Introduction “If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.” - Steven Johnson Year 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto started the Bitcoin project [Nakamoto 2009]. This first blockchain made possible a completely autonomous finance system. Year 2014, a team of blockchain enthusiasts started project Ethereum, a revolutionary technology making it possible to create essentially any type of autonomously directed blockchain-based object. Year 2016, we are starting the Virtual Accelerator (VA) to provide transparent and true acceleration to blockchain developers around the world. The technology of blockchain and smart contracts allows for transparent evaluation and ranking via tokens that allow holders to reflect their conviction for an idea for development. Crowdfunding projects have become a popular method to raise funding at the early stages of a project (Massolution [2015]), but generally the early backers don’t receive anything more than the first version of the product. A better approach is to enable those that identify the value in an initiative at the beginning to evidence their conviction using units of uniform value. That’s what our platform facilitates. The rights of early adopters who support an idea and project at the initial stages are enforced by the Solidity [Reitwiessner 2015] smart contract deployed to the Ethereum blockchain.
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