NexusLab , Zurich-based business platform, has gathered 10 teams to develop new applications of blockchain technologies in different industries; half of startups are from Nordics.
Daniel Grassinger, managing director of Nexuslab and co-founder of Nexussquared, says: “Having identified and scouted more than 260 European early-stage blockchain startups and being able to select our pilot cohort out of some 50 qualified applicants is testament to the importance and broad future impact of blockchain technology. We’re very much looking forward to helping these promising startups further develop their ideas, refine their business models and drive technology innovation across a wide range of industries and applications." Monetising online content Italy’s Paymeabit aims to change the way online content gets rewarded through a platform which allows the tipping of very small amounts instead of just ‘Like’ the content.
The UK brought Bittunes to Nexuslab. Bittunes is a music sharing and earning platform which monetises the exchange of digital data as users share songs.
Bitcoin is used as the primary operational currency with a possibility to denominate all songs in US dollars. It aims to create a merit-based competitive marketplace for independent music. Moving data storage to the next level
Caravaggio startup from France creates the reference use case for wine security. It uses blockchain technology as the underlying security platform and combines their financial industry experience with their payment information technology to create a state-of-the-art provenance solution.
For those with a love of cycling, Germany presented Yope, which delivers decentralised applications built on top of the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchain. This allows users to register their bicycles on the Ethereum blockchain at the moment of initial purchase in a global, immutable register of ownership.
Switzerland’s Doqum.io is a secured cloud storage service and allows its clients to access a single storage account for all their documents from various […]
