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A M A L G A M<br />
W W W . A M A L G A M C O I N . C O M<br />
be one of the safest and most reliable tokens on the market due to its<br />
blockchain technology. In fact, JP Morgan built its Quorum enterprisefocused<br />
platform using the Ethereum blockchain protocol 2.<br />
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS<br />
With over 1200 cryptocurrencies currently available for purchase or trade<br />
in more than 6500 markets 3 and a current total market capitalization in<br />
excess of $204 billion, there is no shortage of tokens in which one can<br />
invest. However, many of these tokens have arbitrary values that are<br />
without any real-world use or utility. Subsequently, this equates to an<br />
inherent lack of stability in the value of these arbitrarily-released digital<br />
assets. Should a major party purchase a substantial portion of shares<br />
only to sell them off shortly after other investors, merchants and users<br />
alike would find the value of their tokens plummeting almost<br />
immediately; there is an innately unstable element to many tokens on the<br />
market. Until now…<br />
INTRODUCING AMALGAM<br />
<strong>Amalgam</strong>, built on the Ethereum blockchain, is fundamentally safer than<br />
almost all of its contemporaries. <strong>Amalgam</strong>’s protocol calls for an<br />
additional tier of encryption using what is known as a zeroknowledge<br />
proof. A zero-knowledge proof allows smart contracts<br />
within the blockchain to verify transactional history without knowing or<br />
revealing any of the underlying data belonging to parties included in<br />
said transactions. Additionally, <strong>Amalgam</strong>’s value is safeguarded in its<br />
correspondence to a price-weighted index of over 300 of the world’s<br />
most frequently traded cryptocurrencies available on the market. This<br />
allows <strong>Amalgam</strong> to be valued by its demand as an asset, its transactional<br />
frequency, and the overall health of the cryptocurrency market, further<br />
mitigating the risk of dilution or extreme depreciation.<br />
IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OF AMALGAM<br />
2 “What is Quorum? Enterprise-ready distributed ledger and smart contract platform” 22 May 2017,<br />
https://www.jpmorgan.com/global/Quorum<br />
3 “(ETH) Ethereum (ETH).” CoinMarketCap, Coinmarketcap.com, 15 Nov. 2017,<br />
coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/.