My first ICO - AETERNITY by Yani Malahov "The Godfather of Ethereum"

AETERNITY:

Token: Aeons
Location: Liechtenstein

Founder: Yanislav "Yani" Malahov (in autumn 2013, he was working as the lead developer with Vitalik Buterin - Ethereum)

Link: https://medium.com/@yanislav/king-of-bitcoin-godfather-of-ethereum-a9af9ecf56d5

Advisor: Vincent Zhou (FinTech Blockchain Group, China)

Investors: ICONOMI

Why is æternity so innovative?

æternity is the answer to current challenges in blockchain technology.

Technology:

INDUSTRIAL GRADE CODE BASE

The blockchain code is written in Erlang, which makes it easy to write distributed, fault-tolerant, soft real-time and highly available non-stop applications. Erlang is the perfect choice to write a blockchain from scratch allowing to achieve superior operational stability and performance.

BLOCKCHAIN NETWORKS

æternity technology is free to use and easy to incorporate. MIT-licensed modules will allow easy implementation in blockchain consortiums and will enable free and open access for developers to be able to build on the æternity platform. Cross-chain atomic swaps do the rest.

AE TOKEN

AE are the access tokens to the æternity network and act as a unit of account for the resources spent on æternity. Furthermore, æons are the energy for any application implemented on the platform. The initial amount of AE for the genesis block will be determined by a smart contract on Ethereum.

SMART CONTRACTS

State channels enable highly scalable, trustless transactions of value and purely functional, easily verifiable turing-complete smart contracts. State channels effortlessly support an immense throughput of transactions. The execution as well as settlement happens off-chain. In other words: They are one-to-one- sidechains, where the blockchain acts as a public crypto court.

ORACLES

A crucial feature for most contracts, whether encoded as text or as code, is the ability to refer to values from the environment. The æternity Oracle Machine provides real-world data to the blockchain. Each user can ask questions about the environment. Everybody can answer. The consensus mechanism comes into play in case of disagreement.

NAMES (DNS)

In the vein of Aaron Swartz’ work and Namecoin, æternity features an easy to use name system, that is both decentralized and secure, while still supporting human-friendly, memorable names. The blockchain’s state includes a mapping from unique human-friendly strings to fixed-size byte arrays, which are individually customizable.

ACCOUNTS & IDENTITY

æternity's accounts are permission-less, but still allow customization via schema.org's semantic web scheme. Create and own your identity on the æternity network - then use it everywhere on the web!

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