Where mobile gaming is currently one of the fastest growing aspects of the industry,
decentralized applications offer an entirely new avenue.
Not exact matches
It should be no surprise by now to hear that Ethereum is
offering much more than just a
decentralized, P2P, payment system, but an
application of the blockchain for smart contracts and
decentralized applications — or put more simply, the automatic execution of tasks.
In this category you'll find topics like how smart legal contracts might be used by businesses, or the potential for
decentralized applications to
offer services to consumers without a legal entity.
Bitcoin
offers one particular
application of blockchain technology, a peer to peer electronic cash system that enables online Bitcoin payments, the Ethereum blockchain focuses on running the programming code of any
decentralized application.
The Ethereum Platform combines a peer - to - peer networking platform with a next - generation blockchain architecture to deliver a
decentralized consensus - based, full - stack platform for developing,
offering and using distributed
application services.
Unlike bitcoin which
offers a single
application of blockchain technology (a peer - to - peer electronic cash system), the Ethereum blockchain allows you to run any
decentralized application.
Lisk, a cryptocurrency and
decentralized application platform, raised $ 5,880,089 in an «initial coin
offering» in 2016.
Still, to build long - term value, Ethereum Classic's developers will need to establish their platform as one that
offers advantages to those wanted to build
decentralized applications using the ethereum platform.
Developers will be able to create DApps (
decentralized applications) and
offer them on the platform.
Both NEO and ETH want to be platforms for the new internet: for DApps (
Decentralized Applications), ICOs (Initial Coin
Offerings), and smart contracts.
The amount is being
offered under an initiative to provide financial support to entrepreneurs who are seeking to use Blockstack, a
decentralized browser, platform for building Blockchain
applications.
The way
decentralized cloud storage works is that you rent space from others on one of these platforms, where people who have more storage space than they can use
offer to store your files or run your
applications.
Ethereum currently
offers the most robust framework for
decentralized applications.
That was the pivotal piece of Litecoin news this week (because China's crackdown on initial coin
offerings applies more to
decentralized application blockchains like Ethereum).
Fabric Token was developed on the blockchain system of Ethereum with a view to
offering a way for just about anyone to create as well as deploy their
decentralized applications or smart contracts without the need for hiring technical experts.
Many other companies
offer applications or services through
decentralized blockchains, however, the bulk of those companies use features that result in higher costs to the end user.
The company designed itself as an open source messenger service built on the Ethereum platform as a
decentralized application (Dapp) and, subsequent to its creation, launched an initial coin
offering (ICO) that saw it target a total raise of 300,000 ETH.
The funding aim concerning the pre-token sale is 2,000 ETH (6 % of the total
offered), which will be used for financing further research and development of the company's
decentralized lending
application.
In this way, users are
offered an alternative app store for
decentralized, platform independent, blockchain
applications.
Ethereum Classic still has all the same specifications as Ethereum, such as average block time, reward and size, and
offers the same features, such as the creation and deployment of smart contract and
Decentralized applications.
In the cryptocurrency industry, it is difficult to find commercially successful
decentralized applications that had not conducted initial coin
offerings (ICOs), because ICO has become an easy cash grab for developers.
By having a scalable and flexible platform, Neo can
offer maximal compatibility with a wide choice of different types of
decentralized applications.
NXT is an open - source
application platform which
offers products such as asset exchanges and monetary systems for those wishing to launch their own digital currencies; data cloud storage software, voting systems, account control for
decentralized autonomous organizations (DOAs); and a blockchain creation kit for developers to launch their own blockchain platforms on the Nxt ecosystem.
hopes to build upon QTUM's already advanced sandbox for
decentralized applications by
offering what it calls an open - source satellite network to developers who want to utilize an alternate medium for data transmission, storage and development.
PayPro is one of several competing companies describing itself as the «first
decentralized bank» and plans to create a financial marketplace «where any Decentralized Application (dApp) will be able to offer its ser
decentralized bank» and plans to create a financial marketplace «where any
Decentralized Application (dApp) will be able to offer its ser
Decentralized Application (dApp) will be able to
offer its services».
Munchee has launched the world's first
decentralized blockchain - based food
application to
offer consumers value for their money.
Built on the Ethereum blockchain, Proxeus claims to
offer the most robust framework available for
decentralized applications.
Ethereum is also making its name in the established industry with Microsoft
offering Ethereum as a blockchain - as - a-service, IBM's in the game too, MIT teams are doing active research and even proposing their own alternatives (Lisk —
Decentralized Application Platform).
Token
offerings, SingularityNET and Sweetbridge — to name a few — are building platforms and
applications to solve complex problems, maturing the utility token beyond what developers have concisely described as «
decentralized autonomous meta - crypto token liquidity exchanges.»