Ixian — Next generation of data streaming

Project Ixian and its native currency IxiCash is causing a buzz around the web. With a platform enabling secure text, voice, streaming and monetary transactions on the blockchain, it’s a timely contender in the online communications space.Recent years have seen frequent debates around people’s ability to exist and express themselves online. From censorship and data breaches to WhatsApp’s controversial new terms of service, trust is low for many of the big names in social media and streaming.Ixian is a self-funded project which is five years in the making. It’s a platform enabling streaming and messaging services on the blockchain, along with the ability to trade and transfer funds in IxiCash — which is currently surging in value.The Ixian platform is entirely decentralised, as it is maintained by nodes which users can set up themselves to earn rewards. This means there is no central point of failure, minimising the risk of downtime for apps built on the platform.Meanwhile, user data is stored on users’ own devices, safe from central data breaches and intrusive governments. This focus on privacy and security puts Ixian in a great position to capitalise on the growing mistrust against traditional streaming and messaging platforms.The rise of IxiCashUS and China residents were unable to purchase IxiCash without considerable workarounds as the token was only available on Vitex up until a few months ago.However, the Ixian dev team has built a bridge from the ground up, to the ethereum network to allow wrapping of the Ixicash(IXI) token to be traded on UniSwap, a move which is predicted to boost its value even further.Currently an ongoing liquidity drive has been started to allow trading in higher volume on the Uniswap Dex.A new type of blockchainUnable to find a blockchain that offered sufficient functionality, Ixian’s team set out in 2016 to…