A Sneak Peak into the Blockchain Ecosystem After DevCon3
The Ethereum Foundation’s developers conference concluded yesterday. It was my very first DevCon and all I can say is that the crowd was amazing and it allowed me to learn a lot about Ethereum (Casper, Plasma, Solidity, and so much more). Nonetheless, the best part was hanging out and chatting with developers from all sorts of projects that have been and will be in the blockchain ecosystem.
If you look at the media or just at the mainstream opinion on blockchains, especially after the boom of crowdsale events, the impression that you get is limited to the name of the token, how much they raised, and when it will be listed in an exchange. But Blockchain is much more than Cryptocurrencies, and Cryptocurrencies are more than just buying and selling.
During the conference, I’ve been collecting information about all projects that were at the event. Most projects were physically visible, as their teams would be wearing a t-shirt with the logo, some others (very few) had a booth, and many others were sponsors of the event and had their logo on the stage. Then, I put a tag on each project depending on the main industry their product was aimed at.
As most projects are very recent, some of them don’t even have a logo yet, I’ll be listing the names so you can Google them:
- Artificial Intelligence: OpenMined and Bianjie.ai.
- Internet of Things: Oaken Innovations, Slock.it, and IOTA.
- Smartphone Apps: Zikorka (intersects with IoT), Status, and imToken.
- + 18 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) : Spankchain and Eros.
- Gambling: FunFair.
- Transportation: Flying Carpet (intersects with AI) and Trafficx.
- Finance: OmiseGo, Kyber, EtherDelta, TenX, Etherisc, and Omega One. Capital: Polychain Capital, Melonport, Scalar Capital.
- Data & Predictions: GNOSIS, Santiment, Augur.
- Content: JAAK, streamr, AKASHA.
- Computing Power & Storage: trueBit, Swarm, iexec, golem.
- NGO & Environment: GivETH and MITO.
- Legal: Legacy, Aragon, and Kleros.
- Privacy & Anonymity: Orchid Protocol and Mysterium.
- Supply Chain: Provenance and Sweet Bridge.
- Public: IDbox and Open Vote Network.
- Agriculture: AgroChain.
As you can see, the snapshot of the ecosystem is limited in many ways. These projects are a small portion of what the entire ecosystem is composed of, there are for sure more projects in these fields and more fields yet to represent. Most of them are building on Ethereum, but there are many other platforms such as Cøsmos. It is hard to provide only one tag for each project, many of them are tackling different fields. Furthermore, many are very young projects, so it is only natural that with time they evolve or change fields.
Because of these limitations, I’ve decided to start an open source project named hellodecentralized.world with the simple purpose of mapping and visualising the blockchain ecosystem, with a proper database where information about each project is updated. If you’d like to help me with it, please comment on this post!
Thanks for reading so far, hope the snapshot was helpful somehow!
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