLO) White Paper
We present a scalable, agent-centric distributed computing platform. We use a formalism to characterize distributed systems, show how it applies to some existing distributed systems, and demonstrate the benefits of shifting from a data-centric to an agent-centric model. We present a detailed formal specification of the Holochain system, along with an analysis of its systemic integrity, capacity for evolution, total system computational complexity, implications for use-cases, and current implementation status.

Holochain, scalable agent-centric distributed computing

We present a scalable, agent-centric distributed computing platform. We use a formalism to characterize distributed systems, show how it applies to some existing distributed systems, and demonstrate the benefits of shifting from a data-centric to an agent-centric model. We present a detailed formal specification of the Holochain system, along with an analysis of its systemic integrity, capacity for evolution, total system computational complexity, implications for use-cases, and current implementation status.

Distributed computing platforms have achieved a new level of viability with the advent of two foundational cryptographic tools: secure hashing algorithms, and public-key encryption. These have provided solutions to key problems in distributed computing: verifiable, tamper-proof data for sharing state across nodes in the distributed system and confirmation of data provenance via digital signature algorithms. The former is achieved by hash-chains, where monotonic data-stores are rendered intrinsically tamper-proof (and thus confidently sharable across nodes) by including hashes of previous entries in subsequent entries. The latter is achieved by combining cryptographic encryption of hashes of data and using the public keys themselves as the addresses of agents, thus allowing other agents in the system to mathematically verify the data’s source.

Though hash-chains help solve the problem of independently acting agents reliably sharing state, we see two very different approaches in their use which have deep systemic consequences. These approaches are demonstrated by two of today’s canonical distributed systems:

1. git: In git, all nodes can update their hash-chains as they see fit. The degree of overlapping shared state of chain entries (known as commit objects) across all nodes is not managed by git but rather explicitly by action of the agent making pull requests and doing merges. We call this approach agentcentric because of its focus on allowing nodes to share independently evolving data realities.

2. Bitcoin: In Bitcoin (and blockchain in general), the “problem” is understood to be that of figuringou t how to choose one block of transactions among the many variants being experienced by the mining nodes (as they collect transactions from clients in different orders), and committing that single variant to the single globally shared chain. We call this approach data-centric because of its focus on creating a single shared data reality among all nodes.

We claim that this fundamental original stance results directly in the most significant limitation of the blockchain: scalability. This limitation is widely known and many solutions have been offered. Holochain offers a way forward by directly addressing the root datacentric assumptions of the blockchain approach.

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 Dero Whitepaper

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DERO is a new, experimental blockchain technology written in Golang with a focus on enhanced Privacy and Smart Contracts while maintaining the transparency and security of the blockchain. The goal is to create a unique state of the art blockchain technology with enhanced Reliability, Privacy, Security, Usability, and Portability by bringing together some of the best proven technologies like CryptoNote Protocol and Smart Contracts, thereby allowing for the creation of Private Smart Contracts.

Blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently, and in a verifiable and permanent way.

CryptoNote Protocol uses a distributed public ledger that records all balances and transactions of its in-built currency like Bitcoin. Unlike Bitcoin, CryptoNote’s transactions cannot be followed through the blockchain in a way that reveals who sent or received coins. The only people with access to the whole set of data about a transaction are the sender or receiver of the transaction.

A smart Contract is a protocol intended to facilitate, verify, and enforce the negotiation or execution of a digital contract. Smart contracts allow for direct contract execution without a third party. These transactions are trackable and irreversible. Smart contracts were first proposed by Nick Szabo in 1994.

For more details about Blockchain, CryptoNote Protocol, and Smart Contract see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoNote
https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050427/https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_contract
Some brief examples of what a smart contract is capable of managing without third-party intervention include: access authorization to a physical object like a building or internet-of-things (IoT) devices, asset management, trading, ticket purchasing, or share distribution. In some instances, an individual or organization would prefer not to reveal the details of the transaction or contract (i.e. participants, amounts, and contract terms) to the rest of the world. Dero brings true privacy to smart contracts for the first time on any blockchain.

Truly private smart contracts are a unique feature offered by DERO that other projects to date (April.1/2018) do not offer. Dero accomplishes this by keeping all ascepts of the transaction, smart contract, and users details private on the original blockchain without the need to trust sensitive or otherwise private information to second layer or off-chain solutions.

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 Origami Whitepaper

Today’s evolving blockchain technology allows companies to run marketplaces (B2C or B2B) for faster and cheaper than ever.

But there are still problems with the current atmosphere. For one, the speed and cost by which online marketplaces are developed and run can be improved. Secondly, at this moment in time, escrow payments are still very expensive and far from accepting crypto-currencies as payments.

Lastly, the review process for online marketplaces contains several major flaws that must be addressed before marketplaces can be truly decentralized. Origami Network is an all-in-one decentralized protocol that solves several existing problems related to online marketplace development and maintenance, escrow payments, and reviews. The Origami Network has a working product and several customers already on board benefitting from its technology. The Origami Network is based on three self-sufficient platforms:
o Origami Marketplace
o Origami Payment, and
o Origami Review.

These ​complementary platforms can be used in a modularized fashion or together. The Origami Network is the only B​lockchain-Powered protocol that builds decentralized online marketplaces faster and easier than current models allow, while also utilizing blockchain-based escrow payments and improving review systems. The result is faster, easier, cheaper, and more reliable marketplace experiences for both consumer and business owner. Decentralized marketplaces allow to redistribute value to the people who actually contribute the most value in the network.

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 Helbiz Whitepaper

Helbiz is a peer-to-peer market place that makes renting a car, motorcycle or bicycle convenient, affordable and rewarding.

Helbiz combines the familiar carsharing approach in the transportation sector with Blockchain technology. Our mobility ecosystem will soon provide access to individual vehicles as well as fleets and other transportation services.

Helbiz Mobility System is a platform based on the Ethereum Blockchain and powered by the HelbizCoin tokens (HBZ).

Helbiz will be the first company adopting HelbizCoin and leveraging the Helbiz Mobility System, a platform that will be open to other companies with interests in mobility related services (e.g. insurance companies) and willing to join the Blockchain revolution using data and building dApps (Decentralized Applications) on top of the Helbiz Mobility System.

HelbizCoin is the ERC20 token that aims to become the preferred method to pay for transportation services through the Ethereum Blockchain and to access the ecosystem of services provided by the Helbiz Mobility System.

The adoption of cryptocurrencies will impact the way we access mobility services in the future and HelbizCoin is poised to play a leading role in this new era of transportation and sharing economy.

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