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MultiVAC is a new entrant in the public blockchain space. Using sharding (similar to Zilliqa, Quarkchain, and Emotiq) MultiVAC aims to produce high TPS to enable decentralized applications (dApps). Differentiating itself from Zilliqa and Emotiq (built off of OmniLedger), MultiVAC adopts Verifiable Random Functions (VRF) for its consensus mechanism and shard selection. Projects such as Dfinity and Ontology introduce similar…

Full disclosure: I am in active discussions to advise Blockcloud because I think reimagining the current stack of the internet and connected devices may one day be a necessity with the projected growth of connected devices. Plus I really enjoyed my conversations with the entire team. Beyond the technology, working with great people is paramount.

Shout out to my new team member CryptoRaider for his technical due diligence and editorial support on this article. Shout out to Windra over at Coin Crunch for his read over my initial draft. …

Aergo plans to develop not only a blockchain, but also a fully featured ecosystem to enable businesses and developers from any industry onchain. Knowing full well that IT departments are not yet up to speed on building decentralized applications, Aergo’s ecosystem will feature a variety of technologies that look and feel familiar. Separating itself from many of the blockchains today, Aergo does not tout high throughput (measured by Transactions Per Second, TPS) as its defining feature. There are several optimizations laid out in its documentation enabling potentially higher throughput so I will call those out where appropriate throughout this review…

Origo aims to create a smart contract enabled blockchain platform with strong privacy features. Similar to Loki Network, Edenchain, and upcoming project Aergo, Origo Network aims to feature privacy as one of the main drivers of adopting decentralized applications (dApps). Nowhere is the need for privacy more paramount than in the collection of identity and behavior data. In the June 2nd, 2018 edition of The Economist titled The Surveillance State: Perfected in China, a Threat in the West, the front cover story discusses why privacy deterrent technologies are necessary. Scandals including Facebook’s recent Cambridge Analytica debacle nosedived the behemoth’s reputation…

Disclaimer: I was not paid for this review nor have I invested in this project. On my ICO rankings sheet Choon ranks in the “I would consider” category (all projects highighted in yellow). Also, my sheet is a bit more unconventional since no project will score above a 70%. That’s just how my sheet is configured.

It has been awhile since I published a dApp review and thought it might be time to publish a new one. The last one I covered was Mithril, a social media platform similar to Snapchat. A new project called Choon came across my desk…

This review is for a project that appears promising in my mind. It’s a bit early to review it due to the fact the team is still sorting out how it’s going to reach a more public audience. For now it’s in private sale with no plans for a public Token Generation Event (TGE). Their website is also outdated so I stitch a bunch of information I was able to gather for this review. I will obviously need to issue an update as I receive final details from the team.

Emotiq calls itself a next-generation blockchain with powerful scalability and…

Gaming is a twelve figure industry. From console based to mobile games, players are increasing their average spend on digital in-game items. When I worked for Google I recall the impressive revenues to the Google Play P&L due to game hungry countries such as Korea and Japan. Blockchain is a great technology to enable gaming asset ownership. If there are two things that blockchain does very well it is: 1) data ownership and 2) cross network payments. Bit.game aims to do more than just track asset ownership and transfers.

There are other established gaming projects such as Enjin and up-and-coming…

Ankr Network aims to build a permissionless, resource efficient, scalable blockchain that also features native capabilities to interact with existing data solutions. Its consensus mechanism is called Proof of Useful Work suggests the computational resources powering the blockchain will be far more efficient than existing Proof-of-Work schemas today. Sidechains and sharding will be featured in Ankr’s solution to achieve scalability. To bring in outside data to the Ankr Network, a native oracle service will be prominently featured. Like other blockchains, Ankr’s smart contract capabilities will be its key to powering decentralized applications (hereon referred to as dApps).

Unfortunately the whitepaper…