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📈 Lition In-Depth Review & Rating is online!

▶️ Read the full review at the following link: https://bit.ly/2DfiRk8

The team at Lition is developing a highly scalable next generation blockchain project that incorporates both public and private blockchains aimed at enterprises and various commercial entities. Lition enables the deletion of data stored on the blockchain and is tasked with allowing businesses to produce DLT based commercial products, and to move seamlessly from the Proof-of-Concept stage to creating legally compliant, blockchain based applications that are ready for mass-market adoption.

Lition aims to do this by making use of permissioned sidechains that can be altered as required, in addition to permissioned and permissionless nodes, with the project also incorporating a Layer 2 scaling solution to improve speed and efficiency. The team are working in conjunction with SAP, the world’s largest producer of business software, and the combination of a permissioned distributed storage engine from SAP and Lition’s permissionless consensus system provides businesses a high-throughput, low-latency private transaction solution with public validation for select records. Early on in their whitepaper, the team outline the following key features:
• A light client that can run on IoT devices.
• Low transaction costs, smart contract executions now cost $0.60 and are set to drop to $0.01.
• Fast block confirmation times of 1 to 3 seconds.
• Private Sidechains for private data.
• API interface for chain/backend communication for easy developer access.
• Data can be deleted from the blockchain

In order to be a leader in the provision of commercial blockchain services, the team plan to comply with GDPR (General Data Protection Rules) which is prevalent in the EU, and as a result, anyone will be able to store their private data with the knowledge that it can be deleted whenever necessary, while highly sensitive data can be stored on private sidechains and also remain safe from quantum-computers.

Review Rating

Product | 85%
Use of Blockchain | 100%
Documentation | 85%
Development Roadmap | 90%
Business Model | 77%
Company & Team | 85%
Token Sale | 80%
Final Rating | 86% 🔥

Lition is a one of the stronger ICO projects currently in operation and remains a good example of a next generation ICO. Lition already has a working product with their P2P Energy Trading Exchange dApp is in operation in Germany, and the team have employed sensible tokenomics, and are working within the confines of a realistic hard cap of $8 million, while the soft cap amount of $2 million has already been reached. This gives the team significant funds to continue developing the project.

In addition, the presence of advisor Dr. Jürgen Müller who is the CTO and Board Member of SAP is a major plus. Jürgen advises SAPs executive board on all innovation-related topics in the tech field, and as Lition’s chief advisor for innovation and blockchain technology, he should assure Lition develops technically sound, innovative solutions that can achieve widespread commercial adoption. As well as the co-innovation agreement with SAP, Lition has entered into an agreement with GASAG, an energy partner with over 1 million customers, and $1 billion in revenue. Furthermore, LongHash, a blockchain accelerator with offices across Asia, LD Capita, an Asian investment fund, and Alpha Labs, a crypto assets fund based in South Korea are all backing the project. Despite these positives, we will have to take the team at their word that no excessive bonuses have been given out, and that early stage investors will hold onto their tokens. However, to encourage this, the team have come up with the “Hodl Highway” which sees investors who sell within the first 30 days of the TGE receive less than a 5% bonus, and those who hold for 180 days will receive 30% worth of bonus tokens.


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This should fill retail investors with confidence and the team has been transparent with regards to their tokensale and overall token economics. The launch of the Testnet 1.0 in Q1 will also help to build positive sentiment with investors, although the mainnet will not launch publically until Q3 which means investors may have to wait for 6 months. During this time, Lition will face competition from established blockchains, scaling projects, and STO platforms, and will have to hit the ground running to get ahead. The launch of their second use case MVP and syndicated loan dApp is planned to take place shortly, and announcing their banking and real estate partners, alongside successfully tokenizing the proposed €20 million loan may prove crucial in establishing Lition as a viable STO solution. Lition has a lot to like, and the recent strong performance of LTO Network may herald the ascendancy of strong enterprise focussed projects with sensible tokenomics. This far we like Lition a lot!
🔥 Today we're excited to introduce the new "Analysis" section 🔥

We think that it is important to explore new advancements within the space and always aim to stay ahead of the curve. Now take an hour out of your day and get your knowledge up by reading our new publishings.
EOS vs Amazon's AWS | A New Way of Hosting

https://bit.ly/2GI1hc5

A recent report showed that EOS can’t be considered to be a blockchain as it lacks certain criteria like cryptographic proof of validity of state changes, and a byzantine fault tolerant consensus algorithm. We go the extra mile, and take a further look into EOS's potential to become an AWS competitor.
Infinite Scalability for Blockchain

https://bit.ly/2SAHzpO

This article summarizes the core ideas of at least two dozen whitepapers and projects that will not be happy with the oversimplified presentation of their contributions. The goal was to cover every major development out there at least briefly. Together they will eventually lead to infinite scalability of decentralized networks with blockchains as a major building block of the world computer for the primary purpose of synchronization.
Configuration Management on Distributed Ledgers

https://bit.ly/2V4xqP7

In 1937 Hayek released an essay noscriptd “Economics and Knowledge” which describes the idea that economy at its core is about organizing knowledge transfer in the most efficient way. The knowledge is stored in the heads of the participants of an economy and the cooperation is governed by rules that allow finding agreements to facilitate connecting the knowledge silos for greater good. In the future, value will be created by the services that are made available on top of the native protocol tokens whose main value proposition is to pay for transaction fees.
An Introduction to Beam, Grin, and Mimblewimble

https://bit.ly/2BCuamq

The recent January launches of both the Grin and Beam projects have led to a significant increase in the amount of attention being paid to privacy protocols once again. The two digital currencies make use of the groundbreaking Mimblewimble protocol and look set to disrupt a market sector currently dominated by respected currencies such as Monero and Zcash. We take a deeper look at the two projects and the cutting edge technology which underpins them.
📈 Fetch.AI In-Depth Review & Rating is online!

▶️ Read the full review at the following link: https://bit.ly/2GSqnFa

Fetch.AI aims to create a decentralized digital network that facilitates an infinite number of marketplaces and user interactions, and acts as a conduit for a new world of economic activity. Fetch.AI is built using an extended version of distributed ledger technology (DLT), and incorporates Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technology, combined with advanced measures of a trust protocol, to create a platform where autonomous software agents, working on behalf of their stakeholder (human owners, organisations, corporations) perform tasks such as delivering data or providing services.

There are three core layers of the Fetch.AI architecture:
• Autonomous Economic Agents
• The Open Economic Framework
• The Smart Ledger

Network agents or Autonomous Economic Agents (AEAs) work in a variety of ways, namely, individually, in partnerships, serially or in parallel, and can represent humans or non-human entities such as data or services. Agents are rewarded with the Fetch.AI token for their efforts, and connect to the world via the Open Economic Framework (OEF) which presents a part of the ecosystem specifically tailored to each individual agent.

The Smart Ledger underpins the system integrity and maintains network security through consensus made up of a unique combination of Proof of Stake (PoS), notarized DAG and useful Proof of Work (μPoW®). The Fetch.AI protocol ensures that the distributed ledger mechanism, machine learning and trust combine to create an intelligence driven agent system. Fetch.AI aims to automate a wide variety of common interactions and host marketplaces for the transfer of data, computation power, energy, travel solutions, supply chain management solutions, and a host of tasks and hardware services.

Review Rating

Product | 75%
Use of Blockchain | 90%
Documentation | 90%
Development Roadmap | 75%
Business Model | 85%
Company & Team | 90%
Token Sale | 65%
Final Rating | 82% 🔥

Fetch.AI is an ambitious project with a number of strong points and these include a strong team with a solid academic foundation and core members with decades of experience of working in AI and ML. In addition, a significant number of developers have experience of working with leading corporations such as Google, SAP, Bloomberg, Sony, and Nokia.

Fetch.AI has also partnered with Trusted IoT Alliance, MOBI, Warwick Business School, Blockchain for Europe, and crucially Outlier Ventures. The latter still retains a good reputation in the space and isn’t known for taking part in some of the practices conducted by the more “cutthroat” Venture Funds. The team have also arranged for their public sale to take place on Binance Launchpad which allows them to benefit from their exchange’s vast network and influence and also highlights their ability to network and achieve actionable results.

By going through Binance,
Fetch.AI has also been highly transparent and produced a large amount of information about various aspects of their project including seed and private sale rounds. However, this leads us into areas of concern according to Binance; the team had already used approximately 85% of SAFT funds by December 1, 2018. This is worrisome, and may be the reason for such a high valuation, and the large team will surely lead to a high burn rate with a high proportion of funds being allocated to staff and salary costs and securing commercial and academic partnerships.

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The possibility of a high burn rate brings the fact that the merger of DLT, AI, and ML is still highly theoretical and combines features that are still to be proven to work in the real world. Furthermore, the mainnet release is scheduled for Q4 2019 meaning that investors may have to wait until 2020 or beyond for significant developments on the platform. The burn rate may also explain why the team first aimed to raise $30 million for 20% of the total token supply thus giving Fetch.AI a valuation of $150m, and even after reducing the hard cap to $6 million for 6% of the total token supply, Fetch.AI still has a valuation close to $100m. Crowdsale participants will only have access to 17.6% of the tokens, half of the supply being allocated to the tokensale, mining, and future releases, meaning the other half remain in the hands of the foundation, team, and founders.

Depending on your stance these metrics may prove to be off-putting, however, the team have been highly transparent and produced all the necessary information on vesting periods, and the FET token release schedule. Public sale participants will receive their tokens immediately and be free to trade them on Binance which may prove attractive in light of the performance of BitTorrent’s BTT token.

As a result,
Fetch.AI may suit braver members of the community who may be attracted by the possibility that FET matches the performance of BTT. More conservative members may choose to keep an eye on project developments of get involved in the project later on once significant milestones have been achieved and FET tokens are less prone to speculative interest.
PRISM | A Proposed Update to Proof of Work (PoW)

https://bit.ly/2Xk7Kji

The PRISM algorithm focuses on the problems that are limiting the capacity on the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin is not the fastest blockchain, but currently the most secure one. The main reason for the scalability limitations is seen in the occurrence of forks which have to be avoided at all costs. Two naive measures that would immediately increase transaction capacity are therefore ruled out, namely bigger blocks and faster block times. This limits the utilization of the underlying network infrastructure for the sake of security to the available capacity minus the security margin to keep the risk of forking small.
ELROND NETWORK REVIEW UPDATE

▶️ Read the full review at the following link: https://bit.ly/2ULHkoL


New Project Rating: 8̶0̶%̶ >> 84%

Updates:
• Hard cap has been reduced from $15.2 million to $5 million
• Iteration of the network is now being written in GO code language, bringing more efficiency and usability to developers
• Team has achieved +3,750 TPS in a single shard
• V1.0 of the testnet has been released
• New partnership with the Distributed System Research Laboratory - expanding the projects' scope into researching areas of applicability of blockchain and the possiblity of Elrond being utilized for decentralized management of demand response program in smart energy grids
• New reoadmap has been released - mainnet is expected in Q2-Q3 along with token swap and the integration of Elrond with a payment provider to create a payment gateway
• Team growth to 18 members (1 more added since last update) and partnership with Sunny Aggarwal is on hold as he is currently busy developing the Tendermit/Cosmos environment
• The team has recently debuted their marketing and community program, with the launch of their community platform where they have a mechanism to reward users based on engagement

Elrond’s team have been making considerable progress since last time we have reviewed them. Their team have self-funded the research and development for more than a year, and now they are preparing to finalize their raise through an upcoming ICO. The core team have been in the cryptocurrency space long-enough to learn the ins and outs (icomarketdata.com creators), and on top of that they have impressive technical expertise. Elrond Network’s main mission is to offer a blockchain that is both decentralized and secure without sacrificing one or the other. We have seen their testnet in action, and thus far they are on the road to success. Moreover, we expect Elrond to gain some massive traction in the following weeks, and if they continue focusing on the community and deliver milestones in time, Elrond can become the next best blockchain.
We are very excited to announce our first ask me anything session with Elrond Network!

The AMA will take place on March 27th, 2019 from 12:00 to 13:00 GMT in our Chat Room. Add the event to your calendar and make sure you prepare your questions in due time.

This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with members of the team who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback.

Elrond Network Review: https://cryptocalibur.com/elrond-network/
Don't forget everyone, the AMA with Elrond Network will commence in 30 minutes. Stay tuned 🔎
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Recap of the Elrond Network AMA Session from the 27th of March, 2019

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We are thrilled to announce our ask me anything session with Matic Network!

The AMA will take place on April 15th, 2019 from 20:00 to 21:00 CET in our Chat Room. Add the event to your calendar and make sure you prepare your questions beforehand.

This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with members of the team who will answer your questions and listen to your feedback.

Chat Room: @cryptocaliburchat

In-Depth Review: https://bit.ly/2KGQQJl
📈 Matic Network In-Depth Review & Rating is online!

▶️ Read the full review at the following link: https://bit.ly/2KGQQJl

Matic Network is a blockchain agnostic Layer-2 scaling solution that aims to facilitate scalable, secure, and instant blockchain transactions via the use of sidechains and Plasma technology. The project will initially achieve its objectives by using Plasma-based side-chains on top of Ethereum and ensure asset security via a decentralized network of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) validators. The team behind the project aims to overcome the problem of scalability for decentralized applications (dApps) and provide a solution for other associated problems such as slow block confirmations, block size limitations, and computations issues in smart contract based blockchain platforms.

Matic focuses on both developers and end users and intends to provide a Matic wallet, payment APIs and SDKs, and additional solutions that will allow developers to design, launch, and migrate dApps built on platforms such as Ethereum. Matic will also allow cross- chain transfers involving digital currencies such as BTC and ETH (using pegging), thus allowing anyone to exchange these currencies on Matic based Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs). With the team initially focused on the Ethereum Network they plan to integrate with the 0x protocol, and 0x contracts can be deployed on Matic which allows relayers like Radar Relay and Paradex to work more efficiently and users can trade instantly (~1 second) without waiting for block confirmations.

In the future, Matic intends to support other blockchains and develop interoperability features, thus improving scalability across various existing public blockchains.

Review Rating

Product | 85%
Use of Blockchain | 100%
Documentation | 85%
Development Roadmap | 85%
Business Model | 80%
Company & Team | 75%
Token Sale | 60%
Final Rating | 81%

Matic has a well-regarded core team with a successful track record, and there is a significant amount of positive sentiment attached to the project. The team are able to distinguish themselves as a result of a work history that includes implementations of Plasma MVP, the Dagger Ethereum event notification engine, the Zapier web automation app, the Matic mobile wallet, and the Cryptostaw Burner wallet integration. However, despite already building mobile and web browser tools and applications, away from the founders there is a lack of direct blockchain start-up experience and the team have little experience of working for any of the familiar big names in tech. As a result, questions may be asked of the team’s ability to successfully scale their operation and deal with the issues that will accompany their growth as a company. This is something to keep in mind, and time will tell which direction the project will head.

In addition, while various versions of testnet and mainnet releases are scheduled from Q1 2019 until Q3 2019, the final public mainnet launch is set for Q4 2019, meaning that there’s a possibility that crowdsale participants may have to wait until 2020 in the event of any delays. This wait until mainnet may result in the MTX token value being primarily reliant on pure speculation until the end of 2019 at the earliest, and depending on your objectives, this may turn out to be a positive or negative aspect.
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📈 ThunderCore In-Depth Review & Rating is online!

▶️ Read the full review at the following link: https://bit.ly/2GNRyPS

ThunderCore can be described as aiming to provide “Decentralization with the Benefits of Centralization” and this includes features of centralized projects such as the ability to handle large volumes of transactions and data, close to instant confirmation of transactions, and swift interaction with integrated applications. At the same time, the team aim to obtain levels of transparency, fairness, and security that are identified as being crucial for future generations of Internet users, and more prevalent among Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) projects.

The Thunder paradigm is a fully decentralized method for maintaining a public Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible blockchain, with the performance of centralized solutions. The Thunder protocol is a new blockchain that:
∙ achieves both high throughput and fast confirmation times;
∙ can withstand up to a 50% attack (just as standard blockchains);
∙ directly supports EVM-smart contracts and EVM-dApps designed for Ethereum with little or no modifications;
∙ comes with a mathematical proof of its security.

In addition, the Thunder team propose a system which combines any standard blockchain or “slow chain” with an optimistic “fast-path”. The fast path protocol is executed by a committee of stake-holders and coordinated by a central authority called an Accelerator.

Review Rating

Product | 85%
Use of Blockchain | 100%
Documentation | 70%
Development Roadmap | 75%
Business Model | 70%
Company & Team | 90%
Final Rating | 82%

ThunderCore is an interesting project that seeks to address well known issues that plague all prevailing blockchains. As a fast, high performance EVM-compatible public blockchain ThunderCore has the ability to enable decentralized applications to scale effectively and develop solutions that can gain mass adoption. It also allows already existing dApps on Ethereum to migrate giving it a significant body of projects to target. However, the project operates in a market segment that is stocked with competition and must go up against projects such as EOS, Zilliqa, and Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solutions such as Loom Network, OmiseGO, Matic, and Lition. In addition, EVM compatible projects such as GoChain, Proof of Authority Network, and TomoChain are also already in operation.

However, ThunderCore has a solid core team with Chris Wang, Elaine Shi, and Rafael Pass all being standout performers with Chris Wang being instrumental in the development of Playdom which was eventually sold to Disney for $500 million. In addition, ThunderCore has raised a total of $50M in funding over 4 rounds, and has attracted investment from leading funds such as Pantera Capital, FBG Capital, SV Angel, Huobi Capital, Kinetic Capital, Hashed, and Arrington XRP Capital. This bodes well in terms of project development as we can expect ThunderCore to quickly establish itself in the blockchain economy, and partnerships with
AnChain.ai, BlockVigil, and Liquidity Network appear to be proof of this.

Furthermore, as ThunderCore 0.3 launched in 2018, the testnet is already live with the mainnet Jupiter full public release scheduled for Q3 of this year. The completion of support for EVM, Truffle, Metamask, Remix, as well as TrustWallet, mean that there are already eight ThunderCore dApps available on the mobile wallet.

Having said that, potential investors may have to consider the financial influence of the funds involved, and take into consideration the terms they may have agreed with the greater cryptocurrency community developing more scepticism with certain names. There is also little information currently available regarding the project’s tokenomics, token vesting schedules, token emission rate, and fund allocation. However, ThunderCore remains an interesting proposition with a clear and direct use case, and the presence of a number of leading blockchain funds highlight that the team are pulling together a project to keep an eye on.
We are excited to announce our ask me anything session with STP Network!

The AMA will take place on May 5th, 2019 from 16:00 to 17:00 UTC in our Chat Room. Add the event to your calendar and make sure you prepare your questions beforehand.

This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with members of the team who will answer your questions and listen to your feedback.

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Standard Tokenization Protocol is an open-source standard defining how tokenized assets are issued and transferred while complying with all necessary regulations. Tokens built on top of the STP-Standard will use the protocol’s on-chain Validator to verify compliance with any jurisdictional or issuer-specific requirements.

Standard Tokenization Protocol allows assets to be tokenized in a way that makes them fully compliant across jurisdictions and transferable across any blockchain platform.


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Recap of the STP Network AMA Session from the 5th of May, 2019

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