Waves CEO Talks Raising $16m, Open-Blockchain Platform Potential
This week, we covered the news on the asset and custom token blockchain platform Waves raising $16 million with its ICO. The crowdfund made history by becoming the sixth-largest right behind the cryptocurrency project Ethereum according to Wikipedia. Bitcoin.com decided to speak with the Waves CEO Sasha Ivanov to get the nitty gritty on this project.....
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WAVES, a decentralized platform which uses custom Blockchain tokens to represent value, has finished ICO, raising over $16.000.000 USD in Bitcoin. CoinTelegraph spoke to Alexander Rugaev, Chief Business Development Officer at WAVES, about the features of the platform, Yobit failure and the Wave coin soon to be available on exchanges. CT: How much Bitcoin was raised? Alexander Rugaev: WAVES finished ICO in June 2016 and raised over $16.000.000 USD in Bitcoins. It is considered to be the biggest amount in BTC even compared to Etherium. CT: How does the Waves platform work? AR: Put simply....
It’s not just for projects building on Waves though. The Waves Association announced on Wednesday a new grant program for cross-chain interoperability development.The pool consists of 1 million Waves tokens, worth approximately $3 million as of press time. Projects will be eligible for grants of up to 300,000 Waves to develop solutions for interoperability and cross-chain communication.There will be three separate types of grants: open grants, grants distributed through hackathons and Waves-focused grants. Sten Laureyssens, strategic advisor at the Waves Association, explained to....
Open blockchain platform WAVES is making some waves in the world of digital currency, as they recently raised $2m USD during the first 24 hours of their crowdfunding campaign. There are some merits to the WAVES concept that have attracted a lot of interest from digital currency enthusiasts and investors all over the world. Positioning itself as a....
Blockchain token platform, WAVES recently raised over 5000 Bitcoins ($2 million) in less than a week from its ICO campaign. Once released, WAVES will allow anyone to issue their own custom tokens on the WAVES blockchain rather than using the Bitcoin blockchain like Counter-Party. Kicking off their ICO with a massive 5000 BTC total in the first week, WAVES is off to a good start in attracting potential users. At the end of the campaign, a total of 85 million WAVES coins of the total number of coins will be distributed to the crowdfunding participants based on individual donations thanks to....
The Waves platform has announced the launch of a new token called the Waves Community Token (WCT). The launch is a part of its recently introduced Custom Application Token (CAT) facility on the mainnet. These new token will be distributed after January 15, 2017. The intention behind the launch of the new token is community-based KYC/screening of new assets. The new token distribution will enable Waves to foster community engagement in the next nine months. Initially, 20 percent of the WCTs will be distributed across all existing Waves wallet addresses based on their average WAVES balance....