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Ocean Protocol is an ecosystem for sharing data and services. It provides a tokenized service layer that exposes data, storage, compute and algorithms for consumption with a set of deterministic proofs on availability and integrity that serve as verifiable service agreements. There is staking on services to signal quality, reputation and ward against Sybil Attacks.

Ocean Protocol helps to unlock data, particularly for AI. It is designed for scale and uses blockchain technology that allows data to be shared and sold in a safe, secure and transparent manner.

The Ocean Protocol is an ecosystem of data assets and services. Assets are data and algorithms. Services are the integration, processing, computation and storage. Ocean Protocol facilitates discovery by storing and promoting metadata, linking assets and services, and providing a licensing framework with pricing.

Any data marketplace can hook into Ocean Protocol to provide “last mile” services, connecting data providers and consumers. Ocean Protocol is designed so that data owners cannot be locked-in to any single marketplace and the data owner controls each dataset.

Ocean Protocol

Legendary entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen has long been on the cutting edge of crypto, and this year he extended his stake in the technology by setting up a16z Crypto, a $300M VC fund that's now focused exclusively on investing in promising crypto and blockchain projects.

Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies.

Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic Internet browser and cofounded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. He also cofounded Loudcloud, which as Opsware sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion.

Marc holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Marc serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Anki, Bracket Computing, Dialpad, Honor, Lytro, Mori, OpenGov, and Samsara. He is also on the board of Facebook and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

Marc Andreessen

An investment firm focused exclusively on ventures related to blockchain tech and digital currency.“We believe digital currency is at an inflection point, making it the right time for a transition to more institutional management.” — Dan Morehead

Founded in 2013... As the first U.S. Bitcoin investment firm, Pantera Capital is the leading blockchain investment firm and one of the largest institutional owners of cryptocurrencies. Our mission is to act as the catalyst for widespread blockchain adoption and innovation.

Exclusively focused on investing in blockchain technologies, the Pantera team is experienced in both traditional finance and emergent blockchain technology. Having strong relationships with some of the most promising entrepreneurs and other top investors in the space, Pantera is fulfilling its strategic investment philosophy by building a diversified portfolio and bringing industry-specific value-add resources to its portfolio companies.

Within the next several years, we envision blockchains and digital currencies having an established, responsibly managed, and regulated role in the global economy, soon after disintermediating a myriad of industries.

PANTERA Capital

Blockchair is a blockchain search and analytics engine for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Bitcoin SV, and Dogecoin or you can also say it's an engine that consists of blockchain explorers on steroids. You can filter and sort blocks, transactions, and their content by a variety of different criteria, as well as perform full-text search over the blockchains.

To understand what our search engine is capable of you can try to search for Bitcoin, look at the biggest Bitcoin Cash blocks, or try any of other examples featured on our homepage.

We aim to become Google for blockchains. Our next priority is to bring the ability to search over more other decentralized projects like IPFS and SWARM. In addition, we provide researchers with a way to batch export data from blockchains.

BLOCKCHAIR

Fully decentralized cloud storage is finally here.

Sia is the leading decentralized cloud storage platform. No signups, no servers, no trusted third parties. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers.

Solidity, the Contract-Oriented Programming Language. Solidity is a statically typed, contract-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts on the Ethereum platform.

Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Smart contracts are programs that are executed inside a peer-to-peer network where nobody has special authority over the execution, and thus they allow to implement tokens of value, ownership, voting and other kinds of logics.

When deploying contracts, you should use the latest released version of Solidity. This is because breaking changes as well as new features and bug fixes are introduced regularly. We currently use a 0.x version number to indicate this fast pace of change.

Solidity

Open protocol for decentralized exchange on the Ethereum blockchain.

Rootstock (rüt-ˌstäk). A horizontal, usually underground stem that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.

RSK is the first open-source smart contract platform with a 2-way peg to Bitcoin that also rewards the Bitcoin miners via merge-mining, allowing them to actively participate in the Smart Contract revolution. RSK goal is to add value and functionality to the Bitcoin ecosystem by enabling smart-contracts, near instant payments and higher-scalability.

The project has been conceived with the following principles in mind:

Bitcoin Friendly. We believe in Bitcoin. We support the Bitcoin community and we want to continue the legacy of Bitcoin´s pioneers. The lack of turing-complete smart-contracts capabilities may become an obstacle to Bitcoin´s growth to it´s full potential. RSK provides the missing technical needs, as a blockchain with a 2way peg to Bitcoin. As RSK does not mint, nor has pre-mined coins, then it has no speculative value and does not compete with Bitcoin.

The security of RSK is our main priority. RSK´s blockchain is secured by merge-mining, which means that we can achieve the same security as Bitcoin in terms of double-spend prevention and settlement finality. The 2way peg security will first rely in a federation holding custody of bitcoins, and later switch to an automatic peg, when the community accepts the security trade-offs of the automatic peg.

RSK can scale far beyond Bitcoin in its current state. RSK scales to 100 transaction per second (same level as Paypal) without sacrificing decentralization and reducing storage and bandwidth usage using probabilistic verification and fraud proofs, as well as blockchain sharding techniques.

Since the creation of Bitcoin there has been a race for faster transaction confirmations. Instant payments allow new use cases, such as retail store payments, and transactions in online games. RSK carefully chosen parameters and new theoretical protocols (such as DECOR+GHOST) allow creating blocks at 10 seconds average interval, with low stale block rate, and no additional centralization incentives.

Rootstock

Gemini's maker-taker fee schedule offers fee discounts as well as rebates for high-volume market participants.

GEMINI

The Block is building a global, inclusive community of crypto and blockchain enthusiasts. If you are looking for your tribe, this is it — because it’s everyone’s tribe! Join us for technical, economic and governance events, fireside chats, happy hours, and meet and greets. Mingle with everyone from the leading innovators and leaders who are trailblazers in the space to the people who are dabbling for the first time. The Block is your reliable and newsworthy source for all things pertaining to blockchain and crypto — and a community that embraces all.

There is no doubt that the cryptocurrency revolution will irrevocably change the world. It will impact governments, companies, universities, cities and every centralized entity. Historically, the cryptic nature of blockchain technology and the insular group of experts has deterred the vast majority of enthusiasts from learning and embracing cryptocurrency and blockchain fundamentals. The Block will demystify the inner workings behind the technology and make it accessible to all. Anyone with an interest in learning more about blockchain, cryptocurrency, smart contracts, privacy, decentralization, etc. can join us on our collective journey.

The Block’s foundation is basic and powerful: we are crypto simplified.

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