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COINSILIUM GROUP LIMITED Coinsilium Group Limited: Portfolio Company Indorse to Release NFT Analysis Tool

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21/04/2021 10:03

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Coinsilium Group Limited: Portfolio Company Indorse to Release NFT Analysis Tool

21-Apr-2021 / 09:03 GMT/BST
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COINSILIUM GROUP LIMITED

 

("Coinsilium" or the "Company")

 

Coinsilium Group Limited: Portfolio Company Indorse to Release NFT Analysis Tool

London, UK, 21 April 2021 - Coinsilium Group Limited (AQSE:COIN) (OTCQB:CINGF), the Blockchain and Open Finance venture builder, is pleased to report that its portfolio company and advisory client Indorse Pte. Ltd. ('Indorse') has today announced the public alpha release of 'Nifty Scanner', a digital asset analysis software solution for Non-Fungible tokens (NFTs).

Disclosure

Indorse is a Coinsilium equity portfolio company and advisory client. Coinsilium currently holds a 10% interest in the issued share capital of Indorse. Coinsilium also holds approximately 5.3m IND tokens representing approximately 14.12% of the current IND circulating supply. As announced on 2 March 2021, Nifty Labs, the Company's wholly owned Gibraltar subsidiary, entered into an MoU with Indorse to form a Partnership in order to launch a Non-Fungible Token ('NFT') technology development studio in Gibraltar.

NFT Analysis Tool 'Nifty Scanner' to Reach Public Alpha Launch Stage

The full text of the release has been reproduced below and can also be seen in its original form via the following link: https://blog.indorse.io/nft-analysis-tool-nifty-scanner-to-reach-public-alpha-launch-stage-11d166ee7e39

Indorse is delighted to announce the public alpha software release for the 'Nifty Scanner', digital asset analysis tool. Nifty Scanner is a browser extension and is now available on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Brave.

What does it do?

Nifty Scanner 'scans' Non-fungible Tokens ('NFTs'), and provides detailed essential background information on how and where the assets (the media and the metadata) associated with an NFT are stored. This data, whilst publicly available on the blockchain is not always published with the NFT in an apparent manner. Currently, Nifty Scanner is compatible with the OpenSea marketplace and will shortly be compatible with other popular marketplaces as well.

What problems does it address?

When you 'buy' an NFT, you're just buying the ownership of a token. The underlying assets - the media (image, video, GIF) and the metadata (properties) are usually stored elsewhere. In an ideal world, these would be stored on a blockchain, but this is not always possible because blockchain has some practical limitations regarding the size of data that can be stored. Hence, many projects choose to keep the media and metadata stored "off-chain". The second best option is to store the underlying assets on a decentralised storage system such as IPFS. Unfortunately, our research has shown that, in a majority of cases, NFT assets are stored on centralised servers, such as AWS and Google Cloud. These results imply that the owner of a project, whoever that is, could potentially change or alter the content of the NFT at will. Should the media be changed or tampered with, it would render an NFT, which could have been acquired at a significant cost, effectively worthless.

The problem is not just with the underlying assets; some projects are currently entirely bypassing the verification process of their Smart Contracts on Etherscan. This can have potentially damaging consequences since, without Smart Contract verification, the buyer cannot be sure of what he or she is actually 'buying' and could easily end up acquiring a counterfeit NFT.

How does Nifty Scanner solve these issues?

Nifty Scanner identifies where the NFT assets are actually stored and displays the information in a section called the 'On-Chain spectrum' for an NFT. It also computes a 'decentralisation score' for the NFT, based on expert analysis. The details of the NFT are gathered through the marketplace API and the Smart Contract data is checked directly on the Ethereum blockchain.

How it works: If you go to the OpenSea marketplace and then open any NFT details page (it should be of the format https://opensea.io/assets/<smart_contract_address>/<token_id>), you will see the Nifty Scanner icon displayed on the left of your browser/screen. If you click on this icon, a panel will pop up on your screen where you will see the "On-chain spectrum" for that specific NFT, including details as to where the asset is stored.

Indorse's team of experts have analysed the top 30 NFT projects globally. Where necessary, they have come up with some recommendations as to how their security and privacy can be improved. Whilst we can reasonably assume that most NFT projects would have started with the best of intentions, it is essential to bear in mind that the privacy and security of any given NFT will only be as effective as the elements of decentralised blockchain technology incorporated into its original design and build. It is pretty clear that many projects do not currently aspire to the levels of decentralised ethicality needed to provide the privacy and security that blockchain technology was designed to provide.

What's next?

The immediate next steps will be to make Nifty Scanner compatible with a number of popular NFT platforms and marketplaces. We are also working on plans to integrate the IND token and the IND-powered validator ecosystem in this extension - though we would stress that this work is currently at the nascent 'modelling' stage.

By utilising our dedicated validator community, we are also aiming to be able to provide an 'Indorsed' stamp or verification mark for various types of NFTs, with IND tokens potentially to be used as the medium of payment for the service. Another option under consideration is to use IND as part of a solution to host the NFT media and assets on IPFS, thus providing a 100% uptime guarantee through Nifty Scanner.

It is important to note that Nifty Scanner is currently at the alpha testing phase; with its current release to partners and the Indorse community. This is an essential first step, which, once complete, will enable us to move seamlessly towards the beta testing phase and then begin work on broader marketing and commercialisation.

 

Disclaimer

The Nifty Scanner Alpha browser extension interacts with NFT Platforms and marketplaces through officially sanctioned APIs and will only obtain and display data and information that is otherwise publicly available on the blockchain.

 The ongoing use of Nifty Scanner relies on its ongoing compatibility and connectivity with third-party NFT Platforms and Marketplaces. Indorse does not accept responsibility for any downtime or connectivity issues that may impact the availability or usage of Nifty Scanner.

ENDS

 

The Directors of Coinsilium Group Limited take responsibility for this announcement.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Coinsilium Group Limited

Malcolm Palle, Executive Chairman

Eddy Travia, Chief Executive

+44 (0) 7785 381 089

www.coinsilium.com

 

 

Peterhouse Capital Limited

Guy Miller / Mark Anwyl

(AQSE Growth Market Corporate Adviser)

+44 (0) 207 469 0930

 

 

SI Capital Limited

Nick Emerson

(Broker)

+44 (0) 1483 413 500

 

 

Buchanan Communications

Chris Lane / Toto Berger

(Media and Investor Relations)

+44 (0) 20 7466 5000

E: coinsilium@buchanan.uk.com

 

 

Notes to Editor

 

About Coinsilium

 

Coinsilium is a focused Blockchain and Open Finance venture Builder. As the first ever IPO of a blockchain company in 2015, Coinsilium has harnessed its experience and wide-ranging network to invest in leading blockchain projects such as RSK/IOV Labs, Indorse and Blox.

 

In July 2020, Coinsilium executed an agreement with top 100 blockchain protocol company IOV Labs, to establish a 50/50 Joint Venture Company in Singapore to promote and commercialise RSK's products, services and technologies in global markets and to promote the adoption in the region of the RIF token which powers the ecosystem of solutions developed by RSK, their partners and developers around the world.

 

Coinsilium shares are traded on the London-based AQSE Growth Market, under the ticker symbol "COIN", and on OTCQB Venture Market ("OTCQB") in New York under the ticker symbol "CINGF".

 

For further information please visit www.coinsilium.com or follow

@CoinsiliumGroup on Twitter



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