NCFA Blockchain Fintech CONFIDENTIAL (Vol 1, Issue 1)
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada (NCFA) and exclusive Title Partner of the 4th VanFUNDING conference held in downtown Vancouver Nov 29-30, 2018, TODA Network, are proud to present select content in an inaugural pop-up digital magazine format. This year’s theme, CONVERGE, immerses participants and builds bridges across the most disruptive emerging technologies, capital market innovations and key stakeholders that are powering new global markets, new decentralized models, new forms of computer intelligence, new IP, new infrastructure and new alternative investment opportunities toward the vision of a Web 3.0. The world is undergoing unprecedented change that is already affecting our daily lives — how we interact with financial services, generate digital wealth, invest, evaluate, consume, vote, store, transfer, and purchase anything of value. Blockchain’s momentum is not slowing down anytime soon and its capabilities for revolutionizing the financial industry go beyond merely eliminating the “middleman” to harnessing the power to improve fraud detection, transparency and trust, and enhance financial management, change the nature of money and encourage financial inclusivity. The potential is limitless. While blockchain technology has shown immense potential to push us closer towards a utopian financial world, the global penetration of [this technology] is less than 0.2 per cent. While individuals should remain cautious about fraudulent businesses that have arisen from people looking to cash in on the hype, the next wave of blockchain adoption and utilization will be like a tsunami, [where] you can partake in what's yet to be the most disruptive technology in human history or ignore it and get disrupted. We’d like to thank all the partners, speakers, attendees, volunteers and the entire organizing team for coming together to make VF2018 an incredible experience. Congratulations to Symend, Very Good Butchers and MOCA Estimator and for winning the pitching competition. We wish you all great success! The commercialization of emerging technologies is a journey, not a sprint. With this in mind, we encourage you to converge with us in volume 1, issue 1 of ‘Blockchain Fintech CONFIDENTIAL’ and step inside the future of blockchain, fintech, AI and alternative investing.
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada (NCFA) and exclusive Title Partner of the 4th VanFUNDING conference held in downtown Vancouver Nov 29-30, 2018, TODA Network, are proud to present select content in an inaugural pop-up digital magazine format.
This year’s theme, CONVERGE, immerses participants and builds bridges across the most disruptive emerging technologies, capital market innovations and key stakeholders that are powering new global markets, new decentralized models, new forms of computer intelligence, new IP, new infrastructure and new alternative investment opportunities toward the vision of a Web 3.0.
The world is undergoing unprecedented change that is already affecting our daily lives — how we interact with financial services, generate digital wealth, invest, evaluate, consume, vote, store, transfer, and purchase anything of value.
Blockchain’s momentum is not slowing down anytime soon and its capabilities for revolutionizing the financial industry go beyond merely eliminating the “middleman” to harnessing the power to improve fraud detection, transparency and trust, and enhance financial management, change the nature of money and encourage financial inclusivity. The potential is limitless.
While blockchain technology has shown immense potential to push us closer towards a utopian financial world, the global penetration of [this technology] is less than 0.2 per cent. While individuals should remain cautious about fraudulent businesses that have arisen from people looking to cash in on the hype, the next wave of blockchain adoption and utilization will be like a tsunami, [where] you can partake in what's yet to be the most disruptive technology in human history or ignore it and get disrupted.
We’d like to thank all the partners, speakers, attendees, volunteers and the entire organizing team for coming together to make VF2018 an incredible experience. Congratulations to Symend, Very Good Butchers and MOCA Estimator and for winning the pitching competition. We wish you all great success!
The commercialization of emerging technologies is a journey, not a sprint. With this in mind, we encourage you to converge with us in volume 1, issue 1 of ‘Blockchain Fintech CONFIDENTIAL’ and step inside the future of blockchain, fintech, AI and alternative investing.
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Cryptocurrency phishing campaigns have spread to epidemic proportions,<br />
alongside the unprecedented rise of digital assets driven by the boom of<br />
cryptocurrency and the subsequent development of blockchain technology.<br />
INSIDER VIEW<br />
Although cryptocurrency provides users the<br />
capacity to “be their own banker” this approach<br />
ultimately pits responsibility for securing<br />
the vault on the user, or custodial service<br />
managing the wallet address. As a result of<br />
poor security practices a multibillion dollar<br />
marketplace is fraught with fraud as scammers<br />
vie for a portion of the pie in the sky. Fraudsters<br />
have come out of the woodwork, touting false<br />
opportunities with offers that are too good to<br />
be true, in an effort to skim a bit of crypto from<br />
someone foolish enough to simply send some<br />
to a phishing wallet address, or worse, given a<br />
prompt to log in to a phishing site mimicking<br />
a cryptocurrency exchange, or wallet service.<br />
It is because users cannot identify legitimate<br />
resources from those of phishing scams that<br />
10% of all money in digital wallets is stolen.<br />
As the webscape has never been more hostile,<br />
MetaCert has decided to fight back with a<br />
verification system designed to augment with<br />
current security tools as a last line of defense<br />
against malicious resources. MetaCert’s green,<br />
grey, and red shields provide users a measure<br />
of whether a resource is green and safe, or<br />
red and unsafe, and if a known to be verified<br />
link shows up as grey, you know it might be<br />
a phishing link. Since 90% of phishing scams<br />
start malicious links in email, MetaCert has<br />
modified our solution to work natively in email<br />
applications, and we are currently beta testing<br />
that technology.<br />
This means that when a person using this<br />
technology receives and email from a<br />
phishing scammer claiming to be a popular<br />
cryptocurrency exchange, wallet service, or<br />
other payment portal, they’re going to see a<br />
grey shield next to the fake link and know right<br />
away that it might be a scam.<br />
This is the same concept that powers Cryptonite,<br />
the popular browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox,<br />
Opera, and Brave browser that blocks phishing<br />
scams and uses the shield system to indicate<br />
the verified status of a web resource known to<br />
be associated with cryptocurrencies.<br />
MetaCert sees a world where you don’t have<br />
to worry about clicking on a link, and our tools<br />
will go a long way towards keeping digital<br />
assets out of the hands of thieves, and in the<br />
possession of its rightful owners. Visit us today<br />
at https://MetaCertProtocol.com to find out<br />
how we can help protect you.<br />
Paul Walsh<br />
Founder & CEO<br />
MetaCert<br />
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