what makes this different to other competitive platforms?
The below posts does a good job of explaining the differences.
Im not familiar with these projects, but Im not aware of any startups offering private chain functionality that are targeting the corporate world in the same way as Stratis. Stratis is a unique platform is many ways.
I believe neither of those projects offer a Blockchain-As-A-Service platform that allows one click provisioning of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitshares and Waves nodes. While also being able to provision private chains via Stratis.
We have extensive enterprise IT experience in the team and our CEO has experience in business to business consultancy, delivering solutions and services to corporations around Europe. So we are not only targeting the corporate market, we will be actively marketing and selling services to them.
Stratis consultancy really separates us from the rest, none of the other blockchain projects provide consultancy services around their own blockchain tech and those of Bitcoin, bitshares and Ethereum. This is going to be of great importance when selling these services to businesses. The team has extensive consultancy experience and will be able to offer them a level of service that a enterprise organisation would expect. This also gives corporations the protection of accountability, as Stratis consultancy will be a registered business.
Stratis is not just offering one piece of the puzzle, we are building an end to end solution for Blockchain testing, development and deployment. Im not aware of any competitors offering a full blockchain development platform.
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