Hello! As you may have heard, NEO Blockchain has been considered the ‘Chinese Ethereum’ for about a year now since the project re-branded from Antshares. This is because NEO will perform similar functions as Ethereum does as a platform for decentralized applications with smart contract capabilities, among other tech integrations.

Many have been ‘bullish’ on NEO because the team has been quietly building the network the past year as Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard brought on a frenzy of initial coin offerings which alerted entrepreneurs, investors and governments across the globe about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Network growth has continued steadily since their first October 2017 ICO on the NEO blockchain which was Red Pulse, a Chinese-based Bloomberg-like investment content platform that aims to provide insights into emerging digital assets and traditional financial markets.

NEO’s NEP-5 token standard is synonymous to Ethereum’s ERC-20 token standard in terms of what they mean to the individual networks. Since the inception of ERC-20, there have been over 85,000 tokens created on the Ethereum blockchain network, just under that particular standard. This is a major focus in NEO’s growth strategy, but instead of taking Ethereum’s radically decentralized approach, NEO grows stronger with regulatory compliance standards — meaning, NEO is poised for institutional capital to flow into the network as they continue building powerful partnerships like the most recent Ontology Network partnership announcement, which will enable enterprise integration into NEO.

Without further adieu, let’s dive in!

NEO Smart Economy — Bridge Into The Real World

Disclaimer: This is just a friendly reminder that this is not financial advice and to please do your own research when deciding where to put your hard-earned money. I did not participate in really any of these project’s crowdsale and do not hold any of them, yet.

Narrative Network — The Content Economy

Narrative Network — taking back ‘The Content Economy’ by re-creating the system so that it is user-governed, splitting 85% of all revenue with community members (users).

This one is perhaps the most well-branded cryptocurrency project website I have seen to date, really. The team looks like they put a lot of time into the branding, something you might expect from a project focused on user content. Narrative Network’s platform will act as a social media platform and content distribution network for content creators — they aim for the platform to be home for long-form written content. They closed their Initial Coin Offering already and are building the project.

Senno

Senno — sentiment analysis dapp with open B2B API for 3rd party integration.

Raised $2 million in pre-sale and main ICO launches June 10th with white list registration. Site says Minimum Viable Product (MVP) will be launched prior to the end of the crowdsale.

Aphelion Exchange

Aphelion Exchange — a peer-to-peer multi-chain decentralized exchange building a protocol that tied exchanges together in what they call a ‘Distributed Exchange Asset Ledger (DEAL).’ Wallet-based trading is a major focus.

The Aphelion Exchange is a DEX which recently closed it’s token sale. The team has already launched their first product, a NEO desktop wallet which really raised the bar for what we, as community members, can expect from the creators on the network. Here’s a link to their desktop wallet page if you’d like to scope it out.

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