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**JOIN THE SOLA ITO! ITO LAUNCHING NOVEMBER 27, 2017**
Today, on social networks, the audience for users is limited by friends and followers, and they do not benefit from social media activity financially.
Sola is a next-generation, decentralized social media platform that incentives and benefits both users and third-party developers, allowing them to build a revenue stream through their own content.
The Sola app is built on the Sola open source platform allowing ease of access for audit, improvement, and usage by everyone, with the sole vision to make everyone’s voice louder on this social medium, allowing them to earn revenue at the same time.
Decentralization opens up possibilities for major breakthroughs in communications, comparable to the shift from desktop to mobile. Decentralization makes Sola nearly immune to blocking and censorship.
Ilya Zudin and Pavel Panov are Sola’s co-founders, who have been working together since 2011 when they established a new venture to develop an innovative social product. In 2013 they came up with a social experiment to find out if people were ready to communicate and collaborate with strangers in a constructive and respectful way.
In November 2014, an iOS and Android app launched under the name Plague by Deep Sea Marketing. Since then, hundreds of thousands of users created millions of cards, comments and connections.
According to Zudin, “Now, we are making the next step and launching Sola, a decentralized social layer never seen before. It’s more than a never-ending global conversation of news, stories, and entertainment where the whole world at once is your audience – you can now make money from your social media efforts.”
The Sola ecosystem is powered by the token SOL, a utility token with a monetary function. It enables Sola to split its revenue with users based on the collective decision of other users. Each user earns money based on the information generated and disseminated, earning tokens by creating quality content that is endorsed by other app users.
SOL is the only currency used for transactions on the platform. Tokens can also be earned by taking part in the Bounty Development Programs designed to improve the Sola platform and app.
Panov added, “The idea behind Sola was to foster viral content through the app. It was designed so posts would spread like a virus (as the original name Plague may suggest), so when a user creates a post, or a picture or video, it got sent to the four closest, in proximity, Plague users.”
Zudin added, “Due to the mechanics of the application, each user has a potential audience that is much larger than in other networks - not just friends and followers, but the whole audience of the Sola network. This means all users have a chance to get their 15 minutes of fame and revenue, and the chances are equal for each user, and not just celebrities and other influencers with large audiences and followings.”
Plague started off strong by gathering over 150,000 thousands in just 2 months. In March 2015, the name Plague was changed to Plag, and then in March 2017, the transformation from Plag to Sola began.
Sola has inherited Plag's unique approach and proven social mechanics, together with all the data and user bases. Sola’s major upgrade is enabled by using blockchain capabilities, allowing them to decentralize the service at the architecture level. Decentralization makes it more user-friendly and secure, by having all the users’ data on the blockchain.
Blockchain technology will help Sola to succeed in its mission to democratize access to the audience and to allow all involved parties to benefit from it.
Sola uses “cards” instead of the traditional feed format seen in social networks. The user only sees one item of information at a time ensuring a higher user engagement with the content, compared to the feed concept.
Sola just released their app on 26 of October 2017 on iOS and Android and everyone can join the Sola ITO that takes place from 27 November – 22 December.
#### [HOW TO INVEST IN THE ITO](https://sola.foundation) ####
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**Centz is changing the gift card industry – Join the ITO!**
Centz is the world’s first gift card solution that allows you to collect all your balances into one spendable lump-sum credit that you can use to buy any other goods or services. Centz is going disrupt and then fundamentally change the gift card industry forever.
Jon Bricken, the CEO and Founder of Centz, has stated that their vision is to give gift card consumers total flexibility and security in the use of their gift cards, at any time, with any retailer. Their mission is to give gift card users the opportunity to fully use their gift card balances and provide the highest level of fraud prevention security.
#### [Read More](https://blog.openledger.info/2017/11/02/centz-is-changing-the-gift-card-industry%E2%80%8A-%E2%80%8Ajoin-the-ito/) ####
#### To take part in the Centz ITO, please visit [www.centz.io](www.centz.io) ####
#### [Sign Up for Future Webinar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_gCQoijVww) ####
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With Investy, we provide you, the investor, with a marketplace where you can choose a trader or a fund and know that your money is safely invested and the results are authentic.
**Investing via the Investy platform is safe.**
There is no need to transfer your money or assets, and they are always on your account. Only you can access the transaction, and the rest is taken care of by the platform. We are the first ones to develop and implement an expert trader’s system, and the platform assumes the role of a gateway, blocking all fraudulent transactions.
Investing via Investy, you can be sure that your money will not be withdrawn, with a guarantee that there will be no chance of fraud from the trader’s side. No one can lose your deposit and it is in maximum security in the Investy environment.
Analyzing cryptofunds and traders markets, we realized that many funds do not provide transparent reporting for their investors, and often their official numbers do not exceed the growth of bitcoin.
**[Read More](https://blog.openledger.info/2017/11/02/choose-a-crypto-trader-and-earn-together/)**
#### For more information about INVESTY ITO, please see [https://ito.investy.io](https://ito.investy.io) ####
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**Decentralization and the Creation of Roles in the World of Karma**
Karma’s unique approach to the lending market has created an ecosystem where every participant can play a role: borrower, investor, insurer, guarantor, collector, portfolio manager, lawyer and other roles which will be apart of the ecosystem in the future.
Karma, the P2P financial platform with an ITO starting November 29, but with a whitelist registration which is ongoing, will delegate these roles to the participants of the community while enabling participants to freely choose and create roles.
#### [READ MORE](https://tokensale.karma.red) ####
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The world of technology has seen rapid growth in the recent years. According to statistics from Internet World Stats, over half of the world’s population has access to internet, it has grown from 0.4% in the 1995 to 51.7% in 2017.
Although the world is clearly evolving at an exponential pace, there are still major problems in the rural parts of the world. Even though there have been over 700 million new bank accounts opened from 2011-2014, there are still over 2 billion people unbanked, meaning they don’t have access to any kind of financial institution.
Having no bank account makes having financial stability much more difficult. Imagine a store owner in Yemen, he has worked hard for years and has earned some money. In Yemen 93.5% of the people don’t have a bank account, including the hardworking shopkeeper. What does that mean for him?
**[Read More](https://blog.openledger.info/2017/10/30/banking-the-unbanked/)**
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