TaaS: Token-as-a-Service refers to a token based, closed end fund that is specifically crafted to cut back on the risks and barriers to entry in the block chain. TaaS has a uniqueness in that it is specifically created to deal with the conventional limitations in the bloc chain market. Its focus is the reduction and elimination of technical barriers manifested in the current market. It is also simplified such that the users will be able to develop better and deeper understanding of the market. TaaS is more transparent than the existing solutions hence increasing the appeal to the users as well as the investors. 

TaaS will be operated as a closed-end fund, which will be used in the market making as well as trading operations. This aspect translates into simplicity and transparency. Transparency is also augmented by the presence of a cryptographic audit on the closed end fund such that the existing issues of underhand dealings will no longer have the chance of being operations. 

The closed-end fund will also operate with utmost respect to the contributors. Anonymity is a major concern for the players in the market. Rolling out of smart contracts will be a way of ensuring that all players in the industry have consistency and anonymity when it comes to the sharing of profits. Development of Kepler platform will result in the integration will culminate in the intelligent, transparent and open system for portfolio management. 

Cryptographic audit is ideal and unique compared to the industry standard. Operationalization of the cryptographic audit does not call for any human intervention. Consequently, there is no possibility of tampering to create the unqualified audit reports. The new audit technology enables one to view the balance and verify. The view only option ensures that no changes can be made on the balance. It also has the option of recording snapshots of the block chain. The regular records can be used to create the trend analysis related to the tradable account hence facilitating transparency and openness. 

Kepler

Taas describes one of their main features Kepler as
"Our mission is to deliver long-lasting innovations to blockchain community, hence additionally to running a fund we are building Kepler, a first Bloomberg-like cryptocurrency portfolio management and analytics platform covering the entire spectrum of investment process, starting from market research, due diligence and order management all the way to risk exposure and performance forecasting. Development expenses will be covered entirely by TaaS profits. Kepler MVP is already in the making, with private beta release scheduled for Q3 2017." 

That's one of the main intriguing innovation the project has to offer. With Kepler blockchain and blockchain innovation will come a lot closer to day to day practises. Something business will likely want to embrace. 

TaaS is also better than the existing options in that it is owned and run by the investors as well as the contributors. In any event, of a profit, there is nothing that is held back as a reserve or for the operational purposes. The self-running and self-auditing options in the TaaS option eliminate the need to set aside a certain percentage of the earnings to cater for audit, and operations. Therefore, every profit will trickle down to the deserved parties at all times. 

More information on http://www.taas.fund

Bitcoin, the famous cryptocurrency or the currency of Internet has taken the world by storm and is soon turning into a real currency! Trading in bitcoin has its own advantages and disadvantages. But there lies a risk of "holding". There are no question marks as far as the safety issue is concerned but one needs to foresee the future scenarios and deploy accurate strategies while trading in bitcoin! 

About trading tools in the market

Biggest stigma that haunt people trading in bitcoin is its volatility. There are various tools and software products available in the market now-a-days to trade bitcoins in the market after analyzing it thoroughly. 

What is Cryptoforecast?

Cryptoforecast is one of the most popular tools that will help both amateurs and professional traders in coding their strategies with proper logic and understanding. It is basically an application which is based on an algorithm known as "The Pillar". The algorithm can help you with extremely accurate indications about Bitcoin's future movements. 

How is CryptoForecast different?

• Cryptoforecast is different from other tools in the market because it takes into consideration the various factors deciding the market movements. These factors are moving averages, oscillators, resistance and supports. 

• The Pillar algorithm is evolving on a daily basis by adapting to the investor's characteristics, new movements, new markets, time frames and new strategies. It has also become the foundation of the prediction based decisions by anticipating and forecasting the market accurately. 

• The application has a very easy to use interface and you just need to choose the selected frame i.e. H1, H4, 1D, 1W and the time period you want for the algorithm to give you a detailed vision. The good thing is that it also takes into account the past movements in its prediction. 

• There is also a concept of initial coin offering or ICO. Any interested investor can be there in ICO for 34 days. The best part of the ICO project is that the allocated bonus will be released within the ICO term period. Bonus division for the investors will take place based on the date of joining the ICO funds project. 

- Bonus will be there if the investor contributes on the first day itself and will have a multiplier of 1,5.
- From second day, the multiplier will reduce to 1,2.
- From that point, the multiplier is going to decrease by 0.0074 each day.
- From 30th to 34th day, there won't be any multiplier.

Interested investors can get more details on the official website. So anybody looking for a reliable tool to build their trading strategies can have a look at this wonderful application! And what better than a tool which can accurately predict Bitcoin movements! 

Resources:

Announcement
Website

If you need any kind of reliable information, without spending a cent the best option is certainly Lunyr. 
Lunyr Project, also pronounced "Lunar Project" is an innovative "decentralized crowdsourced encyclopedia". The aim of the project is to build a reliable and decentralized encyclopedia with information reviewed by experts through peer to peer technology. It will not only be used by people around the world, but also by developers, in fact there will be an API that can be utilized as the foundation for new applications. 

Why choose Lunyr?

The information will be provided by users, who get rewarded with "Lunyr Tokens" or LUN, that can be used to put advertisements on the platform.The quality and reliability of the information is guaranteed by the innovative peer reviews system and to ensure that every submitted information is reviewed by qualified users they use machine leaning to mach reviewers with topics with which they will likely be familiar. The review system is very strictly, so every fake, malicious or inappropriate content will be instantly rejected. 

Who can use it?

The contributed content are of public knowledge and can be accessed, redistributed, and edited by anyone for free. Anyone can create or edit an article, if it will pass the review the user can claim HNR and LUN tokens from smart contracts. He can use HNR to resolve quality issues or disputes and LUN to put advertisements.The future of the project.The long-term vision of the project is to develop a knowledge base API that developers can use to create new applications in virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and more. 

How can you contribute?

They are launching a crowdsale on March 29 at 16:00 UTC, it will be capped at 550,000 Ether. During the crowdsale it will be possible to buy LUN simply sending Ether to the token contract. More information can be found on the crowdsale page. 

More information on the LUNYR project can be found on Lunyr.com

Matchpool is a decentralized matchmaking protocol which utilizes group diversifications to assist participants match with each other. It is also used as a generic platform for any membership in the society which defines two sides of the market or exchange of goods and services. Pooling refers to bringing people or ideas together to achieve common goals and objectives. Matchpool refers to bringing people with connections in one platform. Individuals need to subscribe for updates concerning matchpool news, team updates, investments, offers and developments in place.  
 

Matchpool technical aspects 

There are many dating sites that attemp to asist singles meet their other signifacant. Human relations on existing dating cites are not natural. Every interaction in the glob is based on trust. Matchpool deals with the initial lack of trust among individuals today. Its solves the difficluties where people could not open a niche dating site that targets the community. In addition it enables people to connect with minimum time possible. Through the trust of Matchpool, two strangers trust each other through trusting the matchmaker, which in means that the matchmaker monetize his matches without any difficulties. Moreover Matchpool is used for recruitment pools and have the same effectiveness.  

Matchpool review 

Consumers or end users in the platform can find linksto the application by joining the pools the best solve their needs. Cryptographic token, in the economy, will build the first platform for mainstream matching. Tokens will be purchased using money at various centers and also through online. Users across all platforms are rewarded automatically for their trust and commitment.  

Individuals can own their pool where manage and become a community. The owner sets their terms and rules considering that they are themselves, managers. Matchpooling can be spread to various sectors including health, education, recruitment, lifestyle, business, clubs, and dating. Online dating applications utilize models that do not satisfy the users. Dating applications focus on keeping the user on the platform to maximize revenues other than cater for their customers. 

Matchpool Crowdsale

Matchpool users will divide into two catagories – Joiners & Hosts.
Joiners who wishes to enter a pool of their choice, will have to pay the pool's requisite entry fee, which will be defined at the creation of that Pool by the Pool's Host. In addition to this one-time registration fee, a monthly membership fee will be paid to the Pool. All payments will be held in an Ether based smart contract and will be processed using Matchpool's network own token Guppies (GUP). While in the Pool, nature will take its course and all members would be able to interact publicly on private channels in a way resembling Slack's interface. On the other side, users can also play the role of Hosts and Matchmakers. 

The host will be the one who opens a custom Pool and gets dividends from its revenues. Matchmakers or Helpers as they are defined in the system can propose matches between two other joiners who they believe would be good partners. Those two joiners are then notified and in case they both accept, the event is added to their public notebook, and the Matchmaker get rewarded. 



Both the Host of the pool and its matchmakers are entitled for shares of the Pools subscription and monthly fees, paid with GUP. Matchpool first 200,000 Users will get rewarded with GUPs upon registration enabling them to make their first steps in the platform. 

Dapplets

Dapplets are another way Matchpool users can get rewarded. These are basically add-ons created by developers who want add to the Matchpool protocol. In practice, Dapplets work similar to Slack plugins but can enhance the experience in a number of ways. One example would be a Dapplet, which implements "Tinder" functionality: users can swipe through other users. If one of their apps creates a match of some kind for example: if a "Blind Date" game creates a real match, then the Dapplet developers are rewarded similarly to Matchmakers. 

Issuance & Distribution

 

Match pool is a decentralized matchmaking and dating protocol, which makes use of group dynamics in an effort to assist as many users as possible to find a partner. 

This platform consists of user-generated groups of people. These groups can be seen as a cross in between Meetup groups and Slack channels, invite-only groups whose ownership and management is done by users acting as matchmakers. When joining the platform, there will be rules that the user has to follow.

The Matchlock feature maintains an equal ratio between Y and X so that each and every pool in the site remains attractive. If a specific number of X users gets into the pool, then this feature will halt more X from getting into the pool until an equal number of Y's enter. 

The Matchpool app will have an interface at the front end that will allow users to look for favorable pools in different places that have interests that vary. As they start, users will be shown a list of pools in their place, which is consistent with their specific interests and demographics. 

There will be two categories of users in Matchpool. These will be hosts and joiners. Joiners who would like to get into a pool of their interest will have to pay a fee that should be defined at the creation of the pool by the pool's host. Additionally, a monthly membership fee is payable to the pool. Every payment made will be contained in a smart contract that is Ether-based. These payments will then be processed by network own Guppies belonging to Matchpool. Inside the pool, members will socialize publicly via private channels.

Users can also play the part of a matchmaker or a host. The host opens a custom pool and gets dividends from its fees. Helpers or matchmakers are able to propose a match between two joiners that they see as viable partners. The joiners get informed of this and in the event that they accept, the occasion is added to their public notebook, and the helper gets a reward. The matchmakers and host have an entitlement to the ownership of the subscriptions of the pool and monthly subscriptions paid with GUP. 

The first 200,000 users of Matchpool will get GUPs as a reward when they register. 

Dapplets is another form of reward. Dapplets implement "Tinder" function where swiping of users through other users is allowed. For instance, if a game of blind date brings about an actual match, then developers of the Dapplet are rewarded like Matchmakers. 

The platform will create a way for users to make money while having fun and finding love. Don't miss this great chance to become part of something great. 

Resources

Bitcointalk.org Annoucement 
Website 
Blog 
Twitter 

SINGAPORE -- March 21, 2017 -- The Qtum (pronounced "Quantum") Foundation (www.qtum.org) raised over $15 million in a record five days, listing the project among the all-time top 10 blockchain-token crowdsale campaigns. Qtum started the first day off fast, selling $10 million of its tokens in a mere 90 minutes. By comparison, Ethereum (now the #2 market cap in cryptocurrency with a valuation of $3.6 billion) took 42 days to raise $18 million.

The crowdsale, scheduled to last 30 days or until all tokens were sold, ended with the project raising over 11,000 bitcoins and 75,000 ether (ETH) in exchange for the 51 million Qtum tokens being distributed to the public. Instead of sending tokens to a single crowdsale address, Qtum enlisted six cryptocurrency exchanges/crowdfunding portals to conduct the sale in a coordinated fashion. The sites participating in the campaign were Bizhongchou (bizhongchou.com), Yunbi (yunbi.com), ICOAGE (icoage.com), Allcoin (allcoin.com), ICO365 (ico365.com), and BTC9 (btc9.com).

Qtum tokens (QTUM) are the cryptographic software tokens used to engage with distributed applications and smart contracts on the Qtum platform and will serve as the staking token for the Qtum blockchain, as well as fuel for computational operations performed by the Qtum network. Details on the Qtum concept can be found in the Foundation's white papers.

"We are confident that we can finish what we originally started a year ago. We hope our supporters can work with us to build the greatest blockchain platform for enterprise and consumer use cases. There are so many possibilities for the blockchain industry, with Qtum, we are just at the beginning of a long journey." – Patrick Dai, co-founder of the Qtum Project

The total QTUM token supply will be allocated in three primary ways. 51 percent of QTUM tokens (51 million) will be distributed through the now-completed crowdsale. Funds raised this way will finance the Qtum Foundation's operation for the next four years, including development, administration, marketing, and financial/legal consulting. Of the remaining 49 percent, 29 percent of QTUM tokens (29 million QTUM) will be allocated to community initiatives concerning business development, research, education, and market expansion. 20 percent of QTUM tokens (20 million) will be distributed among founders, early backers, and the development team. Further details are outlined in the Foundation's governance white paper. 

"Since we began this project, I have been excited about its premise. Now, this excitement has been validated and shared by thousands of backers. Qtum will bring about a new blockchain and smart contract revolution and will bring together the many disparate communities into one common goal of action." - Jordan Earls, co-founder of the Qtum Project

Qtum recently announced that one of the leading professional service providers, PwC, will support Qtum's efforts to help fuel blockchain adoption across global business sectors. Qtum has previously raised $1 million from investors including Chen Weixing (Founder of Kuaidi), Star Xu (CEO of OkCoin), Anthony Di Iorio (Founder of Ethereum & Jaxx Blockchain Interface), Jeremy Gardner (co-founder of Augur), Bo Shen (Fenbushi Capital's Managing Partner), Roger Ver (First Investor in Bitcoin Companies), and Xiaolai Li (blockchain angel investor).

 

For more information on the QTUM, please visit: https://qtum.org

About Qtum

Qtum is a hybrid blockchain application platform. Its core technology combines a fork of bitcoin core, an Account Abstraction Layer allowing for multiple virtual machines, including the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and a Proof-of-stake Consensus protocol, aimed at tackling industry use cases. The Qtum Foundation, headquartered in Singapore, is the decision-making body that drives the project's development. The Qtum Foundation has engaged one of the world's leading professional service providers, PwC, for project management support. Learn more at https://qtum.org

Company contact: john@qtum.org

Qtum - Blockchain made ready for business

In this fast-paced world where technology is making great advancements with new applications popping up every now again, you are probably trying to understand the connection between Bitcoin, Blockchain and QTUM. Allow us to explain these terms and how they are connected. 

Blockchain has now gone from being just a technology for Bitcoin to something so much more, as many in the industry are coming up with different systems based on it. Blockchain became popular when Bitcoin was first introduced several years ago, to help consolidate different databases into one that can be shared by multiple users, allowing them to make revisions as well as access it simultaneously, regardless of where they are. Furthermore, these databases are completely open to the public, giving all users access to the information and records contained therein. This has made this technology of great value as most have never seen anything like it before. This feature of the network ensures that it is also impenetrable, as a hacker cannot find its' nucleus to hack into. In the same gist, developers have now come up with a new application called QTUM (knows as Quantum).  

QTUM, based out of Shanghai, China essentially works by using the best of technologies from both Bitcoin and Ethereum ( programming language), so as to combine the two to get a platform that can work by producing decentralized applications. It introduces an element of 'smart contract' through the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM} on the one hand, and 'master contract' on the other. The aim behind this is to reduce the reliance of business on humans, thereby also reducing human error and other complications that may arise while tracking business transactions using the Blockchain database. They hope to do this by enabling the programs to run independently without requiring any sort of guidance. Although it seems like it will be awhile before business owners actually start using this model, QTUM will soon be released in beta.  

The QTUM Team 
FLTR; JOHN SCIANNA, BRETT FINCARYK, NEIL MAHI, PATRICK DAI, YUNQI "CASPAL" OUYANG, JORDAN EARLS

As to how efficiently QTUM will work can be gauged by the continuous success of Bitcoin since it first made it's debut in 2008. There have only been minor complaints about the digital currency and its' usage. This fact alone should silence the critics about the feasibility of this Blockchain-incorporated technology. However, the critics would watch to see how successful the technology is, as EVM and Bitcoin are known to not be compatible with each other. The question is as to whether these issue will be resolved. The support that the technology has already received from gurus in the industry is testament to the fact that this is indeed a revolutionary concept. In its' completed form, QTUM will be available for use not only on laptops but will also be available on mobile devices. 

Jordon Earls, lead developer / co-founder of Qtum

Was kind enough to answer some questions for us

Q. What are the strength and weaknesses of the project? And where do you see threats for Qtum? 
A. One of our strengths is that we know who we are targeting to use our blockchain and we have the right backers to make the connections we need. 

Qtum is being built with compatibility with existing economies and ecosystems in mind. This primarily is focused on Ethereum and Bitcoin. However, we are building what we would consider to be the best of both worlds. Taking the simplicity of the account model for smart contracts, and the power of the UTXO model for the underlying blockchain. The UTXO model specifically has proven to be more scalable and more compatible with existing protocols. This includes the SPV protocol, which will be used to make decentralized and trustless light and mobile wallets and applications. We have extended this to also include smart contracts, so that for the first time it is possible to interact with smart contracts without using a centralized server or API. 

Because we are building this from some existing projects, we share some of their weaknesses as well, though we have implemented some things to reduce their impact. In Bitcoin, there has been debate over blocksize and various attacks by filling up blocks. We have alleviated this by making the block time faster, as well as allowing for slightly larger blocks. In Ethereum, there have been many attacks on certain opcodes which are cheaper than they should be. We have alleviated this by allowing for multiple gas "schedules" (gas price of each opcode) without any kind of forks. Although our aim is to build off of known secure and proven code, there is some new code as well that has not been proven (primarily the Account Abstraction Layer). We will be holding a bug bounty when we release the testnet to try to find and fix any bugs in this new code before we release the mainnet. 

We also see some threats from other community and consortium projects. But since this is largely an open-source community, we will all benefit from competition. We also seek to embrace other projects to bring the various disparate communities together into a common alliance. 

Q. You've raised 1M dollar with the help of Angel Investors. Now your seek 10000-15000 Bitcoins for future development. What are the consequences if this target is not reached? 
A. We will reserve any unsold coins to sell to institutional investors at a later date. The only real consequence is that we might have to take some time from focusing on the code to sell the remaining tokens to people who will use them in our network. Finally, we have plans for what happens if we do not raise as much as expected now and later, and it just means we might drop lower-priority optional projects for Qtum. However, we do not expect for this to be a concern at this point. 

Q. In what regard do you consider Qtum different from The Stratis project? 
A. I don't know enough about Stratis to comment on it.

Q. In which field will Qtum excel? I.e. onto which market next to the finance will the most marketing resources targeted to? 
How do you see companies active in that market implement Qtum to their products. A. Some of our largest backers see Qtum playing just as large a role in IoT as it will in finance. When you think of the identity management systems that are needed for people, similar tools will be needed for a secured IoT. We can see these potentially on permissioned side-chains of Qtum. 

This is an enormous market for blockchain technology, and it is crucially needed. Last year we saw the largest DDoS attack ever done with unsecured CCTV cameras, we think blockchain technology can help mitigate these attacks to a large extent if we could pinpoint what devices are acting maliciously. The SPV protocol is our big strength that enables this to be done on small and lightweight devices that are not capable of downloading and processing the complete blockchain. 

Qtum is also built with mobile dApps in mind, decentralized applications running on the blockchain, but being interacted with and controlling traditional Android and iOS mobile applications. We believe that with this we can enable businesses to bring dApps to the consumer and other use cases previously out of reach by smart contract platforms. 

Q. Many (new) crypto projects use Blackcoin's POS implementation. Do you consider The Blackcoin project a competition? 
A. Blackcoin's PoS 3.0 implemented a lot of new features and fixed many of the attack vectors in PoS 2.0 and 1.0. We owe them credit for creating the PoS 3.0 implementation that we have ported to Qtum. However, we do not feel that Blackcoin (which is mostly still Bitcoin from a smart contract point of view, complete with all of the limitations, such as not being Turing-complete) is suitable for all of the goals we have for a smart contract platform. We would like to emphasize that we embrace our competition, and hope to build a large community bringing many different projects together.