The collaboration will see LCX supporting the listing of tokens created using the Constellation Network’s L_0 token standard.

Constellation Network, a San Francisco based big data and blockchain company, has entered into a partnership with LCX, a regulated Fintech startup based in Liechtenstein. Together, Constellation and LCX will leverage each other’s legal and technology infrastructure to expand their respective businesses and provide new and enhanced services.

The collaboration will see LCX supporting the listing of tokens created using the Constellation Network’s L_0 token standard. Further, LCX will integrate native wallets to list two associated tokens, $DAG and Lattice Exchange token (LTX), on its own platform.

The deal with LCX is the latest milestone to bolsters the adoption for Lattice Exchange, which has already come a long way since launching last year. Specifically, LCX will seamlessly offer a path for tokens minted on Constellation’s Network to be listed and traded in a regulatory compliant environment.

Both entities have also agreed on a long-term strategic partnership that will focus on collaborative research and development of new use cases for Constellation’s HGTP protocol. LCX, which holds a license to conduct crypto business in Liechtenstein, aims to leverage its regulatory approvals to build a state channel that validates trade data.

Tapping into Constellation’s Hypergraph will be focused on making rigorous upgrades of the LCX platform and its products. The network, which enables a secure and structured way to store and invest in different digital assets, brings trade and transaction transparency to LCX infrastructure.

Commenting on the news, Monty Metzger, CEO and Founder of LCX.com, said: “Crypto is all about scale. Constellation has built the infrastructure to scale fast and build a profitable network for all stakeholders involved. Now LCX users will become stakeholders of the Constellation Network as well and will enjoy its benefits.”

As unveiled in a statement today, the combined effort should also bring many of the benefits of DeFi to the LCX centralized exchange.

Involving a regulated business such as LCX also upgrades the regulatory profile of Constellation’s business. The firm is required by Liechtenstein’s Blockchain Act to adhere to stricter money laundering supervision, implement the FATF standards and advanced due diligence.

In this sense, Benjamin Jorgensen, Co-Founder and CEO at Constellation Network ($DAG) and Lattice Exchange ($LTX), said:

“In order for our L_0 token standard to compete against the other token standard in the crypto industry, we need regulatory compliant and trustworthy centralized exchanges like LCX.”

“Partnering with LCX paves a path for success for anyone building on Constellation’s ecosystem. This will give projects that build on Constellation and list on our DeFi Platform Lattice, assurance that their token has a path to being freely traded and supported from centralized exchanges like LCX. LCX is leading the way to mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency by providing the support needed for institutional traders and blockchain Do your own research related to the promoted company or any of its affiliates or services mentioned in the article. Coingape.com does not hold any responsibility for your damage or loss.

Blockchain-based big data startup Constellation Networks has signed a working contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to apply blockchain technology to unlock siloed and non-accessible data. The partnership will enable the merging of legacy systems data with existing cloud infrastructure data.Announcing the partnership, USAF stated that the partnership will help it streamline the Small Business Innovation Research process in an attempt to speed up the experience, broaden the pool of potential applicants and decrease bureaucratic overhead. The Small Business Research Innovation Research is a program that encourages small local businesses to engage in research and development of technology that has the potential for commercialization.The partnership is a match at the right time, the VP of Business Development at Constellation stated. This is because USAF has a multitude of data sources like drones, planes, and satellites that need to be secured. Clean and consolidated data that can be queried instantly is a big need within the defense apparatus.The collection, storage and analysis of data have continued to be a tedious and costly process for many companies, USAF included. The process becomes even costlier when its across domain and sectors. Now, using Constellations blockchain platform, USAFs data channels will be securely encrypted, with audit trails and a live overview of the status of any data source.Big data has become one of the hottest industries in the new era where data is the new oil. However, securing this data has been one of the biggest challenges. Blockchain technology has been hailed as the most secure network, leading many big data companies and users to turn to the technology. Governments have also commissioned the use of blockchain to secure big data, such as China which did so last year.The San Francisco-based Constellation will bring the benefits of blockchain technology to not only USAF, but other companies as well. The companys CEO Benjamin Jorgensen commented, Every organization has big data needs and challenges. This is just the first of a series of in-depth partnerships with commercial and government entities to deliver fully integrated and productized blockchain solutions.The U.S. Air Force also recently announced another blockchain partnership with Simba Chain to manage the logistics of deployed forces in a secure on-chain environment. Powered by Microsoft Azure, Simba Chain will enable the USAF to maintain the integrity and security of highly-sensitive data.Note: Tokens on the Bitcoin Core (SegWit) chain are referenced as SegWitCoin BTC coins. Altcoins, which value privacy, anonymity, and distance from government intervention, are referenced as dark coins. Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) is today the only Bitcoin project that follows the original Satoshi Nakamoto whitepaper, and that follows the original Satoshi protocol and design. BSV is the only public blockchain that maintains the original vision for Bitcoin and will massively scale to become the worlds new money and enterprise blockchain. tags blockchainConstellationUSAFCOMMENT Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Blockchain-based big data startup Constellation Networks has signed a working contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to apply blockchain technology to unlock siloed and non-accessible data. The partnership will enable the merging of legacy systems data with existing cloud infrastructure data.Announcing the partnership, USAF stated that the partnership will help it streamline the Small Business Innovation Research process in an attempt to speed up the experience, broaden the pool of potential applicants and decrease bureaucratic overhead. The Small Business Research Innovation Research is a program that encourages small local businesses to engage in research and development of technology that has the potential for commercialization.The partnership is a match at the right time, the VP of Business Development at Constellation stated. This is because USAF has a multitude of data sources like drones, planes, and satellites that need to be secured. Clean and consolidated data that can be queried instantly is a big need within the defense apparatus.The collection, storage and analysis of data have continued to be a tedious and costly process for many companies, USAF included. The process becomes even costlier when its across domain and sectors. Now, using Constellations blockchain platform, USAFs data channels will be securely encrypted, with audit trails and a live overview of the status of any data source.Big data has become one of the hottest industries in the new era where data is the new oil. However, securing this data has been one of the biggest challenges. Blockchain technology has been hailed as the most secure network, leading many big data companies and users to turn to the technology. Governments have also commissioned the use of blockchain to secure big data, such as China which did so last year.The San Francisco-based Constellation will bring the benefits of blockchain technology to not only USAF, but other companies as well. The companys CEO Benjamin Jorgensen commented, Every organization has big data needs and challenges. This is just the first of a series of in-depth partnerships with commercial and government entities to deliver fully integrated and productized blockchain solutions.The U.S. Air Force also recently announced another blockchain partnership with Simba Chain to manage the logistics of deployed forces in a secure on-chain environment. Powered by Microsoft Azure, Simba Chain will enable the USAF to maintain the integrity and security of highly-sensitive data.Note: Tokens on the Bitcoin Core (SegWit) chain are referenced as SegWitCoin BTC coins. Altcoins, which value privacy, anonymity, and distance from government intervention, are referenced as dark coins. Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) is today the only Bitcoin project that follows the original Satoshi Nakamoto whitepaper, and that follows the original Satoshi protocol and design. BSV is the only public blockchain that maintains the original vision for Bitcoin and will massively scale to become the worlds new money and enterprise blockchain. tags blockchainConstellationUSAFCOMMENT Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Feb 19 Feb 19 Constellation Labs: Exclusive Video Interview By Erick Pinos Julian Jung Happy Monday Everyone!Today we have a very special edition of the blockchain brief where we interview Brendan Playford (CEO) and Ben Jorgenson (COO) of Constellation Labs.Constellation Labs is building a horizontally scalable distributed operating system with smart contracts as microservices.So what does that mean and why are we so excited about their project?We have our Game Theory Group technologist in residence,Erick Pinos (President @MITBitcoinClub & Director of Operations @BlockchainEDU) break it down for you and ask a few technical questions in this weeks video interview. For those of you on the go, we've included an audio version of the interview at the bottom of this newsletter. This is one you do not want to miss.- Julian------------Using Stars & Memes To Build A Better DAGBy Erick PinosWe all know blockchains have a scaling problem. Every block has to be propagated throughout the entire network, and every full node in the network needs to keep a copy of every recorded transaction. Most blockchains have throughput requirements, like a capped 1MB block size. Without such throughput requirements, the blockchain would grow too fast, cutting off the ability for average users to run full nodes and thus leading to a centralization of validators that can control the state of the network.Because of these throughput requirements, however, consumer grade distributed applications (dApps) are severely bottlenecked. Ethereum can only handle up to 15 transactions per second. Even the simple CryptoKitties game clogged up 11% of the Ethereum network.Enter Constellation Labs, a horizontally scalable distributed operating system. This means that you can run intensive dApps on their platform with much higher throughput than traditional blockchains. According to their whitepaper, 1200 nodes in the network would yield 4000-4800 transactions per second. As the number of nodes increase, you also get more computing power while maintaining a trustless, distributing computing system. There are three main components which together allow Constellation Labs to do this. Theres a lot of new terminology in this one, so bare with me as i break it down.1. Proof-of-Meme Consensus ModelProof of Meme is a new reputation-based consensus mechanism coined by Constellation Labs. A meme is a unit representing an imitable idea or behavior that be spread. In this case, it represents behavior that affects the likelihood that a specific node is selected to participate in consensus. Meme reputation is calculated by looking at logs of previous consensus performance. The reputation scoring takes into account whether the node has been notably faulty in the past, how much memory it can commit to consensus, etc. Reputable memes will be given preference, but new memes will have the opportunity to participate and build their reputation on the network.With Proof-of-Meme, Constellation will have no network transaction fees. Instead, new tokens are minted every block and are rewarded to each node based on their memes reputation.2. Asynchronous Peer-to-Peer ArchitectureThe Constellation protocol implements a blockchain architecture known as ExtendedTrustChain. In ExtendedTrustChain, there are multiple node types: Stars.A star is the basic node that can send transactions and stores a local blockchain composed of its history on the network. Transactions are signed by the initiator and counterparty then broadcasted to the network via the gossip protocol.In the gossip protocol, each member of the network keeps track of its neighbors and propagates messages received to all of its neighbors. This allows a large pool of connected devices to share the state of the network and achieve consensus without every node needing to store the entire blockchain.Star Clusters are a collection of stars that participate in consensus on transactions and hash them into blocks. If a star wishes to participate in consensus, it joins a star cluster.Galaxiesare the validators. Galaxies calculate memes based on past consensus performance, and then update the meme reputation scores. They run validation process and host the current chain state. Metadata about Galaxy performance is stored in black holes. When a Star reaches enough positive reputation, they may earn the right to function as a Galaxy node.Black Holes Black holes are blocks like the blockchain. Galaxies store the full history of every block, or black hole in the blockchain.3. Smart Contracts as MicroservicesIn Constellation, smart contracts are microservices running on a JVM. Microservices are like smart contracts, but can run more complex logic because they use the Java virtual machine rather than the Ethereum virtual machine. They can send transactions, sign as a counterparty, and perform consensus. The goal is for microservices to act as a Star with their own meme/reputation, providing services for agreed upon amounts. Each microservice is a star, collections of microservices form an application, or a constellation.ConclusionThats my breakdown of the project!In the near future I will be doing an exclusive interview with their CTO (Wyatt Meldman-Foch) for an even more technical deep dive. In the mean time watch or listen to our video interview with Constellation Labs (CEO+COO)to learn more about the team and their project.Audio Interview old>constellation-labs- Erick Pinos Julian Jung Facebook0 Twitter Tumblr Pinterest0 0 Likes Julian Jung Julian Jung Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Integer posuere erat a ante venenatis dapibus posuere velit aliquet. Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum.

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When one thinks of large-cap cryptocurrencies, their minds likely go to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, and…Cardano?

If Cardano keeps rising like this, they just might.

ADA, the token of the Cardano blockchain is the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, according to data from Nomics. After a 31% increase in the last week, the price of a single ADA token is now slightly higher than $0.88. The market cap for Cardano was $28.2 billion as of 6:30 p.m. Pacific time on Monday, a smidge higher than Polkadot’s $27.6 billion and Ripple’s $25.8 billion.

Cardano’s market cap is up 137% in the last month, with much of that movement coming since February 3, when the price was just under $0.44. And although it actually went above $0.90 a few days ago before dipping slightly, it’s managed to hold most of its value.

Like Polkadot, Cardano is a blockchain project from an Ethereum co-founder. Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK, is the main visionary behind Cardano, a proof-of-stake network with a heavy emphasis on smart contracts. Those who old ADA tokens can take part in governance votes over the future of the platform.

The price rise extends out longer than just a week. A month ago, ADA was worth in the neighborhood of $0.35. Then, came the announcement that Cardano would start allowing “Native Tokens” issued by users on the blockchain by the end of February. 

“While ada will remain Cardano’s principal currency, Cardano will transform into a multi-asset (MA) blockchain, opening up a constellation of possibilities,” wrote IOHK Marketing & Communications Director Tim Harrison in early February.

Cardano is within striking distance of the perennial third-place token, the Tether stablecoin, which has a market capitalization of $32.1 billion.

A high-profile crypto strategist and trader is revealing 11 crypto assets that he plans to hold this month as he believes that altcoins are poised to ignite a massive breakout.

In a new tweet, pseudonymous trader Capo says that he plans to keep a bag of Syntropy (NOIA), a protocol that optimizes and encrypts the public internet for its users,  Reserve Rights governance token Reserve Rights Token (RSR), and leading smart contract platform Ethereum (ETH).

In addition, Capo says he plans to hold cybersecurity project Constellation (DAG), decentralized exchange Balancer (BAL), privacy-preserving decentralized database Phala Network (PHA), oracle project Tellor (TRB), autonomous economy platform Sora (XOR), automated market maker PorkSwap (PSWAP), video and gaming protocol Verasity (VRA), and blockchain-based ecosystem Sand.

— il Capo Of $NOIA (@CryptoCapo_) May 1, 2021

Capo says he expects altcoins to rally, particularly low-cap coins, as he believes the Others Dominance index, a chart that tracks the performance of the crypto markets excluding Bitcoin and other major altcoins has broken out of a massive five-year consolidation.

“Now is when people move from alts to BTC and alts pump a few days later. Very comfy being mostly in alts to be honest.”

Looking at NOIA, Capo believes that the altcoin is at the early stages of a massive parabolic move that would allow it to print gains of over 160% against Bitcoin (NOIA/BTC) from its current price of 0.00001229.

“ NOIA /BTC. Someone said parabola?”

As for Reserve Rights Token, Capo predicts that it has an upside potential of over 220% against Bitcoin (RSR/BTC) from its current value of 0.00000155.

“RSR /BTC. This wants to pump hard.”

The trader is also watching the movement of Ethereum. He says the ascent of the second-largest cryptocurrency will not stop at $10,000.

“Always step by step, but I don’t think the ETH top for this cycle will be $10,000. It will be higher.”

At time of writing, Ethereum is en route to printing a new all-time high as it soars above $3,000, according to CoinMarketCap.

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Cryptocurrency market has picked up momentum to push higher across the board and multiple cryptos have hit new all-time highs on Wednesday on the back of a crypto market frenzy, hype-fuelled trading and improved investor confidence.

The market-wide upward traction follows hype-fuelled Dogecoin’s incredible rally yesterday which drove up the meme-inspired coin’s market cap above US $80 billion.

Further consolidating its recovery from the late April price crash, Bitcoin (BTC) has climbed above US $58,000 level after the recent pullback. It has seen steady gains over the last few days and is likely going to bump against the massive psychological resistance of US $60,000 soon.

Succeeding to hold constructively above US $60,000 could validate bullish potential and precipitate an impulsive surge to challenge the yearly high of near US $65,000.

Meanwhile ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has pushed above the US $3,500 level, currently holding steady around US $3,520. Overall, it has been a remarkable week for ether.

Elsewhere, many of the major altcoins have spiked double-digit percentage points to set new records today.

As of press time, Bitcoin (BTC) is changing virtual hands at US $58,100, Ether (ETH) at US $3,520, ripple (XRP) at US $1.66, Binance Coin (BNB) US $648, cardano (ADA) at US $1.63, Dogecoin (DOGE) at US $0.61, ChainLink (Link) at US $48, UniSwap (UNI) at US $42 and Polkadot (DOT) at US $40.

The parabolic surge in the market is mostly fuelled by the fact that many traders, especially newcomers do not want to miss out on any buzz that stems from the kinetic momentum and hype, especially Elon Musk’s upcoming host event which has propelled Doge up, Ethereum’s recent appreciation, and overall investor confidence.

However, such artificially inflated prices can easily leave a lot of newbie investors hemorrhaging losses if they wade into the risky assets imprudently.

Just three weeks ago, cryptocurrency holders were fumed as a sudden constellation of risk events triggered the forced liquidation of leveraged bets, wave of selling with pressure across the board. The flash crash made many investors cautious to buy into an ongoing crash, reducing bid liquidity in the market.

Many crypto exchanges allow traders to trade on a margin account (using leverage), which means that they can use a relatively small amount of money upfront to borrow the rest in order to hold large amounts of digital assets. Although the leverage magnifies profits if the price goes in the favorable direction (depending on short or long orders), it leaves traders in a much more vulnerable position if price goes in the wrong direction.

The vicious sell-off last week was a costly lesson for the rookies who were stuffing their wallets with ‘upside momentum’ crypto coins with a false sense of security, thinking their holdings could only climb.

It’s not just digital asset prices that are hitting new highs over the past weeks. Trading volumes for cryptocurrencies are through the roof as well.  Trading volume represents the total number of cryptocurrencies traded (bought and sold) during a given period of time.  As a technical indicator, it shows the overall activity, including liquidity of the market.

Much of it , as seen in the small size of transactions, is being driven by retail traders and speculators who are continuing the high level of engagement that began since early 2021, and new entrants who may be looking to jump in and ride the explosive uptrend seen in some of the cryptocurrencies recently.

Most of the major digital coins have further appreciated over the past week although it’s not clear if that trend is sustainable, particularly since the markets have continued to move into record territory.

The increased trading volume in the market also shows itself in the price action observed in cryptocurrencies, this is especially the case on the weekends as we see record volumes every weekend since mid-April.

Further consolidating in the US $55,000-US $57,000 range, this morning Bitcoin (BTC) has managed to climb above US $59,000 level after the recent pullback. It has seen steady gains over the last few days, formed solid base around this territory and is likely going to bump against the massive psychological resistance of US $60,000 soon.

Succeeding to hold constructively above US $60,000 could validate bullish potential and precipitate an impulsive surge to challenge the yearly high of near US $65,000.

Meanwhile, Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has pushed towards the US $4,000 level, currently holding steady around US $3,890. Overall, it has been a remarkable week for ether, and it is poised to top US $4,000 mark on Monday if not today.

Elsewhere, many of the major altcoins have been steady although some small-cap coins made double-digit percentage points to set new records overnight.

However, altcoins in Top-10 are not going up that well and have drifted slightly down overnight. Interestingly, they usually see low activity and price fall each time ether spikes, probably due to their touted ether-killer features. It is possible investors think they will lose their appeal further if ether further solidifies its market position.

As of press time, Bitcoin (BTC) is changing virtual hands at US $59,100, Ether (ETH) at US $3,889, ripple (XRP) at US $1.61, Binance Coin (BNB) US $644, cardano (ADA) at US $1.61, Dogecoin (DOGE) at US $0.63, ChainLink (Link) at US $48.5, UniSwap (UNI) at US $40.63, Polkadot (DOT) at US $40 and Stellar (XML) at US $0.61.

The parabolic surge in the market is mostly fuelled by the fact that many traders, especially newcomers do not want to miss out on any buzz that stems from the kinetic momentum and hype, especially Elon Musk’s upcoming host event which has propelled Doge up, Ethereum’s recent appreciation, and overall investor confidence bolstered by speculative buy calls.

However, such artificially inflated prices can easily leave a lot of newbie investors hemorrhaging losses if they wade into the risky assets imprudently.

Just three weeks ago, cryptocurrency holders were fumed as a sudden constellation of risk events triggered the forced liquidation of leveraged bets, wave of selling with pressure across the board. The flash crash made many investors cautious to buy into an ongoing crash, reducing bid liquidity in the market.

The vicious sell-off was indeed a costly lesson for the rookies who have been stuffing their wallets with ‘upside momentum’ crypto coins with a false sense of security, thinking their holdings could only climb.

Both Bank of England and Reserve Bank of Australia think crypto coins don’t have any intrinsic or legislated value and could fall to zero at any time.

In the digital technology world, blockchain is synonymous with data anonymity, all tied to a public address. For businesses, however, this represents a major barrier to adoption, as regulatory laws often require an enterprise or stakeholder to identify clients, suppliers, and strategic partners in real time. 

On-Chain identity systems have often been touted as the solution to this prevailing issue. Yet their impact within the blockchain landscape has been negligible due to a lack interoperability and viable permissioned systems for enforcing network rules. 

Leading the global movement to alter this narrative is LTO Network, a hybrid blockchain ecosystem featuring a public and private chain. The LTO team is on a mission to create and maintain a fully decentralized and highly efficient blockchain infrastructure, one that’s directly aimed at securing, verifying, and exchanging vital data and information for organizations worldwide.

Since 2017 this Amsterdam-based company has been relentlessly pursuing blockchain technology solutions aimed at improving workflow automation for B2B clients. Widely recognized as the first permissionless blockchain in the world, LTO delivers a robust framework driven by network consensus, allowing organizations with varying systems and data needs to work together privately, efficiently, and securely through live exchanges. 

LTO solutions can be utilized by any enterprise seeking a production-ready blockchain fueled by Leased-Proof-of-Stake. This provides business or stakeholder communities a mechanism for achieving consensus via hashed versions of digital agreements on a public chain, all within General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance guidelines.

Founded by Rick Schmitz and Martijn Migchelsen, the company is on the cutting edge of new process management discoveries. A former M&A tax lawyer at PwC, Schmitz in 2014 became enthralled with Blockchain’s emergence. Co-Founder Migchelsen, who serves as CFO, met Schmitz while at PwC.

Fostering New Blockchain Discoveries

LTO Network has a pretty long history and auspicious journey, although it didn’t actually begin as a blockchain project. It saw its genesis in 2014 as a tech startup focusing on company incorporation and business entities, acquiring around 10% of the Dutch market share. 

Over time the LTO team began noticing a demand for workflow automation. This led to the decision by company leaders to begin delivering  centralized software solutions to a number of large European corporations. 

In a move to foster new advancements in this realm, LTO began exploring the use of blockchain technology as a way of maintaining efficiencies without compromising the data integrity of companies.  This led to the development of a range of GDPR compliant applications such as Proofi, FillTheDoc, and LetsFlow. 

LTO Network has seen a steady, significant rise in its profile buoyed by a 5.2 million Initial Coin offering round and development of Mainet (a fully functioning blockchain network) in just two years’ time. In February of 2020, LTO became listed on Binance, further solidifying the company’s repute in the global blockchain constellation. 

When discussing this flurry of achievements, CEO Schmitz is quick to point out that the path to LTO’s success has been filled with missteps and challenges along the way, which he touts as a positive thing. He notes: 

“I believe that success only occurs because of yesterday’s mistakes, which everyone makes. As an entrepreneur, I believe it’s important to embrace them, knowing that they will teach you something.” 

Lofty Aims and Practical Use Cases 

Schmitz says the cultivation of favorable relationships with government authorities and organizations like the U.N have been pivotal to LTO’s growth and advancement. The company has forged many collaborations leading to successful use case projects tied to digital signature procurement, artwork authenticity, legal contracts, and smart QR codes. 

LTO, however, is best known for the blockchain-based land registry they helped develop, one that aims to mitigate property ownership disputes in Afghanistan. 

In September 2019, replete with an open source approach two United Nations organizations, the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology and UN-Habitat signed a memorandum of understanding with the Afghan government. With the aim of creating a land registry to support the government’s City for All program, LTO Network was sought out to create the blockchain component. 

In due course the property registry will be fully transferred over to the Afghan government. They will then populate it with information from over 2.8 million land parcels, leading to a first-of-a-kind curated repository of land owner information throughout the country. 

Seen as a key element in Afghan efforts around economic development and increased GDP, it is considered a model for similar projects in other countries that are seeking to ensure indisputable proof of ownership. This will allow for a recognized means of mitigating landowner property disputes that often disincentivize development and production activities.

In addition to this collaborative milestone with a national government, LTO Network was involved in saving the Dutch and Belgian governments €7 million via a blockchain-centric waste transportation system.  

Says Schmitz: “We have a proud history of building  land registry systems for countries throughout the globe via a collaborative solution we developed with UN-Habitat and UN-OICT. The future for land registries, we believe, involves hybrid blockchain solutions that decentralize and maximize data exchanges among stakeholders involved in the land registry process without having to resort to prohibitively expensive IT-overhauls.”

Looking ahead, Schmitz says his team remains undaunted by the pandemic related economic disruptions that continue to create challenges worldwide. As Covid’s impact continues to subside, LTO has been immersed in the development of a digital identity platform (DID) that is able to generate and index DID’s of other Blockchains such as Ethereum as well as more complex ones that can be created using associations. 

Schmitz concludes: “Covid-19 did slow down the pace of our global business despite our wealth of clients worldwide. We do believe, however, that with our focus on DIDs, we’ll be able to attract more international clients moving forward. We are quite up-to-date and always try our best to live up to our promises and fulfill our roadmap of becoming the best identity provider throughout the world and on the planet.” 

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Home » Tech » NASA explores blockchain for autonomous satellite communication The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is exploring the use of blockchain technology for inter-satellite communication. The use of blockchain will allow satellites to store shared data relevant to its constellation, enabling autonomous communications between them. Known as the Space Communication Reconstruction and Mapping with Blockchain Ledgering (SCRAMBL), the project falls under NASA’s Small Business Technology Transfer Scheme. NASA revealed in its proposal summary this week that it had awarded the $124,000 project to Orbit Logic and the Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental Software Engineering. SCRAMBL will enable satellites that are in the same constellation to store and distribute a ledger containing data that’s relevant to that constellation. This will allow autonomous cooperation for the satellites while still contributing to “system-level needs and objectives.” SCRAMBL will be combined with Orbit Logic’s existing autonomous planning system, “allowing the constellation as a whole to achieve greater overall system utility through agent-supported asset teaming strategies.” The solution’s blockchain algorithm will allow any NASA spacecraft to autonomously determine the most effective method of communicating with any other node. It will also allow the spacecraft to overcome any communications disruptions or disconnections. The summary noted: “The space-specific algorithms to be developed under this research topic will be lightweight and tailored toward efficient execution on the resource constrained computing elements used on satellites. The network path routing optimizations performed will scale well as the constellation is grown, dynamically adapting to the future addition of assets.” NASA has been exploring blockchain technology for a few years now. Two years ago, it released a blockchain prototype for transmitting air traffic data that preserves privacy. With the switch to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast as of January this year in the U.S, where every aircraft broadcasts its location openly, there were concerns regarding privacy, especially from the military. NASA believed it could solve this by integrating blockchain technology which could limit data access to permitted parties. NASA also hired a data scientist in 2019, with part of the qualifications sought being blockchain and digital currencies experience. While it didn’t reveal what projects the new hire would work on, speculation was rife that it was looking at launching its own blockchain projects. New to Bitcoin? Check out CoinGeek’s Bitcoin for Beginners section, the ultimate resource guide to learn more about Bitcoin—as originally envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto—and blockchain.

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has near-infinite applications. It is towards this end that Orbit Logic and the Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental Software Engineering are building a blockchain-based inter-satellite aerospace application for NASA after winning a $124,800 funding.  In a  generated on June 29, the solution dubbed “Space Communication Reconstruction and Mapping with Blockchain Ledgering” or, simply, SCRAMBL, could be adopted by the agency’s quad-copter swarms. Even though the solution is far from launching, eventually, it will use the “to store and distribute a ledger containing satellite constellation-relevant shared data to enable satellite onboard autonomy cooperative attendance of individual assets to system-level needs and objectives” as per the proposal summary. SCRAMBL aims to help the constellation as a whole to improve and achieve higher system utility when coupled with NASA’s supported asset teaming strategies. Of paramount importance is the agency’s insistence on communication, and a robust, high performance, and nibble system that overly improves environment awareness. To achieve this level of efficacy, the two U.S. firms will now research and find means of evaluation and recomposing the system networking graph enabling efficient routing of messages between NASA drones.  At the same time, the final solution ought to be lightweight and tailored for maximum efficiency in execution considering how harsh the deployment environment is which nonetheless should relegate the importance of smooth communication. NASA’s interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency continues to grow. Last year, in a  NASA was looking for a Data Scientist with a wide range of skills but goes on to note that experience in blockchain and cryptocurrency was a plus.  Tasks with conceptualizing and developing special innovative applications, the successful candidate would be part of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Innovation Experience Center (IEC) in California. Before that, they were looking for means of securing space flight data using blockchain. The  by Ronald Reisman, an aero-computer engineer, outlines NASA’s plan plans of having to looker deeper look into the viability of the blockchain and how smart contracting can help overcome security and privacy issues. In September 2019, BTCManager  of SpaceChain’s acceptance into the ESAs kick start program.

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