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Table of content
- Blockchain Technology 101
Blockchain roundup: Invaluable advice from top blockchain experts
Blockchain: A technical primer
by Greg Brady
- Blockchain Technology 101
- Blockchain Advanced Development
From Java to blockchain: How to become a blockchain developer
Interview with Eugene Kyselev
dApps 101: Tips and tricks to get you started
by Michael Kordvani
Making smart contracts safe with Hyperledger Sawtooth
Interview with Dan Middleton
“The currently unrivaled programming language for smart contracts is Solidity for the Ethereum blockchain”
Interview with Alfred Shaffir
Programming a crypto mining rig: How does it work?
by Amir Gvili
How Can Blockchain Technology Help Boost Cyber Security?
by Victor Stolyarenko
- Blockchain Advanced Development
- Blockchain Impact & Strategy
Overledger aims to open blockchain’s “borders” and facilitate development of multi-chain applications
Interview with Paolo Tasca
School is in session: Blockchain education is needed ahead of mainstream adoption
by Nicola Stojano
- Blockchain Impact & Strategy
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Recommended Download: Creating sustainable digital token economies within open s... (outlierventures.io)This white paper is a review of the current state of the ICO (initial coin offering) phenomena that has emerged since 2013, and has now gone mainstream in the early part of 2017.
It discusses its benefits as an innovation, primarily to better enable open source communities to self-finance and realise new decentralised digital economies that are inherently less fragile when compared to traditional venture capital backed models.
It looks pragmatically at the flaws of ICOs and how they can be improved upon. In particular, we provide an analysis of a trend we are seeing organically emerge from the space called ‘Community Token Economies’ (CTE).
This is where multiple parties join forces to realise what we have termed Minimum Viable Community (MVC) in order to achieve network effects more efficiently and rapidly compared to going it alone. Finally, we describe the implementation of a new framework being developed at Outlier Ventures to allow this to happen in a more structured and effective manner.
Our aim is to ensure these new digital economies are increasingly self-sustaining.
CONTENTS
1 The Opportunities & Challenges of Tokens
2 Stronger Together: the Community Token Economy
3 Main Concepts
4 Planning and Phases
5 CTE Economics
6 Technical Scoping & Decision-Making
7 Governance Models 8 Corporate Structuring 9 Bringing the CTE Concept to Life
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Maria Gimeno Very interesting. Difficult for me to read everything but every little bit i will read makes me more knowledgeable. I have read a lot about White Papers on the last month... at least I see how difficult and complicated is to create this. The link is very good too.
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Smart contracts may only see limited real-world applications in the near future, according to a new research paper.
The paper, released by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (a New York-based trade group for over-the-counter derivatives firms) and London-based law firm Linklaters LLP, casts a broad overview on smart contracts and distributed ledger tech.
The ISDA, formed in the 1980's, counts more than 800 firms among its membership, according to the group's website.It notably posits that the use of such contracts, which are self-executing pieces of code tied to certain conditions, are more likely to be used only in particular instances.The paper's authors argue:"Certain operational clauses within legal contracts lend themselves to being automated. Other non-operational clauses – for instance, the governing law of a contract – are less susceptible to being expressed in machine-readable code. Some legal clauses are subjective or require interpretation, which also creates challenges."
Operational clauses, according to the paper, refer to more objective legal actions, for example one that requires a payment on a certain date based on an amount calculated by the nature of a work."It is assumed the most likely implementations of smart contracts in the near term will relate to operational clauses...rather than to non-operational clauses," the report reads.
Non-operational clauses, on the other hand, are more subjective to human interpretations, such as when the law should be applied under certain conditions. The paper's authors state that in their view, programmable contracts bay not be able to account for the subjective nuances that exist in human interpretation.
"For example, if an event of default occurs under an ISDA Master Agreement, this gives the non-defaulting party the right to terminate outstanding transactions.
But the non-defaulting party might decide it does not want to exercise such a termination right at that time...depending on the commercial and relationship context at the time of the event, the nature of the default, and other external factors," the paper noted.
But even within those operational clauses, the authors suggest that a more standardized definition of complicated terms and activities need to be outlined before the smart contracts can be put into work.
"This would require... continue reading: https://www.coindesk.com/legal-experts-blockchain-smart-contracts-spark-interpretation-challenges/
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Realizing the Potential of Blockchain
A Multistakeholder Approach to the Stewardship of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, could soon give rise to a new era of the Internet even more disruptive and transformative than the current one. Blockchain's ability to generate unprecedented opportunities to create and trade value in society will lead to a generational shift in the Internet's evolution, from an Internet of Information to a new generation Internet of Value.
The key to enabling this transition is the formation of a multistakeholder consensus around how the technology functions, its current and potential applications and how to create the regulatory, cultural and organizational conditions for it to succeed.
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Blockchain is a big buzzword in technology right now. But when I talk to customers, it quickly becomes clear that many people don’t fully understand what blockchain is—or how to use it. To help shed some light on what you really need to focus on as you consider the adoption of a blockchain strategy for the coming year, review these three points:Understand it’s a hammer, not a screwdriver.
Since everyone is talking about blockchain, it’s easy for companies to latch onto the general concept without keeping their organization’s unique use case in mind. So if you think you might be interested in a blockchain strategy, the first thing you need to grasp fully is what blockchain is and isn’t. While I’m a big fan of blockchain technology, it’s not a panacea for every problem—to fully leverage its value, you need to know what this technology excels at doing, and what it doesn’t do particularly well.
In its simplest form, blockchains distribute data and once distributed, the information is persistent, redundant, and accessible. Persistent in that it is nearly impossible to remove data that has been published. Additionally, blockchains have this quality because all full nodes contain a complete copy of the full data set that makes up the blockchain.
Public blockchains, like the Bitcoin blockchain, are also globally accessible. If you have internet access, you can view the Bitcoin blockchain. It allows digital information to be distributed rather than copied. You might think of it like having a spreadsheet or database that is regularly duplicated and continuously updated across a network of devices. Why is this important to know? Because it can help you hone in on what the actual benefits of blockchain are, and what specific problems you can solve with it.
A key point is that the records blockchain keeps are easily verifiable and protected since the database does not have a single storage location that a cyber thief can access. As I’ll describe more below, this can be of great benefit in a wide number of industries, including the mortgage industry. While you may be able to rattle off an impressive description of blockchain from a technical perspective though, the key here is to be sure that you know the best way to use the tool.
Think about this analogy: You have a screwdriver, but you need to pound in a nail. While you can certainly turn the screwdriver around and start whacking the nail with the screwdriver’s handle, that’s not really what a screwdriver is designed to do. You can probably get a nail hammered in with this solution, but there’s a better tool available to help you do it. If you don’t use a hammer to pound in your nails, then you’re working less efficiently than you could be.It’s the same with blockchain. I get a lot of questions from companies about whether they can “make” blockchain perform certain functions that it technically can do, but that it’s not really designed to do well.
For example, since blockchain is conceptually a type of database, people often think they can solve database problems with it. The litmus test for this is to ask yourself whether you could solve the problem with Oracle. If you can, then just do that—it will likely be easier and cheaper. If not and you are looking to create persistent, redundant, shareable data, blockchain technology might be worth exploring.
So as you consider implementing a blockchain strategy, your first goal is to use it for the right things. Look around your organization for screws that need tightening, not nails that need hammering. In other words, understand what blockchains are fundamentally best at doing. In the mortgage industry, that is the ability to provide the same level of preservation of information, document integrity, and tamper seals around documents without requiring e-signatures.
Know how deep you want to goOnce you understand how you can effectively use blockchain, the second point to consider with a blockchain strategy is, how deeply do you want to dive into becoming a blockchain subject matter expert? When it comes to blockchain integration, it’s certainly one option to just subscribe directly to public blockchain and then have your developers write their own code on top of these open-source projects.
But if you’re really considering doing this, think about how deep your R&D department really is. This level of coding is painstaking, highly technical work—most companies don’t have this capability, and for a good reason, since it’s expensive and not very practical to hire at this level. Most organizations neither want nor need to build their entire blockchain platform from scratch; they simply need access to existing business applications to solve their problems.
The way to get to these solutions more quickly and efficiently is to look for a third-party blockchain company that already has built a platform to do what you need to be done.The bottom line here is that you need to decide how committed you are to developing your own in-house solution for blockchain. You can’t really dabble in this type of technology. You must either be deeply committed to it and have the R&D depth in-house to support that commitment, or else you need to partner with a company that has expertise in this area to run your strategy for you.
I think this is a bit of a no-brainer in that blockchain technology is too new to make it cost effective to hire a team of experienced developers to play around all day and come up with concepts. A smarter strategy is to find a partner that offers a blockchain platform built to specifically serve your industry. This saves your own developers from reinventing the wheel to figure out how the technology works. If you’re an enterprise that doesn’t want to be in the blockchain business but simply wants to use blockchain wisely, then there’s no point wasting resources on the learning curve.
Sort the wheat from the chaffAfter reviewing the two strategies above, you’ve decided that you want to partner with a blockchain provider. Today, there are thousands of blockchain companies pushing their wares. How do you choose? The answer is: based on the experience that they provide. Frankly, the vast majority of blockchain companies have yet to build anything and have no live customers. They may have an idea or even a proven concept, but only a small handful of these thousands have live blockchain solutions in production.
One of those companies is Factom—and we’re the only blockchain provider with specific mortgage expertise. Our product, Factom Harmony, uses both the transparency and the permanence of blockchain technology to help reduce expenses related to documentation, compliance, and litigation alike.... continue reading: http://www.themreport.com/headline/06-06-2017/3-things-need-2017-blockchain-strategy -
Aventus is a fair, secure, and transparent blockchain-based event ticketing solution that practically eliminates fraud and unregulated touting.
Organisers can create, manage and promote their events and tickets with dramatically reduced platform costs, and can set price controls and receive commissions on secondary market sales.
Aventus is a decentralised protocol creating a less fraudulent and tout-filled event ticketing industry.
The protocol's token Avent ("AVT") is key to enforcing its economic model. Its purpose is to reward participants for providing value (e.g. voting on the legitimacy of events, buying tickets, promoting events, and matching buyers and ticket resellers)...
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Making decentralized organizations viable.While creating the easiest way to operate decentralized organizations, we figured out there are a couple issues yet to be solved: Upgradeability and decentralized arbitration.
The Aragon Network will provide those services to subscribed organizations. Moreover, it’ll provide a built-in governance system — by using the Aragon Network Token, ANT — so the organizations using it will decide which services are provided, their cost, and other parameters.
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https://chronobank.io/files/whitepaper.pdf
What is ChronoBank.io?ChronoBank.io is an ambitious and wide-ranging blockchain project, aimed at disrupting the HR/recruitment/finance industries in a similar way to how Uber disrupted the taxi business and how Upwork represented an evolution in freelancing.
At ChronoBank.io, we are challenging the status quo and bringing an alternative to traditional financial systems.This alternative is a new generation of time-based currencies utilising the latest developments in blockchain technology. Despite soaring interest in distributed ledger technology, there are currently very few blockchain apps poised for mainstream market adoption.ChronoBank.io has been designed by a consortium of professionals with over 100 years of combined recruitment experience, in consultation with experts who can create the software to leverage blockchain technology to solve real-world business problems.
Specifically, we want to create a revolution in short-term recruitment within key professions.Our goal is to make a difference to the way people find work and are rewarded for their labour – doing so within a decentralised framework and without the involvement of traditional financial institutions...
https://chronobank.io/
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Whitepaper introduction
Digital content distribution media rarely innovate primarily because they are benefited with their classic business model. An example of this is the controversial copyright laws, which some states have reformulated (under pressure from copyright management entities) to protect the interests of an industry that does not seem to understand the nature of the internet. The result is a series of tensions where the interests of traditional industry collide with the right to information and access to culture. As a reflection of this malaise in the last decades numerous “free software”, “open source” or “copyleft” movements have emerged.
All of them use copyright as a means to subvert the restrictions traditionally imposed by the copyright industry on the distribution and development of knowledge.
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Abstract.
Blockchain-enabled smart contracts that employ proof-ofstake 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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