Desire Paths & Markets for Recommendation – Simon de la Rouviere – Medium

By viewing curation markets not as the truth, but as a market for recommendations we can have these protocols serve the users, rather the users serving the protocol: starting tomorrow. In this variation in mechanism design, the aspect of using crypto-economics to curate information serves to produce recommendations, rather than it being regarded as the…

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Verified Curation Markets & Graduating Token Bonding Curves

One of the struggles of remote, open source coding is that if there’s not a key product manager, it’s hard to figure out how to prioritise tasks. A “Recommendation Market” on issues could be extremely meaningful in this context, allowing participants to rank features, issues and bugs. A maintainer could pick and choose to graduate…

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Introducing Curation Markets: Trade Popularity of Memes & Information (with code)!

Curation Markets is a model that allows groups to more effectively coordinate & earn from value they co-create around shared goals. Assume that Truffle (an open source development framework for Ethereum) has an associated curation market. Its users can mint and coordinate around a token that is used to curate new features (in the sub-topic #truffle.features).…

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783: Monax – The Public Beta Legal Blockchain-Based Platform

The Monax Platform is a contract lifecycle management tool which allows consumers to easily procure lawyer-tested agreements and stay in full control of their business contracting. Harnessing a unique combination of active agreements, blockchain technology, and a business process modeling engine, the platform is designed to move business legal obligations into the networked world. Source:…

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$66 Million Building to Be Tokenized on Ethereum Blockchain in Record Deal – CoinDesk

  A security token merely means an issuer is selling a crypto token in compliance with securities laws. But with a tokenized security, “it’s a whole different world,” where blockchain technology gives investors an unprecedented level of transparency, said O’Meara, chairman and chief executive officer of Inveniam Capital Partners (ICP). ICP is about to put…

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2 Crypto Startups Want to Put 10 Million Used Cars on a Blockchain – CoinDesk

“There’s a million vehicles on the road that have ‘washed’ titles, which means there is fraud there. The insurance industry is hit with billions in fraud because of missing information, drivers providing the wrong information and inaccurate reporting.” Source: 2 Crypto Startups Want to Put 10 Million Used Cars on a Blockchain – CoinDesk, Ian…

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5 Blockchain Trends Everyone Should Know About | Forbes

More Investment Opportunities Not just in quirky, unknown cryptocurrencies with unproven use cases – blockchain technology makes it possible to offer and track investments in a whole range of asset classes that traditionally have been the preserve of institutional investors and the wealthy. For example, tokenization lowers the bar to entry for investment in property,…

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We Asked 66 Startups Just How Bad This Crypto Winter Has Been – CoinDesk

Treasury management There were a variety of ways to go “long” on crypto yet avoid exposure. One dominant strategy: don’t do an initial coin offering (ICO). In short, the prevailing wisdom is companies should build for crypto without exposing their payroll and rent money to its volatility. One advantage to going the route of traditional…

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Terence Corcoran: Blockchain’s groundbreaking, world-shaking, life-changing technology revolution has been cancelled | Financial Post

The biggest obstacle to widespread blockchain adoption, says Higginson, is what business theorists call “co-opetition,” a fancy word referring to when competitive companies and industries agree to share information. Getting there is a problem. “Resolving the co-opetition paradox and clearing a path to majority adoption seems like the most important obstacle,” said Higginson. Due to the co-opetition problem, the implementation of blockchain pilots is “plagued by either a single player pushing their monopoly solution” or there is “no single organization taking the lead to invest sufficiently to move from pilot to enterprise-scale implementation.”

Source: Terence Corcoran: Blockchain’s groundbreaking, world-shaking, life-changing technology revolution has been cancelled | Financial Post, Terence Corcoran, January 9, 2019

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