Blockchain Prediction Market Augur Elected as a 'Breakthrough' Finalist at Exponential Finance 2015

Augur is one of those companies which has been getting a lot of positive attention over the past year, thanks to their prediction market business model. Just last year, the company was named a Breakthrough Finalist at the Exponential Finance Conference, and this year, the company will be making a return as part of the event’s innovation lab. Companies active in the world of digital currency and blockchain technology always have their hands full with working on new projects or improving existing services. Augur is no exception in that regard, as their prediction market business model is....

Augur strives to bring prediction markets into the future. The tool, which Director of Operations Jeremy Gardner and Core Developer Joey Krug hope to make prediction markets more accurate than ever, comes with great precedent. But Augur believes, with the power of decentralization and open source technologies, theirs' is truly a paradigm shifting project. The decentralized prediction market has been gaining notoriety in recent months, and was even considered a finalist for the biggest breakthrough technology as voted upon by Singularity University at the Exponential Finance Conference for....

Augur, the decentralized prediction market, made it to the finals of the Exponential Finance 2015 competition, taking place at the Conrad Hotel in Battery Park City in NYC on June 2 and 3. CNBC and the think tank Singularity U team up every year for Exponential Finance, a conference that explores ways emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and crowdfunding are shaking up the financial world. Augur placed as one of five finalists in the “breakthrough” category of the XCS Challenge. “It’s an honor and very exciting to be selected as a finalist in the Breakthrough category of....

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....

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....