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What is BitShares?

BitShares is the flagship Bank & Exchange DAC. It serves to establish a new financial platform on which tomorrow's apps will be built.

BitShares for the People

BitShares for Business

For Investors and Traders

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* Really. Control of your funds is entirely in your hands.
With this comes great responsibility; do not take it lightly.

Join the BitShares Community

BitShares is an open-source project community with members around the world.

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Open-source, decentralized, auditable DACs

BitShares

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early adopters and visionary investors.

What is a DAC?

Decentralized Autonomous Community

DACs are autonomous organizations running under an incorruptible set of business rules. The first pilot project launched June 2014. DAC features, by design:

BitShares DAC: Bank & Exchange

Counterparty-free bank & exchange featuring market-pegged and user-issued assets.

Follow My Vote: Transparent Voting

Auditable, verifiable and hack-proof voting.
We believe open-source is the only way.

Music DAC: Decentralized Record Labels

Record Label, Discovery & Streaming Service. Fans pay (and even invest in) artists directly!

Play DAC: Provably-fair Gambling

Decentralized and unstoppable gaming for all.

What's next?

The sky is the limit. Any business model can be modelled as a DAC—and one day, it will be.

What is DPOS?

Delegated Proof of Stake

DPOS is the open-source protocol used to create self-governing apps (i.e., DACs).

The blockchain is a DAC's internal database. Every ten seconds, all pending transactions are packaged into a block and added to the chain.

Asset tokens are freely exchangeable on the blockchain. They can represent currencies, commodities, shares, loyalty points, coupons, credits, receipts, vouchers, and more.


The blockchain is powered by shareholder-elected positions:

Witnesses: network maintainers

Elected by shareholders to validate and sign transactions and produce them into blocks.

Workers: crowdhired contractors

Developers, marketers, and others are paid by the DAC itself via dilution.

Delegates: the "board of directors"

Can change any blockchain parameters given two weeks' notice, during which shareholders can veto any such change.

Market Pegged Assets (MPAs)

The Currency of BitShares

BitUSD BitCNY BitGOLD

MPAs (or "BitAssets") are digital asset tokens that eliminate the burden of price volatility. bitUSD, bitCNY and bitGOLD will always trade near par value for the dollar, yuan and gold on crypto-currency exchanges worldwide.

MPAs are derivatives enforced by smart contracts and backed by 300% collateral.

BitAssets help businesses and shoppers avoid the hassle of transfering holdings back and forth between crypto and cash to evade costly price fluctuations.


User-Issued Assets (UIAs)

Stock Distribution, Crowdfunding, Receipts

Easily issue your own tokens which can be traded freely within BitShares. Use cases include crowdfunding, token controlled access to content, company stock distribution, and IOUs for auditable and secure AML / KYC compliant gateway services.


Core Asset (BTS)

For Techies and Investors

The core asset BTS gives the platform real-world value and thus allows the creation of collateralized assets (MPAs). Holders of BTS own a stake in BitShares and its success.