New Economy Movement (NEM) is an enterprise ready smart asset blockchain that provides the foundation for the NOIZchain ecosystem to grow and develop.

Nigel Hughes, NOIZchain’s Chief Blockchain Architect and Principal Consultant at NEM, states that blockchain is the Internet of Verification. It is a cost-effective way to collect, store and validate information that is shared between multiple parties.

With NOIZchain being a marketplace for online advertising information, namely transactional data between advertisers and publishers in addition to consumer engagement data, the need for a secure blockchain technology is clear, and with NEM’s many unique blockchain features, the partnership with NEM was a natural and obvious choice.

NEM Features:

Scale & Speed

NEM’s blockchain was designed and coded from the ground up for scale and speed. It is able to run 120 transactions per minute on its public chain. Projects running NEM v2.0, code-named Catapult, can now create private chains running at up to 4,000 transactions per second. This is much faster than other, conventional blockchains.

Cross Chain Synchronization

NOIZchain will use NEM Catapult to create its permission-based blockchain network, where the data collected from cognitive ads will be stored along with consumers personally identifiable information.

Should a consumer wish to sell their data for tokens, the transactions on the permission-based blockchain can be consolidated for each user and placed on the public blockchain with only generic information, such as an account number, being publicly visible. The two networks are synchronized so that all activity on the permission-based blockchain is verifiable on the trustless public chain.

Trustless Ecosystem

NEM’s consensus algorithm is known as Proof of Importance (POI). Consensus on the NEM network is achieved by a very lightweight process known as harvesting. Harvesters, like miners, validate the transactions in the network, but they do so without the need for expensive mining hardware and energy consumption. Instead, harvesters are community members who have a certain importance score, staking their XEM coins (the cryptocurrency of NEM) to assist in the validation process. This is very similar to the Proof of Stake concept and trust scores that NOIZchain will be using to create decentralization in its permission-based blockchain.

Namespaces, Multi-signatures and APIs

NEM supports decentralised namespaces. These are human readable names that uniquely identify a personal or commercial entity on the NEM blockchain, thus avoiding naming collisions and publicly identifying the ownership of assets on the chain

The multi-signature feature of NEM is simple, secure and allows for control of an asset to be shared amongst multiple account holders. For example, when a smart asset is created by an advertiser to kick start the creation of a NOIZchain cognitive ad, a graphic designer, copywriter and publisher can all be connected to the same smart asset. If the advertiser wishes to update the visuals for the graphic designer, each party involved in the smart asset will need to approve the change by digitally signing a transaction with their private key.

NEM is also API driven and developer friendly. Developers can work in the languages of their choice with no need to learn niche languages and new coding techniques. It is also safe. Procedural code is off-chain with only the results of transactions committed to the blockchain. In the 4 years of its operation, NEM has never been forked nor suffered a loss of funds through theft, lock-in or other attacks and software related failures.

Community

NEM has an enthusiastic and truly global community of developers, users and educators. There are many community driven projects, ranging from cold wallets to IoT and games. NOIZchain will grow and flourish with this community going forward.