Crypto-invest: Blockchain Investment Opportunities + Hackathon Team up

Blockchain is the most important new technology that most are still in the early stages of understanding.

Blockchain is constructing a more democratic and decentralized future, whose beneficiaries will range widely, anywhere from Syrian refugees to investment bankers. The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2027, 10% of global GDP will be stored on blockchain technology.

Rapidly evolving Blockchain technology and startups are poised to fundamentally change entire business models, fundraising models, business operations, payments systems, and more.

Startups from the Blockchain space are creating a whole new economy relying on the distribution of wealth. The token sales format (ICO) is disrupting the traditional, exclusive startup investment scheme by lowering entrance barriers for investors and creating a convergence of interest among its adopters.

Come learn the core basics of ICO startup investment and see some of the leading players in the space discuss how crowd sales have overtaken venture capital as the main financial driver of innovation for Blockchain projects.

We will also create a dialog about the nascent industry’s effect on venture capital, regulatory environments, as well as talks from ICO projects of the past and the future on methodology and design.
As usual, the session will be followed by some networking and BC exchanges.

So we are organizing a pitching session by Blockchain startups that we love.

Startups Pitching

• Zilla - The Amazon for KYCd ICOs

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The ZILLA founders share the common vision to create an ICO purchasing platform.ZILLA will act as a gateway for Crypto enthusiasts to easily and safely participate in various vetted ICOs, while also allowing companies to do an ICO more effectively.ICO crowdsales are becoming more commonplace. With more than 1500 ongoing ICOsand counting, it is becoming overwhelming for buyers to keep track, compare, and verify various ICOs. Moreover, the ever-growing complexity of the ICO environment for new, would-be crypto enthusiasts is both astounding and paralyzing. No simple consumerfriendlyand intuitive platform exists that enables participants to conveniently grasp and compare competing ICOs.

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Abasa Phillips - Founder - ZILLA, PRIMO, Pegapay, PaySafe Japan Country ManagerAbasa is a payment industry and cryptocurrency veteran that has been involved in bitcoin since2011. He was the Japan Country Manager for Neovia (now Paysafe), and then went on to cofoundblockchain based digital wallet PEGAPAY, payment/marketplace platform PRIMO, and now ICO marketplace ZILLA. He speaks English, Japanese, and Chinese and is very skilled atworking with regulators to strategically overcome regulatory pitfalls.

-Sandblock - The Satisfaction Protocol

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Sandblock is creating the first worldwide open coalition of merchants and customers using the advantages of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology. Today’s merchants are disconnected with each others; customer engagement and loyalty programs are failing. Even if loyalty coalitions exist, they remain exclusive and extremely expensive for everyone. The Sandblock project aims to solve those issues by leveraging blockchain technologies and creating the Satisfaction protocol, a trustless protocol based on the Ethereum blockchain where merchants can emit their own tokens and customers can enjoy tradable, autonomous rewards for their engagement and loyalty."

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Sarah-Diane Eck is an engineer at Sandblock and leads the marketing and business development of the project, she has been involved in the blockchain and startup community for several years and helped multiple successful startups to launch and develop their projects. She previously worked in investment banking, foundation creation and digital marketing. She is also specialised on legal matters regarding user data protection and the upcoming GDPR, foundations & charities, and the constantly evolving crypto assets regulations.

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ABT decentralized browsing web services protocol allows browsers, websites and apps to provide tools for safer and smarter use of Internet: Secured Digital ID & login, tabs-bookmarks & domains management and unique decentralized subscription services (exclusive to ABT). The ABT protocol is derived from a disruptive browsing technology (patent pending) developed for the past 3 years and currently being used by our Addap’s Browser.

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Daniel is Febrero Martin is Co-Founder, CTO and COO, he has studied at the High School of Economics in Lausanne, Switzerland. Before joining ABT & Addap’s, he worked for hedge funds and brokers as a full-stack contractor. Daniel developed a set of custom tools and algorithms in order to improve brokers daily productivity and trading. Daniel specialises in ERP and CRM full-scale development. He created the world’s first trading bots for wine markets in 2010, and a portable scanner that maps and gives statistics about all mobile phones in the vicinity in 2012. He has been programming since the age of 12. During the last three years, Daniel has specialised in browsing tools and blockchain development.

Our Sponsor

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Hdac is blockchain for IoT, it provides authentication, mapping and machine to machine payment services. Using an innovative combination of a public blockchain, where users can securely buy and store coins, and and private ‘permissioned’ blockchains, where coins (HdacC) are exchanged for tokens (HdacT) that are used by IoT devices to transact with each other, Hdac overcomes multiple technical obstacles to be the world’s first IoT micropayment blockchain. Hdac gives users the ability to empower their IoT devices to transact autonomously, securely and conveniently. Hdac is backed by the Korean powerhouse Hyundai and is partnered with Intel Opensense.

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Stuart Corby is an Advisor to Hdac Technologies. Stuart founded Authentag LLC www.authentag.com (http://www.authentag.com/)which has been actively using distributed ledgers to track unique physical products through supply chains since January 2014. He started his career in London with UBS www.ubs.com (http://www.ubs.com/), spent time in New York city and went on to be the architect and business owner of their Electronic and Algorithmic Trading platform for Asia. Since leaving banking, Stuart has founded and successfully exited two companies and has acted as an advisor or as a board member for multiple private and listed companies in the Australia, Hong Kong, Korea and the United States.

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This event is brought to you by StartupToken TM

StartupToken is an accelerator that advises and manages the development of early-stage Blockchain Technology startups. Based in London, StartupToken focus is on driving innovation in Fintech and blockchain technologies, enabling breakthrough projects to grow through its incubation program.

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