Decentralized Ethereum-Based Prediction Platform Augur Enters Beta Testing, Partners with Azure
After seven months of core development, Augur, a decentralized prediction market platform that rewards its users for correctly predicting future events, has officially begun its beta test. Ethereum-Based Service. The Augur team partnered with Microsoft Azure, tech giant Microsoft’s Ethereum-based “blockchain as a service” product, to launch their application on a decentralized and smart contract-enabled platform. Because most of the settlements, including the payout and betting processes on Augur involve smart contracts, the Augur team decided to launch their application on the Ethereum....
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Decentralized prediction market Augur has just launched its beta testing platform. The trial will be open to anyone, and its team of developers is asking for feedback from users. On its blog, the company explains it has “overhauled” its User Interface (UI) and “fine-tuned” the smart contracts “so that Augur will scale painlessly to billions in volume.”....
Tech giant Microsoft has added five new services to its Azure blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) solution, including decentralized prediction market Augur and Ethereum startup Slock.it. Other new additions to its blockchain testbed, announced in October, include custom blockchain development platform Lisk; digital asset platform BitShares; and alternative blockchain Syscoin. BitPay, Eris Industries and Factom are among a number of previously announced partners. In a blog post, Microsoft director of technology strategy Marley Gray sought to position the company’s blockchain offerings as....
Decentralized blockchain prediction market Augur has officially entered beta. First announced in early 2015 and spurred by a successful crowdfunding through the sale of its software tokens, Augur aims to allow users to trade on the outcome of events, and for the market to then leverage that crowdsourced information. With the news, Augur is now open to initial users, boasting what it called improved front-end design while enabling the creation of new markets that go beyond binary 'yes or no' answers. Further, Augur said it will soon release a revision of its original working paper as it....
Augur, a decentralized platform allowing individuals to create prediction markets on a vast array of topics, announced today that it was launching its alpha test."Traditionally, prediction markets have fallen short due to their need for volume in order to be valuable forecasting tools," explained Jeremy Gardner, the Director of Operations at Augur. "Having a global, unstoppable, blockchain-based prediction markets platform means anyone in the world with internet can connect to Augur."However, Augur is not, itself, a prediction market. Rather, it is open-source code for a prediction markets....
We recently caught up with Tony Sakich of Augur - here's what he had to say... First of all, tells little bit about what Augur is all about. Augur is a decentralized prediction market platform, the end result will be to change the manner information consensus is collected and aggregated. The bitcoin space is growing fast, where do you see Augur fitting into the overall infrastructure? Our goal it so supplement existing prediction markets with one that is decentralized which will increase the quality of potential outcomes. Is there anybody at the company that are users may be interested to....