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Neufund is a community-owned fundraising platform. It acts as a bridge between the investment world and the blockchain space. Using our legal and technical infrastructure, startups and established companies alike can legally issue a new type of asset we call tokenized equity. We achieve this by formally linking traditional contracts with Ethereum smart contracts through mutual reference and code correspondence.

Once these shares are created, anyone can invest into the company issuing them and verify the company’s claims by checking smart contracts and transaction data on the public ledger. The result is a primary market for real world, technologically enhanced equivalents to shares – “equity tokens” – that aim to be as liquid as cryptocurrency. By joining the platform and bringing their fiat currency on-chain, users gain access to this market. In this way, Neufund also functions as a powerful mechanism for onboarding off-chain investors and companies to the crypto economy.

Companies can thus raise funds from investors in their existing network, as well as any cryptocurrency holder, or via the capital pool on the Neufund platform dedicated for funding. Once a company has successfully completed a campaign and issued their equity tokens, Neufund provides an easy-to-use user interface for interacting with shareholders. It is possible to hold votes for legally binding resolutions, issue updates and reports, open further fundraising rounds, enable secondary trading of equity tokens, and perform other functions necessary for responsible corporate governance.

In order for the described components to work and the system to sustain itself, Neufund is designed to be a true token economy. Its value is reflected by a protocol token called Neumark, which participants earn by committing capital to the platform. This essentially allows people to economically own the ecosystem, a powerful incentive for investors to bootstrap the platform and grow it with further investment. Neumarks are an attractive asset: they entitle their holders to revenues from platform fees for ETOs (Equity Token Offerings) taking place on Neufund, as well as economic benefit from a platform portfolio pool holding a small amount of every ETO ever conducted (more in chapter 4).

CoinPoker is a poker room built on blockchain technology that will offer fantastic value for poker players and casual purchasers. Poker players will benefit from games offered at extremely competitive rakes with huge value added bonuses and promotions to drive traffic and a potential appreciation of their CHPs associated with the development of a robust poker economy.

CoinPoker is not a concept, it’s been fully developed and is ready to launch post ICO ensuring immediate benefits to the CHP purchasers. The software is fully tested and the MVP (minimum viable product) is ready to try. Millions have already been invested to get the software to this state.

CoinPoker’s blockchain technology also solves the key obstacles inhabiting the growth of online poker today, namely avoiding payment processing issues, managing game integrity, creating purely random number generation and allowing for blockchain marketing initiatives. Even product design, new games can be controlled by a blockchain voting system based on user preferences.

The timing is perfect for CoinPoker as recent forecasts expect online poker to surge in popularity with previously taboo markets coming back online (such as parts of the U.S) and poker growing in popularity in emerging regions such as Asia and South America. Expenditure is set to treble of the next 3 years.

Due to the reasons listed above, we would like to introduce you to our ICO, or Initial Coin Offering.PreICO is going to start on November 16th, and the ICO is expected to start mid-January. Throughout we will be releasing 500 million of our Tokens called Chips (CHP). Chips will be our official currency that will circulate within the platform, benefiting the holders of the currency.

The conventional centralized higher education system takes 4-6 years to educate a person and there is no guarantee of employment afterwards. We believe that the digital industry today lacks workforce because higher education institutions are not responding to the needs of actual labor market. Most of the skills needed by the digital industry don’t even require a degree in higher education. Workforce that has practical digital economy skills and willingness to learn is needed. That is why today more and more tech-savvy teens get freelancing jobs and earn more than their parents do.

BitDegree is world’s first blockchain-powered, smart-incentives based online education platform which will revolutionize global education and tech recruiting. The main purpose of the BitDegree platform is to let Students acquire skills that are currently required by the labor market. The way to do it is not to ask business what skills they need in the far future (3-5 years), but to respond to explicitly expressed skilled labor demand quickly. BitDegree will directly align the incentives of students and anyone who wants them to become knowledge workers in digital economy – like current or potential employers, digital service providers and sponsors. Smart-incentive is a smart contract on Ethereum network ensuring the exchange of tokens between a sponsor (the Incentive Creator) and a student (the Incentive Taker), who is committing to study a specific subject in order to receive tokens (the Incentive). The BitDegree platform will offer students online courses with a clear and transparent blockchain-based reward system and achievement tracking. Our use case for blockchain is not sensitive to prolonged waiting periods before transactions are committed, thus, overall platform overhead (as in expenses) of using Ethereum network for transactional and immutable data storage needs, will be low. To make the learning process as exciting as playing Minecraft we will use Octalysis framework of gamification design.

We see BitDegree as a unique tool for business to recruit tech talent and shape global education to its needs through smart-incentives. National government Job centers will be able to track the demand of skills without having to involve scrupulous report gatherings from businesses and also help jobless citizens by subsidising studies for skills on high demand. Think about it as Coursera and HackerRank merged together, powered by blockchain technology. The main benefit of BitDegree platform to incentive providers is the possibility to initiate and maintain dialogue with upcoming talent and reward them for achievements through smart-incentives. Smart-incentives on the BitDegree platform will range from small to large and be location and topic targeted. From the student’s perspective, it means getting paid to learn new skills based on local demand, which not only incentivizes but can actually be a viable escape from unskilled work.

Building quality, interactive, and engaging learning experience is essential to every successful education platform. There are attempts to solve the problem: i.e. Coursera and CodeCademy. Despite the fact that these frontrunners face abysmal course completion results, similar to the entire MOOCs industry – just 5%, these two companies together are worth more than $1 billion today. Our proposed incentive alignment approach has not been attempted on any of educational platforms of which we are aware. A merit-based reward, currently practiced on existing platforms, does not provide the income needed to support a student while studying.

We will pursue our vision to develop the BitDegree platform regardless of the ICO’s outcome. We anticipate a closed-test, involving incentive providers in Q2-2018, and an open launch of BitDegree in Q1- 2019. The capital available to the development of the platform will determine its initial functionality and choice of the course material made available. The anticipated capital raised during the ICO, will enable us to directly compete with existing education platforms, even before realizing the benefits of a very popular BitDegree platform. Companies creating technologies used in the digital economy should consider contributing to the development of the platform, if only to ensure that technologies they create are represented in the course material available to millions of students.

Abstract

The Pareto Network is a service for incentivizing the generation and sharing of
information about tradable opportunities in cryptocurrencies and related assets.
It is designed to elevate information about market inefficiencies and promote
more accurate price discovery. What that means is that it should steer the
markets toward the correct pricing of these assets.
It replicates the function of research desks at investment banks, providing a
flow of information that anyone can access, and aligns economic incentives to
promote that reality

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