Tim Draper-Backed Blockchain Unveils ‘Trust Scores for Everything’
By CCN: Internet of Things (IoT) is a major buzzword, almost as prominent in the tech world as “blockchain” itself. It can mean different things to different people.
Primarily, the Internet of Things describes a world of connected devices which serve various purposes, everything from building widgets in a factory to monitoring your refrigerator.
IoTeX focuses on the first part more than the latter – they’ve realized there is a need for an industrial IoT-friendly blockchain with privacy baked in. They launched their mainnet today.
Blockchain Firm Builds ‘Internet of Trusted Things’
Larry Pang, head of growth, said in an exclusive interview with CCN:
“Our vision is much more than just adding trust to today’s IoT devices. We’re creating a decentralized trust fabric for all of these different types of physical and virtual things to exchange value and exchange information. […] Some of the things we’re thinking about are humans transacting with machines directly, the sharing economy, machines interacting with other machines, which forms the basis for a lot of automation and decentralized autonomous organizations.”
“Businesses can collaborate with other businesses, humans can collaborate with businesses, and all of them can access dApps. And in those dApps we really focus on privacy. What we’re really trying to do is create this end-to-end trust throughout the entire information life cycle.”
A developer can say they will only accept data from devices that have a trust score of X, for example. Borrowing and lending can also be done integrating trust scores, for enterprises to expand dynamically. | Source: IoTeX
