By Judith Jakubovics – BizDev at the Mastercoin Foundation

Dear Masterminds,

Another exciting week for Omni/Master Protocol – full of innovative ideas, community collaboration and much more.

There are so many new innovative projects, and I would like to highlight some of them.

I would  love to highlight all of them, but there are projects in the pipe that are not ready to be revealed in public yet.

(A) – Projects that already launched on Omni/Master Protocol:

a) Maidsafe – Date of launch – April 2014

Maidsafe aims to create no less than a fully peer-to-peer and decentralised Internet platform, in which all data is ‘shredded’, encrypted and distributed to an extensive network of computers around the world. MaidSafe consists of two key parts: the network and the client applications. Safecoin is the currency of the SAFE network and a mechanism to incentivise and reward end users and developers as well as provide access to network services.

http://maidsafe.net/      and  http://maidsafe.net/safecoin

b) ApiNetworks – Date of launch – June 2014

The API Network provides the solution to create a fully decentralized and tokenized API network.This platform will allow API providers and users to meet in a fully open sourced platform, using the lessons learned from Bitcoin.

The goal of API Network is to take all the APIs out in the world,and provide a universal mechanism for querying them.

APICoin (XAP) will provide a transparent and distributed way to compensate developers and service providers for their effort with the coin XAP.

API Network is actually the solution to create a fully decentralized and tokenized API network platform that will allow API providers and users to meet in a fully open sourced platform, using the lessons learned from Bitcoin.

http://www.apinetwork.co/  and  http://www.buyxap.com/

c) GenerCoin – Date of launch – June 2014

GENERcoin is the Green ENERgy Asset Backed Coin that is backed by Arterran Renewables innovative solid bio fuel made from sustainable non food sources, such as manure, and municipal solid waste that is a direct replacement to coal. Coal contributes 40% of green house gas emissions in the US alone(source US EPA). Each GEC is a receipt and claim for the bio fuel that backs each coin.

www.genercoin.org  and www.arterranrenewables.com

d) CryptoNext – Date of launch – July 2014

CryptoNext plc is an Isle of Man company that offers digital currency products starting with a multi-currency, multi-lingual exchange platform and extending to merchant and remittance services.  It is the first company to launch an exchange offering multiple Fiat and multiple digital currencies, via a platform which is available in several languages.

www.cryptonext.net and  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG97mJ-Y_ac&feature=youtu.be

e) CoinProz – Date of launch – August 2014

CoinProz is utilizing a new method of valuing their token called Proof of Action: By distributing much of their coin offering to users who participate in their crypto based social network they are encouraging a strong interactive community.

http://www.coinproz.com/default.html

f) Spacelite – Date of launch – Sept 2014

Spacelite project – Life Science R&D

SLC- Spacelite  is an asset backed token, each SLC is backed by 100 grams of SpaceLite, a highly medicinal potassium-oxygen based alkaline electrolyte mineral for human consumption.

http://www.spacelite.info  and  http://www.armedforces-int.com/suppliers/spacelite-military-operation-training-supplement.html

g) SovereignCoin – Date of launch – Oct 2014

The mission of SovereignCoin is to harness the purchasing power of physical silver, to energize and mobilize this tremendous resource, by anchoring to it a trading unit called a Sovereign. A Sovereign is a digital representation of one gram of silver utilized by SovereignCoin holders to record and reconcile value. No longer need the purchasing power of silver be trapped away inside one’s vault.

http://thesovereignexchange.com/content/sovereign-solution

h) Tether – Date of launch –  Nov 2014

Tether is a next-generation financial platform making it possible to safely and instantly send and receive Dollars, Euros, Yen, anywhere in the world using the Bitcoin blockchain.

You deposit your preferred currency (Dollars, Euros, Yen) or bitcoin onto our platform, and we issue you Tether+, which are digital tokens that allow you to make transactions using the Bitcoin blockchain.

https://tether.to/

(B) – Projects that will  soon launch on Omni/Master Protocol:

a) Factom

Simple yet critical technology on Master Protocol

The goal of the project is to build a protocol stack, beginning with a proof of existence layer, and ending with a layer providing proof of process.  All of which is secured with the Bitcoin block chain, without adding a significant number of transactions to the Bitcoin block chain, nor requiring any changes to the Bitcoin protocol.

With clever use of cryptography Factom  will limit the size of the blockchain without losing any of the information it contains.

http://www.factom.org/

b) Hope Gold Coin and The Festival of Hope

The Festival of Hope is the largest live music and charity event in history.

Hope Gold Coin is the overall sponsor of the festival of hope.

Hope Gold Coin is the means of purchase to support charitable activities around the world.

The HOPE Gold Coin Charitable Trust is a charitable trust under UK law expressly established to undertake the development, production, sale and management of the HOPE Gold Coin as well as ensure that all proceeds earned from the sale of HOPE Gold Coins will be used for charitable causes and activities.

• Genuinely and completely altruistic.  
• Proceeds earned from the sale of each and every HOPE Gold Coin will be used by HOPE Gold Coin Charitable Trust to benefit philanthropic and charitable causes, projects and activities worldwide
•  http://test.hopegoldcoin.org

http://test.hopegoldcoin.org  and  http://www.thefestivalofhope.org/

http://www.hopegoldcoin.org/links-2/partners.html

c) Merchantcoin

MerchantCoin is the first self sustaining, marketing centric crypto-currency that incentivizes consumers, advocates and businesses to acquire and use bitcoin.The MerchantCoin solution provides a Faster, Cheaper, Easier and Smarter method for merchants to transact business within its ecosystem. The mWallet enables each merchant to accept bitcoin, but also to sell Bitcoin and many other alt-coins. TheMerchantCoin solution provides every merchant an onramp to the digital currency marketplace.

https://merchantcoin.net

d) La’Zooz

Transportation and traffic jams are basic parts of our modern lives.

These are exactly the issues that the La’Zooz team are dealing with. It will save our precious time and money, will reduce global pollution, will require less investment in infrastructures and much more…

La’Zooz is creating a Decentralized Transportation web that will not only be run by the community, but it will be owned by the community. “Fair share” and “fair fare” were two of the basic values that led La`Zooz team in its creation process.

La`Zooz is using the bitcoin 2.0 technology in order to distribute abundance to as many contributors that will come and by that La’Zooz is opening the floodgates for developers designers and users.

La`Zooz will move its “Proof of movement” mining Android App into Beta stage.It  will enable people who believe in ride sharing and other smart transportation solutions to change the way transportation on planet earth looks like.

http://www.lazooz.net/

e) BitLov

Bitlov is a digital currency automation platform that utilizes a predominately trustless network of decentralized, distributed autonomous agents called Rubrics

Bitlov is a digital currency automation platform that utilizes a predominately trustless network of decentralized, distributed autonomous agents called Rubrics. Bitlov empowers individuals and organizations to determine where money goes and when by simplifying the process of setting rules within contract templates, to write simple-to-complex transaction routines based upon various factors, such as: budget, pre-defined triggers, formulas, times, recipients, and more.

Website under constructon.

See the blog: http://blog.mastercoin.org/2014/10/19/introducing-bitlov-a-new-project-integrated-with-mastercoin/

f)Rymecoin

Remitance dollar coin for the Kerala state of India

Using the Master Protocol, RymCoins will be created from “Information Matrix Console (IM)”, where fiat currency, big data, user personal, professional, consumable and business information’s are captured; and purchasing power parity logic is applied for additional coin creation in the time of fiat currency conversion into crypto currency.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18rMT0NY9PYeds469ZckOrrXIxEf8lLm7GJAau-TtD-w/edit

g) The Delta IDCoin

The Delta Business Management and the crypto space.

In this project, the Delta Business Management  wants to embed unique id’s into the tokens to make a strong binding to a deed / contract.

Once it will launch, the intention is to scale the business and branch into other forms of assets and property in particular residential markets and capital held in properties. The aim being that asset is more interchangeable giving the owner more flexibility with their wealth.

Great things are happening to the Master Protocol

Point of contact for companies and organizations who want to issue a token (Judith Jakubovics) Judith (-at-) Mastercoin.org and on Skype: Judith.Jakubovics

By Judith Jakubovics- BizDev at the Mastercoin Foundation

Dear Masterminds,

Factom is a simple, yet critical technology for leveraging the power of Bitcoin Blockchain.

What is Factom?

The goal of the project is to build a protocol stack, beginning with a proof of existence layer, and ending with a layer providing proof of process.  All of which is secured with the Bitcoin block chain, without adding a significant number of transactions to the Bitcoin block chain, nor requiring any changes to the Bitcoin protocol.

As Peter Kirby- President of Factom explains: “Factom is a simple extension of the Bitcoin Blockchain that lets you build faster, cost effective applications with limited bloat”.

With clever use of cryptography Factom  will limit the size of the blockchain without losing any of the information it contains.

Factom is essentially a P2P network using a BitTorrent-like protocol, running on a system of federated servers. These servers all audit one another continuously to make sure they’re following Factom’s rules, and all of them are compensated in cryptocurrency for their services.

Once that’s established, anyone with the proper client program on their computer device can get and verify the information they need  to run for a decentralized application. You just need to be connected to the Internet, and–as it continues to decentralize–you’ll soon be able to do everything you need without worrying about silly things like “blockchain bloat.”

Factom is using the MSC Platform to issue the digital token associated with the Factom protocol.  Upon completing all the layers, Factom tokens will be converted to native coins running on Factom.  In fact, they may even be able to help improve the speed and reduce the cost of MSC transaction by running synced MasterCore nodes on the Factom platform.

Here are some advantages to running MasterCore on Factom:

1) The Factom blocks are hashed into the Bitcoin block chain, so they are just as secure as Bitcoin transactions .

2)Reduction Load on the Bitcoin Blockchain, thus unlimited MSC transactions can be performed on Factom for each entry placed in the block chain.

3)Federated servers allow for millisecond processing of MSC transactions that currently take quite a long time on the Bitcoin block chain, thus fast transaction processing

4) Secure transactions – All transactions of MSC will require cryptographic signatures.  This means even if the federated servers wanted to misdirect MSC transactions, they could not.  They will not have the private keys to do so.

5)Simplified protocols -The flexible entry format means that MSC transactions (as well as many other applications) can clearly add all the data and entries required to support the Master protocol.  Factom  allows the flexibility to construct transactions exactly as required by the application rather than force them into an awkward encoding scheme.

If you want to know more about this amazing project,  please visit

http://www.factom.org/

Great things are happening to the Master Protocol

Point of contact for companies and organizations who want to issue a token (Judith Jakubovics) Judith (-at-) Mastercoin.org and on Skype: Judith.Jakubovics

By Judith Jakubovics -BizDev at the Mastercoin Foundation

Dear Masterminds,

I feel privileged and  honored to be the first to introduce the Hope Gold Coin and  The Festival of Hope.

What is the Festival of Hope? 

The Festival of Hope is the largest live music and charity event in history.

100 charities globally, will benefit directly, tens of millions will get a hand up not a hand out. Enjoy the music, feel the love , be part of history of the largest charity and live music event. The events will start on Sep. 05,2015

The Festval of Hope is the largest live music and charity event.  Just to compare, The Live Aid  event (1985)  had 16 hours whereas the Festival of Hope has more than 400 hours of  live music

The Festival of Hope expects to raise at least 1 Billion US$

If you want to know more about The Festival of Hope please visit here:

http://www.thefestivalofhope.org/

What is Hope Gold Coin?

 The Hope Gold Coin was born on the Master Protocol – see here

http://www.hopegoldcoin.org/links-2/partners.html

Hope Gold Coin is the overall sponsor of the festival of hope.

HOPE GOLD COIN IS THE MEANS of purchase to support charitable activities around the world.

The HOPE Gold Coin is a totally unique and innovative new crypto-currency with major advantages. It is backed by proven and probable gold reserves, and measured, indicated and inferred gold mineral resources, all validated, confirmed and certified crypto-currency to comply with KYC2 and AML3 policies. It is designed and structured to be a mainstream currency, financial instrument and commodity, and universal unit of exchange and means of purchase to support charitable activities around the world.

The HOPE Gold Coin is a peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant, near-zero-cost payments to anyone, anywhere in the world.

The HOPE Gold Coin is safe and uses a secure open source, global payment networking that is fully decentralized without any central authorities. The HOPE Gold Coin features faster transaction confirmation times and greater storage efficiency than leading math-based bitcoin currencies, and will be freely exchangeable into other crypto-currencies or its cash equivalent.

Through innovative minting and release algorithms, the HOPE Gold Coin network consumes far less energy, maintains stronger security and safety, provides higher levels of assurance, and rewards users in more sustainable ways than other crypto-currencies.

The HOPE Gold Coin is a powerful entrant and participant in a disruptive technology that has the potential to transform the global financial services industry. It is unique in its purpose to benefit society and in its ability to raise the standard of living and quality of life for all by actively supporting the aspirational missions of a broad spectrum of charities, foundations and non-profit entities dedicated to addressing universal social, environmental, health, food, economic and similar problems that impact the lives of people worldwide. Through decentralized cryptography, the HOPE Gold Coin eliminates the need for banking intermediaries while significantly lowering transaction costs, potentially liberating poverty stricken economies around the globe by providing access to capital to the one-third of humanity that now has no access to financial services.

Market Opportunity As people grow more open to new ways of paying, there is a rise in the ubiquity and legitimacy of virtual currencies. The most prominent of these currently is Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer digital currency that has been called ‘potentially world-

changing’ by eminent cryptographers. However, Bitcoin’s reputation for price volatility, security questions, and concern for facilitating illicit activities are all issues the Bitcoin community must resolve before cryptographic currencies like Bitcoin can go main stream as universally accepted digital currency. That process is well underway. Virtual currencies like Bitcoin are gaining a real-world presence and prominence as they become more accepted as a unit of exchange and means to purchase. But there is still room for significant improvement, which represents a real opportunity for the HOPE Gold Coin.

With surging interest from prominent investors and growing acceptance from governments, regulators, merchants, customers and the general public, there is a burgeoning market and increasing customer demand for virtual currencies.

This is especially true for a superior, stable, safe and secure crypto-currency that enjoys major points of differentiation and distinct competitive advantages and benefits, that is also freely transferable as a unit of exchange and means to purchase.

There is a much larger potential market for a stable, safe and secure crypto-currency with an intrinsic value backed by gold reserves and resources, and insurable against loss due to theft or negligence that allows more transparent transactions, is freely transferable to other currencies and resistant to radical price fluctuations, as well as

that resolves market and government regulatory concerns about the ramifications and consequences of the myriad illicit and trust related activities benefit directly

If you want to know more about the Hope Gold Coin and  The Festival of Hope, please visit here:

http://www.hopegoldcoin.org/

http://www.thefestivalofhope.org/

Great things are happening to the Master Protocol

Point of contact for companies and organizations who want to issue a token (Judith Jakubovics) Judith (-at-) Mastercoin.org and on Skype: Judith.Jakubovics