Marketplace

Rentberry is a decentralized rental firm that unites landlords and tenants at one platform with means of blockchain technology. With the well-established business since 2015, this online marketplace facilitates the organized listing of the properties by landlords and prospective bidding by the renters on such listing.

After a hugely successful private presale, in which over $5 million worth of KEY tokens were sold, blockchain-based digital identity firm, SelfKey, announced that their public presale of KEY tokens will begin on December 15th, 2017. It is expected that the public presale will be just as successful.

Hamster Marketplace, the decentralized alternative to Amazon and other online retailers like Overstock.com, is announcing the launch of their token pre-sale. Previously, the project had secured $600,000 in private investment and hopes to build off that financing success with the sale of Hamster’s native token.

Skychain is starting to pre-sale its tokens on December 18, 2017. Skychain is a blockchain-based infrastructure project that will host and train medical neural networks, and allow users to access them.

Although still an emerging sector, online marketplaces today corner 40% of the $1.3 trillion global e-commerce industry. Dominated by only a handful of giants who have become synonymous with buying and selling online, the likes of Amazon, eBay and Alibaba have found immense success with the low-risk, high-return drop ship based business model.

There are well over a thousand cryptocurrencies listed on coinmarketcap.com and it shows no sign of stopping. Crypto entrepreneurs are focusing in on many industrial niches to create high functioning practical blockchain platforms, supported by their crypto ecosystem which is fuelled by their token / coin; and with ICO funding at an all-time high, there is a plentiful supply tokens available to be purchased and traded for real profit.

STK is announcing changes to its Token Generation Event, beginning with an extended presale and a lower minimum buy-in to accommodate high demand for early participation among the wider cryptocurrency marketplace. The presale will be extended until December 10, with a minimum buy-in of 20 ETH. The public sale will run from December 11 until January 14, 2018.

The crypto community will soon be able to access legal services on the world’s first decentralized legal marketplace, utilizing a tokenized system to seek out and engage top global law firms with specialized expertise in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Peer-to-peer and marketplace lending had been developing exponentially in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Alternative lending platforms, such as Lending Club, Zopa, and Prosper, came as an answer to credit terms tightening. Having less access to affordable loans, while still having huge demand for these kinds of financial services, borrowers needed a new solution. And peer-to-peer lending eventually eliminated the middlemen.