Chinese based Blockchain for Intellectual Property
What is Zeepin Chain?
Zeepin Chain is a blockchain for intellectual property. Zeepin's goal is to promote development, research and advocacy for its decentralised blockchain developed for the global creative industry. It aims to provide the following:
- Asset digitisation
- Rights confirmation
- Transaction of creative assets
- Crowd-funding of creative assets
- Corporate management of creative assets
- Incubation of creative assets
What is intellectual property?
Intellectual property is a right that is had by a person / company to have exclusive rights to use its own plans, ideas, or other intangible assets without the worry of competition. It compasses copyrights, patents, and trademarks. It also includes other types of rights, such as trade secrets, publicity rights, moral rights, and rights against unfair competition. Artistic works like music and literature, as well as some discoveries, inventions, words, phrases, symbols, and designs can all be protected as intellectual property.
What is the problem?
The current process of recording, storing and verifying intellectual property is highly inefficient. Information stored on a centralised intellectual property database is at risk of tampering by database administrators and hackers. Intellectual property is difficult to verify because creatives, authorities and copyright users are unable to achieve mutual trust in an effective and low-cost manner.
What is the core technology?
Design
The Zeepin Blockchain is designed for data intensive DApps to facilitate:
- Digital copyright
- Credit investigation
- Anti-counterfeiting
- Atomic transactions (electronic assets, asset swaps, payments)
Smart Contracts
Zeepin is based on the NEOContract smart contract system to enable individuals and organisations to launch projects or organise decentralised self-governing teams.
Infrastructure
The Zeepin Platform's infrastructure network is built on the underlying technology of DNAProject.
ZeeCrew
ZeeCrew is a key public facility in the community which enables organisations or individuals to form decentralised and autonomous project teams. It is a cost-efficient way to setup the team as a separate legal entity.
ZeeRights
ZeeRights is a decentralised transaction DApp on Zeepin Chain. It facilitates decentralised creativity protection on the blockchain.
ZeeProof
ZeeProof is a decentralised intellectual property proof checker on Zeepin Chain. It is able to provide conclusive proof of copyright existence without disclosing any of the copyright contents, thus greatly reducing the risk of intellectual property violation.
ZeeCreate
ZeeCreate is a decentralised design interconnectivity platform on Zeepin Chain. It uses ZPT tokens as the medium of exchange on smart contracts and is able to quickly connect creative assets and people in need of creative ideas. The Foundation will work with Arting365 to enable over 1.2m designers worldwide to provide creative services for their customers. ZeeCreate's matchmaking mechanism makes creative asset decentralised peer-to-peer transactions possible.
ZeeTalent
Each user of the Zeepin Platform will have an independent digital identity. ZeeTalent will provide a low-cost talent recruitment service and fast communication method. Project parties can recruit teams worldwide using ZeeCrew.
ZeeFund Crowd-Funding
ZeeFund will enable creative teams to quickly launch project crowd-funding. It is designed to be more open and efficient than traditional fund-raising models.
What is Zeepin's roadmap?
What is the sale plan?
The total amount of Zeepin Tokens (ZPT) will be 1 billion. Details of the sale of ZPT will be published on the official website closer to the sale date. The sale will last for 12 days from January 18, 2018 to January 29, 2018 based on NEO Blockchain and the NEO smart contract, NeoContract. The hard cap for the sale of ZPT is 700,000 NEO. The number of ZPT to be sold at the sale would be 500 million (50% of the total number).
Currency accepted: NEO / BTC / ETH
Summary
Zeepin Chain is a blockchain for intellectual property. It has a broad goal to build a blockchain for the global creative industry.
This will be an exciting NEO project to watch in 2018, especially with its partnership with Arting365 to enable over 1.2m designers worldwide to provide creative services for their customers.