Before any technology is widely adopted and becomes ubiquitous in our daily lives, there is a protracted period of unfamiliarity, confusion, and even great fear in the layperson. Many of us watched family members of the Greatest Generation greet the answering machine, CD player, and home computer with varying amounts of trepidation and even antipathy. Many Boomers treated the dawn of the internet age and smartphones in kind. And while many Flower Children are tech savvy and not running in horror from the inevitable future to come, they are nonetheless reluctant to embrace the arrival of the latest and ever evolving classifications of technologies that innovate, disrupt, and bring radical and revolutionary change to the status quo of our daily lives.

Of course this latest cluster of technologies is arriving a bit too late for the Boomers to broadly adopt them as it pertains to their retirements and financial futures, though we should encourage them to do so. Cryptocurrencies, AI, and Machine Learning, however, make their auspicious arrival just as GenX and their younger Millennial and GenZ counterparts are faced with an uncertain and changing economic landscape of massive personal and national debt, economic globalization, and displacement due to automation. If the past is any indicator, governments and financial institutions will not be able to stem the tide of this tsunami of changes crashing down on the old system and leaving a new one in its place. Despite round after round of FUD coming from one government after another trickling down to 4chan’s /biz/ and various crypto related subreddits claiming that “they’re gonna ban crypto soon”, they can all see the writing is on the wall: The governments that impose bans will just be further behind the ones that didn’t dip out as crypto and blockchain continue towards their inevitable mass adoption as a supplement, rival, and possible replacement to the dinosaur that is the fiat currency and fractionalized debt banking system. Such bans cannot be taken seriously in light of the business partnerships between cryptos like Stellar (XLM) and brick and mortar tech companies like IBM, or of banks creating their own digital currencies i.e. Ripple (XRP). If that’s not enough evidence of crypto’s serious intentions of sticking around, it has now attached itself like a barnacle to the internet’s sad primary use case, namely pornography in the form of the Verge (XVG) /Pornhub partnership. As predicted in many dystopian sci-fi films such as TRX-1138, Idiocracy, and now in the popcorn nostalgia ride Ready Player One, the age of highly immersive VR porn will soon be upon us and presumably Verge intends to be the medium of exchange for such “entertainment”.

So the crypto asset class and this wave of new technologies is coming, like it or not, and the aforementioned Generations X, Y, Millenials, Z, and whatever comes after are going to need to adapt if they intend to ride this wave to a sandy shore and not end up dashed on the rocks of economic uncertainty. In case you hadn’t noticed, your Boomer parents’ pension, Social Security, 401k, and traditional IRAs are not safe from goverment debts, stock crashes and bailouts, subsequent inflationary pressures from quantitative-easing, and a stocks and commodities shell game rigged in favor of Wall Street traders armed with better and faster technology than you will ever be allowed access to. Blockchain was invented precisely because of this failing kleptocracy and globalized financial system that may or may not have a plan for a transition or soft landing for the rest of us. Blockchain coupled with AI and Machine Learning takes that competitive advantage away from Wall Street and gives investors who intend to thrive in this landscape the tools they need to buy baskets of crypto currencies with confidence that they are not investing in the myriad scams and dogs in this space. The ICOs listed below have the requisite products, development teams, and funding to make good on this promise. It may take some time before the robots go full Ex-Machina or Skynet and rid themselves of us superfluous humans, so you may as well make yourself as comfortable as possible in the interim.

Today to preserve the value while remaining in the cryptocurrency ecosystem is not an easy task. Very few solutions are available and they may be costly and not fully safe. One of the safest rules of allocation to reduce risk is diversification. If you have your eggs in many baskets, the value of your wealth is very stable. For currencies it is the same. That is why currency baskets are much more stable than any one of their components. To bring a safe haven to the crypto community, a carefully designed basket can do the job and even more.

But currency baskets can also bring value to the fiat holders. In a globalized world, your own national currency does not really measure your wealth, except in the sense that it is handy for accounting or payment purposes. Whereas currency baskets can prove to be the appropriate solution for a variety of needs, this is probably the reason for the growing trend from Central Banks to build up currency baskets and/or to peg the national currency to a basket which is usually not disclosed to the public (e.g., China, Singapore).

GLOBCOIN [link] Crypto Platform (GCP, or GC platform) provides the infrastructure to build baskets of currencies corresponding to specific communities/users’ needs.

GCP founders have been at the forefront of innovation in currency management for decades, offering to their large clients (Institutional and family offices) dedicated currency baskets tailored to their own specific needs.

The first basket will be launched on GC platform upon relevant authorities’ approval. It will be our “flagship“ Global Reserve Currency, a basket based on the 15 largest currencies of the world and 5 % weighed in Gold. This basket corresponds to the needs of many users. Since 2012, we have been trading this basket for large clients on a traditional foreign exchange forward market. Such a basket was previously reserved for large clients due to the structure of foreign exchange markets.

Thanks to blockchain technology, it is now possible to offer the basket concept to the wider community. By construction, it is 100% asset-backed and very stable. It will be an ideal complement for cryptocurrency holders wanting to stay in the crypto world but looking to secure part of their portfolio. Other currency baskets have already been studied for specific clients in Asia, Africa and Western Europe and GC platform will be able to launch and manage such dedicated baskets according to client needs provided that the constituents of the basket are tradable.

We also plan to add this basket to our current GLOBCOIN multi-currency prepaid card so that people (in addition to their needs in fiat currencies) can buy a basket in just one click. The decentralization enables us to provide solutions that were formerly reserved to a few privileged market participants.

Isn’t it a revolution that anyone, easily and at a small cost, can behave like a Central Bank, managing currency exposure across the world largest economies?

The purpose of the Token Sale (GCP) is to provide additional funding in order to :

-Enhance the current platform, taking advantage of the best of blockchain technology.

-Make the platform available to the largest community of users

- Disseminate the use of dedicated baskets in specific regions of the World, in accordance with the local regulations that may apply.

Users holding GCP tokens will be able to access our Globcoin Crypto Platform where currency baskets can be owned and traded. At a further level GLX tokens will be used as the digital asset tokens for individual currency baskets.

The asset tokens linked to currency baskets are decentralized and exist as their own Ethereum smart contracts and interface with the master contract that transacts the exchange of GCP and cryptocurrency, facilitating ownership transfer and securely linking the components for ownership and tradability together on the Ethereum public blockchain. These asset tokens are called GLX tokens and each currency basket will have its own GLX tokens. The present token sale does not encompass GLX as GLX usage might be subject to further financial regulation in certain areas. Join the Globcoin Telegram community here.

The Vectorspace AI [link]platform enables ‘Smart Basket’ (token baskets for traders, funds, ETFs) generation based on user-selected trends that exist in search, social media and news. Their ‘Smart Baskets’ are based on the ability for these baskets to determine for themselves whether or not to include additional cryptocurrencies or components from related baskets that may increase overall returns. Baskets that interact this way with one another will conduct these kinds of transactions between one another using the Vectorspace utility token VAI, which is also required to dynamically generate baskets.

Vectorspace is designed as a tool for discovery as well as a suite of sophisticated tools to help you increase your profits with other cryptocurrencies by reducing risk and maximizing your gains. Their focus is on “Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Sentiment Analysis for Smart Cryptocurrency Basket Trading” and they have live products any crypto trader can use today. Their site updates every few minutes powered by their algorithms. The general ICO launches on April 30, but they are further along in terms of their product offerings than many cryptocurrency projects. They also have patents referenced on their crowdsale page in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Google.

According to their whitepaper: “A growing number of organizations offer the ability to trade a basket or group of cryptocurrencies with a single transaction. Similar to a traditional ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund), “token baskets” as they’re more commonly called, enable a fund or individual investor to spread their risk, diversify and lower volatility while maximizing gains with more safety and stability. This approach is valuable but incomplete. For example, taking the top 20 best performing cryptocurrencies and placing them in a basket or fund minimizes gains compared to enabling fine-grained custom creation of token baskets. Which groups of cryptocurrencies are beating the market? Why? What do they have in common? How strong are those relationships? Are those relationships well known and obvious or are they hidden relationships? Are the relationships numerical or nonnumerical, based on concepts, context and sentiment, or a combination of both?”

https://hackernoon.com/interactive-cryptocurrency-charts-ripple-bitcoin-ethereum-neo-iota-qtum-2a51e3f0ef7

These are the questions Crypto Discover is designed to answer. Vectorspace AI’s Crypto Discover platform is an advanced cryptocurrency discovery engine that enables a user to automatically generate a token basket or “mini-index fund” made up of cryptocurrencies that are related to trends in news, global and local searches, concepts, context, keywords, hashtags, social media, URLs and other “dynamic content.”

Vectorspace is kicking off their general ICO on April 30 so it might be possible to position in early before the masses move on this. Join the Vectorspace Telegram group for more information on the project here.

According to a recent JP Morgan report 90% of all Wall Street trading volume is attributed to automated HFT and Index Funds. Advanced learning algorithms have largely been the domain of trading banks and hedge funds that use AI as part of a larger strategy that employs a variety of trading tactics. Their types of models react to split second changes in relationships between different markets. The spoils go to the banks with the fastest models and the fastest execution that can take advantage of short term transient market inefficiencies. Because the markets traded are mature, the movements are usually minute, with huge transactions that drive correspondingly high profits.

On the other hand, cryptocurrencies are the brave new world of trading. The markets are relatively young and still very inefficient. It is not unusual to see bitcoins move 10% in a single day. In addition, due to size and potential regulatory conflicts, the cryptocurrency markets are largely shunned by established trading houses leaving the field open for dynamic young companies to take advantage of the opportunities in the markets. With market capitalization ballooning (cryptocurrency market capitalization has grown from $8.8bn to $80.6bn in the past year with no signs of a slowdown), the time is right for a dispassionate, self-learning trading engine to take advantage of an environment where less professional and less disciplined traders create many profit opportunities. Cryptocurrencies are obviously a natural fit for automated trading; the market volatility can be hugely profitable using AI-based trading and is rapidly gaining popularity. Automated trading is mainly achieved using scripts that need some coding experience and are devoid of GUI, or through one of about half a dozen commercial products requiring expensive memberships. Crypto trading may not be easy and sure-shot thing for everyone.

And, therefore we introduce AUTONIO.

The efficacy of AI has already been proven. We now have AI being used in a range of supportive technologies from security to medical research, natural disaster prediction and agriculture. Deep learning models are utilized to predict consumer behavior, traffic flow in urban centers, and Google’s AI AlphaGo bested World Go champion Lee Sedol in four out of five matches last year, a feat that until very recently was considered impossible.

AUTONIO is the first decentralized AI-powered trading robots that deploys years of knowledge gained from Wall Street’s automated high frequency trading (HFT) industry making use of market indicators to analyze cryptocurrency trends in order to generate buy/sell signals and execute trades. Mimicking strategies honed by some of the biggest players on Wall Street, AUTONIO believes cryptocurrencies are a new class of assets ripe for conquering with intelligent machine learning algorithms and neural networks. Trading bots or algorithmic trading is a technique that uses pre-programmed software that analyzes market actions, such as time, price, orders, and volume.

Within the cryptocurrency- trading arena, AI trading is still in its infancy. It either requires expensive membership and/or additional coding experience. Autonio is distinctly different from the existing trading tools like Btcrobot, Cryptotrader, Haasonline, Cryptoping, Gekko, Zenbot, Tradewave. http://www.btcrobot.com is a Clickbank sales product, https://cryptoping.tech did an ICO and raised $2.5 million for providing tradingsignals as SMS, and all others are old products with paid subscription model, which charges 200 to 500 USD a month per user. Autonio stands-out tall amongst its competitors in several ways: Firstly, its easy-to-use GUI does not need any coding or trading experience. Secondly, it automatically combines multiple indicators into a single clear buy/sell signal and executes the trades in as high frequency as the user decides. To make its high speed buy / sell decisions, Autonio currently integrates 5 indicators that include EMA, MACD, RSI, Bollinger Bands, Ultimate Oscillator, which are subsequently discussed. 25 more indicators are currently under development and will be integrated subsequent to ICO funding. Thirdly, the users can personalize and optimize their trading strategies by combining the trading indicators to maximize their returns. Basically users can design their own investment / divestment strategies and let AUTONIO do the rest on their behalf. Fourthly, the AUTONIO platform allows users to back test each of their alternative strategies and chose the one with highest returns. Fifthly, the Autonio platform publishes an Official NIO Trading Championship Leaderboard that dynamically lists the top trading strategies. Leaderboards are not only fun way to drive competition among users, but the NIO Championship Leaderboard goes a step ahead and makes it more exciting and profitable by allowing the NIO Champion strategies to be bought, sold, leased, traded among the participating traders within a decentralized system in exchange for NIO Tokens using smart contracts. Thus allowing traders to boost their returns by using the most profitable strategy designed by the expert traders. Potential users can get a flavor of this feature during Autonio presale campaign by winning bounties for topping the leaderboard. Finally, there are still more exciting features and expansion plans that we are keeping under wraps for now. Expect some major new feature announcement subsequent to the ICO.

In a nutshell AUTONIO aims to bring together the crypto trading community, connecting experts to newbie users, and allowing people from diverse backgrounds to share their expertise and let the community as a whole benefit from crypto market volatility. Users not only compete with each other on the basis of the most rewarding trading strategies that hits the top of the leaderboard, but they benefit from the strategies of the top traders thereby making trading further more exciting and rewarding. Furthermore, as noted by an algorithm-trading expert, robot trading is not a “fire-and-forget” missile. You can’t just let it run by itself for extended periods. When fully developed AUTONIO aims to breaks that barrier.

Investa, the blockchain-based integrated platform for crypto banking have released the details of their Token Sale, which will begin on the 1st of May, 2018. Investa blends fintech, banking and crypto tech into a consumer enabling platform, for mobile financial freedom. The platform is set to roll out throughout 2018, with main releases slated between September and December.

Blighted by the lack of credible financial services platforms, the crypto community has been lacking in a strong investment suite to easily manage their crypto investments, aside from simple exchanging. There is a gap in the market for a platform which takes it’s users’ security seriously, whilst providing innovative services that can be accessed on the go. This is where Investa comes in. Leveraging Blockchaintechnology and smart-contracts, Investa will provide a host of features designed to optimize user experience across a multitude of services, designed with the user in mind.

Investa will offer Crypto Debit Cards, an ICO ETF Basket, the Investa Launchpad, the Investa Enterprise Funding Platform, a Crypto ATM Network, an e-Wallet, as well as the INV Exchange Platform. Investa additionally follows SEC Rule 506 Investor Accreditation, including KYC and AML due diligence, providing a fast turnaround of manual verification and offer dashboard access to check applicant status.

The INV Platform will be the multi-currency payment gateway inside the INVESTA ecosystem, allowing its users to exchange FIAT money, cryptocurrencies, or tokens as well as quick access to the entire suite of products and services. The platform will launch 60 days after the end of the token sale and offers:

Multi-asset compatibility (any blockchain asset compatible with and accepted by the INV Platform).

ETF — crypto fund asset managed portfolio, for active investment into leading preICO’s

Best available foreign exchange rate and transaction fees.

Decentralised and secure storage.

Direct access to services such as ETF Basket, Enterprise Loans, Launchpad, Asset Management, INV Cards, Remittance services and much much more.

INV token is an ERC-223 compliant Ethereum-based smart contract token.The token will be issued by Investa following the completion of the public token sale. Token holders will be able to use INV within the Investa platform as a means of payment for all of the services on Investa apps and subscribe to Investa’s crypto basket, which will take allocations of tokens from other ICO pre-sales, under the supervision of verified INV managers. INV holders can also place their tokens into programs such as Enterprise and Launchpad, for lending to small businesses and other approved borrowers.

INV tokens can also be used as a means of payment for Investa’s forthcoming events, such as the annual crypto summit, INV roadshow, or the mindshare forum. Lastly, INV can be used for loading the planned Investa prepaid debit card with funds that can be spent as FIAT currency at any merchant in the Union Pay network.

To support the development of the platform and ensure a seamless rollout throughout 2018, Investa will hold a public Token Sale of their native, ERC223-based INV tokens. During the Token Sale, 30,000,000 INV will be made available for purchase, from a total supply of 50,000,000. The token sale seeks to distribute at least 1,000,000, to meet the soft cap.

The Pre-Sale round will begin on May 1st 2018, wherein participants can pick up INV at a rate of 1USD = 2.5 INV, with discounts ranging from 60% to 30%. 10,000,000 INV will be available at this stage. Access to the presale will be limited to whitelist members, with limited allocations of tokens available per subscriber to avoid concentration. After the Pre-Sale, the discounts available will range from 20% to 5%, and the remaining 20,000,000 will be made available for acquisition during the main ICO sale. The Telegram group can be joined here.