#augur is Live: Here’s Why It’s a Big Deal
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It’s July 9th, 2018. The highly anticipated decentralized app Augur has finally launched on the Ethereum Mainnet after over 4 years in development. Enduring many challenges including the need to rewrite the entire smart contract in a new language, port over their ERC20 token (REP) to a new language & contract, and ride the wave of Ethereum security issues that plagued projects like The DAO and Parity Wallet (twice), it’s finally here. Augur was the first ICO on the Ethereum platform, and it sparked the wave of excitement for decentralized apps. But what is it and why is it such a big deal?Augur is a decentralized prediction market. It allows anyone, anywhere in the world with an Internet connection and cryptocurrency to create a market on the future outcome of an event. It then gives (...)
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