Dash is partnering with BlockCypher to provide grants to businesses seeking to integrate with blockchain technology, Dash in particular.
The grant will provide integration, consulting, and support for companies wishing to start using blockchain technology. According to Dash Core CEO Ryan Taylor, this grant will essentially codify ongoing practices for assisting businesses in integration cryptocurrency.
“The Dash Core Group has a history of providing support for businesses seeking to integrate Dash, but now we can do so in an official, mutually beneficial way. BlockCypher is a wonderful partner for Dash and has been instrumental in attracting new businesses to leverage our network; this program simply extends our support in a structured way to the numerous leads BlockCypher generates for the network.
Our grant program encourages businesses to commit to blockchain and Dash in particular, because Dash has extremely high scalability potential. The projects we are funding accelerate this commitment and help highlight the advantages of working with Dash compared with other public blockchains.”
The ongoing benefits of the BlockCypher partnership
The Dash network’s strategic partnership with BlockCypher has led to numerous integrations for Dash, including BitInka, Alt36, Kraken, and many more. The addition of this grant in particular will pave the way for a host of new integrations and collaborations for the Dash network.
One beneficiary of this partnership is Patientory, a healthcare blockchain platform, which recently integrated Dash as part of this new grant. According to Chrissa McFarlane, Patientory’s CEO, the partnership will allow them to break new ground in the healthcare field.
“We are excited to work with Dash and BlockCypher. Using BlockCypher’s web services, we will be the first healthcare blockchain to show interoperability between blockchain networks. This is a major leap forward for how blockchains can be used to process healthcare claims payments.”
Dash’s adoption soon to reach critical mass
The development and strengthening of Dash’s ecosystem continues to grow in the run-up to the first stages of the mass-market targeting Evolution upgrade, set for wide release June 2018. At time of writing, nearly 300 businesses around the world accept Dash so far, with many more rapidly on the way. This massive adoption lead over other top cryptocurrencies may prove decisive in selecting the top digital currency payment system.
It would seem to me that the fastest way to get consumer 2 consumer (c2c) is get business 2 business first (b2b) Once businesses are using commonly to solve their transaction problems and speeding up inter business operations (even between different countries) then it will be the norm. Once consumers start saying “Hey you use this already between businesses, can we use it too in order to buy your stuff?” They will likely shrug and say “Sure”. Their backend already supports it. They just have to expand it to a new set of transactions. Then you got c2b and/or b2c (same I guess). Once people are commonly buying stuff with businesses with it, then doing c2c is just a natural and logical extension.
So get it commonly used upstream where they can more easily absorb the capital costs of setting up as well as using it. Once it common for business it will start flowing down to consumers as long as consumers also have an easy way to access and/or use it. With dash this is pretty much built in at all levels to be used. Business may likely pay the upfront costs, but everyone in time will get to benefit from it.
I agree with you but, I think its currently more like this:
Every day users just want to start using crypto, business that are smart are starting to look into it or already have bitcoin running. These business are running into problems with various currency’s, and they look for what is best for them and there costumers. My only hope is that business currently using bitcoin will not be put off by bitcoin to look further into crypto, and I also hope they realize that ETH is not intended as a currency either.
I am also certain, based on evolution roadmap, the time it will take for other to catch up to dash evolution ease of use will give Dash a decent head-start. I even doubt that ETH will be focusing on that even if DASH would have a major hit with evolution, due to the fact the have always been focused as the worlds supercomputer, and executing smart-contracts for gas.