Starfleet 2 Demo Day: announcing the winners!

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On Thursday, 11th of April, Starfleet 2 Demo Day happened, the culmination of the Starfleet program — the startup accelerator powered by æternity Ventures, the investment arm of the æternity Blockchain.

We are now dying to share all the spicy stuff around this exciting event with you! Read on.

Starfleet 2 Demo Day kicked off with our CEO Nikola Stojanow welcoming speech who, by the way, flew back from Liechtenstein and landed in Sofia just 2 hours before the event.

Further, the 8 amazing projects that made it to this stage, had 5 minutes to talk about the concept, the business model as well as the features that make their projects unique.

In the following lines, we will share more about each of them, starting for the 4 winning start-ups: Abend (Germany), Cryptotask (Croatia), and Homeport (Bulgaria), Cryptic Legends (Serbia/Malta).

Abend

Abend is a cashless, user-friendly, on-site payments platform whose prototype is already running on æternity blockchain. Hooray! The system will work both online and offline.

To boot, the team behind the project aims to create “own little economy” for each festival and club, starting from those in Germany and then targeting the music events segment internationally.

So far, they have built their own ticketing system and gained access to more than 1 000 000 events. Additionally, last year, the Abend team designed their own plastic token system for Panama festival which helped them observe some essential issues during music events, such as the messy accounting, the endless queues, and the total lack of trust between the units in the industry.

While reading this, you may ask yourself how this project is unique. It’s simple: fast and transparent distribution, thanks to blockchain; safe online charge; tokens that could be utilized in multiple events and festivals not just in Europe, but around the world.

Lastly, the team behind Abend engaged to build the MVP in 2 months from now and launch the alpha version in 4 months.

Cryptotask

The team behind Cryptotask is inviting us to join the long-awaited freelancing revolution thanks to their user-friendly, decentralized freelancing task market, something like Upwork but better and on æternity blockchain.

To start, this is a trillion $ industry that currently suffers from serious problems concerning both parties — clients and freelancers.

Supplementary, Cryptotask is fighting these problems by building a blockchain-based platform that offers no censorship, effective escrow and dispute mechanism, no limits on the tasks, and a petite fee of 3%, which is about 10 times lower than the fees of the centralized systems.

Right now, the team behind Cryptotask is focusing on streamlining the user experience.

For Q3 of 2019, a client onboarding is planned to happen, including partnerships, sponsorships, airdrops, etc.

Homeport

Short and sweet, Homeport is an open marketplace for ground station capacity and data storage based on smart contracts.

The main obstacle the project is fighting is the control over the data and the prices the current centralized ground station system is ruling.

The key aim of the team behind this project is to build a decentralized ground station network that steps on æternity blockchain. Simply out, more stations — more flexibility.

Further, HomePort allows satellite operators and individual ground station operators to set their own rules in smart contracts.

Moreover, the project is concentrated on the valuable collection of satellite data, including earth imaging, atmospheric data, broadband internet, and maritime communications, using a decentralized global teleport.

We are thrilled by the fact that the full version of this futuristic space project is being planned for early 2020. Looking forward!

Cryptic Legends

Spurred by the fact that the gaming industry is gaining twice as much as both the music and movie industries, as well as their passion for games and smart technologies, the team behind Cryptic Legends currently works on building a blockchain-based, team management game in a fantasy world. Further, each hero brings a piece of a unique story and the players will be able to collect the right ones for their party, pieces of ancient scriptures and engage in legendary tournaments.

The game is planned to have free basic version, however, there will be a transaction fee of about 4% applied for trading players as well as direct sales of heroes to players (the main income flow).

Besides, thanks to the futuristic blockchain technology, the creators aim to bring back the feeling of ownership and fight the scarcity.

Great news everyone: the testing was planned to start on April 12th on a conference in Dubrovnik.

Cryptic Legends also became the Community Favourite project! They have won a whole month of free residence in the coolest co-working space in Liechtenstein — the House of Blockchain!

And there are more good updates: 10000 AE tokens will be distributed in % ratio, based on the vote, among all eight teams!

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