Introducing ourself

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Thank you for taking a moment to get to know us.

We are a dedicated and highly capable candidate for P-Rep for the ICON network. Our team consists of experts with different backgrounds, including Business, legal, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics and Engineering. We are a committed team that believes in the future of Icon.

What brought us to become a P-Rep of ICON

We are following the Icon project from mid-2017 and as blockchain believers we have come to the conclusion that the Icon project can become the engine for the acceptance of blockchain in Europe. We want to make an important contribution in Europe to make Icon big.

As a team, we are connected through our passion for Blockchain. Although we have different professional backgrounds, we have seen the landscape mature, and we believe that now it is time to professionalize. For us, this means that we believe now is the perfect time to (help) deploy dApps, but also build a broader eco-system, that will allow for adoption of dApps in professional companies. We believe that with the right infrastructure, we can help companies becoming more transparent and transition from corporates to communities, where a client can play a bigger role than just pay the bill.

Our head office is strategically located between Brussels, Amsterdam and the most important economic area of ​​Germany (and Europe: the Ruhr area). We want to focus on the economic heart of Europe (the Brussels-Amsterdam-Cologne / Dusseldorf triangle). We have a wide network in this area with more than 50 million people. Within our region we are committed to making Icon big in the field of marketing, education and collaboration with various industries.

What have we achieved so far?

We already work together with The Brightlands Smart Service Campus (in the Netherlands) on promoting blockchain use cases through technology research, projects, open seminars and hackathons. Brightlands campus in the Netherlands is supported by the government and the European Union and is fast becoming the most important center of Europe in the field of Blockchain and artificial intelligence. For more information about Brightlands we refer to the link below. https://www.brightlands.com/

We also established an agreement with the Company Blockmaterials that got recently with her co-partners a European fund of 5 million Euro. More news about this Brightlands and Blockmaterials collaboration will follow soon.

Education & Community building

We believe that building the community and education people on (ICON) blockchain go hand in hand with each other. We believe that the local community is the cornerstone of the development of the Icon Hub. The goal is to start building this community with meetups and keynotes from companies with a ICON based solution. The goal in this first stage is to inspire people and get them interested.

In the second phase the goal is to activate the people in the community. Next to school and universities visits and educational lectures, we will organize a hackathon and workshops to get people actively developing on Icon blockchain.

Start-up funnel (token development)

To accelerate the ICON network we are going to help startups/companies and ideas to get the necessary tools for the development of ICON dApps.

Node Deployment (infrastructure)

By providing a P-Rep node we’re helping in the process toward a more decentralized ecosystem. For this project, we’re looking for a second OCP server, which means that less hardware will be wasted than in a traditional server. Hosting will be arranged by BlockHeating (https://www.blockheating.com/), in a water cooled datacenter.This will not only ensure a constant operating environment, but also enables us to re-use the residual energy as a heating source for a greenhouse. With its location in Venlo (Netherlands), it is ideally located in the FLAP region (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris), and connected with 10 Gbps.

Thank You,

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Homepage: https://iconblockchain.eu/

Contact: Iconblockchain@gmail.com

medium: https://medium.com/@iconblockchain