Ravencoin Wiki
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Ravencoin (KR) is a project built on a code fork of bitcoin version 0.15.99. Ravencoin fairly launched on the 3rd of January 2018 without ICO, pre-mine or masternodes and was announced by Bruce Fenton on twitter. Ravencoin is focused on building open-source technology and has a strong and growing community. Ravencoin aims to implement simple issuance and management of tradable assets on a blockchain. To avoid centralized ASIC mining of Ravencoin, the developers created a new algorithm, X16R (FR, KR, DE). What made X16R unique is the changing order of 16 hashing algorithms based on the hash of the previous block. This random reordering of hashing algorithms made it temporarily resistant to mining ASICs. However, it became evident that X16R ASICs were developed and mining Ravenvoin in July 2019. In a response, X16R was adapted with a small modification to X16Rv2. This adaptation involved adding an extra hashing algorithm to three of the 16 existing ones. As X16RRv2 was only temporarily effective, the developer community made a more drastic algorithm change to prevent ASICs from dominating mining on the Ravencoin network and moved to KAWPOW. KAWPOW is a derivative of ProgPOW with parameters specifically for Ravencoin.
The core team has produced a roadmap with a development plan of 7 phases. The roadmap for the code development was published on the project's github on the 3rd of April 2018. The white paper (KR, DE) describing the background and intention of the project was published on the same date on Ravencoin.org and Bruce Fenton posted a Twitter thread summarizing some key points of the whitepaper and growth of the project to date. At the time of launch, the core team was funded by Medici Ventures who are owned by Overstock.com - Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock, talks about Ravencoin in this BusinessInsider interview. A collection of interviews with Tron Black (lead dev), Patrick Byrne, and Bruce Fenton, is available here.
Ravencoin Asset Support since Launch (Nov 5th, 2018)
| Date | Company | Company Info | Relation to Ravencoin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26/10/20 | Tinaga Island Resort | Security Token Offering | Tinaga Island Resort uses Ravencoin for the largest STO in Asia (TIRC)
In relation to this STO, Alphapoint and Tokensoft also integrated Ravencoin. |
| 30/05/20 | DKH Gallery | Art Gallery | Uses Ravencoin to track art transactions, pay out rewards to token holders, message token holders, and let token holders vote (DKH) |
| 05/05/20 | IPAssets | Intellectual Property Portfolio management tools | Uses assets and asset capabilities for intellectual property (IP) recognition, crowd funding for University IP assets, and IP fractionalized interests (IPASSETS) |
| 07/01/20 | GORAVEN | Blockchain Oracle solutions | GORAVEN offers Blockchain Oracle solutions to facilitate data consistency and transparency. |
| 20/12/19 | FinClusive | KYC Platform | Finclusive has developed a service that will integrate with the Ravencoin platform to satisfy KYC requirements for issuing legally compliant token offerings. |
| 10/11/19 | Scotsrum | Scottish Rum distillery | Uses Ravencoin to tokenise the project, distributing its produce using blockchain and crypto payments. |
| 20/09/19 | Project 33 | An artist collective organization creating high-grade Murrine artwork and glass coins. | A project involving the creation and sale of physical assets (handmade glass Ravencoin art coins) that convey ownership of Art Units which correspond to ownership tokens on the Ravencoin blockchain. Uses asset ARTUNITS. Example of subasset for a specific glass coin: ARTUNITS/RAVEN#P33-0619-1-026 |
| 20/05/19 | NVRMOR.io | Crypto Collective Art Project | Uses Ravencoin to tokenize art. Uses asset NVRMOR |
| 20/05/19 | EQUA Start | EQUA Start is a platform for cap table management | Uses Ravencoin for capitalization tables and messaging. (EQUA) |
| 15/04/19 | Vinsent Wine | Blockchain-based platform that enables wineries and wine lovers to connect directly and trade wine. | Uses Ravencoin to tokenize wine futures and will introduce new features, e.g. tracking features, P2P tokens transfers and more. (VINSENT_WINE) |
| 24/02/19 | Blockchain Economics Club | Nonprofit Project at Southern Illinois University. | University members gain SALUKICOIN for participation and will be using ravencoin voting to change the name in later club meetings. |
| 12/11/18
Update |
Assure Services | Provides administrative and transaction services for the private investment marketplace | 12/11/18: Issued 700 Ravencoin assets |
| 18/12/18 | Medici Ventures Inc | Medici Ventures (wholly-owned subsidiary of Overstock.com) works on advancing blockchain technology.
Chainstone labs is a technical advisory and investment company. |
Medici Ventures completed a $3.6 million securities token transfer using Ravencoin for a equity purchase in Chainstone labs.
Live video here (3 min). |
| 06/12/18 | BitsBeTrippin | Cryptocurrency Channel/Store, since 2013 | Bits Be Trippin' offers 'The Boring Not a Flamethrower Ravencoin Asset Linking Service' to help bridge the gap of unique assets with real world assets using Ravencoin. Explanation video here. (7 min). |
| 14/11/18 | LoftVR | Builds Virtual Reality Arcades | LoftVR is offering a limited edition art piece of a Tron Countach |
| 06/11/18 | Crafty Hands Music, ASCAP | An independent publishing company administering the rights and licensing of our affiliated Artist's compositions, including: royalties management, collection and distribution of writer's and artist's shares, and targeted promotions. | Using RVN to track and manage publishing shares |
| 05/11/18
Update |
Ravenland | Ravenland is a community driven and ran global software house that produces tools for the Ravencoin Network. With open source retail + community ownership as emphasis it is the worlds first global community blockchain developer company on Ravencoin network. | |
| 02/11/18 | Comistar | TokenizEU is a security token issuance platform that helps to structure security token offerings and comply with the regulations in the European Union, as well as issue tokens and enable investors to participate in the offerings. | Comistar Global uses Ravencoin for their TokenizEU STO platform. |
| 31/10/18 | Blocknerds.io | Provides dApp and Smart Contract development on several major blockchain protocols using on-chain and off-chain solutions. | Uses Ravencoin and IPFS to build a decentralized Web. Demo video here. (2 min). |
Please contact the moderators on Ravencoin Community Discord if you would like to have your company added here. We are actively editing this list with updates and we try to include anything that we can find. If you see your project or company listed here and wish that the description should be changed or that the listing should be removed. Please let us know. Last update: Oct 5th, 2019
Other (Spotted) Asset Projects
- Ravencoinslots.info - Slot machine that uses DIME for gambling. More info posted on this Reddit thread.
- Magusta Game dAPP - Game on IPFS. (MAGUSTA/LIFE, Whitepaper on MAGUSTA/LIFE#magustagame.pdf)
- https://films.ravenland.org/ - Decentralized video player and historic storage engine. (RAVEN_LAND/FILMS)
- https://www.corviato.com/ - Token development and a chat app (CORVOCHAT)
- https://www.mogs.com/ - Referral tokens valued at $0.10 (MBX)
- https://getravencoin.org/ - All Ravencoin news website. Has GetRavencoin.org membership tokens: (GETRAVENCOIN.ORG/MEMBERSHIP).
- https://www.disruptmovie.com/ - Film project. (DISRUPT)
- LeveRaven - Project for development of platforms and utilities for ravencoin. The project is related to the MARSHMALLOW token.
Ravencoin Github Related sites
| Weblink | Short description |
|---|---|
| Raven Project | Raven coin source code |
| Raven Community | Miner, nodes and Raven related utilities. |
| Raven Foundation | Ravencoin Foundation official github. Note: Ravencoin has no officials |
| Good Stuff | Not currently maintained but full of very cool Raven stuff |
| Tron Black | First and still lead Developer, as much as there is one for Raven, and possibly the coolest name on the planet |
| Mangofarmassets | Please check out RIP, (Ravencoin Improvement Proposal), 11 through 14. World Changing! |
| Jeroz | The most helpful person in the Ravencoin community and most knowledgeable of all things surrounding Ravencoin |
| Hans-Schmidt | Resources for Devs wanting to learn more about Ravencoin |
| Corviato | Ravencoin voting solution and other Raven related information. Regularly maintained |
| RealBokito | Extended Ravencoin Metadata Specification |
| Kendbull | Development meeting agendas. Add a question |
| Kawpow Pool | Highly Efficient mining pool for Raven coin kawpow algo! |
| fdoving | Raven Core integration/staging tree |
| Use Cases | Ravencoin use case ideas. Read, comment and add your ideas. Feel free to use any ideas but let the community know |
| IPFS | IPFS Official github |
| IPFS gateways | This is an IPFS tool for testing the availability of gateways and previewing ipfs resources |
Ravencoin Currency Support
| Company | Ravencoin Support |
|---|---|
| NOWPayments | Integrate NOWPayments and start receiving online payments in crypto OR take fiat payments and receive crypto! |
| Metal Pay | Matal Pay allows you to use Ravencoin using its payment service |
| Estate88 | Buy Coffee anywhere in the world using RVN (choose coinpayments option at checkout and select RVN.) |
| Crypto.com | Crypto.com supports RVN and is a cryptocurrency service and wallet that allows you to Buy, Sell and Pay with Crypto. |
| Vinsent.wine | Vinsent.wine supports RVN as payment for their on RVN tokenized wine futures |
| Anypay | Anypay supports Ravencoin as payment currency. |
| Coinpayments.net | Coinpayments is a borderless online payments platform and cryptocurrency wallet that serves as a payment alternative for consumers and merchants. See: https://blog.coinpayments.net/coin-spotlight/ravencoin |
| Spend.com | Spend.com provides a multi-currency digital wallet that enables you to store and spend cryptocurrencies and fiat using your smart phone or Spend Visa Card. |
| Ternio Blockcard | Blockcard (Crypto debit card) wants to support Ravencoin if there are ~1000 sign ups through: https://getblockcard.com/i/ravencoin. This invite link is purely to measure Ravencoin support and nobody benefits from the referral link. When loading CC to their wallet, they convert this into Tern, which is the currency that is used for the transactions during card payments / withdrawals. |
| Vault Logic ATM | Vault Logic Crypto Currency 2-Way ATM supports Ravencoin |
| CoinText | Send and receive Ravencoin in the US with a mobile phone.
(Text START to 1–603–301–4606 to begin). |
| ThePlaza shop | Allows you to pay with RVN. |
Ravencoin Blockchain parameters
Block Time: 1 minute
Block Reward: 5000 RVN
Total Coin Supply: 21 Billion
Type: Proof of Work (PoW)
Next Halving: Block 2,100,000 (~January 6th, 2022)
