Singapore, Singapore, 27th May, 2021,

We’ve seen a lot in the three years since Bluzelle started. In the past twelve months we’ve witnessed the rise of three trends:

1. Defi as a true alternative to the existing financial systems
2. The emergence of NFTs as a way to manage intellectual property.
3. The distancing of publishing from the incumbents because of censorship concerns.

Bluzelle sees the above as signs of a mega trend: the emergence of the creator economy through decentralization. 

Creators are artists, musicians, scientists, developers, mathematicians or financiers — they are all using crypto and blockchain technology to create new products where they have control.

With its own 10,000 TPS blockchain, multiple modules and a validator network, Bluzelle is evolving beyond the database to full decentralized storage, including data, files and more. Many projects were asking for certain features and that we could quickly accommodate and make Bluzelle bigger than before and bring greater utility to the network. 

We have now entered Bluzelle 2.0.

Bluzelle as a decentralized storage layer is the blood for this creator economy. Bluzelle gives creators the ability to store their intellectual property in a way that’s secure, always available and censorship resistant.

To celebrate moving to Bluzelle 2.0, we did a redesign of the Bluzelle brand. The name stays the same but the brand shows growth to fully support the creator economy. This post will introduce the following:

1. The brand redesign to reflect this new path.
2. Evolution of Bluzelle to be more than a database.
3. Bluzelle’s storage solution is the home for NFTs.
4. The multi-month incentivized network utility program, Call of Data.
5. Delivering Defi for BLZ holders
6. What’s being released next

The Brand Redesign

Nothing rests. Everything is a remix.

What is old is new again. This happens time and time again. From music to art to fashion. Science, math and finance is a remix of the past to create something new and innovative.

We mixed up portraits of the most relevant scientists in our history with physics-inspired graphics, memes and data-visualization aesthetics. The result? A perfect remix: the sweet spot between the science and creativity living inside Bluzelle, a convergence of the past and the future.

This explains why our brand features images in the public domain, like renaissance portraits of famous scientists adapted to Bluzelle’s aesthetic. These sorts of art-historical images represent the network being under public control.

Creative and Free, but educational and rebellious.

Of course, we couldn’t visually neglect the fact that Bluzelle is data, storage and infrastructure. Therefore, a solid technological presence had to be included. This is reflected in the dotted swarms representing data to accompany the other visual elements that are present, sometimes colourfully.

Logo and Icon Redesign

In the previous logo version, all connections were pointing to the centre of the circle as the main element. The redesign focuses on each connection, highlighting the importance of the individual dots and reinforcing the idea of decentralized storage.

The new icon redesign includes a lightning silhouette and the letters B, L, Z. The bolt symbolises the idea of an endless exchange of information happening at lightning speed. We also changed the line’s directions so they are now interconnected instead of pointing towards the centre circle.

Web 3.0 belongs to the creators.

Developers, musicians, artists and scientists now have the means to control their creations and keep them secure and always available.

More than a Database

We started as a decentralized database but have grown to be so much more. The biggest addition is file storage to Bluzelle. Demand was there, especially with NFTs – which we will explain further in this post. Point is we didn’t need to limit ourselves to data when all the pieces were there to not only do more but do it even better. This is all for one objective – increase utility on the Bluzelle network. 

Bluzelle 2.0 is MongoDB + IPFS + Filecoin + ChainLink all in one. 

In 2021 Bluzelle rapidly delivered a series of modules: 

• Staking
• Cross-chain bridges
• Mainnet databases
• Oracles 
• And now file storage

We have now connected them all for Bluzelle 2.0. On one platform a creator can get everything they need to build. Whether you are an artist, scientist, defi developer, you will need all the above. Instead of going to multiple places for your infrastructure needs, Bluzelle can provide all in one place. And by adding full EVM support, we are able to support not just Ethereum but also Binance Smart Chain, Polygon and Fantom. 

A defi application and a scientist both need to store files and data, get real world data through oracles, and be connected to other chains. 

Here is where Bluzelle beats other storage providers:

Feature

Other providers

Bluzelle

Replication and redundancy

You pay to store on a host. If you want more reliability or backups, you have to pay to store on multiple hosts. You must pay for each and every host. No guarantee is provided.

On Bluzelle you pay once and get backups across all nodes for the same price. Simple and straightforward. Bluzelle provides the guarantee your file will always be there for you.

Decentralization

You select which miners to store on. This leads to centralization.

On Bluzelle your data and files are randomly stored across multiple nodes ensuring decentralization.

Retrieval speed

You pay to retrieve your data. Faster you want data, the more you pay. Pay very little and it comes to you very slowly.

On Bluzelle all data retrieval is blazing fast. This is because all your data and files are available across all nodes and the info gets to you from the fastest one. Bluzelle doubles as a high speed edge data cache.

High volume downloads

High volume downloads are impractical due to limited replication and slow retrieval. 

On Bluzelle high volume downloads are not only possible but extremely fast. This is because of auto replication across all nodes. 

Bluzelle will be the home to NFTs

To best understand why Bluzelle evolved to add file storage is best explained through our work with NFTs. Our work with our partner Mintable revealed we have a superior solution to any other file storage offering.

NFTs can use smart contracts to manage ownership and authentication of the NFT. But the NFT file itself is stored on a centralized system like AWS. This means the NFT can be removed or become unavailable because of single points of failure in centralized systems. One website goes down, and your NFT is useless, possibly forever, and therefore, loses all value. Ownership of something is enforced by current NFT solutions, but there is no assurance the item being owned is even available now or in the future.

Bluzelle stores NFT files over its decentralized storage network, ensuring that it remains secure, always available, and cannot be tampered with. Bluzelle’s blockchain network ensures 100% access to files in a distributed way. The file is replicated across all its validators nodes ensuring it can never be taken away. Bluzelle’s NFT storage solution solves the biggest existing problem with NFT’s.

Over the next weeks we will demonstrate this product with our partners as we onboard more customers.

Call of Data – the ultimate data farming game

Driving network activity on Bluzelle is our number one objective. Two functions drive developer adoption:

1. Showing Bluzelle is secure and battle-tested for applications to use as a mainnet.
2. Having datasets readily available for developers to use and build applications.

Similar to how Defi Apps used yield farming to drive initial user adoption and network activity, Bluzelle is launching Call of Data as an incentivised utility program to drive up storage.

Call of Data is a multi-month competition to engage all BLZ holders to upload data to Bluzelle and yield rewards. Each week there will be up to $10,000 awarded to participants who perform the best, along with other prizes. There will be leaderboards, mini competitions and more. 

Call of Data will be a key component in the overall Bluzelle ecosystem. You won’t have to be a developer to participate; we are designing it so everyone in the Bluzelle community can get involved. More details to come next week.

Expanding to Defi

To restate, the number one objective for Bluzelle is to increase network activity. And with all the solutions described above, Bluzelle 2.0 is a natural place for Defi products to be built and forward that objective. We have a community that is holding, staking, or being an LP for BLZ on Uniswap. It only makes sense to complete the loop and have our products that we build in-house or partner others to do. The first product on the roadmap is a DEX. 

Defi on Bluzelle is great for BLZ holders and Defi developers because:

• Bluzelle offers 10,000 TPS
• Integration of IBC from Cosmos, Bluzelle seamlessly connects to other chains
• Top validators are not only interested in staking but also being LPs
• Superior oracle solution built in

With Bluzelle 2.0, a defi developer can build a great application right away. 

What’s coming next

Over the next 8 weeks you will see a number of things coming out:

• Ethereum and EVM support for Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Tomochain, Fantom
• Mainnet upgrade to Cosmos Stargate bringing about more features
• Instant interoperability across all Cosmos Chains via IBC
• Mainnet for Oracles and file storage
• Call of Data 
• Easy staking and conversion of BLZ tokens via Metamask-style browser plugin
• First Defi DEX on Bluzelle 

Contacts

• PR
• Pr@marketacross.com

Singapore, Singapore, 27th May, 2021,

Jigstack ($STAK), a leading decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) which is governing a portfolio of ethereum network assets and protocols is now listed on HitBTC, a leading European cryptocurrency exchange which offers a high level of liquidity. This marks a new beginning for the STAK token which is the native cryptocurrency of the Jigstack platform.

With a maximum supply of 3,000,000,000, the STAK token is an ERC20 token which users of the Jigstack network need for carrying out transactions on the platform as well as governance. “Jigstack’s aim is to create a structured system for the DAO to exist within, utilizing $STAK as its governance token while adding a range of DeFi protocols under its umbrella”. Said Roby Weir, founder of Jigstack.

STAK tokens were made available on HitBTC exchange as of 25 May 2021 at 2pm UTC and trading will commence today, at 2pm UTC on 27 May 2021.

The asset will be available to trade in two pairs, STAK/BTC and STAK/USDT. This means users would have to be holding either BTC or USDT to trade the STAK token on the HitBTC exchange. 

Jigstack is building an ecosystem of different DeFi projects, including a launchpad, a staking solution and a liquidity incentivization program which are compatible with both the Ethereum and Hedera Hashgraph networks, to position itself as the brand name for the DAO of Defi.

About Jigstack

Jigstack’s vision to bring back wholeness, simplicity, and understanding to the users. The Jigstack protocol aims to do this by developing a suite of productive flagship DeFi products that are all governed under a single Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).

Jigstack is positioned as the DAO of DeFi. The platform is the “One Stop Shop” for everything DeFi, and on top of that, it offers an interactive and interesting interface for users thereby allowing them to easily understand each product and how to interact with it, thus gaining exposure to the DeFi ecosystem in a safe and effective manner.

About HitBTC

HitBTC, established in 2013, has a daily trading volume of over $1 billion, making it one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world. By getting listed on the exchange, STAK will now be available to millions of users of the platform. HitBTC is, no doubt, one of the best crypto exchanges in the market right now especially when it comes to trading Bitcoin and altcoins.

Being a veteran in the market and despite its longevity, HitBTC holds an enviable record of being among the few crypto exchanges that has never been hacked. Its advanced security and user experience has left many of its users satisfied about the quality of their services.

Contacts

• Rob Weir
• rob.w@jigstack.org

Aarhus, Denmark, 26th May, 2021,

Hoard Exchange, an Ethereum based NFT marketplace for trading, renting and lending NFT’s will be opening its gates on May 26th. Hoard allows users to borrow and pledge NFT’s of all kinds such as in-game items, digital art, domain names and more.

Users can trade their own NFT’s by listing them or discover other NFTs to purchase. Once a user acquires an NFT or uploads his own NFT into the marketplace, he can use them as collateral for a loan, depending on supply and demand. Hoard’s solution offers lenders a tool to yield high profits and an opportunity to acquire desired NFTs in case of a foreclosure.

The platform will provide beginners and advanced crypto enthusiasts with a user-friendly interface. Hoard focuses on user-owned in-game items, real estate, digital art, and many more NFT’s that can be traded, borrowed, or rented on the marketplace.

The lend and borrow functionalities will allow anyone who holds stablecoins and NFTs, to easily build an additional income with NFT as a borrower or leverage as a lender. In addition, the owners of HRD token can stake the coin and can get a financial return on their investment. 

“The Loan feature on the Hoard Market opens new possibilities for NFT holders. This is the first step of further development of novel NFTs functionalities/utilities which Hoard is going to introduce in the coming months”, said Radek Zagórowicz, CEO of Hoard.

About:

Hoard is an NFT marketplace that ensures low fees and supports many ERC20 tokens for transactions. The platform supports advanced DeFi liquidity functionalities and money lending through the Marketplace using NFT’s as collateral.

Contacts

• Marta Byrne
• hello@hoard.exchange

Tallinn, Estonia, 25th May, 2021,

dotmoovs, a recently-founded startup offering a crypto-enabled grassroots sports competition app, has received support from Luís Figo and Ricardo Quaresma, both renowned professional football players, as Brand Ambassadors.

The two players will help the startup market its app among their loyal fan base, introducing sports enthusiasts to the world of cryptocurrencies and NFTs through a unique online competition app. The dotmoovs app will enable users to enter into instant competitions with other peers, for example to show off their skill with football freestyle tricks. An AI-based engine will then determine the best participant and reward them with MOOV tokens or NFTs.

Given dotmoovs’ initial focus on football, with Football Freestyle being the platform’s first sport, the team sought to connect with former football players for feedback and support. Luís Figo became the first well-known player to back dotmoovs, having learned of the platform through mutual acquaintances. 

Luís Figo is a Portuguese professional football player considered to be one of the best of his generation, having reached the peak of his career during the 2000s. He won FIFA 2001 World Player of the Year and 2000 Ballon d’Or, and was the first “galáctico,” a select list of expensive and world-famous football superstars to which later joined Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, David Beckham, Michael Owen, Robinho and Sergio Ramos.

After retiring from professional sports toward the end of the decade, Figo set up the Luis Figo Foundation, an organisation that promotes and develops a set of projects that cover, in different ways, the areas of Sports, Education, Health and Social Action.

Following Figo, dotmoovs also reached out and convinced Ricardo Quaresma, an active player known for his roles in football clubs such as Barcelona, Inter, Milan, FC Porto, and Beşiktaş. Quaresma’s known for his many tricks like the rabona and trivela, making him extremely popular among fans.

“Since we are launching Football Freestyle as the platform’s first sport, it was clear that we had to have at least one football legend with us,” said Ricardo Martins Costa, Head of Growth at dotmoovs. ”Figo was the original Galactico, the first truly world-famous football superstar of our generation, so we had to present him with the project. Just a couple of weeks later we were flying to Madrid to meet with him and doing some shooting sessions.”

“During the Covid pandemic in 2020, football fans around the world have been forced to explore new ways of playing their favorite sport,” said Luís Figo. “Though, thankfully, the worst is now over, I believe that new ways of combining digital with physical sports will take their place together with the good old-fashioned game on the football field.”

About dotmoovs

dotmoovs is the first crypto mobile worldwide competitive environment. The platform allows users to compete with others around the world just by bringing their skills, ambition, and smartphone. dotmoov’s AI-based video referee will assess their performance in real-time. Powered by blockchain technology, sport competition will enable fair challenges and access to unique digital assets.

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Contacts

• Ricardo Martins Costa
• ricardo@dotmoovs.com