## Τι είναι το Augur;

Το Augur αντιπροσωπεύει μια πρωτοποριακή προσέγγιση στις αγορές προβλέψεων, εκμεταλλευόμενο την τεχνολογία blockchain για να αποκεντρώσει τη διαδικασία πρόβλεψης. Χτισμένο πάνω στο δίκτυο Ethereum, λειτουργεί ως ένα πρωτόκολλο που επιτρέπει στους χρήστες να δημιουργούν, να συμμετέχουν και να διαχειρίζονται τις δικές τους αγορές προβλέψεων. Σε αντίθεση με τις παραδοσιακές πλατφόρμες προβλέψεων, το Augur δεν περιορίζεται σε μία μόνο αγορά προβλέψεων· παρέχει την υποδομή για τους χρήστες να δημιουργήσουν μια ποικιλία αγορών σε γεγονότα που κυμαίνονται από εκλογικά αποτελέσματα έως φυσικά φαινόμενα.

Ο πυρήνας της λειτουργικότητας του Augur βρίσκεται στη χρήση ενός αποκεντρωμένου συστήματος oracle. Αυτό το σύστημα διασφαλίζει ότι τα αποτελέσματα των γεγονότων αναφέρονται με ακρίβεια και δικαιοσύνη, βασιζόμενο στη συλλογική νοημοσύνη του πλήθους αντί για μια κεντρική αρχή. Οι συμμετέχοντες στην αγορά αγοράζουν μετοχές που αντιπροσωπεύουν ένα μερίδιο σε ένα συγκεκριμένο αποτέλεσμα. Εάν η πρόβλεψή τους είναι σωστή, λαμβάνουν μια ανταμοιβή ανάλογη με το μερίδιό τους.

Η πλατφόρμα υποστηρίζεται από το Forecast Foundation, μια ομάδα αφιερωμένη στην ανάπτυξη και στη συντήρηση του πρωτοκόλλου Augur. Ω

### Πώς είναι ασφαλισμένο το Augur;

Το Augur χρησιμοποιεί μια πολυδιάστατη προσέγγιση για να διασφαλίσει την ασφάλειά του και να διατηρήσει την ακεραιότητα των αγορών προβλέψεων του. Στην καρδιά του, το Augur βασίζεται στο blockchain του Ethereum, το οποίο παρέχει μια αποκεντρωμένη και ανθεκτική στην παραβίαση βάση. Αυτή η βάση blockchain διασφαλίζει ότι όλες οι συναλλαγές και τα αποτελέσματα των αγορών καταγράφονται διαφανώς και αμετάβλητα.

Για να ενισχύσει περαιτέρω την ασφάλειά του, το Augur ενσωματώνει προληπτική ανάλυση απειλών και τεχνολογίες μηχανικής μάθησης. Αυτά τα προηγμένα εργαλεία είναι σχεδιασμένα για να αναγνωρίζουν και να μετριάζουν πιθανές ασφαλιστικές απειλές προληπτικά. Αναλύοντας τα μοτίβα και προβλέποντας πιθανές επιθέσεις, το Augur μπορεί να αντιμετωπίσει προληπτικά τις ευπάθειες πριν αυτές εκμεταλλευτούν.

Επιπλέον, το Augur χρησιμοποιεί παράλληλα κανάλια TCP/IP ως μέρος της στρατηγικής ασφαλείας του. Αυτό περιλαμβάνει την παρακολούθηση της κίνησης δικτύου για να ανιχνεύσει ασυνήθιστη ή ύποπτη δραστηριότητα που θα μπορούσε να υποδηλώσει μια ασφαλιστική απειλή. Κρατώντας έναν επιφυλακτικό οφθαλμό σε αυτά τα κανάλια, το Augur μπορεί να ανταποκριθεί γρήγορα και να αποκλείσει πιθανές επιθέσ

### Πώς θα χρησιμοποιηθεί το Augur;

Το Augur αποτελεί μια αποκεντρωμένη πλατφόρμα που έχει δημιουργηθεί πάνω στο blockchain του Ethereum, σχεδιασμένη για να διευκολύνει τη δημιουργία και τη συμμετοχή σε αγορές προβλέψεων. Οι χρήστες μπορούν να προβλέπουν τα αποτελέσματα διαφόρων γεγονότων, από οικονομικούς δείκτες, αθλητικά, πολιτικές εκλογές, μέχρι και περιβαλλοντικά φαινόμενα. Εκμεταλλευόμενο τη συλλογική σοφία του πλήθους, στοχεύει να προσφέρει μια πιο ακριβή εναλλακτική στις παραδοσιακές μεθόδους πρόβλεψης.

Οι συμμετέχοντες σε αυτές τις αγορές μπορούν να αγοράσουν μερίδια που αντιπροσωπεύουν ένα μερίδιο σε ένα συγκεκριμένο αποτέλεσμα. Εάν η πρόβλεψή τους είναι σωστή, λαμβάνουν μια ανταμοιβή ανάλογη με το μερίδιό τους. Αυτός ο μηχανισμός παροτρύνει τις ακριβείς προβλέψεις και αποθαρρύνει την ψευδή αναφορά ή τον χειρισμό, καθώς τα κέρδη των συμμετεχόντων είναι άμεσα συνδεδεμένα με την ορθότητα των προβλέψεών τους.

Η πλατφόρμα λειτουργεί σε ένα περιβάλλον χωρίς εμπιστοσύνη, που σημαίνει ότι δεν βασίζεται σε μια κεντρική αρχή για την επίβλεψη των συναλλαγών ή την επίλυση διαφορών. Αντίθετα, χρησιμοποιεί το blockchain του Ethereum και τα έξυπνα συμβόλαια για να αυτοματοποιήσει αυτές τις διαδικασίε

### Ποια κύρια γεγονότα έχουν συμβεί για το Augur;

Το Augur έχει βιώσει αρκετά σημαντικά ορόσημα που έχουν διαμορφώσει την πορεία του στον χώρο των κρυπτονομισμάτων και της blockchain. Αρχικά εγκαινιασμένο στο blockchain του Ethereum, το Augur παρουσίασε μια αποκεντρωμένη πλατφόρμα αγορών πρόβλεψης, εκμεταλλευόμενο τη σοφία των πληθών για να προβλέψει το αποτέλεσμα γεγονότων σε διάφορους τομείς, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των αθλητικών, οικονομικών και παγκόσμιων γεγονότων.

Ένα από τα καθοριστικά στιγμιότυπα για το Augur ήταν η κυκλοφορία της πρώτης του έκδοσης, το Augur v1, τον Ιούλιο του 2018. Αυτή η εκκίνηση σημάδεψε την είσοδο της πλατφόρμας σε λειτουργική κατάσταση, επιτρέποντας στους χρήστες να δημιουργούν και να συμμετέχουν σε αγορές πρόβλεψης. Ακολουθώντας αυτό, τον Ιούνιο του 2019, το Augur ανέφερε την εκκαθάριση πάνω από 20.000 ETH σε ταιριασμένα στοιχήματα, επιδεικνύοντας την αυξανόμενη υιοθέτηση της πλατφόρμας και την ενεργή συμμετοχή της βάσης χρηστών της.

Συνεχίζοντας την πορεία ανάπτυξής του, το Augur κυκλοφόρησε τη δεύτερη έκδοσή του, το Augur v2, τον Ιούλιο του 2020. Αυτή η ενημέρωση παρουσίασε σημαντικές βελτιώσεις και νέες λειτουργίες, με στόχο την ενίσχυση της εμπειρίας του χρήστη και την επέκταση των δυνατοτήτων της πλατφό



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Augur (REP) is meant to harness the wisdom of the crowd through prediction markets on a protocol owned and operated by holders of the Ethereum-based Reputation token. In these markets users are said to be able to bet on the outcomes of events such as company performance, election results or even natural phenomena by purchasing shares that would either support or refute the proposed outcomes of such specified events. By design, the user-created markets could return fees to market participants while automating payouts using software meant to be fair, open to all, and completely decentralized.

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Bancor is an ecosystem of decentralized, open-source protocols that promote on-chain trading and liquidity.

Its main protocol, Carbon, is a decentralized trading protocol allowing users to perform automated trading strategies using custom on-chain limit orders and range orders, with the option of combining orders together to create automated buy low, sell high strategies.

By design, Carbon orders are irreversible on execution, easily adjustable directly on-chain, and resistant to MEV sandwich attacks. These capabilities give users an unprecedented level of control and automation to perform novel trading strategies on-chain.

Fast Lane, a separate open-source arbitrage protocol, allows any user to perform arbitrage between Bancor ecosystem protocols and external on-chain exchanges and redirect arbitrage profits back to the Bancor ecosystem.

All Bancor ecosystem protocols are governed by the BancorDAO via staked BNT.

Bancor

Balancer is an automated market maker (AMM) that was developed on the Ethereum blockchain and launched in March 2020. It was able to raise a $3M seed round by Placeholder and Accomplice. Balancer protocol functions as a self-balancing weighted portfolio, price sensor and liquidity provider. It allows users to earn profits through its recently introduced token ($BAL) by contributing to customizable liquidity pools.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Balancer(https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-balancer.

The protocol operates a few types of pools:

Private pools give the owner governance over the pool, and make the person the sole contributor of liquidity to the pool. Also, all the parameters are mutable by the owner.

Shared pools are for those who want to become liquidity providers (LPs). The LPs are rewarded with the Balancer Pool Tokens (BPTs).

Smart pools are similar to private pools but are controlled by a smart contract. They also reward using BPTs and allow anyone to contribute liquidity to the pool.

Balancer

OMG Network, formerly known as OmiseGo, is a non-custodial, layer-2 scaling solution built for the Ethereum blockchain. As an Ethereum scaling solution, OMG Network is designed to allow users to transfer ETH and ERC20 tokens significantly faster and cheaper than when transacting directly on the Ethereum network.

The network is based on a novel scaling solution called MoreViable Plasma, which uses a sidechain architecture to group several transactions off-chain into a batch, which can then be verified as a single transaction on the Ethereum root chain. According to OMG Network, this technology has the potential to scale Ethereum to thousands of transactions per second (TPS) — instead of the 10 to 14 tps Ethereum 1.0 is currently capable of.

The network is powered by the OMG utility token, which can be used as one of the payment methods for fees on the OMG Network, and will eventually be stakable — helping to secure the network in return for rewards.

OMG Network

Band Protocol is a cross-chain data oracle platform that is able to take real-world data and supply it to on-chain applications, while also connecting APIs to smart-contracts to facilitate the exchange of information between on-chain and off-chain data sources.

By supplying reputable, verifiable real-world data to blockchains, Band Protocol unlocks a range of new use cases for developers to explore — since they can now use any type of real-world data as part of their decentralized application (DApp) logic, including sports, weather, random numbers, price feed data and more.

Band Protocol initially launched as an ERC-20 project on the Ethereum blockchain in September 2019, but transitioned to the Cosmos network in June 2020 with the release of Band Protocol 2.0. The new protocol is built on BandChain using the Cosmos SDK. Oracle nodes on BandChain not only relay data but are also involved in block production/validation, giving them a dual role.

BAND is the native token of the Band Protocol ecosystem and is used as collateral by validators involved in fulfilling data requests, as well as the main medium of exchange on BandChain — being used to paying for private data.

Band Protocol

Aragon

Lisk is striving to on-board 100,000,000 users into crypto and web3 by offering an accessible blockchain application platform and an industry leading JavaScript SDK.

Released in 2019, the Lisk SDK enables developers to build application-specific blockchains entirely in JavaScript, the most widely used programming language in the world. To get a deep-dive into the Lisk SDK, please visit the Lisk SDK documentation or watch Lisk.js 2019 and Lisk.js 2022.

To be released in 2022, the Lisk blockchain application platform allows interoperability between all application-specific blockchains built with the Lisk SDK. With other words, users will be able to use DeFi, NFT or Metaverse blockchain applications on Lisk.

To better understand why Lisk is important watch the following videos: The Case for Lisk and The Ultimate Vision for Lisk.

If you are curious about Lisk’s history and journey, watch Looking Back on Lisk.

The Lisk project is managed by the Lisk Foundation, a non-profit entity based in Zug, Switzerland. A local team of experts specialized in law and finance, as well as yearly audits, ensure the proper handling of funds and regulatory compliance under the supervision of the Swiss Federal Foundation Supervisory Authority (ESA, Eidgenössische Stiftungsaufsicht).

The Lisk products are developed by the Lightcurve GmbH, a Berlin based blockchain studio. With a team of over 40 blockchain experts, Lightcurve is researching, developing and promoting the Lisk SDK and the Lisk blockchain application platform.

Lisk

UMA was founded in 2018 by Allison Lu and Hart Lambur, two ex Goldman Sachs traders, with the goal of making global markets universally fair, accessible, secure and decentralized.

The team drew inspiration from traditional finance derivatives to define an open-source protocol to allow anyone, anywhere, to design and build trustless financial contracts.

Ren (REN) is an open protocol built to provide interoperability and liquidity between different blockchain platforms.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Ren.

Formerly known as Republic Protocol, Ren launched RenVM, its virtual machine mainnet, in May 2020, having completed a $34 million initial coin offering (ICO) in 2018.

The protocol’s native token, REN, functions as a bond for those running nodes which power RenVM, known as Darknodes.

Ren aims to expand the interoperability, and hence accessibility, of decentralized finance (DeFi) by removing hurdles involved in liquidity between blockchains.

Civic is a blockchain-based identity management solution that gives individuals and businesses the tools they need to control and protect personal identity information.

The platform is designed to change the way we think about identity verification by giving users more control over their personal data, while allowing them to access a wide range of services without needing to fork over excessive amounts of personal information.

Civic's identity verification solution uses distributed ledger technology to authorize identity usage in real time, and is used to sparingly share information with Civic partners after authorization by the user.

Unlike some other identity management services, Civic users store all their sensitive data on their mobile device. Users are able to authorize the sharing of specific personal data by providing a biometric signature through the Civic app.

The Civic ecosystem is enabled by a unique utility token known as the Civic token (CVC), which is used for the settlement of identity-related transactions between Civic participants — such as between a customer and service provider.

Users can earn CVC tokens for completing a variety of tasks, such as signing up for a service through the platform or introducing new users, while validators can earn CVCs for validating documents for service providers.

Civic was launched in 2018, following a sell-out initial coin offering (ICO) the year prior.

Civic

Orchid (OXT) is the native token of Orchid, a cryptocurrency-powered virtual private network (VPN).

Launched in December 2019, Orchid describes itself as the world’s first incentivized, peer-to-peer privacy network.

Its aim is to overcome internet freedom limitations by using cryptocurrency payments to allow anyone to purchase bandwidth from any participating provider. This is done using so-called probabilistic nanopayments, which occur using OXT, an ERC-20 standard token on Ethereum.

Regular payments to providers occur off-chain, allowing Orchid to avoid problems with congestion and gas fees on the Ethereum network.

The service is pay-per-use, meaning that users only have to contribute funds when they actually connect, instead of paying monthly or annual fees.

Orchid

0x is an infrastructure protocol that allows users to easily trade ERC20 tokens and other assets on the many different blockchains (including Ethereum) without relying on centralized intermediaries. It is a protocol for decentralized exchange.

0x achieves this decentralized exchange functionality using a collection of open-source, publicly auditable smart contracts that work together to produce a flexible, low-friction trading protocol that developers can easily weave into their products.

The protocol is used by companies building web3 apps such as wallets, DEXes, portfolio trackes, and others. It is a used by hundreds of developers for their projects. The protocol has facilitates over $200B in trading volume since its inception. One can track its usage in its dedicated https://explorer.0x.org/.

The protocol is powered by an ERC20 governance token known as ZRX. ZRX holders can participate in protocol governance, having direct power over protocol changes and its community treasury.

0x Protocol

Qtum (pronounced ‘“quantum”)  is a proof-of-stake (PoS) smart contract open-source blockchain platform and value transfer protocol. It aims to bring together the strengths of Bitcoinand Ethereumin one chain. Qtum is built on Bitcoin's UTXO transaction model, with the added functionality of smart contract execution and DApps. Recently, the platform added support for DeFi applications. As of March 2021, there are more than 20 tokens created on the Qtum blockchain.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Qtum.

The project was announced in March 2016 and held an ICO a year after, in March 2017, which brought its founders $15 million USD. The Qtum main chain was released on Sept.13, 2017. Initially, the Qtum coin was issued as a ETH-20 token, but with the launch of the mainnet, it was converted to native blockchain.

Qtum

Storj, pronounced as “storage,” is an open-source cloud storage platform. Basically, it uses a decentralized network of nodes to host user data. The platform also secures hosted data using advanced encryption.

In a white paper published in December,2014, Storj was first introduced to the world as a concept. It was to be a decentralized peer-to-peer encrypted cloud storage platform.

Two years later, an updated white paper was published. Here, a decentralized network  — connecting users who need cloud storage space with those who have hard drive space to sell — was described. The platform was launched in late 2018.

People with hard drive space and good internet connectivity can participate in the network. They become a unit in the network, called a node. Space providers are rewarded by Storj tokens.

Storj

Compound is a DeFi lending protocol that allows users to earn interest on their cryptocurrencies by depositing them into one of several pools supported by the platform.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Compound.

When a user deposits tokens to a Compound pool, they receive cTokens in return. These cTokens represent the individual’s stake in the pool and can be used to redeem the underlying cryptocurrency initially deposited into the pool at any time. For example, by depositing ETH into a pool, you will receive cETH in return. Over time, the exchange rate of these cTokens to the underlying asset increases, which means you can redeem them for more of the underlying asset than you initially put in — this is how the interest is distributed.

On the flip side, borrowers can take a secured loan from any Compound pool by depositing collateral. The maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio varies based on the collateral asset, but currently ranges from 50 to 75%. The interest rate paid varies by borrowed asset and borrowers can face automatic liquidation if their collateral falls below a specific maintenance threshold.

Since the launch of the Compound mainnet in September 2018, the platform has skyrocketed in popularity, and recently passed more than $800 million in total locked value.

Compound

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Apps use ICON to operate cross-chain seamlessly, build momentum and gain reputation. ICON's Cross-Chain Framework simplifies cross-chain development with its easy-to-use xCall messaging standard and connections to secure bridging protocols.

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MIR is the governance token of Mirror Protocol, a synthetic assets protocol built by Terraform Labs (TFL) on the Terra blockchain.

Mirror Protocol is decentralized from day 1, with the on-chain treasury and code changes governed by holders of the MIR token. TFL has no intention of keeping or selling MIR tokens, and there are no admin keys or special access privileges granted. The intent for this is to be a completely decentralized, community-driven project.

Mirrored assets are blockchain tokens that behave like "mirror" versions of real-world assets by reflecting the exchange prices on-chain. They give traders the price exposure to real assets while enabling fractional ownership, open access and censorship resistance as any other cryptocurrency. Unlike traditional tokens which serve to represent a real, underlying asset, mAssets are purely synthetic and only capture the price movement of the corresponding asset.

Mirrored assets provide the following advantages:

Global Accessibility: In most markets outside of Europe & North America, access to foreign equities and forex markets is highly limited. Crypto allows global accessibility without entry barriers.

Fractional Orders: In traditional finance, to execute a fractional order, multiple fractional orders are bundled together to execute a unitary transaction. The process of gathering all the orders into one requires additional waiting time. By utilizing the blockchain, orders volume is simply represented as a number on the blockchain, so there is no need for the intermediary bundling process.

Nearly-Instantaneous Order Execution: Oftentimes due to the lack of liquidity (price-time-priority order book algorithm), orders can take up to a day to fully execute. Given the fact that Mirror relies on liquidity provided by each individual asset pool, orders can be executed as fast as the blocktime of the network (~ 6 seconds).

Mirror Protocol

Billed as a "network of decentralized markets and communities," district0x is a platform that allows users to easily launch their own decentralized platforms which are governed by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) structure.

Each of these platforms is termed a “district” and can be launched free of charge on the district0x. The ecosystem is powered by the custom d0xINFRA framework, which provides a set of basic smart contracts and libraries users can use when building out their districts — enabling a wide array of potential use-cases.

The native token of the district0x ecosystem is DNT — an ERC-20 utility token that is mostly used for community governance.

The platform uses a combination of three main technologies: Ethereum, Aragon and the InterPlanetary File Transfer Protocol (IPFS).

The Ethereum blockchain is used for hosting districts, whereas Aragon is used as the governance layer for the district0x network, allowing DNT stakers to benefit from governance rights and help shape the development and operation of their chosen districts. Lastly, IPFS is used for serving the district0x website source code and for user uploads within districts.

district0x

Origin Protocol develops web3 technologies with the intention of bringing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) to the masses. The protocol’s unique tooling and diverse partnerships help in realizing these goals. Origin Protocol has two flagship products: Origin Story (governed by OGN), and Origin Dollar (governed by OGV).

Origin Story is a white label NFT marketplace solution that works with disrupters in various sectors by leveraging non-fungible tokens. The platform hosts NFT marketplaces and tooling in various industries, including the real estate, profile picture, music, art and entertainment industries.

Some of Origin Story’s partners include Roofstock onChain, Pudgy Penguins, Sappy Seals, Paris Hilton, 3LAU, BT, Inspiration4, and The Doge Pound. Origin Story Marketplaces seek to cast a wide net in various industries being impacted by NFTs, rather than focusing on any one area in particular. Investors may see OGN as the ‘picks and shovels’ approach to investing in NFTs.