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Marketing Is a Waste of Time if You Don’t Know How To Use Each Platform
By: Noah Levy
Tags: Social Media Marketing, Platform, Marketing, Business

Marketing Is a Waste of Time if You Don’t Know How To Use Each Platform

Photo by Martin Reisch on Unsplash

What should our social media strategy be?

I hear this question all the time, whether it’s from myself or articles on the web.

Before I started working in startups, I didn’t think much of this question. I didn’t have a reason to care at the time.

Fast forward a year later, and I understand why we care so much. Digital marketing is cheaper than traditional marketing, and the growth of platforms has skyrocketed in the past 10 years.

Yet for a need that has existed for a decade or more, social media marketing is still not many companies’ forte.

We often assume that we should market to our niches, which makes sense since serving niches is an effective way to get customers. But sometimes we think our failure to get traction is due to something wrong with our product. Was our poor performance on distribution due to us not having product-market fit? Were people unreceptive to our content because our product isn’t what they want?

Attributing failed social media reception to your product not serving niches shouldn’t stop you from continuing. What if it were your social media strategy rather than your product? What if your product was actually good, but it didn’t reach the people who needed it because of a bad social strategy?

Medium is a great case. None of the top ten publications on Medium are sponsored content-oriented. Almost all of them are publications that grew by independent writers.

Your article on why your product is so great won’t work on Medium. People here look for conversational and evergreen content. It’s difficult to be successful with content that’s only relevant this week because the platform is designed to give the user content that they’d like, and that doesn’t always mean whatever is du jour.

This makes sense considering the top ten pubs on Medium. Posts on The Startup tend to have titles such as “The Lessons of Failure: Avoidance, Struggle and Gain” and “Gravitational Waves Explained.” I can read about the lessons of failure and gravitational waves tomorrow, next week, or five years from now. It’s still a relevant topic that brings about a conversation.

It’s reasonable to not expect traction of your product if you’re not creating a conversation around it. Why should we care? Why would anyone take the time to download something when they can read about gravitational waves?

A better way of doing this is having your product be the feature of the article. If the core focus of the article is on your product but not on what impact it made, then good luck getting readership.
Vawlt platform — a guided tour. Two weeks ago we launched the Private…
Tags: Tour, Platform, Cybersecurity, Vawlt, Privacy

3. Creating data volumes

Bear with me for this is one of Vawlt’s key differentiating features and therefore something you will be experiencing for the first time.

The moment you hit the create volume button on the Volumes menu tab, you unleash all the power of multiple cloud providers, their various data centre locations and storage tiers. Total time to create a new volume: about 10 seconds. Yes, 10!

Imagine going directly to 1 cloud provider website and creating an account, selecting the object storage service, selecting the storage tier, selecting one storage region, creating a storage space, creating a user and giving permissions to access the storage space. Imagine all of these for 4 cloud providers. Can you picture it? Now you just need to find a way to write and read files other than you browser. Feeling tired already? I am, just by writing it. Vawlt: 10 seconds 🙌

For the Private Beta, we selected a finite number of choices you get when creating a new volume. We want you to get acquainted and to validate the concept. We will gradually extend the possibilities, so stay tuned and share your “wish list” with us. Let’s look at the choices below.

The first thing you get to select is the type of volume you want to create, based on the specific workload you envision. You have 3 options: Hot, for data that will be frequently stored, deleted, versioned, and shared; Immutable files, for data that you store once and will not need to edit later (each file has a 30-days minimum storage duration charge); Archival, for data that you want to store but is very unlikely to be read (180-days minimum storage duration charge).

Both Hot and Immutable files have an average download time in the order of milliseconds (time to first byte), whereas the Archival can take up to 5 hours. When you open a file inside a volume, the file will be downloaded from the clouds if it’s not stored on your device’s Vawlt cache.

PRO TIP 1: We use a “least recently used” cache policy that allows your stored data to exceed your device’s cache capacity; the files you most interact with will be kept in your device, and the remaining ones are only stored in the clouds so, when you open them, said “download time” applies.

You can then choose a storage capacity for the volume, and a monthly download quota for the “uncached files” I’ve just described.

Next, you select the provider’s geographical dispersion, and the options are self-explanatory: Europe only, USA only, and Worldwide. On the right-hand side you will see the list of suggested clouds and their respective data center locations.

Every selection you make will dynamically update the monthly price of the volume you are creating so you can make an informed decision.

And that’s it, you just have to set a volume name and description, and grant access to a user. When you click “Create”, you will see a confirmation screen with a summary of your choices and when you confirm, your volume is created.
When Marketing Platforms Merge Into One
By: Tommy Lambert
Tags: Digital Marketing, Platform, New Technology, Management Software, API

Digital Marketing Technology keeps evolving, and businesses have to keep up to stay ahead in the competition. Marketing cut across several platforms and businesses try as much as possible to feature on each platform to get maximum exposure for their products and services.

APIs Integration

It has gotten to the point that even an account manager has to work on ten to twenty different platforms that have no connection to each other. This usually result into loss of interaction data and time, and this is becoming an Achilles heel for marketers looking for a way to manage the enormous amount of data and report on the progress of their marketing campaigns.

https://youtu.be/AQo7grfpA0k

What if there is a platform that can help you take care of all that? Oh, there is now! PlatformCore was founded to be the one-stop solution to marketing problems faced by businesses. PlatformCore helps businesses to improve their working methods by providing a simplified approach to marketing with a platform where you can integrate every other platform you uses for efficient management to improve productivity. Every interaction you make within the platform will have an impact on others and will improve your return on investment through time-saving and valuable resources.

Analytic

Content Management
Accessing Data from Cars on the Road
By: High Mobility
Tags: Car Data, API, Developer Experience, Platform

With demand for services from connected car users at an all-time high, it’s time for independent service providers to start thinking about a more efficient way to connect their services to their customer’s cars on the road. Making use of connected car APIs to retrieve data from customer’s cars has become more accessible and the scope of the offered data points is slowly increasing.

This tutorial shows how a developer application gets verified on the HIGH MOBILITY platform and how the data eventually is retrieved via the Auto API from customer’s car. The HIGH MOBILITY platform is built on openness — anyone can register an account, start building prototypes with simulated cars and eventually launch a service to the public via the Production Mode. We’ll show you here exactly how.

Pro tip: also check out the Introduction to Production Mode

Step 1: Create a new Production project

For simplicity we assume in this example that a developer has already tested the prototype with car emulators in the Develop Mode, and is now ready to create a production version. By that point the developer is well aware of the data points that will be required for the application to work. Here we will use an example of a build of an innovative insurance service using the _mileage data point.

We start by navigating to the Production tab and creating a new project:
[Announcement] New! Dust KIKO product launch
By: Insureum Zikto
Tags: Ethereum, Insuretech, Platform, Launch, Insureum

We would like to introduce the new knock-in knock-out product on our Insureum Platform(https://insureum.co/product) today!

You can immediately purchase the product with 20,000 ISR and can bet on the fine dust level in Seoul, Korea.

Subscription period: 30 days (Effective after 3 days from the sign-up date)

1. 20% return on principal if the average concentration level of fine dust exceeds 100μg/m3 by PM10 less than 5 times during the subscription period

2. Collect the principal if the average concentration of fine dust exceeds 100μg/m3 by PM10 6–7 times during the subscription period

3. 20% loss of principal if the average concentration of fine dust exceeds 100μg/m3 by PM 8 times during the subscription period

We are providing the service in Korean only at this time and will add the English version with more cities after the beta test. Thank you for your interest and please stay tuned for the upload of the English version.

Thank you.

Insureum Team

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What Ontology is and why you need to get on board.
By: Sylv Sandden
Tags: Ontology, Platform, Neo, Crypto, Blockchain

Ont.io

Ontology is both a blockchain and a distributed trust platform.

It makes it possible to customise different blockchains to match the need of different applications, while seamlessly enabling various collaborations, data exchanges and identity verifications between chain-networks.

The project was established in 2018 by founder Li Jun, based in China. It’s compatible with the famed NEO blockchain. But where NEO focusses more on an economic ecosystem, the Ontology project is a business platform, focussed on implementing companies into a secure blockchain environment.

Ontology’s mission is to solve the scalability problems in blockchain technology, as well as ensuring the highest level of decentralisation and safety. Their solution is a method called Sharding which is a way to split a block into smaller pieces. This will solve the Block Generation Speed, Processing and Storage per Node as well as the Cost of using the Blockchain Network.

The solution is called Sharding.

Ontology is traded as $ONT on all major exchanges like binance, huobi and kucoin. The $ONT tokens runs on VBFT (Verified Byzantine Fault Tolerance) And distribute rewards back to the token holder in the form of the tradeble token $ONG, which is similar to the $NEO — $GAS system.

The more $ONT you hold, the more $ONG you will be rewarded. The rewards are distributed continuously. Be sure though to hold your $ONT tokens in the official Ontology wallet or on an exchange that supports the $ONG delegation.

This project is already in the top 30 projects by marketcap and has enormous potential. With the sidekick advisory role of NEOs founder Da Hongfei, build by a great solid team, held up by a strong dedicated community and has a sound and realistic roadmap with a lot offer in the future, I would highly suggest getting in while it’s still early on. Ontology will become one of the biggest players.

Roadmap for the Ontology Project

Article by Sly West
Platform Thinking — Unpacking Netflix
By: Khalid Al Madani
Tags: Economics, Netflix, Platform, Ecosystem, Business

When I was eight years old, I used to visit the local video store with my brother at least twice a week: the first visit was to select a movie and the second visit was to avoid the late fees. Today, my eight-year-old son, with a few clicks, immerses himself in a universe of entertainments.

Between the two experiences resides three decades of exponential technological development: Netflix leveraged a slice of this evolution to transform the way we watch TV.

In 1997, Reed Hastings had a dream, “TV-on-Demand.” Back then, such a vision was more of an entrepreneurial suicide: since the inception of TV, the economic power resided on the supply side (content productions and distributions). Thus, the supply side mandated “what and when,” and the demand side could only consume TV.

TV-on-Demand means shifting the economic power from the supply side to the demand side: commoditizing time and differentiating attention. In other words, customers, individually, can decide the “what and when” of TV consumption. Commercially speaking, Hasting’s dream was a World War III declaration against;

Such rivals as well-established supply chains, value chains, massive customer bases, recognized brands, efficient operational capabilities, best of class expertise, and deep pockets; Netflix, had no chance to withstand such a war.

Fundamentally speaking, TV-on-Demand (in 1997) lacked the underlying technological development: no speed, capacity, or device could handle such a vision (this was the dial-up era, with commercial modems ranging between 28kbs to 56kbs; “to download 7 GB ultra HD quality movies you need 12 days”). The Internet was barely in its infancy (known as Web 1.0). Hastings’s dream required Web 2.0 and higher.

As such, Hastings placed TV-on-Demand within an incubator, hence, the origin of DVD-by-Mail. DVD-by-Mail was the present reality of Hastings’s future dream (TV-on-Demand). In other words, Hastings incorporated a core, Netflix’s DVD-by-Mail, to leverage an edge, TV-on-Demand.

Since 1997, Netflix never pivoted from its vision, direction, or focus. Netflix was (conceptually) ahead of itself. DVD-by-Mail was a means to an end. The transition to TV-on-Demand and the fading of DVD-by-Mail was strategically planned. From Netflix’s Annual Reports;

Identity Transition
The projects under development of DPlay Company
By: Sim Young Jae
Tags: Games, English, Platform, Decentralization, Blockchain

In the last article, we promised to make all developments transparent, so we will talk about what we are developing in this article.

The following projects are expected to be released this fall:

DPlay Store

DPlay Store is a service that is similar to a general game store. There are various functions, but the main difference from the existing stores is that there is no sales ranking. Instead, it shows the game evaluation system which is designed by the token economy.

DPlay Inventory

DPlay Inventory is a kind of plug-in for the web browser, like MetaMask. You can manage games purchased from DPlay Store, in-game properties, DC, ETH and d, the point system of DSide. And you can also check the transaction history with it. In the future, we will release a separate version for the mobile devices.

DPlay Exchange

DPlay Exchange is a decentralized cryptocurrency trading platform. ERC-20, ERC-721 are supported and can be traded with DC. In addition to simple services, we still consider the future scalability when we are developing this exchange. So it can be embedded into DPlay-based games as if the games use APIs in Web 2.0.

DELIGHT on DPlay

If there is no content when a platform is released, it won’t receive much attention. That’s why we’re developing a game, DELIGHT, only for DPlay. It will show how we make good use of the functions of DPlay platform and catch every one’s eyes.

DELIGHT is decentralized, like DPlay. Since it uses all the features of DPlay and will be an open source, we believe it will be a great help to developers in making DPlay-based games.

DSide

DSide is a decentralized database system. When you compare it to the traditional server logic, it improves the gas cost of storing or modifying data, the speed of transactions.

DSide stores data that is relatively less important than changing data quickly or frequently. It uses Ethereum’s wallet address and signature capabilities, and is good at Ethereum-based services, including propagating the fact that the transaction is in progress to all users, even if the transaction hasn’t completed yet on Ethereum.

dplay.js

To be honest, web3.js, the most widely used for developing Ethereum-based DApps, is too inconvenient to use it. There are many excellent developers are keeping improving web3.js project. But with a lot of changes, the fragmentation problem is quite serious. Therefore, we find it difficult to offer game developers to release web3.js games on DPlay. In that way, we are developing dplay.js, a JavaScript library, making it easy to use Ethereum features and smart contracts without using web3.js.
ADPlug Solutions
By: Adplug Official
Tags: Platform, Adplug Official, P2p, Adplug

Ifwe take a look at the interesting videos we find on YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok, we can see that the background is very diverse. In other words, our eye-catching content is not only made in advanced countries such as Europe and the United States, but also in Africa, Indonesia, and Peru. This means that there are a lot of talented creators all over the world.

We have payed attention to this point. Wouldn’t it be possible to create high-quality advertising content at a low cost by connecting small business owners around the world with talented creators and amateur models who are struggling because they don’t have jobs?

“What if I put the pictures taken by a French model wearing an improved hanbok that I made in the background of the Eiffel Tower on the product detail page of my shopping mall?” “What if I post a video ad on Facebook that young Germans enjoy my house beer at an open-air pub in Munich?”

This idea can be realized through a platform that can bring together people from all over the world who are willing to provide their talents at low prices, DB them, and connect with small business owners who need them.

If you could cast a foreign model and shoot outdoors with the Eiffel Tower in Paris for 3 hours in the studio? This will be a great opportunity for small business owners.
BigTurn Platform Key Points
Tags: Bigturn, Job Search, Australia, Platform, Bigturn Official

We are revolutionizing the way people think about security and global connectivity in migration and job search. Utilising blockchain technology, we will provide an efficient platform that will significantly benefit migrants and job seekers.

📝 By automating the verification of documents for both migrants and companies through our sophisticated blockchain network, both migrants and future businesses sponsors can have their worries alleviated. Likewise, storing clients’ confidential documents on the blockchain ledger will guarantee security, ensuring maximum privacy for all. Personal information such as ID and credential verifications will be certified through mechanisms established by existing blockchain solution providers, ensuring high reliability of necessary documents for visa applications such as birth, educational, health and criminal records.

📝 Our platform will automatically update existing visa regulations. Any difficulties associated with navigating around immigration laws, regardless of how often they change, will be dramatically decreased as we will provide immediate updates. Moreover, a built-in algorithm will streamline the visa process by automatically assessing the criteria and showing job seeking migrants which visa/country they are eligible for.

Additionally, with help from an AI chatbot empowered with advanced machine learning and natural language processing, immigration diagnoses and hiring processes will become faster, easier and reliable.
Earn Rewards By Implementing DeFi Staking Platform Development
Tags: Defi, Platform, Staking, Development, Blockchain

The decentralized sector has unlocked the doors for many new protocols to offer high rewards for digital currency users. The crypto experts have devised a perfect protocol for users to earn more liquidity and is beneficial for both ends at the same time. The execution of DeFi staking platform development to the DeFi platforms has attracted more crypto users towards this platform, which is an increment of traction for this domain.

Decentralized Finance Staking Platform Development

This is a win-win platform for the crypto users and the DeFi platform owner. In this protocol, the user invests and holds liquidity in the decentralized exchange. The user in turn receives rewards in the form of the digital currency through passive income of the transactions that take place in the future on the exchange platform. The users in this protocol are called liquidity providers.

Benefits Of DeFi Staking Platform

Gain a high volume of passive income at ease.

Minimum entry fee.

Rewards are generated in interest rates at a high level.

High-end security due to the implementation of smart contracts.

Completely transparent & secure.

Conclusion

The Decentralized Finance domain has allowed crypto users to participate seamlessly in the decentralized processes without having to abide by impositions. In this protocol, anyone can become a lender and a borrower. They need not have to follow complex procedures and rules. Due to these simplified and beneficial factors in this protocol, it has improved the traction between the DeFi platform and the crypto users efficiently.
Benefits of Platform Partnerships for the Company
By: Azit Alliance
Tags: Property Technology, Platform, Cryptocurrency, Token, Blockchain

Enhancing the Profits of Partner Companies

The companies that have signed an agreement with the AziT platform are part of the AziT Alliance. Partner companies participating in the AziT Alliance increase consumer traffic for all partners through the integrated point service, which in turn leads to new customer acquisition and increased service utilization.

The AziT Alliance platform introduces blockchain distributed ledger technology to solve existing point integration limitations such as a lack of interoperability, balance, and trust between partner companies. They will also issue a new point system that interlocks with the other partner companies’ point systems. Partner companies participating in the alliance are provided with a solution to make it easy to join the AziT Alliance.

In addition, part of the transaction profits generated when exchanging existing points for AziT tokens are given to participating companies to be used as marketing resources. AziT tokens can be secured through external cryptocurrency exchanges as well.
IIoT Platform | IIoT Applications Development | IIoT Architecture Consultancy | Utthunga
By: Utthunga Technologies
Tags: Platform, Iiot

Utthunga is a leading IIoT architecture consultancy company. Our IIoT platform can be customised for your specific requirement and we help you in developing IIoT applications as per your use cases.

IIoT is quite the buzz right now. Beyond the noise and the hype, there is actually serious promise in the adoption and implementation of IIoT tools and technologies in the manufacturing world. Industry verticals like process, factory, power & utilities, building automation are using IIoT applications that help in asset management, supply chain management, remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, operational efficiency and informed decision making. One particular area where IIoT is gaining prominence is in the predictive maintenance of industrial assets. By analyzing data generated from various industrial devices it is possible to predict problems in the devices before they occur enabling companies to take timely corrective actions.

Data collected from the embedded sensors help track and monitor asset health as well as production processes. Another exciting area is centered on operational process optimization, which involves using asset data and virtual test models to optimize production processes and quality.

Utthunga offers IIoT architecture consultancy along with expertise in IIoT application development and implementation. We offer tailored digital transformation solutions that will help you broaden your market reach with value added products and services.
YouTube Shorts Prepares $ 100 Million For Its Creators.
Tags: Platform, Youtube Short, Videos, YouTube, Business

YouTube Shorts Prepares a $ 100 million Jackpot To Fund Its Creators.

Introduction.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, in June presented YouTube Shorts as one of the company’s recent great success stories. The principle of YouTube Shorts is simple, it is that of TikTok: short videos, with high virality potential, inserted in a constant flow. The option is available within the YouTube application, via a dedicated tab.

Read Article: Instagram Announced The Official Launch Of The Ads On Reels.

YouTube Shorts is gradually conquering the world.

Launched in the fall of 2020, being tested in India, YouTube Shorts was rolled out in March 2021 across the American continent as well as in the United Kingdom. The service will continue to roll out to new countries, but the schedule has not been released yet.

YouTube Shorts has in any case obviously been able to meet its audience. Benefiting from TikTok’s ban in India, Google has arrived at just the right time with its new service. The company reported 6.5 billion daily views in March 2021.

Read Article: Netflix to create its own subscription video game service.

The next step is that of the remuneration of the creators of the platform. At this time, YouTube Shorts does not run ads, and Google intends to deviate from the traditional YouTube model, perhaps by building on the successes of TikTok again? In the meantime, to attract talent, Google plans to create a fund of $ 100 million during the summer.

Back to basics.

For Todd Sherman, Shorts Product Manager, “ It’s almost like we’re rebuilding YouTube .” Indeed, as Bloomberg recalls, when it was founded in 2005, YouTube also favored short and viral clips. Since an algorithm change in 2012, longer videos have been valued. Most YouTube videos these days are between 10 and 20 minutes long.

Read Article: Huawei Aims To Become The №1 In Software.

YouTube Shorts is an opportunity for a return to basics, but also renewal for the platform. YouTube has become a monster of war, bringing in $ 20 billion in advertising revenue per year. The inertia of the platform, already old according to Internet criteria, no longer favors the emergence of new talents as much, invisible by its well-established players.

Read Article: Spotify is preparing to automatically transcribe podcasts.

The YouTube Shorts format aims to fill this gap in its flagship. A fund of $ 100 million and an already impressive success, if we go by the numbers of the company, for a service so young, will undoubtedly attract users. In France, however, we will still have to wait to take advantage of it.
S7 Airlines Processed Over $1M Via Blockchain Payment Platform in July
Tags: Exchange, Platform, News, S7, Blockchain

S7 Airlines, a member of major global aviation alliance Oneworld, processed over $1 million through its blockchain payment system for the month of July.

S7 processed nearly $4 million in payments on its blockchain platform since January 2019

According to an official press release on July 30, S7 has seen significant growth in transactions on its blockchain-powered sales network developed in partnership with Russia’s largest private bank, Alfa-Bank.

Nikolai Mukhanov, executive director at S7 Techlab, said that the platform has seen not only a significant increase in number of payments, which reportedly grew tenfold since January, but also in number of other automated processes. Mukhanov stressed that the platform’s success was largely brought on by the Hyperledger Fabric platform.

According to a report by crypto media outlet ForkLog, S7’s blockchain platform has processed a total of around $3.9 million in payments since January 2019 so far.

S7’s blockchain platform connects agents directly, also complying with NDC standard

S7, Russia’s largest domestic airline, is planning to deploy its first online agents later on this year, S7 group sales director Ekaterina Dmitruk said in the press release. According to Dmitruk, the blockchain platform allows agents to work with the airline directly, also complying with the New Distribution Capability standard.

In July 2017, S7’s deputy CEO Pavel Voronin claimed that the company executed the world’s first flight ticket purchase through an open API blockchain to a bank. In August 2018, S7 partneredwith state-owned oil giant Gazprom to apply blockchain-based smart contracts to aircraft fuelling.

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Skill Testing Question in Canada: Why It’s a Canadian Sweepstakes Requirement
Tags: Platform, Contests, Canada, Sweepstakes, Software

Skill Testing Question in Canada: Why It’s a Canadian Sweepstakes Requirement Sweeppea Jun 5·2 min read

To enter a Canadian sweepstakes, the entrants must complete a skill testing question in order to prove eligibility to enter and potentially win a prize. This requirement is part of Canadian Sweepstakes law and applies to all Canada sweepstakes promotions.

Here is what you need to know about sweepstakes skill testing questions in Canada to help you ensure that your Canada sweepstakes is legal.

What Is a Skill Testing Question in Canada Sweepstakes?

A skill testing question refers to a mathematical skill testing question that appears on the entry form of every Canada sweepstakes. By law, the mathematical skills-testing question must have three operations or more in order to be considered as an actual test of skill.

While the question should not be insanely difficult, it can’t be so easy that it’s a no-brainer. The Canadian courts have so far agreed that a mathematical skill testing question such as “168 plus 42 minus six divided by 2” is enough to qualify as a sufficient skill testing question.

The entrant is also not permitted to use a calculator or any other assistance to answer the question.

Is it actually a test of skill?

The short answer is ‘no.’ The skills-testing questions don’t affect entrants’ chances of being selected as a winner. Instead, they are designed to remove the “luck” element from the sweepstakes.

According to the Canadian Competition Act, ‘luck’ is considered as one of the three elements that defines a lottery. Since a legal sweepstakes is not a lottery, this element of ‘luck’ must be removed.

Furthermore, under Canada’s Criminal Code, games of pure chance, such as random draws and games with randomly distributed prizes such as scratch-and-win games, are considered as illegal lotteries.

Therefore, the skills-based test ensures that every entrant has indeed put forth sufficient effort to be eligible to win the sweepstakes, making it no longer a game of pure chance. Only those who have correctly answered the question will be added to the pool of entrants.

Does Your Canada Contest Need a Skill Testing Question?

While a skill testing question is required for all Canada sweepstakes, it’s NOT required for Canada contests. A contest of skill, such as an essay, photo or video contest, involves judging entries based on specific judging criteria. As a result, not all entrants have an equal chance of winning by default.

However, some Canadian brands still opt to include a skill testing question for their Canada contests as an additional precaution.

Need help with sweepstakes or contest management? Call 305–505–5393 or email us with your questions.
Shark Fin Structured Product has Joined CryptoFarm
By: Oceanex Official
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Staking, Blockchain

OceanEx CryptoFarm is now fully upgraded and Shark Fin structured product has been launched soon.

In traditional finance, shark fin structured products have existed for a long time and have been widely used in various underlying assets. OceanEx shark fin structured products follows the basic logic of traditional shark fin structured products and uses cryptocurrency instead as the underlying assets. It provides users of long-term value investment with one more choice and meanwhile gains higher expected annualized return than other financial products, which is no doubt more attractive.

The First Shark Fin product — Shark BTC 6-Day 4/23

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Subscription Period: 16:00, April 23rd to 19:00, April 25th, 2020 (UTC+8)

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Questnet Weekly Update: April 23
By: Anne Fauvre-Willis
Tags: Validator, The Quest, Testnet, Staking, Blockchain

Questnet Weekly Update: April 23

Hi All —

First off congrats on an excessively speedy upgrade last week — 45 minutes to redeploy the network is pretty damn good! Thank you and congrats to all who helped drive this.

As the month comes to an end, we have a number of major updates to share — both in terms of the leaderboard for the April competition and what May will look like…

A few key notes below.

April Challenge Leaderboard

After 23 days of competition and 1 upgrade we’re beginning to see a few people breaking away (or at least not 30 people tied for first…). Top 10 leaderboard below and a full ranking here. Go Chad, Dhruv, nodeasy, and oceanabcde!

There are still 7 days to solidify your victory — or edge out someone else!

May/early June Availability Challenge — Starts May 11

We are going to run another availability challenge in May. We’re changing a few things up on the network related to how voting power works (see below) and therefore will also be adjusting the formula for availability. With that in mind a few dates to note down:

April 30 : April Challenge Ends

: April Challenge Ends Week of May 4 : We deploy a change to the way validator voting power works in the network

: We deploy a change to the way validator voting power works in the network May 7 : We plan to share the new availability formula

: We plan to share the new availability formula May 11 : May competition starts

: May competition starts June 5: Competition ends

What are we changing on the network? Flat vs. stake-weighted voting

Up until now we’ve been using “flat” voting power within the consensus committee, where +⅔ of validators must sign a given block to proceed. We were interested in testing this out to better understand the implications it may have for decentralization, latency, etc.

In May, we’re going to test out something a little different — stake-weighted voting. In this scheme, instead of requiring +⅔ of all validators to sign a block, we will require signatures by validators representing +⅔ of the total stake of the committee to sign a block. We’re interested to see how this will affect performance and upgrade speed!

Network stability testing and other attacks

As the network and new features we enable prove to be stable, we’re eager to have you all continue to stress test the network. In addition to top rewards for attacks, we’re also going to offer rewards to a few teams for attempting to disrupt network stability. If this is interesting to you, please message me on Slack for a bit more info.
Delegator Delight— Harmony User Testing
By: Maggie Wang
Tags: Dashboard, UI, UX, Staking

As part of our extensive testing initiative for open staking, we’d like to invite you as a delegator to test our staking dashboard and share your feedback on our forum! Your goal is to maximize your staking returns — top performers and contributors will be rewarded!

rewards

💰A total of 250,000 $ONE rewards distributed to delegators who earn rewards (we will share final earnings after product feedback loop).

💰Up to 250,000 $ONE rewards pool for all good product feedback shared on the forum.

schedule

This campaign will last for ONE more week and ends on Apr 29.

instructions

Create a new $ONE address to fill in the sign-up form (no upper limits for the number of participants). See how many staking rewards you can earn with ONE million initial test tokens! Share feedback on the forum.

Your goal:

Maximize your staking rewards. The base reward tokens will be distributed based on your staking rewards earned.

Share key insights and feedback on the delegation user experience on our staking dashboard.

What to test:

Test the delegation flow: view list of validators, check Analytics page, delegate, un-delegate, claim rewards. Give UI feedback on the delegation user flow/journey and report any issues on our forum.

Test the economic logic: delegate to validators with high expected returns.

Share the results:

Share with us your thoughts on how to guarantee a flawless staking journey. Your opinion matters!

Have a one-on-one session with the team (example).

Start a discussion on the Pangaea main group.

Happy testing!

FAQ

How do I set up a Harmony wallet?

Yes please follow the intstructions below. It should take only 5 minutes, as easy as installing an APP on your phone.

Do I need to create a new wallet address?

Yes please. Only use it for this campaign during the testing. Your address on Ankr is a validator address thus is invalid. Regular transactions(which means you fund the wallet yourself) besides the initial funding transaction will disqualify you as a participant. The Staking Dashboard. Using the staking dashboard(staking.harmony.one) any ONE holder can delegate their tokens to validators and earn rewards. Just open the delegator’s profile, click delegate, and sign the transaction amount through the wallet.
Overview of Staking on ICON Network
By: Ubik Capital
Tags: Iconsensus, Icon Foundation, Staking, Staking Rewards, Blockchain

Overview of Staking on ICON Network

Overview of Staking on ICON Network

You already know all about ICONSENSUS and P-Reps from my last article, if not take a look here.

What is staking?

Staking is a mechanism by which a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) cryptocurrency holder locks their cryptocurrency for a period of time to validate transactions. Users can delegate their cryptocurrency to teams that operate validating nodes. These validation nodes then use the cryptocurrency that is delegated to them to vote and validate transactions. In return, the customers who chose to stake with a particular node are rewarded with cryptocurrency at a specific rate.

I will make an analogy with the bank system. In this case, an individual or organization decides to deposit funds into a bank to receive interest. If you do not deposit money in the bank to receive interest rate, your money will likely devalue due to inflation. Most bank interest rates are lower than inflation, but it is still better than earning 0%. Many banks offer higher interest rates if one is willing to lock up their funds for a longer period of time. These are called Certificate of Deposits (CDs) and are timed deposits that result in higher percentage earned. This time deposit is very similar to how staking rewards are calculated — lock up cryptocurrency for a period of time and be rewarded a percentage.
With MainNet around the corner, what rewards can we expect from staking?
By: Fusion Foundation
Tags: Network, Decentralization, Staking, Consensus, Blockchain

Dearest Fusionites,

With the launch of MainNet approaching fast on June 30, it’s time to talk about staking rewards!

Staking on Fusion is really easy: we have numerous staking guides and a Telegram chat group filled with generous staking gurus who are always happy to help!

We are anticipating very healthy block rewards for staking on MainNet. Network participation is the bedrock of a public blockchain and block rewards are a good way to strengthen the network by incentivizing participation and increasing decentralization.

The easiest way to estimate your potential future staking rewards is to use the Fusion Staking Estimator which pulls directly from Fusion’s block explorer (currently pointing towards PSN 2.0 Block Explorer).

Alternatively if you would like to understand the inputs used in the calculator, here is the equation we use for calculating staking rewards per year:

(Quantity of tokens staked / Quantity of total tokens staked in the network) * 2.5 FSN (Reward per block) * 5,760 (Blocks per day) * 365 (Days in a year)

As an example, let’s suppose that a staking participant has 5,000 FSN tokens and that a total of 8,000,000 FSN tokens are in the staking pool on main network.

We can input these values into the equation:

(5,000 / 8,000,000) * 2.5 FSN * 5,760 * 365

= 3,285 FSN tokens earned per year from staking.

The % rewards for staking per year therefore = (3,285/5,000) * 100 = 65.7%

With those numbers, it’s easy to see that staking rewards on Fusion are relatively high compared to other tokens.

As with many decentralized networks, staking and mining rewards are especially favourable at the early stages of the networks existence. Early adopters have the potential to reap disproportionate rewards whilst the network is small and competition for block validation is relatively low. Don’t miss out!
Tezosで窯焼き ~XTZ Baking Guide~
By: Yuya Sugano
Tags: Tezos Baking, Tezos, Decentralization, Staking, Blockchain

Tezosノードの設定

公式のハウツーに従って設定していきます。[9]

まずノードがネットワークに参加するために使用するIDを作成します。 level をgenerateキーワードの後に続けて指定することもできますが、ここではデフォルトの26がそのまま適用されています。このIDはピアノード間でデータを暗号化するための鍵ペアです。

$ ./tezos-node identity generate

Generating a new identity... (level: 26.00) |.ooo.|

Stored the new identity (idxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) into '/home/.tezos-node/identity.json'

ノードの設定ファイルを作ります。クライアントから通信するためのRPCポートとピアノードとやり取りするP2Pのポートを設定しました（RPCのポートはセキュリティの理由から閉じても構いません）。

$ ./tezos-node config init

$ ./tezos-node config update --rpc-addr=127.0.0.1:8732

$ ./tezos-node config update --p2p-addr=127.0.0.1:9732 $ more ~/.tezos-node/config.json

{ "rpc": { "listen-addr": "127.0.0.1:8732" },

"p2p": { "listen-addr": "127.0.0.1:9732" } }

ノードを走らせます。『The Tezos node is now running!』が出力されてブロックの取り込みが始まります。

$ ./tezos-node run

Jun 23 23:22:54 - node.main: Starting the Tezos node...

Jun 23 23:22:54 - node.main: No local peer discovery.

Jun 23 23:22:54 - node.main: Peer's global id: idqkAUDV4LrkPgYsT6QptDvUFW8UaQ

Jun 23 23:22:54 - main: shell-node initialization: bootstrapping

Jun 23 23:22:54 - main: shell-node initialization: p2p_maintain_started

Jun 23 23:22:54 - validator.block: Worker started

Jun 23 23:22:54 - validation_process.sequential: Initialized

Jun 23 23:22:54 - node.validator: activate chain NetXdQprcVkpaWU

Jun 23 23:22:54 - validator.chain_1: Worker started for NetXdQprcVkpa

Jun 23 23:22:54 - p2p.maintenance: Too few connections (0)

Jun 23 23:22:54 - node.chain_validator: no prevalidator filter found for protocol 'Ps9mPmXaRzmz'

Jun 23 23:22:54 - prevalidator.NetXdQprcVkpa.Ps9mPmXaRzmz_1: Worker started for NetXdQprcVkpa.Ps9mPmXaRzmz

Jun 23 23:22:54 - node.main: Starting a RPC server listening on ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8732.

Jun 23 23:22:54 - node.main: The Tezos node is now running!

Jun 23 23:22:54 - validator.peer_1: Worker started for NetXdQprcVkpa:idrjpL4nWD1A

Jun 23 23:22:54 - validator.peer_2: Worker started for NetXdQprcVkpa:idree9CRVRat

Jun 23 23:22:54 - validator.peer_3: Worker started for NetXdQprcVkpa:idqrppXmQDDF

Jun 23 23:22:54 - validator.peer_4: Worker started for NetXdQprcVkpa:idrXdFBVqgd9

Jun 23 23:22:54 - validator.peer_5: Worker started for NetXdQprcVkpa:ids9w5SdjEmp

tezos-client bootstrapped コマンドでシンク済みのブロックヘッダを確認できます。
Now You Can Stake&Trade Your Ether Earning 8.55% APR
Tags: Ethereum, Ethereum Blockchain, Trading, Eth, Staking

What’s better than 0% interest on your fiat? How about 8.55%? If you’re tired of sitting around and earning nothing from your savings, now is the time to join Ethereum in their migration away from energy-consuming PoW for a much more efficient PoS that lets you earn ETH by validating transactions.

You can stake ETH 2.0 even if you know nothing about the Ethereum network, don’t have an infrastructure for validating transactions, and cannot invest 32 ETH (over $60k).

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