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In this paper, we offer an overview of the district0x Network, a collective of decentralized marketplaces and communities, hereafter referred to as districts.

Districts exist as decentralized entities, built upon a standard open source framework comprised of Ethereum smart contracts and front-end libraries, hereafter referred to as d0xINFRA.

d0xINFRA provides districts with core functionalities that are necessary to operate an online marketplace or community. Namely, the ability for users to post listings, filter and search through listings, rank peers and amass reputation, and send invoices and collect payments. The d0xINFRA framework is designed to be open and extendable, allowing districts to be customized and granted additional functionality through the use of auxiliary modules.

We also introduce the district0x Network Token in order to facilitate open participation and coordination across the network while providing protections from malicious actors.

The district0x Network Token is a multi-utility token which is required for application to the district0x Network, utilized in an incentivized voting game to dictate access to a suite of ancillary services exclusive to network members, used to signal support or disapproval for proposals made by network participants, and which can be staked to deposit pools to mint tokens providing district-specific rights on third-party platforms.

IoT Chain White paper introduction

What is IoT?
Based on the internet, traditional telecommunication network and other information carriers, IoT (Internet of Things) is the network that enables interconnection between all ordinary physical objects which can be located independently. IoT has three key features: the equalization of ordinary objects, interconnection of automatic‐management terminals and intellectualization of pervasive services. Through IoT, all the things can be connected to the internet for information exchange and communication to achieve the goals of intellectualized recognition, location, tracking, monitoring and management.

There are two implications of IoT. First, the internet is still the core and foundation of IoT, which is extended and expanded on the former. Second, the user‐ end of IoT has extended to information exchange and communication between all things, namely the thing to thing interconnectivity. IoT has been applied widely in network convergence by means of communication perceptive technologies such as intelligent perception, recognition and pervasive computing. Consequently, IoT has been called the third wave of the world’s information industry development following the first and second waves of computer and internet respectively. Since IoT is an expansion of the internet, it should more correctly be referred to as business and application rather than network. Hence, innovation of application is the core of IoT’s development and creation centered on user experience is the soul.

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Ardor is a “full blockchain-as-a-service” multi-chain platform that evolved from the time-tested Nxt blockchain. The mainnet went live on 01 January 2018. The unique parent-child chain architecture of Ardor, with a single security chain providing energy-efficient proof of stake consensus for multiple transactional “child chains,” enables three fundamental advantages – reduced blockchain bloat, increased scalability, and the ability to launch and host ready-to-use interconnected blockchains.

Ignis is Ardor’s first public, permissionless, and fully featured child chain maintained by Jelurida, the corporate entity responsible for the development of the Ardor and Nxt platforms. The features and functionality available on Nxt were implemented on Ignis – along with new features such as lightweight contracts, account and asset controls, and composite phased transactions. Businesses can launch apps and services using the features available on the Ignis child chain such as issuing and trading digital assets, launching voting systems, and leveraging distributed cloud storage.

Multiple additional child chains can be created on the Ardor platform for various organizations, such as public entities, enterprises, consortiums, research institutions, and financial service providers who wish to customize the features available to their child chain end-users. The platform’s technological innovations make it possible for large corporations and SMEs to have a child chain with ready-to-use features and a distributed security network, instead of creating their own network of nodes to support a blockchain and developing features from scratch. Child chains can be implemented in a cost-effective way without compromising their security, which is guaranteed through transaction “bundlers” connecting child chains to the parent Ardor chain.”

What Is Crypterium

Providing cryptocurrencies to mainstream everyday users, will require dedicated cryptobanking services. Only once a person is able to use cryptocurrency in the same way that they use any other currency, will all of the benefits of cryptocurrency, such as lower transaction costs, speed of payment, removal of national boundaries and so on, become real. There are already 3 million daily users of 6 cryptocurrencies, a number that is expected to exceed 200 million by 2025 . The demand for cryptocurrencies exists now and will grow at an annual CAGR of ~70% for the foreseeable future.

The potential to satisfy this demand is perhaps the most exciting banking development of the past 100 years and the prize for those who are successful is a place on the global banking landscape at a rate of growth and a worldwide presence that can never be matched by any traditional banking development plan.

The Crypterium Cryptobank will be a first step in satisfying this demand. It will be made available for download via the IOS or android marketplace and is planning to be ready-to-use on mobile devices immediately. Unlike conventional mobile banks that take weeks to process and issue cards, the Crypterium Cryptobank provides an instant processing engine for both fiat and crypto based currency transactions while enabling inter-changeability between the two. With Crypterium’s digital bank customers will finally be able to use cryptocurrencies to pay for fiat based goods without transaction limits and with low commission on any of the world’s existing 42 million payment terminals and many internet stores and payment points. Crypterium’s technology platform is developing to be based on algorithms that allow for the most efficient exchange rates matching across natural peer-to-peer flow as well as third party Crypto-exchanges. This is planned to be quickly followed by a range of complimentary banking services from simple Peer to Peer payments to Cryptocurrency backed lending.

Crypterium aims to meet the banking needs of the Cryptocurrency Era.

Ink is a decentralised solution harnessing the combined power of Consortium Blockchain, Public Blockchain and Cross-chain Interoperability for the global Creative Industry. It consists of

æ Sovereign Consortium Blockchain for use cases in any region
æ Infrastructure for decentralised content production
æ Token issuance, applications and ecosystem based on a globally renowned public
blockchain
æ Intellectual Property Asset Exchange
æ Cross-chain Protocol, technical and business solution for industrial implementation

The vision of Ink is to provide Sovereign Consortium Blockchain to different use cases, to redefine roles, content and behaviours within the industry, and to build for the Creative Industry a decentralised infrastructure in which various applications can be created and correlate to each other under one highly integrated system. Based on a credible and stable public blockchain, an Intellectual Property Asset Exchange is built as a trusted corridor for content-to-liquid-asset conversion and token issuance, making it an integrated ecosystem. Furthermore, defining and developing the cross-chain protocol enables value and information to flow freely between public blockchain and consortium blockchain

CloakCoin is a cryptocurrency designed to facilitate private, secure and untraceable decentralized transfers with Enigma. Cloak is a dual PoW/PoS (Proof of Work, Proof of Stake) coin, which is now in the Proof-of-Stake (interest bearing) stage. Enigma is CloakCoin’s private, secure and untraceable payment system, that forms the basis of future development and provides the underlying transaction system for the decentralized applications running on the CloakCoin network.

Privacy today is perhaps more important than ever. The thundering pace of technological advancement has rapidly broadened our horizons and connected the world like never before. Thanks to Bitcoin’s introduction in 2009, cryptocurrency is steadily moving into the mainstream and we can now transfer digital currency securely across the globe in an instant, using the power of the blockchain.

As cryptocurrency adoption becomes more widespread, increased regulation is inevitable. It remains to be seen what form this regulation will take, but many are concerned it may be overly draconian and designed to stifle some of the more libertarian aspects of cryptocurrency.

Genesis Vision is the platform for the private trust management market, built on blockchain technology and smart contracts. We unite exchanges, brokers, traders, and investors into a decentralized, open and fair network, making the financial market even more global. This will allow successful traders to rapidly scale their trading strategies by attracting investments from around the world. The smart contract technology that underlies the platform will provide an automated and absolutely transparent system for investment and profit distribution. The Genesis Vision platform is the solution for the most crucial industry problems, such as limitedness due to the lack of information, lack of transparency and, consequently, lack of trust. Fundraising and the use of GVT (Genesis Vision Token) will help to finance product development, marketing and advertising for the development of the platform. GVT is an internal currency of Genesis Vision platform and will be used for all investment operations and profit distributions.

Crypto-currency is a form of decentralized digital currency that has changed the world of finance over the past several years. BitBay lacks a central authority and protects anonymity, while allowing a relatively low-cost alternative to fiat. It opens the doors for international exchange of commodities and has the potential to change how business is conducted. The signature and scripting system that BitBay uses allows for the creation of smart contracts. Also using signatures, it is possible to create accounts that require multiple signatures (multisig accounts) as well as transactions with multiple inputs and outputs.

There has been discussion of some of the current weaknesses with smart contracts. We address these weaknesses to make smart contracts immediately accessible on the BitBay network. As proposed, this protocol offers a system of commitment schemes and business protocols that greatly reduces the issues of extortion and malleability from two-party escrow.

Network communication is expanding from moving information to the transmission of value. For the first time, anyone can send scarce, authenticated and trusted value without intermediaries. This phenomenon is poised to affect every industry and government process and give birth to a new economy. However, the potential of blockchain to permeate society has been constrained by the complexity of the underlying technology at this nascent stage.

Typically disruptive innovations are first relegated to early adopters and specialized industries or academia, and blockchain has been no exception. To become mainstream, a key milestone must be met – an advance that XPRIZE and Singularity University founder Peter Diamandis calls the “user interface moment”. Diamandis, recognized as among the world’s most prominent futurists and business innovators, describes user interface moments as when a platform or interface arrives that allows something formerly difficult to become easy to use and build upon, unlocking its revenue generating potential.

Diamandis explains that the last most exciting user interface moment was the iPhone and Apple’s App Store. The App Store allowed anyone to bring ideas to life and access a massive global audience. Since 2008, 300,000 developers have written 2 million apps that have been downloaded 140 billion times. Prior to the App Store providing the interface moment to mobile, the potential to galvanize a creative army of developers and artists remained unrealized. The App Store opened the door to a staggering era of wealth creation and innovation, and changed the way humanity lives, works and plays. Another example is the advent of Mosaic, the world’s first web browser from technologist Mark Andresen. Mosaic, which eventually became commercially known as Netscape, was the interface moment for the internet. Once browsers allowed developers to rapidly build capabilities that could reach a vast audience with low friction, developers had an economic incentive to proliferate internet technology on an unprecedented scale. An interface moment is when something complicated is suddenly easy to use and can be practically applied to advance a personal or business economic interest.

BLOCKv is the interface moment for blockchain. BLOCKv provides interface protocol overlay on the developer stack – the layer necessary to unleash exponential mainstream adoption. BLOCKv enables the rapid development and distribution of interactive smart objects – “experiential currency” – that interact with the end user. The most common units of provision for blockchain applications are virtual currencies, and yet the UI layer for this asset has yet to mature. BLOCKv allows the currency to come alive and interact meaningfully with the end user for the first time. In essence, it turns virtual currency into dynamic virtual goods.

The power of distributed ledger architecture is now connecting to the actual end user experience on top of a shared data layer that becomes more powerful with each additional application built. At its heart, BLOCKv is an open source, shared protocol that enhances the underlying distributed ledger and is made available to individual applications. BLOCKv provides the vital piece of plumbing necessary for usercentric, revenue generating blockchain applications.

When a conduit of value like a Bitcoin or Ether token evolves from a simple container or smart contract to an emotionally satisfying multimedia experience, the promise of widespread adoption can be realized.

Suddenly cryptocurrencies become not just units of value but units of engagement value as well. This enhances the nature of digital ownership with the power of human imagination. Now digital currencies can retain all the advantages of cryptocurrency such as scarcity, ownership, and tradability, but can also take the form of:

• collectibles; digital esports cards, rare digital art, etc., any digital creation can be imbued with scarcity and emotional power and traded on global exchanges with transparent economic incentives back to the creators in perpetuity.

• coupons; redeemable smart objects come alive with 3D multimedia visual representations of value, dynamic incentive structures, and functions that change based on location, sharing, and real-time external events.

• loyalty programs; cryptos completely change the nature of loyalty programs, providing dynamic vehicles for long term and value-based relationships with consumers. Having true value-based distribution vehicles shatters today’s fading models of point systems and app overload.

• gift cards; shifts the industry from impersonal, cumbersome stored value cards to dynamic, visual, tradeable, and deeply personalized and emotionally satisfying virtual goods. As actual products are represented and delivered seamlessly at the speed of light, redeemable virtual objects fundamentally change the gifting model.

• medical; scarce, traceable multimedia cryptos communicate within completely new formats, using the asset class as a means of information and value delivery. Prescription bottles come alive and refill themselves; secure HIPPA-compliant communication is spawned within the objects for more efficient provider/consumer communication; informed consent videos and immutable signatures create enhanced experiences, streamlined processes, and improved compliance.

• gaming: interoperable virtual goods between games and the real-world has been a goal of the digital game industry for decades, yet continually out of reach for lack of an independent trust layer that could adjudicate between disparate systems, companies and retail environments. BLOCKv goods visualize differently depending on the device and environment, yet maintain their structural integrity, uniqueness and identity as cryptocurrencies. This provides the open and freely available mechanism for collaboration across the industry and opens up vast new revenue streams with retailers and brands.

The use cases and applications on blockchain enabled by a shared interface layer on blockchain are no less vital, diverse, and numerous than the apps in the App Store. The difference between the old model of the Apple App Store and the new decentralized model, is that BLOCKv is not claiming central ownership of the platform, but rather building an important service powered by its protocol coin, for and with the developer community. BLOCKv is the shared UI layer for the next generation decentralized economy.

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