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Digital advertising is broken. The marketplace for online advertising, once dominated by advertisers, publishers and users, has become overrun by “middleman” ad exchanges, audience segmentation, complicated behavioral and cross-device user tracking, and opaque cross-party sharing through data management platforms.

Users face unprecedented levels of malvertisements and privacy violations. Mobile advertising results in as much as $23 per month in data charges on the average user’s data plan, slow page loads, and as much as 21% less battery life. In response, over 600 million mobile devices and desktops (globally) employ ad blocking software and this number is growing. Traditional publishers have lost approximately 66% of their revenue over the past decade, adjusted for inflation. Publishers face falling revenue, users feel increasingly violated, and advertisers’ ability to assess effectiveness is diminished. The solution is a decentralized, transparent digital ad exchange based on Blockchain. The first component is Brave, a fast, open source, privacy-focused browser that blocks third party ads and trackers, and builds in a ledger system that measures user attention to reward publishers accordingly. Brave will now introduce BAT (Basic Attention Token), a token for a decentralized ad exchange. It compensates the browser user for attention while protecting privacy.

BAT connects advertisers, publishers, and users and is denominated by relevant user attention, while removing social and economic costs associated with existing ad networks, e.g., fraud, privacy violations, and malvertising. BAT is a payment system that rewards and protects the user while giving better conversion to advertisers and higher yield to publishers. We see BAT and associated technologies

as a future part of web standards, solving the important problem of monetizing publisher content while protecting user privacy.

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QUOINE LIQUID PLATFORM is a single globally-sourced trading platform (World Book) with an associated suite of services (Prime Brokerage). Combined, these produce the highest level of liquidity in the world—allowing any individual to access the opportunities and wealth the new Crypto economy offers.

The LIQUID Platform’s World Book is built on top of QUOINE’s existing Matching Engine, Smart Order Routing, and Cross Currency Conversion Engine technologies. It becomes the ultimate resource for traders—a multi-market order book that combines every liquidity source in the world into a single highly liquid tradable order book, in any currency a user chooses.

The LIQUID Platform’s Prime Brokerage offers Direct Market Access (DMA), Fiat Management, Crypto/Fiat Credit facility, and Real Time Reporting.

Serving all client sizes and requirements: The LIQUID Platform combines it’s World Book and Prime Brokerage with high-end services such as System Co-Location, Automated Trading Strategies, “Crowd-Sourced” AI-driven Algorithms, and QUOINE’s advanced proprietary Trading Tools.

A universal native Token: the QUOINE LIQUID TOKEN, QASH is the fuel that will power all services QUOINE provides. We are already in talks with financial institutions and partners to make QASH the preferred Token for their own upcoming and existing financial services, as they migrate to decentralized platforms. We envision QASH will be used in the broader financial industry and any other industries for various purposes including payment and remittance.

The end goal: QUOINE is building a solid, global financial utility—an advanced platform the entire Crypto economy will use to great advantage; where anyone can participate as users and Token holders.

QUOINE LIQUID will become a complete financial ecosystem for the Crypto economy.

Bitcoin brings “decentralized currency” to the world of blockchains, while Ethereum system showcases “smart contract”. Blockchain has already gained significant development and prosperity in the past three years. However, we find the existing technology far from being perfect. Blockchain starts to face more and more challenges in its integration with current business and user requirements.

This white paper mainly focuses on three concepts: value rank of blockchains, the positive feedback ecosystem, and the self-evolving blockchain system.

Based on these, we present Nebulas’ idea and solutions, which consists of Nebulas Rank (the measure of value for blockchains) and Nebulas Force (a fundamental self-evolving mechanism for blockchains). We will also elaborate on the mechanism of our innovation in consensus: PoD (Proof of Devotion) and DIP (Developer Incentive Protocol).

The ultimate mission of the Nebulas Blockchain is to build a self-evolving blockchain system based on value incentive, which will also be the most important development direction in the world of blockchains hereafter. As commonly known in the current industry, core components such as smart contracts, domain name systems, developer toolkits, wallets, etc., are being provided as part of the launch of the Nebulas platform.

Despite the recent hype in the cryptocurrency market, the underlying blockchain technology is still at an early stage and is far from mass adoption. One of the well-recognized issues with current blockchain technologies is scalability. Without the capability of processing large volumes of transactions swiftly, heavy usage services like Facebook, Amazon, and digital asset exchanges are nearly impossible to deploy onto the blockchain.

In this paper, we propose the Internet of Services (“IOS”), an innovative and secure blockchain paradigm designed to provide horizontal scalability and high transaction throughput. By implementing our novel sharding architecture and consensus mechanism, the IOS system is able to process up to 100,000 secure transactions per second.

This work makes the following contributions. It introduces:

Efficient Distributed Sharding (EDS) – an innovative sharding scheme that makes shards sufficiently large and strongly bias-resistant via a combination of a client-server randomness scavenging mechanism and leader election via cryptographic sortition.

TransEpoch – a secure validators-to-shards assignment during epoch transitions while maintaining transaction operability.

Atomix – a novel two-step inter-shard atomic commit protocol that guarantees transaction atomicity in Byzantine setting.

Proof-of-Believability (PoB) – a groundbreaking Byzantine consensus protocol with a Believable-First approach that guarantees safety and liveness of the system while largely maximizes the transaction throughput by size-one-shard.
Micro State Block (MSB) – a novel mechanism to minimize the storage and bootstrapping costs for validators.

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“Honesty is subversive” – Paul Snow

In today’s global economy trust is in rare supply. This lack of trust requires the devotion of a tremendous amount of resources to audit and verify records – reducing global efficiency, return on investment, and prosperity. Moreover, incidents such as the 2010 United States foreclosure crisis demonstrate that in addition to being inefficient, the current processes are also terribly inaccurate and prone to failure. Factom removes the need for blind trust by providing the world with the very first precise, verifiable, and immutable audit trail.

In the past, records have been difficult to protect, challenging to synchronize, and impossible to truly verify because of the manual effort involved. Computers automated some of these tasks, but they are even harder to protect, synchronize, and verify because computer records are so easy to change. Authority is fragmented across innumerable independent systems.

Blockchains provide a distributed mechanism to lock in data, making data verifiable and independently auditable. Bitcoin’s blockchain is the most trusted immutable data store in existence; however, it is not very useful for non-Bitcoin transactions. Factom gives businesses access to blockchain technology without getting bogged down in currencies.

In this paper, we describe how Factom creates a distributed, autonomous protocol to cost effectively separate the Bitcoin blockchain from the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. We discuss client-defined Chains of Entries, client-side validation of Entries, a distributed consensus algorithm for recording Entries, and a blockchain anchoring approach for security.

Each year, 400M+ gamers purchase $50B+ in virtual items worldwide. The vast majority of gamers who buy and sell virtual assets today are likely to have their items stolen or pay exorbitant fees through cross-border transactions unless they go to a centralized trading platform. This market friction is the key factor limiting the growth of this $50+ billion market. The net effect of the lack of marketplace trust is that the virtual asset trading industry is fragmented across hundreds of competing marketplaces, each utilizing different business practices tailored for their region of the world. This creates significant territorial supply and demand imbalances.

The ideal solution to this problem is a global virtual asset repository, accessible to anyone, which provides a complete catalog of all items available for sale in real time. Such a repository, when coupled with distributed trust mechanisms, and a reliable low-cost settlement network, will vastly improve price discovery and market liquidity, thereby increasing market size.

Market Problem
OPSkins, the world’s largest platform for video game virtual goods traders is building a blockchain protocol called Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX), designed to enable an unlimited number of marketplaces operated by individuals or small businesses to buy, sell and
trade virtual goods at scale with just a few clicks.

WAX Whitepaper

Komodo’s form of providing security is called Delayed Proof of Work technology (dPoW). It builds on the most advanced form of blockchain security in existence, Proof of Work technology (PoW). The latter form of security is the method that the Bitcoin network utilizes. To understand the value of Komodo’s dPoW security, we must first explain how PoW works and why it is the most secure method of maintaining a decentralized blockchain. We must also examine PoW’s shortcomings, so that we may understand the need for Komodo’s dPoW method and the advantages it provides to the blockchain community. To understand how PoW technology functions, we begin by explaining the roots that make the Bitcoin protocol a viable means of securely transferring value.

Cryptonex plaƞorm (hereinaŌer “Cryptonex”) is developed as internaƟonal acquiring and it is based on the blockсhain technology. Instead of tradiƟonal methods, such as venture investments and share issue, financial model of cryptofinancing ICO – IniƟal Coin Offering is used for capital rising.

We are convinced that the blockchain technology can speed up development of economic coparƟcipaƟon, which is currently solving the sphere’s problems by aƩracƟng a significant number of previously unclaimed people. The safe system based on blockchain technology is protected against unauthorized access. Users can convert fiat money to any cryptocurrencies and tokens, as well as spend cryptocurrency with the help of bank cards and mobile applicaƟons with contactless payments.

Cryptonex is developed as an open source code plaƞorm. To account property rights, cryptocurrency of the same name Cryptonex, Ɵcker CNX is used. Cryptocurrency Cryptonex will be in free trade on centralized exchanges in October–November 2017, as soon as the backoffice and the web wallet are launched.

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