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      "body": "<center>https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/china-crypto-ban-e1526548766639.png</center> <br /><h2>The CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Ranks 28 Public Blockchains</h2>\r\n[divider height=\"30\" style=\"default\" line=\"default\" themecolor=\"1\"]\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/china-rankings-public-blockchains.png\" alt width=\"491\" height=\"351\" /><br>Despite the ICO &amp; fiat-to-cryptocurrency trading bans that China enforced late last year, it is apparent that the some factions of the Chinese government have a keen interest in blockchain technology and its potential uses cases. Last month the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced its intent to conduct a wide-scale study of 28 public blockchain projects, becoming the world's first government-funded ranking system.\r\n\r\nThe rankings were determined by an index of three categories: technology, application, and innovation. <a href=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/category/news/project-news/ethereum/\">Ethereum</a> ranked at number one with ease, with STEEM, Lisk, and China's own dearly loved project NEO lagging behind considerably at the two, three, and four spot. The entire rankings can be seen in the image on the left (courtesy of cnLedger). Steem taking the #2 spot was a surprise to many, which makes me wonder if they had accidentally switched the titles on Technology and Application (in my opinion Steem has great application but is not really technologically innovative). However, the purpose of this article is not to cause a debate on how they ranked these 28 projects.\r\n\r\n<strong>Note: The following is purely an editorial piece based off speculation, and does not convey the official viewpoint or opinion of Lunar Digital Assets LLC as a company. </strong>\r\n<h2>Could this be an indication that domestic trading will soon be resumed in China?</h2>\r\n[divider height=\"30\" style=\"default\" line=\"default\" themecolor=\"1\"]\r\n<h3>Divisions Within Nations Themselves</h3>\r\nIt seems that governments worldwide are struggling to find a <a href=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/category/news/regulatory/\">regulatory</a> solution to the cryptocurrency-trading and investing frenzy that caught the attention of the world last year. Different ministries and departments within a nation itself often have different opinions and motives-- causing more confusion and 'FUD'. A similar case can be found in South Korea when Hong Nam-ki, minister of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, denounced the Justice Ministry for releasing a misleading statement of intent to ban all cryptocurrency trading back in January. The public uproar was severe enough to warrant a video message recorded straight from the Presidential room at the Blue House (the Korean equivalent to the White House). Meanwhile, over here in the United States, a handful of government entities are in constant contradiction regarding the regulation of currencies: FinCEN defines them as currencies, the Treasury Department defines them as property, the CFTC wants to categorize them as commodities, while the SEC is clearly set on its mission to win its fight for jurisdiction by treating them as securities.\r\n<h3>Why Was a Study Conducted With Government Funds?</h3>\r<div class=\"pull-right\"> <img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Peoples-Bank-of-China_4Cnew-621x414-300x200.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /><br> People's Bank of China</div>\r\n\r\nThis study by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, could however, be a very good indication that the government is taking its next steps to lifting the ban on crypto-trading very seriously, and is very close to resuming its trade. Last July, Shanghai Daily reported that the People's Bank of China (PBoC) posted <a href=\"https://www.shine.cn/archive/business/finance/PBOC-aims-to-develop-digital-currency/shdaily.shtml\">this peculiar job listing</a>:\r\n<blockquote><strong>“The People’s Bank of China’s institute of printing science is offering six positions for the design and development of digital currency-related software and hardware framework, a recruitment notice said, adding that candidates with experience in blockchain and Big Data technologies will be preferred.</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The candidates must hold master’s or doctoral degree in computer science, information security and cryptography, according to the notice.”</strong></blockquote>\r\nIt is no secret that the Chinese government has been developing their own official cryptographically-backed currency. But let's take a deeper look into why China had banned cryptocurrency trading in the first place: limit illicit activities like tax evasion and money laundering, and protecting investors from fraudulent and risky projects. Are the stars lining up for you yet?\r\n<h3>Chinese Exchanges Were Demanded Private Trading Volume Data and User Data Months Before The Trading Ban Announcement -- These Exchanges are Now Absolutely Thriving Overseas</h3>\r\nStarting in January 2017, officials from PBoC visited the offices of the largest exchanges in China at the time, \"politely requesting\" (demanding) data and information on not only its trade activities but on their private users.\r\n<blockquote>Robin Zhu [CEO of Huobi] definitely thought something was up. <strong>To him, it seemed like the PBoC was gathering information in an order to create a framework for regulating the industry, something many exchanges wouldn't have necessarily been worried about.</strong>\r\n\r\n\"The regulator wanted to grab a big picture of how significant cryptocurrency trading was in China - how does bitcoin work; where does the money come from; where does it go to; how do people make and lose money?\" <a href=\"https://www.coindesk.com/chinas-crypto-exchanges-didnt-just-survive-theyre-thriving/\">Zhu said</a>.</blockquote>\r\nThe September 2017 trade-ban announcement came at a surprise to Zhu himself, along with the executives of other competing exchanges. With the ban in China ongoing, Chinese exchanges began their westward and eastward expansion, starting with the two of the top 10 largest exchanges by volume at the time: Huobi and OKCoin. In months offices were opened up in cryptocurrency safe-havens like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Belize. It didn't take long until Huobi Pro and OKEx once again took top 10 spots (OKEx and Huobi Pro stands at #1 and #3 in volume for the day at this time of writing). Binance, another Chinese-owned exchange formed amidst the trading-ban chaos, sits at the #2 spot and has seen an unprecedented rate of growth. Although Chinese fiat-to-crypto trading temporarily had investors shaken up, these \"new\" crypto-to-crypto trading exchanges have effectively taken the top 3 spots in volume.\r\n<h2>An Official Digitized Chinese Currency &amp; A List of Trusted Projects:</h2>\r\n[divider height=\"30\" style=\"default\" line=\"default\" themecolor=\"1\"]\r\n\r<div class=\"pull-left\"> <img title=\"Fan-Yifei-Announces-China-Government-Backed-Cryptocurrency\" src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/fan-e1526547426885-300x247.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"247\" /><br> Fan Yifei Announcing His Support To Develop Centralized Crypto, Protecting the Yuan Against Non-State Digital Assets</div>\r\n\r\nIt is my speculation that this ban was placed with a plan in mind--a brilliant plan in which they devised to better monitor the transfer of fiat going in and out of the nation through cryptocurrencies. An official cryptocurrency backed by the Chinese government would have huge implications not only for China but for the entire world. Not only will it be the first global superpower to digitize its currency setting precedence for other nations to follow, but the China will have total control over the initial distribution and sales of these \"RMB/CNY-Tether\" type tokens, allowing them to chronologically track the movement of these assets with complete transparency. Instead of fighting blockchain technology, China plans to leverage it, as stated a couple months back on March 29th:\r\n<blockquote>“[One objective] is to strictly strengthen internal management and external supervision, attach great importance to and effectively strengthen the quality control of RMB... <em><strong>and carry out rectification of various types of virtual currencies</strong></em>.” - Fan Yifei, Deputy Governor of the PBoC</blockquote>\r\nIt is very likely, in my opinion, that when the fiat-to-crypto trading ban is lifted China, these official government digital assets will be the only legal gateway to trade quasi \"fiat\"-to-crypto within its borders. In addition, this government-sponsored study of 28 public blockchain projects could possibly mean that the People's Bank of China is working with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to announce these government backed \"fiat\" tokens are ready to launch sooner than later, and ultimately allow domestic trading to resume with a list of whitelisted cryptocurrencies.\r\n<h2>China's Domestic Trading Ban Cannot and Will Not Last Forever</h2>\r\nI have personally been closely following the developments of the fiasco of the Chinese Cryptocurrency trading ban for over a year, and although I've had my suspicions about China's motives, I have kept it quiet. However, as more pieces to the puzzle begin lining up, I am convicted to share my speculations. A government like China does not waste its resources to sponsor and conduct random studies, and I believe that this CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is more significant than people think. However, I could be totally wrong, but I will not regret this piece because sometimes its fun to put on a tinfoil hat. As stated before, this is a personal editorial based off speculations.<br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog with <a href='https://wordpress.org/plugins/steempress/'>SteemPress</a> : https://lunardigitalassets.com/insights/speculation-opinions/2018/china-ranks-28-blockchain-cryptocurrencies/</em><hr/></center>",
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      "title": "China's State-Sponsored Research of the \"Top 28\" Could Be More Important Than You Think",
      "body": "<center>https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/china-crypto-ban-e1526548766639.png</center> <br /><h2>The CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Ranks 28 Public Blockchains</h2>\n<hr></hr>\n<img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/china-rankings-public-blockchains.png\" alt width=\"491\" height=\"351\" /><p>Despite the ICO &amp; fiat-to-cryptocurrency trading bans that China enforced late last year, it is apparent that the some factions of the Chinese government have a keen interest in blockchain technology and its potential uses cases. Last month the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced its intent to conduct a wide-scale study of 28 public blockchain projects, becoming the world's first government-funded ranking system.</p>\n\n<p>The rankings were determined by an index of three categories: technology, application, and innovation. <a href=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/category/news/project-news/ethereum/\">Ethereum</a> ranked at number one with ease, with STEEM, Lisk, and China's own dearly loved project NEO lagging behind considerably at the two, three, and four spot. The entire rankings can be seen in the image on the left (courtesy of cnLedger). Steem taking the #2 spot was a surprise to many, which makes me wonder if they had accidentally switched the titles on Technology and Application (in my opinion Steem has great application but is not really technologically innovative). However, the purpose of this article is not to cause a debate on how they ranked these 28 projects.</p>\n\n<strong>Note: The following is purely an editorial piece based off speculation, and does not convey the official viewpoint or opinion of Lunar Digital Assets LLC as a company. </strong>\n<h2>Could this be an indication that domestic trading will soon be resumed in China?</h2>\n<hr></hr><h3>Divisions Within Nations Themselves</h3>\nIt seems that governments worldwide are struggling to find a <a href=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/category/news/regulatory/\">regulatory</a> solution to the cryptocurrency-trading and investing frenzy that caught the attention of the world last year. Different ministries and departments within a nation itself often have different opinions and motives-- causing more confusion and 'FUD'. A similar case can be found in South Korea when Hong Nam-ki, minister of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, denounced the Justice Ministry for releasing a misleading statement of intent to ban all cryptocurrency trading back in January. The public uproar was severe enough to warrant a video message recorded straight from the Presidential room at the Blue House (the Korean equivalent to the White House). Meanwhile, over here in the United States, a handful of government entities are in constant contradiction regarding the regulation of currencies: FinCEN defines them as currencies, the Treasury Department defines them as property, the CFTC wants to categorize them as commodities, while the SEC is clearly set on its mission to win its fight for jurisdiction by treating them as securities.\n<h3>Why Was a Study Conducted With Government Funds?</h3>\n<div class=\"pull-right\"> <img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Peoples-Bank-of-China_4Cnew-621x414-300x200.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /><br> People's Bank of China</div>\n\nThis study by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, could however, be a very good indication that the government is taking its next steps to lifting the ban on crypto-trading very seriously, and is very close to resuming its trade. Last July, Shanghai Daily reported that the People's Bank of China (PBoC) posted <a href=\"https://www.shine.cn/archive/business/finance/PBOC-aims-to-develop-digital-currency/shdaily.shtml\">this peculiar job listing</a>:\n\n> “The People’s Bank of China’s institute of printing science is offering six positions for the design and development of digital currency-related software and hardware framework, a recruitment notice said, adding that candidates with experience in blockchain and Big Data technologies will be preferred.\n\n> The candidates must hold master’s or doctoral degree in computer science, information security and cryptography, according to the notice.”\n\n<hr> </hr>\n<p>It is no secret that the Chinese government has been developing their own official cryptographically-backed currency. But let's take a deeper look into why China had banned cryptocurrency trading in the first place: limit illicit activities like tax evasion and money laundering, and protecting investors from fraudulent and risky projects. Are the stars lining up for you yet?</p>\n\n<h3>Chinese Exchanges Were Demanded Private Trading Volume Data and User Data Months Before The Trading Ban Announcement -- These Exchanges are Now Absolutely Thriving Overseas</h3>\n\n<p>Starting in January 2017, officials from PBoC visited the offices of the largest exchanges in China at the time, \"politely requesting\" (demanding) data and information on not only its trade activities but on their private users.</p>\n\n> Robin Zhu, CEO of Huobi definitely thought something was up. To him, it seemed like the PBoC was gathering information in an order to create a framework for regulating the industry, something many exchanges wouldn't have necessarily been worried about. \n\n> The regulator wanted to grab a big picture of how significant cryptocurrency trading was in China - how does bitcoin work; where does the money come from; where does it go to; how do people make and lose money? \n> - Robin Zhu\n\n<hr> </hr>\n\nThe September 2017 trade-ban announcement came at a surprise to Zhu himself, along with the executives of other competing exchanges. With the ban in China ongoing, Chinese exchanges began their westward and eastward expansion, starting with the two of the top 10 largest exchanges by volume at the time: Huobi and OKCoin. In months offices were opened up in cryptocurrency safe-havens like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Belize. It didn't take long until Huobi Pro and OKEx once again took top 10 spots (OKEx and Huobi Pro stands at #1 and #3 in volume for the day at this time of writing). Binance, another Chinese-owned exchange formed amidst the trading-ban chaos, sits at the #2 spot and has seen an unprecedented rate of growth. Although Chinese fiat-to-crypto trading temporarily had investors shaken up, these \"new\" crypto-to-crypto trading exchanges have effectively taken the top 3 spots in volume.</p>\n\n<hr></hr>\n\n<h2>An Official Digitized Chinese Currency &amp; A List of Trusted Projects:</h2>\n\n<div class=\"pull-left\"> <img title=\"Fan-Yifei-Announces-China-Government-Backed-Cryptocurrency\" src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/fan-e1526547426885-300x247.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"247\" /><br> Fan Yifei Announcing His Support To Develop Centralized Crypto</div>\n\nIt is my speculation that this ban was placed with a plan in mind--a brilliant plan in which they devised to better monitor the transfer of fiat going in and out of the nation through cryptocurrencies. An official cryptocurrency backed by the Chinese government would have huge implications not only for China but for the entire world. Not only will it be the first global superpower to digitize its currency setting precedence for other nations to follow, but the China will have total control over the initial distribution and sales of these \"RMB/CNY-Tether\" type tokens, allowing them to chronologically track the movement of these assets with complete transparency. Instead of fighting blockchain technology, China plans to leverage it, as stated a couple months back on March 29th:\n\n> “[One objective] is to strictly strengthen internal management and external supervision, attach great importance to and effectively strengthen the quality control of RMB... <em><strong>and carry out rectification of various types of virtual currencies</strong></em>.” - Fan Yifei, Deputy Governor of the PBoC\n\n<hr> </hr>\n\n<p>It is very likely, in my opinion, that when the fiat-to-crypto trading ban is lifted China, these official government digital assets will be the only legal gateway to trade quasi \"fiat\"-to-crypto within its borders. In addition, this government-sponsored study of 28 public blockchain projects could possibly mean that the People's Bank of China is working with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to announce these government backed \"fiat\" tokens are ready to launch sooner than later, and ultimately allow domestic trading to resume with a list of whitelisted cryptocurrencies.<p/>\n\n<h2>China's Domestic Trading Ban Cannot and Will Not Last Forever</h2>\nI have personally been closely following the developments of the fiasco of the Chinese Cryptocurrency trading ban for over a year, and although I've had my suspicions about China's motives, I have kept it quiet. However, as more pieces to the puzzle begin lining up, I am convicted to share my speculations. 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      "body": "<blockquote>\n\n<center> <img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Cardano-e1526502155753.jpg\" alt=\"Cardano ADA smart contract platform banner\" width=\"800\" height=\"308\" /><br> “There has been a desire to preserve a single notion of consensus around facts and events recorded in a single ledger, regardless of whether it makes sense.” — Cardano Team</center>\n</blockquote>\n<div class=\"pull-right\"> <img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/girolamo_Cardano-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Artistic Portrait of Gerolamo Cardano\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" /><br> Gerolamo Cardano</div>\n<p>Bitcoin is blockchain 1.0 because it was the first distributed ledger. <a href=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/news/ethereum/\">Ethereum</a> is blockchain 2.0 because it was the first platform for <a href=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/insights/2018/analysis-smart-contract-platforms-part-1/\">developers to create decentralized applications</a>. Since the introduction of both the Bitcoin and Ethereum protocols, a few problems emerged. Two gaping issues include the scalability of transactions for Bitcoin, and the bugs stemming from Solidity as the standard coding language in the Ethereum network. Named after influential Italian Renaissance polymath, Gerolamo Cardano, <strong>Cardano (or ADA)</strong> is a blockchain protocol currently being developed by IOHK (Input Output Hong Kong). Cardano aims to address these issues (among many others) and create a platform to execute smart contracts and to develop and run decentralized applications more efficiently (in addition to launching side chains, multi-party computation and metadata.)</p>\n\n<p>The protocol itself launched on September 29th, 2017, after two years of rigorous research and development by a robust community of academics comprising of the world’s leading scientists, cryptographers, and researchers. <em>The aspect of Cardano’s peer-reviewed development process differentiates itself heavily from other blockchains.</em></p>\n\n<center> <img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-09-at-6.18.19-PM-e1526502347505.png\" alt=\"Cardano Byron Bootstrap Phase\" width=\"1910\" height=\"639\" /><br> The protocol is still under the ‘Byron’ bootstrap phase. Phase II is called ‘Shelley,’ and is slated to launch halfway through 2018.</center>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p>As it stands with other blockchain protocols with similar goals,<strong> Cardano is ranked 7th</strong> on CoinMarketCap (<strong>with a $6.46 billion market cap</strong>), <strong>NEO at 11th</strong> (with a <strong>$3.99 billion market cap)</strong>, <strong>EOS at 5th</strong> with a <strong>$10.58 billion</strong> <strong>market cap) </strong><em>as of May 16th.</em></p>\n<hr></hr>\n<h2>What is the Philosophy Behind Cardano?</h2>\n<p>The motto of Cardano is “<strong>process over people</strong>.” The typical process in approving a feature to be included within the protocol is handled by huge collectives of people following rigid guidelines and processes. As mentioned previously, peer review is a fundamental characteristic of the Cardano network.</p>\n<p>For example, say a developer has an idea on implementing fees within the protocol. A paper is written on that particular feature, and multiple cryptographic experts, developers, and scientists review it to find holes in the programming language’s logic to make sure it has a robust structure. Experts are critiquing experts. Many argue that this philosophy is a valid method of developing cutting-edge technology.</p>\n\n<h3>An ambitious undertaking with government</h3>\n<p>In a nascent stage, the crypto currency landscape is fairly unregulated by governments all over the world. Another differentiator is Cardano’s ambitious goal of complying with <a href=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/news/2018/cryptocurrency-legitimate-us-state-governments-say/\">regulations</a> from jurisdictions all over the world. Without much precedent or past legislation relevant to blockchain, the willingness to go through formal government regulations is quite the undertaking. Cardano (like NEO) looks to seriously engage with real-world regulation. One argument is that to effectively interact with legacy systems (like governments and banks), there needs to be a fair degree of integration and some communication system in place between the blockchain world and legacy world to provide value to society.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>The technicals of Cardano</strong></h3>\n<div class=\"pull-right\"> <img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/haskell-300x212.png\" alt=\"Haskell Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" /><br> Haskell</div>\n<p>Haskell is the standard programming language of Cardano. The language is praised by some in the blockchain community as concise in its logic. Less likely to produce errors, Haskell also changes the way some programmers think and work. By forcing programmers to be more concise in their logic, features can be reused. Afterwards, formal methods are used to to check their protocol. Basically, there are rigorous executable mathematical models that determine potential network faults. This ensures a greater level of certainty to predict the level of computing within the network.</p>\n\n<div>The use of formal methods/verification yields high assurance software or high assurance code. Industries where reliability is paramount (<strong>such as military defense, nuclear reactors, and medical machinery), </strong>use high assurance software. An institution like NASA, operating with a $2.5 billion investment for its Mars rover, is still going strong after ten years, because of high assurance software. In the context of cryptocurrency, <a href=\"https://www.coindesk.com/understanding-dao-hack-journalists/\" target=\"_blank\">it’ll prevent something like the DAO from occurring again.</a></div>\n<h3></h3>\n<h3>Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol</h3>\n<p><strong><img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ouroboros-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ouroboros Proof of Stake Blockchain Protocol\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /><br>The Ouroboros proof-of-stake protocol is the backbone of the Cardano blockchain. </strong><em>Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol</em>, was a peer-reviewed whitepaper with consideration to the long-term wastefulness of energy when it comes to proof of work algorithms.</p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cardanos-ouroboros-proving-proof-stake-can-work-wild-1663150\" target=\"_blank\">Ibtimes,</a> Ouroboros ensures randomness when it comes to electing slot leaders, so long as they have a stake (&gt;0 ADA) in the Cardano network. 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The Treasury is the way in which continuous improvements can be made to the network. the consensus algorithm incurs a transaction fee, that is determined by a particular equation:<em> a + b*c</em></p>\n<p><strong>a</strong> is a constant = .155381 ADA, <strong>b</strong> is also a constant = .000043946, <strong>c</strong> = size of the transaction in bytes</p>\n\n<h2>Cardano Corporate Structure</h2>\n<p>The overarching corporate structure of the Cardano blockchain comprises of three entities. <a href=\"https://cardanofoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Cardano Foundation</a>, based in Switzerland, is the non-profit entity that oversees regulatory compliance, community management, and partnerships for the Cardano blockchain. <a href=\"https://iohk.io/\" target=\"_blank\">Input Output Hong Kong</a> (IOHK) is the research, development, and engineering entity, (founded by Hoskinson), behind the Cardano blockchain.<a href=\"https://emurgo.io/\" target=\"_blank\"> Emurgo</a> is the for-profit, venture capital firm behind the Cardano blockchain that aims to establish practical and commercial startups that will be built on top of the Cardano blockchain.</p>\n\n<h3>The Team</h3>\n<h4><img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/charles-hoskinson-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Hoskinson CEO of Cardano\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /><br></h4>\n<h4><strong>Charles Hoskinson — Founder and CEO</strong></h4>\n<p>Hoskinson has held a number of positions within the public and private sector, according to IOHK’s website. He is perhaps best known as one of the cofounders of Ethereum (with Vitalik Buterin), and former CEO of Ethereum. In 2015 he partnered up with the Cardano Foundation and founded IOHK as a contract team to develop the Cardano protocol up until 2020. He has assembled a team of distinguished academics and doctorates, scientists, business, technical specialists, and software engineers from all over the world to develop a truly scientific approach rooted in philosophical fundamentals inherent to the blockchain community.</p>\n\n<h4><strong><img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Jeremy-Wood-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Wood Co-founder of Cardano\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /><br></strong></h4>\n<h4><strong>Jeremy Wood — Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer</strong></h4>\n<p>Jeremy Wood also worked with Ethereum in 2013, managing operations. After leaving Ethereum, Jeremy worked as a consultant before starting Input Output with Charles Hoskinson in 2015.</p>\n\n<h3></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<h2>What are some example use cases of Cardano so far?</h2>\n<p><img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/metaps-logo-300x64.png\" alt=\"metaps Plus Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" /><br>Japanese-owned, but South Korean-adopted mobile payments platform Metaps Plus most recently announced a partnership with Cardano. Metaps Plus verifies about 10 million mobile to offline transactions per year, <a href=\"https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2018/05/09/cardano-ada-token-gets-listed-on-korean-payment-platform-metaps-plus/\" target=\"_blank\">according to cryptoninjas.net</a>. The adoption will occur around Q3 2018 and will be used in over <strong>33,000 offline stores and promotions; </strong>the adoption signifies cryptocurrency integration with mainstream service providers.</p>\n\n\n<div class=\"pull-left\"> <img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ethiopia_Hoskinson-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Hoskinson signing Memorandum with Ethiopia\" width=\"513\" height=\"385\" /><br> Charles Hoskinson after signing an MOU with the Ethiopian Ministry of Science &amp; Technology. Courtesy of TheNextWeb</div>\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https://www.ccn.com/cardano-to-help-ethiopia-grow-coffee-using-blockchain-tech/\" target=\"_blank\">CCN</a>, Hoskinson most recently signed a memorandum of understanding (on behalf of Cardano), with the Ethiopian Ministry of Science and Technology for developments in agriculture technology. Ethiopia is known historically as the birthplace of coffee (dating back to the 10th century); the partnership between Cardano and the Ethiopian Ministry of Science will help coffee growers prove the the source and purity of their coffee beans. Additionally, a study will be conducted to evaluate how tracking coffee throughout the supply chain can affects its growing, harvesting, roasting, and wholesale life cycle. The project also aims to cut down on fraud and to make land registry more transparent (similar to efforts made by the Kenyan to verify land registries through distributed ledger technology).</p>\n<h2>ICO &amp; Tokenomics</h2>\n<p>The protocol generated about $62 million via token crowd-sale between September 2015 and January 2017 with heavy KYC-requirements. It was marketed heavily towards the Japanese, and reports indicate that about 95% of those who participated in the ICO were of Japanese descent <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62MCv_4p-EY\" target=\"_blank\">(according to CryptoCandor)</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>Cardano</strong>: circulating supply is 25 billion tokens, and there is a maximum supply of 45 billion. As of May 16th, 2:42 EST, Cardano is trading at $0.25 on CoinMarketCap.</p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER:</strong> <em>We are in no way associated with the Cardano team. Neither is this meant to be financial advice. Whatever follows just reflects our understanding of the project, and our personal opinion on its outlook. 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However, the purpose of this article is not to cause a debate on how they ranked these 28 projects.\r\n\r\n<strong>Note: The following is purely an editorial piece based off speculation, and does not convey the official viewpoint or opinion of Lunar Digital Assets LLC as a company. </strong>\r\n<h2>Could this be an indication that domestic trading will soon be resumed in China?</h2>\r\n[divider height=\"30\" style=\"default\" line=\"default\" themecolor=\"1\"]\r\n<h3>Divisions Within Nations Themselves</h3>\r\nIt seems that governments worldwide are struggling to find a <a href=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/category/news/regulatory/\">regulatory</a> solution to the cryptocurrency-trading and investing frenzy that caught the attention of the world last year. Different ministries and departments within a nation itself often have different opinions and motives-- causing more confusion and 'FUD'. A similar case can be found in South Korea when Hong Nam-ki, minister of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, denounced the Justice Ministry for releasing a misleading statement of intent to ban all cryptocurrency trading back in January. The public uproar was severe enough to warrant a video message recorded straight from the Presidential room at the Blue House (the Korean equivalent to the White House). Meanwhile, over here in the United States, a handful of government entities are in constant contradiction regarding the regulation of currencies: FinCEN defines them as currencies, the Treasury Department defines them as property, the CFTC wants to categorize them as commodities, while the SEC is clearly set on its mission to win its fight for jurisdiction by treating them as securities.\r\n<h3>Why Was a Study Conducted With Government Funds?</h3>\r<div class=\"pull-right\"> <img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Peoples-Bank-of-China_4Cnew-621x414-300x200.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /><br> People's Bank of China</div>\r\n\r\nThis study by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, could however, be a very good indication that the government is taking its next steps to lifting the ban on crypto-trading very seriously, and is very close to resuming its trade. Last July, Shanghai Daily reported that the People's Bank of China (PBoC) posted <a href=\"https://www.shine.cn/archive/business/finance/PBOC-aims-to-develop-digital-currency/shdaily.shtml\">this peculiar job listing</a>:\r\n<blockquote><strong>“The People’s Bank of China’s institute of printing science is offering six positions for the design and development of digital currency-related software and hardware framework, a recruitment notice said, adding that candidates with experience in blockchain and Big Data technologies will be preferred.</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The candidates must hold master’s or doctoral degree in computer science, information security and cryptography, according to the notice.”</strong></blockquote>\r\nIt is no secret that the Chinese government has been developing their own official cryptographically-backed currency. But let's take a deeper look into why China had banned cryptocurrency trading in the first place: limit illicit activities like tax evasion and money laundering, and protecting investors from fraudulent and risky projects. Are the stars lining up for you yet?\r\n<h3>Chinese Exchanges Were Demanded Private Trading Volume Data and User Data Months Before The Trading Ban Announcement -- These Exchanges are Now Absolutely Thriving Overseas</h3>\r\nStarting in January 2017, officials from PBoC visited the offices of the largest exchanges in China at the time, \"politely requesting\" (demanding) data and information on not only its trade activities but on their private users.\r\n<blockquote>Robin Zhu [CEO of Huobi] definitely thought something was up. <strong>To him, it seemed like the PBoC was gathering information in an order to create a framework for regulating the industry, something many exchanges wouldn't have necessarily been worried about.</strong>\r\n\r\n\"The regulator wanted to grab a big picture of how significant cryptocurrency trading was in China - how does bitcoin work; where does the money come from; where does it go to; how do people make and lose money?\" <a href=\"https://www.coindesk.com/chinas-crypto-exchanges-didnt-just-survive-theyre-thriving/\">Zhu said</a>.</blockquote>\r\nThe September 2017 trade-ban announcement came at a surprise to Zhu himself, along with the executives of other competing exchanges. With the ban in China ongoing, Chinese exchanges began their westward and eastward expansion, starting with the two of the top 10 largest exchanges by volume at the time: Huobi and OKCoin. In months offices were opened up in cryptocurrency safe-havens like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Belize. It didn't take long until Huobi Pro and OKEx once again took top 10 spots (OKEx and Huobi Pro stands at #1 and #3 in volume for the day at this time of writing). Binance, another Chinese-owned exchange formed amidst the trading-ban chaos, sits at the #2 spot and has seen an unprecedented rate of growth. Although Chinese fiat-to-crypto trading temporarily had investors shaken up, these \"new\" crypto-to-crypto trading exchanges have effectively taken the top 3 spots in volume.\r\n<h2>An Official Digitized Chinese Currency &amp; A List of Trusted Projects:</h2>\r\n[divider height=\"30\" style=\"default\" line=\"default\" themecolor=\"1\"]\r\n\r<div class=\"pull-left\"> <img title=\"Fan-Yifei-Announces-China-Government-Backed-Cryptocurrency\" src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/fan-e1526547426885-300x247.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"247\" /><br> Fan Yifei Announcing His Support To Develop Centralized Crypto, Protecting the Yuan Against Non-State Digital Assets</div>\r\n\r\nIt is my speculation that this ban was placed with a plan in mind--a brilliant plan in which they devised to better monitor the transfer of fiat going in and out of the nation through cryptocurrencies. An official cryptocurrency backed by the Chinese government would have huge implications not only for China but for the entire world. Not only will it be the first global superpower to digitize its currency setting precedence for other nations to follow, but the China will have total control over the initial distribution and sales of these \"RMB/CNY-Tether\" type tokens, allowing them to chronologically track the movement of these assets with complete transparency. Instead of fighting blockchain technology, China plans to leverage it, as stated a couple months back on March 29th:\r\n<blockquote>“[One objective] is to strictly strengthen internal management and external supervision, attach great importance to and effectively strengthen the quality control of RMB... <em><strong>and carry out rectification of various types of virtual currencies</strong></em>.” - Fan Yifei, Deputy Governor of the PBoC</blockquote>\r\nIt is very likely, in my opinion, that when the fiat-to-crypto trading ban is lifted China, these official government digital assets will be the only legal gateway to trade quasi \"fiat\"-to-crypto within its borders. In addition, this government-sponsored study of 28 public blockchain projects could possibly mean that the People's Bank of China is working with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to announce these government backed \"fiat\" tokens are ready to launch sooner than later, and ultimately allow domestic trading to resume with a list of whitelisted cryptocurrencies.\r\n<h2>China's Domestic Trading Ban Cannot and Will Not Last Forever</h2>\r\nI have personally been closely following the developments of the fiasco of the Chinese Cryptocurrency trading ban for over a year, and although I've had my suspicions about China's motives, I have kept it quiet. However, as more pieces to the puzzle begin lining up, I am convicted to share my speculations. A government like China does not waste its resources to sponsor and conduct random studies, and I believe that this CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is more significant than people think. However, I could be totally wrong, but I will not regret this piece because sometimes its fun to put on a tinfoil hat. As stated before, this is a personal editorial based off speculations.<br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog with <a href='https://wordpress.org/plugins/steempress/'>SteemPress</a> : https://lunardigitalassets.com/insights/speculation-opinions/2018/china-ranks-28-blockchain-cryptocurrencies/</em><hr/></center>",
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If there were thousands of transactions per second, the nodes would need a lot of bandwidth to continuously download them all. Cardano wants to divide the network into subnetworks. It uses RINA (Recursive InterNetwork Architecture) to solve this. RINA structures networks with policies and clever engineering principles. The goal is to grant users scalability, privacy, transparency guarantees that are enjoyed by the TC/IP protocol. It is a mechanism that will be set in place as Cardano scales from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands transactions per second while communicating with the TCP/IP protocol.</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>2b. Data Scale</h3>\r\n<p>Blockchains store things forever (hopefully). But the team behind Cardano recognizes that not all nodes must have a complete copy of all blockchains at all times to maintain the integrity of the protocol. With more TPS, there needs to be more data. 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He is perhaps best known as one of the cofounders of Ethereum (with Vitalik Buterin), and former CEO of Ethereum. In 2015 he partnered up with the Cardano Foundation and founded IOHK as a contract team to develop the Cardano protocol up until 2020. He has assembled a team of distinguished academics and doctorates, scientists, business, technical specialists, and software engineers from all over the world to develop a truly scientific approach rooted in philosophical fundamentals inherent to the blockchain community.</p>\r\n\r\n<h4><strong><img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Jeremy-Wood-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Wood Co-founder of Cardano\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /><br></strong></h4>\r\n<h4><strong>Jeremy Wood — Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer</strong></h4>\r\n<p>Jeremy Wood also worked with Ethereum in 2013, managing operations. 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The adoption will occur around Q3 2018 and will be used in over <strong>33,000 offline stores and promotions; </strong>the adoption signifies cryptocurrency integration with mainstream service providers.</p>\r\n\r\n&lt;figure class=\"graf graf--figure\"&gt;\r\n\r<div class=\"pull-left\"> <img src=\"https://lunardigitalassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ethiopia_Hoskinson-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Hoskinson signing Memorandum with Ethiopia\" width=\"513\" height=\"385\" /><br> Charles Hoskinson after signing an MOU with the Ethiopian Ministry of Science &amp; Technology. 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