The very first product in our ecosystem, Cardashift Launchpad, aims to raise funds, build and accelerate startups that are solving social and environmental issues.

Cardashift has already raised $1.5M in September 2020 during a Private Sale to fund the design and development of Cardashift Launchpad. Its launch is scheduled in Q2 2022.

The purpose of the upcoming ICO is to develop key enablers beyond the launchpad to offer the best experience for future impact project leaders and impact project investors.

Our objective is to raise $8M.

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• We reserve the right to modify this rate before the sale in the event that ADA volatility alters our forecasts significantly

• ** Estimation in USD, as CLAP token are paired in ADA

• You can find here an exhaustive list of the ADA wallets: https://www.cardanocube.io/cardano-ecosystem-interactive-map

• ⚠️ Warning: Do not use an exchange wallet address (Binance, Coinbase, etc) to receive the funds. In case of a dispute, it is more convenient to have a personal wallet address to receive CLAP.

• However, there is no problem to send funds from an Exchange.

• Cardashift will only accept ADA for both Flash and Public Sales. We recommend you to buy, then store ADA on a compatible wallet. Please check our tutorial: Buy and store your first ADA!

• Let’s meet on https://ico.cardashift.com/

• Follow our futures announcements on the Cardashift Official Discord and Telegram.

• You can also follow us on Twitter and learn more about us on our Website.

• Cardashift is a community-run launchpad that raises funds, builds and accelerates startups that are solving social and environmental issues.

• Cardashift is based on Cardano, the blockchain platform for change-makers, innovators, and visionaries.

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Decentralized means no single entity, like a government or a bank, controls the organisation. Instead, it is owned and governed by its members; a proper democracy.

The rules of the organisation are encoded in a computer program that’s embedded in the blockchain it runs on. It serves as an open-source venture capital fund without a typical management structure. These rules can be changed/updated depending on the majority vote taken by the members through a poll system. Any member can start a poll and can vote on other active polls as well!

This might seem a bit bizarre at first, but eliminating the need of a third-party for transactions and actions really solves a lot of problems.

Almost all the decision-making power in traditional organisations is held by the top members of management. Having this power allows only a small fraction of members to make changes and decisions to the organisation, which ultimately affects shareholders, employees and citizens.

Democratic governance is essential in order to avoid errors and manipulation of funds. That’s where DAOs come in.

DAOs provide an operating system for people who don’t know each other and live in different corners of the world. They might not even speak the same language, but their trust in the embedded code is what makes all this possible.

The decisions in a DAO are not based on the traditional top-down structure, but from the bottom-up. In most DAOs, you can become part of the community if you own their token.

This is all made possible because of smart contracts.

“Smart contracts” refer to computer code that executes all or parts of an agreement and stores them on a blockchain-based platform.

Following the establishment of the original set of rules and their coding into smart contracts, DAOs generally enter a funding phase in which anyone interested can take part.

Once the DAO is funded and the smart contracts are in place, it is then deployed on the blockchain. After deployment, the original writers of the smart contract no longer have control over the DAO, only the holders of the token do! The stakeholders collectively take a decision as to how the DAO will function from here.

On 30th April 2016, Ethereum protocol engineer Christoph Jentzsch released open source computer code that aimed to provide a new decentralized business model — The DAO. A crowdfunding campaign (via token sale) was held for 28 days and the collective had raised over $150 million from about 11,000 investors.

Two weeks into the campaign, the largest investor held less than 4% of all DAO tokens, while the top 100 holders held about 46%. A week after the campaign was completed, the DAO tokens were listed for sale on crypto exchanges.

Some vulnerabilities in The DAO’s code had surfaced after a few veteran developers raised concerns about security. After word spread across The DAO and Ethereum community, they decided to hold off on any further investments to protect themselves from being exploited.

However, while the developers worked on a fix to solve this major issue, attackers found the loop-hole they were looking for and managed to siphon about 3.6 million ETH, worth approximately $50 million at the time.

More on the response to the attack in the next post.

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Burnt Finance is the first decentralized auction protocol on Solana.

Burnt allows users to take auctions into their own hands, enabling the minting and trading of any asset in an entirely permissionless ecosystem. The platform can support auctions for synthetics, NFTs, digital assets, and much more.

Since Burnt is built on Solana, we are able to achieve unparalleled transaction speeds with negligible fees. Additionally, all functions of the protocol are governed entirely by a decentralized network of stakeholders and community members.

Burnt Finance was founded by Burnt Banksy, an anonymous figure who made history in the NFT community with the burning of an authentic Banksy art work. We did this in order to demonstrate that the value of a physical artwork can be transferred into an NFT itself.

This act received universal acclaim and was covered by leading publications such as Bloomberg, CoinDesk, GQ, CoinTelegraph, BBC, CBS, HYPEBEAST, Art.Net, and many others.

Burnt Banksy has sold hundreds of NFTs and has achieved the highest average sale price on OpenSea ahead of NFT titans such as Beeple.

Burnt Finance was incubated by Injective Protocol and will be an Injective ecosystem project.

After carrying out our NFT auction for the Banksy piece, we quickly came to realize that there was much more to be done in order to take NFTs and decentralized finance as a whole mainstream.

The status quo in the auction space today consists of either centralized or semi-centralized platforms.

These centralized structures are directly antithetical to the ethos of crypto and decentralized finance as a whole. In addition, the centralized nature of platforms today prohibits everyday people from being able to participate in new forms of finance while also forcing participants to divulge personal information.

The situation is further exacerbated when we analyze the current marketplaces for NFTs and synthetics alike. Popular NFT marketplaces today are rampant with issues such as exorbitant gas fees and bid manipulation. These problems largely stem from the slow speeds and high transaction fees at the protocol level.

We are building Burnt Finance in order to introduce a new paradigm within the auction space in which we retain high levels of decentralization while also offering lightning-fast speeds and negligible transaction fees. All of this is done while the technical barriers to entry are abstracted away via a highly intuitive front-end user interface.

Burnt Finance offers all users unrestricted access to host a variety of auctions ranging from English to Dutch. Additionally, users will be able to mint a diverse set of synthetic assets as well as NFTs.

A few major highlights of Burnt Finance include but are not limited to the following:

Burnt Finance provides an intuitive interface for minting new assets. These assets can be synthetics, NFTs, and even new digital assets.

A diverse array of synthetic assets can be minted on Burnt Finance which are termed Burnt Assets (bAssets).‌

bAssets can include synthetic versions of real-world stocks, commodities, indices, etc. Given Solana’s exceptional transaction times and negligible fees, the minting of new bAssets is entirely seamless.

Burnt Finance offers the ability to mint a wide array of NFTs.‌‌

NFTs can be created from any media of the user’s choice (images, videos, GIFs, etc). The process is simple given Burnt Finance’s interface.‌ The creator can select the name of the NFT and dictate specific properties such as the item description. Lastly, the user can select the desired future royalty.‌

Users can mint new digital assets on the Solana blockchain through the Burnt Finance interface. Given the existence of Wormhole (the bridge connecting Solana to Ethereum), anyone can easily bring over their Ethereum-based assets to Solana.‌

Users can also fundraise for new projects through a variety of different auction types (described further in the Auctions section).

Both creators and buyers are provided with an unmatched marketplace for NFTs and synthetics.‌

Buyers are able to make purchases without the typical exorbitant gas fees prevalent on other NFT marketplaces. Issues such as bid manipulation and front-running are also dramatically diminished given our unique Solana-based architecture.

Burnt Finance provides an auction platform that is available to everyone in an entirely decentralized setting. In addition, we are able to match our centralized counterparts in terms of both speed and security given our unique technical infrastructure.

We will look to support English auctions, lotteries, bonding curves, and dutch auctions. We will provide a deep dive into each auction type in future articles.

Moving forward we will introduce other essential themes of Burnt Finance.

Our plan is to debut the platform later this year so that everyone is able to take part in entirely decentralized auctions. Also, since everyone is wondering by now, our protocol will be governed using a native token. We will be conducting a token launch in the coming weeks and provide an opportunity for our community to participate.

You can stay tuned by following us through the following channels:

Discord (chat directly with the team): https://discord.gg/burntfinance

Twitter (follow for the latest updates): https://twitter.com/BurntFinance

Telegram Announcements: https://t.me/burntfinance

Documentation: https://docs.burnt.com

About Burnt Finance

Burnt Finance is the first fully decentralized auction protocol on Solana. Burnt allows users to take auctions into their own hands, enabling the minting and trading of any asset in an entirely permissionless ecosystem. The platform can support auctions for synthetics, NFTs, digital assets, and much more. Given its unique Solana-based architecture, Burnt is able to achieve unparalleled transaction speeds with negligible fees.

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We are looking to implement Witness in the Bounce ecosystem projects — including the newly launched Binance Smart Chain-based NFT marketplace Fangible — to ensure fair decision making in our community.

Community voting is such a crucial element of sound governance. As our community continues to grow from strength to strength, Witness will allow the process of decision-making to become truly private and democratic.

Chandler Song, Co-founder at Bounce Finance

With governance being the centerpiece of any Web3 project, tools like Witness are essential to build the infrastructure for the community to decide and execute on the future they believe in together. Based on pioneering technology, Witness is already supported by several blockchain projects, including Celer Network, MathWallet Official and Injective Labs.

It’s our conviction that governance is going to become, if not already, a key focus for any blockchain project worth their salt. We aim to help make navigating this decentralised territory more fuss-free and straightforward.

Deli Gong, Co-Founder at Automata Network

Automata Network is a decentralized service protocol that provides middleware-like traceless privacy services for dApps on Ethereum and Polkadot to achieve privacy, high assurance and frictionless computation.

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With Dogemon’s clear roadmap and promising track record, this project is expected to become one of cryptocurrency’s biggest competitors in no time! Don’t miss out on owning your very own Dogemon’s before it becomes too late!

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