Thoughts for the Next Crypto Kitties Clones
By Chase Smith Cryptocollectibles of the Past Cryptocollectibles are not new to the blockchain. Even though fungibility is one of the necessities of a cryptocurrencies, there was at one time a similar craze for the color coins. Coins that were to have attributes layered on top of the original bitcoin infrastructure. Crypto Kitties: An On-chain Game CryptoKitties […]
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Why Scaling the Blockchain is about more than just Transaction Volume
By Chase Smith Blockchain is the Future Blockchain is a platform that has a high amount of potential for the future of technological progress, it promises to disrupt the current system of central authorities in place of a decentralized authority. Not only does this add transparency and efficiency to transactions, it puts the power in group-thought […]
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What is OPEN Platform?
The OPEN Platform is a blockchain based developer platform centered around providing developer infrastructure for mainstream application developers to embrace decentralized technologies. Like the Stripe API has made it incredibly simple for developers to simply ‘plug and play’ and process payments within their technology stack, the OPEN API enables developers to similarly accept and enable […]
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WHERE ARE THE RECEIPTS?
Aside from the obvious — you can’t yet use cryptocurrency in conventional applications or on most existing websites as a form of payment, something we are actively solving — the thing that struck us as much-needed is receipts. Where are they? As it stands, it’s convoluted at best and impossible at worst to produce […]
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How CryptoKitties Proves The Value of Cryptocurrencies For App Developers
Based on data from ETH Gas Station, CryptoKitties is now the largest decentralized application on the Ethereum blockchain. This game, based on breeding and selling digital cats, has consumed more than 14{e9b7b6e97581a958d2bc378a46799d644da7fe427050b58be8de8c4fdd2a2020} of the total transaction volume and shows little signs of slowing down. CryptoKitties functions through a set of 5 Ethereum smart contracts […]
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The OPEN State
A Proof of Ownership receipt that can be accessed from anywhere Introduction If you don’t already know what OPEN is check out our introduction to the amazing system here. There is a also brief overview below for those of you unwilling to open a new tab. The main points about OPEN It is a platform that […]
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About OPEN OPEN is an architecture for bringing about the connection between the blockchain and centralized infrastructures, like Amazon and Netflix, that we know and love. It is important to build this bridge because without OPEN it is impossible to leverage the strengths that centralized systems have in computation, with the strengths that the blockchain […]
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Introducing The OPEN Platform
All About the Blockchain The blockchain has created a revolution around it by providing a secure method for transactions in a trustless network. By working in a trustless network and circumventing bureaucracy, the blockchain has the potential to work more efficiently and cost-effectively than massive centralized organizations. The promise of the blockchain has not […]
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[INFO] Open Platform
Some of you have been asking for an example of how the OPEN Platform would work. In this example, we will go over a very brief explanation of how it is planned. A dating app’s developer offers users an option to upgrade to a premium membership. They will implement OPEN Platform to have faster […]
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Hey Blockchain, Let’s Take A Big Step Forward
Among the recent infrastructure projects designed to help flourish the blockchain, most seem to primarily address what is already being done within the blockchain stack, offering a marginal innovation with respect to what’s currently available, without projecting the adoption of the blockchain as an ecosystem. Until now, much of what we’ve seen take place […]
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