GANA Technologies Completes a Successful Private Token Sale, Prepares to Start Public Sale on May 21

Green and Nature Association (GANA) Technologies, provides AI and blockchain technology based solutions to the cannabis industry. GANA is all set to start the public sale after a 100% successful private sale of 10K ETH. GANA’s vision is to become the biggest data holder in the cannabis industry. Accordingly, consult new and existing cannabis businesses and provide more healthier and efficient service to cannabis users.

May 16, 2018

Following the end of a successful private token sale, Green and Nature Association (GANA) Technology is delighted to announce the official start of the public sale of GANA token on May 21.  This blockchain start-up promises to be a gamechanger in the cannabis sector by providing blockchain and AI technologies solutions to individuals and research institutes through an ecosystem that collects and shares key industry data. A total supply of 2,400,000,000 GANA tokens will be up for sale during the first public sale to be conducted by GANA Technologies.

Over the last few years, the field of AI has progressed in leaps and bounds in almost all industries. However, when it comes to decision making, there has always been a constant debate over the ethical responsibilities of AI. In case of the medical industry including that of Cannabis, a thorough management of such AI’s must be undertaken.

The GANA ecosystem looks to solve the inadequacies of the current cannabis industry by collecting data from the users, retailers, researchers, and other data sources and providing target-based content provision. Utilizing the groundbreaking blockchain technology, GANA ensures transparent data management for providing valuable information to both the consumers and companies. By offering quality authentication system and business intelligence platform, they want to provide an artificial intelligence based personal assistance service to cannabis users. The ultimate goal for GANA is to become the largest data holder in the global cannabis industry.

Some of the key benefits of the new concept created by GANA Technologies are

  • Product quality authentication system: A blockchain based authentication system that tracks seed-to-sale process using QR code.
  • Artificial intelligence based image recognition: GANA is currently working on developing a function of mobile application that can scan a bud and calculate the possibilities of containing substances using artificial intelligence based image recognition technology.
  • Collecting consumer data: GANA aims on collecting consumer data to carry out consumer analytics just like Amazon, Facebook and YouTube. By analyzing data generated by the users, they are looking to provide more optimized recommendations.
  • Personal assistant service: This feature will be particularly useful for the new cannabis users that do not know which type to consume in a given situation and purpose.
  • Business intelligence platform: Cannabis companies often have customer data that can be used for understanding them better and creating better services or products, but lack the knowledge to deal with those data. GANA aspires to become their consultants by sharing the data and artificial intelligence based analysis tools to provide insights for their business.
  • Payment system: Users can use GANA payment to purchase products, services and digital contents using GANA tokens.

“GANA Technologies provides blockchain and AI technologies solutions which are required by individuals and research institutes through establishing an ecosystem that collects and shares cannabis industry data with lagged technology,” says Gapseong Noh, the CEO and Founder of GANA Technologies.

The upcoming public sale of GANA tokens will take place over four different rounds.
Mentioned below are some key points related to this taken sale.

  • Total token amount: 2,400,000,000 GANA
  • Token rate: 1 ETH= 20,000 GANA
  • Bonus rate: 1ETH = 20,000 + 0 ~ 2,000 GANA (+ 0 ~ 10% bonus)
  • Hard cap = 60,000 ETH
  • Coin allocation: GANA sale 50%, reserve pool 15%, team 15%, advisors and partners 10%, and company 10%.

To find out more about Green and Nature Association (GANA) Technologies, please visit https://ganacoin.io/ico

About GANA Technologies: GANA Technologies provides optimized blockchain and AI technologies based solutions to individuals and research institutes by establishing an ecosystem which collects and shares data from the cannabis industry. The data learned by their AI model is based on data collected by the users themselves. This makes the users themselves part of the indirect developers of such models since GANA provides full authorities to the type and range of their data for learning. GANA aims on providing transparent management of development process to establish trust with users.

Contact:  Ellie

Website: https://ganacoin.io/ico

Email: [email protected]

Reshaping Shopping with Blockchain and AI — OSA DC Launches Token Sale

After generating more than $1 million in revenue through its platform ALREADY used by 20 retailers, OSA DC plans to scale its model of blockchain transparency and AI efficiency to thousands of supermarkets and retail stores worldwide. While saving retailers billions, the company’s platform will empower shoppers with real-time competitive pricing, product details, and peer reviews on every product they buy before making a purchase.

New York, N.Y, May 15, 2018 – OSA Decentralized (OSA DC), a team of experts in artificial intelligence, blockchain technology and the retail industry, has launched a token sale. The company’s goal is to use capital raised in the sale to scale their AI-powered blockchain platform and provide the entire retail industry with a much-needed digital overhaul.

Due to antiquated, analog-based systems still used in product ordering, shipping, and inventory management, retailers lose more than $400 billion each year. This also causes overstocking or under stocking, as many stores fail in their efforts to manage inventory based on customer demand. Supermarkets and grocery store chains lose an additional $100 billion annually when high volumes of unsold perishable foods pass their expiration dates and are discarded.

OSA DC’s data and retail experts are dedicated to bringing order to the industry’s chaos by leveraging their AI, blockchain and smart contract technology. This will ensure that every bit of data generated by manufacturers, farmers, shipping companies, or grocery stores on a retailer’s supply chain is tracked by everyone else. Because of the transparent and incorruptible technical characteristics of a distributed ledger system that defines blockchain technology, OSA is confident there will be greater trust between retailers and their partners and product waste will be eliminated.

There’s a massive shift underway in retail right now. Supermarket chains in every country are trashing their antiquated, untrainable retail management software programs and replacing them with trainable, cloud-based algorithms and in-store robots enhanced with artificial intelligence,” said Alex Isaev, CEO of OSA DC. In fact, according to an economic forecast published by the International Data Corporation (IDC), retailers worldwide are spending $3.4 billion — this year alone — on a range of AI systems, including robotic shopping assistants and omnichannel operations. “With so many retailers rushing to integrate AI, the first company to create a blockchain-based platform to accelerate that growth has a huge opportunity to dominate the market. We are that company.

2,285,714,285 OSA tokens have been issued with 45% of tokens (1,028,571,428) available for purchase during the sale (1 OSA token = 0.0002 ETH). The company anticipates it will raise up to $40 million in the offering, with 39% of the funds to be used for Product Catalogue and Image Recognition Development, 21% to be invested in Core Product Development, 18% to be invested in R&D, and 17% to support Business Development. OSA DC’s goal is to use capital raised in the sale to enrich the existing solution with image recognition model and comprehensive product master data catalogue, mount it on AI-powered decentralized blockchain platform and scale it starting with the biggest markets – USA, China, Japan and South Korea and eventually worldwide.

Consumers will be able to use OSA Tokens to pay for B2C services, receive exclusive promotional offers and, of course, purchase groceries at major supermarket chains in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region.  Managers at partnering supermarkets agree with OSA’s founding team of data scientists that cryptocurrencies, including OSA tokens, will be a standard, widely-accepted form of currency at grocery stores and retailers worldwide. Currently in the U.S., 13 national retailers now have payment options for cryptocurrencies.

Since it was founded in 2015, OSA DC has generated more than $1 million in revenue by partnering with 20 retailers. The company provides services to major international brands including Coca-Cola, Mars, L’Oreal, Nestle, and Metro Cash & Carry.

For both retailers and brands, the company deployed the OSA Hybrid Platform, an AI-powered, Big Data platform that autonomously manages a store’s inventory, drastically reducing the frequency of out-of-stock items and improving revenues by an average of 5.4 . After 3 years of R&D and testing the platform through its partnership with Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), an organization representing more than 70 of Europe’s leading manufacturers and retailers, OSA DC’s founders are ready to deliver their platform and proven solutions to retailers and supermarket chains worldwide.  

In my 50 years in the industry, I’ve developed and executed many systemic changes in retail operations”, said Don Swann, former Walmart executive and currently the President and CEO of Cygnus Familia. “Of all the changes I’ve made to make my stores more efficient, none have had the full potential and customer trust that I’ve seen with the OSA Hybrid Platform.  This is truly a game changer!

Blockchain records, stores, and tracks complex digital transactions and detailed product data and then makes the data accessible to everyone on a retailer’s supply chain. Due to these functions, blockchain’s democratic, transparent technology is likely to have the greatest impact on consumers. Whether information is delivered to them through a smartphone app or a speaking, artificially-intelligent robot assistant in every store, shoppers will have access to a wealth of data about every product they’re considering for purchase while they’re in the store shopping.

With the unprecedented buying power it implies, shoppers will access competitive pricing information, extensive details about the ingredients of a food product, and whether it meets the specifications of their diet. In-store robots can instantly access and update what the robot “sees” when the shopper walks into the store. Consumers will know the name and address of the farm where a chicken they’re buying was raised or, if they’re about to buy a tuna from the “Fresh Fish” section of a grocery store, they’ll know instantly when and where the tuna was caught. Of course, they’ll also know whether the store’s advertising is accurate because they will be aware if the fish is authentically “fresh”.

All of this data – and much more – will give consumers a level of authority in retail they’ve never had previously. The emergence of well-informed, powerful shoppers explains why supermarkets are scrambling to be the first in their geographic or vertical retail market to integrate AI and blockchain technologies. Embracing such technology now will do much more than save retailers money and minimize waste; it will also give consumers the power and respect they have long sought from retailers for generations.

To learn more about OSA DC, the token sale, or to join a conversation, click a link below:

During the sale, 100 OSA Tokens will be given away daily to one lucky whitelist subscriber. Interested? Visit: http://www.osadc.io/en/100token-rules

To learn more about OSA DC and participate in the token sale, visit: www.osadc.io

To join the conversation on Telegram and speak with the company’s

founders and developers, visit: www.t.me/OSADC_Announcements

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With expertise in AI, blockchain, and retail-focused technology, the OSA DC team is ready to give shoppers the power and respect they deserve.

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Reporters interested in scheduling a phone or in-person interview with an OSA manager should call (510) 677-2947.

 

Blockchain Powered E-commerce Platform Elysian Looks to Build Trust between Businesses and Consumers by Redefining Security and Efficiency

Elysian, a blockchain based startup, is all set to create a relationship of trust between the businesses and consumers in e-commerce like never before by addressing the most common shortcomings of this thriving industry. This decentralized ecosystem will drastically transform the standard e-commerce business model by ensuring faster delivery, secure customer data storage and identity theft protection.  

Elysian is making quick inroads towards their pursuit to deliver a decentralized e-commerce platform with innovative security and revolutionary user experience. A blockchain based ecosystem, Elysian will be the first e-commerce platform to integrate blockchain for the secure storage of all customer data and utilize the technological advances such as Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality to deliver an unprecedented user experience.

Business to consumer (B2C) e-commerce is a massive global market, expected to generate global sales exceeding $4 trillion by 2021. However, the lack of trustworthy cyber security, primarily in the form of identity theft, remains to be a serious concern for the industry. Moreover, the cryptocurrency enthusiasts all over the world are still waiting for an e-commerce platform that will accept cryptocurrency in exchange for all their products and services. From an overall perspective, till now, the industry still has much room for improvement in terms of user experience, specifically by integrating new types of technologies.

Elysian makes e-commerce trustworthy by creating an improved level of data storage security by using the Proof-of-Authority algorithm. This will ensure the creation of an ecosystem with a private blockchain to store encrypted credit card information and other user data securely over a distributed network.  With the application of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality, it will allow shoppers the freedom to shop at home in an intimate environment and still enjoy a level of engagement that is similar to an in-store experience. Built on the Ethereum network, the Elysian system will be fuelled by the ELYCOIN (ELY) tokens.

Elysian clients will be able to use the platform for their own businesses, providing an upgraded level of functionality. In case of businesses that will enter the space in the future, the platform will act as a foundation. Elysian will essentially function as an intermediary between their own clients and their target consumers. The third-party agencies will also be able to host their current clients’ platforms on Elysian.

In order to promote engagement and interaction between the Elysian team and the community, the Elysian growth pool has been designed. The percentage of tokens allocated to this pool is integrated into the ecosystem in a way that provides a legitimate utility for the token.  Unlike many other crypto startups, Elysian has created a model for community expansion by prioritizing the relationship between the team and the supporters through the growth pool.

Elysian has recently partnered with Lamden, a promising blockchain platform that helps developers create blockchains and applications.  Another mutually beneficial partnership was signed recently with a marketing-based blockchain integration project named Sether.  Some other key partners of Elysian are the decentralized payment network Havven, blockchain development agency Applicature, blockchain consultants Linhart, and IdentityMind.

Elysian is the brainchild of a team of e-commerce and cryptocurrency experts led by the organization’s CEO and founder Leo Ameri, a technology entrepreneur with successful stints in multiple e-commerce stores. The company’s impressive line-up of advisors includes Stuart Farmer, the CEO of Lamden and Logic Labs Ltd, serial entrepreneur Geoffrey McCabe, fintech advisor Graham Doggart, blockchain advisor Anders Larsson, and many others.   

The long-term business model envisioned by Elysian will serve as the gateway to the future of Ecommerce, with the implementation of technological advancements that may even lead to a hyperbolic growth.

“People need to understand that Cryptocurrencies are nothing without us, but united we are unstoppable. Whoever ignores this fact isn’t ready for the future of transparency,” said Leo Ameri, the CEO and founder of Elysian.

To find out more, please visit https://elycoin.io/

About Elysian: Elysian is an innovative new decentralized platform that will use the Ethereum blockchain to secure customer data, facilitate Ecommerce transactions, and drastically change user experience. The integration of smart contracts and blockchain technology will ultimately provide a higher level of security in the realm of Ecommerce. The interoperability of the platform will serve as the basis for future scalability and sustainable growth.

Contact: Ioan Hategan – CMO

Website: https://elycoin.io/

Email: [email protected]

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain Super Conference II Promises to Reveal New Profit Opportunities from the Next Bitcoin Bull Run

DALLAS, TX – In February, the Bitcoin Ethereum and Blockchain Super Conference brought together hundreds of cryptocurrency and blockchain enthusiasts, investors, and leaders. Now, the organizer and host, Richard Jacobs, is hosting a second conference at Dallas this September.

Mr. Jacobs says the Bitcoin, Ethereum & Blockchain Super Conference II will disclose new information –  revealed by select industry leaders – that elevates cryptocurrency and blockchain investment opportunities to the next level.

Tickets for the conference are available now.

“Before I even made it home from the first conference, my inbox was overflowing with emails asking when we were having a second conference, and how they could secure a ticket early”, said Mr. Jacobs.

“Right then, I knew we had a responsibility to take everything to the next level.”

Mr. Jacobs took the overwhelming response seriously. The new conference, coming to Dallas this September, is appropriately dubbed the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain Super Conference II.

Richard Jacobs, the organizer of the Bitcoin, Ethereum & Blockchain Super Conference II, is also the publisher of Future Tech Podcast, Crypto News Insider, and the author of the book Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain: Surprising Insights from 200+ Podcast Interviews of Industry Insiders.

The main focus of this second conference will be on the next bull run of Bitcoin, which, just like with the 2017 bull run, could happen at any moment. This time around, informed investors who buy in early before the price shoots could be the next class of “crypto millionaires”.

Tickets are on sale at the Super Conference website:

https://www.thefuturetechexpo.com/register/

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Press contact:

Richard Jacobs

[email protected]

(888) 448-4590

About the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain Super Conference II:

This three-day conference will be held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas from Friday September 14th to Sunday September 16th, 2018. We are expecting more than 1,000 attendees, at least 50 headline speakers, and upward of 50 exhibitors – with talks from founders, developers, and early-stage investors of cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups, including many that are planning ICOs throughout the last quarter of 2018 and 2019. The focus will be on the next crypto market cycle.

More information is available at:

https://www.thefuturetechexpo.com/register/

Stratis Makes Smart Contracts On Blockchain Easy For Developers and Enterprise Via C# and .NET Simplicity

Stratis, the company making blockchain easy, today announces their Stratis Smart Contracts in C# alpha release.

Stratis Smart Contracts in C# is designed to be the most inclusive and easiest-to-learn platform for developers, businesses and other organizations.

Smart contracts are self-executing contracts capable of storing and distributing funds, cutting out any third parties, i.e. bankers, escrow services or stockbrokers. Terms between buyers and sellers are directly and securely written into lines of executable code. Through these pre-defined terms, the code and any agreements therein will then be governed across a distributed, decentralized and immutable blockchain network.

Stratis has engineered the first smart contracts platform built entirely from the ground up in native C# on the .NET framework, the most popular enterprise programming language on the most widely-used enterprise framework. This makes Stratis smart contracts easier to integrate into existing enterprise architectures by removing any barriers presented by new, proprietary computing languages. Additionally, Stratis will soon provide support for the functional programming language F#, particularly popular in the finance sector.

The current and potential uses of smart contracts are wide, including (but not limited to) auctions and peer-to-peer lending to investment funds, insurance settlements, real estate transactions, domain name registries, copyrights, and digital property ownership.

We believe smart contracts are one of the backbones of blockchain as a transparent, decentralized marketplace, and that the more inviting you can be to get people to join that marketplace, the faster blockchain will be adopted,” says Stratis CEO Chris Trew. “Our foundation in C# and .NET programming broadens the world of smart contracts immediately, and we look forward to seeing what people do with it.

Several other blockchain companies have launched smart contract offerings, but required development in an entirely different programming language or a new digital ecosystem with new languages, decompilers and integrated development environments (IDEs). Stratis Smart Contracts in C# builds upon an established and popularized framework, language and ecosystem. Therefore, it is more readily poised for wider adoption as a smart contract standard.

“Stratis believes blockchain will change the world, and we are creating products that make this new world as inclusive and welcoming as possible,” Trew says.

“Stratis Smart Contracts in C# is designed to welcome developers.” Stratis Smart Contracts in C# has been made available for download on Github here:

https://github.com/stratisproject/StratisBitcoinFullNode/tree/sc-alpha The Stratis Smart Contracts in C# release comes a week after Stratis’s production-ready ICO Platform and marks another essential milestone for Stratis’s Q2 2018 roadmap.

Watch Stratis CEO, Chris Trew, and Stratis Developer, Jordan Andrews, discuss Stratis Smart Contracts in C# here: https://youtu.be/dx_iCKGX6kc

 

To read more about Stratis Smart Contracts visit: https://stratisplatform.com/2018/05/16/stratis-smart-contracts-in-csharp/

 

A Game-Changing Blockchain Powered Insurance Provider

The use of blockchain in the insurance sector has been one of the major areas of interest as it has the potential to streamline the entire process, starting from buying a policy, to investigating incidents and fulfilling the claims. With the involvement of agents, middlemen and other third-party players, the sector currently lacks transparency.

Vernam, a decentralized peer-to-peer insurance platform is striving to overcome the shortcomings of the present-day insurance market by creating the world’s first zero-commission insurance on blockchain. The platform eliminates the involvement of brokers to provide a cost-efficient, data-driven, and transparent solution which could potentially bring savings of up to 30% on insurance premiums for customers.

In the past few years, the $4.57 trillion (2016 data) insurance industry has exhibited an average steady growth of about 3%, driving by rising demand for policies among individuals and businesses alike. However, its full potential is not tapped, thanks to the lack of transparency, corrupt and inept brokers and the prevalent culture bent on fleecing the insured. With the rising mobile phone density, developments in Artificial Intelligence and smart contract driven P2P technologies like blockchain, insurance companies can now directly deal with their customers while automating a significant portion of industry functions.

Purchasing Insurance, the Vernam Way

Vernam is in the vanguard of redefining the way people access insurance. The platform is keen to connect insurers directly with the people who would like to be insured. In the process, it eliminates the need for middlemen and their commissions. These savings, amounting up to 30% of the costs can then be passed on to customers in the form of cashbacks. Vernam is driven by its own Vernam Tokens (VRN), which acts as the preferred mode of payment on the platform. Customers who purchase insurance on the platform will receive cashbacks in the form on VRN, which can be later exchanged to fiat or used for VRN denominated purchases.

More Game-changing Products for the Insurance Sector

Vernam is keeping up with the evolving technology landscape and changing customer needs. The platform plans to introduce an insurance product that allows users to insure their crypto-assets over smart contracts. The product, to be called CryptoSafe will help cryptocurrency users mitigate their risk against specific losses.

Speaking during an investor briefing, the CEO and Co-Founder Roman Angelov

of Vernam said, “We are convinced that out product offering will benefit both insurance players and the consumers. There are lots of opportunities that both can leverage on. For the industry players, we are moving towards an industry that is shifting from intuition-based policy pricing to one that is based on data. Blockchain technology will allow the players to offer insurance products and assessment on an individual capacity thereby minimizing risk and increasing efficiency.”

Core Features of Vernam Platform

Some of the core features of the Vernam P2P insurance platform include:

  • The use of blockchain technology to provide targeted and specific policies to individual clients.
  • Bringing transparency to the industry with distributed ledger technology.
  • 0% commission on insurance products. Customers to get 30% cashback on insurance policies purchased on the platform.
  • Innovative smart contract based CryptoSafe insurance policy that guarantees compensation to the insured, should a defined set of events occur.

VRN Token Sale

Vernam is organizing a token sale, offering an opportunity for investors and crypto-community members to be part of the InsurTech revolution. The 20 day pre-sale is set to begin on May 15 with up to 40% bonus for early investors.  The crowd-sale will run from June 6th, 2018 until July 15th, 2018.  A total of 500 million VRN will be up for sale. The soft cap of 2.5 million USD has already been secured, so anyone interested in investing should probably hurry.

Learn more about the Vernam platform and its upcoming token sale at –  www.vernam.io

DasCoin set to SkyRocket after launching on Public Exchanges – DasCoin

DasCoin, the global blockchain technology solutions provider, looks set to skyrocket after listing on three public cryptocurrency exchanges following its public event, DasCoin: The Evolution of Money at the O2 Arena, London attracting more than 3,000 crypto enthusiasts.

CoinFalcon (https://coinfalcon.com) is one of the first exchanges to list DasCoin, along with BTC-Alpha and EUBX. The CoinFalcon listing, which appeared live on April 27 2018, includes trading pairs DasCoin (DASC) with BTC, ETH and Euro Trading and is part of the overall plan by DasCoin, branded The Currency of Trust, to bring crypto-currency to the mainstream. Across the three new exchanges, traders will be able to buy and sell DasCoin with USD, Euro, BTC and ETH.

DasCoin, founded in 2016 by visionary Michael Mathias, draws on the strengths of both traditional currencies  and emerging digital currencies while addressing their weaknesses. Its super-fast blockchain has capacity to process up to 100,000 transactions per second and it is built upon Graphene technology and BitShares, a peer-to-peer, decentralized, distributed ledger which has been in use since the early days of cryptocurrency and is used by three of the top 10 Blockchains in the world.

The new exchange listing represents a milestone in the company’s history and is the first in a series of announcements to be made by the company. Forthcoming announcements are set to include further exchange listings, (which could include HitBTC). Up p to 10  new ICO partners, some of whom made presentations at the recent event in London,  are set to utilize DasCoin blockchain. Meanwhile, NetLeaders, DasCoin’s decentralized marketing community, is gaining rapidly in popularity and has authenticated the DasCoin proposition in more than 100  countries worldwide, including Poland, UK, Nigeria, Germany and Philippines.

There has been growing interest in the DasCoin blockchain-powered ecosystem, with its vision to lay down  a global bedrock of trust that unlocks prosperity for everyone. By eliminating the problems of traditional money and adapting trust to the digital age, the team at DasCoin feels this will create a better system for holding and exchanging value and could be the best long-term currency hold as well as one of the biggest gainers in 2018.

The products offered by DasCoin include blockchain-services for entrepreneurs, start-ups, banks, governments and enterprises. DasCoin uses a consortium blockchain to make it faster, more efficient and more secure;

  • Transactions confirmed in just six seconds
  • Network of users authenticated by banking standard KYC procedures
  • Through DasPay, DasCoin to be accepted in millions of merchants worldwide
  • Balanced by a responsive, transparent, system of governance
  • Smart-chip enabled hardware wallet makes DasCoin the most secure digital currency

On April , 2018, DasCoin released its codebase onto Github to ensure that every piece of information in its’ blockchain can be shared or queried, making DasCoin’s blockchain fully transparent.

Additionally, DasCoin are not “mined” like those of Bitcoin and other “proof-of-work” coins. Instead DasCoin utilizes a “minting process” which results in a significant reduction in energy consumption, as well as a more equitable distribution of value.

Michael Mathias, CEO of DasCoin, said: “Public trading is a significant milestone in the DasCoin story, and listing on these initial exchanges is a testament to the interest in our unique blockchain solutions model. It fulfils the promise of a huge amount of work by DasCoin and continues to build upon the launch of our proprietary blockchain in March last year.

Mathias continued: “We are pleased to be partnering with three exchanges, some established and other new innovative market entrants as we continue on this journey.  We look forward to announcing many more as we continue to expand our blockchain alliance.”

It’s a time-tested stock market strategy – snapping up stocks in the hope of earning quick gains once the stocks start trading, so now could be a good time to buy DasCoin. Crypto-currencies have attracted a lot of interest of late with  more than $400 billion of tradable crypto-assets and ICOs raising more than $13bn for blockchain-related start-ups. The first 90 days of launch often sees the biggest gains.

More information on exchanges and trading DasCoin (DASC) can be found at:

BTC Alpha – https://btc-alpha.com/exchange/

Coin Falcon – https://coinfalcon.com/

European Blockchain Exchange (EUBX) – https://eubx.io/

Contact:

Website: https://dascoin.com/

News: https://dascoin.com/news/

Email [email protected]

Crypto Highlights 14/05/2018

HSBC says it’s made the world’s first trade finance transaction using blockchain

HSBC claims it has performed the world’s first commercially viable trade finance transaction using blockchain technology by issuing a letter of credit for the U.S. food and agriculture firm Cargill.

The trade finance transaction involved a bulk shipment of soybeans from Argentina to Malaysia. The letter of credit was issued from HSBC to Dutch lender ING.

In our report earlier this year which exposed the cartel behaviour of the UK’s banks titled “British banks strangle UK crypto-startups”, we found that HSBC was edging towards crypto adoption stating: “HSBC is monitoring the development of virtual and digital currencies such as Bitcoin as well as regulations governing their use.”

Read more at CBRonline.

Deloitte Blockchain Boss Departs To Build Ethereum Supply Chain

Eric Piscini, the man who helped turn Deloitte’s global blockchain practice into a $50 million operation has left the company to join startup Citizens Reserve who are aiming to raise $300 million to rock the supply chain world with blockchain tech.

Read more at Forbes.

Repair your crypto-damaged body

Fix that hunchback, forward head and those other horrible ailments crypto trading has inflected on your body. Crypto trading is the new smoking!

Find out how to reverse the damage here.

CBA CFO quits cryptocurrency role

Commonwealth Bank chief financial officer Rob Jesudason has resigned after less than a year as chief operating officer of EOS.

Read more at News.com.au.

Thailand Creates Tough New Crypto-Currency Law Which Includes Fines and Jail Terms

Thailand’s Security Exchange Commission (SEC) will be in charge of overseeing and regulating all crypto-currency transactions and verifying the identity of clients.

Read more at Chiangraitimes.

https://www.chiangraitimes.com/thailand-creates-tough-new-crypto-currency-law-which-includes-fines-and-jail-terms.html

OKEx becomes world’s largest crypto exchange, CEO resigns to “start a new life”

Chris Lee CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange platform OKEx, has resigned due to ‘personal reasons’. OKEx recently overtook Binance as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world with a 24 hour turnover of $2 billion.

Read more at Chepicap.

Decompiling the ElectrumPro stealware

Copycat wallet service “Electrum Pro” has shut down its website after the company it was attempting to impersonate released evidence demonstrating its software was “bitcoin-stealing malware.”. The software stole customers seeds by sending them to a website out of there control. Get those coins out ASAP!!!

IOTA will integrate Ledger support

IOTA enthusiasts will soon be able to store their assets on the Ledger Nano S devices in Q3 of 2018 according to IOTA Foundation member Navin Ramachandran. In our Ledger Nano vs Trezor guide, both devices compared fairly well but the Ledger scraped a win with the wider coin support.

Read more on the IOTA Ledger post.

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Bans the Country’s Only Monetary Hope: Bitcoin

Buying life’s daily necessities in Zimbabwe is a trillion dollar affair due to the hyperinflation of its national currency. Because of this Bitcoin was seen as a savour for many and probably still will as its driven underground on the back of news coming from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe who has given 60 days notice to financial institutions to end relations with bitcoin businesses.

Read more at BTC Manager.

Gemini is now the world’s first licensed Zcash exchange

In a blog post over the weekend Gemini has said they have been working closely with the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS), Gemini is the first licensed Zcash exchange in the world. It also makes the NYSDFS the first regulatory agency in the world to supervise Zcash,

Read more at Gemini.

The Currency of Tomorrow is Here

Makor Group Launches a New Crypto Brokerage Firm: Enigma Securities.

The Makor Group (“Makor”) is an international brokerage firm makes its mark on the cryptocurrency market with the launch of Enigma Securities, a specialized broker-dealer giving institutional clients access to the cryptocurrency market.

Makor’s aim is to provide clients with a transparent, liquid and compliant environment in which to trade cryptocurrency. Makor has leveraged relationships with major global banks to provide a custodian solution for institutions who want to trade cryptocurrencies. Through Enigma, institutional clients will be able to sell and settle in crypto as well as in US dollars.

The launch of Enigma is a natural next step for the Makor Group which has been a cutting-edge, independent brokerage and research firm since 2011. Michael Halimi, Makor Group’s CEO, explains, “Crypto is a new asset class and an opportunity that our clients want to leverage, but there are few actionable solutions available in the market. We are excited to be the first independent broker to provide such services to our clients.” Halimi’s goal is to make Enigma Securities, and the Makor Group, a leading global broker dealer and a premier global provider of cryptocurrency market access. 

Enigma Securities will provide liquidity for the main cryptocurrencies in US dollars. Enigma is also building an innovative research product to help Institutional clients manage their market exposure to crypto assets and ICOs. 

Makor Group (www.makor-capital.com

Major was established in March 2011 by Michael Halimi and Avi Bouhadana, two ex-senior managers at Cantor Fitzgerald Europe. Makor is authorized and regulated by the FCA and Makor’s core business is to provide financial Securities research and execution to institutional investors across a spectrum of products including Cash Equities, Fixed Income securities, Derivatives and FX. 

With offices in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Geneva, Gibraltar, Tel Aviv and Singapore, and over 120 group employees, Makor offers its clients 24-hour global trading providing a single point of contact for more than 90 execution venues in cash equities only.

Makor provides its clients with original and innovative trading ideas specializing in risk arbitrage, special situations, relative value and event-driven opportunities for clients and regularly ranks in the Top 3 of the Thomson Reuters EXTEL risk-arb research surveys.

Makor acts only as an agent and is therefore not susceptible to the various conflicts in the industry. Makor takes no proprietary positions and as such acts wholly and exclusively for the benefit of the client.  Makor’s understanding of local markets and extensive client relationships built over 30 years industry experience, allows us to tap into local institutional portfolios in order to maximize liquidity for clients. 

Besides the client relationships Makor has strong relationships with global custodians and prime brokers. These international custodians, which provide essential services across all asset classes, are the oil that keeps the trading engine running smoothly.  Prime brokerage services including custody and trade settlement are as important to the clients as the execution itself and in some cases even more important.  Settlement of trading activity needs to be timely and problem free.

Cryptocurrency Based Online Poker Room CoinPoker Launches the First Crypto Series of Poker (CSOP) with a Prize Pool of 10,000,000 CHP

A poker room built on blockchain technology, CoinPoker is a well and truly on its way to revolutionizing the concept of online poker with the launch of the first Crypto Series of Poker (CSOP). These daily tournaments will take place between May 27 and June 3, offering a total prize pool of ten million CHP (the official cryptocurrency of the platform).

May 11, 2018

CoinPoker, a cryptocurrency-based online poker room built on trust and transparency, is delighted to announce the official launch of the first Crypto Series of Poker (CSOP). This unique poker series has been launched to give back to the adopters that have supported CoinPoker from its earliest stages of development. The series will comprise of daily tournaments taking place between May 27 and June 3, and the total prize pool for it will comprise of ten million CHP, the official cryptocurrency of CoinPoker.

“Join in on a week of daily tournaments taking place between May 27 and June 3. The series kicks off with quarter and half a million CHP prize pools, and ends with an epic final event where 2,500,000 CHP is yours for the taking,” said a senior spokesperson from CoinPoker.

Although the popularity of online poker has increased by leaps and bounds over the last few years, the players still encounter several complex problems such as lack of control over the funds, lack of transparency in technology, problematic withdrawal processes, and high burn rate for the recreational players.

CoinPoker’s online poker platform utilizes a fully decentralized set of contracts to eliminate or limit the major problems faced by the online poker community. Operating on Ethereum smart contract based crypto-currency protocols; CoinPoker recently introduced their new cryptocurrency named CHP. The advantage of this cryptocurrency is that it can be purchased online from anywhere around the world, offers a very high speed of processing, and can be used to play poker on the CoinPoker platform. Since its introduction, the value of CHP token has experienced a steady increase.

Prior to the introduction of the Crypto Series of Poker, CoinPoker attracted the attention of the poker enthusiasts around the world by partnering with some of the largest poker tournaments in Asia. They teamed up with the Japanese Poker Association (JPA) for this year’s Japan Poker Cup that started in April and will continue till August. Nine thousand players from as many as sixty poker venues in Japan are expected to compete for the cup and a probable seat at the next WSOP. By sponsoring Japan Poker Cup, CoinPoker has made significant contribution towards assisting the Japanese Poker Association achieve their vision for making poker accessible to all residents of Japan.

CoinPoker also collaborates with the Asian Poker Tour, one of Asia’s most exciting poker tournaments with the track record of staging more than eighty major events and numerous smaller tournaments mostly in the Asia-Pacific Region.

“On top of the benefits for online poker players, our collaboration with multiple poker leagues in the form of online satellites make live poker events accessible to players in different corners of the world,” says Paulius Mikaliunas, the Head of Poker Operations at CoinPoker. “The release of our upcoming mobile app will help boost these efforts, alongside ambitious plans for diversifying the games on our platform to ultimately give CHP investors and CoinPoker players more value.”

To find out more about the just launched Crypto Series of Poker (CSOP), please visit https://coinpoker.com/promotions/csop

About CoinPoker: CoinPoker is a poker room built on blockchain technology that offers fantastic value for both poker players and cryptocurrency community members alike. The platform also has its own cryptocurrency CHP that can be used to play poker safely and comfortably on the platform. They have just launched the first Crypto Series of Poker (CSOP).

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Website: https://coinpoker.com/