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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...

ETHLend brings decentralized lending on the Ethereum Blockchain. ETHLend enables everyone to participate and profit from international lending. It decentralizes the entire process using Blockchain technology and takes lending from banks and regulators to everyone, empowering every participants to lend in a free market. This leads to fair interest rates all over the globe. This brings international access to free markets and new ways to participate in lending, where everyone, not only banks, is able to profit. The blockchain advantages are, fast transactions, security by design and through the use of tokens as collaterals for loans and excellent execution through smart contracts. ETHLends timeline that aims to create major advantages: FIAT-pegged lending, allowing lenders and borrowers to receive loans and payback in FIAT, avoiding crypto volatility and increasing use cases; Crowd lending, allowing for large loans to be financed by a crowd, distributing the risk and increasing the volume of loan fundability; Automated Credit risk assessment through an advanced machine learning algorithm.

A decentralised Natural Asset Exchange blockchain platform with accompanying Earth Token (EARTH) allows stakeholders in the climate value chain to explore vast untapped market segments including Natural Capital - the world's stock of natural resources. The untapped and undervalued Natural Capital asset class is estimated to be worth in excess of USD $120 trillion, yet no transparent mechanism exists to connect producers of Natural Assets with business, consumers, or IoT devices. The establishment of a Natural Asset Exchange blockchain platform with the Earth Token as the settlement mechanism currency will fuel demand side applications including Carbon Mitigation, Climate Neutral Fuel and Waste-to-Energy, offering unique environmental sustainability solutions and the creation of differentiated value for stakeholders to build brand equity and increase market share.

Swarm Fund is a fully decentralized capital market place that democratizes investing by using the power of the blockchain to open up high-return, alternative investment classes to smaller investors through asset-backed funds using cryptocurrency tokens. It makes traditionally exclusive investment opportunities, such as private equity and hedge funds, inclusive for the Swarm by pooling together smaller investments into larger, institutional-sized blocks. Swarm Fund also gives fund managers access to more capital from a new asset class of investors who want access to institutional-type investments, but don’t have the high minimums many institutional funds require. Pilot investment vehicles on the Swarm Fund platform include a Distressed Real Estate Fund, a Solar Energy Fund, and a Crypto Hedge Fund.