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A Roadmap For Web3 Adoption: What Is Needed?

Too Long; Didn’t Read A new aggregator platform that aims to remove the confusion from crypto and Web3. The platform aims to ensure that market participants can finally get all of the information they need. Shawn Munir, Co-Founder and CEO, sat down with us to outline the vision for the project.

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BMW Partners With Coinweb to Develop Blockchain-Based Vehicle Financing Automation and Loyalty Program in Thailand – Blockchain Bitcoin News

BMW, the luxury car manufacturer, has partnered with Coinweb, a decentralized blockchain layer 2-based company, to introduce blockchain-based tools to its operations. The company will develop blockchain-based automation for vehicle financing processes, and also a rewards program for customers of the automotive company adapted to compliance processes in Thailand.

BMW to Introduce Blockchain to Its Operations

More companies are introducing blockchain processes as part of their operations due to the ostensible reliability of the tech and how it can help save on costs. On Dec. 29, BMW, the German car manufacturer, announced a partnership with Coinweb, a layer 2 (L2) blockchain interoperability protocol, to introduce blockchain-based processes to its operations.

This alliance contemplates two different tasks. The first includes the development of a smart contracts platform with the objective of streamlining different processes that need to be completed for the financing of BMW-branded vehicles. According to a press release, this would encompass the implementation of a “fully integrated Anti Money Laundering (AML) & Know Your Customer (KYC) tool” adapted to Thailand’s local laws.

The second task is the creation of a blockchain-based loyalty program to reward customers of the brand with products and services, assigning a rank to each customer directly related to their rewards accumulation.

Coinweb stated that it will use Binance’s Bnb Chain as the anchor chain for these transactions due to its performance-to-cost ratio. However, the transactions could be broadcasted to other blockchains if needed.

Benefits of Decentralized Ledger Technology

Bjorn Antonsson, CEO of BMW Leasing in Thailand, explained the benefits of shifting part of its processes to decentralized tech platforms. He stated:

We foresee this shift of manual paperwork towards immutable records on the blockchain to immensely contribute to infallible efficiency and transparency.

BMW’s deal comes at a time when blockchain-based tech is being affected by the cryptocurrency market downtrend due in part to the downfall of FTX, one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world. As Nobel laureate Paul Krugman stated on Dec. 1, some significant non-crypto blockchain-based projects like Tradelens, a Maersk-backed global trading platform, and the blockchain-based engine that was being developed for the Australian Stock exchange, have been recently canceled.

Even so, Coinweb is positive about the result that this alliance could bring for the perception of how useful blockchain tech can be. Coinweb CEO Toby Gilbert declared:

We hope that once this project is fully launched, it can be used as a benchmark to prove that traditional businesses can fully leverage blockchain technology and benefit hugely from it, without deviating from their core values and mission.

What do you think about BMW’s proposed implementation of blockchain tech? Tell us in the comments section below.

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Sergio is a cryptocurrency journalist based in Venezuela. He describes himself as late to the game, entering the cryptosphere when the price rise happened during December 2017. Having a computer engineering background, living in Venezuela, and being impacted by the cryptocurrency boom at a social level, he offers a different point of view about crypto success and how it helps the unbanked and underserved.

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Dynamic Way How Crypto and CBDCs are Serving Communities

This news about Fintech is now making a lot of people wonder about a lot of how’s. whenever we search for Fintech news in India, crypto news follows. Nearly billions of people around the world are not able to access the traditional financial system. New upgraded technologies and adoption give an original opportunity that helps to democratize this system with the help of markets opened up for the masses.

With the help of cryptocurrencies, many countries including developing countries have the potential to provide social and economic growth all over the world. Cryptocurrency has no third-party involvement with them. With this positive spectrum, it can be able to offer more transparency and transactional security better. Also, the analyst calculated that the global cryptocurrency market will have a value of more than 3 times by the year 2030, which would be an evaluation of nearly about 5 billion dollar amount.

Now, what do we mean by CBDCs? CBDC stands for Central Bank Digital Currency. Although CBDC and cryptocurrency sound similar. In simple terms, CBDC is a digital fiat. These fiat transactions are all digital in nature. According to Fintech news sources, Kent Barton, who is a tokenomics lead at ShapeShiftDAO spoke about it as “it is quite difficult to see how these differ mostly than the money we have in today’s time”.

Both of them are digital currencies. But it differs in some cases. If the CBDCs take distributed ledger and blockchain aspects at the level of the ledger, they will not be able to provide utility in the decentralized Defi or web3 arena.

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), centralized technology for example like CBDCs can help in reduce expenses, make sure to use the seamless flow of money, enhance financial inclusion, and also makes sure to provide safe access to monetary uses through every digital channel. There are a lot of ways how crypto and CBDC are helping the community in long run.

It gives great returns for everyday people

Tristan Roozendal who is a renowned blockchain entrepreneur and the chief executive officer of the digital asset platform named Centralex says that he is certain that the everyday person can be able to get many returns from the crypto market offers available. But for all those who still gain confidence in trading for cryptos, for them, the implementation of the central bank could also be a great help.

There is no backing from the fact that those people who are not well informed about crypts can easily fall prey to scams. However, with good knowledge, and research about the investment opportunities and the business normal people can also be able to safely invest in cryptos through trusted exchanges and can avail of great returns.

Crypto gives you the control back

Toby Gilbert who is the CEO and the co-founder of a chain computation platform named Coinweb has said there are many countries around Europe where the authorities have vilified the use of it, just like Sweden where it is likely banned, and the UK if you have amount more than 1000 euros you have to justify from where it is or else it is a matter of police. The lesser developed countries where the societies are relied upon cash transactions for the most part to operate have managed to transition quite faster than the rest. However, places like china and southeast Asia are mostly in the use of near-instant mobile banks to bank transactions using platforms such as e-wallets scanning QR codes.

Speeds up economic activities

Lissele Pratt who is a co-founder at Capitalixe states that cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies (CBDC) have great potential to help the community in many ways. By the ways they help to transact without the need of a bank, minimizing the risk of inflation and providing international trade they can level up the economic activities resulting in reduced poverty levels worldwide.

It is a market for every individual

Marcello Mari, the CEO at SingularityDAO states further that while every other person believes that here the rich get richer, everyday people suffer and struggle to even start. This inception of crypto has formulated new opportunities to change the mindset.

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The Winners of The Europas Awards 2018 show Europe’s startup power

Yesterday The Europas, the European Tech Startup Awards and Unconference once again held its annual jamboree in London, throwing together an afternoon of deep-dive panel discussions on the hottest topics in tech, a “Pitch Roulette” session of early-stage startup pitches, and a glittering Awards ceremony, honouring the hottest startups, unicorns founders, investors and blockchain projects in the European ecosystem.

The awards are based on thousands of votes gleaned from a round of public voting, combined with industry judges drawn from founders and investors.

The photos from the night will shortly be up online.

To keep the conversations intimate and real, there was no live stream, but you can follow the coverage on Twitter here.

An annual celebration of Europe’s brightest and best tech companies, The Europas Unconference and Awards for European Tech Startups has been an established fixture on the European scene since 2009, when it was first held in a London bar. This year a block of free tickets were given away as part of “The Europas Diversity Matters Tech Pass”, to ensure that the event included more Seed or Pre-Seed-stage founders who are also women and people of colour.

Over 60 speakers were at the casual series if afternoon panel sessions, ahead of the industry Awards finale in the evening. There was also a pitch competition “Pich Roulette” where AiPod, BFF, Coinweb, PsycApps/Equoo, Frogology?, Tube Chat, Lookhealth.io, Blockchip and Loveshark pitched. PsycApps/Equoo was selected as the winner.

Over the last few weeks, startups had been able to either apply for an award or be nominated by a third-party. The winners of that round were combined with the top picks by an expert judging panel and the results combined to determine the hottest European startups across all categories. No fees were paid by entrants or winners to enter or accept the awards, marking this the only truly editorially independent tech startups awards in Europe.

The Europas is held in partnership with TechCrunch and all attendees, nominees and winners of the Europas Awards will get discounts to TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin later this year.

The sponsors and event partners were: Bizzabo Isotoma Blockchip Malta Blockchain Summit Barclays Bayer BlueArray Coinweb Columbus Capital Ihorizon JAG Shaw Baker Orrick Outlier Ventures Fieldhouse Associates aiPod Burlington CEW Communications London Tech Week

Who were Awards judges? They were: Michael Jackson, Mangrove Capital Stephanie Hospital, One Ragtime Jason Ball, Qualcomm Ventures Tugce Ergul, Angel Labs Jeremy Yap, Angel Sitar Teli, Connect Ventures George McDonaugh, KR1 Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Seedcamp Andrei Brasoveanu, Accel Partners Candice Lo, Blossom Capital Richard Muirhead, Fabric VC Nancy Fechnay, Blockchain Investor Eileen Burbidge, Passion Capital Tina Baker, Jag Shaw Baker Scott Sage, Crane Venture Partners Eze Vidra, Remagine Ventures Saul Klein, LocalGlobe

The winners, selected from the finalists, were:

Here are the finalists for The Europas Awards 2018, July 3, London

1. Hottest Media/Entertainment Hatch Entertainment Judges’ comments: Potentially “the Netflix of Mobile Games”

2. Hottest eCommerce/Retail Deliveroo Judges’ comments: Utterly ubiquitous! You can’t walk down a street without a Deliveroo rider rushing past you, and increasingly international.

3. Hottest Fintech sponsored by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Starling Bank Judges comments: Huge growth in the last year, putting the heat on other challenger banks

4. Hottest Games Startup Bossa Studios Judges comments: Innovative new games which defy convention

5. Hottest Startup Accelerator sponsored by BlueArray Founders Factory Judges comments: Cleverly matching corporates with startups for wider distribution partnerships and collaborative innovation

6. Hottest Marketing/Adtech Startup AppsFlyer – Now Europe’s leading platform for mobile attribution & marketing analytics.

7. Hottest Education Startup sponsored by Isotoma Lingumi Judges comments: Language learning platform for pre-school kids encouraging parent participation

8. Hottest Mobile Startup Depop Judges comments: GenZ’s eBay – A hit for ‘merch drops’ so teens can later “depop” their hot fashion.

9. Hottest Enterprise, SaaS or B2B sponsored by Barclays Signal Media Judges comments: An amazing AI startup turning data into accessible business knowledge

10. Hottest Hardware Kano Computing Judges comments: With new funding secured, a powerhouse of European hardware

11. Hottest Platform Economy / Marketplace Syft Judges comments: The “Taskrabbit for hospitality industry”

12. Hottest Health sponsored by Bayer Digital Health Ada Health Judges comments: Definitely your future doctor

13. Hottest Cyber Security sponsored by ihorizon Digital Shadows Judges comments: A cyber security powerhouse straight out of Europe

14. Hottest Travel & Mobility Startup Seatfrog Judges comments: Making upgrades effortless for airlines and passengers, it’s on a roll with investors, press and consumers alike

15. Hottest Internet of Things Smarter Judges comments: Smarter kitchens of the future, but today

16. Hottest Technology Innovation Ultrahaptics Judges comments: Just wave your hand and you too can become a Jedi Knight with this amazing technology, which will probably end up in our homes and cars.

17. Hottest FashionTech Startup 21 Buttons Judges comments: A fashion social and shopping network growing like a weed.

18. Hottest Tech for Good BuffaloGrid Judges comments: Bringing connectivity to the next 3 billion

19. Hottest AI Startup Black Swan Judges comments: The leading European startup in Smart Data and Predictive Analytics, making uncanny predictions on what we’ll buy.

20. Fastest Rising Startup of the Year Revolut Judges comments: A challenger bank that’s challenging the other challengers, and is now even a player in cryptocurrency

21. Hottest GreenTech Startup Asperitas Judges comments: The next wave in Greening datacentres – Crypto miners take note!

22. Hottest Startup Founders Joel Gibbard + Samantha Payne, Open Bionics Judges comments: These founders are changing people’s lives with futuristic prosthetics

23. Hottest CEO of the Year Pieter van der Does, Adyen Judges comments: van der Does has skilfully piloted his company to a smash hit IPO this year

24. Hottest Angel/Seed Investor Reshma Sohoni and Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Seedcamp Judges comments: Still hungry for Seed startups, and has even raised a new EU-backed fund in tough political times.

25. Hottest VC Investor sponsored by JAG Shaw Baker Pär-Jörgen Pärson, Northzone Judges comments: A popular industry player and an early backer of the powerhouse that is Spotify and many other European unicorns

26. Hottest Blockchain/Crypto Startup Founder Mona El Isa, Melonport Judges comments: El Isa is considered a blockchain industry thought leader and Melonport is poised to change the game in crypto asset management and governance

27. Hottest Blockchain Protocol Project, sponsored by Outlier Ventures Polkadot.io Judges comments: Straight outta Berlin – The biggest project out there to link the world’s blockchains

28. Hottest Blockchain DApp, sponsored by Blockchip Verisart Judges comments: A real-world blockchain application taking the art world by storm

29. Hottest Corporate Blockchain Project sponsored by Coinweb Billon Judges comments: Billon is using blockchain to reimagine the flow of regulated money and data.

30. Hottest Blockchain Investor Europe sponsored by Malta Blockchain Summit KR1 Judges comments: An pioneering blockchain and token investment player doing big things under the radar

31. Hottest Blockchain ICO Europe sponsored by Columbus Capital Bancor Judges comments: Bancor has created new standard for cryptocurrencies convertible directly through their smart contracts, and managed an amazing public ICO.

32. Hottest Financial Crypto Project BlockEx Judges comments: BlockEx’s digital asset exchange platform has made positive waves in the crypto assets world

33. Hottest Blockchain for Good Project United Nations World Food Programme “Building Blocks’ Etherum Project (with Parity Technologies) Judges comments: The combined United Nations, World Food Programme and Parity project on the Ethereum blockchain has changed the game for aid distribution to Syrian refugees in Jordan and is poised to be applied to other humanitarian projects globally.

34. Hottest Blockchain Identity Project Trunomi Judges comments: If data rights are the furture, Trunomi is helping to unlock that future.

35. Hall of Fame sponsored by TechCrunch Saul Klein and Robin Klein, LocalGlobe Judges comments: An incredible long-time double-act of European venture & startups. Every startup needs a Batman and Robin to help them, and Saul and Robin keep delivering!

28. Grand Prix Unicorn Award, sponsored by Bizzabo Adyen Judges comments: Adyen’s IPO was one of the biggest of the year and shows that Europe can produce the next wave of global Tech Unicorns.

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The Winners of The Europas Awards 2018 show Europe’s startup power

Yesterday The Europas, the European Tech Startup Awards and Unconference once again held its annual jamboree in London, throwing together an afternoon of deep-dive panel discussions on the hottest topics in tech, a “Pitch Roulette” session of early-stage startup pitches, and a glittering Awards ceremony, honouring the hottest startups, unicorns founders, investors and blockchain projects in the European ecosystem.

The awards are based on thousands of votes gleaned from a round of public voting, combined with industry judges drawn from founders and investors.

The photos from the night will shortly be up online.

To keep the conversations intimate and real, there was no live stream, but you can follow the coverage on Twitter here.

An annual celebration of Europe’s brightest and best tech companies, The Europas Unconference and Awards for European Tech Startups has been an established fixture on the European scene since 2009, when it was first held in a London bar. This year a block of free tickets were given away as part of “The Europas Diversity Matters Tech Pass”, to ensure that the event included more Seed or Pre-Seed-stage founders who are also women and people of colour.

Over 60 speakers were at the casual series if afternoon panel sessions, ahead of the industry Awards finale in the evening. There was also a pitch competition “Pich Roulette” where AiPod, BFF, Coinweb, PsycApps/Equoo, Frogology?, Tube Chat, Lookhealth.io, Blockchip and Loveshark pitched. PsycApps/Equoo was selected as the winner.

Over the last few weeks, startups had been able to either apply for an award or be nominated by a third-party. The winners of that round were combined with the top picks by an expert judging panel and the results combined to determine the hottest European startups across all categories. No fees were paid by entrants or winners to enter or accept the awards, marking this the only truly editorially independent tech startups awards in Europe.

The Europas is held in partnership with TechCrunch and all attendees, nominees and winners of the Europas Awards will get discounts to TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin later this year.

The sponsors and event partners were: Bizzabo Isotoma Blockchip Malta Blockchain Summit Barclays Bayer BlueArray Coinweb Columbus Capital Ihorizon JAG Shaw Baker Orrick Outlier Ventures Fieldhouse Associates aiPod Burlington CEW Communications London Tech Week

Who were Awards judges? They were: Michael Jackson, Mangrove Capital Stephanie Hospital, One Ragtime Jason Ball, Qualcomm Ventures Tugce Ergul, Angel Labs Jeremy Yap, Angel Sitar Teli, Connect Ventures George McDonaugh, KR1 Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Seedcamp Andrei Brasoveanu, Accel Partners Candice Lo, Blossom Capital Richard Muirhead, Fabric VC Nancy Fechnay, Blockchain Investor Eileen Burbidge, Passion Capital Tina Baker, Jag Shaw Baker Scott Sage, Crane Venture Partners Eze Vidra, Remagine Ventures Saul Klein, LocalGlobe

The winners, selected from the finalists, were:

Here are the finalists for The Europas Awards 2018, July 3, London

1. Hottest Media/Entertainment Hatch Entertainment Judges’ comments: Potentially “the Netflix of Mobile Games”

2. Hottest eCommerce/Retail Deliveroo Judges’ comments: Utterly ubiquitous! You can’t walk down a street without a Deliveroo rider rushing past you, and increasingly international.

3. Hottest Fintech sponsored by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Starling Bank Judges comments: Huge growth in the last year, putting the heat on other challenger banks

4. Hottest Games Startup Bossa Studios Judges comments: Innovative new games which defy convention

5. Hottest Startup Accelerator sponsored by BlueArray Founders Factory Judges comments: Cleverly matching corporates with startups for wider distribution partnerships and collaborative innovation

6. Hottest Marketing/Adtech Startup AppsFlyer – Now Europe’s leading platform for mobile attribution & marketing analytics.

7. Hottest Education Startup sponsored by Isotoma Lingumi Judges comments: Language learning platform for pre-school kids encouraging parent participation

8. Hottest Mobile Startup Depop Judges comments: GenZ’s eBay – A hit for ‘merch drops’ so teens can later “depop” their hot fashion.

9. Hottest Enterprise, SaaS or B2B sponsored by Barclays Signal Media Judges comments: An amazing AI startup turning data into accessible business knowledge

10. Hottest Hardware Kano Computing Judges comments: With new funding secured, a powerhouse of European hardware

11. Hottest Platform Economy / Marketplace Syft Judges comments: The “Taskrabbit for hospitality industry”

12. Hottest Health sponsored by Bayer Digital Health Ada Health Judges comments: Definitely your future doctor

13. Hottest Cyber Security sponsored by ihorizon Digital Shadows Judges comments: A cyber security powerhouse straight out of Europe

14. Hottest Travel & Mobility Startup Seatfrog Judges comments: Making upgrades effortless for airlines and passengers, it’s on a roll with investors, press and consumers alike

15. Hottest Internet of Things Smarter Judges comments: Smarter kitchens of the future, but today

16. Hottest Technology Innovation Ultrahaptics Judges comments: Just wave your hand and you too can become a Jedi Knight with this amazing technology, which will probably end up in our homes and cars.

17. Hottest FashionTech Startup 21 Buttons Judges comments: A fashion social and shopping network growing like a weed.

18. Hottest Tech for Good BuffaloGrid Judges comments: Bringing connectivity to the next 3 billion

19. Hottest AI Startup Black Swan Judges comments: The leading European startup in Smart Data and Predictive Analytics, making uncanny predictions on what we’ll buy.

20. Fastest Rising Startup of the Year Revolut Judges comments: A challenger bank that’s challenging the other challengers, and is now even a player in cryptocurrency

21. Hottest GreenTech Startup Asperitas Judges comments: The next wave in Greening datacentres – Crypto miners take note!

22. Hottest Startup Founders Joel Gibbard + Samantha Payne, Open Bionics Judges comments: These founders are changing people’s lives with futuristic prosthetics

23. Hottest CEO of the Year Pieter van der Does, Adyen Judges comments: van der Does has skilfully piloted his company to a smash hit IPO this year

24. Hottest Angel/Seed Investor Reshma Sohoni and Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Seedcamp Judges comments: Still hungry for Seed startups, and has even raised a new EU-backed fund in tough political times.

25. Hottest VC Investor sponsored by JAG Shaw Baker Pär-Jörgen Pärson, Northzone Judges comments: A popular industry player and an early backer of the powerhouse that is Spotify and many other European unicorns

26. Hottest Blockchain/Crypto Startup Founder Mona El Isa, Melonport Judges comments: El Isa is considered a blockchain industry thought leader and Melonport is poised to change the game in crypto asset management and governance

27. Hottest Blockchain Protocol Project, sponsored by Outlier Ventures Polkadot.io Judges comments: Straight outta Berlin – The biggest project out there to link the world’s blockchains

28. Hottest Blockchain DApp, sponsored by Blockchip Verisart Judges comments: A real-world blockchain application taking the art world by storm

29. Hottest Corporate Blockchain Project sponsored by Coinweb Billon Judges comments: Billon is using blockchain to reimagine the flow of regulated money and data.

30. Hottest Blockchain Investor Europe sponsored by Malta Blockchain Summit KR1 Judges comments: An pioneering blockchain and token investment player doing big things under the radar

31. Hottest Blockchain ICO Europe sponsored by Columbus Capital Bancor Judges comments: Bancor has created new standard for cryptocurrencies convertible directly through their smart contracts, and managed an amazing public ICO.

32. Hottest Financial Crypto Project BlockEx Judges comments: BlockEx’s digital asset exchange platform has made positive waves in the crypto assets world

33. Hottest Blockchain for Good Project United Nations World Food Programme “Building Blocks’ Etherum Project (with Parity Technologies) Judges comments: The combined United Nations, World Food Programme and Parity project on the Ethereum blockchain has changed the game for aid distribution to Syrian refugees in Jordan and is poised to be applied to other humanitarian projects globally.

34. Hottest Blockchain Identity Project Trunomi Judges comments: If data rights are the furture, Trunomi is helping to unlock that future.

35. Hall of Fame sponsored by TechCrunch Saul Klein and Robin Klein, LocalGlobe Judges comments: An incredible long-time double-act of European venture & startups. Every startup needs a Batman and Robin to help them, and Saul and Robin keep delivering!

28. Grand Prix Unicorn Award, sponsored by Bizzabo Adyen Judges comments: Adyen’s IPO was one of the biggest of the year and shows that Europe can produce the next wave of global Tech Unicorns.

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Yesterday The Europas, the European Tech Startup Awards and Unconference once again held its annual jamboree in London, throwing together an afternoon of deep-dive panel discussions on the hottest topics in tech, a “Pitch Roulette” session of early-stage startup pitches, and a glittering Awards ceremony, honouring the hottest startups, unicorns founders, investors and blockchain projects in the European ecosystem.

The awards are based on thousands of votes gleaned from a round of public voting, combined with industry judges drawn from founders and investors.

The photos from the night will shortly be up online.

To keep the conversations intimate and real, there was no live stream, but you can follow the coverage on Twitter here.

An annual celebration of Europe’s brightest and best tech companies, The Europas Unconference and Awards for European Tech Startups has been an established fixture on the European scene since 2009, when it was first held in a London bar.

Over 60 speakers were at the casual series if afternoon panel sessions, ahead of the industry Awards finale in the evening. There was also a pitch competition “Pich Roulette” where AiPod, BFF, Coinweb, PsycApps/Equoo, Frogology?, Tube Chat, Lookhealth.io, Blockchip and Loveshark pitched. PsycApps/Equoo was selected as the winner.

Over the last few weeks, startups had been able to either apply for an award or be nominated by a third-party. The winners of that round were combined with the top picks by an expert judging panel and the results combined to determine the hottest European startups across all categories. No fees were paid by entrants or winners to enter or accept the awards, marking this the only truly editorially independent tech startups awards in Europe.

The Europas is held in partnership with TechCrunch and all attendees, nominees and winners of the Europas Awards will get discounts to TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin later this year.

The sponsors and event partners were: Bizzabo Isotoma Blockchip Malta Blockchain Summit Barclays Bayer BlueArray Coinweb Columbus Capital Ihorizon JAG Shaw Baker Orrick Outlier Ventures Fieldhouse Associates aiPod Burlington CEW Communications London Tech Week

Who were Awards judges? They were: Michael Jackson, Mangrove Capital Stephanie Hospital, One Ragtime Jason Ball, Qualcomm Ventures Tugce Ergul, Angel Labs Jeremy Yap, Angel Sitar Teli, Connect Ventures George McDonaugh, KR1 Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Seedcamp Andrei Brasoveanu, Accel Partners Candice Lo, Lending Block Richard Muirhead, Fabric VC Nancy Fechnay, Blockchain Investor Eileen Burbidge, Passion Capital Tina Baker, Jag Shaw Baker Scott Sage, Crane Venture Partners Eze Vidra, Remagine Ventures Saul Klein, LocalGlobe

The winners, selected from the finalists, were:

Here are the finalists for The Europas Awards 2018, July 3, London

1. Hottest Media/Entertainment Hatch Entertainment Judges’ comments: Potentially “the Netflix of Mobile Games”

2. Hottest eCommerce/Retail Deliveroo Judges’ comments: Utterly ubiquitous! You can’t walk down a street without a Deliveroo rider rushing past you, and increasingly international.

3. Hottest Fintech sponsored by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Starling Bank Judges comments: Huge growth in the last year, putting the heat on other challenger banks

4. Hottest Games Startup Bossa Studios Judges comments: Innovative new games which defy convention

5. Hottest Startup Accelerator sponsored by BlueArray Founders Factory Judges comments: Cleverly matching corporates with startups for wider distribution partnerships and collaborative innovation

6. Hottest Marketing/Adtech Startup AppsFlyer – Now Europe’s leading platform for mobile attribution & marketing analytics.

7. Hottest Education Startup sponsored by Isotoma Lingumi Judges comments: Language learning platform for pre-school kids encouraging parent participation

8. Hottest Mobile Startup Depop Judges comments: GenZ’s eBay – A hit for ‘merch drops’ so teens can later “depop” their hot fashion.

9. Hottest Enterprise, SaaS or B2B sponsored by Barclays Signal Media Judges comments: An amazing AI startup turning data into accessible business knowledge

10. Hottest Hardware Kano Computing Judges comments: With new funding secured, a powerhouse of European hardware

11. Hottest Platform Economy / Marketplace Syft Judges comments: The “Taskrabbit for hospitality industry”

12. Hottest Health sponsored by Bayer Digital Health Ada Health Judges comments: Definitely your future doctor

13. Hottest Cyber Security sponsored by ihorizon Digital Shadows Judges comments: A cyber security powerhouse straight out of Europe

14. Hottest Travel & Mobility Startup Seatfrog Judges comments: Making upgrades effortless for airlines and passengers, it’s on a roll with investors, press and consumers alike

15. Hottest Internet of Things Smarter Judges comments: Smarter kitchens of the future, but today

16. Hottest Technology Innovation Ultrahaptics Judges comments: Just wave your hand and you too can become a Jedi Knight with this amazing technology, which will probably end up in our homes and cars.

17. Hottest FashionTech Startup 21 Buttons Judges comments: A fashion social and shopping network growing like a weed.

18. Hottest Tech for Good BuffaloGrid Judges comments: Bringing connectivity to the next 3 billion

19. Hottest AI Startup Black Swan Judges comments: The leading European startup in Smart Data and Predictive Analytics, making uncanny predictions on what we’ll buy.

20. Fastest Rising Startup of the Year Revolut Judges comments: A challenger bank that’s challenging the other challengers, and is now even a player in cryptocurrency

21. Hottest GreenTech Startup Asperitas Judges comments: The next wave in Greening datacentres – Crypto miners take note!

22. Hottest Startup Founders Joel Gibbard + Samantha Payne, Open Bionics Judges comments: These founders are changing people’s lives with futuristic prosthetics

23. Hottest CEO of the Year Pieter van der Does, Adyen Judges comments: van der Does has skilfully piloted his company to a smash hit IPO this year

24. Hottest Angel/Seed Investor Reshma Sohoni and Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Seedcamp Judges comments: Still hungry for Seed startups, and has even raised a new EU-backed fund in tough political times.

25. Hottest VC Investor sponsored by JAG Shaw Baker Pär-Jörgen Pärson, Northzone Judges comments: A popular industry player and an early backer of the powerhouse that is Spotify and many other European unicorns

26. Hottest Blockchain/Crypto Startup Founder Mona El Isa, Melonport Judges comments: El Isa is considered a blockchain industry thought leader and Melonport is poised to change the game in crypto asset management and governance

27. Hottest Blockchain Protocol Project, sponsored by Outlier Ventures Polkadot.io Judges comments: Straight outta Berlin – The biggest project out there to link the world’s blockchains

28. Hottest Blockchain DApp, sponsored by Blockchip Verisart Judges comments: A real-world blockchain application taking the art world by storm

29. Hottest Corporate Blockchain Project sponsored by Coinweb Billon Judges comments: Billon is using blockchain to reimagine the flow of regulated money and data.

30. Hottest Blockchain Investor Europe sponsored by Malta Blockchain Summit KR1 Judges comments: An pioneering blockchain and token investment player doing big things under the radar

31. Hottest Blockchain ICO Europe sponsored by Columbus Capital Bancor Judges comments: Bancor has created new standard for cryptocurrencies convertible directly through their smart contracts, and managed an amazing public ICO.

32. Hottest Financial Crypto Project BlockEx Judges comments: BlockEx’s digital asset exchange platform has made positive waves in the crypto assets world

33. Hottest Blockchain for Good Project United Nations Jordan Etherum Project (Parity Technologies)! Judges comments: The combined United Nations, World Food Programme and Parity project on the Ethereum blockchain has changed the game for aid distribution to Syrian refugees in Jordan and is poised to be applied to other humanitarian projects globally.

34. Hottest Blockchain Identity Project Trunomi Judges comments: If data rights are the furture, Trunomi is helping to unlock that future.

35. Hall of Fame sponsored by TechCrunch Saul Klein and Robin Klein, LocalGlobe Judges comments: An incredible long-time double-act of European venture & startups. Every startup needs a Batman and Robin to help them, and Saul and Robin keep delivering!

28. Grand Prix Unicorn Award, sponsored by Bizzabo Adyen Judges comments: Adyen’s IPO was one of the biggest of the year and shows that Europe can produce the next wave of global Tech Unicorns.

via TechCrunch

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There are only 10 more days until The Europas where the winners of this year’s startup awards will be announced at our gala dinner, in association with TechCrunch!

The Europas half-day “Unconference” will have a fantastic lineup of panels taking place in the afternoon before the awards. This year, we’ve done away with mainstage lectures, and we’ve created a series of more tightly focused discussion panels that give you a front-row seat to the biggest investors, founders and thought leaders in tech. No more seeing a huge investor or founder on stage and not even getting to talk to them! Our goal at The Europas is to break down the barriers between speakers and audience and to get the discussion going!

This year our panels are focused around three themes: Tech + Society; Start Up Central, and The Crypto Zone. You can see the complete agenda here along with the panel speakers.

In Tech + Society, we’ll be debating and discussing:

— What happens to the tech community post Brexit?

— The Disinfoconomy panel will dive into what’s next after Facebook’s data debacle for both companies, essentially trading in personal data and for user privacy.

— Mapping the Future of Transportation and Cities: a startup that’s just emerging from stealth mode will talk about how AVs can co-exist in today’s cities.

In the Startup Central, our zone dedicated to startup life, we’ll be covering everything from seed funding to Series B and beyond. Expect to meet many investors here, as many of them will be heading up the discussion (as well as attending the awards dinner), including investors from Accel, Passion Capital, Connect Ventures, LocalGlobe, Seedcamp and many more. We’ll also be diving into startup life itself, asking if a work life balance can ever exist, and what exactly is “cultural fit”? And our most popular panel is back – Meet the Press – where you can ask top tech reporters what about exactly “makes” a tech startup story.

Finally – if you haven’t noticed recently, we’ve fallen headlong into the crypto rabbit hole. By popular demand, we’ve got two blockchain tracks dedicated to exploring the opportunities and challenges in the space. One track is dedicated to the ins and outs of investing, and the other track to the number of industries and existing business practices that blockchain is disrupting.

Agenda so far (more speakers to be confirmed):

Tech + Society Zone

• Should We Stay or Should We Go Now? Saul Klein, LocalGlobe Eloise Todd, CEO, Best For Britain (& other panelists to be announced)

•  The Disinformation Economy Dhruv Ghulati of factmata.com

• Get Mapping, the Future of Transportation in an Autonomous Age: Steve Gledden, AiPod

• AI + Startups – A Non Starter? Paul Dowling, Deeptech Mondays

Startup Central Zone

• The New World Order of Early Stage Investment Tina Baker, JAG Shaw Baker Scott Sage, VC

• Crossing the Chasm to Series B and Beyond (Speakers TBA)

• The Future of Funding: ICOs, Crowdfunding and VC Michael Jackson, Mangrove Capital Ali Ganjavian

• Meet the Press Featuring Journalists from Business Insider, WSJ and more

• This Startup Life – from work/life balance to cultural fit Brett, Forsyth Group

Crypto Zone 1

• Investing in Crypto: What’s Hot and What’s Not Richard Muirhead, Fabric Ventures Damir Bandalo, Columbus Capital George McDonagh, KR1 Nancy Fechnay, blockchain Angel

• The Highs and Lows of ICOs: 3 Blockchain Projects, 3 ICOs Linda Wang, Lending Block

•  Tokenize It! Understanding Token Economics Lee Pruitt, Instasupply;

• Smart Contracts, Smarter Businesses: What Smart Contracts Can Enable

• The Most Crypto Friendly Jurisdictions Diana Rotaru, Blockchip Keld Van Shreven, KR1

Crypto Zone 2

• The State of Blockchain in Europe Sasha Ivanov, Waves Lexi Willets, Coinweb Peter Wilson, Blockchain

• Blockchain for Social Impact: Where is Blockchain Making a Difference Min Teo, Consensys

• Fixing Media, the Creative Industries and Visual Arts with Blockchain Maria Tanjala, FilmChain Robert Norton, Verisart Christine Mohan, Civil

• We Don’t Need No Thought Control: Digital Identity and Blockchain – Pelle Braendgaard, uPort

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There are only 10 more days until The Europas where the winners of this year’s startup awards will be announced at our gala dinner, in association with TechCrunch!

The Europas half-day “Unconference” will have a fantastic lineup of panels taking place in the afternoon before the awards. This year, we’ve done away with mainstage lectures, and we’ve created a series of more tightly focused discussion panels that give you a front-row seat to the biggest investors, founders and thought leaders in tech. No more seeing a huge investor or founder on stage and not even getting to talk to them! Our goal at The Europas is to break down the barriers between speakers and audience and to get the discussion going!

This year our panels are focused around three themes: Tech + Society; Start Up Central, and The Crypto Zone. You can see the complete agenda here along with the panel speakers.

In Tech + Society, we’ll be debating and discussing:

— What happens to the tech community post Brexit?

— The Disinfoconomy panel will dive into what’s next after Facebook’s data debacle for both companies, essentially trading in personal data and for user privacy.

— Mapping the Future of Transportation and Cities: a startup that’s just emerging from stealth mode will talk about how AVs can co-exist in today’s cities.

In the Startup Central, our zone dedicated to startup life, we’ll be covering everything from seed funding to Series B and beyond. Expect to meet many investors here, as many of them will be heading up the discussion (as well as attending the awards dinner), including investors from Accel, Passion Capital, Connect Ventures, LocalGlobe, Seedcamp and many more. We’ll also be diving into startup life itself, asking if a work life balance can ever exist, and what exactly is “cultural fit”? And our most popular panel is back – Meet the Press – where you can ask top tech reporters what about exactly “makes” a tech startup story.

Finally – if you haven’t noticed recently, we’ve fallen headlong into the crypto rabbit hole. By popular demand, we’ve got two blockchain tracks dedicated to exploring the opportunities and challenges in the space. One track is dedicated to the ins and outs of investing, and the other track to the number of industries and existing business practices that blockchain is disrupting.

Agenda so far (more speakers to be confirmed):

Tech + Society Zone

• Should We Stay or Should We Go Now? Saul Klein, LocalGlobe Eloise Todd, CEO, Best For Britain (& other panelists to be announced)

•  The Disinformation Economy Dhruv Ghulati of factmata.com

• Get Mapping, the Future of Transportation in an Autonomous Age: Steve Gledden, AiPod

• AI + Startups – A Non Starter? Paul Dowling, Deeptech Mondays

Startup Central Zone

• The New World Order of Early Stage Investment Tina Baker, JAG Shaw Baker Scott Sage, VC

• Crossing the Chasm to Series B and Beyond (Speakers TBA)

• The Future of Funding: ICOs, Crowdfunding and VC Michael Jackson, Mangrove Capital Ali Ganjavian

• Meet the Press Featuring Journalists from Business Insider, WSJ and more

• This Startup Life – from work/life balance to cultural fit Brett, Forsyth Group

Crypto Zone 1

• Investing in Crypto: What’s Hot and What’s Not Richard Muirhead, Fabric Ventures Damir Bandalo, Columbus Capital George McDonagh, KR1 Nancy Fechnay, blockchain Angel

• The Highs and Lows of ICOs: 3 Blockchain Projects, 3 ICOs Linda Wang, Lending Block

•  Tokenize It! Understanding Token Economics Lee Pruitt, Instasupply;

• Smart Contracts, Smarter Businesses: What Smart Contracts Can Enable

• The Most Crypto Friendly Jurisdictions Diana Rotaru, Blockchip Keld Van Shreven, KR1

Crypto Zone 2

• The State of Blockchain in Europe Sasha Ivanov, Waves Lexi Willets, Coinweb Peter Wilson, Blockchain

• Blockchain for Social Impact: Where is Blockchain Making a Difference Min Teo, Consensys

• Fixing Media, the Creative Industries and Visual Arts with Blockchain Maria Tanjala, FilmChain Robert Norton, Verisart Christine Mohan, Civil

• We Don’t Need No Thought Control: Digital Identity and Blockchain – Pelle Braendgaard, uPort

via TechCrunch