Publica is building a new e-commerce platform for the publishing ecosystem using the Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts. Its vision is to unite two of humanity’s most disruptive inventions i.e. blockchain with printing and the internet. Publica’s unique platform is surely going to enable a lot of positive change for many people around the world.
With the explosion of projects in the crypto space in 2017, there are few gems which should not be neglected by the investors. And Publica is one amongst them.

Publica’s ereader apps, for all common platforms, will do double-duty as digital wallets to make their adoption easy and transparent for the public. The platform will be designed to bring the blockchain revolution to how books are funded, made, publicized, discovered, bought, and read. The payments go directly to the authors wallet with no intermediaries required.

Publica works with Ethereum, standards bodies, and other authorities to extend the blockchain into publishing. With the use of Publica protocol, the lower priced paper books will can be made available eliminating the waste in traditional large prints. With Publica, entrepreneurs will be able to sell digital keys to ebooks themselves, making the self-publishing process more easier and accessible.

The Ethereum blockchain plays three roles on the platform, supporting READ, RIGHTS, and PBL tokens. When a book is funded, whether by crowd pre-sales or institutions or by any other means, Publica will write the terms in smart contracts called Book ICO’s. READ tokens are one of the two keys in a public-key / private-key decryption system for reading a book’s digital editions. When a book’s contents are extended to derivative rights, Publica will write their terms in smart contracts called RIGHTS ICO’s.

Total supply for Pebbles (PBL) is 33,787,150 and Circulating supply is 18,582,933 PBL

The ICO, which was launched in Oct-17 had to be closed early with targets achieved due to strategic interest from big investors. And the company has surely lived up to the expectations as promised. The tokens are now freely traded across prominent crypto-exchanges rewarding its early stage investors. Pebbles will be the medium of exchange within the platform’s smart contracts for goods and services and the platform is expected to be completely launched by Dec-18. Further details can be accessed on company’s website https://publica.io

Josef Marc, CEO leads the Publica team and has helped for many multimillion companies to reach healthy success – his first technology job was in a startup that was acquired by Sony to form its broadcast systems integration company in what the media calls an acquihire today. Antons Sapirko, COO is responsible for operational management in Publica. His experience leading Scandiweb from a local agency to becoming the largest ecommerce services provider on the Magento platform will help Publica take care of business. Yuri Pimenov, CTO is a longtime contributor to the blockchain community with his blog and his Russian translation of the seminal book “Mastering Blockchain” by Andreas Antonopoulos. Before Publica, he was the CTO of a leading Bitcoin exchange.