Additional Value Layers Beyond Bitcoin: Inside Colu
Mark Smargon, co-founder and head of product for Colu, is excited about the recent Beta launch of their developer platform on August 12th. Colu is a blockchain startup based out of Tel Aviv, the idea of which stemmed from the concept of creating an immutable, trusted layer of digital assets and information on top of the Internet. The founders envision a future of interoperability between services and a frictionless experience for users because of the decentralized and open ledger benefits of using blockchain technology. CoinTelegraph spoke with Mark to find out more about Colu’s plans.....
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Colu specializes in making assets digital through the use of colored coins and the Bitcoin blockchain. Although the service is still in beta, Colu has already made a partnership with Revelator, a company that is building a rights management API that will help to alleviate many of the problems facing the music industry. I spoke to Mark Smargon, Co-founder and VP of Product, from Colu regarding what Colu is and asked a little bit of how it works: “This API will provide the secure issuance and distribution of digital assets, including listing and registration of musical works for its clients....
Israel-based colored coins startup Colu has launched the beta version of its developer platform. Based on bitcoin's blockchain technology, the platform will enable developers and individuals to register and exchange digital assets. Additionally, Colu announced its integration with Revelator, a music business management platform. Amos Meiri, Colu CEO and co-founder, said in a statement: "The Colu team has been working closely with various companies to finally leverage blockchain technology in a consumer-friendly way. We're excited to launch this beta more broadly so solutions and services....
Colu has recently announced its successful integration into Copay, a popular multisig wallet from Bitpay. The plugin used for Copay will allow the use of colored coins, giving users the ability to issue digital assets for virtually anything. I spoke to Mark Smargon, VP Product & Founder of Colu regarding the new plugin, and what it means for Colu, Coloredcoins, and Copay. Concurrently, ColoredCoins.org is extending an open invite to all developers who wish to be ambassadors, allowing them to be seen as an official face for colored coins in their community.
Liverpool, home of the 1960s English rock band, The Beatles, has become the latest destination to launch its own digital currency. Launched a month ago by Colu, a Tel Aviv-based technology company, the Liverpool Local Pound (LLP) already has over 3,000 users. Colu, which has already issued two digital currencies in Israel, decided to expand to the city in the North West of England after being contacted by Independent Liverpool, an organization that has many small businesses in the city, according to a report from The Telegraph. According to Amos Meiri, CEO of Colu, local currencies are not....
Fresh off $2.5m in funding, colored coins startup Colu has announced eToro CEO Yoni Assia has joined its board of directors. The founder and CEO of what's billed as "the world's largest social investment network", Assia has long been an active member of the bitcoin community. For example, eToro first enabled bitcoin trading for the estimated 2.75m users of its platform in January 2014. Perhaps most notably, however, Assia is credited as one of the originators of the concept of colored coins - that metadata in the bitcoin protocol could be used to augment bitcoins so that they could....