13.07.2018
Advanced Blockchain AG DE000A0M93V6
DGAP-News: First round of financing for the peaq project has closed
DGAP-News: Advanced Blockchain AG / Key word(s): Financing/Expansion
First round of financing for the peaq project has closed
13.07.2018 / 09:26
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Advanced Blockchain AG (ISIN DE000A093MV6) are happy to announce that the
peaq project has successfully closed the first funding round after raising a
7 digit figure from well-known national and international contributors.
Valuation of the project is in the significant double-digit millions.
With the help of these international investors and strategic partners,
Advanced Blockchain AG's focus will now turn to research and testing on the
peaq project.
The peaq project originally began as a project aimed at building
smart-contract capabilities onto an existing Directed-Acyclic-Graph (DAG)
based Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), IOTA's Tangle Network. DAGs are
an alternative, arguably more advanced, DLT architecture to the better known
blockchain.
The reason for choosing a DAG over a blockchain is typically to avoid
blockchain's infamous issues with scalability and fees. However, DAGs have
generally come with their own problems in achieving decentralized consensus.
This is an aspect Advanced Blockchain AG are working on overcoming through
peaq.
Advanced Blockchain AG are also pleased to announce that the peaq project
now has its own functional DAG framework.
Having a working DAG means Advanced Blockchain AG and peaq no longer need to
rely on external partners for their base-layer architecture. Rather, they
are in complete control of how the protocol functions and can tweak it when
and where needed. The goal of peaq is now to build smart-contract
capabilities on Advanced Blockchain AG's own DAG.
The funds collected from peaq's first funding round will be used to continue
research and development until the end of this year. The peaq team will
focus on simulations and testing on consensus mechanisms for the peaq
protocol. This will be the all-important foundational layer for
smart-contract capabilities in the future.
Advanced Blockchain AG have also recently partnered and invested in COTI
(Currency of the Internet) with peaq research in mind. COTI are one of a
handful of projects experimenting with DAGs and are a valuable partner as
research and testing on peaq continues.
The end goal of peaq is to have a functional and efficient base-layer
protocol capable of overcoming the main drawbacks seen in traditional
blockchain systems and consensus problems currently found in DAGs. Once
completed, the protocol could be used by Advanced Blockchain AG for a
variety of real-world projects in industries such as the IoT, as well as the
automotive, financial and mechanical engineering industries, among others.
If you're an investor or are interested in Advanced Blockchain AG, you may
find our recent investors letter here:
https://www.advancedblockchain.com/investors.html
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Language: English
Company: Advanced Blockchain AG
Chausseestraße 86
10115 Berlin
Germany
Phone: 030403669510
Fax: 030403669511
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.advancedblockchain.com
ISIN: DE000A0M93V6
WKN: A0M93V
Listed: Regulated Unofficial Market in Dusseldorf
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