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Nexus Mutual is a decentralized alternative to insurance. It has used blockchain technology to create a mutual (a risk-sharing pool) to return the power of insurance to the people.
A social network digital coin, the ReddCoin (RDD) had forked from Litecoin as far back as in 2014. It is currently listed by a few exchanges with the possibility to buy the coin for fiat currencies. The ReddCoin blockchain “uses personalized IDs for social media tipping”.
Nectar was originally launched in 2017 by the Bitfinex spin-off exchange, Ethfinex — a team based out of London, UK — with the purpose of rewarding market makers for the value they create whilst simultaneously serving as the primary voting mechanism, allowing traders to govern the exchange and decide, among other things, which tokens they wish to see listed next. The project was designed to experiment with and develop novel governance processes with the aim of solving pain points seen with centralized exchanges including opaque and costly token listing procedures.