The Ignition Network and its network token, ignition coin, is an open-source, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency/commodity, designed and engineered with the best ideas for decentralization, payments, and value storage in mind from many different cryptocurrencies, drawing from the best, including Bitcoin, Dashpay, Peercoin, and others. The Ignition Network seeks to create a cryptocurrency whose primary function is…

Ardor is a “full blockchain-as-a-service” multi-chain platform that evolved from the time-tested Nxt blockchain. The mainnet went live on 01 January 2018. The unique parent-child chain architecture of Ardor, with a single security chain providing energy-efficient proof of stake consensus for multiple transactional “child chains,” enables three fundamental advantages – reduced blockchain bloat, increased scalability,…

INTRODUCTIONAuthors of Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria, posit that there are four core human drives that profoundly influence our everyday decision making. These are the desires to acquire; to bond; to defend; and to learn. Despite the text’s accuracy, both Lawrence and Nohria overlook a fundamentally overlook a…

It is a valuable strategy to make a detection platform for food quality and safety, and it relates with national economy and people’s livelihood. At present, the effective eco consisted of consumer, experts, enterprises, and organizations etc has not been established for food quality and safety. Supply-side is lack of channels for reliable detected data…

BLUEPRINT FOR DECENTRALIZED CLOUD COMPUTINGiExec aims at providing decentralized applications running on the blockchain a scalable, secure and easy access to the services, data-sets and computing resources they need. This technology relies on Ethereum smart contracts and allows the building of a virtual cloud infrastructure that provides high-performance computing services on demand. iExec leverages a…

According to research conducted by Strategy Analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT) sector will continue its rapid growth, with the number of IoT central box and connected devices worldwide reaching nearly 20 billion by the end of 2017, and a further 10 billion expected to be added over the next four years. It is estimated…

Aurora is a suite of dapps and protocols that together comprise a fully decentralized and autonomous banking and finance platform. Complete with its own stablecoin, the boreal, Aurora aims to recreate and improve upon the existing financial ecosystem in a decentralized fashion. Aurora offers a stable, private, and open financial system to anyone in the…