On Tuesday, the NEO-based cryptocurrency Ontology (ONT) announced a breakthrough partnership with COT (i.e., short for Chain of Things), a general-purpose intelligent hardware infrastructure platform that, just like Ontology, utilizes multi-chain blockchain technology. The two will co-build a platform that combines Ontology’s chain network model with COT’s IoT and intelligent hardware.

The reason why the Ontology – COT partnership was considered momentous was because, for Ontology, COT marked the “first intelligent hardware and IoT technology” to have agreed to team up with them.

COT’s goals for integration of objects with technology go hand-in-hand with Ontology’s ecosystem philosophy.” – Jun Li (Founder, Ontology)

The collaboration between both COT and Ontology “will jointly promote blockchain technology and applications,” according to Wen Wang (Founder, COT), who then added that the strategic partnership will “establish a data exchange and digital identity collaboration platform to jointly promote the development and success of a system which fully integrates objects with our digital world.”

COT Becomes Ontology’s First Intelligent Hardware and IoT Technology Strategic Partner https://t.co/d0YQY74pAs $ONT — Ontology (@OntologyNetwork) May 29, 2018

Despite the first-of-its-kind partnership for Ontology, the NEO-based NEP-5 ONT token that underpins its high-performance public multi-chain saw just a marginal 6 percent price jump – as seen below.

The lacklustre buying activity experienced by ONT is perhaps symptomatic of the marketwide bearish trend that has now spanned several weeks. Would-be ONT investors may be refraining from purchasing the virtual token, not because Tuesday’s announcement wasn’t encouraging, but because they see no end to the falling prices that have recently plagued ONT and every other available cryptocurrency.

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