Updated January 6, 2021 ARCC is an Algorand Standard Asset (ASA) token and was the first official ASA launched on the Algorand protocol. This makes ARCC a second layer token created by a smart contract on the Algorand pure-proof-of-stake network (algorand.com). The International Blockchain Monetary Reserve, IBMR.io is the issuer…

There is no doubt that the world is moving towards technological singularity, but the inequality gap is also progressing in step. The argument that those on the lower socioeconomic scale are better off than they were 30 years ago because the technology and wealth has uplifted everyone proportionally, well that…

At MESE.io, our mission is to contribute to microfinance solutions that create wealth through the creation of new tools and specifically decentralized structures. A clear understanding of this comes from the question, “ What is the difference between Microequities and Fractional Ownership of shares?” Fractional ownership is owning a percentage…

Over the last few months since our official launch of the project in early February of this year, we have been to a number of conferences as sponsors as well as spoken to a lot of different companies in the space. We’ve had meetings with banks, VCs, and general brokers…

So, it’s nearly been a couple of months (Feb 6th, 2019) since we officially launched ARCC as a project and started creating awareness for it. In this time I’ve been to Istanbul, Taipei, Macau, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York and essentially flew around the world 3 times and…

When I was participating on the panel at the Blockchain Economy Istanbul Summit a couple of weeks ago I was on the regulatory panel for blockchain, I was getting a bit annoyed. I wasn’t annoyed at anyone on the panel, all great speakers, but I was annoyed how people were…

I’m old school, especially for the crypto industry. ARCC, when we just had a whitepaper draft, was a sponsor at the MIT Bitcoin Expo last year in 2018. We did it to get involved and support the tech development side of crypto. It was a great event, but I remember…

Bitcoin was a response to the lack of transparency and accountability exerted by the financial markets and institutions in advanced developed nations. While this may have been initiated due to the 2008 financial crisis, it is a message that resounds with many throughout the established/developed world. In some ways, ‘centralization’…

This abstract was rewritten about 15 times before it came down to this over a period of 18 months. For every new version of the whitepaper, the abstract had to be revised and so this represents the final overview of the entire project. It is extremely dense but it essentially…