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Mission
– Accommodate multitude of blockchain application usage
– Break through technology bottleneck
– Reduce technical threshold and cost
– Resolving the lack of trust in a centralised database

How it works?
Technology & Advantages of NULS Ecosystem

Multiple chains
Exchange of data and value among chains
Extensive applications & better performance

Smart contracts
Less programming for defining service logic
Running logic from NULSVM in a decentralized environment

Proof-Of-Credit
High scalability and rapid value transmission
Connection via cross-chain consensus modules

Customizable
Modularization & multiple chains for higher flexibility
Selection of modules offer greater use cases

Sustainable improvement
Improving network technology, storage schemes and encryption algorithms
Independent upgradable modules for continuous improvement and scalability

Abstract

This paper outlines the case for the implementation of a decentralized virtual gifting protocol to incentivize and monetize content generation by individual content creators worldwide. The protocol may be deployed on various existing content publishing platforms on the internet, such as YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, among others, and can be used to complement conventional revenue streams which are primarily derived from advertising.

Asia Innovations Group (“AIG”) is a leading mobile entertainment company in Asia. It has demonstrated that virtual gifting system is a highly effective monetization method for content creators on its flagship live video platform, Uplive. Virtual gifts on Uplive not only drive significant revenue for global content creators, but also enhance interactions and relationships between creators and their fans. Since its launch in June 2016, the Uplive community has rapidly expanded to 20 million global users, and the platform will generate more than USD $100 million in revenue for 2017. In September alone, over 25 million virtual gifts were purchased and sent on Uplive.

The Universal Gifting Protocol draws from the positive Uplive experience, and seeks to enable content producers across any content platform to receive gifts from their fans. These virtual gifts will exist independently from any platform and retain their properties without any centralized controlling mechanism.

Each virtual gift will be implemented as a smart contract on Ethereum blockchain, enabling the virtual gifts to exist, be owned, and be transacted independently from any particular content platform or system. This will serve to reduce the dependency of content producers on their publishing platforms to secure revenue for their work, and, by extension, reliance on advertisers. The proposed currency for transacting in the virtual gifts is GIFTO Tokens, which will be deployed as an ERC20-standard token on the Ethereum blockchain. GIFTO Tokens will also be used to incentivize and motivate an ecosystem of participants to help create, curate, and redeem virtual gifts.

The Alpha version of GIFTO Protocol will be tested by end of 2017, and the Beta version is targeted for testing in Q1 2018, with full commercial launch in Q2 2018. GIFTO Protocol will leverage on Uplive’s existing 20 mln user base and 60,000 content creators to test, iterate, and jump-start mass adoption, towards the vision of empowering millions of content creators worldwide.

What is Vertcoin?

Vertcoin is a cryptographic currency, similar to Bitcoin and Litecoin, with one major difference. As the forerunner of the digital currency movement, the original Bitcoin developers were unable to perceive all potential threats that would arise to challenge it’s mission as a decentralized currency.

Millions of dollars were spent by various companies to build application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) computers in an attempt to monopolize mining. These devices made it so GPUs and CPUs were no longer useful in the mining process.

As a result, the vast majority of Bitcoin mining and transactions would now be processed by large data centers that required hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars in investment.

Now that Bitcoin computational power is handled almost entirely by large data centers, the currency has rapidly changed from a distributed, decentralized currency, to one that is much more centralized and vulnerable. Companies such as Cex.io are routinely hitting 40% PoW computational power on a daily basis, and will soon be able to perform 51% attacks at will, if they so choose.

Due to the problems ASIC chips brought on the digital currency platform, a new currency, Litecoin was created. Litecoin attempted to utilize the Scrypt hashing algorithm, which is more memory intensive than SHA256, to deter ASIC use. As of January 2014, there are now Scrypt ASIC chips being deployed by the Chinese for mining. So far, around 1000 Mhash of Gridseed ASIC chips have been brought online and used on the litecoin and middlecoin.com network.

The Chinese chips have not been released on the greater market at large, but eventually they will, and the same problems that SHA256 currency faces will come to the Litecoin and other Scrypt currency networks next.

The Grøstl hash function is a finalist in the SHA-3 competition organized by NIST. In this paper, we describe a number of implementation techniques and tricks for Grøstl. They allow us to develop a range of efficient implementations for various platforms, from 8-bit microcontrollers to modern desktop processors using 256-bit AVX instructions. These results demonstrate the implementation flexibility of the algorithm and we hope will inspire further optimizations and ports to other platforms. The information in this paper will also be useful for developers planning to implement Grøstl efficiently on the platform of their choice. Furthermore, we believe also hardware implementations may benefit from the optimization techniques presented in this paper.

Quantstamp is the first smart contract security-auditing protocol. ​We are extending Ethereum with technology that ensures the security of smart contracts. Our team is made of up of software testing experts who collectively have over 500 Google Scholar citations.

Quantstamp Protocol
The Quantstamp protocol solves the smart contract security problem by creating a scalable and cost-effective system to audit all smart contracts on the Ethereum network. Over time, we expect every Ethereum smart contract to use the Quantstamp protocol to perform a security audit because security is essential.

Abstract

My name is Damian Merlak and I am the leading architect and founder ofthe Tokens trading platform.I was introduced to computer programming in primary school at the age of 13 and Ihave been hooked ever since. I started developing web applications professionally in2004. Besides technology, I have always had a great interest in finance and investing,so I spent a lot of my free time trading and investing the money I earned from mysoftware projects.At the beginning of 2011, something happened which completely changed the courseof my life. I discovered Bitcoin. At the time, the price was fluctuating between $1 and$2, and the financial part of my brain was immediately captivated. I became interestedand bought some. Soon after that, the first “bubble” happened and the price soared to$30.In the meantime, my technological part wanted to explore the technology a bit more.It drove me to build a small bitcoin mining operation in my basement. I immediatelywent to buy the cheapest CPU and motherboard available, along with the bestgraphics card money could buy at the time.

Of course, this illogical computerconfiguration caught the attention of the local store owner, so I had to explain why andhow I was going to use it. I started explaining everything I knew about Bitcoin, and weended up becoming friends.Soon after that, the two of us decided to create a bitcoin business together. A fewmonths later, we had a working exchange ready to be launched under the nameBitstamp. It was by far the most professional place to trade bitcoin at the time andafter the fall of Mt. Gox, became the largest bitcoin exchange in the world. Today,Bitstamp is still one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, with over $1billion of monthly trading volume.Since 2011, the cryptocurrency space has evolved, while most cryptocurrencybusinesses aren’t keeping up with the latest trends

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