Crypto Valley Projects to watch: CogniPet, Curio, Blockimmo, Deutsche Börse, Julius Bär, Melonport
Crypto Valley is disrupting business models from the most fixed asset to digital assets. A lot has happened in the industry over the last few months: Many projects revealed new use cases for various assets classes on the blockchain, but at the same time one of the Crypto Valley’s leading projects is in liquidation –not because of financial issues, but due to the business model design. As the decentralised world has proven: The best work is done when forces and knowledge are being joined. Over the last weeks, several established institutions and blockchain projects have entered into strategic partnerships to to work on solutions for the future together.
Blockchain Pitch Night 2019 Winners: Curio & Pet
Female co-founded startup Curio Invest took home the prize for best startup 2019 in the Crypto Valley and CogniPet won the fast track to the CV Incubation program.
Best Startup Award: Curio is using blockchain technology to create a new digital asset class that opens the global collector’s car market to millions of investors. The online investment platform enables investors of all income levels to invest in high-value assets, such as collectable cars.
www.curioinvest.com
Fast Track to Incubation: CogniPet automatically creates an interactive picture timeline of beloved pets. Thanks to the combination of AI-supported image recognition and blockchain technology, pedigree connections can be attached and the ramified generation course of the pets can be traced online. Lost pets can easily be assigned to their owners. With mobile phone shots, the system will detect an animal entered in the database with high certainty, which also makes pet theft easier to investigate.
https://cogni.pet
Three Swiss Firms complete ‘First’ $3 million Real Estate Transaction on the Blockchain
Blockimmo and Elea Labs have joined forces with Swiss Crypto Tokens and have conducted the first blockchain-based real estate transaction. The first Swiss property is now on the blockchain. According to blockimmo the trade volume amounts to around CHF 3 million and is making up approx. 20% of the property value.
Read more on Cointelegraph.
Deutsche Börse, Swisscom and Sygnum enter into Strategic Partnership to build a trusted Digital Asset Ecosystem
One of the world’s largest market infrastructure providers, Deutsche Börse Group is joining forces with the Swiss-based financial technology company Sygnum and the leading Swiss ICT company. They are working together on a new ecosystem to provide issuance, custody, access to liquidity and banking leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Read more on the Sygnum News Update.
Swiss Stock Exchange SIX Will Tokenize Equity on R3’s Corda Blockchain
SIX, the Swiss stock exchange operator, has picked R3’s Corda Enterprise platform as the underlying blockchain for the digital asset trading, settlement, and custody service it is building.
Read more in our exclusive interview SIX CEO Jos Dijsselhof, where he explains why there will be an explosion in digital assets and why SIX builds a blockchain based exchange. Further information can be found in this Coindesk article.
Julius Bär enters Partnership for Digital Asset Services with Seba Crypto
The last month has been a big one for Seba, first they moved into the official Townhouse of Zug and then they announced the strategic partnership with Julias Bär. The partnerships will provide Julias Bär’s clients with access to a range of new digital asset services.
Read more on the official Julius Bär site.
Melonport releasing the Melon Protocol on the World of Asset Management
Melonport dissolves in favor of its protocol setting a new bar for the blockchain world Melonport startup consciously chose to dissolve itself and release its Melon protocol on the world of asset management. The Melon Protocol was built on the Ethereum blockchain, and Melonport will no longer have the majority say on how that protocol develops. No one will technically “own” the Melon Protocol, but the founders of Melonport have entrusted its development to an independent Melon Council, which will provide governance and direction as it develops.
Founder Mona El Isa told Tech Crunch: “We always promised we would step back and hand over the protocol to a decentralized governance process.”
Read more on TechCrunch.
