Swarm Targets Blockchain Governance in Platform Pivot
Swarm is pivoting toward decentralized governance, a decision that finds the project shifting away from its original focus on distributed crowdfunding. The move follows the release of a research paper commissioned jointly with DATA's Constance Choi and Harvard Berkman Center research fellow Primavera de Fillippi that suggested distributed collaborative organizations (DCOs), which utilize cryptographic tokens to denote membership in a decentralized organization, are among the 'crypto 2.0 models' that are unlikely to attract negative attention from US regulators. The subject has been....
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Swarm is opening its second round of investment for projects on its crowdfunding platform, as well as revealing a new legal structure for distributed organizations. Along with what they believe to be new, sound legal footing is a new name for these newfangled blockchain powered organizations: Distributed Collaborative Organizations or DCOs. Swarm, for the uneducated, is a crowdfunding platform and bitcoin incubator that utilizes both Ethereum and Counterparty to enable companies to launch their own coins for crowdfunding and the holders of Swarm's own coin will receive a proportional....
Applications have officially opened for Swarm's first class with projects to be launched on the 5th of November. Sept 30, 2014 - The Bitcoinpowered crowdfunding platform Swarm (http://www.swarm.co) has announced that its first class of five projects will launch on the 5th of November in the world's first decentralized demo day. Applications are open until the deadline of October 5th. Swarm, the "Bitcoin 2.0" platform which in July successfully raised in $1mm in an exchange of Bitcoin for its own innetwork currency, is now helping other innovative projects to use its newly released....
There has been a lot of talk in recent months regarding the role of cryptocurrency for the future of crowdfunding and equity creation. A new company is taking a different, and seemingly more widespread approach to cryptoequity and community funding of early stage projects and business ventures. This new platform, called Swarm, is co-founded by Joel Dietz, a former California native who now resides in Berlin. Swarm is the world's first distributed incubator, and uses technology built on Bitcoin to allow startups to raise money through launching their own coin. This platform is providing a....
A new distributed storage platform has been announced, called Swarm. What is even more interesting is how this project is a native base layer of the Ethereum web three stack. Additionally, Swarm could also be used as a content distribution service, which opens up exciting opportunities. Similar to every project in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, Swarm has one clear objective: creating a decentralised and redundant store of Ethereum’s public record. Or to be more precise, the company wants to focus on storing and distributing Dapp code and data, as well as blockchain data....