An out-of-the-box solution says it enables anyone, even with no experience, to build their own blockchain in under 10 minutes.

According to Nuls, businesses are going through a similar evolution as they did with the early internet, when every company wanted their own website: They now want their own blockchain.

And although these firms may not fully understand how to deploy blockchain technology, they are aware of how their business may benefit from it.

Nuls aims is to “dismantle some of the biggest barriers” that are stopping individuals and companies of all sizes from creating their own blockchains. Hurdles for adoption include the need to ensure that networks are fully secure and the sheer cost of bringing them to fruition.

 On top of this, it can be an incredibly time-consuming process — not least because there aren’t enough skilled developers to keep on top of demand.

The future

The team behind Nuls believes that the future of blockchain will see plenty of third-party providers that simplify the process of establishing a blockchain network. 

One of the company’s solutions, known as ChainBox, allows developers to take their applications and deploy them to a new blockchain in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee.

Nuls hopes that this approach will enable entrepreneurs to focus on the product itself rather than the time or money it takes to deploy their applications onto a chain.

Nuls describes its ChainBox feature as language agnostic — giving developers more choices and making it easier to integrate existing systems with blockchain technology.

The platform also says it is keen to ensure that users can personalize and enhance blockchains in line with their specific needs. An upcoming solution known as Chain Factory will allow users to add extra functionality and features through additional module applications that can be automatically downloaded for an instant upgrade.

The benefits

According to Nuls, the fact that major corporations such as Facebook, Amazon, Walmart, ING, IBM, Anheuser-Busch and JPMorgan Chase are creating or exploring their own blockchains powerfully illustrates an “inevitable trend” in which demand for chain-building will increase.

Worth noting is that Visa, Mastercard, Uber and others will create nodes on Facebook’s Libra to run their own consortium chains. The platform says one of the most powerful benefits it can offer through its straightforward service is the ability to bring innovative products to market up to a year early, in addition to allowing partners to receive ecosystem support through consortium chains.

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The company also places an emphasis on “ensuring that the blockchains its platform creates are flexible and scalable,” meaning that they can be adapted in line with growing demand and customized to deliver a better service to end-users.

In addition, cross-chain transactions are supported and will be built to convert Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Binance Coin (BNB) and more. 

Hackathon

Nuls seeks to illustrate how effective ChainBox is through an online hackathon that invites developers to build modules for “the world’s most adaptable blockchain” — even if they haven’t worked with these networks in the past. 

These modules can be built in any coding language the developer desires, and prizes of up to $500,000 are up for grabs. The top prize is reserved for applications that would solve a practical problem and be in substantial demand in a commercial setting.

The winning project will enjoy incubation and a full range of business support, including funding and potential exchange listings, according to the team. The hackathon is scheduled to take place online from July 8 to Aug. 29.

The company has dual headquarters in the Chinese city of Chongqing and in San Jose, California.

Nuls adds that it has an ever-expanding team of developers throughout Europe, as it pursues a vision of bringing an open-source, instant blockchain-building platform to the world.

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Salesforce, the leading provider of cloud solutions for business management, revealed its own blockchain solution today built on the Hyperledger Sawtooth platform. Executives made the announcement at the company’s tech conference, TrailheaDX.

The product, named Salesforce Blockchain, is “a low-code blockchain platform that extends the power of CRM (client relations management).

” The company says that the solution helps users build and maintain blockchain networks, apps and smart contracts, allowing them to “create and share blockchain objects in the same process as any CRM data object — with clicks, not code,” according to Salesforce’s press release.

Low-code is a framework that allows for drag-and-drop programming for complex apps and is gaining popularity in enterprise businesses.The solution also helps integrate blockchain data into sales forecasts and predictions, integrate other existing blockchains with Salesforce, and “add third parties to their blockchain with a few clicks,” the company said.

Salesforce also named the three first clients that are testing the product right now. One of them is the research data company IQVIA, which is exploring the tech to track and validate medical drug labels. Another one, ratings agency S&P Global, is looking into how the solution can speed up the review and approval of new business bank accounts.

Chris Heusler, global chief commercial officer at S&P Global Ratings, said in a statement:

“Leveraging Salesforce Blockchain, S&P Global Ratings has created a trusted network of reviewers, where everyone can work from a shared, transparent and auditable review process — completely reinventing and expediting how we do KYC reviews for our customers.”

The third partner, Arizona State University, is testing tracking academic records on the blockchain.

“This network has the potential to be a game changer for integrated, seamless learning — increasing transparency of student achievements and ultimately making the exchange process of academic records easier for both learners and institutions,” Kent Hopkins, vice president of enrollment at Arizona State University, said in a release.

While currently only selected clients are able to try out Salesforce’s blockchain solution, it should be generally available in 2020, the company said.

A year of exploration

Salesforce first announced its blockchain plans at TrailheaDX a year ago when the company’s CEO Marc Benioff told Business Insider he had been thinking about the idea since the World Economic Forum in Davos that January. At the forum, an attendee approached Benioff and suggested Salesforce should apply the technology in its offerings.

Benioff said he was intrigued by the idea.“And it’s like you know if you did this, this and this you could add blockchain and cryptocurrencies into Salesforce… And I’m like ‘wow’ and that’s kind of how it works,” Belioff said, according to Ledger Insights.

Earlier, Salesforce partnered with the blockchain startup Dapps.ai, which in May 2017 announced the release of a product allowing users to integrate the Salesforce system with the Hyperledger, ethereumand bitcoin blockchains, Ledger Insights reported.

This April, Salesforce announced that it had joined the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), the global blockchain think tank with participants like Microsoft, IBM, the Bank of Canada, PepsiCo, Raiffeisen Bank, Polymath and others.

In November, Salesforce secured a patent for a blockchain system designed to filter spam and check if emails are changed or otherwise tampered with after being sent.

“Used properly, the immutability and distributed nature of the blockchain can make it impossible to modify information once it has been committed to the blockchain,” the patent said.

On May 23, the company published a blockchain primer for the readers of its corporate blog, describing the basic principles of the technology and use cases like money transfers, medical record storage, and supply chain management.

It also explained what benefits the blockchain tech can bring to the fields Salesforce is focused on, like customer relationship management.

“Blockchain is a technology that promises to fundamentally change how we share information, buy and sell things, and verify the authenticity of information we rely on every single day — from what we eat to who we say we are.

And because it can facilitate all of this in secure, efficient, and transparent ways across many different domains, the effects can be transformative — every business, government, and individual can benefit,” the blog post said.

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Kaleido, a subsidiary of ConsenSys, is launching a marketplace of plug-and-play services to help blockchain projects from proof-of-concept to live production business networks.

The firm, which announced the product at the Web Summit in Lisbon, is working with Amazon Web Services to provide the enterprise blockchain platform.

ConsenSys’ Kaleido Launches Marketplace for Plug-and-Play Enterprise Blockchain Solutions

According to the company, early adopters of the Kaleido Marketplace have eliminated 80 percent of the custom code required to build their blockchain project, saving time and energy to focus on what comes next.The full-stack platform includes plug-and-play tools from Kaleido, Amazon Web Services, and third-party developers.

A survey conducted by PwC in August 2018 found that 84 percent of executives said their companies were “actively involved” with distributed ledger technology.

However, due to a shortage of skills and talent across the industry, companies struggle to complete their blockchain solutions to get them up and running. The marketplace includes native AWS integrations, HD wallets for privacy and ID registries for organizational identity.

The platform also offers blockchain tools and services for smart contract oracles, supply chain management, and real-time legal contracts. Kaleido’s Blockchain Business Cloud has helped companies create more than a thousand blockchain networks, Sophia Lopez, chief operations officer and co-founder, claims.

“We’ve seen successful patterns of deployment as enterprise networks go into production and we’ve baked these best practices into the Kaleido Marketplace services, to help radically simplify the adoption of blockchain and eliminate some of the specialized blockchain expertise needed.”

Steve Cerveny, Kaleido co-founder and CEO, explained there is much more to an enterprise blockchain project than the distributed ledger itself. The platform, built in cooperation with Amazon Web Services and ConsenSys, aims to help firms adopt blockchain in their operations.

“The reality is only about 10 percent of an enterprise blockchain project is the blockchain itself. There are many other application, data and infrastructure components required to go into production. I’m very excited that we have a whole cloud of blockchain technologies pre-integrated for our clients to use. The Kaleido Marketplace is a one stop shop for all things enterprise blockchain.”

The announcement, made at the Web Summit in Lisbon, shows how ConsenSys is at the forefront of enterprise blockchain solutions.The firm has recently made the news for partnering with ING Bank, Citigroup, MUFG Bank, Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, Koch Supply & Trading and Shell, to create an ethereum-based platform via a new firm called Komgo.

Souleïma Baddi, its CEO, said the company uses the marketplace to select the best protocols in development and use existing building blocks for an optimized solution.

OpenZeppelin 2.0 is here, and this framework will help reduce your vulnerabilities. What’s new in this release?

If you’re new to the world of building smart contracts or a seasoned veteran, where should you go from here? Time to see what’s under the hood in this new release (while we try very hard not to make Led Zeppelin references).

When it comes to smart contracts, can you ever be too secure? The smart contract library OpenZeppelin hit its 2.0 milestone. Its new stable release has some changes that will make smart contract development easier and more secure than ever.

Easier smart contracts

We won’t beat around the bush: writing a smart contract is tough. Writing a smart contract that doesn’t have gaping vulnerabilities is a challenge and requires learning Solidity. Solidity shares some conceptual similarities and semantics with C, and its creators had some inspiration from JavaScript.

Despite the similarities, beware the steep learning curve. Since programming in Solidity is still fairly new, even experts are still trying to hammer out some of the issues and discover where they left a backdoor open.

SEE ALSO: Security tips on writing smart contracts 

However, OpenZeppelin makes sure you are not alone on this endeavour and wind up dazed and confused. It is a library that runs on EVM and eWASM-compatible blockchains (these include Ethereum and RSK).As its name suggests, it is an open source project under the MIT License and can be found on GitHub.

According to the Zeppelin developer blog, “The project now has more than 150 code contributors, with many, many more helping with issues, support and reviews.”If you’re looking for an open source project to climb aboard and help contribute a whole lotta love, perhaps this is the one for you? Have a look at the issue board!

2.0: more secure than ever

With the new stable release, OpenZeppelin 2.0 has some new features and a much higher level of security.There is also a helpful getting started guide for those ready to embark on their smart contract journey.Peak at some of the features of OpenZeppelin 2.0:

• Automatic testing. Why wait? As you code, OpenZeppelin tests it in the newly improved test suite.
• High-security. Interested in the details? The security audit is available for your perusal. Many thanks to the LevelK team who fixed the security issues! More about that on GitHub here.
• New granular permissions with a granular role system.
• Of course, all new updates come with assorted bug fixes and renames. As always, see the changelog for a full comprehensive list.
• Removed contracts that did not match the new level of security.

More about the details of this new version, the complete changelog, and the source code are found in the release notes.SEE ALSO: Preparing for a career in the growing enterprise blockchain industry

Discovering more

Is it a good time to learn more about blockchain? What about people who are just starting out? It can be daunting to navigate the hype-filled world of blockchain resources. (No, there is no silver bullet; no, blockchain is not magic. But yes, you should learn about the important impacts and strategies!)

The Blockchain Technology Conference comes to Berlin from November 19 to 21, 2018. Featuring sessions and workshops for both newcomers and seasoned veterans of the trade, it offers something valuable for everyone. Need to know about frameworks, Ethereum fundamentals, building a library, or wallets?

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Blockchain is at a tipping point, going from ideation to solving real-world problems. And Deloitte’s EMEA Blockchain Lab in Dublin is at the heart of the action.



Working with major organisations around the world, Deloitte’s EMEA Blockchain Lab in Dublin is spearheading the deployment of blockchain.Blockchain as a technology is only a few years old. And, while it forms the linchpin for developments such as cyryptocurrency, it has the potential for many more use cases.

‘Taking blockchain live is more than just the technology. You are actually creating real transformation; you are creating entirely new ecosystems or processes that didn’t exist before’
– ANTHONY DAY

The technology consists of blocks that hold timestamped batches of recent valid transactions, which form a chain, with each block reinforcing those preceding it. It could be used to provide an indelible ledger to catalogue everything from the distribution of pharmaceuticals to the journey of food, from the farm to the fork.

As outlined earlier this year at a recent Deloitte Community of Practice event in Dublin, the real promise of blockchain is clarity, transparency and traceability.In Dublin, Deloitte has established the EMEA Blockchain Lab, which aims to advise clients on the technology’s application. 

We caught up with some of the leading team members of the Deloitte EMEA Blockchain Lab to see where it is at in bringing blockchain from concept to reality.

From idea to action

“The blockchain lab is an EMEA centre for excellence for blockchain within Deloitte,” explained Cillian Leonowicz, head of business development for the lab.“We do everything from ideation through to the deployment of blockchains for commercial entities.

So, this includes everything between the ideas, the testing of the use cases, right through to the technical architecture and the design and development, and the deployment of it.

“The key point is the multidisciplinary approach we would have. It is not just technology, it is looking at digital transformation, digital innovation and then re-engineering value chains.

”For Anthony Day, chief operating officer of the Deloitte EMEA Blockchain Lab, it is really about pioneering the future. “Taking blockchain live is more than just the technology. You are actually creating real transformation; you are creating entirely new ecosystems or processes that didn’t exist before.

“The technology is really only 20pc of the problem; the other 80pc is getting a multidisciplinary group together, whether that be traditional competitors or a group of executives from industries that don’t typically work together.

The hard part often is the governance; getting the principles in place for how we work together, how we fund, how we onboard and then taking the processes through from conception into reality, making digital things into real-world processes, real-world business challenges or opportunities. That’s the hard part.”

Data and security

In terms of data and security, Antonio Senatore, chief technology officer at the Deloitte EMEA Blockchain Lab, said that organisations are looking at using the technology as a trust layer to enable safe data-sharing.

“You can see blockchain almost as an indexing layer, a trust layer on top of a data exchange facility, and that’s what we’ve been seeing so far.

”The key to the technology’s success, said David Dalton, consulting partner and financial services lead at Deloitte, is bringing value to Deloitte’s clients through practical applications. “Two-and-a-half years ago, we set up the lab in Dublin. It was our first lab globally; we have since set up two more, one in Hong Kong and one in New York.

“We focus on working with clients and groups of clients because consortia really become important in blockchain applications as a network technology, and we are building production applications on this technology now. We have all of the supports you would expect in a lab.

We have the R&D, we have the thought leadership, we also speak a lot [at conferences] and build awareness around it. But the core of what we do is work with building clients’ real-world solutions on blockchain technology.

”Amy Pugh, manager of the Deloitte EMEA Blockchain Lab, said that 75pc of staff at the lab are technologists focusing on design and development, while the remaining 25pc are strategists working with clients on their blockchain journey, developing valuable use cases.

“It is an exciting space to be in to collaborate and help drive the value across the network.

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Every piece of technology that creates a disruption within the status quo and creates a potential for real use cases that would revolutionize the world have two things in common; Closed knit adopters and marketing failure.

The Importance of a Relevant PR and Marketing for your Blockchain Project. Take the internet as an example; a web of interconnected computers that were able to share information, the World Wide Web was a domain of the technology-oriented users.

It was not until the late 90s that the technology began to be used by the general public. The late adoption of the internet was limited by one major factor: there was no proper marketing to get the word out. Slowly, but surely, as the internet was adopted by people and organizations, the potential was utilized.

Today, it is impossible to imagine a world without it.Similarly, the issue permeates into the latest technological revolution: blockchain. Some people may argue that the marketing and media dynamics are far different from that of the age of the internet, however, the same factors (albeit with few different numbers) play in the adoption of the decentralized technology.

Yes, blockchain technology has an access to a broader audience, through a much more faster internet and a large number of platforms and mediums that never existed at the birth of the internet itself. Yet, when it comes to marketing, many decentralized platforms use traditional methods of marketing that simply do not apply in the industry.

PRs and Marketing for the Blockchain Industry

With a major ban on blockchain related ads (especially ICOs) on major social media platforms, it is increasingly becoming difficult to use traditional digital marketing to reach out to potential users and investors. Like all other technologies preceding blockchain, the user base is still dominated by early adopters who have a special interest in it, or are actually related to the industry.

 To become mainstream and a success, blockchain platforms are increasingly now relying on professional marketing and PR agencies that specialize in blockchain promotions.

But Why a Dedicated PR Agency?

When it comes to the blockchain, the age of traditional marketing is dead. 86% of people skip TV advertisements and a staggering 91% of email users have unsubscribed from an info mail they had opted in once (Ragan).

With bans on ads in most social media platforms, there is a serious dearth of methods in which blockchain platforms can get information about themselves to a potential user.

The issue becomes acute when the platform in question intends to run its ICO or token sales. This is where professional PR agencies come in. With access to major news portals and blockchain enthusiast network, their ability to get the word out to the right crowd makes all the difference.

Another notable factor is the fraud within the industry. With blockchain generating an immense number of investments, a lot of get-rich teams have flooded the market, offering the next big thing and stripping investors of their money.

In this scenario, investor confidence is low and a right type of promotion can set a project and its ICO apart. A proper agency, when hired, can help platforms in creating a blog post, an articleor a press release that is professionally done.

Not only is the content of the material fine-tuned to make sure it grabs the attention of intended readers, but with the agency’s connections, the article, blog and press release can reach out to hundreds of potential portals and websites, connecting with thousands of investors.

All of this holds true for all kinds of targets. When it comes to large-scale investors (B2B and institutional), 80% of business decision makers get their information about a company from reputed and verified articles, rather than an advertisement (Content Marketing Institute) with 93% of all processes beginning with online searches (HubSpot).

When it comes to individuals, most of the blockchain users comprise of younger people, mostly from the Millennials group. With the youth 247% more likely to be influenced on a decision by blogs and networking sites (HubSpot).

In all cases, a well-placed PR in major news portals, dedicated discussion and informational blockchain platforms and social media presence can make all the difference in getting a small blockchain project, with a great idea and an excellent real-world application, off the ground or the project will fail.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers is developing blockchain technology to help clients validate transactions as they deal with possible risks.

The past spring, PwC debuted a Blockchain Validation Solution to help authenticate transactions for clients. “We are doing the validation of the transactions, so we will do it as an operational service in a non-audit client,” said Vicki Huff Eckert, global and U.S. new ventures leader at PwC.

“We will not do it as part of our traditional attest external audit business.

The validation tool is really about the operational audit, the entire control framework around it, and how companies gain comfort with the transactions that are processed versus the actual financial validation and external audit of financial statements.

”Blockchain has been spreading beyond cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum to other applications for distributed ledger technology. Earlier this year, PwC surveyed 600 executives in 15 territories and found that 84 percent said their organizations have at least some involvement with blockchain technology.

More than half the respondents reported blockchain research and development in progress, and 15 percent indicated they have live implementations.PwC has published a white paper on blockchain governance describing Blockchain Risk and Control Framework to help companies identify risks before implementation begins and develop an audit trail for blockchain.

The firm’s clients are using the Blockchain Validation Solution for purposes such as legal risk management and internal audits.

“It’s those teams that are trying to gain comfort around the activity that’s occurring on their proof of concepts, and we’re working with them on how they do it, using the tool and using the framework,” said Huff Eckert.

“It’s a rules engine, so what we do is we will work with the company as they set up their blockchain environment. The scope is for permissioned exchanges, and we’ll set up a rules engine. We actually put a node on the blockchain to validate the transactions that are being recorded, so they will validate it based upon the rules to test to.

”For example, if four or five companies are supposed to be part of a particular blockchain environment for some type of digital asset, PwC will validate that the transaction is going to one of the five within that permissioned network.

“We will actually put into the rules engine how to make sure that the company processing on there is in fact one of the approved companies, and that the transaction in fact has the same operational metrics, so it’s a real-time audit tool,” said Huff Eckert.

The firm sees blockchain as one of eight essential emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, augmented reality, drones, internet of things, robotics, virtual reality and 3-D printing, with important implications for businesses today.

“We look at all eight of those as a team in my group and we are constantly thinking about how do they impact everything from audit to tax to our consulting business, and how are we leveraging those emerging technologies in what we do but also in how we’re engaging with clients,” said Huff Eckert.

 “We will think about how to use drones, as an example, in looking at inventories, or how to use augmented reality in training individuals. ”Blockchain with its distributed ledger technology has particular implications for accountants.

“The concept of decentralized ledgers is something that I think is extremely disruptive, both opportunistically as well as challenging to the accounting industry, but I do think it’s something you’ll see more of,” said Huff Eckert.


 “What’s happening in the cryptocurrency space is really the digitization of financial markets, and the pace at which that occurs or does not occur will be also disruptive, not just in using new technology. But the ripple effect will be significant, so that’s why we’re watching it closely.”

B2Broker offers 3 ways to create a crypto business in just one month.
Getting involved in the cryptocurrency business has become an attractive proposition in recent times as the industry continues to grow and the use of digital currency transactions infiltrates into society. It is a very lucrative business and is a trend that is set to continue with demand for crypto-related services being satisfied by brokerages and other service providers that cater for these varying needs.

Those who want to take advantage of this expanding sphere and capitalise on these new opportunities have several ways in which they can launch a business in the crypto market. B2Broker offers 3 ways to create a crypto business in just one month.

Start a Cryptocurrency Exchange

Starting a cryptocurrency exchange has become a popular option as is evident from the rise and success of exchanges in recent years. One of the best and most effective ways to go about it is to implement a cryptocurrency exchange turnkey solution.

This is an increasingly popular line of business, partly due to the large number of ICO projects that need to list tokens on cryptocurrency exchanges.A cryptocurrency exchange turnkey is an ideal solution for companies or individuals with insufficient upfront capital or when one of the key factors involved in building a cryptocurrency exchange, like crypto liquidity and the trading engine are not feasible options.

Many companies have implemented B2Broker’s cryptocurrency exchange turnkey solution to provide a fast and cost-effective setup with a choice of personalised features all geared up towards creating a profitable business.

With B2Broker’s cryptocurrency exchange turnkey, you can start earning immediately from the day you launch by means of qualitative aggregated liquidity through B2BX aggregator and have the ability to list tokens and coins within 5 minutes.

Hence, you have a great business opportunity to occupy a profitable niche in one of the fastest growing industries in the world with your own branded cryptocurrency exchange turnkey solution.

Start a Crypto Turnkey Brokerage Business

Setting up as a cryptocurrency broker is another excellent way to capitalise on the growing crypto trend and choosing a professional, ready-made solution  allows you to avoid the pitfalls of doing it yourself.

Another good reason to follow this route is because the field of brokerage services in the cryptocurrency market has until now been poorly represented. As a result, there are many sub-standard crypto exchange and brokerage firms in existence even though the demand for these services is on track to grow even further.

As one of the industry leaders, B2Broker has provided many of its clients with a turnkey cryptocurrency brokerage solution using its trading platform, Trader’s Room technology and liquidity, enabling them to offer their own clients a full spectrum of services for exchange, trade and investments in cryptocurrencies with advanced trading platforms.

B2Broker’s solution allows crypto brokers to launch in a short timespan of one month and offer clients better security, trading costs and leverage than most crypto exchanges, as well as a wide range of crypto CFDs.

When implementing B2Broker’s cryptocurrency broker, clients can choose from a range of cutting-edge technologies in order to design a tailor-made solution including Trader’s Room and liquidity provision from B2BX, the biggest aggregator of cryptocurrencies in the industry.

These, along with a variety of other great features allow B2Broker to offer a complete solution.

Launch Your ICO Project

With the growth in the number of ICO projects in recent times, the need to list tokens on crypto exchanges has grown substantially. However, launching an ICO can be a major challenge with one of the main issues facing companies that decide to raise finance in this way being the best way to handle the whole process.

Pursuing an ICO on your own is a complicated process when you consider the time needed for development of the technical, legal, financial, and marketing aspects. These kind of projects from scratch can take a minimum of six months. Experienced specialists are also hard to come by as they are scarce and can also be very expensive.

An option that is proving popular in the industry is implementing a ready-made solution from a team who has already realized their project and is therefore in an ideal position to share their technology and know-how with the industry.

B2Broker offers a technical solution that completely automates the whole ICO and fundraising process. In fact, the company held its own B2BX ICO on this platform which was subsequently selected by 10 other companies to start their own ICOs.

B2Broker’s ICO platform can operate with any blockchain including Ethereum, EOS and NEM and offers many advantages including: fully customizable interface, the ability to see how many investors have supported your ICO and how much money has been raised in different cryptocurrencies at any given time, API for data transmission to the website or other external sources, a widget with exchange rates that enables an investor to see how many tokens he can buy in real time, configured crypto-processing, a secure, tested and customizable smart contract, three-level security system with tokens fully controlled by the issuer, integration with many PSPs for acquiring and processing of bank cards.

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In summary, choosing ready-made, tried and tested technical solutions will not only save you time and money, but will help you gain a competitive advantage over your counterparts in order to achieve your financial goals.

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Blockchain is a technology that makes it possible to build applications where multiple parties can record transactions without the need for a trusted, central authority to ensure that transactions are verified and secure.

Blockchain enables this by establishing a peer-to-peer network where each participant in the network has access to a shared ledger where the transactions are recorded. These transactions are by design, immutable and independently verifiable.

AWS gives you access to flexible and cost-effective resources to quickly deploy and experiment with blockchain networks in minutes, and pay only for what you use.

Blockchain capabilities

DISTRIBUTED TRUST

Multiple parties can transact with one another without having to know or trust each other.

INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIABLE

All transactions are attributable to one or more entities and each entity can independently verify these records.

IMMUTABLE

Transactions cannot be removed or altered.

SECURE

Blockchain networks can be restricted to known parties, and can also limit what transactions each party can see.

HIGHLY AVAILABLE

Blockchain networks are decentralized and do not have a single point of failure.

Why blockchain on AWS?

AGILITY

Quickly get started with blockchain. Spin up and spin down resources as you rapidly iterate in the cloud.

FLEXIBILITY

Experiment with your choice of blockchain frameworks such as Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, Corda, and partner solutions for your industry.

PAY-AS-YOU-GO

Consume services as you need them and only for the period of time you use them. AWS has no upfront fees, termination penalties, or long term contracts.

SECURE

Control access to your AWS resources with granular permission polices. All resource activity is logged in AWS CloudTrail.

Deploy blockchain quickly

AWS Blockchain Templates


AWS Blockchain Templates provides a fast and easy way to create and deploy secure blockchain networks using the popular Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric open source frameworks.


These are AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the creation and configuration of blockchain networks on Amazon EC2 or Amazon ECS. Get started now.


AWS Partner Solutions


AWS Technology and Consulting partners offer a rapidly growing selection of blockchain and distributed ledger solutions with support for multiple open-source frameworks. 

Customers

T-Mobile is building a digital identity and authentication platform on AWS with Sawtooth, a blockchain technology from the Intel Hyperledger project. T-Mobile leverages Intel Sawtooth along with AWS services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Lambda, and Amazon ECS to power this solution.





PwC has been working with Guidewire, one of the world’s leading insurance platform providers, to make the bordereau process more efficient. They use a blockchain-based smart contracts solution to auto-approve claims and trigger payments, removing the need for manual intervention, and differentiating their product in the insurance market.

Use cases

Supply Chain

Blockchains can serve as an immutable data source to track goods through their lifecycle from raw material to the field, and to facilitate transactions involving these goods with their customers and dealers via smart contracts.

Financial Transactions

Blockchain networks enable multiple parties to directly transact without requiring a central authority. This has the potential to increase the efficiency of clearing, settlement, cross-border payments, and other financial transactions that typically require an intermediary.

Identity and Compliance

Blockchain networks can be used to track identities and maintain compliance. The data in a blockchain is transparent and immutable which enables auditors to verify transactions independently and protect against internal security threats.

Insurance

Blockchain based smart contracts can auto-approve claims and trigger payments, removing the need for manual intervention. This has the potential to automate claims management processes, reduce errors, and reduce fraud by verifying customers, policies, and claims.

Healthcare

Healthcare organizations are looking at blockchain solutions to improve data sharing across various entities in healthcare. This can help improve patient wellness, reduce fraudulent billing, lower administrative costs, and manage provider credentials and affiliations.

Blog posts & articles

Get Started with Blockchain Using the new AWS Blockchain Templates
Jeff Barr 
April 19, 2018AWS is Investing in Blockchain Through Our Partner Community

Ale Flores
December 20, 2017
Building, Managing, and Deploying Blockchain Applications with BlockApps

Lana Kalashnyk
March 1, 2018

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As servitisation business models continue to grow in popularity, it's only natural that we are now seeing as-a-service offerings emerge for blockchain applications. Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) has established a strong market presence and is promising enterprises a way to utilise the much-hyped technology



As business put evermore information online, understanding BaaS suppliers and agreements has never been more important. BaaS vendors have a duty of care and must be able to explain the benefits and the risks of their servicesA recent survey from Gartner revealed that the current number of blockchain deployments in enterprises is scarce.

According to their research, only 1% of CIOs indicated any sort of blockchain adoption within their organisation, while only 8% were in short-term planning or active experimentation with it. Furthermore, 77% said they had no plans to investigate it further.Given the amount of excitement we’ve all heard about blockchain, this is a rather anti-climatic response to such a hyped technology.


There is, of course, more than one reason for the reluctance.





Figure 1 – Blockchain Adoption, Worldwide. Source: Gartner (May 2018)


It’s been argued that all the marketing hype around blockchain has resulted in CTO’s and IT leaders unsure about what is real and what is not.Phil Fersht, founder and CEO of HfS Research, wrote in his article: “Sadly, blockchain runs the risk of being yet another representative of the ludicrous hype our industry has fallen for hook, line, and sinker.

We live in a hype bubble that we so desperately need to burst and find our way back to reality.”

>See also: How CTOs can introduce blockchain to the enterprise

On the other hand, beyond the overblown confidence in blockchain, IT leaders, who would actually like to implement it, are being held back by the lack of qualified blockchain developers.

David Furlonger, vice president and Gartner Fellow, said: “Blockchain technology requires an understanding of, at a fundamental level, aspects of security, law, value exchange, decentralised governance, process and commercial architectures.”

“It, therefore, implies that traditional lines of business and organisation silos can no longer operate under their historical structures.”

Blockchain-as-a-service

Faced with a sense of disillusionment and concrete roadblocks, for the enterprise blockchain appears as an elusive piece of kit, however, new offerings from a whole host of tech giants may be providing a gateway for accessibility.

Organisations like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM have launched blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) offerings.

Although their solutions differ from each other in various ways, they all seem to be establishing themselves as a way for enterprises to take on the nascent technology without the cost or risk of developing it in-house.

>See also: Deciphering the buzz around blockchain


Poised to play an important role in the IT sector, BaaS, similar to the way other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings work, allows customers to leverage cloud-based solutions, to develop and use their own blockchain apps, smart contracts and other blockchain functions while a cloud-based service provider takes care of all the necessary tasks and activities relating to the infrastructure.


BaaS offerings have the potential to offer a real solution to the talent shortage, as CTOs and business leaders will be able to utilise their external vendor’s pool of talent, from a financial point of view, it also provides them with an opportunity to play around without having to invest in a new infrastructure.


Bill Fearnley Jr, the IDC research director of Worldwide Blockchain strategies, stated, “One advantage of partnering with a BaaS provider is how users can leverage the lessons learned by the provider to help make their systems more secure.

”For clarity, it is worth breaking down in more detail what a relationship between an organisation and a BaaS vendor entails.

Typically a BaaS vendor provides all the necessary blockchain technology and infrastructure to a customer for a fee.  The vendor is then responsible for setting up and maintaining the back-end of the blockchain’s infrastructure.

>See also: The rise of subscription billing in software and digital servicesMany BaaS vendors are trying to distinguish themselves by providing competitive side-offerings, such as training, or additional security options.

Security and blockchain

While BaaS may mean that the costs of implementing blockchain will be a lot less than doing in-house development, security must be taken into account.

Blockchain is commonly considered a step in the right direction for securing processes, but similar to most things in computing, security is not inherent. Blockchain uses public key encryption, hashing, and digital signatures, and other mechanisms, most of these are well known, however, they are not always administered correctly.

Mistakes in securing a blockchain, or simple bugs in the platforms can and have happened, and they cause serious disruption.

>See also: More than just cryptocurrency: The advent of blockchain for business


Understanding the technicalities and security issues associated with BaaS is very important. Looking online, it is hard to find a comprehensive security assessment of the various blockchain-as-a-service offerings out there. With this in mind, it will mean that the CTO’s looking into these services will need to take a more hands-on approach. 

This is ultimately similar to what CTOs and IT leaders have to do when considering cloud vendors.


As business put evermore information online, understanding BaaS suppliers and agreements has never been more important. BaaS vendors have a duty of care and must be able to explain the benefits and the risks of their services.At the same time, for a CTO, a good starting point would be to set out principles of what they expect from the BaaS provider, such as deciding what type of assurances they require.

The BaaS market

Here is a list of some popular blockchain-as-service (BaaS) providers to have a look at:

• IBM Blockchain Platform

• Microsoft Azure Blockchain

• Amazon’s Blockchain Templates – AWS Blockchain Templates aims to help organisations and individuals quickly create and deploy blockchain networks on AWS using different blockchain frameworks.
• Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service

Sasha Ivanov is one of the most influential and respected people in the blockchain world after building the rapidly-growing Waves platform - a global public blockchain platform with a $1.7bn market cap. He talks to Dorothy Musariri about how it has grown and his new wave of ventures

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Albert Einstein may have passed away almost a century ago but his gravitational waves still live on – and not just in science, but in the world of blockchain too.Two years ago, after failing to keep his other investments afloat, Sasha Ivanov – also a theoretical physicist – took a business risk and the Waves platform entered the space.

Named after Einstein’s most famous discovery, the open-source blockchain platform allows users to launch their own custom cryptocurrency tokens.The cryptocurrency market is primarily a faceless one but Sasha says: “What’s made the business successful is it’s very community-based and we have to actually work with people.


“We are always trying to expand in some areas – for example, we are always trying to find very cheap solutions for any transfers.“We can also transfer fiat currencies [those that a government has declared to be legal tender] such as the US Dollar or Euro.“We are trying to provide the best possible solutions for
people.”




Sasha Ivanov – founder and CEO of Waves platformAs well as providing the platform for creating cryptocurrency tokens, Waves is used for storing, trading, managing and issuing digital assets “easily and securely”.It helps start-ups to raise an ICO (initial coin offering) – a crowdsourcing exercise in which funds are raised for a new cryptocurrency venture. 

Waves platform takes crypto world by storm

The company itself was launched through crowdfunding in June 2016 for 30,000 Bitcoin (BTC) – then worth $80m (£60m) – making it the second-largest successfully crowdfunded blockchain project that year after crypto powerhouse Ethereum.Things moved quickly for the Russian-based company, which now has a market cap of $1.7bn (£1.28bn) as of December 2017 – making it the second-largest successfully crowdfunded blockchain project, after Ethereum.

Waves has subsequently developed into one of the world’s largest tech communities and formed partnerships with a variety of renowned international organisations, such as Binary District – a collaborative tech community that runs educational programmes and events themed around technologies like blockchain.

Another collaboration is with Russian-based venture capital and private equity company TMT Blockchain Fund to work on an infrastructure project.The partnership between the two companies will be focused mainly on blockchain and fintech, including large decentralised applications, as well as private blockchain infrastructure opportunities.




TMT will also support ICOs and existing projects within the Waves platform.Sasha, regarded as one of the most respected and influential people in the blockchain space, says:

“TMT Fund is one of the first funds that is exclusively launching equity totals. It’s going to be compliant with regulations and we are glad to help it achieve its goals.

”“It’s a very contentious space because you have many equity totals which are not regulated, but they are supposed to be.“It’s basically the security for blockchain and the next big thing is actually this – it’s equity totals.” 

Bringing blockchain into the public sector

Taking the blockchain world by storm, Sasha recently announced another new grand-scale project called Vostok.It will create the world’s first usable blockchain solution for scalable digital infrastructure, helping to expand the global accessibility of blockchain.

Vostok – named after the craft that carried Yuri Gagarin into space – will help organisations enhance security, data storage, transparency and stability of their systems.It can be used for processes such as, banking services, payment systems, land registries, electronic voting and more.

It will be able to handle 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) at just $0.000001 per transaction, which is a faster, cheaper and more efficient way than the current blockchain solutions.In comparison to Bitcoin, it has transnational processing capacity of three to six TPS and costs $0.951 per transaction.

Sasha says: “It’s a spin-off from the Waves platform and I think could be a huge success.



“It’s going to be more focused on enterprise, which is a big business.“We are going to be offering big, robust solutions for enterprise in the public sector because everyone could benefit from some kind of blockchain solution.

”Sasha wants to launch with dozens of large businesses and government organisations, and is already in talks to with some of them to use the technology.

He says:

“The plan is to launch the platform and after that we would be doing more sales.“We plan to go to all the governments around the world and offer them our solution for real estate registry, land registry and more.“They can gain a lot from using blockchain – it’s going to be quite a busy year for us.” 

Global plans for Waves

Waves has offices in Russia and Amsterdam, with 90 staff, but has plans to go worldwide.“We are branching out and opening offices all over the world,” says Sasha. “Firstly in the UK, we are going to have an office in London by the end of the summer.

“We also planning to open an office in New York.“We have Japanese invigilators and we want to be based all over the world because blockchain technology is global.

“We have to move in all the directions.” Bitcoin became a favourite topic of the mainstream media last year, leading many people to invest in cryptocurrencies as they followed the hype.

But Sasha believes they are should look deeper into the technology.

He adds:

“My advice to the people who are more focused on the hype is it’s going to subside and probably it already has so don’t concentrate on that too much.

“What you saw last summer probably won’t happen again because technology stays.

“Be focused on the technology – not the hype around it.”

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Lots of deals are made every day, from products and services to freelancing and real estate. And these deals don’t come easy, but with loads of bureaucracy forcing one to spend time, resources and money to wade through it.

The deal-making process may involve hiring a third party, for a hefty charge just to see things through. And by chance things go south, again one must hire someone to resolve the disputes.

Confideal aims to change all these by upgrading the way things have been done so far.

The blockchain based platform makes it possible to execute deals faster, safer and in a much more profitable fashion.  

Confideal is a unique smart contract managing service for individuals and businesses, that allows one to make safe, fast and anonymous deals powered by blockchain technology.Based on Ethereum Blockchain, the platform allows individuals with no programming skills to create and deploy smart contracts in a fast and easy fashion, without the involvement of third parties.

It also includes a native dispute-resolution mechanism with qualified and experienced user-vetted arbitrators. All smart-contracts are encrypted and backed up on Ethereum Blockchain to ensure their autonomy and safety. Confideal (CDL) token is the internal currency that enables the use of Confideal platform’s services.Some example use cases of Confideal revolves around:




The platform offers a full stack of tools necessary to create, maintain and fulfill contracts, as well as resolve disputes, comprehensive all-in-one environment.

Confideal has launched the Alpha testing phase to demonstrate what one can already do with the platform. Users can create and deploy a smart contract and share their thoughts on social media. To do this, one has to make sure that they have Chrome browser with MetaMask extension installed, as it’s needed to connect to Ethereum Blockchain.

There are other ways to do this also, but this is the fastest one.The Confideal ICO is set to start on November 2, 2017, and go on till the 22nd of the same month. During the crowdsale, the platform is offering a total of 100 million CDL tokens at a price of 1000 CDL/1 ETH.

The crowdsale also has a bonus structure in place where the bonus offered is dependent on the percentage of tokens sold. Those purchasing the first 5% of CDL tokens will receive a 25% bonus, which will drop to 12% as the percentage of token sales crosses 5% and until it reaches 26%.

Further, 8% bonus for 27% to 42% tokens, 5% for 43% till 56% token sales and finally 3% bonus when total sales volume falls within 57% and 69%.With such a bonus structure in place, those purchasing the tokens early on during the crowdsale stand to receive a much bigger bonus than the ones who join in later.

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There has been a lot of talk about Ethereum and Initial Coin Offerings in the blockchain and cryptocurrency community lately. Many people from the mainstream are learning about cryptocurrencies because of Ethereum. But there's also another huge platform and digital currency in the space that just hasn't received as much recognition yet, the platform is called Stratis.

Stratis is a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform. Essentially they are similar to Ethereum but instead of running ICOs and focusing mainly on smart contracts, their concept is to have a multitude of features covering every possible need in the blockchain space, so they can offer their services up to other companies. Stratis is similar to a SaaS company but is specifically built to offer blockchain as their service.

The BaaS concept allows a company to come to Stratis and setup a blockchain on their own on the Stratis' platform without having to start all over and reinvent the wheel, so to speak. This allows any company in the world to quickly get and utilize blockchain. This is generally referred to as a sidechain.

This means a blockchain that is built and operating as a branch off of another blockchain. It simplifies everything for the client company.Stratis also has their own cryptocurrency called Strat. Strat fuels the Stratis Platform, like Ether for Ethereum. Strat is currently trading around $7.90 as of the time of writing.

Typically, Strat is influenced by the ICO market, postively or negatively but speculators are betting heavy on Strat long term.Without being too technical Stratis also solves a number of problems that even Ethereum has not solved yet which has been made apparent due to recent network issues with Ethereum.

Stratis leverages sidechains of their own to bypass scalability issues.For blockchain companies that are heavily reliant on tech, having a well rounded roadmap is a good sign. Stratis has ... continue reading: 
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Anticipated to be in use by up to 65% of enterprise by 2020, Blockchain technology represents a distributed ledger approach to authentication, clearing and...


Anticipated to be in use by up to 65% of enterprise by 2020, Blockchain technology represents a distributed ledger approach to authentication, clearing and settlement that is poised to rapidly move beyond the FinTech sector into many other areas including the Internet of Things (IoT). Blockchain solutions are not yet mainstream, but already making a big impact as the technology is highly disruptive in the banking and general financial services sector. Accordingly, leading incumbent banks are in various stages of development, testing, and deployment of the technology to enhance various applications including remittance management, smart contracts, identity management, asset trading, ownership management, digitization of physical assets, and many more.

Lessons learned in FinTech and traditional banking from applying a decentralized authentication, clearing and settlement approach via Blockchain will be applied towards many telecom and computing problems for the benefit of many industry verticals. IoT in particular is a very promising area as we anticipate that the technology will be one of the key means for authenticating and authorizing IoT transactions. We see Blockchain as a Service representing a key service offering for many market segments to introduce and ultimately adopt this approach as part of business operations.

This research examines the technology, leading companies, and solutions in the evolving Blockchain ecosystem. The report evaluates current and anticipated use cases for Blockchain and assesses the market potential globally, regionally, and segmented by deployment type and industry vertical for the period 2017 to 2022. All purchases of this report includes time with an expert analyst who will help you link key findings in the report to the business issues you're addressing. This needs to be used within three months of purchasing the report.

Report Benefits:

• Blockchain market forecasts 2017 to 2022
• Understand Blockchain technology and solutions
• Identify emerging Blockchain use cases and opportunities
• Learn about how Blockchain will be used in different industries
• Identify opportunities for Blockchain integration and operations

Target Audience:

• Data services companies
• Banking and FinTech industries
• Network operators and service providers
• Managed communication services companies
• Telecom and computing infrastructure providers

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We work side by side with the leaders of the cryptocurrency industry and will be happy to design a solution for you that will address your market needs in the most efficient way.

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