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    Economy Monitor Guide to Smart Contracts: Blockchain Examples
    Economy Monitor Guide to Smart Contracts: Blockchain Examples
    Economy Monitor Guide to Smart Contracts: Blockchain Examples
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    Economy Monitor Guide to Smart Contracts: Blockchain Examples

    By Percy Venegas

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    Although the interest around smart contracts is generally defined in a narrow way, centered in applications terms such as Bitcoin contracts, Ethereum contracts or Smart Contracts Bitcoin, or even just in technical trading aspects such as Ethereum price, in reality the field is more diverse. A number of companies and non profit organizations are serving governments, institutional and private clients implementing distributed ledger technology. In this accessible book, we present the detailed corporate profile of several smart contracts companies, their trading and social network volumes, and provide a gentle introduction to smart contracts examples. ECONOMY MONITOR Guide to SMART CONTRACTS offers a demonstrably effective way to diversify risk when investing in cryptocurrency securities by focusing on companies that are offering products with actual demand in the real economy. The book is also useful for managers seeking to learn about vendors of fintech, blockchain, and computable contracts technology.


    Inside this book:


    I Companies


    (Corporate profile, Funding, Team, Clients, Leverage points, Regulatory compliance information)


    Interbit (BTL)


    Symbiont


    Counterparty


    Lisk


    BitShares


    R3CEV


    Ripple


    Ethereum


    Stellar


    Chain


    Clearmatics


    II Social Signals


    What is breakdown of followers and influence by twitter handle?


    What is the trend of the number of Tweets over Day?


    What is the trend of author favorite count over month ?


    What is the contribution of Retweet count over month by Sentiment?


    What is the breakdown of sentiment negative signals?


    What are the values of author friend count by country?


    III Appendix


    Examples (Programming smart contracts)


    About Consensus


    About the author


    Percy Venegas is a former Intel engineer, co-founder of Economy Monitor, and member of the founding advisory board of the Social Venture Capital Conference, Latin America, Caribbean and South Florida.


    He has published in journals such as International Advances in Economic Research and Financial Assets and Investing, and more recently he has been a speaker on the topic of Trust-less Crypto Markets at the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies Seminars.


    Percy holds an MBA in International Business from MIB School of Management in Trieste, Italy. He attended the MIT Sloan China Program, Lingnan University College at Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou, and earned an Executive Master in Sustainable Development and Corporate Responsibility from EOI Business School, Campus Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He's also lived in New York and is currently based in Costa Rica.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEconomyMonitor.com
    Release dateJul 10, 1905
    ISBN9781508055075
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      Economy Monitor Guide to Smart Contracts - Percy Venegas

      Percy Venegas

      ECONOMY MONITOR Guide to Smart Contracts

      Blockchain Examples

      First published by ECONOMY MONITOR, EconomyMonitor.com in 2017

      Copyright © Percy Venegas, 2017

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

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      Contents

      About the author

      Introduction

      I. Companies

      Interbit (BTL)

      Symbiont

      Counterparty

      Lisk

      BitShares

      R3CEV

      Ripple

      Ethereum

      Stellar

      Chain

      Clearmatics

      II. Social Signals

      What is breakdown of followers and influence by twitter handle?

      What is the trend of the number of Tweets over Day?

      What is the trend of author favorite count over month?

      What is the contribution of Retweet count over month by Sentiment?

      What is the breakdown of sentiment negative signals?

      What are the values of author friend count by country?

      III. Appendix

      Examples

      About Consensus

      Disclaimer

      About the author

      Percy Venegas is a former Intel engineer, co-founder of Economy Monitor (www.EconomyMonitor.com), and member of the founding advisory board of the Social Venture Capital Conference, Latin America, Caribbean and South Florida.

      He has published in journals such as International Advances in Economic Research and Financial Assets and Investing, and more recently he has been a speaker on the topic of Trust-less Crypto Markets at the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies Seminars.

      Percy holds an MBA in International Business from MIB School of Management in Trieste, Italy. He attended the MIT Sloan China Program, Lingnan University College at Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou, and earned an Executive Master in Sustainable Development and Corporate Responsibility from EOI Business School, Campus Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He also lived in New York and is currently based in Costa Rica.

      Introduction

      Some investors feel uneasy with the volatility characteristics commonly associated with cryptocurrencies –e.g As of January 4th Bitcoin (BTC) was trading less than $70 short of its all-time high of $1,165.89 of November 30th 2013, two weeks before the price was just under $800, and then on January the 9th , it was trading at $903.81. Luckily, there are alternatives using the same underlying technology (distributed shared ledgers, or blockchains) and variants of it, with applications and actual demand in the financial sector and the real economy- and, therefore better shielded from speculation. Notably, smart contracts companies have emerged as interesting investments for venture capital, retail and institutional investors.

      Smart contracts are not without risk: the most widely used platform, Ethereum (ETH), showed fluctuations of over $275M in markep cap between June 12th and July 10th 2016, this in relation to a shareholder attack on one of its funds, the DAO –which in turn lost over $50M. This book provides context into the smarts contract opportunity, as well as the associated risks and uncertainty due to the novelty of the technology.

      The following companies are in the smart contract business¹:

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