Swarm crypto-crowdfunding platform incubates its first five startups

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SwarmCorp, the worlds first distributed incubator that uses an innovative funding-by-cryptocurrency design, just finished its first-ever Decentralized Demo Day and has announced Techstars as yet another first-ever institutional investor using the native Swarm Coin.

Swarm represents an innovative way for projects and startups to gather funding with a democratized, decentralized crowdfunding platform. New ventures produce their own cryptocurrency on the Swarm platform and then use that to provide equity to backers.

The investment by Techstars will likely give SwarmCorp a boost towards getting the ball rolling to kickstart more startups.

We believe that Swarms innovative fundraising model has the possibility to completely transform the venture capital industry, said David Cohen, CEO of Techstars, and we want to help make this happen. Thats why we are making the worlds first fund investment via cryptoequity.

SiliconANGLE first reported on Swarm during the platforms launch in June 2014 and today represents the first five companies to emerge from the incubator.

The five companies launching from Swarm

The first, Manna, seeks to provide the public with personal-level drones that can be controlled via smartphone.

Next is Swarmops, a project that hopes to become a decentralized platform for swarm activism, providing difficult-to-stop communications, marshalling, and organization for civil liberties resistance to oppressive regimes. The Swarmops system provides a decentralized, democratized bureaucracy platform by driving decentralized authority via management of volunteers, activists, budgets, mass communication, expenses, payroll, invoices, and bookkeeping.

Judobaby has a decentralized gaming platform. Currently, the prominent game released by Judobaby involves dog footballavailable for the Nintendo Wii and PC platforms.

Coinspace seeks to build a co-working space for cryptocurrency developers, inventors, and business interests in New York City. Interested parties can use Swarm, through Space Coins, to back the space and receive membership and thus access. The planned launch of the workspace is in about six months. View this interview with Sol Lederer of Coinspace [YouTube] for more details.

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Science lifts veil on comet

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PARIS: For millennia, the sight of a comet filled humans with awe or dread. The birth of Jesus, the assassination of Julius Caesar, the Great Plague of London, the coming of war or peace, bountiful harvests or famine ... all thought to be portended by cosmic herald.

Bit by bit, mysticism about comets has been replaced by fact as scientists discover more about these epic and ancient travellers of the skies. As it turns out, comets may be more extraordinary than even the deepest superstition could imagine.

They may even have brought life to our planet, according to some theories. For decades, astrophysicists have debated whether, at the dawn of our Solar System, comets peppered Earth with some of the chemical essentials for life as we know it.

The answer may be within reach. On Wednesday, a European robot lab, Philae, will make the first-ever landing on a comet. It will carry out experiments on the comet's back as the pair hurtle toward the Sun, escorted by Philae's mother ship, Rosetta, in orbit.

"Comets are the most ancient objects in the Solar System," Francis Rocard of France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), told AFP. "We want to know if comets played a part in providing Earth with water and carbon. There is no doubt that the results from Rosetta and Philae will shake up what we know."

Dubbed "dirty snowballs" by US astronomer Fred Whipple, comets are deemed to be clusters of primeval carbon and ice, typically a few kilometres across. Blacker than coal, they were formed shortly after the Sun flared into life in a halo of dust and gas - the stuff that eventually formed the planets and other bodies.

Today, the Solar System is considered a pretty quiet place compared to 4.6 billion years ago, when it was a shooting gallery. The nascent Earth would have been whacked over and over again by comets and asteroids, swelling the planet in size and depositing ice, which on some theories became today's oceans.

"This would have created a wonderful culture medium - a liquid enabling highly rich carbon material to react and create prebiotic chemistry," said Rocard. "It would have led to the first membranes and ultimately the first cells - life itself," he said.

The key to confirming this theory lies in the ratio of hydrogen and deuterium on the comet, which Rosetta and Philae will measure with their instruments, to be compared to the chemical make-up of water on Earth.

Doomed to orbit the Sun in elliptical circuits, comets undergo thermal and gravity stress as they near the star. Some of their ice is melted and transformed into gusts of gas, the bright "coma" around a comet's head.

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