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DAV is a transportation platform that works on the Blockchain technology. As an open-source software platform, DAV enables any individual to either purchase or sell services of autonomous transportation in a market that is fully decentralized.

DAV has been designed to consolidate in any kind of autonomous vehicles such as a car, ship or even a drone. This, in turn, gives these vehicles an opportunity to communicate, discover, and carry out business with one another using DAV as the digital currency.

The DAV Network ICO invites merchants who want to be part of a network of autonomous vehicles, which will definitely form the future of transportation.

The DAV Technology

As earlier indicated, DAV is a framework of a free, decentralized marketplace, open-source hardware, and an open-source software where any person can choose to either purchase or sell the autonomous transportation services using the DAV token.

The technology has been made up of three main components, which are listed here:

• Decentralized Discovery – DAV enables these uncontrolled vehicles to discover themselves, and even other clients and service providers that are close to them. Using a peer-to-peer protocol that does not operate with any kind of central server, DAV utilizes a decentralized node discovery. The nodes are instead listed in a distributed hash table that can be accessed more easily.

• Communication Protocol – This is the second component that makes up the DAV technology. For different transportation needs, DAV identifies a list of assimilated communication protocols. The communication is further subdivided into two main groups; off-blockchain communication that is carried out on P2P through the DAV Network’s protocols.

The other one is the on-blockchain communication that is carried out by calling smart contracts via the events they have emitted.

• Trustless Cooperation Tools – This is the last component of the DAV Network. Through using an assortment of specialized smart contracts, DAV is able to achieve trustless cooperation between transportation service traders. These smart contracts allow multi-party contracts that exist between the seller, buyer and even at times, the insurer, and arbitrator. They are connected directly to the DAV token. Thus, they assure great financial resolution for the transactions that are done between different parties without the need of a pre-determined trust.

The Team

DAV Network is managed by a team of professionals. It is currently headed by Dr. Alan Messer who is the current Automotive Advisor. Before joining DAV, Dr. Messer was the General Motors’ CTO. The Aerospace advisor is Dr. Scott Horowitz, who worked as an associate administrator at NASA and a space shuttle astronaut.

 Summary

In the end, DAV Network seeks to offer a fully decentralized system that is not under the control of any financial organization, company or government. This would be the best payment standard that can be used between automobiles and their supporting infrastructure.

DAV also enables an easy-to-verify ledger that contains historical data regarding the autonomous vehicles, their users as well as other service providers. It can even assist other service providers as insurers.

It also comes with a built-in smart mission contract that allows trustless cooperation between service providers and a number of vehicles.

The main aim of Grain ICO is to create a solution that will enable organizations to manage work agreements that are on the Blockchain technology. This platform also creates a quick payment mechanism that can be used by these companies.

Grain.io assists firms save billions of money by offering middleman services that would, in turn, lower the processing costs of the payments that are remitted. Grain.io is basically a backend solution that enables freelancer platforms and labor management systems to consolidate financial transactions and smart contract on the Blockchain. GRAIN has been able to reinvent how organizations work and give the workers an opportunity of sharing their work success on the main platform.

How GRAIN.io Works

Apart from easing the labor contracts, GRAIN also helps in other ways. The GRAIN ecosystem, at the same time, also introduces prompt, compliant, as well as a mechanism of fair payment; all these by ensuring that full security is maintained.

It has also incorporated the introduction of an online saving account that workers can use for any contract across the system. This service can also be used to pay for shorter-term needs or even pay into the pension. As a way of offering a feasible solution for enabling work agreements in various organizations across the globe, GRAIN will comply with any kind of regulation that is connected to labor.

In an effort of safeguarding both sides of the entire transaction, the protocol used by GRAIN also involves a special technique that can be used to handle the volatility faced by the digital currencies.

By applying the GRAIN.io Blockchain, a number of possibilities are opened. These are possibilities that can be used by Human Resource developers, payrollers, staffing agencies, accounting software as well as a host of other options.

In brief, the main duty of GRAIN is to give the hundred-billion-euro payroll industry not only a secure but also a free and transparent ecosystem by advancing the current system to one that entirely works by sharing principle.

The Benefits of Using the GRAIN.io Platform

It saves organizations huge sums of funds. GRAIN provides companies with a cheap alternative that would reduce the amount they use in labor. When they opt to use Grain for organizing their work agreements, they can save massive funds they would have used in acquiring expensive intermediaries and payroll services.

A Share of the Transaction Fees

With each transaction, the transaction partners will stand a chance of getting up to 50% of the fee that is imposed on the customers.

No More Late Payment

With GRAIN, workers will never have to complain about late payments. All will be better off with this platform, and they would always share in the success.

The Team

The GRAIN.io is headed by Onno Hektor, who earlier worked with Microsoft as the director. Mr. Hektor is the president of the board and is closely assisted by André Bonvanie and Erik Koster, who are both board members. Jeroen van Megchelen works for GRAIN as the blockchain expert. The other senior officials that make up the team are Lucas Huizinga, Artem Gorev, Philippe Vanderhoydonck; and Hans Hoogerveen & Steen Deurloo, who are both members of the advisory board.

Coti strongly believes that in the near future, digital currencies will take the place that is currently taken up by cash, coins, cheques, and other payment cards. COTI’s main aim is to work as the Internet’s best digital currency that can be used by various customers across the universe.

At the moment, several payment platforms have failed to offer effective commerce transactions, leading to increased fees and reduced rates of approval. COTI introduces a payment system that is created to solve the payment challenges witnessed today and give the consumers greater peace of mind.

Powered by XCT as its native currency, COTI seeks to blend the best of the current processes of payments and blockchain technologies to provide not only the most effective but also a means that is trusted, fastest and easiest to pay with.

The COTI’s Crowd & Token Sale

The creation of COTI was mainly based on the idea of coming up with an advanced network of payment that would be widely used by both sellers and buyers. Its main hope is to be the main promoter of the application of the virtual currencies in use cases that involves payments.

Coti’s token sale is ongoing at the moment, just as the private sale is coming to an end. It has been revealed that a total of 80% of the tokens that had been earlier issued will be offered for sale as well as reserves.

Here are the main strengths of the COTI platform

As a payment platform, COTI is much aware of all the weaknesses that this industry has been facing for a long period. It is therefore determined in offering the users what they have been long waiting for. It has a mission of accomplishing a total of eleven objectives, which would, in turn, ensure that their main payment platform is effective than others that are currently used.

The hedging services and mediators will ensure that various businesspeople are convinced to begin using XCT, COTI’s native currency for digital currency payments.

COTI platform has been strongly built on the Trust Scoring Engine, which will give the merchants the peace of mind and confidence they need as they continue with their services.

COTI’s Team

COTI is made up of a diverse group of persons that have a good background in engineering, particularly software engineering. The current CEO is Shahaf Bar-Geffen, who also co-founded WEB3, a top ranking service provider for digital media adverts.

The Department of Software Engineering and Research is headed by a mathematician known as Erol Hallufgil. Erol has helped several fintech firms to come up with CRM solutions.
The team also has a myriad of advisors.

Last Word

Coti’s main commitment is to offer a positive user experience to its customers. This would, in turn, give the sellers and buyers an opportunity of transacting on a payment platform that has the most reduced fees and improved security.

Although it might take COTI considerable amount of time to be accepted as the best payment option for cryptocurrencies, it would definitely be the leading method across the globe.

We as cryptocurrency enthusiasts know that the banking industry is far behind in technology and needs of consumers. It’s missing out on decentralized technologies, and powerful concepts such as the blockchain, which can certainly revolutionize the cryptocurrency landscape. At the same time, if you want to invest in or trade crypto, management of your assets can be difficult when there’s 20 different coins to keep track of. There are no professional instruments for such purpose available to the masses, and SwissBorg, an ICO company, is going to change that.

SwissBorg ICO, the Cyber Wealth Management Platform

This project attempts to create a platform for efficient management of digital assets, in a fair, accessible and transparent manner. In whitepaper, SwissBorg point out community as the most important link in the chain, thus the aim for a community-centric organisation. Starting off straight with the presentation of its extremely skilled members, you know the company means business. Whitepaper, website and other media provided by SwissBorg seem very professional, and not in a stiff, boring old business guy way. There’s a dash of humor in the presented writing, which makes their image highly likeable.

CSB Token will have its funds dynamically allocated, from 50% to 100% in Indexes Pocket, 0 to 50% in Opportunistic Pocket. The token itself will be distributed in 100% to the users, with no team allocation. No discounts on tokens provides fairness – you get as much as you put in. Unlike in other ICOs, where some investors get better returns because they invested in at a different time in the crowdsale. Many neat features are available for investors willing to take part in this project, but the list is lengthy, and I believe that they require some knowledge of the financial world to fully understand, thus I’ll send you off to read the whitepaper yourself.

The SwissBorg Team

A quite large team with impressive portfolios that doesn’t disappoint. SwissBorg is all about professionalism. The CEO seems like a genuinely cool person that inspires trust. He’s had contact with technology since childhood, and knew that technology would revolutionize modernity. If I were to judge the book by its cover, this one would get a great score. But regardless, Cyrus Fazel has great experience in quantitative investment, and a passion for P2P solutions. CSO, Anthony Lesoismier, has 7 years of experience working in finances at Market Securities LLP and an extensive portfolio. There’s much good to be written about this group, but there is no need, as their LinkedIn profiles speak for themselves.

Social Media Presence of SwissBorg, Summary

This department is another place where SwissBorg shine. Over 24 thousand likes on Facebook, posts with high engagement, and an active Twitter. It’s big, no need to say more. A lot of people in the crypto community seems to be on the lookout for a future with SwissBorg. Surely, a cryptocurrency portfolio manager will find itself an extremely useful tool in the hands of many altcoin trading aficionados and investors alike.