## What Is Aleph.im (ALEPH)?

Aleph.im is an open-source crosschain network featuring decentralized database including file storage, computing, and a decentralized identity (DID) framework. Aleph.im’s core mission is to help decentralized apps and protocols strip off the centralized parts of their stack, achieving a fully decentralized architecture. You can think of aleph.im as a decentralized AWS or firebase. Aleph.im is focused on supercharging the DeFi ecosystem.


## Who Is the Founder of Aleph.im?

Aleph.im was created in 2018 by Jonathan Schemoul, aka Moshe Malawach. Moshe is based in France and has been programming since childhood.

Prior to entering the blockchain space, Moshe developed enterprise software across finance, supply chain, and other major industries. He then became a key contributor in the NULS community, building the explorer and the Proof of Credit Mining (POCM) system among other things.

Moshe’s abilities to bring tangible business value using blockchain technology is what has made aleph.im what it is today.


## Where Is The Office Located?

Our company is located in Paris, France. Our team is distributed across the globe.


## What Makes Aleph.im Unique?

Aleph.im is a unique blend of onchain and offchain decentralized technologies. Its decentralized network is offchain but can only be interacted with through blockchain networks. This enables key features such as security and advanced crypto-economics. 

Aleph.im is already compatible with many leading blockchain projects including Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos and BinanceChain. This enables any project building on these platforms to integrate with our decentralized database and file storage..

Finally, aleph.im implements a channel mechanism allowing sharding-- subnetworks with all the aleph.im network features. You can think of shards as dedicated cloud clusters.


## How Are Transactions Managed?

Onchain transaction fees are free for users as long as web dapp teams pay for it, which is a similar business model as web2, where app owners pay cloud providers such as AWS. Onchain transactions are batched, so fees are minimal.

Finally, aleph.im provides delegated transactions. These transactions are managed by the network, so there is no need for users to manually resubmit a transaction or adjust its fee.


## How Is Data Managed?

Data is private and encrypted by default, with the option to make data public.
Data is only stored on the necessary minimum amount of nodes.
Data can be stored on nodes in specific geolocalizations.

Aleph.im is compatible with IPFS, meaning that the data gets replicated on aleph.im nodes and on IPFS.


## What Products Are Already Built on Aleph.im?

* [Staking DApp](https://account.aleph.im/#/)
* [Personal Storage DApp](https://my-beta.aleph.im)
* [Blogging DApp (tech-preview)](https://blogtest.aleph.im)
* The website of aleph.im itself is hosted on Aleph.im network
* [Starname](https://medium.com/aleph-im/starname-partners-with-aleph-im-fbd02ab00d7a), using our decentralized DB to save crypto profile details


## What Tools Does Aleph.im Provide for Buidlers?

* Aleph.im SDK which includes [Javascript](https://github.com/aleph-im/aleph-js)  and [Python](https://github.com/aleph-im/aleph-client)  client libraries.
* Aleph.im network [Explorer](https://explorer.aleph.im/)  
* Aleph.im [Token Swap](https://swap.aleph.im/) to swap your ALEPH tokens between NEO, NULS and Ethereum networks


## What Is The Utility of the ALEPH Token?

* Staking Token - collateral used to secure the network
* Reward Token - for staking and/or running nodes, for providing cloud services
* Payment Token - pay for storage, computings and synchronization services


## How Many ALEPH Coins Are There in Circulation?

As of December 28, 2020,  69.73M ALEPH tokens are in circulation. Aleph.im did not hold an ICO. The initial minting process involved staking NULS tokens in the Proof of Credit Mining (POCM) platform, which rewarded stakers in ALEPH tokens. The total token supply was reduced by half in July 2020. Tokens currently put in circulation are for stakers, node operators, liquidity providers, marketing, and company usage.


## Where Can I Buy ALEPH tokens?

ALEPH is available for trading on a growing number of exchanges.  We recommend using [Uniswap](https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap?inputCurrency=0x27702a26126e0b3702af63ee09ac4d1a084ef628&outputCurrency=ETH) but ALEPH is also available on centralized exchanges.

**AMM**
* [Uniswap](https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap?inputCurrency=0x27702a26126e0b3702af63ee09ac4d1a084ef628&outputCurrency=ETH) (ETH)
* [Balancer](https://balancer.exchange/#/swap) (ETH)
* [1inch](https://1inch.exchange/#/ALEPH/ETH) (ETH)
*[0xProtocol](https://matcha.xyz/markets/ALEPH/WETH?from=ALEPH) (ETH)

**CEX**
* [Beaxy.com](https://exchange.beaxy.com/?pair=ALEPHETH&tid=1609250790015) (ETH)
* [Gate.io](https://www.gate.io/trade/ALEPH_USDT) (USDT) and also [Ethereum](https://www.gate.io/trade/ALEPH_ETH) (ETH)
* [MXC](https://www.mxc.com/trade/easy#ALEPH_USDT) (USDT)
* [Kucoin](https://trade.kucoin.com/ALEPH-USDT) (USDT)
* [Probit](https://www.probit.com/app/exchange/ALEPH-BTC) (BTC) and also [South Korean Won](https://www.probit.com/app/exchange/ALEPH-KRW), [USDT Stablecoin](https://www.probit.com/app/exchange/ALEPH-USDT)

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## Where Can I Learn More About The Project?

Currently our main and most up-to-date communication channels are our [Medium](https://medium.com/aleph-im) blog, [Twitter](https://twitter.com/aleph_im) account and [Telegram](https://t.me/alephim) channel.

Aleph.im

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Arweave is a decentralized storage network that seeks to offer a platform for the indefinite storage of data. Describing itself as "a collectively owned hard drive that never forgets," the network primarily hosts "the permaweb" — a permanent, decentralized web with a number of community-driven applications and platforms.

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

The Arweave network uses a native cryptocurrency, AR, to pay "miners" to indefinitely store the network's information.

The project was first announced as Archain in August 2017, later rebranding to Arweave in February 2018 and officially launching in June 2018.

Arweave

Ultra is a publishing platform and ecosystem for video games and video game content. Ultra’s mission is to do away with the current monopoly held by publishing platforms like Steam and provide new opportunities to game developers, players, and influencers. Ultra promises a solution that is more equitable to players and developers alike. Players can benefit from immediately playable games, earn UOS by using the platform, and access platform-exclusive games. At the same time, developers benefit from access to more effective marketing tools and the potential for 20% higher sales revenue.

Besides content and game publishing, Ultra offers a demand-side and service-side platform for advertisers, the opportunity for players to resell their used games, and a platform-exclusive app.

Ultra

OriginTrail is an ecosystem building a trusted knowledge infrastructure for artificial intelligence. It addresses the challenge of misinformation in the AI era by ensuring the origin of information and enabling discoverability of the world's most important knowledge and real world assets (RWAs).

OriginTrail is creating a Verifiable Web for decentralized AI by empowering world class brands and builders. It utilizes its unique Decentralized Knowledge Graph and OriginTrail Parachain to deliver AI-powered search and solutions for enterprises and individuals worldwide.

OriginTrail has gained support and partnerships with world-class organizations such as British Standards Institution, SCAN, Polkadot, Parity, Walmart, World Federation of Hemophilia, Oracle, and the EU Commission's Next Generation Internet. These partnerships contribute to advancing OriginTrail's trusted knowledge foundation and its applicability in trillion-dollar industries, while providing a verifiable web of knowledge important in particular to drive the economies of RWAs.

The best way to see the technology in action is by checking ChatDKG, which is an experimental, question answering bot on X (Twitter) based on trusted Knowledge Assets in OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph. The ChatDKG provides answers based on OriginTrail trusted AI.

The Metcalfe phase of the updated roadmap pursues an ambitious goal of creating the world’s largest verifiable web for AI consisting of 100 billion Knowledge Assets, bringing a 100.000x scalability increase. As the name of the phase suggests, it will seek to produce network effects across the OriginTrail DKG and use novel techniques to pursue autonomous DKG growth based on the genesis knowledge foundation being created by organizations and individuals alike. The genesis part of the Metcalfe’s phase also introduces knowledge mining and knowledge signaling capabilities to drive constant growth of the Verifiable Web.

Following the Genesis stage and the transition to an AI-native V8, further capabilities will become available in the Convergence stage. By leveraging the advancements in AI and the DKG, we will unlock autonomous knowledge mining which in turn leads to an autonomous DKG. At that stage, new knowledge gets added to the DKG with very limited human involvement. Services such as AI agents will be performing knowledge inferencing directly on the DKG to find any “blind spots” in the knowledge they can fill as well as search for new knowledge and bring it to the DKG in accordance with knowledge signaling.

OriginTrail

Verasity is an open-ledger ecosystem designed to fight advertising fraud, provide open access to infrastructure for publishers and advertisers, and reward users for watching video content. Verasity also provides payment solutions and a rewarding staking ecosystem with 15% yields guaranteed through to April 2024.

Powered by a mix of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cutting-edge blockchain technologies, Verasity is building the most powerful advertising ecosystem in the world through VeraViews; developing an open-access payments platform through VeraWallet, the VeraCard, and VeraPay; and enhancing the attention economy through its patented Rewarded Video module.

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Flux is the cryptocurrency that powers the Flux ecosystem. It has a number of uses including purchasing resources, collateralizing nodes and fuelling transactions on FluxOS, as well as rewarding both miners and FluxNode operators for providing computational resources.

The Flux ecosystem is devoted to empowering everyone to develop, deploy and use the decentralized Internet of the future: Web3

At this moment the Flux ecosystem consists of: a native, minable POW cryptocurrency ($FLUX), a powerful decentralized computational Flux Network (FluxNodes), a Linux based operating system (FluxOS), the premier digital asset platform (Zelcore) and, finally, the Flux blockchain for on-chain governance, economics and parallel assets to provide interoperability with other blockchains and DeFi access.

Currently (2023/1) Flux has a computational network consisting of around 15,000 decentralized nodes, distributed globally with more than 108,000 CPU cores, 288 terabytes of RAM and 6.7 petabytes of storage. That makes Flux the largest decentralized network in the world!

Flux

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Elastos, founded in 2017 and building on a vision from 2000, is a blockchain-powered internet version. Its recent breakthrough is the introduction of BeL2, a Layer 2 solution leveraging SmartWeb technology to revolutionize Bitcoin transactions. Elastos is using SmartWeb technology to build the Bitcoin second-layer network BeL2, which extends the efficiency and scalability of the Bitcoin network through smart contracts. This endeavor will enable Bitcoin to power a smart economy and effectively release the liquidity of hundreds of billions of dollars in staked Bitcoin assets.

With over 50% of Bitcoin's hash power protecting it through merged mining, ELA boasts extremely high security and credibility in its network, earning it the esteemed title of "BTC Queen" within the community.

Elastos

LCX is available for trading on a growing number of exchanges, with cryptocurrency and stablecoin pairs currently available.

Coinbase offers 3 trading pairs pairs with LCX/USD, LCX/USDT and LCX/EUR, while Kraken also offers 2 trading pairs with LCX/EUR and LCX/USD. Uniswap (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/uniswap/) offers an Ethereum (ETH) trading pair; LCX/ETH. LCX Exchange offers a variety of trading pairs including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and USD Coin (USDC) options.

Nakamoto Games

RenderToken (RNDR) is a distributed GPU rendering network built on top of the Ethereum blockchain, aiming to connect artists and studios in need of GPU compute power with mining partners willing to rent their GPU capabilities out. Conceived in 2009 by OTOY, inc. CEO Jules Urbach and launched in 2017, RNDR held its first public token sale in October of that same year, followed by a private sale period lasting from January 2018 – May 2018, wherein a total of 117,843,239 RNDR were sold at a price of 1 RNDR = $0.25 USD equivalent of token.
During the private sale period, early adopters were onboarded onto the RNDR Beta Testnet, where beta node operators and artists worked collaboratively with the RNDR team in building and testing the network, up until its public launch on April 27th 2020.

Render

Founded in 2017 and launched via IEO on Binance in March 2019, Fetch.AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) lab building an open, permissionless, decentralized machine learning network with a crypto economy. Fetch.ai democratizes access to AI technology with a permissionless network upon which anyone can connect and access secure datasets by using autonomous AI to execute tasks that leverage its global network of data. The Fetch.AI model is rooted in  use cases like optimizing DeFi trading services, transportation networks (parking, micromobility), smart energy grids, travel — essentially any complex digital system that relies on large-scale datasets.

Fetch.ai

Wilder World

Vulcan Forged is a blockchain game studio and NFT marketplace. They are the makers of VulcanVerse.

PYR  is the native utility token that is used for:

Fees for marketplace settlement

Staking in VulcanVerse land and other assets

Upgrading and sustaining game asset levels

Play-to-earn rewards

Access to our game developers and NFT dapp incubation program

Vulcan Forged Platforms and games include:

*VulcanVerse, a Grece-Roman fantasy metaverse made up of 10,000 plots of land

Anvil, a crypto-less and gas-free NFT engine for easy game and dApp onboarding

Vulcan Market, a gas free NFT marketplace for all Vulcan Forged games

Berserk, an NFT online TGG

Frenzy, a create-your-own tournament platform with PYR as it’s reward token.

Vulcan Forged (PYR)

iExec is the leading provider of blockchain-based decentralized computing. Blockchain is utilized to organize a market network where people can monetize their computing power as well as applications and even datasets.

It does this by providing on-demand access to cloud computing resources. IExec can support applications in fields such as big data, healthcare, AI, rendering and fintech. IExec was founded on Oct. 16, 2016, with the goal to reinvent cloud computing through the creation of a new cloud computing paradigm.

As such, iExec relies on the XtremWeb-HEP, an open-source desktop grid software that implements features such as multi-applications, fault-tolerance, multi-users, deployment of virtual images, private infrastructure, data management, security and much more.

iExec RLC

Illuvium is an open-world fantasy battle game built on the Ethereum blockchain. Often touted as the first AAA game on Ethereum, Illuvium looks to provide a source of entertainment to both casual gamers and hardcore DeFi fans through a range of collecting and trading features.

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

The world of Illuvium is inhabited by creatures known as Illuvials, who can be captured by players that best them in battle and nurse them back to health. From then on, they become a loyal part of the player’s collection and can be used when battling other adventurers as part of Illuvium’s auto battler gameplay.

The game is a fusion between an open-world exploration game and a PVP battle game. Players can spend their time exploring the expanses of the game world or building up their team of powerful beasts.

Illuvium has been in development since 2020, and is being built by a worldwide team of more than 40 individuals, including the co-founders; serial entrepreneur and early cryptocurrency adopter Kieran Warwick, and experienced game designer Aaron Warwick, who are brothers. (And who are coincidentally also the brothers of Kain Warwick, the co-founder of DeFi platform Synthetix).

The ILV token has a number of uses within the Illuvium ecosystem. It’s the main token used to reward players for their in-game achievements, entitles players to their share of the Illuvium Vault and is used for participating in the governance of the game via the Illuvium decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).

Illuvium

Synternet is a blockchain that powers modular, interoperable data infrastructure across all major chains. At its core lies the Data Layer, a protocol serving as the customizable execution layer between all blockchains. Its AEAs (Autonomous Economic Agents) empower developers to build composable, use-case-specific applications that can execute on any data from any chain.