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## What is SHIKOKU? (SHIK)

SHIKOKU is a decentralized memecoin experiment. The goals of SHIKOKU are multi-faceted:

* To create the Shikoku Inu Decentralized Ecosystem (SIDE) of applications and tools.
* To educate investors about self-custody in an engaging way.
* To be a driving force for good, via the Shikokuments.

The SHIKOKU token is the sole and native token that will be utilized across the SIDE. SHIKOKU begun as a decetralized memecoin experiment, but will gradually transition to the centerpiece of a large ecosystem that uplifts its' community and provides a safe space for those learning more about DeFi.

## What sets SHIKOKU apart?

Many Shiba Inu clones have launched, without definite qualities, plans of development and action, and the drive to execute a utility that people want to, and feel comfortable using. SHIKOKU launches, not just as a "SHIBA KILLER", but as the start a global movement to take over the industry and change it for good. SHIKOKU will be the only token to drive this movement, and attention will not be diluted into other means. This single, focused approach is what defines SHIKOKU.

## Who Are the Founders and Owners of SHIKOKU?

The anonymous creator of SHIKOKU refers to himself as Shikoshi Sanada. Very little is known about him, similar to the founder of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. In his V1.0.0 whitepaper about SHIKOKU and the side, he mentioned that SHIKOKU has no permanent allotted
owner, instead, it is owned by all that wish to own it. To further push this point, after providing 10ETH initial liquidity paired to all tokens, he burnt the entire liquidity, and published the keys to the developer wallet for all to add and use, in an unseen before way. By doing this, although SHIKOKU was founded by one, it is now owned by all.

## How Many SHIKOKU Are There in Circulation?

SHIKOKU launched on the Ethereum Blockchain on November 7, 2022. The genesis token creation event created 1,000,000,000,000,000 SHIKOKU tokens. This is the max supply, and max circulating supply, no SHIKOKU tokens may ever be minted. Dedicated community members have contributed to the burn address, reducing the circulating supply.

## Shikoshi and Vitalik Buterin

As a thank you to the founder of the Ethereum Blockchain, Shikoshi gifted Ethereum Founder, Vitalik Buterin with 50% of the total supply, or 500,000,000,000,000 tokens. Shikoshi humbly requests that if Vitalik accepts this offer, that he burns 47% of the supply, donates 2% of the supply to various charity organizations, and reserves 1% to spend at his leisure.

SHIKOKU

Shikoku Ken are the loyal protectors of the Japanese mountainous island of Shikoku. They are agile and tenacious, and our $SHIKOKU community is the same.

Ethereum

Shiba Inu

Chainlink

Uniswap

UNUS SED LEO

Maker

Bitget Token

Gala

Lido DAO

Fetch.ai

JasmyCoin

Immutable

FLOKI

Axie Infinity

The Graph

Bretter Brett

Lybra Finance

EscoinToken

PlasticHero

CAW(A Hunters Dream)

Bitgert (BRISE) is a crypto engineering project launched in July 2021 that specializes in blockchain products and centralized exchange. Initially, Bitgert was built on BNB Chain and used BNB, its native token, to pay rewards. However one of the most significant Bitgert developments was presented in 2022: the BRC20 blockchain. It offers near-zero gas fees and high speed cross-chain transactions. More specifically, the gas fee is $0.0000000000001 per transaction, while the supported throughput is up to 100,000 TPS.

The list of Bitgert products also includes Bitgert Blockchain, Bitgert Exchange, Paybrise, Realestate Marketplace,  Decentralized marketplace, BRISE staking, BRISE Swap.

Bitgert offers an alternative to the popular DEX platform PancakeSwap.

BRISE is Bitgert's native token, allowing investors to benefit from staking and earning rewards in BUSD on BSC network only.

Smart contract on BSC Chain feature a buyback mechanism. To be more precise, Bitgert directs 5% of every transaction fee for buyback, 3% for marketing and 4% for staking rewards. According to the team, buyback is meant to support the price of BRISE token making it a deflationary asset.

Smart contract on ETH Network has zero tax fee

BRISE claims to have a real use case with becoming the global payment system and is applied as a peer-to-peer (P2P) service in the BRISE dApp Wallet. Thus, buyers and sellers interact directly, without the participation of a third party, through the P2P service, and transactions are carried out quickly, securely and with zero fees.

Bitgert

Aeron

Bone ShibaSwap (BONE) is the ShibaSwap decentralized exchange (DEX) governance token with voting functionality. BONE allows the Shiba Inu community, also known as Shib Army, to vote on upcoming proposals, submit proposals and access future NFTs. The more BONE tokens users have, the more significant their votes are.

BONE is the Ethereum-based token in the Shiba ecosystem, including Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Doge Killer (LEASH) tokens. According to the Shiba Inu website, SHIB is the "Dogecoin (DOGE) killer." Due to its popularity, the project is the second-largest dog-inspired memecoin in the crypto space.

The ShibaSwap exchange was launched on July 7, 2021 to allow platform users to trade their SHIB tokens for other cryptos. BONE is a middle link in the ecosystem. On ShibaSwap, SHIB holders provide liquidity for BONE reward tokens. Users can stake tokens to earn rewards. Rewards depend on the amount and duration of the staked tokens.

Bone ShibaSwap

The Suterusu Protocol is a second-layer private payment infrastructure for smart contract platforms. The Suterusu Protocol uses the original and most advanced ZK-ConSnark algorithm that does not require a trusted setup. The algorithm’s proof size is significantly reduced and the proof generation and verification efficiency are greatly improved compared with similar solutions. Since no trusted setup is required, it is safe and transparent. The technical paper has been accepted by Eurocrypt 2021(https://eurocrypt.iacr.org/2021/acceptedpapers.php, https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/540). The Suterusu Protocol has been deployed on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Heco, SmartBCH (BCH sidechain), Theta, etc. We plan to deploy Suterusu protocol on the following smart contract platforms including Near, Solana, Avalanche, Moonbeam, Plasma, Matic, etc. It is also the first privacy project funded by the official Cypherpunk Guild Fund of Near. We are also applying for the Solana and Polkadot ecosystem grant. The Suterusu Protocol intends to build a private payment infrastructure for any cryptocurrency. The Suterusu project has received investment from well-known institutions such as Dialectic (a fund founded by the former Polychain partner Ryan Zurr), Fundamental Labs, FBG, Continue Capital, DeFi Alliance, and other well-known institutions.

suterusu

BabyDoge is the leading community meme coin on the BNB chain. Baby Doge was created initially as a joke with a mission to help spread awareness of animal adoption. Tweeted by Elon Musk BabyDoge was propelled into pop culture as an adorable icon

The primary utility for Baby Doge is building a fun meme community to spread awareness of animal welfare and pet adoption. The BabyDoge ai image generator empowers the BabyDoge community to create ai babydoge characters ai memes, and ai images on demand without any design experience. Additionally users can pay in babydoge to mint their images into NFTs.

BabyDoge is the only meme with an official world record for helping save dogs donating over 81,000 pounds of dog food.

BabyDoge has its own Swap BabyDogeSwap.com where it has its own AMM, core farms, farming as a service, free token locker, burn portal, card, Ai image generator, NFTs and more!

Baby Doge Coin

Cult DAO

Onyx Protocol is a decentralized platform that facilitates a peer-to-peer money market lending protocol. The Onyx Protocol supports a variety of digital assets, such as Ether (ETH), ERC-20 tokens, ERC-721 tokens, and ERC-1155 tokens, which can be supplied or borrowed through an aggregated and unified balance, supported by non-custodial custody via decentralized smart contracts. Furthermore, NFTs can be supplied as collateral to enhance the borrowing capacity of the corresponding account.

Onyx Protocol’s underlying mechanism is powered by Onyxcoin (XCN), a decentralized digital asset on the Ethereum blockchain that serves as both the protocol's governance and utility token. Credit lines accessed and borrowed through the Onyx Protocol do not have monthly payments or expiration dates, and they remain perpetual as long as the collateral is deemed sufficient.

Onyxcoin

Adventure Gold (AGLD) is the native ERC-20 token of the Loot non-fungible token (NFT) project. Loot is a text-based, randomized adventure gear generated and stored on-chain, created by social media network Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann. The project intentionally has no front-end interface, images, statistics or functionality. Instead, it is based on a set of 8,000 text-based NFTs open to how the community wants to interpret it. The NFTs contain texts of gears ranging from the “Holy Greaves of Giants” to the “Grim Shout.” As of Sept. 8, 2021, the floor price of Loot on OpenSea is 8.56 ETH. Numerous derivative projects are being built around Loot and can be found here.

Adventure Gold was launched on Sept. 2, 2021, and allowed each owner of a Loot NFT to claim 10,000 tokens for free. With the price of AGLD skyrocketing in the initial days of trading, this airdrop was worth as much as $70,000 per NFT. AGLD founder Will Papper claimed he wanted to set a standard for projects building on Loot by providing a currency for the decentralized gaming universe.

Adventure Gold

SwftCoin

Crypterium

Pitbull (PIT) is a community-driven, dog-themed meme coin on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). It prides itself on community development and claims to be a “unique social experiment” by engaging investors in the development of the community, as well as in the project itself. Pitbull rewards its investors through an auto-staking mechanism, which guarantees passive yield by rewarding token holders with fees from transactions that are conducted in PIT.

Pitbull promises a highly ambitious roadmap for a meme coin, which includes:

Launching on several blockchains, including Ethereum (ETH), Polygon (MATIC), Kucoin (KCS), and Cardano (ADA).

A Pitbull magazine called PitMag

Pitbull non-fungible token (NFT) collections and collaborations

A Pitbull play-to-earn game

A Pitbull Metaverse

Thus far, Pitbull has managed to collect 100,000 followers on Twitter and over 40,000 on its official Telegram channel, which is an impressive feat considering the token was only launched in March 2021.

Pitbull

Alchemix

Access Protocol

REI Network

League of Kingdoms (LOKA) is a blockchain-based Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) strategy game. As a play-to-earn ecosystem League of Kingdoms allows players to earn real income through in-game activity.

During gameplay users can build kingdoms, raise armies, form alliances and compete on the battlefields for power and wealth. The game supports player-versus-environment (PvE), player-versus-player (PvP) and party-play (MMO) gaming modes.

While the League of Kingdoms’s governance token LOKA allows holders to take part in the decision-making process on the platform, purchase in-game items and profit through staking, the project’s utility token called DST (Dragon Soul Token) is necessary for breeding Dragos, the dragon-like in-game characters.

LOKA token went live in January 2022. According to the official whitepaper the game was launched in July 2021. In 2022 the platform plans to release a proprietary NFT marketplace, a PvP arena and a land reward hub among other new features.

League of Kingdoms Arena

XCAD Network

BENQI is a decentralized non-custodial liquidity market as well as a liquid staking protocol built on the high-speed Avalanche smart contract network. The lending protocol allows users to lend, borrow, or earn interest using their digital assets.  The Liquid Staking protocol provides a solution for capital efficiency, offering users the opportunity to unlock their “staked” AVAX to be used on Decentralized Financial protocols

The founding team chose Avalanche because of its decentralized network’s claimed high scalability, low fees and compatibility with popular plugin wallets.

BENQI was founded in 2021 with $6 million in backing. Among its strategic investors are Ascensive Assets, Dragonfly Capital, Mechanism Capital, Arrington XRP Capital, Spartan Group, TRGC, Woodstock Fund, Ava Labs, Morningstar Ventures, GBV Capital, Skynet Trading Ltd, Rarestone Capital, Genblock Capital, Moon Inc.

Who Are the Founders of BENQI?

Rome Blockchain Labs Inc. is responsible for the development of BENQI. It is an incubator and a software development firm specializing in decentralized finance (DeFi). JD Gagnon is one of the co-founders and CEO of Rome Blockchain Labs. The two other co-founders are Hannu Kuusi and Alexander Shul.

JD Gagnon graduated with a bachelor’s degree in commerce in finance and accounting from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Before Rome Blockchain Labs, Gagnon has created the Velox algorithmic trading platform. Gagnon is also the founder and CEO of Scotch & Ramen Media, Inc. and CSO of Etheralabs, Inc.

Hannu Kuusi has experience building institutional-grade infrastructure for financial technology (fintech) and military applications.

Alexander Szul is in charge of managing the development of the BENQI liquidity market platform.

What Makes BENQI (QI) Unique?

BENQI (QI) claims to be the first DeFi Lending project on the Avalanche platform. It offers DeFi users from congested and centralized networks the option to move and place their unused assets on BENQI with no hurdles and low network fees. Avalanche allows BENQI users to seamlessly and affordably access decentralized financial services and increase control over their strategies.

Developers have the option to use BENQI to create financial products using the protocol and governance tokens.

BENQI also aims to ease the overloading of the Ethereum network by providing Ethereum users with a less expensive and faster alternative. BENQI members can withdraw liquidity from the shared liquidity market, borrow from the liquidity market and get a clear view of interest rates.

BENQI

Tokoin

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.