1 εκατομμύριο δολάρια για το αποκεντρωμένο Marketplace OpenBazaar
Oι προγραμματιστές του p2p Market OpenBazaar ανακοίνωσαν σήμερα ότι χρηματοδοτήθηκαν με 1 εκατομμύριο δολάρια από τους επενδυτές Andreessen Horowitz , William Mougayar και από τον επενδυτικό όμιλο Union Square Ventures. Όπως ανακοίνωσαν τα χρήματα θα χρησιμοποιηθούν για την περαιτέρω ανάπτυξη του Openbazaar καθώς και για την ανάπτυξη ενός νέου επιχειρηματικού market πάνω σε αυτό.
OpenBazaar is Entering a New Phase with Funding
The OpenBazaar core team is excited to announce that we’ve received $1 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investor William Mougayar to develop the OpenBazaar protocol and client, and build the first business on top of the OpenBazaar network.
The OpenBazaar project was launched in April 2014 and received vocal support from the bitcoin community, who share our vision for a free and decentralized ecommerce platform using bitcoin. OpenBazaar is ambitiously combining several technologies including peer-to-peer networking, Ricardian contracts, decentralized reputation, and multisignature escrow for bitcoin payments. Despite our best efforts as part-time volunteers, progress was slow. The project needed the core contributors to make development a full-time effort in order to release a robust application within a reasonable time-frame.
This funding allows us to commit our full-time resources to develop OpenBazaar. Not only will it allow us to work with the community to finish the first full release of the core protocol and application, but it also gives us the opportunity to create the first business on top of the OpenBazaar network. This business, which we’ve named OB1, will offer services to OpenBazaar users, and aims to bootstrap adoption of decentralized commerce.
