CrowdConscious - Surfing The Cryptoverse

I am the author of this piece of content and the original can be found on my Medium blog here .  Hello! As you may have heard,  NEO Blockchain has been considered the ‘Chinese Ethereum’  for about a year now since the project re-branded from Antshares.  This is because  NEO will perform similar functions as Ethereum does as a platform for decentralized applications with smart contract capabilities, among other tech integrations. NEO’s NEP-5 token standard is synonymous to Ethereum’s ERC-20 token standard   in terms of what they mean to the individual networks. Since the inception of ERC-20, there   have been over  85,000 tokens created on the Ethereum blockchain network , just under that particular standard. This is a major focus in NEO’s growth strategy, but instead of taking Ethereum’s radically decentralized approach, NEO grows stronger with regulatory compliance standards — meaning,   NEO is poised for institutional capital to f...

I am the author of this article and the original piece of content can be found here on my Medium blog . At the end of last year, I wrote an article entitled  Binance Exchange: Fueling a Hot New Era of Token-based Exchange Models? ,  diving into the  innovative token-based exchange model  Binance  brought to the competitive table.  Unarguably, their business model along with being at the right place and time  has catapulted them to being the top cryptocurrency exchange in the world  —  7-months after starting the business. This is  unheard of in the world of business . A startup becoming the all hailed unicorn within MONTHS.  Unicorn = billion dollar valuation . I don’t know what Binance’s valuation is or if we can even value the organization from a traditional valuation standpoint; however,  their 24-hour volume as I type this is $3.9 billion . They  charge a 0.10% trading fee  — we’ll do the math further down. This comes ...