Every day in the digital world and in the crypto market social networks, visionaries, investors and founders sold us a new imagination of the future, and 99% of the times this is strictly connected to Blockchain technology and all the related concept, such as cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, tokens and so on..
Buzzwords apart, data show how this brand new hot topic in the financial sector really has the potential to change the whole industry system for years to come.
With a global Blockchain market expected to grow over $60 billion by 2024 many well-known brands and industry titans, as well as new ventures and startups out there have decided to explore and adopt its distributed ledger technology to solve market inefficiencies, benefit from the advantages of its innovations, experiment the potentiality of its tokenized economy, rely on its data storage encryption processes, use its faster transactions system.
Is all this something we really can rely (or invest) on?
There’s an economic theory by Jens Beckert called “Imagined Futures”, which says people often make decisions based not on what history or data prove is true but on what they own believe will come true in the future. Those visions could be so strong to coordinate groups of people toward the creation of something tangible and grounded, something to materialize and bring to life, something that can also have a great value: is not just about creating a technology, but opening the doors to a new future, which come true because they believe it can.
And, as a matter of fact, currently there is already talk of a “Blockchain Business”, and it is no longer just a collection of visions guiding us toward the future: it is something that is flourishing and facing with success all the physical, legal and technical challenges as those 10 companies, which have blockchain technology as a core piece of their business and are already making the difference in the 2018 global market. Here are what Forbes suggests to keep an eye out for:
- PATRON
Started by influencer, Atsushi Hisatsumi is one of Japan’s leading blockchain companies, currently building a decentralized influencer-marketing platform to eliminate inefficiencies in branded content and social media. The company is fresh off a $40 million token-sale raise and is currently expanding operations to the United States.
- TraDove
Founded by entrepreneurs from MIT, LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon and Alibaba, is developing a light, fast and trustable B2B blockchain payment network for international transactions. It has finalized one of the top ICOs in 2018 and launched the world’s first B2B token, BBC, opening up corporate demand for cryptocurrencies for sales and marketing, a $76 billion market.
- Celsius Network
As a FinTech startup primed to disrupt traditional banking, Celsius is a borrowing and lending platform which allow users to earn up to 5% interest on their crypto while taking loans at 9% interest, using their crypto as collateral. Celsius Network’s goal is to bring the next 100 million people into crypto, ultimately becoming the first killer app in the space.
- Menlo One
Led by TED fellow, Matthew Nolan, Menlo One is a framework for building decentralized applications with the speed of a traditional web app. Their proof-of-reputation algorithm is an innovation for DApps, as is the speedy, decentralized database and cross-chain nodes at the center of its tech.
- Gameflip
Gameflip is an online marketplace backed by Silicon Valley venture capital with 3 million members, which allows gamers to transact any type of digital goods. After successfully hitting its token-sale hard cap, the FLP utility token can now be used to transact digital goods within the Gameflip marketplace.
- Buddy
Buddy is an app store for developers by developers, with a presence in the cloud marketplaces of Amazon, Google and Github, aimed to take the load off millions of developers by removing everything that can be automated, and in the process giving them back the time to be creative.
- ADBIT
Is the world’s first blockchain-powered media planning and buying platform for traditional media (print, TV, radio and out-of-home) assets, created to help automate the multiple layers of manual processes that currently plague the industry. Its ADBIT token will be the core function of CIINCH Media Market
place.
- DACC
DACC, which core team members come from MIT, Harvard, and early partners include TRON, Consensus Capital, D Fund, Crypto Capital, Block VC, Kim’s Capital, FBG Capital and the Roark Fund, is the world’s first content-based blockchain that features identity and access management (IAM) at the infrastructure level, offering users full control over content creation, access and storage.
- Goldilock
Goldilock is a patent-pending, remotely activated airgap security solution that is toggled by a non-IP command and is aiming to change the way data is stored and secured across the internet, enabling a robust cryptocurrency key custody and storage of sensitive digital assets.
- FCoin
Founded by Zhang Jian, FCoin is a Chinese decentralized and fully transparent cryptocurrency exchange, based on a mining and profit-sharing mechanism that will return up to 80% to the community. FCoin recently garnered significant media coverage for a massive uptrend in volume at over $17 billion daily.
