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Sharpe Capital is a blockchain startup, crowdsourcing the world’s best asset sentiment via the Ethereum blockchain. Users of the Sharpe Platform earn Ether rewards in exchange for their opinions about global equity markets. Backed by the Sharpe proprietary investment fund, rewards are paid to holders of SHP tokens on a quarterly basis. The Sharpe proprietary investment fund utilises cutting edge Machine Learning technology to deliver returns that consistently beat the stock market, with low volatility and an excellent Sharpe ratio (typically 2.5+). Their trading ledger smart contract maintains a real-time public record of all investment activity on the blockchain, such that sentiment rewards can be paid to token holders in a decentralised and autonomous way. Subject to obtaining regulatory sign-off, they will be a blockchain start-up to issue a fully-regulated crypto-security token. They plan to issue Sharpe Crypto-Derivative (SCD) tokens to all holders of SHP, at a rate of 1-to-1. SCD will be a dividend-paying token, which tracks the performance of the Sharpe proprietary fund and pays an Ether profit-share to token holders on a biannual basis.

Papyrus is a fully comprehensive and highly scalable decentralized ecosystem for digital advertising which radically improves programmatic advertising stack to provide efficient, transparent and mutually beneficial environment for users, publishers, advertisers and decentralized application (dApp) developers using blockchain architecture.

The Divi Project is built on a new custom blockchain that stores names and metadata along with transactions. Because of these improvements, our user interface is far easier and simpler to learn and use than any other cryptocurrency, allowing us to bring crypto to billions of average, ordinary users. Based on a new type of masternode system with many levels, holders of DIVI coins participate in maintaining the network to earn more. They are also creating a marketplace of goods and services that can be purchased with them.

Dragonchain provides a commercial platform for application developers to rapidly and securely deploy Blockchain applications while maintaining existing language development environments (e.g. Java, Python, Node, C#, Go); a tremendous costing and speed to market advantage​. The Dragonchain architecture is also designed to allow nodes to handle approval of transactions based upon five levels of network consensus to provide a spectrum of trust to data consumers; a level of security and flexibility unseen in the market by current blockchain solution providers. These design attributes​ ​position​ ​Dragonchain​ ​for​ ​exponential​ ​growth​.

The goal of REMME is to build a distributed Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) management on top of the x.509 standard using Blockchain. It's the security-focused solution for authentication of employees, customers and smart devices, that lets businesses protect user accounts from stealing and provides secure access to sensitive data. Instead of a password, REMME provides a specific SSL certificate for each device and browser. The certificate data is managed on Blockchain, so a fake certificate will never work. Inbuilt 2FA options are based on widely spread apps and work with bots, developed for the most popular messenger apps. Instead of messangers, a dedicated mobile app could be used for 2FA according to internal security policies.

Ammbr Foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Singapore. Its aim is to build a worldwide, wireless mesh telecommunications network using Blockchain and advanced wireless network technologies. The Ammbr network will bridge the last-mile gap that is currently poorly handled by traditional Internet Service Providers, especially in less developed countries. The Ammbr network will be composed of Ammbr units, which act like advanced routers. These units mutually relay data with each other and, by doing so, they grant the end users Internet access, especially in areas where the Internet coverage is currently poor. The units use a wide range of advanced wireless technologies, allowing them to be very flexible and to cover long distances. The complexity of the device will not influence the overall user experience, which will be similar to what a current “standard” router provides when a user wants to join a LAN to connect to the Internet.

VALUS allows trademarks to add items into a blockchain. With that they make items more secure, and also customers can verify these items. Trademarks can create a safer purchase for customers by verifying websites or retailers that sell their genuine items. Customers can verify items through QR code and they will get basic information about scanned items. In a case of buying an item, they can register ownership of that item. If they are often buying items online, they can check if the website where they make a purchase is trustworthy. Previous customers can give their experience and also trademarks can verify that website. Customers can also help trademarks to reduce the number of manufacturers and stores that sell not genuine item

By Tiana Laurence, Investor, Founder & Author of Blockchain For Dummies. Guest post by Tiana, whose book we recently reviewed. https://cryptocoin.news/2017/09/29/blockchain-dummies-tiana-laurence-reviewed/ As a practical matter, the blockchain...

Great guest post by Fiona Reilly with Brian Behlendorf Executive Director of the Hyperledger Project. Fiona chatted to Brian at the Blockchain for Good Hackathon...