{"id":13634,"date":"2018-06-21T15:44:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/?p=13634"},"modified":"2018-06-21T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:44:19","slug":"bluehill-launches-with-50m-global-fund-to-back-iost-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/bluehill-launches-with-50m-global-fund-to-back-iost-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluehill Launches With $50M Global Fund to Back IOST Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"
San Francisco, CA (June 21, 2018) – Bluehill<\/strong>, a blockchain incubator and accelerator, officially launched today to support partnership projects, DApp development and blockchain technology innovations within the IOST ecosystem.<\/p>\n Following a successful new raise of $50 million in funding, Bluehill aims to provide crucial backing for IOST industry partnerships, as well as for projects built within the IOST ecosystem. Bluehill was established to support the growing interest from developers and entrepreneurs in the IOST blockchain. The backing of a well-funded incubator\/accelerator will position the IOST network to compete for developer attention with top tier blockchain platforms like Ethereum.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve seen an upswell of interest from blockchain ecosystem developers looking to partner with the IOST network as well as from DApp teams looking to develop on top of it. We will be creating a highly supportive ecosystem to accelerate the most promising projects and strengthen the entire IOST network.\u201d – Samantha Wang, Bluehill CEO<\/em><\/p>\n Bluehill<\/strong> has already established a team of over 50 full time staff with plans to reach 100 employees by the end of the year. They have offices in China, Korea, Singapore and are currently finalizing incorporation in the United States and Germany, as well as plans to launch more offices globally in the near future. They will work closely to support teams both developing on and improving the IOST network by providing services including funding, operations, marketing, HR, recruitment, advisorship and industry partners. With its aggressive global expansion plan, Bluehill appears set to leave its mark on the blockchain ecosystem.<\/p>\n In the future Bluehill and IOST plan to collaborate to launch projects in order to emulate the rapid expansion of blockchain technology supported by the Ethereum ecosystem over the last year.<\/p>\n Bluehill has already announced partnerships with 7 highly promising projects that are developing blockchain solutions for cybersecurity, payment processing and content distribution:<\/p>\n Certik<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Certik is committed to reconstructing the trust of smart contracts and blockchains through world-leading formal verification technology. CertiK can detect the security loopholes of open source code and ensure the security before the smart contract is released. CertiK features an elite team from Yale University, Columbia University, and Silicon Valley including Co-founder Shao Zhong, Dean of the Department of Computer Science at Yale University with more than 20 years of experience in the security field.<\/p>\n CertiK will explore IOST mainchain smart contract validation services in order to ensure the security of smart contracts and the overall blockchain system, avoid bugs for on-chain transactions and secure the system from exploits by hackers.<\/p>\n ContentBox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n ContentBox currently ranks first in it\u2019s Google Play category and boasts over 16 million users. With its management team has previous experience from leading companies such as Google and Facebook, ContentBox project is building a blockchain architecture for the digital content industry, challenging traditional content giants such as Netflix and YouTube, and creating global decentralized digital content ecosystem. Because content consumption and payment scenarios must be high-frequency, instant, and complex.<\/p>\n ContentBox intends to form an in-depth strategic partnership with IOST to explore how it can ensure security and support the expansion of the basic public chain. Bluehill will facilitate their transition onto IOST.<\/p>\n Origo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Origo is an extensible privacy protection platform for decentralized applications. It extends zero-knowledge proof technology to the input and output of smart contract applications, expanding the scope of privacy protection to encompass every aspect of smart contracts. Its core technology includes the Origo compiler, which can automatically generate cryptographic protocols, allowing developers to build privacy-protected smart contracts and applications without cryptography. Origo’s core team comes from Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, and tech giants including Google, IBM and Pinterest.<\/p>\n Origo will improve the privacy protection policies of DApp\u2019s built on the IOST blockchain and provide security for the transmission and storage of communications, data and value.<\/p>\n Rate3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Rate3 is establishing an ecosystem for secure and efficient cross-border payments. Rate3 will also build a simpler infrastructure for trustworthy e-commerce relationships, facilitate the transfer of funds between merchants and consumers, and establish a reliable credit scoring system for traditional lenders and capital providers. The core team hails from Stanford University and the National University of Singapore. The team previously successfully built the RateX and RateS e-commerce products, which saved more than $200,000 in cross-border payments and over provided over $500,000 in discounts for 150,000 users. Currently it has cooperated with several well-known e-commerce platforms, including Taobao, Amazon, and Singapore e-commerce.<\/p>\n Rate3 will be based on the IOST chain, creating a new e-commerce system with low transaction costs, efficient operation, and distributed redemption functions.<\/p>\n