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Stuart Duncan is the CEO of Vice Industry Token, a company that is based on a fork of the Steem blockchain and allows users to generate tokens each time they watch, upload or comment on adult programming on the network. Once a user has tokens, they can purchase a variety of goods and services from other people on the network, and make micropayments to their favorite performers. Several companies have already signed up to use the Vice Industry Token, including Ecstasy and Playboy. Having just finished a crowdsale which drew at least 7,000 participants, Vice Industry Token is setting its sights on the road ahead. Tune in, reach out to Duncan directly through the Vice Industry Token telegram channel, and visit vicetoken.com to learn more.
Blockpass provides an identity verification platform that is user-centric and greatly reduces the onboarding costs necessary for businesses to properly vet humans (KYC), objects (KYO) and connected devices (KYD). Also, Blockpass puts the user in control of data that is accessible by mobile phone. According to CMO Hans Lombardo, Blockpass has developed an identity verification process that is streamlined, low-cost, and reliable. Blockpass relies on blockchain technology to provide a secure conduit for identity verification and data storage. Verified Blockpass users are instantly connected to all connected devices and Blockpass users including companies and other humans. Blockpass is particularly helpful to emerging enterprises by offering shared regulatory and compliance services via a trusted platform.
"A lot of ICOs make it so you have to use their token to transact on their platform, but that creates these silos of utility…and you have to exchange tokens to go through these platforms. At Open, we're making it so you can use any cryptocurrency to purchase something, and that's powerful because you need to show people that every cryptocurrency is an asset you can purchase with," says Chase Smith, who is the founder and lead architect at Open Platform. Open Platform is an ICO that differs from most in that it's "blockchain agnostic," meaning it doesn't depend on any blockchain. Instead, it's using infrastructure that already exists to facilitate the mainstream adoption of blockchain payments. Smith explains that this will incentivize the mainstream public and mainstream developers to enter the blockchain and crypto space. To learn more, watch Smith's regularly posted webinars or engage in more technical discussions, check out Open Platform's telegram and discord channel.
Dylan Senter and Nick Ravanbakhsh are co-founders of Spectiv, a company that's working concurrently on two exciting projects: a decentralized advertising platform and a virtual reality streaming platform. Rather than having to go through websites such as YouTube and Google in order to reach target audiences with ad campaigns, Spectiv is allowing advertisers to reach content publishers directly, in peer-to-peer fashion. Anyone who wants to help advertise for a product and who drives attention to that product will get paid directly in Signal Tokens. Whether you're a blogger, a stay-at-home parent with a potentially lucrative hobby, or a business entrepreneur who wants to invest in a new ad campaign, Spectiv will give you the ability to reach a larger audience with minimal effort. Spectiv will first test this platform on their own virtual reality streaming platform, which is being designed to create a truly immersive, all-in-one experience- something that doesn't exist yet. To learn more about either of Spectiv's platforms, visit spectiv.io.
It started out as a simple Bitcoin club created by a handful of students at UC Berkeley during the earliest days of blockchain technology but has since become much more than that. Realizing the extent of how quickly blockchain technology was expanding and how many applications it has, Blockchain at Berkeley evolved into a multi-faceted organization with the primary goal of providing a learning space for the public and an opportunity for growth of the blockchain industry. Whether it's consulting for companies who want to implement certain ideas and determine the long-term economic feasibility of them, helping companies develop novel ideas from the ground up, or advancing public knowledge about blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, Blockchain at Berkeley is doing it.
With the use of a regulatory-compliant framework that connects tokenization with real assets, Swarm Fund is allowing investors better and easier access to those assets than traditional capital markets. The Swarm Fund framework is not only being applied to professional and alternative asset classes, but also to the realm of impact investing. This is allowing a variety of organizations that may not have otherwise had the ability to reach a global crowd of investors and generate both social and financial benefits. There are 35 funds and 11,000 investors already on the Swarm Fund platform, and the numbers are growing. "We can actually make this a community-owned marketplace that over time is owned and governed by the community; we've just laid out the framework for that," says Philipp Pieper, CEO of Swarm Fund. Hit play for a more in-depth conversation about the impact that Swarm Fund will have on the world, and visit swarm.fund.
"Within the automation business unit, we empower customers to accelerate and be more agile, enabling them to deploy software faster and ensure their infrastructure is continuously automated and that their mission-critical business processes run successfully and on time," says Gwyn Clay, vice president of product management at CA Automic. Having been around for four decades, CA Automic is a global enterprise software company that grew alongside other major names in the industry, such as IBM and Microsoft. Clay explains that as new applications continually replace those that have been around for 20 or 30 years, they don't always do so immediately or completely. That's where CA Automic comes in: to create smooth and seamless integration across all generations of technology. Clay discusses the benefits of automation in general and addresses some of the public's generalized fears about what it will ultimately mean for jobs. He also lends some insight on what this space will offer in the next few decades. Hit play to learn more.
Kadena is revolutionizing the way businesses use blockchain technology by finding new ways to adapt blockchain to create a technology platform that allows businesses to maximize efficiency and explore new business models. As the Head of Growth, Ben Jessel has developed a variety of services powered by Chainweb, which provides fast throughput and latency. In addition to assisting businesses to reduce operational costs, Kadena provides access to information that a can lead to new products and new marketplaces. Kadena was the first scalable high-performance private blockchain and continues to seek new ways to assist both private and public blockchain infrastructure. According to Jessel, Kadena is always looking for the next generation of blockchain innovation.
The majority of investors have no option but to store their cryptocurrency in wallets and let it sit idly. But what if they could generate interest on that crypto by putting it in bonds or asset-backed securities? FIC Network is a blockchain protocol that ultimately aims to give investors that ability by allowing for secondary loan market transactions and bond issuances on the blockchain. Arturs Ivanovs, CEO and Founder of FIC Network, says that the "grand vision is to create an open and transparent financial market." He believes that all transactions can and should be carried out on the blockchain, and the eFIC is a utility token that will allow for that to happen on the network. FIC Network is currently in the middle of a token issuance and just raised its soft cap. Tune in to learn more.
The Hedera Hashgraph platform provide an alternative to blockchain technology and other distributed consensus algorithms by using a fundamentally different technology with unique capabilities. According to co-founder and CEO Mance Harmon, the hashgraph algorithm solves the most common problems with blockchain technology regarding performance, cost, and security. Both Harmon and co-founder Leemon Baird are deep technologists and Harmon taught cybersecurity at the US Air Force Academy where Baird was a professor of computer science. Together, they are improving security and efficiency in cyberspace by providing a new type of distributed consensus. According to Harmon, Hedera Hashgraph has achieved the best possible bandwidth efficiency and security. In addition, the platform has minimized the time needed to reach agreements at practically zero cost per transaction.
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