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Ethereum ability be the best acclaimed dApp platform, but it’s far from the alone abode for acute contracts. The NEO blockchain is home to a accomplished dApp ecosystem of its own, and it’s thriving.
NEO’s “Smart Economy” debuted shortly afterwards the accessible blockchain rebranded from Antshares in August of 2017. The Acute Economy abstraction combines agenda assets, agenda identity, and acute affairs through a broadcast arrangement for both accessible and private/enterprise projects.
Community developer groups – such as City of Zion, NeoResearch, and NewEconoLabs – are accouterment the abstruse abutment and development accoutrement to body decentralized applications on the blockchain. In allocation with NEO amount developers, these groups accept created many suites of tools to abatement abrasion and accompany on new teams.
Additionally, the NEO Virtual Machine (NeoVM) offers abutment for assorted programming languages. According to NEO documentation, “more than 90% of developers can anon participate in the development of an NEO acute arrangement after the charge to apprentice a new language. ”
Each of these companies launched their antecedent bread offerings (ICO) on NEO. In the time since, their teams accept developed their articles on the MainNet as an basic allotment of the stack.
Bridge Protocol
The Bridge Protocol offers Know Your Customer (KYC) and analyze analysis services. Users accommodate their claimed anecdotic advice (PII) and Bridge creates a “compliant identity” that’s angry to a accessible address.
By partnering with entities that crave KYC verification, Bridge shares alone the user advice that is all-important for compliance. To upload user information, the Bridge Chrome Extension was afresh appear to aboriginal adopters for user testing.
Bridge envisions its activity as decidedly benign for “jumping from exchanges to retail with ease” after the charge to advance passwords for anniversary portal.
Bridge Protocol assured its ICO on February 28th, 2018, and expects to absolution a browser addendum to the accessible in Q1 of 2019.
Travala
Travala (formerly accepted as Concierge) is a all-around online biking booking exchange that aims to be a one-stop boutique for all travel-related services. Travala uses (AVA), a NEP-5 token, to acquirement auberge apartment on its platform.
Since then, the aggregation has delivered an online aperture with access to 550,000 all-embracing auberge apartment and properties. Through a slew of new partnerships, Travala has been growing its offerings to accommodated a Q1 2019 allocation of 1.5 actor properties.
Travala assured its ICO on April 25th, 2018, and its beta belvedere is accepted to barrage in Q1 of 2019.
Switcheo
Switcheo Exchange is a decentralized barter (DEX) that aboriginal launched on the NEO blockchain. It has back expanded, becoming “the aboriginal non-custodian barter to abutment both NEO and Ethereum blockchains.” Currently, the DEX offers all NEP-5 tokens and added than 45 ERC-20 tokens.
With a DEX, users barter anon from their algid wallet with no centralized log-in. That doesn’t arise to be a attached agency for the Switcheo Exchange, which has back apparent a trading aggregate aiguille of $3 actor with over 25,000 traders back it launched in March.
Looking forward, Switcheo will focus its efforts to fiat-based onboarding, cross-chain swaps, and abacus Qtum to their account of accurate blockchains.
The Switcheo ICO concluded on March 17th, 2018, and the exchange went live on March 31st, 2018.
Effect.AI
Effect.AI aims to authorize a decentralized arrangement for bogus intelligence (AI) services. It will do this by creating a decentralized Mechanical Turk exchange (Phase 1), a exchange for AI casework (Phase 2), and a broadcast computational belvedere for abysmal acquirements frameworks (Phase 3).
Currently, Effect.AI is operating a decentralized adaptation of Amazon’s Mturk, dubbed Effect Force, which continues recruit new workers with over 2,000 alive users as of November. Earlier this year, Effect.AI partnered with Quadrant to accommodate the Singapore Government with a workforce to administer angel metadata for mapping purposes.
The Effect.AI ICO concluded on March 28th. In the actual future, Effect.AI will accompany the amplification of users on its alive product, Effect Force.
nOS
nOS is a basic operating arrangement that functions as a web browser and wallet. It’s a bit like the NEO adaptation of the Brave Browser or EOS’ Lynx wallet, with a congenital NEP-5 wallet, dApp charlatan and a contour angry to the user’s KYC settings. In the future, it will absorb a dApp aperture (in the attitude of Google Play or Apple Store) and the Neon Exchange DEX into its platform.
In a press release accompanying the launch, nOS developers said they hoped to accommodate a “safer and easier” way to admission decentralized applications. Of the 140 NEO dApps, roughly 60 are now affiliated to the blockchain through the nOS belvedere API.
At the time of its ICO, which concluded on November 8th, nOS already had a alive artefact in its nOS Client v0.4.6. In the future, nOS users can apprehend the development of the dApp gateway, and the absolution of nOS applicant v1.0.
The columnist is invested in NEO, Switcheo, and Ethereum.
