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FunFair Whitepaper

FunFair White Paper introduction
FunFair’s goal is a world of truly fair, decentralised online gaming powered by blockchain technology. To get there, we have built a robust protocol for trustless and decentralised casino gaming. To help establish it, we have also built the first plug-and-play casino platform which empowers a new generation of casinos, affiliates and developers. Leveraging the transparency and security of the blockchain, the FunFair protocol and platform are the foundation for a pioneering gaming ecosystem which links all participants in real time. A fairer, more user-friendly experience for players and a more efficient tool for the industry, our innovative casino technology is set to revolutionise online gaming.

According to the UK Gambling Commission, trust in gaming and overall public attitudes to gaming are in decline. By delivering unprecedented transparency and player protection through decentralised, provably fair technology, FunFair is set to reverse these trends.

FunFair’s blockchain gaming solution offers fast, low cost, user friendly and provably fair games while delivering the high quality of mobile-friendly entertainment and production values that today’s gamers demand.

Our casino gaming protocol and technology platform enable one of the first commercially viable blockchain applications and have been designed to run at mass market scale. Built on the Ethereum blockchain, Funfair’s protocol employs a combination of smart contracts, proprietary Fate Channels and the FUN utility tokenii to power a global network of completely transparent, secure casinos.

FunFair’s Fate Channels, an advanced version of state channel technology, allow player and operator to transact in real time with far lower gas costs than other blockchain applications. This unique approach to off-chain scaling enables an almost limitless numbers of players, bets and wins, as well as real time provably fair random number generation.

3 The platform features FunFair’s own high-quality 3D games built to HTML5 and WebGL standards, with games from independent developers to be added as the platform progresses. The platform’s open architecture, designed by developers for developers, aims to create the leading marketplace for blockchain casino game content.

Having completed the pioneering FunPass ID verification process, players can access any FunFair-powered casino with one click. Games are fun, fast and provably fair, with random numbers and game code easily verifiable at the click of a button. There’s no need to deposit in order to play, with funds – in the form of FUN tokens – for each gaming session sent to a secure, transparent escrow on the blockchain rather than a casino’s account. For the first time, winnings are paid instantly, irrespective of size.

For the new breed of operators, white labels and affiliates, our technology offers faster integration, dramatically lower costs, an end to payments and game fraud and access to a growing audience of premium value, crypto-savvy players. With the evolution of our revolutionary Fate Channels technology, the FunFair protocol will enable a new age of fairer, more efficient, more secure and more user-friendly gaming.

FunFair Technologies was founded in 2017 by gaming veterans Jez San OBE, Jeremy Longley and Oliver Hopton. Just 15 months after a Token Presale which generated $26 million in contributions, the FunFair platform went live with the launch of its first casino.

FunFair now has over 50 staff including blockchain engineers, game developers and executives from leading B2B and B2C global gaming companies. With the launch of more FunFair-powered casinos later this year, we will cement our position as the global leader in blockchain gaming technology.

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Steem Whitepaper

Steem is a blockchain database that supports community building and social interaction with cryptocurrency rewards. Steem combines concepts from social media with lessons learned from building cryptocurrencies and their communities. An important key to inspiring participation in any community, currency or free market economy is a fair accounting system that consistently reflects each person’s contribution. Steem is the first cryptocurrency that attempts to accurately and transparently reward an unbounded number of individuals who make subjective contributions to its community.

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Ontology Whitepaper

Throughout history people have established trust through technology, rule of law, and communities.

However, trust and collaboration between entities involves multiple sources and isolated systems, which means it can be costly, and therefore hinders the breadth and depth of collaboration potential. Although the technology has advanced a great deal in recent times, too many factors are still hindering collaboration with trust. These include fragmentation of trust systems, the missing role of the individual, inaccurate identity verification, inability to dispute false information, etc. In areas such as social governance, economic cooperation, and financial services, the cost of establishing trust is huge.

The decentralized, tamper-proof blockchain has brought trust through technology to certain industries, however, further integrative mechanisms are needed to join together diverse trust systems and applications into a single new trust ecosystem.

Ontology establishes the connecting infrastructure for a trust ecosystem, with effective coordination of trust and data sources, as well as providing the infrastructure for distributed application development. 1 This paper focuses on Ontology’s technological framework, key technology principles, and core protocols.

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Zilliqa Whitepaper

Existing cryptocurrencies and smart contract platforms are known to have scalability issues, i.e., the number of transactions they are capable of processing per second is limited, usually less than 10. As the number of applications utilizing public cryptocurrencies and smart contract platforms grow, the demand for processing high transaction rates in the order of hundreds and thousands of Tx/s is increasing.

In this work, we present ZILLIQA— a new blockchain platform that is designed to scale in transaction rates. As the number of miners in ZILLIQA increases, its transaction rates are expected to increase. At Ethereum’s present network size of 30,000 miners, ZILLIQA would expect to process about a thousand times the transaction rates of Ethereum. The cornerstone in ZILLIQA’s design is the idea of sharding — dividing the mining network into smaller shards each capable of processing transactions in parallel.

ZILLIQA further proposes an innovative special-purpose smart contract language and execution environment that leverages the underlying architecture to provide a large scale and highly efficient computation platform. The smart contract language in ZILLIQA follows a dataflow programming style which makes it ideal for running large-scale computations that can be easily parallelized. Examples include simple computations such as search, sort and linear algebra computations, to more complex computations such as training neural nets, data mining, financial modeling, scientific computing and in general any MapReduce task.

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Augur Whitepaper

Augur whitepaper introduction

Augur is a trustless, decentralized oracle and platform for prediction markets, leveraging blockchain technology to create a system where users can bet on the outcomes of real-world events. These prediction markets can cover a wide range of topics, from political elections to sports events, providing a unique way for people to speculate on future outcomes.

At the core of Augur’s functionality is its native token, Reputation (REP), which plays a crucial role in the platform’s governance and decision-making processes. Users who hold REP tokens are responsible for reporting the outcomes of prediction markets. By staking their tokens on the actual observed outcome, they participate in the consensus process and, in return, earn settlement fees from the markets. This creates a financial incentive for accurate and honest reporting.

To ensure the integrity of the platform, Augur has implemented a dispute resolution mechanism. If a market outcome is contested, token holders can post progressively larger Reputation bonds to challenge the proposed outcome. Should these disputes escalate, Reputation tokens split into multiple versions, each representing a different possible outcome. Token holders are then required to choose one version of Reputation, and only the version that aligns with the real-world outcome will retain its value. This system is designed to ensure that markets are accurately resolved, maintaining trust in the platform.

In essence, Augur’s incentive structure, based on the value of Reputation tokens, ensures that honest reporting is always the most profitable option for participants. This design aims to create a self-sustaining ecosystem where prediction markets are reliable, and outcomes are determined by consensus rather than centralized authorities. Augur’s decentralized nature and focus on trustless interactions make it a pioneering platform in the realm of blockchain-based prediction markets.

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Ethereum Classic Whitepaper

Into the Ether with Ethereum Classic The Store-of-Value Commodity to Power the Internet of Things
Matthew Beck, CFA | March 2017

In this next wave of the digital revolution, digital currencies have emerged as what many believe to be the greatest innovation since the advent of the internet. For the first time in history, value can be sent anywhere in the world at the same speed as information in a secure and trustless way. However, digital currencies are more than just payment facilitators. They offer an alternative to the economic, political, and social systems run by a handful of large institutions. Powered by millions of peers within globally distributed networks, digital currencies are democratizing information and value in
incredible new ways.

We believe in a future of multiple digital assets, each with unique comparative advantages that enable them to play distinct roles in driving economic growth and in diversifying investment portfolios.

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BitShares Whitepaper

BitShares is a technology supported by next generation entrepreneurs, investors, and developers with a common interest in finding free market solutions by leveraging the power of globally decentralized consensus and decision making. Consensus technology has the power to do for economics what the internet did for information. It can harness the combined power of all humanity to coordinate the discovery and aggregation of real-time knowledge, previously unobtainable. This knowledge can be used to more effectively coordinate the allocation of resources toward their most productive and valuable use.

WHAT IS BITSHARES
We have compiled some articles that give a brief overview on how BitShares started, evolved and why it is where it is today. We recognize that BitShares has changed significantly over the last years and now feel confident to have promising and very stable software that will improve steadily at a pace that partners and customers can follow easily.

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Qtum Whitepaper

Smart-Contract Value-Transfer Protocols on a Distributed Mobile Application Platform

Abstract. Blockchain-enabled smart contracts that employ proof-of stake validation for transactions, promise significant performance advantages compared to proof-of-work solutions. For broad industry adoption, other important requirements must be met in addition. For example, stable backwards-compatible smart-contract systems must automate cross-organizational information-logistics orchestration with lite mobile wallets that support simple payment verification (SPV) techniques. The currently leading smart-contract solution Ethereum, uses computationally expensive proof-of-work validation, is expected to hard-fork multiple times in the future and requires downloading the entire blockchain. Consequently, Ethereum smart contracts have limited utility and lack formal semantics, which is a security issue.

This whitepaper fills the gap in the state of the art by presenting the Qtum smart-contract framework that aims for sociotechnical application suitability, the adoption of formalsemantics language expressiveness, and the provision of smart-contract template libraries for rapid best-practice industry deployment. We discuss the Qtum utility advantages compared to the Ethereum alternative and present Qtum smart-contract future development plans for industrycases
applications.

Key words: smart contract, business network model, DAPP, mobile, information logistics, cross-organizational, peer-to-peer, distributed system, e-governance, Qtum framework

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Wanchain Whitepaper

Digital currency, represented by Bitcoin andb Ethereum, is blazing through traditionalb financial systems with the force of a prairie fire. Although blockchain technology is still in the initial stages of development, its transparent bmechanisms and open concepts show btremendous vitality. Wanchain seeks to link the present to the future, through the exploration and implementation of blockchain technology. Wanchain aims to build a distributed “bank”. bJust as traditional banks are the
infrastructure of the current financial framework, Wanchain seeks to build a new, distributed infrastructure of digital assets to form an improved, modern framework – an ambitious goal indeed.

Wanchain connects and exchanges value between different blockchain ledgers in a distributed manner. It uses the latest cryptographic
theories to build a non-proprietary cross-chain protocol and a distributed ledger that records both cross-chain and intra-chain transactions. Any blockchain network, whether a public, private or consortium chain, can integrate with Wanchain to establish connections between different ledgers and perform low cost inter-ledger asset transfers. The Wanchain ledger supports not only smart contracts, but also token exchange privacy protection.

With Wanchain, any institution or individual can set up their own virtual teller window in the “bank” and provide services such as loan origination, asset exchanges, credit payments and transaction settlements based on digital assets. Under the guarantee of “banks” based on the blockchain infrastructure, more people can participate in financial services based on digital assets. To describe it more accurately, Wanchain is a distributed super-financial market based on blockchain.

Wanchain Whitepaper

OmiseGO Whitepaper

OmiseGO: Decentralized Exchange and Payments Platform

Abstract
OmiseGO is building a decentralized exchange, liquidity provider mechanism, clearinghouse messaging network, and asset-backed blockchain gateway. OmiseGO is not owned by any single one party. Instead, it is an open distributed network of validators which enforce behavior of all participants. It uses the mechanism of a protocol token to create a proof-of-stake blockchain to enable enforcement of market activity amongst participants. This high-performant distributed network enforces exchange across asset classes, from fiat-backed issuers to fully decentralized blockchain tokens (ERC-20 style and native cryptocurrencies). Unlike nearly all other decentralized exchange platforms, this allows for decentralized exchange of other blockchains and between multiple blockchains directly without a trusted gateway token. Markets may be able to significantly reduce spreads and encourage market assurance via decentralizing custody and increased transparency of market activity. This is achieved using smart contracts, protocol tokens enforcing correct market behavior of orderbook matching, a new construction of Ethereum bonded external enforcement of clearinghouse activity, and commitments to historical exchange data for use with Ethereum smart contracts.

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