Can you remember exactly what you did on social media 10 days ago? Probably not. The days can blend together as you embark on a never-ending quest of liking posts and sharing memes. Social media can also have a detrimental effect on our mental health – with charities warning they could be particularly harmful if we compare the picture-perfect, filtered images posted by our friends to our own lives. Although these networks play a vital role in our daily lives – with research suggesting we now spend 135 minutes a day browsing and posting on such sites – a blockchain-based …

A startup e-commerce ecosystem is turning to blockchain to help businesses become more operationally efficient, while enabling billions of users on social media “to generate income with ease.” TIPO says it has identified three major problems facing the e-commerce market today. According to the company, many of the platforms currently dominating the industry are too focused on buying and selling when there are many other services that can benefit merchants and their loyal customers. Plus, while online payments have continued to rise, market share is yet to reach its true potential. Lastly, businesses are wasting time and money through “suboptimal …

A blockchain-based company says it is seeking to cater to what it calls a growing demand for Japanese culture — creating animations, music, games and movies, as international interest in this industry grows. According to MINDOL’s white paper, the country’s government is investing heavily in a “cool Japan” strategy, designed to showcase powerful content and enable a market already worth 12 trillion yen domestically (about $108 million) to generate even more revenue from devoted fans in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. The company has a thorough plan for producing content, and several projects are already in the works. MINDOL has …

One of China’s top twenty-five websites, social network Tianya Club, announced it was releasing an internal blockchain-based token July 25. In a blog post, Tianya said its 90 bln Tianyan Tokens (TYT) would function as a kind of rewards system and run in parallel to its existing Tianya Diamond token, which is not cryptographic. Provided users have a sufficient number of Tianya Diamond, they will receive TYT, with a total of 80 percent of supply distributed to members. The remaining 20 percent will go towards operational requirements. “After half a year of research and design, after many rounds of communication …

A blockchain-based company is launching a content rewards platform that compensates creators – and says its platform boasts compelling advantages over “exploitative” mainstream rivals, all the while addressing flaws in other crypto-driven sites which offer a similar concept. UUNIO wants its service to threaten the likes of YouTube, where it claims some content creators are barely given $500 even if they amass a million views. It is also railing against internet giants such as Facebook, which makes billions of dollars a year on the back of personal data and advertising – wealth which is never shared with its users. Copyright …

PATRON, a Japanese Blockchain-based platform, intends to transform the social influencer market by eliminating intermediaries taking a large share of profits. The company has partnered with Orlando’s Switchboard Live, allowing users to publish a single live stream on different platforms and grow the audience. Broadcast all at once The company is developing a sharing economy system which could work similar to Airbnb, with ‘hosts’ purchasing influential posts, Cointelegraph previously reported. Additionally, PATRON’s smartphone application allows social media influencers to stream live videos simultaneously to more than ten different platforms including the leading social media such as Facebook Live, Periscope, YouTube. …

A Japanese company PATRON is launching a new Blockchain-based platform for supporting the social media influencers. The project aims to create a full ecosystem where Influencers and SNS users around the world will be able to post, discover and book social media sharing economy information on the Internet and mobile tablet, the company’s white paper states. The company is creating a sharing economy system which works similar to Airbnb. A ‘host’ can purchase one influential post, ‘buy’ an influencer for up to several months or even for a year. In the influencer marketing industry, up to 40 percent of the …

Through the use of Blockchain technology and its transparent and immutable ledger, there is a drive for religious spending to be visible and known to parishioners. The Lotos Network hopes to rethink religion with two concepts offered by Blockchain technology. The hope is that by digitizing currency on a transparent ledger, the misappropriation of funds within religious sectors will end. There already has been some dabbling from other religions into the power of digital currencies as Bitcoin is in the works, a digital currency for Jews. The purity of a Lotos Anton Doos, the man behind the Lotos Network, is …

It seems that applications for Blockchain technology are cropping up everywhere. From real estate to finance, and from climate change to train schedules, Blockchain technology has become the go-to solution for many issues facing modern society. Now Blockchain technology may take on the social media world as well. Social problems Social media promised consumers a censorship-free way to communicate with each other. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram were conceived as a means of direct consumer interaction. However, the promise has not been kept. Social media platforms are becoming increasingly censored, both internally and through government regulation. Privacy is also …

First there were social networks, then came Bitcoin. Then Bitcoin 2.0. Now, directly over the horizon, comes a new platform—a “social network 2.0” called Gems. This social network and messaging app is similar to Facebook and WhatsApp, but its developers have designed it with crucial differences. Gems will be decentralized, and it will reward its users for its success. Five years after the invention of Bitcoin, the latest innovators are building applications that work on top of the Bitcoin protocol and that make use of Bitcoin blockchain technology. One of the largest contenders in the Bitcoin 2.0 sphere is Counterparty, …