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#Crypto Alerts. WoodStock was one of the most iconic music festivals the world ever witnessed. Blockchain promotes the same principles, of universal human rights, free trade, and the power of an individual and the communities to make a difference.

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Payments with Flexa app look like a breeze. No POS device no additional hardware required by merchants. You can pay from the crypto token (Bitcoin Litecoin Ether EOS (already confirmed to be in use as per some demo videos) etc and others which they integrate) you own and the merchant gets fiat instantly in their local currency.

With a strong team, advisors and investors behind them, this could actually be the game changer app we need for ease of payments and retail adoption of cryptos.

Imagine the use cases. If most top retailers like Starbucks, Target, Zara etc start accepting crypto using Flexa across all their stores worldwide, you won’t need to use FOREX anymore. One could travel from India to US without having the need to convert INR to USD through forex. You can carry your crypto with you, and pay at most retailers with your crypto, and they will receive USD instantly. Use cases could easily be extended to Uber and Lyft payments.

Why would merchants use flexa? They don’t have to pay 2-3% fees to VISA and mastercard anymore, which results in huge savings for them if a retailer has thousands of stores processing millions in transactions everyday.

Why would millennials use flexa? Just because it would be cool. Plus as cryptos gain more and more adoption, and top crypto projects start reaching their fair valuations and volatility starts reducing, people will start spending their cryptos slowly. Whichever app has the infrastructure ready for ease of spending crypto at most merchants worldwide stands to gain a massive market share for this segment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcLiQ_p2icA
Turning Crypto into Coffee with the Flexa app
Charles and Oliver buy a coffee in Starbucks with the flexa app (((SUBSCRIBE))) to the channel and spread the good SVK CRYPTO word! #svkcrypto #eos #crypto *...


Flexa's Advisors 😳 American Express + VISA + PayPal + Mastercard + Ethereum.


Consensus 2019 floor plan


After a long time, something that caught my eye recently:

Project to watch: Flexacoin (FXC) on idex

Website: https://flexa.network/

Project idea: Pay with crypto at any retail store instantly. No POS no external devices required. Rumoured to be working with some big US retail giants like Starbucks, Zara etc

Strong team with background in payments space. Tyler Spalding, a co-founder of Flexa, was the CTO at Raise, which claims to be the world’s largest gift market place turning in $1 billion in revenue after drawing in $150 million in from venture capital.
Raised 14m in private sale from Pantera Capital, 1kx, Nima Capital, Access Ventures and others.

Flexa will be coming out of the stealth mode on 13 May, at Consensus 2019, with one of the largest booths at consensus and Flexa being one of the title sponsors for the whole event.

No major exchanges yet. Has been rising steadily on index for last few weeks. Chart shows some heavy buying while hardly anyone selling at current levels.

Concerns: Private sale price was 0.001$, currently trading at 0.004$ which Is 4x in use and 10x in eth already for private sale investors so be wary of private sale investors booking some profits. Plus it’s already up 60-70% in last few days as people start to discover it.
Current mcap based on expected circulating supply should be around 50m which seems more than fair already for this project, this is more of scalp trade for something that looks like will be shilled across the board very soon.
First batch of team tokens will get unlocked on May 1 which could lead to a dump, though I doubt the team will want to dump before their big launch at consensus.

I expect it to have some more upside leading up to its launch at Consensus. Another possibility is a good exchange listing close to their consensus launch as they have good investors and raised a good amount, plus they seem to be making a big statement with launching at consensus with a big presence. I market bought some just a while back, I usually never recommend market buying but the sell pressure on this thing looks so low and bots seem to be front running bids on buy side that your orders might not get filled in.

I dont want to cause fomo here but something to consider:
1. FXC is still undiscovered with less than 400 wallets holding it
2. No one on crypto twitter is shilling it yet, so called gem hunters are just getting on it.
3. Big launch coming up at consensus.
4. Highest buy volume on today's candle and in its small trading history till now which usually means price has more room to grow
5. once cmc updates its circulating supply and mcap, it will be in top 100, first page of cmc, leading to more exposure.

Do remember the concerns listed above.

BE CAREFUL OF DUMP BY A LARGE PRIVATE SALE INVESTOR AT ANY TIME AND TRADE WISELY. Hope it helps. #DYOR #notafinancialadvice

Unofficial telegram chat: https://t.me/flexacoin

Relevant links: https://medium.com/flexa/introducing-flexacoin-b4c8099e3a91

https://medium.com/flexa/flexa-raises-14-1-million-to-catapult-retail-blockchain-adoption-f5376220b9ea


Project to Watch: https://vanta.network/

VANTA is a decentralized and permission-less network that ensures real-time, secure and private connectivity. Through VANTA, both individuals and corporations will be able to develop real-time data transmission services and commercialize those services at low costs. VANTA will eventually allow infinite connectivity among all devices regardless of location.

- From an existing company VOICELOCO - a telecommunications infrastructure provider for some major corporates in South Korea.

Partnerships:
🔸Over 200,000 organizations will soon be using VANTA through Microsoft:
https://medium.com/vantanetwork/vanta-establishes-strategic-partnership-with-microsoft-99a174491a14
Other notable partnerships include: Oracle, HanYang University (lead R&D partner), Sejong Telecommunication, Aiibit (subsidiary of crypto exchange Upbit)

TEAM: Their team is strong imo, Core Developer Details: https://medium.com/vantanetwork/vanta-networks-core-developers-d93caf465cab

Ryan Seo (Founder and CEO)
12+ years of experience in IT & telecommunication industry from ORACLE (JAPAC), HP. Extensively collaborated with top 3 national telecom carriers || B.S. Computer Science, Yonsei University

Adrian Park (Technical Lead)
10+ years of experience in data processing & algorithm from SK planet and startups. Search engine company founder at age 14 || M.S. Computer Science, Seoul National University

Inwhee Joe (Head of R&D)
Professor from Hanyang University, Computer Science Department Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech

A child prodigy on the team which stands out:
Daniel Hong (Core Algorithm Developer)
Daniel worked at Apple Inc. for over 2 years as a Software Development Intern when he was just 10 years old. If that doesn’t shock you, he participated in the Bitcoin developer community since Bitcoin was first introduced at age 9.
For the past 10 years, he has accomplished an incredible amount of research and accumulated vast amounts of knowledge about blockchain technology. Already, Daniel has filed and holds a number of blockchain technology patents.

Notable Advisors:

* Yoonseok Choi (Vice President at Microsoft Korea)
* Changnam Choi (Director at Oracle)

Roadmap: They have released MVP for some of their use cases, still the roadmap is really long with Testnet in Q2 2019, and main net in Q4 2019 (maybe a good thing as this bear market isn’t getting over any time soon?)

ICO Details
Hardcap: 15m $ for 35% tokens
Max bonus: 15%
Distribution: 50%/50%/15%

Official Telegram Channel: https://t.me/vantanetwork


Project to watch: https://chainspace.io/

Chainspace delivers on modern expectations of processing power, making it the platform of choice for complex real-world applications

Key Features

Fast, leaderless consensus
Our new leaderless consensus algorithm, Blockmania is based on a DAG structure and is extremely fast, currently 350k-500k TPS on 16 nodes in a single shard distributed across the internet. It does consensus and transaction ordering within a single shard.

Sharding execution
Our Sharded Byzantine Atomic Commit (SBAC) protocol allows us to run multiple chains at once. Incoming transactions can affect objects in more than one shard, allowing us to get horizontal scalability. Cross-shard commits are atomic.

Sharding verification
Blockmania consensus functions as long as more than ⅔ nodes are honest. We can horizontally scale verification nodes, just as we can scale execution nodes. Verification nodes use fraud proofs to detect and communicate about shards that have gone rogue.

Proof of stake
We use two-way stake wagers between entities, to build a social network of stake-weighted trust relationships. We use social network theory math to figure out whether an entity is a sybil based on the amount that it's connected to the main network.

Privacy applications and zero knowledge proofs
How do you allow people to prove that they are able to vote in a petition, tally votes, and not allow anyone to vote more than once, without the user's actual identity to ever being recorded? Coconut, our threshold credential disclosure library, makes applications like this possible.

Directory and governance
In order for the system to function, we need to have a DNS-like system mapping objects to nodes, nodes to shards, and contracts to nodes, shards & objects. We plan to implement this as a Chainspace smart contract itself.

Smart contracts in any language
Blockchain developers can use any language with a WASM output target, such as Solidity, Vyper, Hera, Rust, C++, and Go - and will get strong determinism guarantees. Alternately, as with Tendermint, developers who want to use traditional languages and commit to avoiding nondeterministic function calls, are free to do so.


TEAM:

Dave Hrycyszyn (Co-Founder)
In a 20 year career, Dave has successfully delivered hundreds of software systems. From startups to the world's largest organizations, he's scaled systems to tens of millions of users. He also wrote the book on the open source Scalatra HTTP framework, used by the BBC, NetFlix and McLaren. Alongside Ramsey, he built and sold a 60-person software consultancy. At Chainspace, he works across business, code and research activities.

George Danezis (Co-Founder)
George is the former head of the Information Security Research Group at UCL. He co-designed and prototyped RsCoin, an experimental scalable cryptocurrency, and has a list of publications longer than a Leonard Cohen song. He did his doctorate at Cambridge under Ross Anderson, followed by a stint at Microsoft Research. George is also a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.

Mustafa Al-Bassam (Co-Founder)
Mustafa is a researcher in computer security, scalable blockchain technologies and their applications. He made the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Techlist for 2016. He is currently a doctoral researcher in computer security at UCL.

Andre Cronje’s Chainspace Code Review Conclusion:
“I’m going to keep going through this, but it’s amazing. Probably the best I have seen yet. It’s elegant, it’s simplistic, and it has had a lot of hard work that has gone into it. “

Full cryptobriefing review here: https://cryptobriefing.com/chainspace-code-review-sharded-smart-contracts/

Chainspace Telegram channel: https://t.me/chainspace_official (not yet linked on their website though it looks like the official one opened recently, exercise caution and don’t fall for scams)


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Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings released today (1 Nov 2018).

Holochain (HOT), Cardano (ADA), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Ripple (XRP), EOS signalled as a Buy. #dyor




Project to watch: https://elixxir.io/

One of the founders of the cypherpunk movement, David Chaum, has just revealed new technology that he believes will revolutionize cryptocurrency from this moment on.

The Elixxir blockchain has been designed to address performance issues hindering the adoption of current decentralized systems, while maintaining the privacy consumers require.

Two fundamental innovations have enabled Elixxir's ability to scale performance and privacy securely:

1. Nodes are selected to work together by a decentralized randomized algorithm. This creates increased privacy and network integrity.

2. All per-transaction public key operations are pre-computed; only “hash functions” are used in real-time per-transaction.

The Elixxir platform protects privacy through an anonymous mixnet protocol, and a blockchain that stores tokens, not transactions. Likewise, it achieves finality quickly by abandoning the use of traditional signature-based payment processing in favor of hash-based authentications. This is achieved through the platform’s unique consensus mechanism, whereby a group of system nodes works as a team, with integrity guarantees provided via verifiable proofs. In Elixxir, future improvements in computational power translate directly to block finality being realized more quickly, and the architecture enables linear scaling of block processing as the network grows. Elixxir design is unique in being able to, for the first time, scale to provide users globally with a high performing payment and messaging solution that affirms and preserves their right to digital sovereignty


Founder:

David Chaum

- 30 years of experience working with cryptography and payments, including developing anonymous digital money eCash before even the internet existed.

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/ecashs-inventor-is-back-and-he-thinks-hes-built-the-fastest-ever-blockchain/

Telegram Channel: https://t.me/elixxir_io










Holochain and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

On 1 January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit — officially came into force.  Over the next fifteen years, with these new Goals that universally apply to all, countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.

A study/research named Billions to Trillions was undertaken to understand the challenges and chart a possible route to attain these goals by 2030.

Study/Research Report Link: https://sphaera.world/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Billions%20to%20Trillions.pdf

These goals includes many mentions of Holochain as its cryptographic fabric. (Screenshots attached)

Link to one my original reviews I had published on Holochain way back in May which might help you understand what Holochain and Holo is all about: https://medium.com/@megadeth20/holochain-holo-review-2c19b3b53cda

Full disclosure: I’m already an investor in Holochain since it’s ICO and it has gone up significantly in the last few weeks. Be wary of some possible retracement and average out your buying positions if you are planning to make one for the long term. #dyor #notafinancialadviceblahblah


* Senior Vice President at T-Hub**, responsible to stitch and nurture strategic relationship and create CoE programs that can help the startup community @ T-Hub ( T-Hub is India’ largest Incubator and houses 200+ startup’s. T-Hub is a multi-dimensional startup ecosystem which has is a mix of co-working spaces, various hue’s of Incubation programs & plans to set sector focussed vertical accelerators in partnership with Tier-1 Global majors. )
* Senior Advisor on Innovation for the state of Assam, iHub (ICRISAT) and for Emerging Tech, CoE, State of Telangana (India)
* More than 20 years of work experience at the likes of Motorola, Ericsson, Cisco, Polycom, Atlia Systems

Eleven 01 Partnerships:
* Tech Mahindra (5 billion usd Indian tech giant). Tech Mahindra is currently working on 90 blockchain projects worldwide, out of which it has already implemented 15 projects.
* Government of Telangana state (India)
* Idea Labs/Block 91
* 50+ startups and colleges in India

Bringing it all together:
Lot of people have been waiting for a long time for a good blockchain protocol project to come out of India which could be applied to many use cases (unlike previous good projects from India like Nucleus Vision and Zebi which had a more specific use case application) to tackle the different problems in this growing economy of a billion plus people, and looks like we finally may have gotten our wishes answered.
The team behind Eleven01 and the partnerships they have are exceptional to say the least.

What to wait for before Eleven01 really gets a full all star status:
1. Tech reviews for the project once they open their github
2. Project Roadmap (expected to be released soon)
3. Token metrics/Token distribution/fundraising targets.

Project Launch Press Release: https://inc42.com/buzz/telangana-govt-announce-the-launch-of-blockchain-district-in-partnership-with-tech-mahindra-and-others/
Tech Mahindra Press Release: https://www.techmahindra.com/media/press_releases/Blockchain-Initiative-Eleven01-Protocol.aspx

More detailed Introduction to Eleven01: https://medium.com/@megadeth20/introducing-eleven01-indias-homegrown-blockchain-bc0331122bd2

Eleven01 Website: https://www.eleven01.io/
Eleven01 Whitepaper: https://docsend.com/view/aepwxcv
Eleven01 Official Telegram channel: https://t.me/Eleven01Protocol


Project to Watch: Eleven01

Introducing Eleven01 — INDIA’s homegrown blockchain!

Website: https://www.eleven01.io/

Eleven01 is one the fastest, highly scalable blockchain protocol which aims to make blockchain technologies for real world use starting from India as a beachhead market for the public as well as private workloads.
Eleven01 is a blockchain protocol that is designed from the ground up to be use-case agnostic, topology-agnostic blockchain ledger. It’s core software can be used to implement a public chain, offering a cryptocurrency that anyone can join and transact with. It can also be configured as a private, permission blockchain that can be used to build consortiums.The goal is to provide a foundation that can be built upon and tailored to each application.
In addition to the protocol, Eleven01 will also be unveiling Eleven01 Marketplace, a place where companies can buy, rent or subscribe to smart contracts and services that will seamlessly integrate with Eleven01 chains.

**Eleven01 Core — Novel Transaction Engine
With Eleven01, you can choose the transaction engine that makes most sense for your implementation of the protocol.** Eleven01 supports a wide array of transaction engines depending on the network topology. It can operate within a public untrusted environment where trust needs to be decentralised baked into the protocol layer itself. While setting up the public chain, Eleven01 can choose between a number of algorithms including Proof of Stake, Proof of Work, BFT-based consensus etc.
In a private, permissioned, or consortium scenario, the chain is able to utilise secure enclaves in TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments) to cryptographically validate and seal the transactions on the ledger. Transactions are processed in the clear inside the secure enclaves, this exponentially increasing the transaction throughput. With this model, transactions can be processed at the speeds greater than 10,000 transactions per second.

Dynamic Consensus:
When dealing with blockchain consensus protocols, Eleven01 provides a flexible, pluggable consensus model. This way, consumers can choose a particular consensus scheme that fits their need the genesis time. While the software supports many consensus mechanisms (including Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, BFT based consensus), the right engine to use heavily depends on the type of implementation of Eleven01. Eleven01 will be developing a guidance and details on the configuration options of the transaction engine to help network administrators choose precisely the right type of engineer for their blockchain use cases.

Eleven01 Foundation:
The Eleven01 foundation is a blockchain conglomerate that provides services across the blockchain ecosystem and has partnered exclusively with Tech Mahindra for technology innovation to create the Eleven01 Protocol — an emerging market centric blockchain protocol with government compliance standards, which serves as a foundation for decentralised applications. Tech Mahindra is playing a pivotal role in the Eleven01 initiative as a partner to co-develop the technology and platform.
The Eleven01 project will not only launch its own Eleven01 protocols and frameworks but also, Eleven01 Academy, Eleven01 Incubator, Eleven01 Labs, Eleven01 Media, Eleven01 Labs and a host of other projects.

**Eleven 01 Team:
Ausaf Ahmad (Global CEO of Eleven01)**
* Founder of the Azure Blockchain Council
* Former Microsoft Blockchain and IoT Lead
* MBA from MIT Sloan
* Technology Advisor (Nucleus Vision)
* Led airplane propulsion integration group at Boeing Company

**Rama Iyer (India CEO of Eleven01)

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