ARK Real Consumer Adoption Benefit All

Cryptocurrency is not a new thing in world economy but ARK is new cryptocurrency with promise to be different from others. They promise to make ecosystem for consumer adoption so consumers will be easily access cryptocurrency technologies and earn benefits from decentralized digital currency in anyway possible, more than just fancy technologies for investment of the trader. Even ordinary consumers will get the benefit from their ecosystem.

ARK is planning to make cryptocurrency to be part of human real life. They prepare SmartBridge, a technology to bridge other cryptocurrencies. They prepare secure, fast, and stable token utilizing delegated proof of stake. They prepare tools to bridge virtual with reality. They prepare physical card system to be use in off-chain transactions. They prepare platform with high flexibility and adaptability that make the system could meet consumer individual needs and wishes.

In two year, ARK is preparing continuous development in 5 phases to make their integrated ecosystem ready. The first phase is funding campaign for the project called ARK Token Exchange Campaign (ARK-TEC) that already started at November 7th 2016. The campaign will last for 5 weeks and end at December 11th 2016.

In this phase, funding is collected from direct exchange of three major cryptocurrencies: Lisk, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. Other cryptocurrencies will need to be exchanged into those three currencies mentioned via Shapeshift integration first before used in the ARK-TEC.

Lisk is capped at 22 millions while the other are no limit. However, Lisk is standing higher in the ARK-TEC bonus structure. In the first week of exchange, Lisk will gain 70% bonus while the other only get 20%. After the initial first week, the second week bonus for Lisk is 40% while the others are 15%. The bonus will keep on declining each week with the fourth week is the last week for bonus on 5% while the final week will be given no bonus.

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[ARK] A Platform for Consumer Adoption

ARK is not just acryptocurrency - it is also an eco-system meant for cryptocurrency mass adoption.

ARK provides a user friendly platform to promote mass adoption of blockchain technology. Over time the ARK ecosystem will integrated new technologies to expand the range of services it can provide and adapt to new challenges with ease.

ARK has a highly efficient, stable core and eight second block times. It is derived from Lisk, Cripti, and Bitshares with fast improvements to the core and delegated Proof of Stake consensus algoritm.

After implementation of these technologies into the ARK Core through bridged blockchains(ARK SmartBridge), the ARK Crew will use these connections and multipurpose data fields to construct new features and provide profitable services to the average consumer.

THE ARK SMARTBRIDGE

Imagine the ARK SmartBridge being a custom piece of information in a transaction. This piece of information can be sent in a transaction to another blockchain or service. The receiver can listen via encoded listeners.

ARK will provide a mechanism to connect blockchains via a bridged delegation mechanism where an arbitrary blockchain can be registered onto the main ARK network via SmartBridge.

A SmartBridge entry can be complex and used to communicate almost any kind of data, for example create an Ethereum smart contract with parameters as noted in the SmartBridge field.

OUR DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

The ARK Crew will develop additional platforms and services benefiting from ARK. This will lead to new and exciting ways to encourage consumer participation, educating them about blockchain technology, while simultaneously adding value to the ARK cryptocurrency by incorporating revenue streams into our projects.

THE 5 PHASES

Project ARK consists of five phases of development with the endgame being an integrated ecosystem designed for ease of use and widespread mass adoption.

ARK will continually evolve and early on integrate leading technology like a decentralized file system (IPFS), a decentralized database system (IPDN), forging uncles, BIP32 HD addressing or optional anonymous transactions, among others.

THE ARK TOKEN EXCHANGE CAMPAIGN

The ARK TEC runs from Monday, November 7th to Sunday, December 11th 2016. To be successful, the TEC must reach at least 2000 BTC total valuation. Otherwise, the participants of the TEC will receive a full refund.

A TOTAL OF 125 MILLION ARK WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO ARK TEC PARTICIPANTS, TEAM AND BOUNTY PROGRAM

1. 75% (93.750.000) of ARK tokens will be distributed to participants of the ARK-TEC

2. 15% (18.750.000) to the ARK Founders Team

3. 7% (8.750.000) ARKShield Program

4. 2% (2.500.000) for bounties

5. 1% ( 1.250.000) to escrow

Participants ICO here https://tec.ark.io/#judyrob

ZEC - ZCASH - All Coins are Created Equal

WHAT IS ZCASH?

Zcash offers total payment confidentiality, while still maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain. Unlike Bitcoin, Zcash transactions automatically hide the sender, recipient, and value of all transactions on the blockchain. Only those with the correct view key can see the contents. Users have complete control and can opt-in to provide others with their view key at their discretion.

Zcash transactions do not depend on the cooperation of other parties.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Since the contents of Zcash transactions are encrypted and private, the system uses a novel cryptographic method to verify payments.

Zcash uses a zero-knowledge proof construction called a zk-SNARK, developed by our team of experienced cryptographers. These constructions allow the network to maintain a secure ledger of balances without disclosing the parties or amounts involved. Instead of publicly demonstrating spend-authority and transaction values, the transaction metadata is encrypted and zk-SNARKs are used to prove that nobody is cheating or stealing.

WHO IS BEHIND ZCASH?

All of the authors of the Zerocash protocol are on our team, which includes most of the creators of the Zerocoin protocol and leading researchers of zk-SNARKs themselves.

TECHNOLOGY

Zcash is a decentralized and open-source cryptocurrency that offers privacy and selective transparency of transactions. Zcash payments are published on a public blockchain, but the sender, recipient, and amount of a transaction remain private.

Zcash is based on peer-reviewed cryptographic research, and built by a security-specialized engineering team on an open source platform based on Bitcoin Core's battle-tested codebase. Our improvement over Bitcoin is the addition of privacy. Zcash uses advanced cryptographic techniques, namely zero-knowledge proofs, to guarantee the validity of transactions without revealing additional information about them.

Our zero-knowledge proving scheme makes it possible to conceal values and other identifying information from the public blockchain. Users simply prove that the values balance out and that they are not double-spending the amount they want to send.

Download the Tech Preview release here, or get started with our Beta Guide. For more in-depth technical specification, see our developer wiki's specification page.

COMPANY VALUES

The Zcash company aims to set a new standard for privacy through the use of groundbreaking cryptography.

In an open and programmable financial system, privacy is the only way to ensure fungibility and guarantee that cryptocurrency can be interchangeable as a fluid medium of exchange for users. Companies need the protection of privacy along their supply chain in order to conduct their business, especially in the context of public blockchains. In addition, we believe that personal privacy is necessary for core human values like dignity, intimacy, and morality.

We are a science-driven team. Our scientists and engineers are the discoverers of the underlying scientific principles and the designers of the protocol; we are not the controllers or the power-holders, and do not control the mining or distribution of Zcash. Every user of Zcash contributes to its decentralization, helping to protect it against failure and corruption. Our team is one among many participants in the network. We created Zcash, but its ultimate destiny lies not in our hands, but in yours.

JOIN US!

Need help? Want more details? Have ideas? We are an inclusive and growing community. Come on in!

Website: https://z.cash/

DECENT - Decentralizing Content Distribution

DECENT is a Decentralized Content Distribution Platform that is Open-Source and utilizes Blockchain to ensure security. Intended for creative people, authors, bloggers, publicists and their fans and followers it allows borderless publishing of any text, picture, video or music content.

Intention of the project is to revolutionize Data Distribution on the Internet.

DECENT Development plan and Roadmap

Our vision is to create a fully integrated & trustworthy worldwide system of digital content distribution

in which the communication flow is secured and timestamped by the blockchain mechanism.

MISSION

DECENT’s mission is to become a liaison between various industries by bridging the gap between the emerging blockchain ecosystem. Through secure and trustworthy digital content sharing platform we provide a vertically integrated system for industries, organizations or businesses while we focus on flexibility & sustainable development. Infrastructure of linked systems enables to set more intelligent international standards of efficient, cost-effective & secure content distribution. The principles of DECENT, based on distributed trust machine – the blockchain, bring reliability to wide range of sectors & services in which privacy and security play the crucial role.

DCT ISSUANCE

DCT is not just a cryptocurrency. Representing a fuel to the network it is a software tool which makes DECENT work. DCT holders will be able to trade the currency for other assets as other cryptocurrencies or digital content. Once the DECENT Platform is launched DCT will be available for trading or usage across the publishing and buying process on the Platform. DCT also serves as an anti-spam protection and reward for seeders/miners (or publishers in DECENT terminology).

After the launch of the final release of DECENT Network, DCT will be issued according to the ICO results.
DCT sold in the ICO will be 70% of the total DCT distributed. Part of this will be also pre-mine funds that will be distributed in following way:

10% for the DECENT Foundation

2% for the Investment Fund

1,000,000 DCT for DECENT Bounty program

3,000,000 DCT for Pre-software marketing.

The initial value of DCT will increase simultaneously with the Software Sale progress.

Which means the early participants get more for smaller value and apply for higher bonuses.

DECENT ICO 50% Bonus was extended from the originally planned 10M DCT to the first 10 hours of the ICO.

Our decision to change it was based on the initial issues with registration.

The bonus ended 11:00pm GMT on the September 11, 2016.

10% bonus of the first week ended on September 18, 11pm GMT.

The wrong-displayed bonuses were adjusted manually later on.

ICONOMI - Fund Management Platform

ICONOMI’s mission is to provide an opportunity for investors looking for high profits, not possible in the old economy. It will do so through a simple and trustworthy entry point, providing them with an excellent experience, which is crucial for keeping them investing in the new economy.

ICONOMI is creating the missing link between the old and the new economy. Speaking the language of the old economy and acting by the principles of the new one, ICONOMI’s transparent management will be provided by an EU legislation compliant and regulated service operator.

The whales of this world don't want to go into hundred of different blockchain projects and cryptocurrencies, they often just want to invest into the broader picture: Blockchain - yes or no? ICONOMI will enable them to do just that.

In short, what is ICONOMI? 

ICONOMI provides an opportunity for investors looking for high profits, not possible in the old economy. With newly developed financial instruments, ICONOMI will drive new investors and fresh capital into decentralised economy. 

As an investor, why should I consider ICONOMI? 

ICONOMI will open up a new financial services category in the decentralised economy, with a stable income stream and an ambitious platform vision. We are positive that ICONOMI is one of the most appealing business proposals of 2016 with its high probability of investment multiplication. On top of that, all ICO participants will have the possibility of investing in an invitation-only  ICONOMI.PERFORMANCE fund.

As a blockchain expert, why should I consider ICONOMI? 

We will launch the ICONOMI Open Fund Management platform in 2017 with a simple promise to successful experts - anyone can be a professional fund manager; “You bring the crypto-expertise, we take care of everything else”. Experts are also welcome to participate in ICO.

As a potential investor in the decentralised economy, why should I consider ICONOMI services? 

ICONOMI funds are the perfect entry-level financial instruments for new investors in the decentralised economy. With preselection of coins and spread of investments, ICONOMI funds promise low volatility with high profits.  Potential investors are also welcome to participate in the ICO.

New financial instruments: 

The ICONOMI.INDEX FUND will reflect the development of the credible cryptocurrency market. It will be transparently managed and traded on major exchanges. ICONOMI.INDEX fund will include several thoroughly researched cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Lisk, Steem and other major value tokens.

The ICONOMI.PERFORMANCE FUND will aim at high performance - multiplication of investment. It will be actively managed by a team of ICONOMI experts. Our team will scout for propitious early investment ICO opportunities (crowdfunded startup projects and companies). Through our company-focused fund, everyone can become a venture capitalist, without any of the hassle and capital requirements.

The ICONOMI Open Fund Management (OFM) platform is a simple management tool where traders with knowledge and experience create their own investment funds. Investors, on the other hand, are able to invest even the smallest amounts, offering a clear overview of available investment fund managers and their current & past performance. The ICONOMI Open Fund Management (OFM) platform will disrupt the asset management industry.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1587736.0

[ETC] Ethereum Classic: Immutable Smart Contracts

Ethereum Classic is a project to keep the original censorship-resistant, immutable, decentralized Ethereum

Ideology

We believe in decentralized, censorship-resistant, permissionless, IMMUTABLE blockchains. We believe in the original vision of Ethereum as a world computer you can't shut down, running irreversible smart contracts. We believe in a strong separation of concerns, where system forks are only possible in order to correct actual platform bugs, not to bail out failed contracts and special interests. We believe in censorship-resistant platform that can be actually trusted - by anyone. Code is law.

More: https://medium.com/@bit_novosti/a-crypto-decentralist-manifesto-6ba1fa0b9ede


Motivation

Ethereum Foundation responded to DAO debacle in the worst way possible. Special interests controlling the Foundation are ramming through DAO bailout hardfork against principled opposition of a significant economic minority of Ethereum stakeholders. According to (diligently hidden, pro-fork) coin vote on Carbonvote, 19% of ETH holders oppose this hardfork. Also, about 22% of Ethereum miners voted against the previous 'DAO softfork' and would logically oppose hardfork as well. Such a significant minority of stakeholders should not be silenced or intimidated into submission - they should be given a clear choice.

If we want to continue to move forward and guarantee survival of the original Ethereum vision, we must fork Ethereum. This will lay the foundation to build secure decentralized applications that are actually censorship resistant.

More: https://github.com/ethereumclassic/freeworldcomputer-project


Goals

The main goal of the project is to ensure survival of the original Ethereum blockchain. We will strive to provide alternative for people who strongly disagree with DAO bailout and the direction Ethereum Foundation is taking their project. Anyone opting to remain on the original chain should have such opportunity.


Development

We fork Ethereum and maintain upstream patches similar to the relation between Redhat and CentOS, until a community can form around the project and create a road map. Until this happens we can fork multiple existing clients to help prevent a monoculture of clients. We plan to follow https://github.com/ethereum development except for any features they introduce into existing clients that violate the key principles of openness, neutrality and immutability.

Code: https://github.com/ethereumclassic


What can I do?

Please help us spread the word about this project in Ethereum community!

Volunteers

If you feel strongly about the cause, please get involved. With just days before the planned hardfork, we need your support to ensure original Ethereum survival. We need more developers, website designers, people who can write and advocate the need for Ethereum Classic. Please let us know what are your skills and how you would like to contribute. Redditors, please reply here. Github users, please open new issue.

Users

In order to remain on the original Ethereum chain, just don't upgrade to hardfork client version pushed by Ethereum Foundation. We will maintain non-fork versions of all major Ethereum clients (as well as other key software), so going forwards all the improvements will be available to you.

Fun fact. If you keep ETH under your direct control (not in a 3rd party wallet or exchange account), you will have two sets of coins instead of one post-fork. You could then install a forked Ethereum client in addition to Ethereum Classic, copy your private keys there and use your coins on both chains! You won't be so lucky if your ETH are locked with 3rd party going into the fork - some exchanges already announced that they will only return one type of coin post-fork to its users.


Miners

Miners supporting the original chain should just keep mining with current version of software for now, without upgrading to client version introducing the hardfork code. It will be always possible to download and build latest non-fork version from https://github.com/ethereumclassic.

The difficulty of the original chain will be quite high post-fork, but it will adjust to actual hashrate shortly (just 2048 blocks, a few hours). Since it is expected that most hashrate will move to hardfoked chain, post-adjustment it will be possible to obtain decent mining rewards in classic ethers even with solo mining.

Because the difficulty adjusts quickly, it will be also quite possible to solo mine soon after the fork. If you intend to mine Ethereum Classic, please don't upgrade to geth 1.4.10 just yet, due to potential vulnerability. We will inform you when it's safe to upgrade. For now, just solo-mine with geth 1.4.9 or any earlier version, or use Classic pool.

Traders

https://bitsquare.io/

Most important question for traders is 'will ETHC have market price'? There are all reasons to believe that it will. Essentially, ETHC is an Ethereum 'spinoff coin' with a wide user base of all current ETH users. Some of them will see the value of transacting on a censorship-resistant chain, some won't. This creates interesting arbitrage opportunities for smart traders. Additional reasoning why EHTC is very unlikely to be 'worthless'.

Both Poloniex and Bitfinex announced that they will assign their users both ETH and ETHC after the fork. This is a step in the right direction, now it's up to these major exchanges to enable ETH/ETHC trading that will no doubt be demanded by users. Decentralized exchange Bitsquare announced ETHC trading right after the fork. Other trading venues will follow since there is a strong business case. We are in touch with several other exchanges to add ETHC trading to their platforms. If your exchange is interested in ETHC trading, please contact us.

Let's make sure original Ethereum vision doesn't just "go gentle into that good night"!

https://github.com/ethereumclassic/README

Ardor, or Nxt 2.0, a Scalable Child Chain Platform

The Nxt core dev team is letting anyone get into the blockchain space with a new child chain platform, Ardor, which will incorporate the technologies proven for years by the Nxt 1.0 cryptocurrency and blockchain. Soon, anyone will be able to create their own solutions using the blockchain technology with the Ardor child chains.

Nxt is undergoing a dramatic evolution. Research by the Nxt team has led to Ardor, a platform that uses child chains and incorporates all of Nxt's latest blockchain innovations while being backed by the core developers of Nxt. Ardor is more than just about money: It's about making a blockchain platform that is open to everyone, from single users all the way up to FinTech startups and governments, and one where anyone can create their own child chain and interact with the whole blockchain ecosystem. That means anyone, anywhere, will be able to utilize blockchain services with relative ease.

We can't give away too much until the final features of Ardor are tested repeatedly.

But, here are a few of the features coming with the new Ardor release:

1. Offering Blockchain as a Service - Ardor will open blockchain development to organizations and individuals across the world. The high barriers to getting started with blockchain are about to vanish.

2. Manageable Blockchain Size - Ardor will solve the problem of scalability by separating transactions and data that do not affect security from those that do, and moving all of those that don't affect security onto child chains. The Ardor team will create the first child chain to house many Nxt 1.0 tools as well as future features. This small size also comes with short transaction times so processes need only a fraction of time compared to Bitcoin to execute functions.

3. A Decentralized Asset Exchange - Building off of the Asset Exchange on Nxt, Ardor will enable the ability to trade assets on any child chain for any of the child chain tokens. This allows child chains to interact with each other and opens up numerous opportunities for collaboration as well as allow cross chain asset trading, a long-requested feature within the Nxt ecosystem.

4. Decentralized Voting and Governance Systems - Ardor will be at the core of decentralized consensus in the future. Secure and anonymous voting will be an available feature on all child chains as it is on the Nxt platform.

5. Phased Transactions - Users can set multiple conditions before a transaction is executed, such as a minimum number of votes and a set amount of time. Like Nxt, Ardor will use Smart Transactions. With this, users will only need to submit the parameters necessary for the transaction and the ID of the functionality they want to use. The transaction process is also completely decentralized. No centralized server, service, or application, like Ethereum’s Oracle, is needed.

“Rather than providing smart contracts, NXT is focused on implementing the important use cases and functions directly into the core of both Nxt and Ardor. This approach has proven to be scalable and secure and will become more so when Ardor is released” – Riker

These are a few of the things Ardor will give you and the cryptocurrency community. As development continues and testing is finalized, you'll get a detailed analysis of each of the new tools, as well as the core features built into Ardor. We'll also reveal, step-by-step, a list of our partners and what they're doing with our technology.

This is all possible because of new developments within the Nxt community. Decision-making and planning is becoming more professionalized. The community and team structure are adjusting to the new demands while the Nxt and Ardor technology remains entirely open source. Ardor is more than a cryptocurrency - it's a blockchain platform specifically designed to let anyone build decentralized tools with the latest innovations in blockchain technology.

How to get Ardor

You'll be able to participate in Ardor right away. As Ardor continues testing and development, Nxt 1.9 will be released. With Nxt 1.9, you'll get your first chance to own a piece of Ardor. All those who hold an amount of NXT will also get a piece of Ardor. Snapshots will start be taken on an hourly basis, starting on July 14th to October 13th. Then, your total NXT will be averaged, and you'll receive that amount in Ardor tokens on October 13th, which will be freely tradeable up until the Ardor system launches.

At block 1,000,000 on October 13th, 2016, snapshotting will stop, and you'll be allowed to trade your Ardor tokens in NXT 1.9 in preparation for the launch of the Ardor blockchain.

After Ardor has launched, Nxt 1.0 will remain active and supported. Nxt 1.0 is the giant on which Ardor is built and it will remain running as a core component of the Nxt eco-system, functioning as a complete blockchain solution in its own right, as well as assisting in the development and refinement of the Ardor blockchain platform.

There'll be a lot more news in the weeks and months to come. Ardor aims to be a powerful platform for users and businesses alike by building on the technology pioneered by Bitcoin and Nxt. If you would like to be a part of it, acquire NXT now and get your stake in Ardor!

About

Ardor is brought to you by the core development team from Nxt. After years of building and testing the Nxt platform, the team is going to involve the public even more. As the first Blockchain 2.0 platform, the community has continually improved Nxt and now looks forward to release Ardor for companies, organizations, and of course, users.

Edit: for more information on the Roadmap, please go here: http://nxt.org/roadmap/

Articles:

Forbes: "DIY Blockchain? NXT Announces Customizable Ardor Platform"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2016/06/21/nxt-crypto-blockchain-team-prepares-ardor-scalable-child-chain-platform/#793b66ac349b

Cointelegraph: "Ardor - New Competitor to Ethereum Arises Amidst Reports of The DAO Attack"
http://cointelegraph.com/news/ardor-new-competitor-to-ethereum-arises-amidst-reports-of-the-dao-attack

Poloniex, BTC38, and Bittrex agree to distribute Ardor tokens to customers
http://www.econotimes.com/Poloniex-BTC38-and-Bittrex-agree-to-distribute-Ardor-tokens-to-customers-232665

NXT/Ardor Platform to Make Blockchain Cheaper and Safer
https://cointelegraph.com/news/nxtardor-platform-to-make-blockchain-cheaper-and-safer

Nxt Foundation is now a member of the Linux Foundation
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2016/07/linux-foundation-welcomes-open-source-experts-security-cloud-and