systematization of knowledge within major blockchain protocols or consensus
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Alexis Gauba presented a systematization of knowledge within major blockchain protocols or consensus, addresses the common challenges, economic model and solutions and provides a formal structure within which to compare them in this keynote presentation at Hyperledger Global Forum.
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I was attending the interesting LECTURE "Stablecoins: Crypto's Holy Grail or Fools’ Errand?" by Dr Garrick Hileman - Head of reseach at Blockchain - London School of Economics - United Kingdom at hashtag#ETH hashtag#Zurich and here is a copy of the slides Introducing: 2019 State of Stablecoins The 2019 report builds on its predecessor to provide an updated and expanded look at the current state of the stablecoin market - a space where we expect to see significant innovation in the coming years. It includes:
- New research primers on three leading stablecoins: Paxos Standard, Stasis and Reserve
- A new in-depth comparison of Paxos Standard, USD Coin and Gemini Dollar
- Expanded data profiles on 34 stablecoins, including many new stablecoins (the report is twice the size of its predecessor!)
- Refreshed data and analysis across the full report to reflect the substantial changes observed over the last six months; and
- An overview of how to gain investment exposure to the growing use of stablecoins
Get the report and slides https://www.blockchain.com/research
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The State of Stablecoins 2019: Hype vs. Reality in the Race for Stable, Global, Digital Money
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The report, entitled “The State of Stablecoins 2019: Hype vs. Reality in the Race for Stable, Global, Digital Money” is based on information collected from 40 crypto and stablecoin firms. The report’s lead author is George Samman, a blockchain and cryptocurrency advisor. According to the document, Samman “was commissioned to research the stablecoin landscape and then independently report his findings for the broader industry to learn from.” https://bit.ly/2TWc1ao
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ICO STATISTICS FOR 2018 AND OUTLOOK FOR 2019
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The last 6 months of ICO have been imported and can be browse at https://ico.tokens-economy.com/statistics. I display there historical ICO data for all cryptocurrencies friendly countries for each month of the year. What you can get out of all these charts:
- You can see the number of ICO per months over 13 major countries (Cayman-Islands, UK, USA, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Malta, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Switzerland),
- Each country has its own color, how often that color appear on the map represents the relevance of that country in the given month,
- Each bubble is a company and its size is directly linked to the amount of money raised,
- The amount raised per months is displayed in the upper right corner,
- By clicking on a month you can examine a full-screen version.
2019 Outlook – $171.13 M (first 3 months)
2018 – $6641.45 M
2017 – $7718.52 M
MAJOR BLOCKCHAIN CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS AS AN INFOGRAPHICS
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Consensus algorithms enable network participants to agree on the contents of a blockchain in a distributed and trust-less manner.
I’ve listed in the past few months all of them at tokens-economy.gitbook.io/consensus/ and thought it will be cool also to produce an Infographics
The PNG (4528 x 2894 px, 2.5MB) can be downloaded here and the PDF version (280kb) with clickable consensus links here
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