译科技 | 盘点亚洲10大区块链初创企业(亚洲区块链产业研究院院长)

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作者 | Joresa Blount

编译 | 黄玉叶

编辑 | 蒲蒲

2018年，亚洲在区块链就业增长、加密货币使用、创新和总体开放方面处于领先地位。尽管早期中国禁止ICO带来了一些麻烦，但中国仍然生成了近70%的加密采矿活动。

对于用户和企业来说，亚洲区块链生态系统总体而言是友好的。例如，在新加坡，比特币被当作商品而非货币进行征税，对使用比特币进行交易的买卖设定7%的统一税率；在日本，通讯软件巨头LINE 刚获得日本金融监管机构颁发的加密兑换许可证；在韩国，有消息称该国最大的娱乐公司SM娱乐即将推出自己的代币……

除了一些正在探索加密解决方案的知名公司，还有数百家创新型初创企业和创始人希望用区块链技术彻底颠覆各自的行业。以下这份名单包含了10家亚洲最值得关注的创新型区块链初创公司，包括交易所、初创金融科技公司等。

Level01

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Whitebit拥有一支由100多人组成的全球团队，是一个专业的数字资产交易平台，通过欧洲许可证为大多数主要亚洲市场提供服务。该交易所将95％的用户资金存放在冷钱包中，并为用户提供直观的用户界面，包括实时订单，图表和技术分析工具以及自动化功能。Whitebit的主要竞争优势是处理速度高达每秒一万次以及一百万个TCP连接。

Whitebit还宣布推出S.M.A.R.T. Box，该计划允许用户根据具有不同持续时间和利率的独特计划进行预算和分配资金。接下来，Whitebit还打算在2020年第四季度推出融资融券交易，以及移动iOS和Android应用程序，并最终获得美国牌照。

Opu Labs

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Opu Labs正在从护肤领域打造未来的自我护理商业模式。他们拥有超过12亿的在线护肤消费者，数字服务业务价值30亿美元。Opu Labs提供基于AI技术的免费建议，并利用区块链技术奖励购买数据的用户，将先进技术用于连接品牌和消费者，帮助简化决策过程。

在首席执行官Marc Bookman的领导下，Opu Labs被CIO Applications评为全球前25大医疗解决方案，并在新加坡赢得了初创企业大满贯。截止目前，该平台已经获得200万美元的奖励，该公司将很快发布他们期待已久的应用程序。

Coinsbit.io

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KBC注册于新加坡，是全球金融基础设施和一系列以黄金为核心产品的有力象征。这些产品包括一款名为IMpulse K1的创新语音区块链智能手机、一款名为K-Merchant的加密支付商户处理器，以及一个加密货币交换和交易平台。这些产品和实体结合在一起形成了黄金帝国，即公司的金融生态系统。

该公司吸引了大量用户的兴趣，他们看到了拥有黄金和加密货币的好处，以及通过KBC等令牌每天都能轻松使用的便捷性。随着这两个市场的扩张，可以密切关注KBC。

TEXCENT

官网： is a global cryptocurrency exchange ranked Top 20 on CoinMarketCap. BiKi.com provides a digital assets platform for trading more than 150 cryptocurrencies and 220 trading pairs. Since its official opening in August 2018, BiKi.com is considered one of the fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchanges in the world with an accumulated 1.5 million registered users, 130,000 daily active users, over 2000 community partners and 200,000 community members in under a year.

BiKi’s competitive advantages include helping projects with marketing, influencers, brand awareness, and community growth in the Chinese markets and abroad. With a global approach, BiKi also helps Chinese companies go global and international companies penetrate Chinese markets.

4. Whitebit

With a global team of over 100 people, Whitebit is a professional digital asset trading platform that services most major Asian markets via a European license. The exchange holds 95% of user funds in cold wallets and offers users an intuitive user interface with real-time orderbooks, charting and technical analysis tools, and automation features. Whitebit’s major competitive advantage is processing speeds of up to 10,000 trades every second and 1,000,000 TCP connections.

Whitebit has also announced the release of S.M.A.R.T. Box, a program that allows users to budget and allocate funds based on unique plans with varying durations and interest rates. Next is the launch of margin trading in Q4 2020, as well as mobile iOS and Android apps and an eventual US license.

5. Opu Labs

Opu Labs is creating the self-care business model of the future starting with the skincare space. There are over 1.2 billion online skincare consumers with a $3 billion digital services business. Opu Labs helps make the decision-making process easier by offering free advice powered by AI, rewarding users for their purchase data using blockchain technology, and using robust technologies to connect brands and consumers.

Under the leadership of CEO Marc Bookman, Opu Labs was named in the top 25 healthcare solutions by CIO Applications and won the start-up GrandSlam in Singapore. To date, $2m in rewards have been earned on the platform and the company will be releasing their long-awaited apps soon.

6. Coinsbit.io

Thanks to his vast expertise, experience, and sense of the market, Nikolay Udianskyi created a high-quality crypto exchange called Coinsbit.io. Now leading the Asian crypto market, Coinsbit was named the best 2018 crypto exchange at Asian Blockchain Life 2019.

Coinsbit is planning to further distinguish itself from the competition through a series of novel functions. Among its plans is a P2P microfinancing lending service that will enable users to borrow and lend money on the platform. Coinsbit will ensure privacy for all users and will not require borrowers to show their credit history. An additional planned feature is an invest box service, which will reward users who deposit cryptocurrency by paying them interest on various coins.

7. GST Coin

GST is a comprehensive digital application platform which integrates encrypted payment currency, blockchain and artificial intelligence technology. It is dedicated to providing the most valuable intelligent digital asset service for every user and creating a new GST digital public chain in a diversified market structure. GST project is committed to using the most advanced technology to create the most perfect user experience, and it has always been in the forefront of the market in the decentralized security sharing architecture.

GST was born out of MHC Asset Management Corporation, a high-tech enterprise engaged in R&D and innovation of blockchain technology. Their executive team includes CEO Ms. Zhang Qun and other leading technologists and entrepreneurs in China.

8. Columbu

Columbu (CAT) is a global community-based open-source blockchain project that has been active since 2017. Under CTO David Su, CAT’s main focus is building a high-performance DAPP development platform and community encouraging and autonomous system based on software and hardware combined GCloud Everest computing platform. This is the world's first public blockchain (distributed cloud) using CUDA and blockchain technology.

The project will allow for a worldwide distributed and free economic collaborative network of intelligent economies. This will happen through a community incentive mechanism and autonomous system to build in real-time. The project has an ambitious roadmap that will include growing its global developer community and other projects within their ecosystem.

9. KBC

Registered in Singapore, KBC is the powering token of a global financial infrastructure and range of products focused around gold. These products include an innovative Voice-over-Blockchain smartphone called IMpulse K1, a crypto payment merchant processor called K-Merchant, and a cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform. Together these products and entities combine to form the Gold Imperium, the company’s financial ecosystem.

The company has attracted heavy interest from users who have seen the benefits of having both gold and cryptocurrency exposure, as well as the ease of use of being able to use each day to day through tokens such as KBC. As both markets expand, keep an eye on KBC.

10. TEXCENT

TEXCENT is a Singaporean blockchain and fintech startup focused on fully-integrated solutions for remittance, payments, and microfinancing. Using blockchain technology, the company wants to provide seamless and convenient digital financial services solutions to Asia and the world. TEXCENT is currently focusing on the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand as these markets will grow exponentially in the next 5 years.

Their current products include PAYCENT, an app and hybrid wallet, as well as TEXCENT, a remittance solution with zero fees. TEXCENT has already acquired a remittance license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and is in the process of getting similar licenses for UK, Malaysia and Hong Kong in the coming months. The company is also a member of the Singapore Fintech Association.

【Related Reading】

These Startups Show Blockchain's Potential In Various Industries

Decentralized networks solve problems across many industries. Thus, it’s no surprise that blockchain companies will reach $10 billion in revenue in the next couple of years, according to ABI Research.

Distributed ledger technologies (DLT) refer to decentralized, trustless systems, and according to cryptocurrency guru Nick Szabo in “Money, Blockchains and Social Scalability”:

“Innovations in social scalability involve institutional and technological improvements that move a function from mind to paper or mind to machine, lowering cognitive costs while increasing the value of information flowing between minds, reducing vulnerability, and/or searching for and discovering new and mutually beneficial participants.”

The technology will see a 5-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 76% between 2018-2023, according to International Data Corp.

Value Transfer

Blockchain can be a secure medium for value transfer (like the Bitcoin network), where nodes agree on the status of a public ledger. Altcoins, which are smaller crypto projects, appeal to smaller niches. For example, the Free Coin project encourages unbanked people to use crypto, and to switch from fiat to digital funds. Their tech enables peer-to-peer payments that feature low fees.

A sophisticated project is Global Digital Assets (GDA), a blockchain-focused merchant banking services firm. It helps blockchain ventures to raise funds or gain liquidity through venture capital, public markets, or loans. The firm also helps companies to structure utility and security token offerings (STOs).

Securing Data

DLT has applications outside of cryptocurrencies, from secure voting to supply chain tracking. According to World Economic Forum, wide-scale adoption will lead to 5% increase in global GDP and 15% increase in trade volume.

Blockchains are excellent at tracking and preserving data, and the capability can be combined with physical hardware like RFID tags to improve logistics, shipping, and warehousing operations.

Another application is e-voting. Due to concerns with interference, technologists view blockchain-powered e-voting as more secure and private. An example is ZCoin, which launched a large-scale political election in Thailand in late 2018.

There are also networks that make it easier to comply with regulatory frameworks.

“The implications of KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti-money laundering) extend beyond cryptocurrencies,” says Mark Homeier, CEO of Maxonrow. “Blockchains have a unique capability to make KYC and AML identification better while preserving user privacy to a specific extent, and concurrently handing users control over their own identification data.”

Maxonrow is a high-throughput transaction blockchain with mandatory KYC verification.

DLT can protect data. Projects like Veridoc aim to disrupt document management, and applications include the verification of passports, land titles, and education certificates. The company recently partnered with DocuSign to bring the innovation to small businesses.

Contentos uses blockchain to transform how videos are monetized and shared. The project uses a peer-to-peer model for distributing revenue, and uses a decentralized approach for distributing traffic. The firm’s tech authenticates copyrights, as well as securely records users’ credit score, which measures contributions on the platform.

Going Mainstream

Blockchain is applicable in social media and retail. Forty-one percent (41%) of executives expect their organization to implement blockchain within a year, according to a 2018 survey by Deloitte.

Dyson Network provides an enterprise solution to accelerate transactions for all decentralized systems which would enable real-time payment and promote all blockchain performance. Payment experience will become fast, easy and friendly just like using a credit card, PayPal, Square and other payment methods.

BitWallet, which operates out of Houston Texas, reduces the barrier to accessing crypto.

BitWallet simplifies the buying, selling, and storing of cryptocurrencies with an intuitive portfolio app. Fiat gateways with multiple cryptocurrencies are hard to come by with fragmented regulatory statuses around the world.

Merchant adoption is crucial for mainstream adoption.

Vexanium is a next-gen blockchain that supports smart contracts, decentralized applications (dapps), and retail penetration. Users don’t incur a transaction fee when making payments. To gain mass adoption, developers built the platform to accommodate 2,000 transactions per second (TPS).

Reddcoin, a crypto and blockchain project, verifies IDs and enables tipping on social media channels. Supporters, therefore, look at Reddcoin as a social commerce tool.

DxChain caters to enterprises and consumers who favor privacy and data security. The decentralized big-data network protects sensitive info, and gives users the power to control their data. DxChain’s data storage also protects privacy.

Blockchain is an innovation whose functions include frictionless transactions, tamper-proof recordkeeping, and data privacy. Organizations can tap into its capabilities to improve their business practices.

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