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By Jillian Godsil Zloadr calls itself as a revolutionizing blockchain publishing platform that allows content creators to connect, earn, reach and sell their content to a...

Russian president Vladimir Putin recently revealed plans to impose a tax on cryptocurrency mining. A newly published document has revealed that Russian President, Vladimir Putin,...

Opporty is a decentralized service marketplace and self-regulated knowledge-sharing community platform. By offering blockchain-powered smart contracts and a decentralized Escrow system, Opporty puts client-contractor relations on the blockchain. The platform, with the help of its Expert community, ensures transparency and security, standardizes procedures, and creates an environment of cooperation that instills trust between parties.

STRIM is a decentralised network built on the Ethereum blockchain technology that gathers various data from users around the world, shares the data and ultimately builds upon the data, turning it into useful information. It consists of two parts - a live P2P video streaming based on location and a Sensor Mining part (also based on location) that uses sensors from any IoT device (Smartphones, Drones, fixed devices etc.) to pick data and then provide it to interested parties while the user gets rewarded in STR Tokens.

HAZZA is an initiative to build a global unified payment network by migrating an existing proven Global Payment System of Octo3 Limited to blockchain technology. The HAZZA network is planned to be made available to anyone around the world. It aims to reduce, if not remove, barriers and inefficiencies from the payment industry by allowing the world’s merchants, global payment networks, acquirers, issuers, alternative payment method providers (APMs), payment service providers (PSPs) and other participants (e.g. device manufacturers, POS providers, the crypto community etc.) to access a low-cost, minimal-engagement, decentralized payment network. The HAZZA network will be owned and guided by a not-for-profit foundation, the Foundation, developed and governed through the HAZZA network community.

BurstIQ combines the power of blockchain, big data, and machine intelligence to create the platform for the new person-centric health economy. The BurstIQ platform and BiQ Ecosystem give individuals the power to own, understand, and put their data to work through an open marketplace where health services are universally accessible and intelligently tailored to each person. For researches and providers, the platform creates a deep learning environment that continuously expands their knowledge of individuals to improve relevance and impact, inspire new research, facilitate collaboration, and foster an environment of innovation.

During the last year, the price for cryptocurrencies has risen considerably. According to the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, Bitcoin registered in October 2016 a price of...

By Eimear Dodd Arbi, the ICO escrow service, has announced plans to launch a public Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in January 2018. According to its...

The country announced that they will soon create the state-backed CryptoRuble Russia recently announced that they will issue their own cryptocurrency, the CryptoRuble. This announcement...

The country’s leading fintech firms have joined forces to convince the Australian Central Bank to launch its own state-backed cryptocurrency. Several of Australia’s most prominent...