Holochain is a framework for the building of dApps (decentralized applications). It is not a blockchain, but rather a DHT (Distributed Hash Table) in which every user has their own chain and all transactions are published to the DHT. Holochain supports Javascript and Lisp.

Holochain is a project being built to create a decentralized, distributed internet.

Holo is a peer-to-peer app hosting marketplace built on top of Holochain consisting of hosts and users of distributed computing. In return for hosting dApps hosts and users receive payment in the form of Holo fuel.

Holo fuel is used to pay hosts for data storage and processing.

Possible use cases for Holo:

• Social Networks, Social Media & VRM
• Supply Chains & Open Value Networks
• Cooperatives and New Commons
• P2P Platforms
• Collective Intelligence
• Collaborative Applications
• Reputational, or Mutual Credit Cryptocurrencies

 

TOKEN SALE / ICO

Symbol: HOT
Token Sale: Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 10:00 a.m. GMT to 28 April 2018 at 10:00 a.m. GMT
Minimum Financing:  1,000,000 EUR
Hard Cap: 25,000,000 EUR  (250,000,000,000 HOT)

Total Token Supply:  At the close of the ICO, 33.3% more HoloTokens than were purchased will be minted for the Holo organization and team, such that 25% of all tokens are held by the organization and team, and 75% are held by the community

Whitelist:  Registration. Opened January 9, 2018 (Requires KYC documents and Webcam interview)

All validation is not created equal: we don’t use Proof of Work or Stake, but rather, “Proof of Service.” Do useful computing, support the network, get rewarded—that’s how Holo thinks the distributed Internet should work. Only 2 more days to whitelist!: https://t.co/FbV8qYvhFg pic.twitter.com/o3tL90YkN3

— Holo (@H_O_L_O_) April 25, 2018

 

Platform: HoloTokens are erc-20 tokens that will be tradable for Holo fuel when the Holo ecosystem launches later in 2018

Note: No vesting of team tokens

 

HOLO PoRT (Hosting BOX)

Holo ran a IndieGogo campaign that raised $647,546 for the project. Backers of the project receive a Holo Port which can be used to to host dApps in exchange for Holo Fuel. 1,381 Holo Ports were ordered from the campaign.

1. Get a Holo Port (Hosting Box)
2. Enable yourself and others to access Distributed Applications through a web browser
3. Get paid in Holo Fuel

 

FEATURES 

• Holo Fuel is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency
• Fuel is earned by hosting on HOLO
• Mutual Credit Currency:  Double-entry crypto-accounting framework
• Asset-Backed: Holo fuel is backed by the computing power of hosts
• Value-Stable: The value of Holo fuel is connected to the computing capacity of the network of hosts therefore it is not subject to huge spikes and crashes

TEAM

Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun are listed as co-founders on the Holo website. According to the site, they met in the summer of 2004 and in 2007 launched the MetaCurrency project.

An additional 31 people are listed as members of the Core Team.

Arthur Brock – Co-Founder, Chief Architect (Founder of Metacurrency Project, Founder of Emerging Leader Labs – LinkedIn)
Eric Harris-Braun – Co-Founder, Executive Engineer (Founder of Metacurrency Project, Computer Science Degree from Yale University – LinkedIn)

Nicolas Luck – Core Holochain Engineer (Social Architect at S7 Foundation – LinkedIn)

Philip Beadle – Engineer (Software Design Chapter Lead at Elabor8 – LinkedIn)
Nicerine Razwani Bres – App Ecosystem Development (Co-Founder of WeAreMesh –  LinkedIn)
Matthew Schutte – Communications Director (Co-Founder of Collaborative Advantage – LinkedIn)

ROADMAP/TIMELINE

• 2004: Founders meet and begin discussing alternatives to centralized hierarchical structures
• 2007: The MetaCurrency project launches to create better tools for communication and collaboration
• 2016: The MetaCurrency Project writes the first line of Holochain code
• July 2017: Holo is born as a way to make distributed apps built on Holochain widely accessible
• October 2017: Holochain Alpha 0 is released
• December 5, 2017: Holo launches Indiegogo campaign to build incentivized hosting ecosystem

 

• Q1 2018:  ICO Launch. Ends on April 28 at 10 a.m. (GMT)
• Q2 2018:  Holochain Alpha. Release to Indiegogo early adopters
• Q3 2018: Holoports Shipped. Plus first test transaction on Holo using Holo fuel, reaching 2,000 hosts
• Q3 2018: Holochain Alpha 3. Includes security audit and the ability to adjust DHT paramters and behavior
• Q3 2018: Core App Services. Available: Holochain Directory (as Package Manager), DPKI & Identity Services, Holochain Index, and Smart Caching
• Q4 2018: Transaction Milestone. 100M test transactions an hour on Holo using Holo fuel
• Q4 2018: Devices Running Holo. Test net of Holo running 10,000 host devices
• Q4 2018: Holochain Beta. Commitment to backward compatibility and more security audits. Also Holochain App store/Package Manager live with partnerships established for other asset-backed currencies (energy, food, housing, etc.)

REVIEWS

“This is something entirely new, and it isn’t a blockchain, this is a new kind of decentralized beast, but I love it.” ~Andre Cronje

ICO Check:

TrackICO:  4.8

Sergio: 60%

COMMUNITY/INFO

Holo Website / Holochain Website / Holo Green Paper / Holo Currency Paper/ Holochain Whitepaper /  Github / Medium / Twitter/ Facebook / Reddit / Telegram / Youtube / Bitcoin Talk / Instagram

Keep Network is a privacy layer bridging the public blockchain to private data. Through the use of “keeps” (off-chain containers) the network securely encrypts and stores private data. Off-chain keeps will be protected through the use of secure multiparty computation (sMPC).

The project proclaims it is the first production-ready sMPC system for distribution on the public Ethereum blockchain. Keep Network enables “private” smart contracts.

 

TOKEN SALE / ICO

Symbol: KEEP
Token Sale: Q2 2018
Minimum Financing:  TBA
Hard Cap:  $30,000,000
Token Supply:  1,000,000,000
Available Tokens for Sale:  50%
Whitelist:  Must be on Keep Network’s Slack (Request to be added can be sent by visiting their site.)

Platform: ERC-20

 

USE CASES 

• Decentralized Signing
• Dead Man Switch:  Allows the automation of instructions and transfer of funds for trusts and estate plans.
• Custodial Wallets
• Marketplaces for Digital Goods:  Securely sell digital goods (e.g. ebooks) by keeping files private until payment is made
• Encrypted Blockchain Storage:  Bridge to store sensitive, private data (e.g. medical records)

 

TOKEN UTILITIES 

Clients:  Pay to use keeps’ storage capacity for privacy

Providers:  Stake tokens to use them to compute and store secrets.

“Our token model is similar to taxi medallions. You own KEEP, you stake, and you can profit on being a privacy provider.”  ~Matt Luongo, Project Lead (quote from Slack chatroom)

 

COMPETITORS

Enigma, NuCypher

 

TEAM

Matt Luongo (Project Lead) and Corbin Pon (Developer & Ops) are listed as founders of Fold (a company that has products that facilitate in the use of cryptocurrency). Through their efforts on Fold to build a decentralized gift card exchange, the Keep Network was created.

According to a FAQ on Reddit, 11 people are working full-time on the project.

Matt Luongo, Project Lead – LinkedIn

Corbin Pon, Developer & Ops – LinkedIn

Antonio Salazar Cardozo, Tech Lead – LinkedIn

Laura Wallendal, Growth – LinkedIn

Nik Grinkevich, Developer – LinkedIn

Erin Ng, Developer – LinkedIn

Prashanth Irudayaraj, Ops & Research – LinkedIn

Jack Knutson, Community Management – LinkedIn

 

ADVISORS

Brayton Williams – Boost VC (LinkedIn)

John Packel – ConsenSys (LinkedIn)

James Prestwich – Integral, formerly Storj Labs (LinkedIn)

Axel Blikstad – International Finance (LinkedIn)

Joseph Urgo – district0x (LinkedIn)

Luis Cuende – Aragon (LinkedIn)

 

SUPPORTERS

Keep Networks’ homepage lists Polychain Capital, DHVC, and Distributed Capital Partners as supporters. We’ve reached out to the firms to verify if they are investors in Keep Networks.

 

ROADMAP

• Sept. 26, 2017:  Public Announcement
• Q2 2018:  Public Sale
• 2018:  Network Launch

More details to be announced at a later date.

REVIEWS

The GobOne:  A

ICO HotSheet:  64.29

Sergio:  74

Lendex:  82.93

ICOMarketData:  4.08

ICODrops:  High

 

COMMUNITY/INFO

Website / Github / Whitepaper / Primer / Twitter/ Reddit / Slack / Medium  / Telegram: Community

NuCypher is a data privacy layer for blockchain and decentralized applications (dApps). Through proxy re-encryption it enables dApp developers and enterprises to secure data. Proxy re-encryption is a type of public-key encryption whereby a proxy entity transforms ciphertexts from one public key to another without knowing anything about the underlying message.

The company believes its key management system (KMS) will be a key element to secure dApps in the same way that SSL/TLS is a part of secure web applications.

Use Case Example:

A project building a dApp in the medical industry is using IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) to store a patient’s medical records. NuCypher’s technology provides a way for these records to still be private, confidential, and encrypted but still sharable with appropriate parties such as with the patient’s doctor or hospitable.

TOKEN SALE / ICO

Symbol: NKMS
Token Sale Date: TBA

Presale:  $4.3 million sold
Minimum Financing:  TBA
Hard Cap: TBA
Token Supply:  TBA

Whitelist:  According to the NuCypher chat as of April 21, 2018, NuCypher has not officially begun whitelisting.  The company will utilize Coinlist’s ComplyAPI for KYC.

Being in the Telegram channel or mailing list (although this does not guarantee a whitelist) . A time stamp on everyone’s entry will determine their spot in addition to commitment to operate a node.

1. Additional details will be announced after the testnet is live.

Platform: ERC-20. NuCypher is a layer that sits on top of Ethereum but it is its own separate network.

PARTNERS

NuCypher has announced partnerships with Origin, Medibloc, Datum, Iryo, Wolk

📣 We're pleased to announce our #technology partnership with @originprotocol!! It's exciting to have the opportunity to provide the #data access control layer to the #decentralised sharing economy. Read @tbitls deep dive on what the partnership means: https://t.co/g0tD9cq1Fe

— NuCypher (@nucypher) April 11, 2018

ADDITIONAL INFO 

Potential use cases listed in NuCypher’s primer include:

• Sharing encrypted files (“Decentralized Dropbox”)
• End-to-end encrypted group chat (“Encrypted Slack”)
• Patient-controlled electronic health records (EHR)
• Decentralized digital rights management (DDRM)
• Blind identity management
• Secret credentials management for scripts and backend apps
• Shared credentials and enterprise password management
• Mandatory access logging
• Mobile device management (MDM) and revocation

Re-encryption Nodes

The re-encryption nodes in the network will require NuCuypher tokens to be staked. If a node is misbehaving, it can be challenged and have its stake forfeited.

EVENTS

June 13, 2017:  Announcement of open source availability of NuCypher Kafka

Feb. 17, 2018:  ETHDenver – Umbral showcase and Main Stage presentation

March 16, 2018:  TokenFest – Lightning talk by MacLane Wilkison

March 17-18, 2018:  MIT Bitcoin Expo

March 21, 2018:  Announcement of Umbrel fufillment,  a threshold proxy re-encryption scheme that powers the NuCypher KMS network

March 30, 2018:  Silicon Valley Global Blockchain Investment Summit – Featured Panelist MacLane Wilkison

April 4, 2018:  Global Big Data Conference – Keynote by Michael Egorov

April 17: Blockchain Silicon Valley Conference – Presentation by MacLane Wilkison

April 18:  DataEngConf – Presentation by MacLane Wilkison

April 20:  MacLane Wilkison was a guest on the Daily Crypto Podcast

April 23:  Announcement of joining Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

📣 We're very excited to announce that @nucypher is the newest member of the Enterprise #Ethereum Alliance. 📣

We will contribute thoughtful conversations on #DataSecurity and #encryption with the 400+ @EntEthAlliance members.

Official Announcement: https://t.co/iWF02KrHmQ

— NuCypher (@nucypher) April 23, 2018

TEAM

MacLane Wilkison – Co-founder, CEO (Former software engineer. Former Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley – LinkedIn)
Michael Egorov, PHD – Co-founder, CTO (Former senior software engineer at LinkedIn – LinkedIn)

David Nuñez, PhD – Cryptographer (LinkedIn)
John Pacific – Cryptographic Engineer (LinkedIn)
Justin Myles Holmes – Engineer
Sergey Zotov – Consultant (LinkedIn)
Kieran Prasch – Engineer (LinkedIn)

ADVISORS
Prof. Dave Evans – Univeristy of Virginia (LinkedIn)
Prof. Giuseppe Ateniese –  Stevens Institute of Technology
John Bantleman  –  Rainstor (LinkedIn)
Tony Bishop  –  Equinix (Linkedin)

INVESTORS

NuCypher’s presale was completed in 2017. The website lists 15 investors.

• Polychain Capital
• Y Combinator
• Satoshi Fund
• FBG Capital
• Galaxy Investment Partners
• CoinFund
• Hashed – Formerly, Blockchain Partners Korea
• Mission and Market
• Amino Capital
• Kenetic Capital
• Compound
• Semantic Ventures
• 1kx
• Base Ventures
• Nima Capital

ROADMAP

N/A as of April 24, 2018

REVIEWS

Diddy Carter: A+

Midgard Research: 9 out of 10 “We expect both short-term and long-term growth from NuCypher because of a solid list of their partners and technology advantage.”

Tech Insider:  3.4 out of 5

MoNoico:  8 out of 10

ICO-Check: “Crowdsale after mainnet (Product will be functional on the Main network)”

Coindesk: “7 Tokens Investors Are Talking About”

COMMUNITY/INFO

Website / Github / Whitepaper / Business Primer / Dischord / Reddit / Twitter / Telegram / Medium

DAOStack is an operating system/platform for the decentralized governance of large entities. The project provides a framework for DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations). It has been described as the WordPress for DAOs for or the toolkit for exponential organizations.

DAOs are an alternative to traditional top-down organizations. Instead of centralized leadership and a few points of potential failure, a DAO utilizes blockchain technology and smart contracts to create a self-governing entity.

DAOStack is a project which aims to help the self-management of DAOs.

TOKEN SALE / ICO

Symbol: GEN
Token Supply:  60,000,000 with additional 40,000,000 that the Genesis DAO has the option of minting over the course of it’s lifetime.

Tokens for Sale: 40,000,000
Hard Cap: $30 million
Whitelist: Link
Platform: GEN are ERC-20 tokens

Presale: May 1 (10% Bonus)
Token Sale: May 8 – June 8

Private Presale : Advance purchases of at least $100K in ETH equivalent, via SAFT

*U.S. residents are not allowed to participate

Token Distribution:
Buyers: 40%
Genesis DAO (first DAO built with DAOStack): 40%
DAO Stack (Current – team, contributors, advisors): 10% (locked for 2 years from date of main sale)
DAO Stack (Future – reserve for future contributors): 10%

COMPETITORS 

Aragon x Augur, district0x

FEATURES 

Arc:  Library of smart contracts (written in Solidity) that represents the base layer of the stack

Arc.js:  Javascript library enabling front-end developers to build on applications on Arc without a background in Solidity or coding for the blockchain.

Alchemy:  First user interface being built on Arc. Alchemy will allow a user to create a DAO and also actively participate in the DAO (e.g. create/vote on proposals).

The ArcHives:  Shared registries that aid in the interoperability of DAOs and apps using Arc and Arc.js.

ADDITIONAL INFO 

GEN is the “attention token” of DAOStack. Token utility includes submitting proposals and placing a stake (not vote) in favor of or against proposals.

Contributors to DAOStack will also be rewarded with GEN tokens.

EVENTS

February 2018:  Sponsorship and keynote by Matan Field (CEO) at ETHDenver

March 2018: Participation in EthCC (Ethereum Community Conference)

March 2018: Participation in TokenFest SF

March 2018:  Launch of Alchemy

Q&A

We spoke with Erik Rodrigues (Community Management & Research) from the DAOStack team via Telegram to receive answers to our questions.

Can you provide an example use case for DAOStack? Are there any particular industries or types of DAOs that you believe would most benefit from DAOStack?

In the broadest sense, DAOstack is useful any time there is a need to coordinate a large group of people to make decisions collectively. So, by thinking about a few different types of decisions a group might need to make, we can imagine several categories of use cases.

1. Collaboration to Produce an Outcome (“Work”)
In cases in which the goal is to develop or deliver products and services — roughly speaking, a decentralized “company” — the decisions that need to be made often concern how to value individual contributions, and how to budget for projects and other purchases. Which projects should be funded? How much should James be paid for that article, or Sally for that software upgrade? What will be the process for verifying and evaluating work? Should the organization invest in this or that office space, legal support, or PR firm?

Examples include the following:

A film project of 1,000 artists
An open-source software project of 10,000 developers
A climate initiative of 50,000 scientists
A collaborative news network of 100,000 journalists
Soon these kinds of organizations will be able to use Alchemy to collectively distribute token and reputation, find collaborators, and offer bounties to professionals. Or they could build a custom Dapp on the stack if that would better suit their needs.

2. Asset Management
These types of collectives make decisions primarily about the management of assets and the allocation of funds. Should we invest in this company, or that property? Should we pay out this claim? Should we sell that asset?

Examples include decentralized versions of the following:

Venture funds
Insurance networks
Charitable funds
Pension funds
Real estate investment collectives

3. Curation
Curation networks leverage the wisdom of the crowd to rank the subjective quality of objects. What content should be featured in the feed, or the newsletter? How trustworthy is this company? How good is the food at that diner?

Examples include decentralized versions of the following:

Restaurant or hotel guides, similar to Yelp or TripAdvisor
Article or video feeds, akin to social news feeds or Reddit
Website listings, like a socially curated Google search

4. All of the Above
In practice, many DAOs will include decision-making in more than one category. An open-source software project, in addition to rewarding its contributors (case 1), might collectively curate which code will be included in each release, or featured in its newsletter (3). Conversely, a social network, in addition to curating content (3), has a business to run and must pay its developers, marketers, legal personnel, and so on (1). And either organization might want to invest the proceeds from its activities into other ventures (2).

Can you discuss the main use cases of the GEN token?

GEN serves as the attention token within the DAOstack ecosystem. With GEN, you cannot buy voting power, nor can you vote with it, but you can place a stake for or against a proposal that influences whether or not it rises into the collective attention of the voters, the reputation-holders. If you stake for proposals that the reputation-holders then pass, you’re rewarded with more GEN. If you stake for a proposal that then fails, you lose your GEN. And vice versa if you stake against proposals.

GEN will likely have other utility on the platform too, related to The Archives, for example. Also, GEN will be the primary currency for the buildout of the DAOstack ecosystem itself, with contributors to the platform rewarded in GEN, and even investments into projects that are built on the stack tendered in GEN — according to the collective will of the Genesis DAO.

How do you envision on DAOstack growing and getting companies to utilize it?

The platform is designed to underpin an entire ecosystem of decentralized organizations — a community of interoperable DAOs, able to share talent, ideas, and learnings with one another. DAOs will even be able to act as members of other DAOs, creating a fluid “DAO mesh” or “internet of work” in which collectives of collectives are commonplace, and in which any given individual might participate in dozens of different collectives.

Large corporations would implement the DAOstack’s scalable decision-making features to reduce the cost of management.

Any estimate as to when you’ll release a roadmap? 

Coming Soon

TEAM

The company has 13 employees and is based out of Ramat Yishai, Israel according to Linkedin.

Matan Field – CEO & Architect (Co-founder of Backfeed, Co-founder of La’Zooz – LinkedIn)
Adam Levi – CTO/ Technology  (LinkedIn)
Nathalia Scherer – Community & Business Development (LinkedIn)
Oren Sokolowsky – Lead Developer  (Co-founder La’Zooz – LinkedIn)
Eric Rodrigues – Community Mgmt & Research

ADVISORS
Daniel Schmachtenberger – Co-founder, Neurohacker Collective (LinkedIn)
Jordan Greenhall – Co-founder, ex-CEO of Divx. Former SVP at MP3.com (LinkedIn)
Yoni Assia – Founder, CEO of eToro.com (LinkedIn)
Martin Köppelmann – Co-founder, CEO of Gnosis (LinkedIn)

PARTNERSHIPS

The following companies are listed as partners on DAOStack’s website. At the time this profile was published, most of the partnerships have not formally been announced aside from the Sapien – DAOStack partnership. Sapien states it plans to power their community consensus system and also to build their Democratized Autonomous Platform (DAP).

Gnosis
Sapien
Menlo
Endor
iAngels
NfX
XSQ

ROADMAP

TBA

REVIEWS

ICO Bench: 3.9 out of 5

Crypto Nomi: 8 out of 10

Sam Ong: 83%

Diddy Carter: A-

TheGobOne:  95%

Decentralised Chain:  “As a product I’ve given it a 4. The actual framework is backed by years of R&D. It’s open source which always helpful as it helps it stay relevant as more developers come on board”

OhHeyMatty: 97% “I think this project is downright amazing. I look forward to seeing what they have.” (Note: He states he did consulting work for TheGobOne during the video review for this project.)

 

COMMUNITY/INFO

Website / Github / Whitepaper / Facebook / Twitter / Telegram / Medium / LinkedIn /  Youtube / Forum / Bounty Program

*Note:  Information on the token supply was provided by an admin in the DAOStack telegram group

nOS is a virtual operating system for the decentralized internet powered by NEO. On this decentralized internet, the project aims to have transparent apps where users data is safe.

The project was announced at the NEO Amsterdam Event on April 14, 2018.

TOKEN SALE / ICO

Symbol: NOS
Token Sale: Early Q3 2018
Minimum Financing:  TBA
Hard Cap: TBA
Token Supply:  TBA
Whitelist:  TBA, but it has been announced that developers contributing to or building upon nOS will receive priority.

Platform: Tokens are NEP-5 and will run on the NEO blockchain

FEATURES 

• Open Back-ends: dApps feature transparent back-end code
• GAS as a Utility Token: The main end user token will be GAS as nOS will convert the GAS to work with the various dApp tokens.
• Universal Smart Contract
  • Single smart contract hosted on NEO
  • Contains popular functions, logic, storage functions
  • Can be called on by any nOS and NEO application
  • Integrated with nOS client
• Decentralized Authority (see Token Utilities below)

TOKEN UTILITIES 

Token utilities according to founder Dean van Dugteren can be broken down into:

1.  Application Hosting:  Developers on projects can stake tokens to register domains, get hosted, listed, rated.

2.  Decentralized Authority:  End users can stake tokens to gain authority, vote on applications, get rewarded for truthful voting through airdrops

Additionally, applications can earn via reputation. In turn high reputation will then lead to higher discoverability in the app store and users also are protected from low reputation applications.

ADDITIONAL INFO 

MVP Client is now available on GitHub and developers can build apps on their own NEO Privatenet.

Moonlight (smart economy workforce project on NEO) announced a technical partnership with nOS on April 14, 2018:

We are proud to announce technical partnerships with both @VDT_Network and @nOSplatform

The Smart Economy is growing a strong mesh of collaboration.#NEO #smarteconomy #Blockchain pic.twitter.com/70OLrjDBRg

— Moonlight (@Moonlightdotio) April 14, 2018

The community has grown very quickly as evidenced by reaching 10,000 Telegram members and 20,000 newsletter subscribers in several days.

$NEO ❤️ Amsterdam was an amazing experience. In just a few days @nOSplatform already achieved over 20,000 newsletter subscribers and nearly 10,000 Telegram members. Thank you all for your support. There lies an exciting journey ahead! 🙏 pic.twitter.com/f9713KbOdM

— Dean van Dugteren (@Deanpress) April 18, 2018

Da Hongfei Tweeted about the project at the NEO Amsterdam Event…

nOS rocks! pic.twitter.com/bVJPuH4wJZ

— Da Hongfei (@dahongfei) April 14, 2018

COMPETITORS

Substratum, Maidsafe

EVENTS

April 14, 2018: Project revealed at NEO Amsterdam Event

April 26, 2018:  NEO Zurich Meetup

Q&A

When did the idea for nOS first come about?

Aside from building on NEO what differentiates nOS from other projects such as Substratum?

TEAM

The team features three developers from City of Zion (NEO Tracker, NEON Wallet)

Dean van Dugteren – Founder & Developer (Developer at City of Zion Founder VDT.Network Founder Click.DJ – LinkedIn profile)
Matt Huggins – Full-stack Developer (Developer at City of Zion Maintainer of Neon Wallet – LinkedIn profile)
Jason Perry – Full-stack Developer (Developer at City of Zion Creator of NEO Ruby Recaptcha for Ruby)
Jeroen Peeters – Contributor (Front-end Consultant at Evance Creator of Neoblog NeoAuth Developer – LinkedIn profile)
Maurice Dalderup– Contributor (Blockchain Consultant at Trase Creator of Neoblog – LinkedIn profile)

ROADMAP

• April 2018:  GitHub repositories published including MVP client, development environment, and Smart Contract back-end.
• Q2 2018:  Testnet Release –  first public testnet and end-user client with initial useable decentralized applications (dApps).
• Q3 2018:  Token Generation Event
• Q3 2018:  Adoption Fund – nOS will launch its Smart Economy Adoption Fund, aimed towards improving adoption and development of dApps on nOS.
• Q4 2018:  Decentralized Filesystem Research – nOS will initiate Research & Development on Peer-to-Peer Data File Sharing Methods, with the goal of building a completely Decentralized Open Internet.
• 2019:  nOS 1.0 – Release of 1.0 Client, publish its Smart Contracts on the NEO Mainnet, and release the nOS Open Internet 1.0.

REVIEWS

Suppoman’s discusses the project in his “What 3 New Cryptos Could Explode in Bull Market” video. He states, “nOS is basically NEO’s operating system…. this is potentially massive… seeing how NEX has done I suspect this will be oversubscribed as usual”

COMMUNITY/INFO

Website / Github / Twitter/ Reddit / Dischord / Telegram: Announcements / Telegram: Community / Youtube

Skrumble Network (SKM) is a blockchain and application with a core focus on communication via secure connections. The application component being developed by the Skrumble Network will enable decentralized communication for messaging, calling, video, and file sharing.

The company’s white paper states: “Finally, people can connect globally on the most secure network possible. This will lead to an experience of Skrumble Network being the blockchain version of WeChat.”

Top Level Overview:

1) Authentication on Blockchain and

2) Establishing Encrypted Connection on SSL (Secured Socket Layer) provide security for

3) Rich Media Stream (Video, Messaging, Voice, File Transfers, etc.)

Decentralized network therefore people’s information is not stored in a single location.

TOKEN SALE / ICO

Symbol: SKM
Minimum Financing:  TBA
Hard Cap:  20,000 ETH
Token Supply:  1,500,000,000
Platform: ERC20 Token
Public Sale Date: April 28, 2018

Token Distribution:
Token Sale: 26% (Private & Public)
Foundation: 29%, lock up for 6 months – and vesting over 10 month (10% per month from month 7)
Community Building: 15%
Team: 15%, lock up for 9 months – and vesting over 10 month (10% per month from month 10)
Advisors: 10% or less, lock up 6 months and vesting over 10 months
Angel investors: about 5%.

Whitelist: https://skrumble.network/skm-whitelist/

COMPETITORS

Telegram, Mainframe, BeeChat, Status

FEATURES 

Skrumble Network’s video claims the project is “the first secure, decentralized ecosystem powered by blockchain technology that will breakthrough firewalls, assure your anonymity and guarantee content and data privacy.”

Skrumble Network Blockchain Communications Features:

Messaging, Audio Calling, Video Calling, File Transfers, Group Conferencing, Screen Sharing, User-Controlled Storage, Screenshot Notifications, Pseudonymous Identification, Data Encryption, Most Functionality Supported on Any Modern Browser, Wallet for In-Context Money Transfers

EVENTS

• February 8, 2018:  Skrumble Network is announced on blog
• February 24, 2018:  SKRUMBLENETCON 2018 (Inaugural Skrumble Network conference)
• March 14, 2018:  TokenSky Summit in Seoul, South Korea. Eric Lifson co-founder of Skrumble Network was a keynote speaker.

Q&A

What is the use case/purpose of the SKM token?

How do you see you compare to other crypto messaging projects such as Status?

TEAM

Skrumble Network’s LinkedIn page lists 35 employees. The company’s team page lists 13 developers (mobile, front-end, back-end, full-stack).

David Lifson – CEO & President (LinkedIn)
Eric Lifson, MBA – Co-Founder, Marketing (LinkedIn)
Michael Dabydeen – Lead Developer (LinkedIn)
Christine Guo VP Corporate Development (LinkedIn)
Tamir Wolfson, MBA – Executive Vice President
Vivi Herlick, MBA, PMP – Vice President of Operations (LinkedIn)

ADVISORS
Anthony DiIorio – Co-founder, Ethereum CEO, Jaxx & Decentral
Jeff Pulver – Co-Founder, Vonage
Jinius Tu – CTO of Aion
Redouane Elkamhi, PhD – Associate Professor of Finance at Rotman UofT
Hayden Zhang – Blockchain Angel Investor. Founder, Blockchain Joint Development Organization
Ed Zitron – Author & CEO of EZPR

PARTNERSHIPs

• Wolf Crypto (Blockchain/cryptocurrency consultancy)
• INSchain (Blockchain insurance project)
• Decentral (Innovation hub for decentralized technologies including Jaxx wallet)

ROADMAP

• 2014:  Skrumble Founded
• 2015:  Global Patent Applications FIled
• Q1 2016:  Q1 – Beta UC Product Launch
• Q2 2017:  UC Product Launch
• Q4 2017:  Launched Open API Marketplace
• Q3 2018:  Launch Beta Decentralized App Product
• Q3 2018:  Release Beta Network Version
• Q2 2019:  Release Open Communication Layer (API & SDK)
• Q2 2019:  Launch Skrumble Network Ecosystem

Source: Whitepaper Draft

REVIEWS

Blockonomi: “Anyone who wants secure communication via the blockchain, whether as a user or developer, should keep their eye on Skrumble Network as the blockchain, application, and communication layer launch.”

Decentralised Chain published an ICO Review and stated, “There are a number of competitors in the space but what these guys have an advantage.

COMMUNITY/INFO

Website / Github / Vimeo / Whitepaper / Facebook / Twitter / Telegram / Blog / LinkedIn / WeChat

 

Quarkchain (QKC) is a high-capacity peer-to-peer blockchain with a goal of 1,000,000 transactions per second (tps) on-chain via sharding.

TOKEN SALE / ICO

Symbol: QKC
Token Sale: May/June
Minimum Financing:  TBA
Hard Cap: $20 million
Token Supply:  10 billion

Platform: QKC are ERC-20 tokens which will be convertible to mainnet tokens after launch of the mainnet via premining.

FEATURES 

• Reshardable two-layered blockchain
  • Layer 1: Shards – Elastic sharding blockchains
  • Layer 2: Flexible Root blockchain – Confirms blocks from first layer
• Guaranteed security by market-driven collaborative mining.
• Anti-centralized horizontal scalability.
  • Multiple cheap-nodes can be clustered to replace a super-full node
• Efficient cross-shard transactions.
• Simple account management.
  • Only one account is needed for all shards

ADDITIONAL INFO 

The company’s Telegram channel stated Quarkchain has the three following innovations:

1.  The first blockchain technology supports state sharding.

2. The first blockchain sharding technology supports turing-complete smart contracts.

3. The first blockchain network supports clustering as peers.

The company also announced their testnet/alpha was live on April 2. And then according to the Tweet below on April 15, Quarkchain’s Testnet was running around 2k TPS and they were looking for volunteers to test the next version of their testnet.

Now QuarkChain alpha version of testnet has been already running at around 2k tps. Looking for 100 volunteers to help test next version of testnet which will available in 1 month. https://t.co/3WCbUycxql

— QuarkChain (@Quark_Chain) April 16, 2018

DApps2Go: Emphasis of building DApps on mobile devices with plans to incentivize developers to build on Quarkchain with QKC tokens.

EVENTS

March 14:  TokenSky Summit in Seoul, South Korea

March 20 – 21:  Token2049 in Hong Kong

April 8, 2018: Meetup in San Mateo, California (USA) Meetup

April 17, 2018:  Meetup in Xian, China

Q&A

How did the idea for the project come about?

Have you looked at other high TPS projects such as Zilliqa? How do you compare against them?

When do you believe you’ll be able to handle up to 1,000,000 TPS?

TEAM
Qi Zhou – Founder (Former software engineer at Facebook, Dell EMC, and Google according to LinkedIn profile)
Zhaoguang Wang – Software Engineer (Former software engineer at Facebook, Instagram and Google according to LinkedIn profile)
Xiaoli Ma – Research Scientist
Yaodong Yang – Research Scientist
Wencen Wu – Research Scientist (Assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute according to LinkedIn profile)
Anthurine Xiang – Marketing and Community
Ting Du – Business Development and Eco-system
Kyle Wang – Operations
Patrick Mei – Community Manager
Julianne Zhu – Social Media

ADVISORS
Arun G. Phadke – Winner of Benjamin Franklin Medal
Bill Moore – Partner / Managing Director at Walden International
Mike Miller – Founder of IBM Cloudant, General Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures
Kevin Hsu – Blockchain Investor
Leo Wang
Zhiyun Qian

ROADMAP

• Q2 2017:  Blockchain Scalability Problem Research
• Q4 2017:  Whitepaper Draft
• Feb. 2018:  Verification Code 0.1 White Paper Release
• March 2018:  Testnet 0.1 Wallet 0.1
• Q2 2018:  Testnet 1.0 Smart Contract 0.1
• Q3/Q4 2018:  QuarkChain Core 1.0 Mainnet (“down quark” chain 1.0) SmartWallet 1.0
• Q2 2019:  QuarkChain Core 2.0 SmartWallet 2.0

REVIEWS

Suppoman discussed Quarkchain in his video “What 3 New Cryptos Could Explode in Bull Market.” He closed his evaluation of it by stating, “I do imagine this is going to be amongst the best blockchains. I missed out on Zilliqa’s ICO and I don’t want to miss out on Quarkchain when this comes out.”

CryptoBriefing rated Quarkchain a 82% (rated as a Top 5% projects). “Quarkchain offers a taste of scaling. We like the flavor.”

Andre Cronje’s code review for CryptoBriefing states, “I think their implementation is novel, well executed, and I am definitely going to be playing around a lot more in their testnet. It annoys me that I haven’t been able to break it yet.”

COMMUNITY/INFO

Website / Github / Whitepaper / Facebook / Twitter / Telegram / Medium / LinkedIn / Weibo 

Monetizing VR/ AR through attention based advertising done via eye tracking. Gaze Coin is a patent-registered blockchain platform measured by gaze control/eye tracking.

TOKEN SALE / ICO

Symbol:  GZE
Token Sale: December 10
Minimum Financing: $2 million
Hard Cap: $30 million
Exchange Rate: 1 GZE = $0.35

Platform: Ethereum
Country: Australia

Token Distribution: 70% in sale
Advisors: 5%
Contractors: 5%
Team: 10%
Growth Pool: 10%

Angel investors provided US$420k to complete the platform foundation – Dream Channel VR

Q&A

What will it take for VR/AR to have mainstream adoption?

Why are you using attention (time) as the measurement unit for your ad ecosystem?

What is your plan to get advertisers to use Gaze?

Is there a concern that advertisers will not be able to create ads engaging enough to keep viewers interest?

What is the main benefit of utilizing blockchain technology for Gaze?

TEAM
Jonny Peters – Founder & CEO
Bok Khoo – ‘Bokky Poo Bah’ – CTO/Chief Scientist
Alex Stojcic – CIO
Brian Cobb – VR Film Producer
Gary Ross – Legal Counsel
Saul Hudson – Global Communications Director
Landon Curry – VR Technical Team Director
Matt Knox – Database Programmer
Lea Kozin – Marketing Lead
Craig Saunders – VR Producer
Sean Simon – Procedural Coder – Wormhole Developer
Mark Mulligan – VR Tech Lead
Dave Green – VR Radio / DJ
Cenk Baban – Producer – VR Radio
David Kelly – Real Time Rendering Specialist

ADVISORS
Jeremy Lam – Product Lead, OmiseGO
George Samman – Blockchain Investor & Advisor
Travis Rice – VR Industry Advisor
Kunio Okuda – Blockchain Investor and Advisor to Japan & Asia

COMMUNITY/INFO

Website / Telegram / Twitter / Facebook / SAFT Launch Page / Bitcointalk 

Bounty0x is a decentralized bounties network enabling anyone to manage bounty programs, and users to receive payments for completing bounties.

TOKEN SALE / ICO

Symbol:  BTNY
Presale: November 20, 2017
Token price: $0.0132 (20% discount to main sale)
Pre-sale cap: $250k

Main Sale: December 15, 2017
Main sale cap: $1.5 million
Token: ERC20

Q&A

We spoke to Bounty0x founder Angelo Adam via Telegram to learn a bit more about the project.

How did the idea for Bounty0x come about? 
The idea for Bounty0x started at a Github proposal when I was working for district0x https://github.com/district0x/district-proposals/issues/1

Why did Bounty0x decide to issue a token and utilize blockchain for the project? 
Tokens are needed in order to verify that bounty hunter submissions are submitted and are accurate.

Why did Bounty0x decide to have a $250K pre-sale cap and $1.5 million main sale cap?
This is what the community voted on, we let them decide.

What is Bounty0x’s strategy for obtaining new customers? 
We have strategic partnerships with a number of people involved in the crypto space who refer partners to us, we also receive them through word of mouth.

 TEAM

Adam Angelo, CEO & Co-founder (District0x Community Manager, WeTrust Freelancer)
Pascal Thellmann, CMO – Sales, Marketing, and PR (Contributor at CoinTelegraph)
Deniz Dalkilic, CTO – Lead Developer (Software Engineer Thomson Reuters)
Matt Aaron

ADVISORS
Uwe Thellmann
Cathy Tao
Shahaf Bar-Geffen
Sean Hoge

COMMUNITY/INFO

Website / Telegram / Twitter / Reddit /  Youtube /  Blog / Whitepaper