Innovative Blockchain Startups & Businesses
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Startup, Blockchain, Pitching

As you might know blockchain is the technology that helps track Bitcoin transactions. It serves as a digital ledger for those ins and outs of transactions. I become suddenly obsessed with the idea of blockchain and want to see what kind of creative ideas have been derived from it.

After just a little bit of digging, we realized that blockchain is basically useful in all kinds of contracts and markets including creating its own economy. But some ideas are still extra fun and enlightening, so here we go:

Our favorite is Provenance, a UK based startup, that uses blockchain to track supply chain of products to ensure that the manufacturing process is conscientious, sustainable and GOOD.

Telegram is an encrypted messaging startup . According to TechCrunch, Telegram is planning a multi-billion dollar Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for chat cryptocurrency.

. According to TechCrunch, Telegram is planning a multi-billion dollar Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for chat cryptocurrency. PROPS rewards video creators with its cryptocurrency. It’s like a coin / token enabled Youtube.

Provenance is a UK based startup that uses blockchain to track supply chain of products to ensure that the manufacturing process is conscientious, sustainable and GOOD.

Kodak and WENN Digital team up to create the KODAKOne platform which uses KODAKCoin to manage image licensing rights and royalty payments.

and royalty payments. According to Fast Company, WePower is creating a new cryptocurrency to help facilitate a more democratic system of funding and buying renewable energy.

There are more than a few decentralized news networks that aim to make news more open to all.

FACTMATA backed by Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus, Ross Mason, Sunil Paul have communities fact-check news to combat fake news.

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros wants to use blockchain technology to help refugees. He explained in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Cryptocurrency can be used to help “keep their money safe and to carry it with them” (source: Fortune).

Barcelona-based Goin is a blockchain enabled mobile platform that encourages millennials to save. It successfully pitched at AngelHack’s Global Demo Day.

In San Francisco, two blockchain startups are teaming up to provide decentralize airbnb. Bee Token handles the short term housing rental part and WeTrust handles its security deposit — basically a form of insurance using blockchain.

If you want a full list of blockchain companies, google ‘blockchain landscape’ instead. Above are only some unique growing ones.

Here’s a medium article that list 101 blockchain startups. https://medium.com/due/101-top-blockchain-companies-b74814424a6b

Some of the big guys — corporations are hurrying to be associated with blockchain technology. As Long Island Iced Tea changed its name to Long Blockchain, Comcast Venture is investing in blockchain; IBM and container global shipment giant Maersk are creating a new blockchain company that commerializes blockchain technology.

*Some experts say that Initial Coin Offering is equivalent to a blockchain startup trying fund itself. Don’t buy into it. It’s super risky.